cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: flits
form: flitting
form: flitted
form: flitted
Etymology: From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”).
Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).
Senses: examples: text: A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]
ref: 1855, Tennyson, Maud
text: There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Chapter 6”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
glosses: To move about rapidly and nimbly.
examples: text: By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.
ref: 1597, Richard Hooker, chapter 5, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie:
text: The chevalier's manner was now completely altered; and Francesca wondered within herself that he could be so amusing, as he exerted himself to describe the various visitors who flitted to and fro.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 116–117:
glosses: To move quickly from one location to another.
examples: text: My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
examples: text: After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.
ref: 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, →ISBN, page 199:
text: […] we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.
ref: 1859, “The Cat on the Dovrefell”, in George Dasent, transl., Popular Tales from the Norse:
glosses: To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
glosses: To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.
examples: text: the free soul to flitting air resign'd
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
Related terms: dart
dash
flick
flicker
flirt
lunge
flit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: more flit
form: most flit
Etymology: From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”).
Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).
Senses: examples: text: And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: To that god-trodden western shore, as flit benighted birds.
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Fast, nimble.
Derived terms: flitsome
flitter
flitty
flit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: flits
Etymology: Short for fl(ow control un)it or fl(ow control dig)it.
Senses: examples: text: header flit
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flow control unit or flow control digit.
garth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)θ
homophone: Garth
Forms: form: garths
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English garth, from Old Norse garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz, thus cognate with Old English ġeard, whence the English doublet yard.
Senses: glosses: A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.
examples: text: a cloister garth
text: A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
glosses: A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
examples: text: The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony.
ref: 2014 November 18, Stubba, The Book of Blots, page 102:
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith of Heathenry.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
glosses: A dam or weir for catching fish.
Related terms: fishgarth
fish garth
gravegarth
kirkgarth
stackgarth
gawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːk/
ipa: /ɡɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: gawks
Etymology: From a variant of gowk, from Middle English gowke, goke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Danish gøg, Swedish gök, German Gauch, Old English ġēac.
Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.
Senses: examples: text: His morning prey he craveth; So crowed the gawk of carrion⁶ […] (6) Gawk of carrion = [kenning for] raven.
ref: 1898, Ari Thorgilsson, The Book of the Settlement of Iceland, page 105:
text: Some sneakingly fly watching, as the hawk; Or, as a Cuckoo, grow to limb as a gawk.
ref: 1910, John Bunyan Robinson, Bird Or Feather Convention ..., page 11:
text: I WONDER if you know the cuckoos. […] In Scotlad the popular name for the cuckoo is "the gawk," which means fool. […] But our American cuckoos are a long way from gawks. Indeed many farmers consider them fine weather prophets.
ref: 1916, Inez N. McFee, “The Cuckoos”, in Home and School Visitor, page 276:
text: […] threw into a market crate regretfully a somewhat gawky, long-legged youngster that was otherwise exceptionally fine. A neighbour rescued the gawk from the market crate and the two birds as cocks competed in a local show. The "gawk" won. Why? […] the gawk [appeared] of good station.
ref: 1923, The New Reliable Poultry Journal, page 640:
text: […] cuckoos proper have fourteen cervical vertebrae and no feather crest. The ejection urge is well developed in them.
The gawks [:] There are three genera with thirteen species of gawks. A. THICK-BILLED CUCKOOS (Pachycoccyx) have only one species[…]
ref: 1972, Bernhard Grzimek, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Birds I-III:
glosses: A cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.
examples: text: A Duke of Weissenfels, for instance; foolish old gawk, whom Wilhehnina Princess Royal recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Wilhelmina's Brother afterwards.
ref: 1855, Thomas Carlyle, The Prinzenraub, Westminster Review:
glosses: A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
Derived terms: gawk-handed
gawkish
gawkling
gawksome
gawky
gawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːk/
ipa: /ɡɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: gawks
form: gawking
form: gawked
form: gawked
Etymology: Perhaps from English dialectal gaw (“to stare; gawk”) + -k, as in talk, stalk, etc., ultimately from Old Norse gá (“to heed”).
Senses: glosses: To stare or gape stupidly.
synonyms: word: gaw
word: gloar
word: glom
word: stare
glosses: To stare conspicuously.
glosses: To suck.
Derived terms: gawker
gawkish
gawkling
gawksome
mopery with intent to gawk
gawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːk/
ipa: /ɡɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: gawks
Etymology: Perhaps from English dialectal gaw (“to stare; gawk”) + -k, as in talk, stalk, etc., ultimately from Old Norse gá (“to heed”).
Senses: examples: text: ... the gawks and gapes of townsfolk as stares of admiration.
ref: 1991, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly:
text: ... the gawks and gapes of those who'd expected him to be long dead,[…]
ref: 2017 March 7, Cat Sparks, Lotus Blue, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A conspicuous or stupid stare or gape; an instance of gawking.
gust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: gusts
Etymology: Apparently from an unrecorded Middle English *gust, from Old Norse gustr (“a gust, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *gustiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-. Cognate with Icelandic gustur (“gust of wind”). Related also to Old Norse gusa (“to gush forth”), Old High German gussa (“flood”), Middle English guschen (> English gush).
The English word was not recorded before Shakespeare.
Senses: examples: text: The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)
ref: 2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, COMMODITIES NEWS:
synonyms: windflaw
glosses: A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
examples: text: they are merely driven about by every sudden gust and impulse of the mind
ref: 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
text: The author is not speaking now of actual love-makings, of intrigues and devilish villany, either perpetrated or imagined; but rather of those passing gusts of short-lived and unfounded suspicion to which, as to other accidents, very well-regulated families may occasionally be liable.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Hard Words”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).
Derived terms: gust decay time
gust formation time
gust front
gustful
gustless
gust lock
gustnado
gusty
thundergust
thunder-gust
windgust
gust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: gusts
form: gusting
form: gusted
form: gusted
Etymology: Apparently from an unrecorded Middle English *gust, from Old Norse gustr (“a gust, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *gustiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-. Cognate with Icelandic gustur (“gust of wind”). Related also to Old Norse gusa (“to gush forth”), Old High German gussa (“flood”), Middle English guschen (> English gush).
The English word was not recorded before Shakespeare.
Senses: examples: text: Do the dryers disperse bacteria and viruses through the restroom, like autumn breezes gusting leaves across a lawn?
ref: 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To blow in gusts.
gust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Etymology: From Middle English gust, guste, from Latin gustus (“taste”) and Old French gust, goust.
Senses: glosses: The physiological faculty of taste.
examples: text: , "The Spirit of Grace"
An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.
text: Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
text: 1942: ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn gust. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)
glosses: Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
examples: text: A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Intellectual taste; fancy.
gust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: gusts
form: gusting
form: gusted
form: gusted
Etymology: From Middle English gusten (“to taste, have a taste for”), from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: To taste.
glosses: To have a relish for.
Related terms: degust
disgust
gustate
wight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wīt
ipa: /waɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: wite
homophone: white (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From Middle English wight, from Old Norse vígt, neuter of vígr (“skilled in fighting, of age”), from Proto-Germanic *wīgaz (“fighting”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Old English wīġ.
Senses: examples: text: I haue two sones that were but late made knyghtes / and the eldest hyghte sir Tirre /[…]/ and my yongest sone hyght Lauayne / and yf hit please yow / he shalle ryde with yow vnto that Iustes / and he is of his age x stronge and wyght
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
qualifier: except in dialects
glosses: Brave, valorous, strong.
examples: text: Then spake Much the milner son, / Ever more well him betide! / ‘Take twelve of thy wight yeomen, / Well weapon’d by thy side. / Such one would thyselfë slon, / That twelve dare not abide.’
ref: a. 1450, “Robin Hood and the Monk”, in Frank Sidgwick, editor, Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws, published 1912, page 98, lines 29–34:
text: Ye do you to my father's stable, / Where steeds do stand baith wight and able; / Strike ane o' them upo' the back, / The swiftest will gie his head a wap.
ref: a. 1828, “Leesome Brand”, in Peter Buchan, editor, Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, volume 1, published 1828, page 39, lines 21–24:
glosses: Strong; stout; active.
ravel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹævəl/
ipa: [ˈɹævl̩]
rhymes: -ævəl
Forms: form: ravels
Etymology: The verb is borrowed from Dutch ravelen, rafelen (“to tangle, become entangled; to fray; to unweave”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain. It has been suggested that the verb is originally derived from the noun, but the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as “very uncertain”, and instead regards the noun as having derived from the verb (compare Dutch rafel, raffel (“frayed thread”)).
Ravel is a contranym having both the senses of tangling (verb senses 1.1, 1.2, 1.4.1, and 2.3; noun sense 1) and untangling (verb senses 1.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 2.1, and 2.2; noun sense 2). It would appear that the tangling senses predate the untangling ones (as in Dutch), but this is uncertain because the first published uses of both senses of the words occur around the same time.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.'
ref: 1891, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Night-watchers”, in The Little Minister. […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC, page 47:
text: There was a lovely ravel of sunflowers in the garden. She looked out the window. "There are my sunflowers!" she said.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 380:
text: The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes.
ref: 1927 June, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Walk to Huayapa”, in Mornings in Mexico, London: Martin Secker, published July 1927, →OCLC, page 31:
synonyms: ravelment
glosses: A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
glosses: A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
glosses: A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
Derived terms: ravel bread
multiplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌl.tiˈpleɪ.əɹ/
ipa: [ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]
ipa: [ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]
Forms: form: multi-player
Etymology: From multi- + player.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: Requiring or allowing multiple (or more than the usual two) players to play simultaneously.
Derived terms: massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online role-playing game
multiplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌl.tiˈpleɪ.əɹ/
ipa: [ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]
ipa: [ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]
Forms: form: multiplayers
form: multi-player
Etymology: From multi- + player.
Senses: examples: text: I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out!
text: He always loved to play multiplayer games with his friends.
text: Glu Mobile, who realigned its workforce towards centralized GaaS functions last year, announced earlier this month that it will shut down GameSpy Technology on May 31. The service provides multiplayer functionality for dozens of games on consoles, computers and mobile devices.
ref: 2014 May 1, Jenna Pitcher, “Glu Mobile acquires Diner Dash developer PlayFirst”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
topics: games
glosses: The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously.
examples: text: The audio suggestions just mentioned would be advantageous when pairs are working together at a computer or multiplayers are collaborating or competing in online educational games and simulations.
ref: 2006, David Gibson, Clark Aldrich, Marc Prensky, Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development, page 375:
text: After dinner, Isaac brought out his portable gaming console for multiplayers, and he and I began our car racing battle while the others unpacked and brought out the Japanese futons, duvets, and pillows.
ref: 2020, Bella Chan, Noah to Haru, page 13:
glosses: Video game players who play multiplayer games.
videogame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videogames
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of video game.
-e
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-i/
Etymology: From archaic forms ending in e, from Middle English -e, from the coalescence of multiple various endings from Old English.
Senses: examples: text: YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet.
ref: 1993, “10-13. Kenosha”, in Wisconsin Annual Events, page 38:
text: Ye Olde Webbe page / Whither thou goest, there thou be.
ref: 1996, Jon Orwant, Perl 5 Interactive Course, →ISBN, page 679:
text: Go on tell what prob your having at the mo with ye olde computere! You don't get this crusty without one...do u?
ref: 1999 June 14, Tina Clarke, “Re: How to make LINKS open in new Browser Window?”, in microsoft.public.frontpage.client (Usenet), message-ID <7k1f5j$607$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>:
text: “Yes. It’s an English pub called Ye Olde Meate Markete.[…]”
ref: 2002, Bruce Balfour, The Forge of Mars, Berkeley Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: Used for archaizing.
Derived terms: Englishe
olde
ye olde
shoppe
Related terms: -eth
-i
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ē
ipa: /iː/
Etymology: A conflation of the following suffixes:
* For Semitic-speaking places, from the Arabic nisba suffix ـِيّ (-iyy) or from Hebrew ־י (-i), both sharing a common Semitic root.
* For Indo-Iranian-speaking places, from Persian ـی (-ī) and Hindi -ई (-ī).
In English, productive from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Iraq + -i → Iraqi
text: Israel + -i → Israeli
text: Pakistan + -i → Pakistani
text: Bengal + -i → Bengali
text: Nepal + -i → Nepali
text: Kabul + -i → Kabuli
text: Baghdad + -i → Baghdadi
text: According to Collins Dictionary and Wiktionary, the term was coined in 2017 by journalist Anzer Ayoob, the term Chenabi is derived from the Chenab River, with the suffix “-i”, commonly used to denote belonging.
ref: 2025 July 24, Mubasher Sharief Pathan, “Chenab Valley United”, in Precious Kashmir, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
glosses: Used to form adjectives and nouns describing people of a particular city, region, or country, and the language spoken by these people.
Related terms: -er
-stan
-i
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ē
ipa: /iː/
enpr: ī
ipa: /aɪ/
note: rare; imitation of the original Latin or of Italian
ipa: /iː/
enpr: ē
ipa: /iː/
Etymology: From Latin -ī (nominative plural).
Senses: examples: focus + -i → foci
radius + -i → radii
glosses: Forms an alternative plural ending for various words borrowed from Latin that end in ⟨us⟩ in the singular.
-i
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ē
ipa: /iː/
enpr: ī
ipa: /aɪ/
note: rare; imitation of the original Latin or of Italian
ipa: /iː/
Etymology: From Italian -i (masculine plural), from Latin -ī (see etymology 2).
Senses: examples: concerto + -i → concerti
calzone + -i → calzoni
glosses: Forms an alternative plural ending for words borrowed from Italian that end in ⟨o⟩ or ⟨e⟩ in the singular.
-i
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ē
ipa: /iː/
enpr: ī
ipa: /aɪ/
note: rare; imitation of the original Latin or of Italian
ipa: /iː/
Etymology: Variant of -ie or -y.
Senses: examples: text: Becki, Benji, Jimmi, Lexi, Nicki, Sammi, Sandi, Trini, Vicki
glosses: Used to form diminutives of given names.
infrastructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹɐkt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹakt͡ʃə/
note: Indic
ipa: /infɾaːstɾakt͡ʃa(ɾ)/
Forms: form: infrastructures
Etymology: Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- + structure.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework
text: The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.
topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
antonyms: superstructure
glosses: An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.
examples: text: Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures
text: If we don't spend money to maintain our infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, water mains, sewers, and electrical grids, then it will begin to fail us.
text: Infrastructure: It's our roads, bridges, dams, levees, airports, power grids... basically, anything that can be destroyed in an action movie... The problem is, though, when our infrastructure is not being destroyed by robots and/or saved by Bruce Willis we tend to find it a bit boring.
ref: 2015, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
text: About $7.4 billion will be allocated to states, tribes and territories for 2022 – the first-year allotment of nearly $44 billion in total SRF funding over the next five years from the infrastructure law, according to an EPA fact sheet.
ref: 2021 December 2, Liz Stark, “EPA urges states to target billions in new water infrastructure funding to historically underserved communities”, in CNN:
glosses: The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
Derived terms: applistructure
cyberinfrastructure
e-infrastructure
infrastructural
infrastructured
non-infrastructure
noninfrastructure
mal-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Old French mal- from Latin male (“badly”), from malus (“bad”).
Senses: examples: text: malism, malinfluence
synonyms: mis-
glosses: bad, badly
evil
examples: text: maleffect
synonyms: mis-
glosses: bad, badly
unhealthy, harmful
examples: text: malodor
synonyms: mis-
glosses: bad, badly
unpleasant
examples: text: maldifferentiation
synonyms: mis-
para-
dis-
dys-
mis-
glosses: bad, badly
incorrect
examples: text: maldescent
synonyms: mis-
glosses: bad, badly
incomplete, unfinished
examples: text: malfed, malnourished, malcirculation
synonyms: mis-
under-
hypo-
dys-
glosses: bad, badly
poorly, deficiently
examples: text: malcommunication
synonyms: mis-
glosses: unintentional, mistaken, accidental
examples: text: maladherence, malcontent
synonyms: a-
an-
dys-
in-
non-
un-
glosses: not
Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: Jain
Forms: form: Janes
form: jane
form: Jayne
form: Jaine
Etymology: Variant of Jeanne, from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role.
Doublet of Gianna, Ivana, Jana, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: used as a placeholder name for any woman, especially a young working-class woman
examples: text: What happened to your regular Jane?
glosses: A girlfriend.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jane (“female client of a prostitute”).
Derived terms: Dear Jane letter
Jane Crow
Jane Doe
Jane Roe
Jane Sixpack
Mary Jane
plain Jane
salvation Jane
on-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: a-
form: an-
Etymology: From Middle English on-, from Old English on-, an-, from Proto-West Germanic *ana-, from Proto-Germanic *an-, *ana- (“on-”), from Proto-Indo-European *ano-, *nō- (“on”). Cognate with Dutch aan-, German an-, Swedish an-. Doublet of ana-.
Senses: examples: oncome, onset, onfall, onlay
glosses: on, at, toward, upon.
Synonyms: sense: above
word: en-
sense: above
word: epi-
sense: above
word: super-
sense: above
word: supra-
sense: above
word: sur-
sense: above
word: hyper-
-os
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the traditional Ashkenazi pronunciation of Hebrew ־וֹת (“-ót”), and its descendant, Yiddish ־ות (-es).
Senses: glosses: Used to form plurals of some Hebrew and Yiddish loanwords, usually ending in -a or -ah.
Synonyms: sense: forming plurals of Hebrew loanwords
word: -as
sense: forming plurals of Hebrew loanwords
word: -ahs
sense: forming plurals of Hebrew loanwords
word: -ot
sense: forming plurals of Hebrew loanwords
word: -oth
Derived terms: halachos
Halachos
matzos
trespass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trĕs'pǎs
ipa: /ˈtɹɛspæs/
ipa: /ˈtɹæspæs/
enpr: trĕs'pəs
ipa: /ˈtɹɛspəs/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛspɪs/
Forms: form: trespasses
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English trespas, from Old French trespas (“passage; offense against the law”), from trespasser.
Senses: examples: text: External infrastructure issues such as severe weather and trespass caused 17.1% of [train] cancellations, [...].
ref: 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “New measurements reveal improvement in punctuality”, in Rail, page 24:
text: Network Rail has produced a free downloadable comic highlighting the consequences of railway trespass. Between March 23 and April 26, there were 1,024 trespass incidents on the railway. [...] it is based on the company's award-winning safety film 18, which shows the dangers of trespass, especially around electrified lines.
ref: 2020 June 17, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
text: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka "committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings" to leave Delaney Hall, a facility being run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to acting US attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba.
ref: 2025 May 9, Max Matza, “New Jersey mayor arrested in protest at migrant centre”, in BBC:
topics: law
glosses: An intentional interference with another's property or person.
examples: text: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:14–15:
glosses: sin
Derived terms: anti-trespass
antitrespass
cybertrespass
light trespass
trespass offering
trespass on the case
trespassory
trespass to chattels
Related terms: traipse
egotistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more egotistic
form: most egotistic
Etymology: From egotist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Egotistical.
Derived terms: egotistical
egotistically
Related terms: egotist
egotism
ahoy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈhɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: a-hoy
Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”).
Senses: examples: text: While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’
ref: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle:
text: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: “(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat Pack.” “Chips ahoy!”
ref: 2021 September 16, Sarah Naftalis, “The Casino” (6:53 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
examples: text: Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?
ref: 1989, Forbes, volume 143, numbers 5-7, page 74:
text: Catalytic converters ahoy – Zeppelin's latest is one of those high-rev 3D driving games that simulates racing tracks from all over the world.
ref: 1992, Championship Run (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 75, page 61
glosses: Warning of something approaching or impending.
Synonyms: sense: to attract attention
word: oi
word: yo
word: hey
Derived terms: ahoy-hoy
land ahoy
ship ahoy
ahoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈhɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: ahoys
form: ahoying
form: ahoyed
form: ahoyed
form: a-hoy
Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”).
Senses: glosses: To hail with a cry of "ahoy".
ahoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈhɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: ahoys
form: a-hoy
Etymology: From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”).
Senses: examples: text: There were many ahoys heard from the approaching ship.
glosses: An utterance of this interjection.
Related terms: yoohoo
berm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: berms
Etymology: From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).
Senses: glosses: A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
examples: text: The big canals in Europe, in Holland, have a great big berm on the side of the canal several feet wide, which they leave there on purpose to plant reeds in, so as to get a reedy vegetation to protect their slope. Then, beyond that, there is an earthen slope that is grassed and sodded.
ref: 1910 February 23, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Protection of Watersheds of Navigable Streams, page 139:
synonyms: heelpath
glosses: A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
topics: business
mining
synonyms: bench
bench floor
coordinate_terms: batter
bench face
glosses: One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
examples: text: On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.
glosses: A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
examples: text: A berm separates the Moroccan-controlled and Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara.
glosses: A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
topics: business
mining
synonyms: windrow
glosses: A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
glosses: A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
examples: text: The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.
ref: 2003, Emma Espiner, There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir, Penguin, page 15:
synonyms: word: berm
raw_tags: with other meanings
word: besidewalk
word: boulevard
word: boulevard strip
word: city easement
raw_tags: with other meanings
word: common
word: county strip
word: curb lawn
word: curb strip
word: devil strip/devil's strip/devilstrip
word: drivestrip/drive strip
word: easement
word: extension lawn
word: furniture zone
word: grass bay
word: grassplot
word: hellstrip
word: island strip
word: landscape zone
word: long acre
word: median
word: mow strip
word: nature strip
word: neutral ground
word: parking
word: parking strip
word: parkrow
word: parkstrip/park strip
word: parkway
word: parkway strip
word: planter zone
word: planting strip
word: right-of-way
word: road allowance
word: road verge
word: roadside
word: shoulder
word: sidewalk buffer
word: sidewalk lawn
word: sidewalk plot
word: sidewalk strip
word: street lawn
word: subway
word: swale
word: terrace
word: tree belt
word: tree box
word: tree lawn
word: utility strip
word: verge
qualifier: Indiana; Ohio; Indiana; Ohio
glosses: A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
glosses: The edge of a road.
Derived terms: Cape Cod berm
berm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: berms
form: berming
form: bermed
form: bermed
Etymology: From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).
Senses: glosses: To provide something with a berm
toubab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tu.bab/
Forms: form: toubabs
Etymology: The most likely earliest derivation is from the Wolof word for Europe, "Tougal". In the same way that Wolof means the people of Jollof, Toubab means the people of Tougal.
Senses: examples: text: Jean-Baptiste was my only real white friend in the trench. He was the only Toubab who came to console me after the death of Mademba Diop.
ref: 2018, David Diop, chapter 10, in Anna Moschovakis, transl., At Night All Blood Is Black, London: Pushkin:
glosses: A white person.
Synonyms: white person
brandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brănʹdē
ipa: /ˈbɹændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: brandies
Etymology: Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein, Danish brændevin.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
glosses: Any variety of brandy.
glosses: A glass of brandy.
Synonyms: eau de vie
aqua vitae
Derived terms: apple brandy
apricot brandy
Brandy Alexander
brandy and soda
brandy-ball
brandy ball
brandy bottle
brandy-bottle
brandy bowl
brandy butter
brandy-cherry
brandy-cowe
brandy fruit
brandy glass
brandyless
brandylike
brandy mint
brandy paper
brandy pawnee
brandy-pawnee
brandy-peach
brandy-smash
brandy snap
brandy snifter
brandywine
cherry brandy
cider brandy
corn-brandy
cut brandy
fruit brandy
peach brandy
plum brandy
pomace brandy
brandy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brănʹdē
ipa: /ˈbɹændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: brandies
form: brandying
form: brandied
form: brandied
Etymology: Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein, Danish brændevin.
Senses: glosses: To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.
Related terms: cognac
bundle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌn.dl̩/
rhymes: -ʌndəl
Forms: form: bundles
form: bundling
form: bundled
form: bundled
Etymology: From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.
Senses: glosses: To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
examples: text: They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
ref: 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
glosses: To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
glosses: To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
glosses: To dress someone warmly.
glosses: To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To sell hardware and software as a single product.
glosses: To hurry.
glosses: Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
synonyms: word: dogpile
extra: to form a pile of people upon a victim
examples: text: At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
text: Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
ref: 1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence:
glosses: To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
examples: text: Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
ref: 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
text: They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
Derived terms: bundler
bundle together
resource-bundle
unbundle
Related terms: bundle off
bundle up
buoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈbu.i/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈbwɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
rhymes: -uːi
homophone: boy
Forms: form: buoys
Etymology: From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boue (“piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”) (modern French bouée), ultimately from Frankish *baukn (“beacon”). Doublet of beacon. Same root as English bon in bonfire.
Alternatively, and perhaps less likely (due to the unexplained shift in meaning), from Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”), from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek βόεος (bóeos), βόειος (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).
Sense 2 was coined by American linguist Scott K. Lindell in 2003.
Senses: examples: text: While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Communications: Administration Codex entry:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
A lifebuoy; a life preserver.
examples: text: list buoy
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: sign language
glosses: A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.
Derived terms: anchor buoy
buoyage
buoyancy
buoyant
buoylike
buoy rope
buoy tender
cable buoy
dan buoy
depicting buoy
fragment buoy
lifebuoy
life buoy
life-buoy
light buoy
list buoy
mooring buoy
nun buoy
pointer buoy
pull buoy
safety buoy
sonobuoy
spar buoy
stream the buoy
theme buoy
upbuoy
whistling buoy
coleslaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊlslɔː/
ipa: /ˈkoʊlslɔ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊlslɑ/
rhymes: -əʊlslɔː
Forms: form: coleslaws
form: cole slaw
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”).
Senses: glosses: A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).
Synonyms: word: slaw
Derived terms: cheese slaw
kimslaw
North Carolina coleslaw
rainbow coleslaw
gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
Forms: form: gins
Etymology: Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).
Senses: glosses: A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
glosses: Gin rummy.
examples: text: Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
Derived terms: bathtub gin
Dutch gin
gin and French
Gin and Gospel Gazette
gin and Italian
gin and it
gin-and-It
gin and tonic
gin tonic
gin berry
gin blossom
gin bottle
gin bucket
gin fizz
ginhouse
gin joint
ginless
ginlike
gin mill
ginny
gin palace
gin pennant
ginshop
ginsoaked
gin spinner
gintini
macaroni gin
pink gin
Ramos gin fizz
sloe gin
square gin
tonic and gin
Related terms: genever
juniper
gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
Forms: form: gins
Etymology: Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”).
Senses: glosses: A trick; a device or instrument.
examples: text: The church dores were sparred,
Fast boltyd and barryd,
Yet wyth a prety gyn
I fortuned to come in, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:
text: treason and deceiptfull gin
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
examples: text: It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, “IV-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:
glosses: A snare or trap for game.
glosses: A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
glosses: A pile driver.
glosses: A windpump.
glosses: A cotton gin.
glosses: An instrument of torture worked with screws.
Derived terms: sense: cotton gin
word: ginner
sense: cotton gin
word: ginnery
word: gin block
word: gin pole
word: ginwright
word: pitfall and gin
word: roller gin
word: saw gin
word: whip gin
gin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
Forms: form: gins
form: ginning
form: ginned
form: ginned
Etymology: Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”).
Senses: glosses: To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
glosses: To trap something in a gin.
Derived terms: gin up
gin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
ipa: /ɡɪn/
enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djinn
Forms: form: gins
form: ginning
form: gan
form: gun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen.
Senses: examples: text: Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 14:
glosses: To begin.