cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-um
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əm/
Etymology: Possibly from 'em.
Senses: examples: text: Having finished her return of deaths, she went on to say "Black fellow sick—white lady fowl sendum—white lady kangaroo sendum—master all self eatum—" but here she paused and made an exception in favour of the matron, expressed by the words " Missis not eatum—missis good fellow."
ref: 1871, Mrs. Edward Millett, An Australian parsonage; or, The settler and the savage in Western Australia, page 129:
text: "Givum dinner; smokum pipe," was all that we could get out of Quatchett.
ref: 1896, F J Stimsom, King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, page 254:
glosses: Denotes transitive verbs in the trade pidgins used between English-speakers and indigenous populations; used derogatorily by extension in English by addition to any verb, transitive or not.
crook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʊk/
ipa: [kɹ̠̊˔ʷʊk]
ipa: /kɹʉk/
ipa: /kɹuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: crooks
form: crooking
form: crooked
form: crooked
Etymology: From Middle English crooken, croken, crokien, from Old English *crōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *krōkōn (“to bend, wrinkle”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Dutch kreuken (“to crease, rumple”), German Low German kröken (“to bend, offend, suppress”).
Senses: examples: text: He crooked his finger toward me.
text: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: For if a damsel's blind or lame, / Or nature's hand has crooked her frame, / Or if she's deaf or is wall-eyed; / Yet if her heart is well inclined, / Some tender lover she shall find / That panteth for a bride.
ref: 1784, William Blake, Songs from, “An Island in the Moon”, in W. H. Stevenson, editor, Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, published 2007, page 50:
text: “[…]In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair[…].
ref: 1917, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina, Part 4, Chapter 5:
glosses: To bend, or form into a hook.
glosses: To become bent or hooked.
examples: text: For the foundation of youthe well ſet (as Plato doth ſaye) the whole bodye of the common wealthe ſhall flouriſhe thereafter. If the younge tree growe croked, when it is oulde, a man ſhall rather breake it than ſtreight it. And I thincke there is no one thinge that crokes youthe more then ſuch unlawful games.
ref: 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 1, page 88:
text: The referring of all to a man's self, is more tolerable in a sovereign prince; because themselves are not only themselves, but their good and evil is at the peril of the public fortune. But it is a desperate evil, in a servant to a prince, or a citizen in a republic. For whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentric to the ends of his master, or state.
ref: 1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Wisdom For a Man's Self,”, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral:
glosses: To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Derived terms: word: crooked
word: crook one's elbow
word: knee-crooking
word: uncrook
crook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʊk/
ipa: [kɹ̠̊˔ʷʊk]
ipa: /kɹʉk/
ipa: /kɹuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: crooker
form: crookest
Etymology: From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).
Senses: examples: text: That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
text: Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
text: The soup was crook. It was onkus. A yellow-bellied platypus couldn′t drink it […]
ref: 1981, Herman Charles Bosman, The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman, page 101:
text: Things are crook at home at the moment.
“They′re always crook at my home.”
ref: 2004, Robert Barnard, A Cry from the Dark, page 21:
glosses: Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
examples: text: I′m feeling a bit crook.
glosses: Ill, sick.
examples: text: be crook at/about; go crook at
text: Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.
ref: 2006, Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt, page 17:
text: I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.
ref: 2007, Jo Wainer, Bess: Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories, page 159:
text: I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.
ref: 2007, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don′t Take Your Love to Town, page 100:
text: Mum went crook at me for wasting money, but when Don got a job and spent all his money on a racing bike, she didn′t say a thing to him.
ref: 2009, Carolyn Landon, Cups With No Handles, page 234:
glosses: Annoyed, angry; upset.
Derived terms: crook as Rookwood
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: crook and nanny
staff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stäf
ipa: /stɑːf/
ipa: [stɑːf]
ipa: [stäːf]
ipa: [stɐːf]
enpr: stăf
ipa: /stæf/
ipa: [stæf]
ipa: [stɛəf]
ipa: [steəf]
ipa: [staf]
ipa: [stäf]
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: staffs
form: staffing
form: staffed
form: staffed
Etymology: From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.
Senses: examples: text: Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:
glosses: To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members.
Derived terms: staffer
staffing
staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stäf
ipa: /stɑːf/
ipa: [stɑːf]
ipa: [stäːf]
ipa: [stɐːf]
enpr: stăf
ipa: /stæf/
ipa: [stæf]
ipa: [stɛəf]
ipa: [steəf]
ipa: [staf]
ipa: [stäf]
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of staph.
kaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
Forms: form: kaj
form: kajk
Etymology: From Armenian քաջ (kʻaǰ), քաջք (kʻaǰkʻ).
Senses: examples: text: There existed destructive female demons called parik, whose husbands were known as kaj.
ref: 2006, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, pt.1: Iran, Armenia and Georgia, page 611
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A spirit of storm and wind;
Related terms: kaji
multi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multis
Etymology: Clipping of multistan.
Senses: examples: text: Many K-pop fans of all the groups involved, known as "multis," gave everyone their two cents on the matter.
ref: 2021 August 25, Vibha Hegde, “BTS, Blackpink, and Stray Kids asked to disband by disgruntled fans”, in SKPop:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of multistan.
multi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multis
Etymology: Clipping of multituberculate.
Senses: examples: text: Our Mesozoic antecedents are typified by small size; even the largest of the multis are not larger than a groundhog.
ref: 1996, Michael Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, page 316:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A multituberculate.
multi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multies
Etymology: < multifasciatus
Senses: glosses: Neolamprologus multifasciatus (small shell-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, popular as aquarium fish)
multi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for "multi two diamonds".
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows several possible types of hands.
multi-billion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + billion.
Senses: glosses: Having more than 1,000,000,000; in the billion range.
glosses: more than 1,000,000,000,000; in the old billion range.
raw_tags: in the old numbering system
multicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌltɪˈkʌlə/
Forms: form: multicolour
Etymology: From Latin multicolor; see below.
Senses: synonyms: word: motley
word: multicolored
word: polychromatic
word: aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured
word: colorful (US) / colourful
word: colorific
word: discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US
word: obsolete) / discoloured
word: kaleidoscopic
word: many-coloured
word: motley
word: multichromatic
word: multicolor (US) / multicolour
word: multicolored (US) / multicoloured
word: multicolorous
word: multihued
word: particolored (US) / particoloured
word: polychromate
word: polychromatic
word: polychromed
word: polyhued
word: prismatic
word: rainbow
word: rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured
word: tissued
word: variegated
glosses: Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.
multicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌltɪˈkʌlə/
Forms: form: multicolour
Etymology: From Latin multicolor; see below.
Senses: examples: a stamp printed in multicolor
glosses: A display of many colors.
multi-million
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌltiˈmɪljən/
ipa: /ˌmʌltaɪˈmɪljən/
Etymology: From multi- + million.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multimillion.
multimillion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-million
Etymology: From multi- + million.
Senses: examples: text: Edhi lived in a humble, ascetic way, even as his charity became a multimillion-pound enterprise.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2017:
text: A project led by Annie Collier, a clinical psychologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, to study vaccine hesitancy among Alaska Native and American Indian people and test strategies to promote vaccination was also cut short. Her multimillion NIH grant was terminated on 10 March.
ref: 2025 March 31, Sara Reardon, “Are terminations of NIH grants wasting billions of taxpayer dollars?”, in Science, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2025:
glosses: Having several millions; costing or worth many millions of dollars, pounds, euros or some other currency.
Related terms: million
multimillionaire
multimillions
megamillion
supermillion
billion
multicolour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multicolor
Etymology: From multi- + colour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multicolor.
multicolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicolor
Etymology: From multi- + colour.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multicolor.
multibillion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌltiˈbɪljən/
Etymology: From multi- + billion.
Senses: examples: text: According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.
ref: 2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: Having a value of several billion (in general, at least two billion).
Related terms: multibillions
accusement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzmənt/
Forms: form: accusements
Etymology: From Middle French acusement; later uses reformed from accuse + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: He gan t'efforce the evidence anew, / And new accusements to produce in place […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: An accusation.
accusingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkju.zɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more accusingly
form: most accusingly
Etymology: From accusing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She looked at him accusingly after the vase broke.
text: He pointed accusingly at his rival during the debate.
text: The child stared accusingly at his brother, convinced he took the toy.
glosses: In an accusing manner.
cauliflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl.i.flaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒl.ɪ.flaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɔl.ɪˌflaʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑl.ɪˌflaʊ.ɚ/
Forms: form: cauliflowers
Etymology: From 16th century cole-florye, equivalent to cole (from Latin caulis) + flower, reformed to more closely match the Latin etymon. Cognate with French chou-fleur, Italian cavolfiore.
Senses: examples: text: ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
ref: 1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] , page 326:
glosses: Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
glosses: The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
examples: text: His ears were small (fortunately so, given his dramatic hairstyle) and bore no traditional cauliflowers.
ref: 2018, John Harding, The Whitechapel Whirlwind: The Jack Kid Berg Story:
glosses: The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
Derived terms: broccoflower
cauli
cauliflower cheese
cauliflower coral
cauliflower ear
cauliflowered
cauliflower fungus
cauliflowerlike
cauliflower mushroom
cauliflower rice
cauliflowery
caulini
sea cauliflower
cauliflower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl.i.flaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒl.ɪ.flaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɔl.ɪˌflaʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑl.ɪˌflaʊ.ɚ/
Forms: form: cauliflowers
form: cauliflowering
form: cauliflowered
form: cauliflowered
Etymology: From 16th century cole-florye, equivalent to cole (from Latin caulis) + flower, reformed to more closely match the Latin etymon. Cognate with French chou-fleur, Italian cavolfiore.
Senses: examples: text: I noticed his right ear was badly cauliflowered and that explained a number of things. It wasn't a new job of cauliflowering.
ref: 1947, Elliott Chaze, The Stainless Steel Kimono, page 49:
text: Returning to your first point, the cauliflowering of magnesite bricks — we presume that this is due to your using high concentrations of oxygen for blowing the furnace, giving high checker-temperatures.
ref: 1960, Transactions of the British Ceramic Society, page 281:
text: The soft steel of the back edge by now has cauliflowered over from hammering on it.
ref: 1974, Alexander G. Weygers, The Modern Blacksmith, page 39:
glosses: To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.
American English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Etymology: Compound of American + English. First use appears c. 1806, in a dictionary by Noah Webster; as an adjective, c. 1892.
Senses: glosses: The form of the English language that is chiefly used in the United States, contrasted with British English or Canadian English and that of other places.
glosses: The form of the English language that is chiefly used in North America, contrasted with Commonwealth English (British English and that of other places).
Synonyms: word: AmE
word: AE
word: AmEng
word: Americanese
sense: English of North America
word: North American English
sense: English of the US
word: United States English
sense: English of the US
word: USEng
Related terms: alt: Ebonics
word: African-American English
word: African English
word: Alaskan English
word: Australian English
word: Bahamian English
word: Bangladeshi English
english: Bajan English
translation: Bajan English
word: Barbadian English
word: Belizean English
word: Bermudian English
word: British English
word: Brunei English
word: Cameroonian English
word: Canadian English
word: Canajan
word: Caribbean English
alt: Sri Lankan English
word: Ceylonese English
word: Channel Island English
alt: Chinglish
word: Chinese English
word: Commonwealth English
word: English English
word: European English
word: Falkland Islands English
word: Gibraltarian English
word: Guyanese English
word: Hong Kong English
word: Indian English
word: Irish English
word: Jamaican English
alt: Engrish
word: Japanese English
word: Kenyan English
word: King's English
word: Liberian English
word: Malawian English
word: Malaysian English
word: Maltese English
alt: Anglo-Manx
word: Manx English
alt: Namlish
word: Namibian English
word: Nepalese English
alt: Newfinese
word: Newfoundland English
word: New Zealand English
word: Nigerian English
word: Northern Irish English
word: Pakistani English
word: Pennsylvania Dutch English
word: Philippine English
word: Queen's English
word: Scottish English
word: Singapore English
word: South African English
english: Ceylonese English
translation: Ceylonese English
word: Sri Lankan English
word: Standard American English
alt: Tanglish
word: Tamil English
word: Trinidadian and Tobagonian English
word: Ugandan English
word: Ulster English
word: Welsh English
alt: Yeshivish
word: Yeshiva English
American English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more American English
form: most American English
Etymology: Compound of American + English. First use appears c. 1806, in a dictionary by Noah Webster; as an adjective, c. 1892.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to, or spoken or written in American English.
enumerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnjuː.məˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈn(j)u.məˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: enumerates
form: enumerating
form: enumerated
form: enumerated
Etymology: First attested in 1600–1650; borrowed from Latin enumerātus, the perfect passive participle of enumerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
glosses: To determine the amount of.
Synonyms: sense: determine the amount of
word: number
word: tally
word: count
word: tick off
Derived terms: afore-enumerated
enumerative
misenumerate
renumerate
Related terms: enumeration
enumerator
enumerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnjuː.məˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈn(j)u.məˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more enumerate
form: most enumerate
Etymology: First attested in 1600–1650; borrowed from Latin enumerātus, the perfect passive participle of enumerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: examples: text: So many scandals as are enumerate in the Ordinance.
ref: 1646, George Gillespie, Male Audis:
glosses: Enumerated.
countdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn/
Forms: form: countdowns
form: count down
form: count-down
Etymology: From count + down.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acts of preparation carried out during this period.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order and ending with the number one song.
Related terms: word: count-off
word: countout
countdown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn/
Forms: form: countdowns
form: countdowning
form: countdowned
form: countdowned
form: count down
form: count-down
Etymology: From count + down.
Senses: examples: text: This was accomplished in the old system by polling a software variable representing the number of prebleach bin and issuing a software command to trigger the AOM once the variable has countdowned to zero.
ref: 1994, Yifeng Yuan, Polarized fluorescence photobleaching for measuring fast rotational motion of cell surface receptors:
text: Time measures itself out in a series of diminishing peristaltic ticks, countdowning slowly towards the miracle of Ignition.
ref: 2000, Stephen Mark Cox, Cluck:
text: Whole families stood gawking at the massive statue, countdowning the five remaining minutes to the big one.
ref: 2003, Edward Stone Cohen, Firewater, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: To count down.
Related terms: countup
T-minus
gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.bəl/
rhymes: -æmbəl
homophone: gambol
Forms: form: gambles
form: gambal
Etymology: From earlier gamel, from Middle English *gamlen, *gamelen, variant of Middle English gamenen, from Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian (“to joke; play”), related to Old English gamen (“joy; mirth; pleasure; entertainment; pastime; sport; game”), equivalent to game + -le. Compare Old Danish gammel, Middle High German gamel (“pleasure; fun”). More at game.
Senses: examples: text: I had a gamble on the horses last weekend.
glosses: A bet or wager.
glosses: A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.
examples: text: The sailors had taken many gambles with the sea and always won.
glosses: A risky venture.
Derived terms: Pascal's gamble
take a gamble
gamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.bəl/
rhymes: -æmbəl
homophone: gambol
Forms: form: gambles
form: gambling
form: gambled
form: gambled
form: gambal
Etymology: From earlier gamel, from Middle English *gamlen, *gamelen, variant of Middle English gamenen, from Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian (“to joke; play”), related to Old English gamen (“joy; mirth; pleasure; entertainment; pastime; sport; game”), equivalent to game + -le. Compare Old Danish gammel, Middle High German gamel (“pleasure; fun”). More at game.
Senses: glosses: To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
examples: text: Mark won half a million dollars gambling on horses.
glosses: To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.
examples: text: He gambled his reputation on the outcome.
glosses: To risk (something) for potential gain.
glosses: To interact with equipment at a casino.
Derived terms: gambler
gamblesome
outgamble
overgamble
Related terms: game of chance
vodka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒdkə/
ipa: /ˈvɑdkə/
note: Indic
ipa: /vɔ~o.kɑ/
rhymes: -ɒdkə
rhymes: (Indic, also) -əʊdkə
Forms: form: vodkas
form: vodki
form: vodky
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian во́дка (vódka), from вода́ (vodá, “water”) + -ка (-ka, “-let: forming diminutives”). The archaic Russian name for vodka was хле́бное вино́ (xlébnoje vinó, “grain wine”); V. Pokhlyobkin's research suggests the present name derived from expressions concerning the dilution of the initial pure distilled spirit such as "vodka of grain wine".
Cognates include Sanskrit उदक (udaka), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) → English hydro-, English whisky and English water.
Senses: examples: text: Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor. She was quite white. Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka.
ref: 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business:
text: At Vessel, in Seattle, the bar manager, Jamie Boudreau, starts his cherry bitters by combining separate bourbon- and rye-based infusions with a touch of honey-flavored vodka and the Italian digestif amaro.
ref: 2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021:
glosses: A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.
examples: text: You should mutter sullenly into your glass, cursing the serving woman (Witch! Hag! Poison!) or the vodka (Poison! Bitch!), as the one pours you another glass of the other.
ref: 1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: A serving of the above beverage.
qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A Russian.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Russian language.
Derived terms: caipivodka
penne alla vodka
Scotchka
vodka beetle
vodka cran
vodkaholic
vodkaless
vodkalike
vodka luge
vodka sauce
vodkatini
vodka tonic
octillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈtɪl.iː.ən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: octillions
Etymology: From oct- (“eight”) + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 5–6:
qualifier: short scale
glosses: A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.
qualifier: long scale
glosses: A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.
Synonyms: sense: a long scale quadrilliard
word: 1027
sense: a short scale quindecillion
word: 1048
Derived terms: octillionaire
octillionfold
octillionth
Related terms: sense: short and long scale
word: Previous: septillion. Next: nonillion.
hairnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹˌnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛɹnɛt
Forms: form: hairnets
form: hair net
Etymology: From hair + net. Compare Dutch haarnetje, German Haarnetz, Danish hårnet, Swedish hårnät.
Senses: glosses: A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.
Hyponyms: shpitzel
snood
Derived terms: granny's hairnet
hairnetted
mania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: manias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mania, from Ancient Greek μανία (manía, “madness”).
Senses: glosses: Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
examples: text: One of the manias of the present day, which especially excites my spleen, is the locomotive rage which seems to possess all ranks—that necessity of going out of town in the summer...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233:
text: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:
text: The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”
ref: 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN:
glosses: Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
examples: ref: 2004 March, G. E. Berrios, “Of Mania: introduction (Classic text no. 57)”, in History of Psychiatry, number 15, →DOI, →PMID, pages 105–124:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
Derived terms: antimania
charismania
Cumbermania
dancing mania
gourmania
hypermania
Illyromania
logomania
mania-like
maniaphobe
maniaphobia
Monkmania
monomania
opiomania
supermania
tulip mania
Wikimania
Related terms: dipsomania
manic
maniac
megalomania
telethon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛl.əˌθɒn/
Forms: form: telethons
Etymology: A blend of telephone + marathon.
Senses: glosses: A televised fundraising event encouraging viewers to make donations via telephone.
phone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ̯n/
ipa: /foʊ̯n/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: phones
form: phoning
form: phoned
form: phoned
form: 'phone
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
French -phone
French téléphonebor.
English telephone
English phone
Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.
Senses: examples: text: Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
text: Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
text: It wasn’t like he was dying to get it off his chest. I think he only phoned because he knew how excited I’d be to hear about it.
ref: 2010, Tyler Keevil, chapter 32, in Fireball, Cardigan, Ceredigion: Parthian, →ISBN, page 148:
synonyms: call
phone up
ring
telephone
glosses: To call (someone) using a telephone.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)
word: phone ahead
sense: Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)
word: phone home
sense: Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)
word: phone in
sense: Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)
word: phone up
sense: Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)
word: unphoned
phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ̯n/
ipa: /foʊ̯n/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: phones
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
Synonyms: word: phone
word: telephone
word: blower
word: pipe
word: Ameche
word: dog and bone
word: horn
Hypernyms: word: device
Hyponyms: word: cell phone
word: cellular
word: cellular phone
word: cordless phone
word: dial phone
word: dumbphone
word: feature phone
word: flip phone
word: mobile
word: mobile phone
word: mobile telephone
word: smartphone
Meronyms: word: cord
word: dial
word: handset
word: microphone
word: ringer
word: speaker
Derived terms: phonal
Related terms: phoneme
phonetic
phonetically
phonetics
phonology
marathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹəθən/
ipa: /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
ipa: /ˈmæɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
Forms: form: marathons
Etymology: From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
Senses: glosses: A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.
examples: text: He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.
text: I learned from the marathon that to finish a race you simply keep running.
ref: 2021, Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain, Ch.2, at p.35
text: After a marathon session that included more than 14 hours of mostly negative public comment, the council agreed 11 to 4 to fund the center, and then gaveled out just before 6 a.m.
ref: 2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
glosses: Any extended or sustained activity.
Derived terms: -athon
half marathon
marathoner
marathonic
marathonist
marathonlike
megamarathon
minimarathon
nonmarathon
photomarathon
postmarathon
readathon
telethon
ultramarathon
walking marathon
marathon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹəθən/
ipa: /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
ipa: /ˈmæɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
Forms: form: marathons
form: marathoning
form: marathoned
form: marathoned
Etymology: From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.
Senses: examples: text: In less than two years, they and their family and friends have skydived, marathoned, tray-baked and dinner-danced their way to £130,000 for Duchenne research through their help4harry campaign.
ref: 2015 August 1, “‘I was cross that my child had to beg the prime minister for a drug’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To run a marathon.
examples: We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.
glosses: To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.
net
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nets
form: netting
form: netted
form: netted
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *neHd- (“to turn, twist, knot”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nät (“net”), West Frisian, Dutch net (“net”), German, Luxembourgish Netz (“net”), Yiddish נעץ (nets, “net”) Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic net (“net”), Norwegian Bokmål nett (“net”), Norwegian Nynorsk net, nett (“net”), Swedish nät (“net”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌹 (nati, “net”).
Senses: glosses: To catch by means of a net.
examples: text: And now I am here, netted and in the toils.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
examples: text: to net a tree
text: Old Yew, which graspest at the stones
⁠That name the under-lying dead,
⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To enclose or cover with a net.
examples: text: Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.
text: Romeu then scored a penalty, Torres netted a header and Moses added the sixth from substitute Oscar's cross.
ref: 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To score (a goal).
examples: text: Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.
ref: 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To hit the ball into the net.
examples: text: I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To form a netting or network; to knit.
Synonyms: sense: catch by means of a net
word: catch
sense: to trap
word: catch
sense: to trap
word: ensnare
sense: to trap
word: entrap
sense: to trap
word: snare
sense: to trap
word: trap
Derived terms: benet
cast-net
internet
internetted
internetting
net
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nett
Etymology: From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
Senses: examples: text: Her brest all naked, as net iuory, / Without adorne of gold or siluer bright […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
examples: text: net wine
glosses: Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
examples: text: net profit; net weight
glosses: Remaining after expenses or deductions.
examples: text: net result; net conclusion
glosses: Final; end.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: denet
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net earnings
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net force
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net income
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net ionic equation
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net lease
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net loss
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net magnetization vector
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net margin
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net metering
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net net
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net-net
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net operating income
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net operating loss
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net pay
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net present value
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net profit
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: netput
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net register ton
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net sales
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net tangible assets
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net weight
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net wt.
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net worth
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net-zero
sense: Terms derived from net (adjective) after expenses; final
word: net zero
net
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nett
Etymology: From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
Senses: examples: text: You'll have $5000 net.
glosses: After expenses or deductions.
Derived terms: net net
net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nets
form: nett
Etymology: From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
Senses: examples: text: Our net on that transaction was only fourteen dollars.
text: The net on that container was only fourteen tons.
coordinate_terms: gross
glosses: The amount remaining after expenses or other kinds of deductions are subtracted.
Derived terms: net net
net-net
on net
Related terms: suttle
tare
tret
net
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nets
form: netting
form: netted
form: netted
form: nett
Etymology: From Middle English net, nette, from Old French net, from Latin nitidus. Doublet of neat and nitid.
Senses: examples: text: The company nets $30 on every sale.
glosses: To receive as profit.
examples: text: The scam netted the criminals $30,000.
glosses: To yield as profit for.
examples: text: Every party is netting their position with a counter-party.
glosses: To fully hedge a position.
Derived terms: net out
net
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
enpr: nĕt
ipa: /nɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: nets
form: netting
form: netted
form: netted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French nettoyer (“to cleanse”).
Senses: glosses: To clean, wash, rinse.
Derived terms: netting
navel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'vəl
ipa: /ˈneɪvəl/
enpr: nā'bəl
ipa: /ˈneɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪvəl
homophone: naval
Forms: form: navels
form: navil
Etymology: From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (compare Old Irish imbliu, Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Persian ناف (nâf), Kurdish navik, Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi)), diminutive of *h₃nobʰ-, equivalent to nave + -el (diminutive suffix)). Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
examples: text: Within the navel of this hideous wood,
Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells,
Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus
ref: 1637, John Milton, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:
text: Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
text: We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: The central part or point of anything; the middle.
examples: text: This contributed to a rapid rise in planted acreage in northern California, especially in navels, which are more suited to growing conditions there.
ref: 1981, Peter K. Thor, Edward V. Jesse, Economic Effects of Terminating Federal Marketing Orders for California-Arizona Oranges:
glosses: A navel orange.
glosses: An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Synonyms: word: bellybutton
word: belly button
word: nave
word: umbilicus
word: navel
Hyponyms: word: innie
word: outie
Derived terms: contemplate one's navel
fuzzy navel
navel gall
navel-gaze
navel-gazer
navel-gazey
navel-gazing
navel gazing
navelless
navellike
navel orange
navel point
navel ring
navel-string
navel string
navel-watching
navelwort
subnavel
Related terms: word: innie
word: outie
word: omphalos
word: omphaloskepsis
word: umbilicum mundi
navel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'vəl
ipa: /ˈneɪvəl/
enpr: nā'bəl
ipa: /ˈneɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪvəl
homophone: naval
Forms: form: navels
form: naveling
form: navelling
form: naveled
form: naveled
form: navelled
form: navelled
form: navil
Etymology: From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (compare Old Irish imbliu, Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Persian ناف (nâf), Kurdish navik, Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi)), diminutive of *h₃nobʰ-, equivalent to nave + -el (diminutive suffix)). Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
Senses: examples: text: Lo, Nemi! navelled in the woody hills / So far, that the uprooting wind which tears / The oak from his foundation, and which spills / The ocean o’er its boundary, and bears / Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares / The oval mirror of thy glassy lake; […]
ref: 1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CLXXIII, page 89:
text: Within the shade a ruined temple stands / To sight conspicuous, navelled in the pines, / Speaking of Grecian art, since Vandal hands / Defaced her structures, and despoiled her shrines.
ref: 1819, J[eremiah] H[olmes] Wiffen, “Aspley Wood”, in Aonian Hours; and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, canto II, stanza LXII, page 102:
text: I rejoice as I call back those pleasant times, when in the casement of our seminary, I rested my telescope on my shut-up Virgil, and looked off among the far-off hills in the lap of which the edifice was naveled, and saw the pretty girls of the farm-houses, […]
ref: 1835 August, Ollapod [pseudonym], “Ollapodiana. Number Four.”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume VI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: [Lewis Gaylord] Clark and [Clement] Edson, […], page 122:
text: The crimson berry tree navelled upon this court / Twinkles a coded message, a wind-sun tingling chord, / Curious round her foot saunters one blue jay: […]
ref: 1965, C[ecil] Day Lewis, “Madrigal for Lowell House”, in The Room & Other Poems, London: Jonathan Cape, page 53:
glosses: To be in the middle of a landscape.
side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sīd
ipa: /saɪd/
ipa: /səɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: sighed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: more side
form: most side
Etymology: From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.
Senses: examples: text: One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
examples: text: a side issue; a side view or remark
text: The law hath no side respect to their persons.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Indirect; oblique; incidental.