lysozyme

text: [Alexander Fleming] had in 1923 discovered lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme found in saliva, mucus and tears as part of the body’s first line of defence against invading pathogens.

ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 47–48:

links: biochemistry biochemistry

links: bacteriolytic bacteriolytic

links: antibiotic antibiotic

links: secretion secretion

links:
egg white
egg white

raw_glosses: (biochemistry) A bacteriolytic (or antibiotic) enzyme found in many animal secretions, and in egg white.

en-noun

expansion: lysozyme (plural lysozymes)

forms: lysozymes (plural)

lisozim

code: ca

sense: bacteriolytic enzyme

溶菌酶

code: cmn

roman: róngjūnméi

lysotsyymi

code: fi

Lysozym

code: de

lisozima

code: es

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.
Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)bor.
English lyso-
English enzyme
English lysozyme
From lyso- + enzyme.

ety

lyso-

enzyme

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.
Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)bor.
English lyso-
English enzyme
English lysozyme
[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "a loosening", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to loosen", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*lewh₁-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "λύω", "gloss" : "loosen", "lang" : "grc" }, { "id" : "abstract nouns", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "action nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tis", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-τις", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-σις", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "λῠ́σῐς", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "lyso-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "enzyme", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "lysozyme", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="lysozyme">
From lyso- + enzyme.

ipa: /ˈlaɪsəzaɪm/


lysozyme

links: lysozyme lysozyme#English

pos: noun

fr-noun

m

expansion: lysozyme m (plural lysozymes)

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-lysozyme.wav


bacteriolytic

links: bacteriolysis bacteriolysis

glosses: of, relating to, or causing bacteriolysis

pos: adj

en-adj

expansion: bacteriolytic (comparative more bacteriolytic, superlative most bacteriolytic)

forms:
more bacteriolytic (comparative)
most bacteriolytic (superlative)

bakteriolityczny

code: pl

sense: Translations


bacteriolysis

links: bacteria bacteria

links: lysis lysis

en-noun

bacteriolyses

expansion: bacteriolysis (usually uncountable, plural bacteriolyses)

forms: bacteriolyses (plural)

bactériolyse

code: fr

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactērium
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English bacterio-
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der.
English -lysis
English bacteriolysis
From bacterio- + -lysis.

ety

en

:af

bacterio-

-lysis

expansion:
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor.
New Latin bactērium
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English bacterio-
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der.
English -lysis
English bacteriolysis
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From bacterio- + -lysis.

rhymes: -ɒlɪsɪs


lytic

text: […] a preliminary step in any paleopathological analysis is to distinguish in vivo lesions from post-depositional damage. […] generally the problem is distinguishing holes or breaks in bone that represent disease or injury from taphonomic damage. In practice, making this distinction in skeletal remains almost always relies on macroscopy. ¶ In distinguishing lytic lesions from taphonomic damage, it is the macroscopic morphology of the margins that is key.

ref: 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27:

type: quotation

links: lysin lysin

en-adj

expansion: lytic (comparative more lytic, superlative most lytic)

forms:
more lytic (comparative)
most lytic (superlative)

etymology_text: From lysis + -tic or lysin + -tic.

af

lysis

-tic

expansion: lysis + -tic

lysin

expansion: lysin + -tic


lytic infection

links: bacterium bacterium

links: bacteriophage bacteriophage

links: phage phage

links: cell cell

glosses: The infection of a bacterium by a bacteriophage with subsequent production of more phage particles, and lysis of the cell.

en-noun

expansion: lytic infection (countable and uncountable, plural lytic infections)

forms: lytic infections (plural)


macrocyclic compound

links: chemistry chemistry

links: macrocycle macrocycle

expansion: macrocyclic compound (plural macrocyclic compounds)

forms: macrocyclic compounds (plural)


macrocyclic

links: closed closed#Adjective

links: ring ring#Noun

links: atoms atom#Noun

raw_glosses: (chemistry) Of an organic compound: having a closed ring of more than about twelve atoms.

links: macrocycle macrocycle#Noun

raw_glosses: (chemistry) Of or relating to a macrocycle.

text: Almost all the rusts occurring on the ferns are both heteroecious and macrocyclic; so also are most of those occurring on the conifers.

ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 259:

links: mycology mycology

links: rust rust

links: fungus fungus

links: pycniospore pycniospore

links: spermatium spermatium

links: aeciospore aeciospore

links: urediniospore urediniospore

links: teliospore teliospore

links: basidiospore basidiospore

raw_glosses: (mycology) Pertaining to a rust fungus whose life cycle includes all five spore stages: pycniospore (spermatium), aeciospore, urediniospore, teliospore, and basidiospore.

en-adj

expansion: macrocyclic (comparative more macrocyclic, superlative most macrocyclic)

forms:
more macrocyclic (comparative)
most macrocyclic (superlative)

μακροκυκλικός

code: el

sense: having a closed ring of many atoms

roman: makrokyklikós

etymology_text: From macro- + cyclic.

pre

macro-

cyclic

expansion: macro- + cyclic

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-macrocyclic.wav


Carly

text: She introduced herself. I said, 'Where'd you get a name like Carly?' and she said, from her aunt.

ref: 2008, Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- And the Journey of a Generation, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 263:

links:
given name
given name

glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.

pos: name

en-proper noun

expansion: Carly

etymology_text: A feminine form of Carl, taken to use in the latter half of the 20th century; also a pet form of Carla, Carlene and Carlotta.

ipa: /ˈkɑɹli/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Carly.wav

rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li

forms:
Carley (alternative)
Carlie (alternative)
Carlee (alternative)
Carli (alternative)
Karly (alternative)
Karlie (alternative)
Karli (alternative)
Karley (alternative)
Karlee (alternative)
Carleigh (alternative)
Karleigh (alternative)
Carls (alternative)


crown ether

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links:
macrocyclic compound
macrocyclic compound

links:
repeat unit
repeat unit

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) any of a class of macrocyclic compounds containing repeat units of -CH₂CH₂O-

links: compound compound

links: nitrogen nitrogen

links: sulfur sulfur

links: phosphorus phosphorus

links: silicon silicon

links: oxygen oxygen

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) any similar compound containing atoms of nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus or silicon instead of, or as well as, oxygen

en-noun

expansion: crown ether (plural crown ethers)

forms: crown ethers (plural)

etymology_text: So called because its structure is shaped like a crown (the royal headgear).


repeat unit

links: chemistry chemistry

links: atom atom

links: macromolecule macromolecule

raw_glosses: (chemistry) A specific arrangement of atoms that repeats within a macromolecule

links: genetics genetics

links: sequence sequence

links: base base

links:
nucleic acid
nucleic acid

links:
amino acid
amino acid

links: protein protein

raw_glosses: (genetics) A specific sequence of bases that repeats within a nucleic acid (or of amino acids within a protein)

expansion: repeat unit (plural repeat units)

forms: repeat units (plural)


zebra finch

links: Australasian Australasian

links: weaverbird weaverbird

links: Taeniopygia Taeniopygia#Translingual

links: markings markings

glosses: A small Australasian weaverbird of the genus Taeniopygia that has markings similar to a zebra.

expansion: zebra finch (plural zebra finches)

forms: zebra finches (plural)

diamante mandarín

code: ast

sense: bird

зеброва амадина

code: bg

roman: zebrova amadina

斑胸草雀

roman: bān xiōng cǎo què

zebřička

code: cs

zebrafinke

code: da

zebravink

code: nl

kastanoto

code: eo

diamante mandarín

code: gl

zebrapinty

code: hu

sebrafinka

code: is

glasán séabrach

code: ga

diamante mandarino

code: it

錦華鳥

code: ja

roman: kinkachō

burung ciak kuda belang

code: ms

sebrafink

code: no

nyii-nyii

code: pjt

mandarim

code: pt

зе́бровая амади́на

code: ru

roman: zébrovaja amadína

glaisean-stiallach

code: gd

zebrička austrálska

code: sk

zebrafink

code: sv

zebra ispinozu

code: tr

зяблик-зебра

code: uk

roman: zjablyk-zebra

зеброва амадина

roman: zebrova amadyna

chim di vằn

code: vi

pila gwellt rhesog

code: cy

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-zebra finch.wav


cryptand

links:
organic chemistry
organic chemistry

links: polycyclic polycyclic

links: compound compound

links:
crown ether
crown ether

links: nitrogen nitrogen

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms

expansion: cryptand (plural cryptands)

forms: cryptands (plural)

etymology_text: From crypt- + -and.

ety

crypt-

-and

expansion: From crypt- + -and.


abstention doctrine

links: law law#English

links: rule rule

links: federal federal

links: court court

links:
United States
United States

links: decline decline

links: exercise exercise

links: jurisdiction jurisdiction

links: lawsuit lawsuit

links: state state

raw_glosses: (law) A rule under which a federal court in the United States will decline to exercise jurisdiction over a lawsuit because the suit could or should instead be heard by a state court.

en-noun

expansion: abstention doctrine (plural abstention doctrines)

forms: abstention doctrines (plural)


acyclic

links:
physical chemistry
physical chemistry

links: cyclic cyclic

raw_glosses: (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) Not cyclic; having an open chain structure.

links:
graph theory
graph theory

links: graph graph

links: cycle cycle

raw_glosses: (graph theory, of a graph) Containing no cycles.

links: botany botany

links: flower flower

links: receptacle receptacle

raw_glosses: (botany) Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.

en-adj

expansion: acyclic (comparative more acyclic, superlative most acyclic)

forms:
more acyclic (comparative)
most acyclic (superlative)

asiklies

code: af

sense: not cyclic

нецикличен

code: bg

roman: necikličen

acíclic

code: ca

acyklický

code: cs

acyclisch

code: nl

ei-syklinen

code: fi

acyclique

code: fr

aciklusos

code: hu

acykliczny

code: pl

ацикли́ческий

roman: aciklíčeskij

ацѝкличкӣ

code: sh

acíclico

code: es

awansalkupin

code: tl

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Hellenic *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English acyclic
From a- + cyclic.

ety

cyclic

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Hellenic *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English acyclic
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From a- + cyclic.

ipa: /eɪˈsaɪklɪk/

ipa: /eɪˈsɪklɪk/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-acyclic.wav


weaverbird

links:
Old World
Old World

links: passerine passerine

links: birds birds

links: families family

links: nest nest

links: woven woven

links: Ploceidae Ploceidae#Translingual

glosses: Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.

glosses: Ploceidae, the family most commonly known by this name

links: family family

links: Estrildidae Estrildidae#Translingual

links: estrildid estrildid

links: finch finch

glosses: The family Estrildidae, better known as estrildid finches or weaver finches

en-noun

expansion: weaverbird (plural weaverbirds)

forms: weaverbirds (plural)

weaver

sense: Ploceidae

estrildid finch

sense: Estrildidae

wikłacz

sense: bird family

etymology_text: From weaver + bird.

compound

weaver

bird

expansion: weaver + bird


zebrafinke

links:
zebra finch
zebra finch

head

da

noun

g: c

singular definite

zebrafinken

f1accel-form: def|s

plural indefinite

zebrafinker

f4accel-form: indef|p

expansion: zebrafinke c (singular definite zebrafinken, plural indefinite zebrafinker)

da-noun

n

r

forms:
zebrafinken (definite singular)
zebrafinker (indefinite plural)
zebrafinke (indefinite nominative singular)
zebrafinken (definite nominative singular)
zebrafinker (indefinite nominative plural)
zebrafinkerne (definite nominative plural)
zebrafinkes (genitive indefinite singular)
zebrafinkens (definite genitive singular)
zebrafinkers (genitive indefinite plural)
zebrafinkernes (definite genitive plural)

da-noun-infl-base

sg-indef: zebrafinke

sg-def: zebrafinken

pl-indef: zebrafinker

pl-def: zebrafinkerne

gen-sg-indef: zebrafinkes

gen-sg-def: zebrafinkens

gen-pl-indef: zebrafinkers

gen-pl-def: zebrafinkernes

etymology_text: From zebra (“zebra”) + finke (“finch”).

com

zebra

finke

t1: zebra

t2: finch

expansion: zebra (“zebra”) + finke (“finch”)


lariat ether

links: chemistry chemistry

links:
crown ether
crown ether

links:
side chain
side chain

raw_glosses: (chemistry) A crown ether having a side chain of similar structure.

en-noun

expansion: lariat ether (plural lariat ethers)

forms: lariat ethers (plural)


no man's land

text: Near-synonym: kill zone

links: military military

links: ground ground

links: trench trench

links: soldier soldier

links: easily easily

links: targeted targeted

raw_glosses: (military) The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted.

links: nautical nautical

links: space space

links: amidships amidships

links: block block

links: rope rope

raw_glosses: (nautical) A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular for which to care.

links: prison prison

links: hospital hospital

links: complex complex

links: individual individual

links: normally normally

links: enter enter

glosses: The part of a prison, hospital complex, etc. where individuals are not normally allowed to enter.

text: Today Qingshan district is a patchwork of tiny fields, polluted streams and roadside markets selling building materials. But the city government is in the process of transforming this no-man’s-land into a sparkling new suburb.

ref: 2012, Tom Miller, “The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields”, in China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

text: There’s a 137-square-mile chunk of Franklin County […] referred to as "no man’s land" because it isn’t protected by any of the county’s four fire districts.

ref: 2006 March 25, Melissa Hoyos, “‘No man’s land’ has no fire protection”, in Tri City Herald:

text: Now, George, if you’re going to consider this question from the point of view of poetry, you’re off to No Man’s Land, where I won’t follow you.

ref: 1867, T W Robertson, Caste:

links: place place

links: present present

raw_glosses: (figurative) A place where no one can or should be present.

links: tennis tennis

links: area area

links: backcourt backcourt

links: net net

links: difficult difficult

links: return return

links: ball ball

raw_glosses: (tennis) The area between the backcourt and the space close to the net, from which it is difficult to return the ball.

links: cricket cricket

links: fielder fielder

links: single single

links: boundary boundary

raw_glosses: (cricket) An area of the field where a fielder cannot save a single, nor stop a boundary.

links: politics politics

links: geography geography

links: Territory territory

links: disputed disputed

links: inhabited inhabited

links: fear fear

links: conflict conflict

links: Tracts tract

links: uninhabited uninhabited

links: territory territory

links:
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain

raw_glosses: (politics, geography) Territory that is often disputed, and that cannot be inhabited because of fear of conflict, especially:

raw_glosses: (historical) Tracts of uninhabited territory close to the Iron Curtain.

text: At the last Polish station all train officials left, except the locomotive crew, and we slowly trundled over a strongly fortified no man's land for a few hundred yards until we drew in to the first station in Russia.

ref: 1954 April, P. E. Witham, “A Trans-Siberian Memory”, in Railway Magazine, page 269, about a journey in 1937:

links: stretch stretch

links: land land

links:
border post
border post

links: contiguous contiguous

links:
sovereign state
sovereign state

links: separate separate

links: distance distance

raw_glosses: The stretch of land between the border posts of two contiguous sovereign states, sometimes separated by great distance.

links: Land land

links: claimed claimed

links: recognized recognized

links:
terra nullius
terra nullius

raw_glosses: Land that is not claimed by any recognized sovereign state; a terra nullius.

links: medicine medicine

links: anatomy anatomy

links: fibrous fibrous

links: sheath sheath

links: flexor flexor

links: tendon tendon

links: hand hand

links: specifically specifically

links: zone zone

links: distal distal

links: palmar palmar

links: crease crease

links: proximal proximal

links: interphalangeal interphalangeal

links: joint joint

raw_glosses: (medicine, anatomy) The fibrous sheath of the flexor tendons of the hand, specifically in the zone from the distal palmar crease to the proximal interphalangeal joint.

expansion: no man's land

země nikoho

sense: place where no one can or should be

ingenmandsland

code: da

eikellegimaa

code: et

Niemandsland

code: de

země nikoho

etymology_text: Originally from Middle English Nomanneslond, which first appears c. 1350. Revived with new senses in a dispatch printed in the Times newspaper by Colonel Ernest Dunlop Swinton writing as "Eyewitness".

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-no man's land.wav

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-no man's land.wav

forms:
No Man's Land (alternative)
noman's land (alternative)
no-man's land (alternative)


title: ad-hominem

redirect: ad hominem

pos: hard-redirect


forum shopping

links: file file

links: lawsuit lawsuit

links: jurisdiction jurisdiction

links: party party

glosses: An attempt to file a lawsuit in (or have it transferred to) the jurisdiction most favorable to the party filing the suit.

expansion: forum shopping (uncountable)


links: food food

links: manufacture manufacture

links:
orthophenyl phenol
orthophenyl phenol

links: preservative preservative

raw_glosses: (food manufacture) orthophenyl phenol when used as a preservative

head

mul


links:
sodium orthophenyl phenol
sodium orthophenyl phenol

raw_glosses: (food manufacture) sodium orthophenyl phenol when used as a preservative


Kovács

links: surname surname

links: smith smith#English

glosses: a surname originating as an occupation for a smith; one of the most common surnames in Hungary.

hu

proper noun

expansion: Kovács

hu-infl-nom

Kovácso

o

forms:
Kovács (nominative singular)
Kovácsok (nominative plural)
Kovácsot (accusative singular)
Kovácsokat (accusative plural)
Kovácsnak (dative singular)
Kovácsoknak (dative plural)
Kováccsal (instrumental singular)
Kovácsokkal (instrumental plural)
Kovácsért (causal-final singular)
Kovácsokért (causal-final plural)
Kováccsá (singular translative)
Kovácsokká (plural translative)
Kovácsig (singular terminative)
Kovácsokig (plural terminative)
Kovácsként (essive-formal singular)
Kovácsokként (essive-formal plural)
Kovácsban (inessive singular)
Kovácsokban (inessive plural)
Kovácson (singular superessive)
Kovácsokon (plural superessive)
Kovácsnál (adessive singular)
Kovácsoknál (adessive plural)
Kovácsba (illative singular)
Kovácsokba (illative plural)
Kovácsra (singular sublative)
Kovácsokra (plural sublative)
Kovácshoz (allative singular)
Kovácsokhoz (allative plural)
Kovácsból (elative singular)
Kovácsokból (elative plural)
Kovácsról (delative singular)
Kovácsokról (delative plural)
Kovácstól (ablative singular)
Kovácsoktól (ablative plural)
Kovácsé (singular)
Kovácsoké (plural)
Kovácséi (singular)
Kovácsokéi (plural)
Kovácsom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Kovácsaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
Kovácsod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Kovácsaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
Kovácsa (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Kovácsai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
Kovácsunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Kovácsaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
Kovácsotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Kovácsaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
Kovácsuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Kovácsaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
Kovách (alternative)
Kováts (alternative)

etymology_text: Common Slavic surname of Slovene, Czech, Slovak, and Serbo-Croatian origin, all from kovač (“smith”).

der

sla

expansion: Slavic

ipa: [ˈkovaːt͡ʃ]

rhymes: -aːt͡ʃ

parts: Ko vács


links: thiabendazole thiabendazole

raw_glosses: (food manufacture) thiabendazole when used as a preservative


shaughraun

links: wanderer wanderer

links: vagabond vagabond

raw_glosses: (Ireland, Canada) A wanderer; a vagabond.

text: We’ll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmaking in the Clarence.

ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

links: travel travel

links: wander wander

raw_glosses: (Ireland, Canada) A state of travelling or wandering.

en-noun

expansion: shaughraun (plural shaughrauns)

forms: shaughrauns (plural)

etymology_text: Borrowed from Irish seachrán.

ety

:bor

expansion:
[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Irish", "term" : "seachrán", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ga" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "shaughraun", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="shaughraun">
Borrowed from Irish seachrán.

ipa: /ˈʃɑːxɹɑː/

ipa: /ˈʃɑːxɹɑːn/


swearing

text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.

ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

links: swear swear#English

pos: verb

head

verb form

expansion: swearing

etymology_text: From Middle English swerynge; equivalent to swear + -ing.

inh

enm

swerynge

expansion: Middle English swerynge

af

swear

-ing

expansion: swear + -ing

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-swearing.wav

rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ


swearing

text: No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.

ref: 1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697, →OCLC:

links: linguistics linguistics

links: swear swear

raw_glosses: (linguistics) The act of swearing, or making an oath.

en-noun

expansion: swearing (countable and uncountable, plural swearings)

forms: swearings (plural)

հայհոյում

code: hy

sense: the act of making an oath

roman: hayhoyum

заклеване

roman: zaklevane

mallachtach

code: ga

giuramento

code: it

oatitanga

code: mi

swerynge

code: enm


drunkest

links: drunk drunk#English

drunk

extra: most drunk

head

superlative adjective

expansion: drunkest

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-drunkest.wav


drunkest

links: drink drink#English

raw_glosses: (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of drink


fascinated

links: fascinate fascinate#English

glosses: simple past and past participle of fascinate

expansion: fascinated

ipa: /ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/


fascinated

text: utterly fascinated

type: example

text: deeply fascinated

text: fascinated by nature

text: The children were fascinated by the magician’s tricks.

text: She was fascinated with ancient history.

links: extremely extremely

links: interested interested

en-adj

expansion: fascinated (comparative more fascinated, superlative most fascinated)

forms:
more fascinated (comparative)
most fascinated (superlative)

очарован

code: bg

sense: extremely interested

roman: očarovan

fascinovaný

code: cs

fascinita

code: eo

मोहित

code: hi

roman: mohit


切り

links: 切り 切り#Japanese

links: 切 切#Japanese

links: 限 限#Japanese

links: limit limit

links: bound bound

links: end end

ja-noun

きり

expansion: 切(き)り • (kiri)

forms:
切り (canonical)
kiri (romanization)
切 (alternative kanji)

っ切り

roman: kkiri

ruby: 切 き

english: limits, end, bounds

translation: limits, end, bounds

丸切り

roman: marukiri

ruby: 丸 まる

english: anything but, not at all

translation: anything but, not at all

切りがいい, 切りが良い

roman: kiri ga ii

ruby: 良 い

english: good place to leave off

translation: good place to leave off

切りがない, 切りが無い

roman: kiri ga nai

ruby: 無 な

english: endless, innumerable

translation: endless, innumerable

切りのいい, 切りの良い

roman: kiri no ii

切りのない, 切りの無い

roman: kiri no nai

english: endless, boundless

translation: endless, boundless

etymology_text: 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 切(き)る (kiru, “to cut”).

ja-lg

ren'yōkei

expansion: ren'yōkei

ja-r

連%用%形

れん%よう%けい

rom: ren'yōkei

stem or continuative form

切る

きる

to cut

expansion: 切(き)る (kiru, “to cut”)

ja-ryk

ipa: [kʲiɾʲi]

other: きり


切り

links: cutter cutter

pos: suffix

ja-pos

suffix

きり

expansion: 切(き)り • (-kiri)

forms:
切り (canonical)
-kiri (romanization)
切 (alternative kanji)

石切り

roman: ishikiri

ruby: 石 いし

english: stone-cutting, quarrying

translation: stone-cutting, quarrying

缶切り

roman: kankiri

ruby: 缶 かん

english: can opener

translation: can opener

水切り: drainer

roman: mizukiri

爪切り, 爪切

roman: tsumekiri

ruby: 爪 つめ

ruby: 切 きり

english: nail clippers

translation: nail clippers

菜切り包丁

roman: nakiri bōchō

ruby: 菜切 なき

ruby: 包 ぼう

ruby: 丁 ちょう

english: Japanese knife used for cutting vegetables

肉切り庖丁: carving

roman: nikukiri bōchō

螺子切り

roman: nejikiri

ruby: 螺子切 ねじき

english: screw cutter, thread cutting

translation: screw cutter, thread cutting

ガラス切り

roman: garasukiri

english: glass cutter

translation: glass cutter

ja-r

expansion: 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 切(き)る (kiru, “to cut”).


切り

pos: particle

expansion: 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”)

forms: 切 (alternative kanji)


切り

links: way way

links: cut cut

ja-pos

ぎり

expansion: 切(ぎ)り • (-giri)

forms:
切り (canonical)
-giri (romanization)
切 (alternative kanji)

厚切り

roman: atsugiri

ruby: 厚 あつ

ruby: 切 ぎ

english: thick slice

translation: thick slice

薄切り

roman: usugiri

ruby: 薄 うす

english: thin slice, slicing thin

translation: thin slice, slicing thin

角切り

roman: kakugiri

ruby: 角 かく

english: cut into cubes

translation: cut into cubes

細切り

roman: komagiri

ruby: 細 こま

english: something chopped or sliced finely

translation: something chopped or sliced finely

散切り

roman: zangiri

ruby: 散 ざん

english: cutting short

translation: cutting short

筒切り

roman: tsutsugiri

ruby: 筒 つつ

english: round slices

translation: round slices

胴切り

roman: dōgiri

ruby: 胴 どう

english: cutting horizontally into the torso

translation: cutting horizontally into the torso

輪切り

roman: wagiri

ざく切り

roman: zakugiri

english: cutting into chunks

translation: cutting into chunks

削ぎ切り

roman: sogigiri

ruby: 削 そ

english: cutting a thin object at a 45 degree angle

袈裟切り

roman: kesagiri

ruby: 袈裟切 けさぎ

english: slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder

みじん切り, 微塵切り

roman: mijingiri

ruby: 微 み

ruby: 塵 じん

english: finely chopped

translation: finely chopped

四つ切り

roman: yotsugiri

ruby: 四 よ

english: cutting into four, quarter

translation: cutting into four, quarter

六つ切り

roman: mutsugiri

ruby: 六 む

english: cutting into six

translation: cutting into six

八つ切り, 八切

roman: yatsugiri

ruby: 八 や

ruby: 八切 やつぎり

english: cutting into eight

translation: cutting into eight

etymology_text: From 切(き)り (kiri) above. The kiri changes to giri as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

切り

expansion: 切(き)り (kiri)

ja-lg

rendaku

expansion: rendaku

sortkey

ja

切り

expansion: きり

kiri

giri

ipa: [ɡʲiɾʲi]


きり

text: 二人きりのお店

ruby: 二 ふた

ruby: 人 り

ruby: 店 みせ

roman: futari kiri no-omise

translation: a shop for just the two of them/us (with no one else present)

text: 家を出たきり戻らず

ruby: 家 いえ

ruby: 出 で

ruby: 戻 もど

roman: ie o deta kiri modorazu

translation: exiting the house and never returning

english: exiting the house and never returning

links: just just

links: only only

ja-pos

particle

expansion: きり • (kiri)

forms:
kiri (romanization)
切り (alternative kanji rare)

これきり

roman: korekiri

english: last time, never again, only this

translation: last time, never again, only this

それきり

roman: sorekiri

english: with that, on that note

translation: with that, on that note

一人きり: all on one's own

roman: hitori kiri

ruby: 一 ひと

二人きり

roman: futari kiri

english: just the two of them

translation: just the two of them


spring to mind

text: Two good reasons spring to mind at once.

ref: 1987, R.C.D. Jasper, Geoffrey J. Cuming, Prayer of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed, page 3:

links: appear appear

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) To appear suddenly in one's thoughts, often as an example of something.

en-verb

<,,sprang,sprung>

expansion: spring to mind (third-person singular simple present springs to mind, present participle springing to mind, simple past sprang to mind, past participle sprung to mind)

forms:
springs to mind (present singular third-person)
springing to mind (participle present)
sprang to mind (past)
sprung to mind (participle past)

sense: appear in one's thoughts

note: идвам (idvam) + possessive pronoun + наум (naum)

突然想起

code: cmn

roman: tūrán xiǎngqǐ

te binnen schieten

code: nl

tulla mieleen

code: fi

venir à l'esprit

code: fr

acordar

code: gl

eszébe jut

code: hu

tärkähtää päähä

code: izh

subeo

code: la

on mōd berinnan

code: ang

приходи́ть на ум

code: ru

roman: prixodítʹ na um

прийти́ на ум

roman: prijtí na um

приходи́ть в го́лову

roman: prixodítʹ v gólovu

прийти́ в го́лову

roman: prijtí v gólovu

buail an ceann

code: gd

தோன்று

code: ta

roman: tōṉṟu

akla gelmek

code: tr

audio: En-au-spring to mind.ogg


shawm

text:
And all the field is thick with companies
Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes
And gather honey of the yellow fruits
Between the branches waxen soft and wide

ref: 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “St. Dorothy”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 288:

text: There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.

ref: 1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson & Co., →ISBN:

links: double-reed double-reed

links:
wind instrument
wind instrument

glosses: A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.

en-noun

expansion: shawm (plural shawms)

forms: shawms (plural)

bombarda

code: ca

sense: wind instrument

Schalmei

code: de

ζουρνάς

code: el

roman: zournás

shalmo

code: io

seám

code: ga

zufolo

code: it

szałamaja

code: pl

caramillo

code: es

skalmeja

code: sv

karamilyo

code: tl

زورنا

code: ota

roman: zurna

chwythgorn

code: cy

etymology_text: From Middle English shalmuse, from Old French chalemel (modern French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of caramel, chalumeau, and qalam, as well as related to calame, calamus, culm, and haulm.

inh

en

shalmuse

expansion: Middle English shalmuse

der

fro

chalemel

expansion: Old French chalemel

cog

fr

chalumeau

expansion: French chalumeau

der

la-lat

calamellus

expansion: Late Latin calamellus

la

calamus

reed

expansion: Latin calamus (“reed”)

grc

κάλαμος

expansion: Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos)

doublet

caramel

chalumeau

qalam

calame

culm

id3: stem

haulm

expansion: calame, calamus, culm, and haulm

ipa: /ʃɔːm/

rhymes: -ɔːm

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shawm.wav


take a dive

text: Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%.

ref: 2008 December 1, John Curran, “The Recession Is Made Official — and Stocks Take a Dive”, in Time:

links: decline decline

text: I decided there could be a nice bit of irony in a situation where a boxer, with a crown his for the taking, deliberately takes a dive to get revenge on the man he hates, who is betting everything on the boxer's victory.

ref: 1950, Jules Archer, I Sell What I Write, page 44:

text: "You got a fight next weekend. You take a dive in the fourth round, understand?"

ref: 2012, Gary Lovisi, “Boxing, Babes & Bullets”, in Battling Boxing Stories, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 165:

text: The businessman turned promoter rejected some of overseas rumors going around that Klitschko bet a large portion of funds on himself and then took a dive to collect.

ref: 2015 December 31, Vadim Pushkin, “Povetkin Promoter Praises Fury, Rejects Klitschko Dive Claim”, in Boxing Scene, retrieved 03 Aug 2016:

links: boxing boxing#Noun

links: feign feign

links: knockout knockout

links: lose lose

raw_glosses: (idiomatic, boxing) To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally.

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) To lose or fail intentionally.

en-verb

<,,took,taken>

expansion: take a dive (third-person singular simple present takes a dive, present participle taking a dive, simple past took a dive, past participle taken a dive)

forms:
takes a dive (present singular third-person)
taking a dive (participle present)
took a dive (past)
taken a dive (participle past)

throw

english: to intentionally lose a game

translation: to intentionally lose a game

audio: En-au-take a dive.ogg


take lying down

text: I don't know what they expect, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down.

text: Thai police prevented a commemoration on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre from taking place outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, the event's young organizer, didn't take it lying down, though.

ref: 2020 June 4, UCA News Reporter, “Thai activists get creative to mark Tianamen massacre”, in La Croix International, Bayard, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2020:

links: endure endure

links: complaint complaint

links: protest protest

raw_glosses: (transitive) To endure without complaint or protest.

head: ~lying down:lie down

expansion: take lying down (third-person singular simple present takes lying down, present participle taking lying down, simple past took lying down, past participle taken lying down)

forms:
takes lying down (present singular third-person)
taking lying down (participle present)
took lying down (past)
taken lying down (participle past)

逆來順受 /逆来顺受

code: cmn

sense: endure without complaint

roman: nìláishùnshòu

袖手旁觀 /袖手旁观

roman: xiùshǒupángguān

忍氣吞聲 /忍气吞声

roman: rěnqìtūnshēng

隱忍不發 /隐忍不发

roman: yǐnrěnbùfā

niellä purematta

code: fi

accepter sans protester

code: fr

engolir

code: pt

audio: En-au-take lying down.ogg


take the wind out of someone's sails

text:
"I tell you Van Bahr Lamb is a fool." […]
But Polly […] completely took the wind out of her sails, by coolly remarking,— "I like fools."

ref: c. 1860, Louisa May Alcott, Aunt Kipp:

text: Could he have some elderly idea of wanting a youngster for a wife? Occasionally an old chap did. Serve him right if some young chap took the wind out of his sails.

ref: 1922, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 31, in The Head of the House of Coombe:

text: [T]he Republicans […] have been repeatedly battered in the polls since German unification became a mainstream German concern and took the wind out of their sails.

ref: 1990 May 27, Serge Schmemann, “German rightist quits after party suffers setback”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jul 2011:

text: "It took the wind out of our sails," he says. "I had no Plan B. I was a wreck."

ref: 2011 April 14, “Quotes of the Day”, in Time:

text: A bunch of myths, a bunch of tales / To take the wind out of our sails / They even say that we must die / I don't believe it, that's a lie

ref: 2023, “Let the Sun Come In”, in Relentless, performed by The Pretenders:

links: discourage discourage

links: hope hope

links: will will

links: continue continue

links: thwart thwart

links: minimize minimize

raw_glosses: (idiomatic) To discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose hope or the will to continue; to thwart or minimize someone's ambitions.

head: ~out of:~; sail􂀿s:􂁀

expansion: take the wind out of someone's sails (third-person singular simple present takes the wind out of someone's sails, present participle taking the wind out of someone's sails, simple past took the wind out of someone's sails, past participle taken the wind out of someone's sails)

forms:
takes the wind out of someone's sails (present singular third-person)
taking the wind out of someone's sails (participle present)
took the wind out of someone's sails (past)
taken the wind out of someone's sails (participle past)
knock the wind out of someone's sails (alternative)

iemand de wind uit de zeilen nemen

code: nl

sense: to discourage someone

word: cut the ground from under someone's feet

etymology_text: Referring to the idea of a ship that intercepts the wind of another, causing it to slow or stop.

audio: En-au-take the wind out of someone's sails.ogg


take the field

text: The national anthem having been played, both teams took the field and prepared for play.

links:
playing field
playing field

raw_glosses: (literally, figuratively) To go out onto the playing field.

links: military military

links: operation operation

raw_glosses: (figuratively) To begin military operations.

links:
horse racing
horse racing

links: stake stake

links: money money

links: favourite favourite

links: chance chance

links: field field

links: horse horse

raw_glosses: (horse racing) To stake one's money against the favourite, taking the chances of the field against the chance of one horse.

expansion: take the field (third-person singular simple present takes the field, present participle taking the field, simple past took the field, past participle taken the field)

forms:
takes the field (present singular third-person)
taking the field (participle present)
took the field (past)
taken the field (participle past)


take kindly

text: An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]

ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiii

text: My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!

ref: 1954 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:

text: The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.

ref: 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19:

text: It seemed to John like the sort of place where the people all knew one another, were likely to have guns for protection, and rarely took kindly to strangers.

ref: 2014, Sean Platt, David W. Wright, Available Darkness:

text: The young Darrow did not always take kindly to his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing.

ref: 2020, Diana Klebanon, Franklin L. Jonas, Diana Klebanow, People's Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History:

links: like like

links: accept accept

links: condone condone

raw_glosses: (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept, or condone.

+obj

:to

expansion: [with to]

expansion: take kindly (third-person singular simple present takes kindly, present participle taking kindly, simple past took kindly, past participle taken kindly)

forms:
takes kindly (present singular third-person)
taking kindly (participle present)
took kindly (past)
taken kindly (participle past)

audio: En-au-take kindly.ogg


connotate

text: George stared at her curiously. To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.

ref: 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Lees of Happiness:

text: A symbol, for Claudel, was a word, a picture, or an action which connotates a higher meaning.

ref: 1965, Herman Lawrence Zillmer, A Study of the Use of the Symbol in the Dramatic Aesthetics ...:

links: connote connote

links: suggest suggest

glosses: To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional or representative; to imply.

en-verb

expansion: connotate (third-person singular simple present connotates, present participle connotating, simple past and past participle connotated)

forms:
connotates (present singular third-person)
connotating (participle present)
connotated (participle past)
connotated (past)

etymology_text: First attested in 1596; borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātus, perfect passive participle of connotō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of connote.

etydate

expansion: First attested in 1596

bor+

la-med

connotātus

expansion: borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātus

glossary

perfect

expansion: perfect

passive

expansion: passive

participle

expansion: participle

af

-ate

id1: verb

pos1: verb-forming suffix

expansion: -ate (verb-forming suffix)

id1: substantive

pos1: noun-forming suffix

expansion: -ate (noun-forming suffix)

dbt

connote

expansion: Doublet of connote

ipa: /ˈkɒnəteɪt/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-connotate.wav


connotate

raw_glosses: (obsolete, rare) A meaning or thing connotated.

en-noun

expansion: connotate (plural connotates)

forms: connotates (plural)


connotate

links: connotare connotare#Italian

glosses:
inflection of connotare:
second-person plural present indicative

glosses:
inflection of connotare:
second-person plural imperative

head

it

verb form

expansion: connotate


connotate

links: connotato connotato#Italian

past participle form

g: f-p

expansion: connotate f pl


connotate

links: voseo voseo#Spanish

links: connotar connotar#Spanish

links: te te#Spanish

glosses: second-person singular voseo imperative of connotar combined with te

es


take effect

text: The medication won't begin to take effect for 3-4 hours.

links: drug drug

links: active active

links: effective effective

raw_glosses: (informal, of a drug, etc.) To become active; to become effective.

text: The new regulations will take effect once they are approved by the Office of Administrative Law.

links: law law

links:
come into force
come into force

links:
come into effect
come into effect

links: inure inure

raw_glosses: (informal, of a law, etc.) To come into force, to come into effect, to inure.

en-verb

expansion: take effect (third-person singular simple present takes effect, present participle taking effect, simple past took effect, past participle taken effect)

forms:
takes effect (present singular third-person)
taking effect (participle present)
took effect (past)
taken effect (participle past)

kick in

sense: to become active

подействам

code: bg

sense: to become active; to become effective

roman: podejstvam

влизам в сила

roman: vlizam v sila

生效

roman: shēngxiào

hat

code: hu

hrífa

code: is

де́йствовать

code: ru

roman: déjstvovatʹ

поде́йствовать

roman: podéjstvovatʹ

audio: en-us-take effect.ogg


sheeny

text: May I never get groggy, if I shall ever forget the joke between you and the old Sheenie, when you threatened to throw him overboard for selling you a dumb time-keeper. ‘Blesh ma heart,’ said the Jew, while his under works shook like a cutter’s foresail going about, ‘how could you expect de vatch to go well, ven de ship vas all in confusion?’ an excuse that saved him from sailing ashore in a skuttle-bucket.

ref: 1825/6, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The English spy, an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous, comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society... drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle, London, U.K.:

text:
O, solomon Levi! Levi! tra la la la!
Poor sheeny Levi, Tra la la la la la la la la la
My name is Solomon Levi
At my store on Salem street
That’s where you’ll buy your coats and vests
And everything else that’s neat (tra la la)
Second-handed Ulsterettes
And everything else that’s fine
For all the boys they trade with me
At a hundred and forty nine

ref: 1885, Fred Seaver, “Solomon Levi”Boston, MA, U.S.:

text: Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.

ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

text: "I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs."

ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

text: One time in Humboldt Park Leo "Bow" Gisensohn, our leader, didn't like the way a cop down by the lake called him "sheeny."

ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 6:

text:
Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.

ref: 2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:

links: ethnic ethnic

links: slur slur

links: Jew Jew

links: cheat cheat

links: fraudster fraudster

en-noun

expansion: sheeny (plural sheenies)

forms:
sheenies (plural)
sheeney (alternative)
sheenie (alternative)

judaĉo

code: eo

sense: a Jew (slur)

жи́д

roman: žíd

etymology_text: Seems to have originated in 1820s London. Could be a mockery of Yiddish שיין (sheyn, “beautiful, nice”), much used in praising wares.

der

yi

שיין

tr: sheyn

t: beautiful, nice

expansion: Yiddish שיין (sheyn, “beautiful, nice”)

ipa: /ˈʃiːni/

rhymes: -iːni


sheeny

links: sheen sheen#Noun

links: glossy glossy

text: And many a sheeny summer-morn, / Adown the Tigris I was borne, / By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, / High-walled gardens green and old; […]

ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part I, page 22:

links: Bright bright#Adjective

links: radiant radiant#Adjective

links: shining shining#Adjective

en-adj

er

expansion: sheeny (comparative sheenier, superlative sheeniest)

forms:
sheenier (comparative)
sheeniest (superlative)

лъскав

sense: Having a sheen; glossy

roman: lǎskav

lesklý

code: cs

etymology_text: From sheen + -y.

ety

:af

sheen

-y

expansion: From sheen + -y.


bust one's chops

text: I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day.

links: exert exert

en-verb

expansion: bust one's chops (third-person singular simple present busts one's chops, present participle busting one's chops, simple past and past participle busted one's chops or bust one's chops)

forms:
busts one's chops (present singular third-person)
busting one's chops (participle present)
busted one's chops (participle past)
busted one's chops (past)
bust one's chops (participle past)
bust one's chops (past)

audio: en-au-bust one's chops.ogg


baby face

text: I now also saw that famous beauty, but in my opinion of a childish, simple, and baby face, Mademoiselle Querouaille [Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth], lately Maide of Honʳ to Madame, and now to be so to yᵉ Queen.

ref: 1670 November 13 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 4 November 1670]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 432:

text: My Stomach ſvvells vvith ſecret Spight, / To ſee my fickle, faithleſs Knight, / […] / On a meer Girl his Thoughts to place, / VVith dimpl'd Cheeks and baby Face, / A Child! a Chit! that vvas not born, / VVhen I did Tovvn and Court adorn.

ref: 1707, [Joseph Addison], Rosamond. An Opera. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 16:

text: A Baby Face, no Life, no Airs, / But what ſhe learnt at Country Fairs; / Scarce knows what difference is between / Rich Flanders Lace, and Colberteen; […]

ref: 1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 249:

text: [T]he jolly, broad, fooliſh, humorous, half-laughing, half-crying, baby-face of the Major extorted peals of laughter from all who were preſent.

ref: 1769, [Henry] Brooke, “XVII [The Three Estates in Parliament.]”, in The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland, volume IV, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, page 237:

text: Say that the Cherubs carved in stone, / […] / Used to sing in heavenly tone, / Above and round the sacred places / They guard, with wingèd baby-faces.

ref: 1834, William Wordsworth, “The Redbreast. (Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage.)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 286:

text: A little boy, who early discovered propensities to cruelty, was so thoroughly weaned from them, by his mother, that when attending to infantine lessons in Natural History, long before he was able to read, and hearing of a bird that was fond of catching flies, he lisped, with a kind of horror upon his baby[-]face, "Oh! kill flies! will God forgive it?"

ref: 1838, L[ydia] H[untley] Sigourney, “Letter IV. First Lessons.”, in Letters to Mothers, Hartford, Conn.: Hudson and Skinner, […], →OCLC, page 38:

text: Now Sir Wigolais was not only very young, but extremely young-looking; he had one of those baby-faces that obstinately refused to look manly at any age, and a chin that seemed destined never to wear a beard.

ref: 1849 March, John Oxenford, “Sir Wigolais of the Wheel”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXXV, number CCCXXXIX, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter I (How Sir Wigolais set out for Corotin, Accompanied by a Sulky Damsel), page 315:

text: "Fool!" muttered the first speaker, in a contemptuous tone. "Are you too caught by that baby face, whining voice, and affected manners?"

ref: 1856 July, Angeline E. Alexander, “Love and Jealousy”, in Graham’s Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion, volume XLIX, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: Watson & Co. […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 51, column 2:

text: Two young giants with smooth, baby faces—two Scandinavians—helped each other to spread their bedding, silent, and smiling placidly at the tempest of good-humoured and meaningless curses.

ref: 1897, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 4:

text: Baby face, you've got the cutest little baby face / There's not another one could take your place, baby face / […] / I didn't need a shove, 'cause I just fell in love / With your pretty baby face

ref: 1926, “Baby Face”, Benny Davis (lyrics), Harry Akst (music), New York, N.Y.: Jerome H[osmer] Remick & Co., →OCLC:

text: The smooth babyface of the man in the chair broke into a shy smile; he looked at the camera and said, "Hello, folks. Excuse me for sitting down. I'm still weak."

ref: 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter VI, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 43:

text: Was he joking, or was he really going to do it? You could never tell with Richard. He has one of those baby faces that adults think are so adorable. […] I wasn't that easily fooled.

ref: 2009, Vicki Grant, “Door Number One”, in Nine Doors (Orca Currents), Victoria, B.C.; Custer, Wash.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 15:

text: Olivia laughed fondly at the baby face of Skeet Bisbee. 'Hey, cutie. I haven't seen you since you left for Tuscaloosa. What are you doing here?'

ref: 2014, Amber Leigh Williams, chapter 2, in Married One Night (Harlequin Super Romance), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 27:

links: face face#Noun

links: chubby chubby

links: resembling resemble

links: baby baby#Noun

links: youthful youthful

glosses: A face, often chubby, resembling that of a baby; a youthful face.

text: God alone knows what has happened to our Indian Princes. Why are there so many of them running after baby faces? Why have they become so recklessly careless of their name and reputation?

ref: 2006, Lucy Moore, “Appendix. The Status of an Indian Princess. A Tale of Woe. (By One of Them.)”, in Maharanis: A Family Saga of Four Queens, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

text: ‘Cheers, baby face!’ she sang. ‘Cheers!’ I giggled. I had never, ever been called ‘baby face’ before.

ref: 2014, Jonathan Harvey, The Girl Who Just Appeared, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 101:

text: The astronauts, played here by an ensemble of square jaws and baby faces (including Jason Clarke, Patrick Fugit, Christopher Abbott, Ethan Embry, and Corey Stoll as a hilariously tactless Buzz Aldrin), had to be scientists and athletes, subjecting themselves to spinning, nausea-provoking simulators one day, basic rocket physics the next.

ref: 2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land Reunite for First Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2020:

links: derogatory derogatory

links: person person

links: young young#Adjective

links: man man#Noun

links: beardless beardless

links: appearance appearance

raw_glosses: (synecdochic, often derogatory) A person having such a face, especially a young man having a beardless appearance.

text: [Jim] Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces and, second, that they triumph by different means, relying on secret holds, sly managers, secret weapons, and illegal maneuvers, whereas babyfaces trust to their physical abilities and athletic training alone.

ref: 1989, Bruce Lincoln, “The Dialectics of Symbolic Inversion”, in Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Classification), page 158:

text: And they [wrestling fans] identified with the local farmer Kasaboski, the French-Canadian boys from Montreal, the clean-cut American lads and the handsome, muscular baby faces. At the same time, they jeered the heels, the masked men, the arrogant, bearded Russians and Germans, and the treacherous Japanese. Promoters always played on stereotypes and post-war biases.

ref: 2007, Gary Howard, “Linking the East and the North”, in The Rassler from Renfrew: The History of Northland Wrestling Enterprises (1946–1980) Promoter – Larry Kasaboski, Renfrew, Ont.: General Store Publishing House, →ISBN, page 41:

text: A babyface’s success depends a great deal on the heels he’s facing. It’s all in how you make them look. A good heel will make your babyface look like Superman.

ref: 2007 October, Dave Batista [i.e., Dave Bautista]; with Jeremy Roberts, “Evolution”, in Batista Unleashed, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 127:

links:
professional wrestling
professional wrestling

links: headlining headline#Verb

links: wrestler wrestler

links: persona persona

links: embody embody

links: heroic heroic

links: virtuous virtuous

links: trait trait

links: regarded regard#Verb

links:
good guy
good guy

links: handsome handsome

links: well well#Adjective

links: conditioned conditioned#Adjective

raw_glosses: (by extension, professional wrestling slang) A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a good guy, especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned.

en-noun

expansion: baby face (plural baby faces)

forms:
baby faces (plural)
babyface (alternative)
baby-face (alternative)

童顏 /童颜

code: yue

sense: face resembling that of a baby

english: tung⁴ ngaan⁴

translation: tung⁴ ngaan⁴

尪仔面

code: nan-hbl

roman: zh-min-nan

囡仔面

roman: gín-á-bīn

娃娃臉 /娃娃脸

roman: wáwaliǎn

童顏 /童颜

roman: tóngyán

babyface

code: da

beebinägu

code: et

Milchgesicht

code: de

faccino

code: it

童顔

code: ja

alt: どうがん

roman: dōgan

동안

code: ko

roman: dong'an

babyface

code: nb

де́тское лицо́

roman: détskoje licó

ли́чико

roman: líčiko

maitonaama

sense: person having such a face


Lusatian

links: Lusatia Lusatia

glosses: Of or pertaining to Lusatia or its people.

en-adj

expansion: Lusatian (not comparable)

лужы́цкі

code: be

sense: of or pertaining to Lusatia or the Lusatians

roman: lužýcki

лужички

code: mk

roman: lužički

लुसेशियन

code: mr

roman: luseśiyan

łużycki

code: pl

лу́жицкий

roman: lúžickij

lȕžičkī

code: sh

lužický

code: sk

łužyski

code: dsb

łužiski

code: hsb

лужи́цький

code: uk

roman: lužýcʹkyj

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English Lusatia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Lusatian
From Lusatia + -an.

ety

Lusatia

-an

expansion:
Etymology tree
English Lusatia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Lusatian
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From Lusatia + -an.

rhymes: -eɪʃən

ipa: /luːˈseɪʃən/


Lusatian

links: Czech Czech

glosses: The Slavic language spoken by the Lusatian people, closely related to Czech.

en-proper noun

expansion: Lusatian


Lusatian

en-noun

expansion: Lusatian (plural Lusatians)

forms: Lusatians (plural)


egotist

glosses: A person who talks excessively about themself.

glosses: A person who believes in their own importance or superiority.

links: egoist egoist

links: egoism egoism#English

raw_glosses: (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) An egoist (advocate of egoism).

qualifier: by confusion of the similar words

expansion: egotist (plural egotists)

forms: egotists (plural)

егоист

code: bg

roman: egoist

egoisti

code: fi

egoist

code: ro

эготи́ст

code: ru

roman: egotíst

эготи́стка

roman: egotístka

эгои́ст

roman: egoíst

эгои́стка

roman: egoístka

самовлюблённый челове́к

roman: samovljubljónnyj čelovék

эгоцентри́ст

roman: egocentríst

эгоцентри́стка

roman: egocentrístka

egotista

code: es

егоист

sense: person who believes in their own importance and superiority

ješita

code: cs

tangata whakatāupe

code: mi

etymology_text: ego + -t- inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc. + -ist

suffix

ist

expansion: + -ist

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-egotist.wav

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Qwertygiy-egotist.wav


egotist

links: egotistical egotistical

ro-adj

expansion: egotist m or n (feminine singular egotistă, masculine plural egotiști, feminine/neuter plural egotiste)

forms:
egotistă (feminine singular)
egotiști (masculine plural)
egotiste (feminine neuter plural)
egotist (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
egotistă (feminine indefinite singular)
egotiști (indefinite masculine plural)
egotiste (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
egotistul (definite masculine neuter singular)
egotista (definite feminine singular)
egotiștii (definite masculine plural)
egotistele (definite feminine neuter plural)
egotiste (feminine indefinite singular)
egotistului (definite masculine neuter singular)
egotistei (definite feminine singular)
egotiștilor (definite masculine plural)
egotistelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

etymology_text: Borrowed from French égotiste.

bor+

ro

fr

égotiste

expansion: Borrowed from French égotiste


amerce

text:
But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
That you shall all repent the loss of mine:

ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

text: The person, in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum.

ref: 1754–1762, David Hume, [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], page 10:

text: Lords responded to these offences by amercing (fining) them in the manor court, the revenues of which could provide a twentieth, or even a higher proportion of estate income.

ref: 2002, Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 180:

links: impose impose

links: fine fine

raw_glosses: (transitive) To impose a fine on; to fine.

text:
The fellows of his crime, the followers rather
(Far other once beheld in bliss), condemn'd
For ever now to have their lot in pain,
Millions of Spirits for his fault amerc't

ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XXI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 607-609:

text:
Thou know'st thou art naked! Must the time
Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown,

ref: 1821, Lord Byron, Cain, act III, scene I:

links: punish punish

links: exaction exaction

raw_glosses: (transitive) To punish; to make an exaction.

en-verb

expansion: amerce (third-person singular simple present amerces, present participle amercing, simple past and past participle amerced)

forms:
amerces (present singular third-person)
amercing (participle present)
amerced (participle past)
amerced (past)
amercy (alternative)

etymology_text: From Anglo-Norman amercier, from Old French a (“at”) + merci (“mercy”), thus “at the mercy of”.

der

xno

amercier

expansion: Anglo-Norman amercier

cog

fro

a

at

expansion: Old French a (“at”)

ipa: /əˈmɝs/

ipa: /əˈmɜːs/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-amerce.wav

rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s


northeastern

links: northeast northeast

glosses: Of, related to, located in, or from the northeast.

en-adj

expansion: northeastern (comparative more northeastern, superlative most northeastern)

forms:
more northeastern (comparative)
most northeastern (superlative)
north-eastern (alternative UK)

հյուսիսարևելյան

code: hy

sense: northeastern

roman: hyusisarewelyan

հյուսիսաբնակ

roman: hyusisabnak

şimal-şərqi

code: az

паўно́чна-ўсхо́дні

roman: pawnóčna-wsxódni

nord-oriental

code: ca

noordoostelijk

code: nl

nordorienta

code: eo

nord-oriental

code: fr

ჩრდილო-აღმოსავლეთის

code: ka

roman: črdilo-aɣmosavletis

ჩრდილოაღმოსავლეთის

roman: črdiloaɣmosavletis

ჩრდილოაღმოსავლური

roman: črdiloaɣmosavluri

nordöstlich

code: de

βορειοανατολικός

code: el

roman: voreioanatolikós

arewa maso gabashi

code: ha

उत्तरपूर्वी

code: hi

roman: uttarpūrvī

északkeleti

code: hu

thoir thuaidh

code: ga

nordorientale

code: it

североисточен

roman: severoistočen

сиверовосточни

code: rsk

roman: siverovostočni

nordestino

code: pt

се́веро-восто́чный

roman: sévero-vostóčnyj

etymology_text: From Middle English norþesterne, from Old English norþēasterne, equivalent to north + eastern.

inh

enm

norþesterne

expansion: Middle English norþesterne

ang

norþēasterne

expansion: Old English norþēasterne

compound

north

eastern

expansion: north + eastern

rhymes: -iːstə(ɹ)n


northeasterly

links: Situated situate

links: pointing pointing

glosses: Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast.

links: Coming come

raw_glosses: (of a wind etc) Coming from the northeast.

en-adj

expansion: northeasterly (comparative more northeasterly, superlative most northeasterly)

forms:
more northeasterly (comparative)
most northeasterly (superlative)
north-easterly (alternative)


northeasterly

links: wind wind

en-noun

expansion: northeasterly (plural northeasterlies)

forms:
northeasterlies (plural)
north-easterly (alternative)


pissing contest

links: competition competition

links: urinate urinate

glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.

text: I'm not getting into a pissing contest with him over who has the fastest car.

text: She won him in a pissing contest.

ref: 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Scribner, →ISBN:

text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Yeah, it's not a big deal. I lobbied for fuel-cell technology on Capitol Hill. I'm friends with Sandy Bullock, really good friends. Who cares? It's not a pissing contest, right, J?

ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

links: pointless pointless

links: dispute dispute

links: conflict conflict

raw_glosses: (vulgar, slang) A pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter.

head: pissing contest

expansion: pissing contest (plural pissing contests)

forms: pissing contests (plural)

pissing match

sense: pointless competition or dispute

尿尿比賽 /尿尿比赛

code: cmn

roman: niàoniào bǐsài

kusemiskilpailu

code: fi

konkurs sikania

code: pl

pataasan ng ihi

code: tl

無謂之爭 /无谓之争

sense: pointless competition

roman: wúwèizhīzhēng

雞毛蒜皮 /鸡毛蒜皮

roman: jīmáosuànpí

口水戰 /口水战

roman: kǒushuǐzhàn

tuppfäktning

code: sv

sidik yarışı

code: tr

audio: En-au-pissing contest.ogg


thalassic

links: sea sea

links: ocean ocean

links: pelagic pelagic

en-adj

expansion: thalassic (comparative more thalassic, superlative most thalassic)

forms:
more thalassic (comparative)
most thalassic (superlative)

etymology_text: From French thalassique, from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”) + -ique.

uder

thalassique

expansion: French thalassique

grc

θάλασσα

sea

expansion: Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”)


admiralty law

links: law law#English

links: ships ships

links: sailor sailor

links: passenger passenger

links: owner owner

links: cargo cargo

raw_glosses: (law) The area of law that deals with ships at sea and the rights of sailors, passengers, and owners of cargo.

en-noun

expansion: admiralty law (uncountable)

海商法

roman: hǎishāngfǎ

zeerecht

code: nl

droit maritime

code: fr

საზღვაო სამართალი

roman: sazɣvao samartali

სამხედრო-საზღვაო სამართალი

roman: samxedro-sazɣvao samartali

ναυτικό δίκαιο

roman: naftikó díkaio

dadweriya deryayî

code: kmr

drept maritim

code: ro

морско́е пра́во

code: ru

roman: morskóje právo

адмиралте́йское пра́во

roman: admiraltéjskoje právo

derecho marítimo

code: es


attorney's work product

links: Evidence evidence

links: party party

links: lawsuit lawsuit

links: discovery discovery

links:
thought process
thought process

links: trial trial

raw_glosses: (law, US): Evidence which a party to a lawsuit does not have to reveal during the discovery process because it represents the thought process of the attorney preparing for trial.

head: attorney's work product

expansion: attorney's work product (uncountable)


gravestone

text: The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised. The discovery of a single gravestone may provide more information on the history of a family than could be gleaned from […]

ref: 2005, William J. Roulston, Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800, Ulster Historical Foundation, →ISBN, page 41:

text: How the gravestone got inside the home in Okemos, Michigan, outside Lansing? Now that’s a mystery, according to Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries (FOLHC) President Loretta S. Stanaway.

ref: 2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make fudge”, in CNN:

text: On a cold, wet March day, about 20 river cruise passengers, many from the United States, follow their Dutch tour guide through rows of rain-soaked gravestones at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial.

ref: 2024 September 12, Blane Bachelor, “A culture of commemoration is still thriving in this Dutch town 80 years after its liberation”, in CNN:

links: stone stone

links: slab slab

links: grave grave

glosses: A stone slab set at the head of a grave.

expansion: gravestone (plural gravestones)

forms: gravestones (plural)

etymology_text: From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone.

inh

graveston

expansion: Middle English graveston

af

grave

stone

expansion: grave + stone

ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪvstoʊn/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gravestone.wav


Plautine

glosses: Of or pertaining to, or in the style of, Plautus (a Roman comic playwright), his works, or his authorship.

en-adj

expansion: Plautine (comparative more Plautine, superlative most Plautine)

forms:
more Plautine (comparative)
most Plautine (superlative)

etymology_text: From Latin Plautīnus.

bor

la

Plautīnus

expansion: Latin Plautīnus


micrographia

links: small small

links: handwriting handwriting

links: symptom symptom

links:
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease

glosses: The condition of having small handwriting, sometimes a symptom of Parkinson's disease and related conditions.

en-noun

expansion: micrographia (uncountable)

etymology_text: From micro- + -graphia.

ety

micro-

-graphia

expansion: From micro- + -graphia.


pinealocyte

text: The pineal gland is lined on the inside with tissue called pinealocytes. These pinealocytes are similar to the rods and cones in the retina of your eye. That’s right; it’s the third eye! Your brain has a third eye in the center and it has retinal tissue. It also has the same wiring that your physical eyes do to the visual cortex in your brain! How did they know that all the way back when?

ref: 2017, 3:41 from the start, in The secrets of the pineal gland - full, spoken by David Wilcock (David Wilcock), YouTube: Collective Awakening:

links:
pineal gland
pineal gland

links: melatonin melatonin

links: secretion secretion

links: circadian circadian

glosses: A single cell within the pineal gland which is involved in melatonin secretion and circadian rhythms.

en-noun

expansion: pinealocyte (plural pinealocytes)

forms: pinealocytes (plural)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English pineal
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der.
Latin cytader.
English -cyte
English pinealocyte
From pineal + -o- + -cyte.

pineal

-cyte

expansion:
Etymology tree
English pineal
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der.
Latin cytader.
English -cyte
English pinealocyte
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From pineal + -o- + -cyte.


melatonin

text: How exactly melatonin relates to sleep is still not understood.

ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 310:

text: Melatonin production can be delayed or arrested by even brief flashes of bright light entering the eye, research has shown.

ref: 2025 December 9, Veronique Greenwood, “Your Bedroom Probably Isn't Dark Enough”, in TIME:

links: hormone hormone

links: serotonin serotonin

links: secreted secreted

links: stimulate stimulate

links: colour colour

links: change change

links: skin skin

links: reptile reptile

links: involved involved

links: sleep sleep

links: wake wake

links: reproductive reproductive

links: cycle cycle

links: mammal mammal

glosses: A hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep and wake and reproductive cycles in mammals.

glosses: Any material similar in its chemistry and effect to the natural hormone.

s

expansion: melatonin (usually uncountable, plural melatonins)

forms: melatonins (plural)

մելատոնին

code: hy

sense: hormone

roman: melatonin

melatonin

code: az

мелатані́н

code: be

roman: mjelatanín

мелатоним

code: bg

roman: melatonim

melatonina

code: ca

褪黑素

roman: tuìhēisù

melatonin

code: da

მელატონინი

code: ka

roman: melaṭonini

Melatonin

code: de

μελατονίνη

code: el

roman: melatoníni

melatonin

code: hu

メラトニン

code: ja

roman: meratonin

멜라토닌

code: ko

roman: mellatonin

melatonīns

code: lv

ମେଲାଟୋନିନ

code: or

roman: melāṭonina

ملاتونین

code: fa

мелатони́н

roman: melatonín

மெலட்டோனின்

code: ta

roman: melaṭṭōṉiṉ

เมลาโทนิน

code: th

мелатоні́н

code: uk

melatonin

code: cy

etymology_text: From mela- + tone + -in, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”).

af

mela-

tone

-in

expansion: mela- + tone + -in

der

μέλας

ipa: /ˌmɛləˈtəʊnɪn/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-melatonin.wav


melatonin

links: melatonin melatonin#English

head

da

noun

singular definite

melatoninen

not used in plural form

expansion: melatonin c (singular definite melatoninen, not used in plural form)

forms:
melatoninen (definite singular)
melatonin (indefinite nominative singular)
melatoninen (definite nominative singular)
melatonins (genitive indefinite singular)
melatoninens (definite genitive singular)

da-noun-infl

n: sg

da-noun-infl-unc-base

sg-indef: melatonin

sg-def: melatoninen

pl-indef: melatonin

pl-def: melatoninene

gen-sg-indef: melatonins

gen-sg-def: melatoninens

gen-pl-indef: melatonins

gen-pl-def: melatoninenes

etymology_text: Borrowed from English melatonin.

bor+

en

melatonin

expansion: Borrowed from English melatonin


prefixes

links: prefix prefix#English

links: prefixe prefixe#English

head

noun form

expansion: prefixes


prefixes

glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prefix

verb form


prefixes

links: prefixar prefixar#Portuguese

glosses: second-person singular present subjunctive of prefixar

pt


languorously

text: I stretched languorously, and then remained in bed.

text: "I did!" She had reached the barricades, and leaned over them languorously. "I can't take all the credit, though, just, you know, most of it." She folded her arms over the edge, and kicked back both of her feet again and again. "Somebody once told me I have a mind like a steel trap."

ref: 2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:

links: languorous languorous

links: manner manner

links: exertion exertion

links: lazily lazily

glosses: In a languorous manner; without exertion; lazily.

pos: adv

en-adv

expansion: languorously (comparative more languorously, superlative most languorously)

forms:
more languorously (comparative)
most languorously (superlative)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English languorous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English languorously
From languorous + -ly.

ety

languorous

expansion:
Etymology tree
English languorous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English languorously
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From languorous + -ly.


lankly

links: lank lank

en-adv

expansion: lankly (comparative more lankly, superlative most lankly)

forms:
more lankly (comparative)
most lankly (superlative)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English lank
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lankly
From lank + -ly.

lank

expansion:
Etymology tree
English lank
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lankly
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From lank + -ly.


lankness

text: The boy's lankness reflected his malnutrition.

text: The gravity of his dress, together with a certain lankness of cheek and stiffness of deportment, added nearly ten years to his age, but his figure was that of one not yet past thirty.

ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 35.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

text: Phryne going to the Bath as Venus.— […] Was ever such a heap of rag dolls ever brought together and called men and women. Venuses indeed!—say rather limp-lanknesses seen through a burnt-sienna fog in a classical dream after falling asleep over one of Racine’s tragedies.

ref: 1856 November 15, “Turner’s Pictures at Marlborough House”, in The Athenæum, number 1516, page 1407:

text: When he turned inquiringly toward them they saw that he was stoop-shouldered; though not from any deformity, but from sheer, slouching lankness.

ref: 1914, B. M. Bower, chapter 8, in Flying U Ranch:

links: slender slender

links: thin thin

glosses: The property of being lank, slender or thin.

text: Linen, from what œconomy I know not, is seldom allowed in those portraits, even to the ladies, who lean carelesly on a bank, and play with a parrot they do not look at, under a tranquillity which ill accords with their seeming situation, the slightness of their vestment and the lankness of their hair having the appearance of their being just risen from the bath, and of having found none of their cloaths to put on, but a loose gown.

ref: 1771, Horace Walpole, chapter 1, in Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 4, page 2:

links: straight straight

links: flat flat

links: limp limp

glosses: The property of being lank: straight, flat and limp. (of hair)

en-noun

expansion: lankness (countable and uncountable, plural lanknesses)

forms: lanknesses (plural)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English lank
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lankness
From lank + -ness.

ety

-ness

expansion:
Etymology tree
English lank
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lankness
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From lank + -ness.


Homburg hat

links: fedora fedora

en-noun

expansion: Homburg hat (plural Homburg hats)

forms: Homburg hats (plural)

lobbia

code: it

sense: a stiff felt hat similar to a fedora

homburg

code: pl


layover

text: Near-synonyms: stopover, stayover (both sometimes synonymous)

text: We had a layover while waiting to change planes, so we stretched our legs.

text: We could restore a second platform at Battersby to eliminate the long layover in the branch stub that is currently required for trains to pass one another.

ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78:

text: Waddicor will be here for a while. The double shunts take an hour. But it's a scheduled four-hour reload and layover, ahead of his return train back to Didcot.

ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 35:

links: Canada Canada

links:
US
American English

links: break break

links: stage stage

links: journey journey

raw_glosses: (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) A break between stages of a journey.

expansion: layover (plural layovers)

forms: layovers (plural)

ترانزيت

code: afb

sense: break between stages of a journey

roman: trānzēt

ترانزيت

code: acw

roman: trānzīt

спиране

code: bg

roman: spirane

престой

roman: prestoj

臨時滯留 /临时滞留

code: cmn

tussenstop

code: nl

ümberistumine

code: et

välilasku

code: fi

escale

code: fr

singgah

code: id

待ち合わせ

alt: まちあわせ

roman: machiawase

escala

code: pt

остано́вка

code: ru

roman: ostanóvka

postanek

code: sl

escala

code: es

mellanlandning

code: sv

మజిలీ

code: te

roman: majilī

etymology_text: From lay + over.

compound

lay

over

expansion: lay + over

ipa: /ˈleɪˌəʊvə(ɹ)/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-layover.wav


lead-in

text: After the long lead-in, the climax of the story was a disappointment.

links: introduction introduction

links: leads leads

glosses: An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.

links: data data

links:
compact disc
compact disc

links:
table of contents
table of contents

glosses: A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.

links: journalism journalism

links: phrase phrase

links: caption caption

links: photograph photograph

raw_glosses: (journalism) A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.

en-noun

expansion: lead-in (plural lead-ins)

forms: lead-ins (plural)

preface

sense: introduction

kicker

sense: phrase at start of caption

въведение

roman: vǎvedenie

úvod

code: cs

felvezetés

code: hu

etymology_text: Deverbal from lead in.

ety

:deverbal

lead in

expansion:
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Deverbal from lead in.

ipa: /ˈliːdɪn/

rhymes: -iːdɪn


anticlimactic

text: After all the build up, the ending of the story was an anticlimactic letdown.

links: climax climax

links: disappointing disappointing

links: ironically ironically

links: insignificant insignificant

links: foreshadowing foreshadowing

glosses: Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.

en-adj

expansion: anticlimactic (comparative more anticlimactic, superlative most anticlimactic)

forms:
more anticlimactic (comparative)
most anticlimactic (superlative)

虎頭蛇尾的 /虎头蛇尾的

sense: lacking climax

roman: hǔtóushéwěi de

deceptanta

code: io

呆気ない

code: ja

roman: akkenai

разочаро́вывающий

roman: razočaróvyvajuščij

не опра́вдывающий ожида́ний

roman: ne oprávdyvajuščij ožidánij

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English climax
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English climactic
English anticlimactic
From anti- + climactic.

:af

anti-

climactic

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English climax
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English climactic
English anticlimactic
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From anti- + climactic.

ipa: /ˌantɪjklɑjˈmaktɪk/