postage

links: system system

links: letter letter

links: parcel parcel

raw_glosses: (uncountable) The system of transporting letters, and parcels.

links: charge charge

links: posting posting

links: item item

links:
postage stamp
postage stamp

links: token token

links: affixed affixed

links: evidence evidence

links: payment payment

glosses: The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment.

expansion: postage (countable and uncountable, plural postages)

forms: postages (plural)

пощенски разноски

sense: charge

roman: poštenski raznoski

franqueig

code: ca

郵費 /邮费

code: cmn

roman: yóufèi

郵資 /邮资

roman: yóuzī

porto

code: da

поштарина

roman: poštarina

tîmbrage

code: nrf

porto

code: nb

porto

code: nn

porte

code: pt

почто́вый сбор

code: ru

roman: počtóvyj sbor

franqueo

code: es

gharama ya posta

code: sw

اجرت

code: ota

roman: ücret

郵票 /邮票

sense: postage stamp affixed as evidence of payment — see also postage stamp

roman: yóupiào

affranchissement

code: fr

почто́вая ма́рка

roman: počtóvaja márka

ма́рка

roman: márka

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English post
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English postage
From post + -age.

ety

en

:af

post

-age

expansion:
Etymology tree
English post
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English postage
[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "result of", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "forming nouns", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "forming adjectives", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "forming adjectives", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjectival", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-éh₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-eh₂tos", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "inline", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-ātos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ātus", "lang" : "la" }, { "id" : "adjectival suffix", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "-ic", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-ikos", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-ikos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-icus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-āticus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-āticum", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-age", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-age", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-age", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "postage", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="postage">
From post + -age.

ipa: /ˈpəʊstɪd͡ʒ/

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

ipa: /ˈpoʊstɪd͡ʒ/


postage

links: postage postage#English

links: Internet Internet

links: post post

pos: noun

fr-noun

m

expansion: postage m (plural postages)

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-postage.wav

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-postage.wav

note: Somain


nuthouse

text: That guy is totally crazy; he belongs in a nuthouse.

type: example

bedlam

source: Thesaurus:mental hospital

raw_glosses: (informal, offensive) A hospital for the mentally ill.

en-noun

expansion: nuthouse (plural nuthouses)

forms: nuthouses (plural)

etymology_text: From nut + house.

compound

nut

house

expansion: nut + house

ipa: /ˈnʌtˌhaʊs/

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


midlife

links: middle middle

glosses: Occurring in the middle point of one's life, usually considered about 45.

pos: adj

en-adj

expansion: midlife (not comparable)

keski-iän

code: fi

sense: occurring in the middle point of one's life

paruh baya

code: id

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
English life
English midlife
From mid- + life.

ety

mid-

life

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
English life
English midlife
[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*midjaz", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*midi", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "midd", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "mid", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "mid", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "mid-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "life", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "midlife", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="midlife">
From mid- + life.

ipa: /ˈmɪdlaɪf/

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

forms: mid-life (alternative)


midlife

text: Twins from all the patterns of twinship experienced this emotional disaster as young adults or in their midlives.

ref: 2003, Barbara Schave Klein, Not all twins are alike: psychological profiles of twinship, page 57:

type: quotation

text: Now we were writing, talking, sharing bits of our lives again, glad that both of us were able to talk about our midlives (which we realized could very well have been our late lives).

ref: 2007 August 12, Curtis Pesmen, “As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers”, in New York Times:

en-noun

midlives

expansion: midlife (plural midlives)

forms:
midlives (plural)
mid-life (alternative)


Kirchhoff's current law

links: physics physics

links:
electric charge
electric charge

links: conserved conserved

links: electrical electrical

links: circuit circuit

raw_glosses: (physics) A law showing that electric charge is conserved around an electrical circuit:- At any point in an electrical circuit where charge density is not changing in time, the sum of currents flowing towards that point is equal to the sum of currents flowing away from that point.

pos: name

en-proper noun

expansion: Kirchhoff's current law

etymology_text: From Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist.


Kirchhoff's voltage law

links: energy energy

raw_glosses: (physics) A law showing that energy is conserved around an electrical circuit: the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must be zero.

expansion: Kirchhoff's voltage law


gutless

text: This approach was firstly used in a metagenomic context to study the microbial community associated with the gutless worm Olavius algarvensis.

ref: 2015 November 16, Lanjuan Li, Infectious Microecology: Theory and Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 213:

links: gut gut

text: No, you lied to me. You lied to me because you're gutless. You're a gutless drunken loser.

ref: 1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi):

links: Cowardly cowardly

links: courage courage

links: morals morals

raw_glosses: (informal) Cowardly; lacking courage or morals.

en-adj

expansion: gutless (not comparable)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
English gut
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English gutless
From gut + -less.

ety

gut

-less

expansion:
Etymology tree
English gut
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English gutless
[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*lewHs-", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*lewh₁-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*leusaną", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*lausaz", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-lausaz", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*-laus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "-lēas", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-les", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-less", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "gutless", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="gutless">
From gut + -less.

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


hakuna

links:
-wa na
wa na#Swahili

glosses: ku class subject inflected present negative

glosses: ku locative class subject inflected present negative

links:
kuwa na
kuwa na#Swahili

glosses:
inflection of -wa na:
Negative locative (class 17) of kuwa na

links:
there is/are
there is

links: not not

raw_glosses: (in a distant or indefinite location): there is/are not

glosses:
inflection of -wa na:
there is/are not

pos: verb

head

sw

verb form

expansion: hakuna

etymology_text: From negative ha- of kuwa na with the class 17 subject prefix ku-.


predominant

links: Common common

links: widespread widespread

links: prevalent prevalent

text: On Lord Marchmont's return, he, too, was struck with the unusual appearance of confusion in his hall; but anger was his predominant sensation when he heard that Henrietta had actually set off without waiting one moment.

ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Truth of Presentiments”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 305:

links: Significant significant

links: important important

links: dominant dominant

en-adj

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

forms:
more predominant (comparative)
most predominant (superlative)
prædominant (alternative obsolete)

преобладаващ

code: bg

sense: common or widespread; prevalent

roman: preobladavašt

převažující

code: cs

predominante

code: gl

túlnyomó

code: hu

predominante

code: it

przeważający

code: pl

преоблада́ющий

roman: preobladájuščij

доминиращ

sense: significant or important; dominant

roman: dominirašt

გაბატონებული

code: ka

roman: gabaṭonebuli

ardcheannasach

code: ga

superans

code: la

госпо́дствующий

roman: gospódstvujuščij

домини́рующий

roman: dominírujuščij

etymology_text: From Middle French prédominant, ultimately from Medieval Latin praedominans. By surface analysis, pre- + dominant.

der

frm

prédominant

expansion: Middle French prédominant

la-med

praedominans

expansion: Medieval Latin praedominans

surf

+af

en

pre-

dominant

expansion: By surface analysis, pre- + dominant

ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/


predominant

links: music music

links: subdominant subdominant

en-noun

expansion: predominant (plural predominants)

forms:
predominants (plural)
prædominant (alternative obsolete)


predominant

links: predominant predominant#English

ca-adj

expansion: predominant m or f (masculine and feminine plural predominants)

forms: predominants (feminine masculine plural)

audio: LL-Q7026 (cat)-Marvives-predominant.wav

note: Barcelona


predominant

links: predominar predominar#Catalan

head

ca

gerund

expansion: predominant


predominant

ro-adj

expansion: predominant m or n (feminine singular predominantă, masculine plural predominanți, feminine/neuter plural predominante)

forms:
predominantă (feminine singular)
predominanți (masculine plural)
predominante (feminine neuter plural)
predominant (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
predominantă (feminine indefinite singular)
predominanți (indefinite masculine plural)
predominante (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
predominantul (definite masculine neuter singular)
predominanta (definite feminine singular)
predominanții (definite masculine plural)
predominantele (definite feminine neuter plural)
predominante (feminine indefinite singular)
predominantului (definite masculine neuter singular)
predominantei (definite feminine singular)
predominanților (definite masculine plural)
predominantelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

etymology_text: Borrowed from French prédominant.

bor+

ro

fr

expansion: Borrowed from French prédominant


klystron

text: Then, he must misphase two klystrons, adjusting by equal and opposite amounts until the beam energy is correct.

ref: 1991, Richard B. Neal, The Stanford Two-mile Accelerator - Volume 1, page 541:

links: physics physics

links:
electron tube
electron tube

links: amplify amplify

links: microwave microwave

links: frequency frequency

links:
electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic radiation

raw_glosses: (physics) an electron tube used to amplify microwave-frequency electromagnetic radiation.

en-noun

expansion: klystron (plural klystrons)

forms: klystrons (plural)

клистрон

sense: Translations

roman: klistron

etymology_text: From Ancient Greek κλύδων (klúdōn, “surf”) + -τρον (-tron).

bor

grc

κλύδων

surf

expansion: Ancient Greek κλύδων (klúdōn, “surf”)


klystron

links: klystron klystron#English

fr-noun

expansion: klystron m (plural klystrons)

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-klystron.wav


matata

links: tint tint#Verb

links: matte matte#Adjective

head

fi

verb

expansion: matata

fi-conj-salata

ma

t

tt

a

forms:
mattaan (first-person indicative present singular)
en mattaa (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen matannut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole matannut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
mattaat (indicative present second-person singular)
et mattaa (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet matannut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole matannut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
mattaa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei mattaa (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on matannut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole matannut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
mattaamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme mattaa (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme matanneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole matanneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
mattaatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette mattaa (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette matanneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole matanneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
mattaavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät mattaa (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat matanneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole matanneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
matataan (indicative passive present)
ei matata (indicative negative passive present)
on matattu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole matattu (indicative negative passive perfect)
mattasin (first-person indicative past singular)
en matannut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin matannut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut matannut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
mattasit (indicative past second-person singular)
et matannut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit matannut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut matannut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
mattasi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei matannut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli matannut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut matannut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
mattasimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme matanneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme matanneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet matanneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
mattasitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette matanneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte matanneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet matanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
mattasivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät matanneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat matanneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet matanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
matattiin (indicative passive past)
ei matattu (indicative negative passive past)
oli matattu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut matattu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
mattaisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en mattaisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin matannut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi matannut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
mattaisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et mattaisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit matannut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi matannut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
mattaisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei mattaisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi matannut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi matannut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
mattaisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme mattaisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme matanneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi matanneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
mattaisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette mattaisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte matanneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi matanneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
mattaisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät mattaisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat matanneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi matanneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
matattaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei matattaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi matattu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi matattu (conditional negative passive perfect)
mattaa (imperative present second-person singular)
älä mattaa (imperative negative present second-person singular)
matatkoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön matatko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon matannut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko matannut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
matatkaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme matatko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
matatkaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää matatko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
matatkoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt matatko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot matanneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko matanneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
matattakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön matattako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon matattu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko matattu (imperative negative passive perfect)
matannen (first-person potential present singular)
en matanne (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen matannut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene matannut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
matannet (potential present second-person singular)
et matanne (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet matannut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene matannut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
matannee (potential present singular third-person)
ei matanne (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee matannut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene matannut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
matannemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme matanne (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme matanneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene matanneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
matannette (plural potential present second-person)
ette matanne (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette matanneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene matanneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
matannevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät matanne (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät matanneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene matanneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
matattaneen (passive potential present)
ei matattane (negative passive potential present)
lienee matattu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene matattu (negative passive perfect potential)
matata (infinitive infinitive-i)
mattaava (active participle present)
matattava (participle passive present)
matatakseni (first-person possessive singular)
matataksemme (first-person plural possessive)
matataksesi (possessive second-person singular)
matataksenne (plural possessive second-person)
matatakseen (possessive third-person)
matataksensa (possessive third-person)
matannut (infinitive-i-long past)
matattu (infinitive-i-long past)
matatessa (inessive second-person)
matattaessa (inessive second-person)
mattaama (agent)
matatessani (first-person possessive singular)
matatessamme (first-person plural possessive)
matatessasi (possessive second-person singular)
matatessanne (plural possessive second-person)
matatessaan (possessive third-person)
matatessansa (possessive third-person)
mattaamaton (inessive negative second-person)
mataten (instructive second-person)
mattaamassa (inessive third-person)
mattaamasta (elative third-person)
mattaamaan (illative third-person)
mattaamalla (adessive third-person)
mattaamatta (abessive third-person)
mattaaman (instructive third-person)
matattaman (instructive third-person)
mattaaminen (fourth-person negative noun-from-verb)
mattaamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
mattaamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
mattaamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
mattaamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
mattaamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
mattaamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

etymology_text: matta + -ta

suffix

matta

ta

id2: causative

expansion: matta + -ta

ipa: /ˈmɑtɑtɑˣ/

ipa: [ˈmɑ̝t̪ɑ̝t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]

rhymes: -ɑtɑtɑ


matata

links: difficulties difficulties

links: problems problems

head

ln

noun

etymology_text: Borrowed from Swahili matata.

etymon

:bor

expansion: [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Bantu", "term" : "*mà-", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "bnt-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Sabaki", "term" : "*ma-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "bnt-sab-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Swahili", "term" : "ma-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sw" }, { "alt" : "-tata", "gloss" : "to tangle", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-tata", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Common Bantu", "term" : "*-táta", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "bnt-cmn" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Sabaki", "term" : "*tata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "bnt-sab-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Swahili", "term" : "tata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sw" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Swahili", "term" : "matata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sw" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Lingala", "term" : "matata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ln" }" data-lang="ln" data-title="matata">

bor+

sw

matata

expansion: Borrowed from Swahili matata


matata

links: troubles troubles

sw-noun

plural

expansion: matata class VI (plural only)

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mà-
Proto-Sabaki *ma-
Swahili ma-
Common Bantu *-táta
Proto-Sabaki *-tata
Swahili -tata
Swahili matata
From ma- + -tata (“to tangle”).

ety

ma-

tata<t:to tangle><alt:-tata>

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mà-
Proto-Sabaki *ma-
Swahili ma-
Common Bantu *-táta
Proto-Sabaki *-tata
Swahili -tata
Swahili matata
[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Sabaki", "term" : "*ma-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "bnt-sab-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Swahili", "term" : "ma-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sw" }, { "alt" : "-tata", "gloss" : "to tangle", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-tata", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Common Bantu", "term" : "*-táta", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "bnt-cmn" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Sabaki", "term" : "*tata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "bnt-sab-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Swahili", "term" : "tata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sw" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Swahili", "term" : "matata", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sw" }" data-lang="sw" data-title="matata">
From ma- + -tata (“to tangle”).


foggiest

text: Moscow is the foggiest city I've ever been to.

links: foggy foggy#English

foggy

extra: most foggy

text: I don't have the foggiest idea how to get to Piccadilly Circus on the Tube.

text: She wasn't going to get the foggiest notion about modern writing from those old books.

text: He asked me where she was going and I said "I don't have the foggiest."

raw_glosses: (chiefly in the negative) Slightest, faintest, least.

head

superlative adjective

expansion: foggiest

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


have the foggiest

text: I'm sorry, I haven't the foggiest. You should ask someone else.

links: know know

links: understand understand

links:
have a clue
have a clue

raw_glosses: (informal, chiefly in the negative) To know, understand or have a clue.

en-verb

<has,,had>

expansion: have the foggiest (third-person singular simple present has the foggiest, present participle having the foggiest, simple past and past participle had the foggiest)

forms:
has the foggiest (present singular third-person)
having the foggiest (participle present)
had the foggiest (participle past)
had the foggiest (past)
have the foggiest idea (alternative)
have the foggiest notion (alternative)

لَيْسَ لَدَي أَدْنَى فِكْرَة

code: ar

sense: "I haven't the foggiest": I don't know

roman: laysa laday ʔadnā fikra

معنديش فكرة خالص

code: arz

roman: maʕandīš fikra ḵāliṣ

ما عنديش فكرة

code: apc

roman: mā ʕindīš fikra

գաղափար չունեմ

code: hy

roman: gaġapʻar čʻunem

我一點都不知道 /我一点都不知道

code: cmn

roman: wǒ yīdiǎn dōu bù zhīdào

我沒有一點頭緒 /我没有一点头绪

roman: wǒ méiyǒu yīdiǎn tóuxù

jeg har ingen anelse

code: da

geen flauw idee hebben

code: nl

keinen blassen Schimmer haben

code: de

δεν έχω ιδέα

code: el

roman: den écho idéa

δεν έχω την παραμικρή ιδέα

roman: den écho tin paramikrí idéa

ekki hafa hugmynd

code: is

私は何も分かっていない

code: ja

roman: watashi wa nani mo wakatte inai

知るもんか

roman: shiru monka

몰라요

code: ko

roman: mollayo

não faço a mínima ideia

code: pt

поня́тия не име́ю

roman: ponjátija ne iméju

не име́ю ни мале́йшего представле́ния

roman: ne iméju ni maléjševo predstavlénija

nemam blagog pojma

code: sh

nemám najmenšieho poňatia

code: sk

inte ha den blekaste

code: sv

dydw i ddim yn gwybod

code: cy

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-have the foggiest.wav


I don't know

text:
Mr. Schidtler: Does anybody here have any idea why "Inestine" was regarded as a great scientist? Kevin?
Kevin: Oh, uh, I don't know.

ref: 1982, “You Can't Do That on Television”, in Nickelodeon, season 3, episode 11:

glosses: Used in response to a question or command in which the target person does not know the answer to or how to respond.

text: Maybe you could, I don't know, directly talk to her about it instead of complaining to me for once?

glosses: Used to indicate that one is speculating (often used sarcastically when stating the obvious).

text: The audacity of that lad... I don't know.

raw_glosses: (UK) Used to express exasperation or incredulity about a given situation or person.

text: I don't know why Blip just shuts off the power and then blames it on the weather.

ref: 1984, Alasdair, You Can't Do That on Television, Nickelodeon, season 5, episode 24

links: I I#English

links: don't don't#English

links: know know#English

glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, don't, know.

pos: intj

исыздырӡом

code: ab

sense: I don’t know

roman: isəzdərdzom

ek weet nie

code: af

suʼu

code: aht

ㇰエラㇺぺゥテㇰ

code: ain

alt: k=erampewtek

nuk e di

code: sq

nalluwaqa

code: ems

beta seng tau

code: abs

لَا أَعْلَمُ

code: ar

roman: lā ʔaʕlamu

لَا أَعْرِف

roman: lā ʔaʕrif

لَسْتُ أَدْرِي

roman: lastu ʔadrī

لَا أَدْرِي

roman: lā ʔadrī

أنا مش عارف

roman: ʔana miš ʕārif

أنا مش عارفة

roman: ʔana miš ʕārfa

مش عارف

roman: miš ʕārif

مش عارفة

roman: miš ʕārfa

ما أعرف

code: acw

roman: mā ʔaʕrif

ما أدري

roman: mā ʔadri

ما بعرفش

code: ajp

roman: mā bʕarifeš

չգիտեմ

roman: čʻgitem

չեմ գիտեր

roman: čʻem giter

মই নাজানোঁ

code: as

roman: moi nazanü̃

নাজানোঁ

roman: nazanü̃

মই নেজানোঁ

roman: moi nezanü̃

নেজানোঁ

roman: nezanü̃

nun sé

code: ast

bilmirəm

code: az

ez dakit

code: eu

я не ве́даю

code: be

roman: ja nje vjédaju

я не зна́ю

roman: ja nje znáju

я ня ве́даю

roman: ja nja vjédaju

я ня зна́ю

roman: ja nja znáju

আমি জানি না

code: bn

roman: ami jani na

জানি না

roman: jani na

note: pronoun (depending on who is speaking with whom) + không biết (general form)

ipa: [ɑ̈ɪ̯(ɾ)oʊ̯̃(ʔ)(t̚)noʊ̯]

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wreaderick-I don't know (tonal, nasalized).wav

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wreaderick-I don't know (tonal, hummed).wav


ehrlich

text: Er hat sich sein Vermögen mit ehrlicher Arbeit verdient.

translation: He earned his wealth by honest work.

english: He earned his wealth by honest work.

links: decent decent

links: honorable honorable

links: honest honest

raw_glosses: (dated, except in certain contexts) decent, honorable, honest

qualifier: except in certain contexts

text: eine ehrliche Antwort

translation: an honest answer

english: an honest answer

text: Um ehrlich zu sein, mag ich dieses Gericht nicht.

translation: To be honest, I don't like this dish.

english: To be honest, I don't like this dish.

links: truthful truthful

links: true true

raw_glosses: (now by far the commonest sense) honest, truthful, true

qualifier: now by far the commonest sense

de-adj

comp

expansion: ehrlich (strong nominative masculine singular ehrlicher, comparative ehrlicher, superlative am ehrlichsten)

forms:
ehrlicher (masculine nominative singular strong)
ehrlicher (comparative)
am ehrlichsten (superlative)
ehrlich (masculine predicative singular)
ehrlich (feminine predicative singular)
ehrlich (neuter predicative singular)
ehrlich (plural predicative)
ehrlicher (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
ehrliche (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
ehrliches (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
ehrliche (nominative plural strong without-article)
ehrlichen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
ehrlicher (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
ehrlichen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
ehrlicher (genitive plural strong without-article)
ehrlichem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
ehrlicher (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
ehrlichem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
ehrlichen (dative plural strong without-article)
ehrlichen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
ehrliche (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
ehrliches (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
ehrliche (accusative plural strong without-article)
der ehrliche (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die ehrliche (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das ehrliche (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die ehrlichen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des ehrlichen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der ehrlichen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des ehrlichen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der ehrlichen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem ehrlichen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der ehrlichen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem ehrlichen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den ehrlichen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den ehrlichen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die ehrliche (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das ehrliche (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die ehrlichen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein ehrlicher (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine ehrliche (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein ehrliches (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
ehrlichen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine ehrlichen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines ehrlichen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer ehrlichen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines ehrlichen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
ehrlichen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner ehrlichen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem ehrlichen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer ehrlichen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem ehrlichen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
ehrlichen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen ehrlichen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen ehrlichen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine ehrliche (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein ehrliches (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
ehrlichen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine ehrlichen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
ehrlicher (comparative masculine predicative singular)
ehrlicher (comparative feminine predicative singular)
ehrlicher (comparative neuter predicative singular)
ehrlicher (comparative plural predicative)
ehrlicherer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
ehrlichere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
ehrlicheres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
ehrlichere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
ehrlicheren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
ehrlicherer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
ehrlicheren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
ehrlicherer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
ehrlicherem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
ehrlicherer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
ehrlicherem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
ehrlicheren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
ehrlicheren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
ehrlichere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
ehrlicheres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
ehrlichere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der ehrlichere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die ehrlichere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das ehrlichere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die ehrlicheren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des ehrlicheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der ehrlicheren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des ehrlicheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der ehrlicheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem ehrlicheren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der ehrlicheren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem ehrlicheren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den ehrlicheren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den ehrlicheren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die ehrlichere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das ehrlichere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die ehrlicheren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein ehrlicherer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine ehrlichere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein ehrlicheres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
ehrlicheren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine ehrlicheren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines ehrlicheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer ehrlicheren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines ehrlicheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
ehrlicheren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner ehrlicheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem ehrlicheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer ehrlicheren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem ehrlicheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
ehrlicheren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen ehrlicheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen ehrlicheren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine ehrlichere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein ehrlicheres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
ehrlicheren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine ehrlicheren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am ehrlichsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am ehrlichsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am ehrlichsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am ehrlichsten (plural predicative superlative)
ehrlichster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
ehrlichste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der ehrlichste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die ehrlichste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das ehrlichste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die ehrlichsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des ehrlichsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der ehrlichsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des ehrlichsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der ehrlichsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem ehrlichsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der ehrlichsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem ehrlichsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den ehrlichsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den ehrlichsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die ehrlichste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das ehrlichste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die ehrlichsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein ehrlichster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine ehrlichste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein ehrlichstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
ehrlichsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine ehrlichsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines ehrlichsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer ehrlichsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines ehrlichsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
ehrlichsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner ehrlichsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem ehrlichsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer ehrlichsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem ehrlichsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
ehrlichsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen ehrlichsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen ehrlichsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine ehrlichste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein ehrlichstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
ehrlichsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine ehrlichsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

etymology_text: Inherited from Middle High German ērlich, from Old High German ērlīh, from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀulīk. Equivalent to Ehre (“honour”) + -lich (“-ly”).

etymon

de

:inh

expansion: [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*aizō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*aiʀu", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "like", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*leyg-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*līką", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-līkaz", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*-līk", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*aiʀulīk", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "ērlīh", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "ērlich", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "ehrlich", "lang" : "de" }" data-id="honest" data-lang="de" data-title="ehrlich" id="German:_honest">

yesno

i

I

expansion: I

glossary

Inherited

expansion: Inherited

inh

gmh

ērlich

expansion: Middle High German ērlich

inh

goh

ērlīh

expansion: Old High German ērlīh

gmw-pro

*aiʀulīk

expansion: Proto-West Germanic *aiʀulīk

suffix

Ehre

t1: honour

lich

t2: -ly

expansion: Ehre (“honour”) + -lich (“-ly”)

ipa: /ˈeːrlɪç/

ipa: [ˈʔeːɐ̯.lɪç]


diff

text: A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?

text: MrX provided close to 100 diffs presented in a lengthy brief divided into sections.

ref: 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:

links: difference difference#English

text: This function takes that diff and plugs it into the larger structure.

text:
[Pogo:] A woman outthunk is a woman scorned and you know what's got no fury like that! [...] Mus' I tell you? It's Sunday.
 [Albert:] What's the diff? Tell away.
 [Pogo, whispering:] Hell.

ref: 1960 March 13, Walt Kelly, Pogo, Sunday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 277:

links: mathematics mathematics

links: differential differential#Noun

text: tank diff (i.e., the deciding factor in the game was the difference in skill between the teams' tank players)

links:
video game
video game

links: trash-talk trash-talk#Verb

raw_glosses: (video games, slang) Used to trash-talk an opposing team at the end of a game by pointing out a skill difference between some role and the same role on the other team.

links: computing computing#Noun

links: program program

raw_glosses: (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

text: edit diff

text: I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs.

ref: 2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:

links:
diff file
diff file

raw_glosses: (computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.

text: This diff is capable of locking up when wheel slip occurs.

text: Many operators cursed the early diff and driveline set-ups[.]

ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 45:

links: automotive automotive

links: differential differential#English

links:
differential gear
differential gear

raw_glosses: (automotive) Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile.

differential

extra: the differential gear in an automobile

text: CBC with diff

text: Hemoccult emesis and stool, CBC with diff, PT/PTT, type and cross for PRBCs.

ref: 2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Varices”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 103:

links: medicine medicine

links:
white blood cell
white blood cell

links:
complete blood count
complete blood count

raw_glosses: (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.

differential

links: climbing climbing#Noun

links: difficult difficult

links: fandom fandom

links: difficulty difficulty#English

en-noun

expansion: diff (countable and uncountable, plural diffs)

forms: diffs (plural)

ipa: /dɪf/

rhymes: -ɪf


diff

text: As we move through this chapter, you will quickly see the benefits of diffing code changes to drivers, libraries, and applications.

ref: 2011, Gray Hat Hacking : The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, 3rd edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 484:

links:
patch file
patch file

raw_glosses: (transitive, computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.

raw_glosses: (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

links: difficulty difficulty

links:
power scaling
power scaling

raw_glosses: (transitive, fandom slang) To win (or to be able to win) a fight against another, with a defined level of difficulty. Usually used when power scaling fictional characters.

en-verb

expansion: diff (third-person singular simple present diffs, present participle diffing, simple past and past participle diffed)

forms:
diffs (present singular third-person)
diffing (participle present)
diffed (participle past)
diffed (past)


diff

text: I don't think it's any diff then in grade school when someone said "come on take a drag it will make you look cool"

ref: 2000 August 15, ZedMan2K, “Anti-Leiberman Backlash Already”, in alt.religion.christian.baptist (Usenet):

text: Is there a way to tell it to pick a diff one by default?

ref: 2006 August 25, jes.t.er, “Character names”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):

links: different different#English

en-adj

expansion: diff (not comparable)


diff

links: computing computing#Noun

links: Unix Unix

links:
operating system
operating system

raw_glosses: (computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

en-proper noun

expansion: diff


darkroom

links: photography photography

links: dark dark

links: room room

links: photograph photograph

links: develop develop

raw_glosses: (photography) A dark room, where photographs are developed.

links: darken darken

links: sexual sexual

links: gay gay

glosses: A darkened room where sexual activity can take place, especially one in a gay club.

en-noun

expansion: darkroom (plural darkrooms)

forms:
darkrooms (plural)
dark room (alternative)

фотолаборатория

code: bg

sense: dark room where photographs are developed

roman: fotolaboratorija

暗房

code: cmn

roman: ànfáng

temná komora

code: cs

doka

code: nl

kamero

code: eo

pimiö

code: fi

laboratoire photographique

code: fr

Dunkelkammer

code: de

σκοτεινός θάλαμος

code: el

roman: skoteinós thálamos

sötétkamra

code: hu

camera oscura

code: it

暗室

code: ja

alt: あんしつ

roman: anshitsu

ダークルーム

roman: dākurūmu

암실

code: ko

roman: amsil

alt: 暗室

tamsus kambariukas

code: lt

mørkerom

code: nb

mørkerom

code: nn

ciemnia

code: pl

câmara escura

code: pt

cameră obscură

code: ro

тёмная ко́мната

code: ru

roman: tjómnaja kómnata

seòmar dorcha

code: gd

temnica

code: sl

cuarto oscuro

code: es

mörkrum

code: sv

చీకటిగది

code: te

roman: cīkaṭigadi

karanlık oda

code: tr

cambra fosca

code: ca

sense: darkened room for sexual activities

다크룸

roman: dakeurum

etymology_text: From dark + room.

compound

dark

room

expansion: dark + room

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


wittol

text: To see […] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […]

ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

text: So the Ifrit cried at her, "Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.

ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

text: God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!

ref: 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor:

links:
mari complaisant
mari complaisant

raw_glosses: (archaic) A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.

links: wheatear wheatear

raw_glosses: (UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.

en-noun

expansion: wittol (plural wittols)

forms:
wittols (plural)
wittold (alternative)

marit còmode

sense: man who knows and tolerates his wife’s infidelity

cornuto contento

code: it

cwcwallt trugarog

code: cy

etymology_text: From Middle English witewold; likely a blend of witen (“to know”) + cockewold (“cuckold”), equivalent to wit + cuckold.

inh

enm

witewold

expansion: Middle English witewold

wit

cuckold

expansion: wit + cuckold

ipa: /ˈwɪtəl/

rhymes: -ɪtəl

homophone: whittle


dabble

text: The Itelians […] reſpectleſſe of gentry, of few words, for they barrell up commonly more then they can broach, and ſo may be ſaid to be like a great bottle with a narrow necke; yet they are moſt cunning and circumſpect in negotiating, ſpecially when they have bin tampering with the Vine or the hop, and are dabbled a little with their liquor.

ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], “A Character of Itelia”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, page 32:

text: If ſhe [the nurse] obſerves that the ſkin ſeems any where to be chafed, after dabbling the part very well with cold water, and drying it gently with a fine cloth, let her apply ſome common powder to it, by means of a ſoft puff.

ref: 1783, George Armstrong, “Rules to be Observed in the Nursing of Children: With a Particular View to Those who are Brought Up by Hand”, in An Account of the Diseases Most Incident to Children, from the Birth till the Age of Puberty; with a Successful Method of Treating Them. To which is Added, an Essay on Nursing: With a Particular View to Children who are Brought Up by Hand. Also a Short General Account of the Dispensary for the Infant Poor, new edition, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 176:

date: from late 16th c.

links: slightly slightly

links: wet wet#Adjective

links: soiled soiled#Adjective

links: spattering spatter#Verb

links: sprinkling sprinkle#Verb

links: liquid liquid#Noun

links: water water#Noun

links: mud mud

links: paint paint#Noun

links: bedabble bedabble

raw_glosses: (transitive) To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.

text: The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.

text: The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.

ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

links: splashing splashing#Noun

links:
body part
body part

links: bill bill#Noun

links: limb limb

links: playfully playfully

links: play play#Verb

links: shallow shallow#Adjective

links: paddle paddle#Verb

raw_glosses: (transitive) To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.

text: When a duck dabbles its bill in mud, it is using the lamellae (transverse plates) on the inner edges of its bill as a highly efficient filter. As the duck dabbles, its tongue acts as a piston, sucking water or mud into the mouth and driving it out again. Only the edible particles are left behind on the lamellae.

ref: 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, “Mallard”, in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, volumes 11 (LEO–MAR), Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 1525:

links: feed feed

links: diving dive

links: submerging submerge

links: head head

links: neck neck

links: tip tip

links: tail tail

raw_glosses: (intransitive, of waterfowl) To feed without diving, by submerging the head and neck underwater to seek food, often also tipping up the tail straight upwards above the water.

text: She’s an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.

text: And now that I have finiſhed all the parts, which I propoſed to diſcourſe of; I will conclude all with a ſhort application to the Atheiſts. And I would adviſe them as a Friend, to leave off this dabbling and ſmattering in Philoſophy, this ſhuffling and cutting with Atoms.

ref: 1692 April 4, Richard Bentley, “Matter and Motion Cannot Think: Or, A Confutation of Atheism from the Faculties of the Soul. The Second Sermon Preached April 4. 1692.”, in The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism Demonstrated from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the Faculties of Humane Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, & the Origin and Frame of the World: In Eight Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire; in the First Year, MDCXCII [1692], 4th corr. edition, London: Printed by J. H. for H. Mortlock at the Phœnix in St. Paul's Church-Yard, published 1699, →OCLC, page 63:

text: The politics too, for it [the opera] dabbles in politics, are evidently not written from the heart, for the ſentiments contradict each other, but from the paultry motive of catching applauſe, be it juſt or unjuſt, moral or immoral.

ref: 1793 July, “[Monthly Catalogue, for July, 1793.] Art. 57. Sprigs of Laurel: A Comic Opera, in Two Acts. As Performed, with Universal Applause, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Written by John O’Keeffe. 8vo. 1s. Longman. 1793.”, in [Ralph Griffiths], editor, The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume XI, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, →OCLC, page 347:

text: As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass.

ref: 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 30:

text: His [Alfred Hitchcock's] work is a mirror of cinematic development: from silent to sound, from black and white to color, from the shoestring productions of his early London years to the expensive vehicles of his Hollywood period. In the process, he dabbled in technical innovations such as 3-D and VistaVision, experimened in special effects and editing techniques, and developed an extensive repertoire of original camera setups and shots.

ref: 1995, Paula Marantz Cohen, “Introduction”, in Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 1:

links: participate participate

links: interest interest#Noun

links: activity activity

links: casual casual

links: superficial superficial

raw_glosses: (intransitive, figuratively) To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.

text: [A fellow of a college in Cambridge] freely confeſs'd, that he had for many Years been ranſacking Antiquity, in order to be the Author of ſome new Heresy or Opinion; and that after all his Searches, he cou'd think or fix upon nothing, but what on Fool or another had been meddling and dabbling with.

ref: 1731, Simon Scriblerus [pseudonym], Whistoneutes: Or, Remarks on Mr. [William] Whiston’s Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke, &c., London: Printed for T. Warner, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 3–4:

links: interfere interfere

links: meddle meddle#Verb

links: tamper tamper#Verb

raw_glosses: (intransitive, obsolete) To interfere or meddle in; to tamper with.

en-verb

expansion: dabble (third-person singular simple present dabbles, present participle dabbling, simple past and past participle dabbled)

forms:
dabbles (present singular third-person)
dabbling (participle present)
dabbled (participle past)
dabbled (past)

bespatter

sense: to make slightly wet or soiled

dabbling duck

sense: Expressions

pocákat

code: cs

sense: to make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid

kostuttaa

code: fi

megnedvesít

code: hu

пляскам

code: bg

sense: to cause splashing by moving a body part in soft mud, water, etc.

roman: pljaskam

пръскам

roman: prǎskam

玩水

code: cmn

roman: wánshuǐ

濺濕 /溅湿

roman: jiànshī

dompelen

code: nl

barboter

code: fr

humedecer

code: gl

platschen

code: de

ばちゃばちゃさせる

code: ja

roman: bachabacha saseru

плеска́ться

roman: pleskátʹsja

brčkati

code: sh

grondelen

sense: of waterfowl, to feed with the head underwater without diving

корми́ться со дна

roman: kormítʹsja so dna

меся се

sense: to participate in a casual or superficial way

roman: mesja se

бъркам се

roman: bǎrkam se

etymology_text: From earlier dable, equivalent to dab + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly from Middle Dutch dabbelen (“to pinch; knead; to fumble; to dabble”); cognate with Icelandic dafla (“to dabble”).


dabble

text: Sir W. Rose has works that bear painful evidence of failing health; indeed, his group of the Duc et Duchesse d'Aumale (705), with the Prince de Condé and the Duc de Guise, is quite unfinished and even blotted. The face of the Duke is refined, but weak; the colour is pale, and the background only a dabble of unarranged and undrilled touches.

ref: 1858 May 22, “Fine Arts. Royal Academy.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama, number 1595, London: Printed by James Holmes, Took's Court, Chancery Lane, published at the office, 20, Wellington Street North, Strand, by J[ohn] Francis. [...], →OCLC, page 663, column 3:

text: And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, […] And I woke up with my hair all in a dabble with the night-dews, with my Grandmother's voice ringing in my ears, "Remember the Thirtieth of January!"

ref: 1862 February, George Augustus [Henry] Sala, “The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous; a Narrative in Plain English, […] Chapter the Fourth. My Grandmother Dies, and I am Left Alone, without So Much as a Name.”, in George Augustus Sala, editor, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume IV, London: Office of "Temple Bar," 122 Fleet Street; Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC, page 304:

text: Opening the scullery door, I heard a slight scuffle. Then I saw dabbles of milk all over the floor and tiny rabbit-droppings in the saucers. And there the miscreant, the tips of his ears showing behind a pair of boots. I peeped at him. He sat bright-eyed and askance, twitching his nose and looking at me while not looking at me.

ref: a. 1931 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[Nature and Poetical Pieces.] Adolf.”, in Edward D[avid] McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, London: William Heinemann, published 1936, →OCLC, page 9:

text: The lighting in the corridor just dabbles of arcs, afterthoughts, smears. The light a grime that gives him a slight headache. The same type as when it has rained, remained humid, a fetid stale of ozone over everything.

ref: 2007, Constantine Sult, chapter 1, in The Murder of Linen, [United States]: Brown Paper Publishing, page 1:

links: spattering spattering#Noun

links: sprinkling sprinkling#Noun

links: liquid liquid#Noun

text: Happily, however, he [the gnat] is born a swimmer and can take his pleasure in his native element, poising himself near its surface head downwards, tail upwards. Why chooses he this strange position? Just for the same reason that we rather prefer, when taking a dabble in the waves, to have our heads above water, for the convenience, namely, of receiving a due supply of air, which the little swimmer in question sucks in through a sort of tube in his tail.

ref: 1849, Acheta Domestica [pseudonym; L. M. Budgen], “The Gnat.—A Life of Buoyancy.”, in Episodes of Insect Life, London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, King William Street, Strand, →OCLC, page 63:

text: After a dabble in a teaspoonful of water, and a scrape with a bit of an old sack, in a box, which is dignified with the title of "wash room"—for the American cars are, as it were, moveable hotels, with every accommodation complete (including what, I think, from a sanitary point of view, had very much better not be there), I took a walk up and down the train, with the rest of my fellow-passengers, and thereby improved my appetite for the breakfast which we were to take at a station down the road.

ref: 1865, George Tuthill Borrett, “Cleveland to Chicago”, in Letters from Canada and the United States, London: Printed for private circulation, by J. E. Adlard, Bartholomew Close, →OCLC, page 78:

links: splashing splashing#Noun

links: soft soft

links: mud mud

links: water water#Noun

glosses: An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc.

text: […] I was induced to quit Leeds ſooner than uſual, as the concourſe of company which would aſſemble on that occaſion was expected to be very numerous and productive, and of courſe I could not idly let ſlip ſuch a lucrative proſpect but muſt have a dabble for the loaves and fiſhes.

ref: 1795, Tate Wilkinson, Samuel Foote, The Wandering Patentee; or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1779 to the Present Time: Interspersed with Anecdotes Respecting Most of the Performers in the Three Kingdoms, from 1765 to 1795. … In Four Volumes. To which are Added, Never Published, the Diversions of the Morning, and Foote’s Trial for a Libel on Peter Paragraph. Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq., volume III, York, Yorkshire: Printed for the author, by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman; sold by G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row; T[homas] Egerton, Whitehall; and J. Deighton, Holborn, London; and by all the booksellers in the city and county of York, →OCLC, page 235:

text: From the separate little tracts and fragments which we have last noticed, (as well as the greater works, which contain a fuller development of his views on this subject,) it appears he slighted what has been termed Natural Theology. He was content with the Bible, without which Natural Theology is a dabble of inconclusive presumptions, and in connexion with which, however pleasing as a speculative inquiry, useless as a canon of faith, or a rule of life.

ref: 1837, [Francis] Bacon, “Introductory Essay”, in The Works of Lord Bacon. With an Introductory Essay, and a Portrait. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: William Ball, Paternoster Row; stereotyped and printed by J. R. and C. Child, Bungay, →OCLC, page xli:

text: A dabble in the stocks does not always turn out profitably; cotton is sometimes heavy on our hands, and real estate will sulkily retrograde, when, by the calculation, it ought to have advanced.

ref: 1845, Joseph C. Neal, “The Moral of Goslyne Greene, who was Born to a Fortune”, in The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, →OCLC, page 68:

links: participation participation

glosses: An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way.

en-noun

expansion: dabble (plural dabbles)

forms: dabbles (plural)

chapoteo

code: es

glossary

frequentative

expansion: frequentative

suffix

dab

le

pos2: frequentative suffix

expansion: dab + -le (frequentative suffix)

der

dum

dabbelen

to pinch; knead; to fumble; to dabble

expansion: Middle Dutch dabbelen (“to pinch; knead; to fumble; to dabble”)

cog

is

dafla

to dabble

expansion: Icelandic dafla (“to dabble”)

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

rhymes: -æbəl

parts: dab ble


shore up

text: They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.

text: He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.

text: I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.

text: This answer fell just at the right time and just in the right place, to save the poor unstable young man from changing his political complexion once more. He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.

ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, pages 233–234:

text: [Harry] Redknapp was determined to secure victory and sent on Younes Kaboul and star playmaker Luka Modric to shore things up.

ref: 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 – 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2021:

text: However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.

ref: 2018, Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand […] , Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:

text: [Liz Truss] had cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to shore up her premiership, before speaking to Braverman at a meeting in the House of Commons, sources said.

ref: 2022 October 19, “Suella Braverman forced to resign as UK home secretary”, in The Guardian:

text: President Trump rolled out a $12 billion bailout for struggling farmers on Monday as he looks to shore up the finances of some of his most loyal supporters whose financial fortunes have been hurt by his trade war.

ref: 2025 December 8, “Trump Promises Farmers $12 Billion to Blunt Fallout From His Trade War”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

links: reinforce reinforce

links: strengthen strengthen

links:
at risk
at risk

links: failure failure

raw_glosses: (transitive, often figuratively) To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).

en-verb

expansion: shore up (third-person singular simple present shores up, present participle shoring up, simple past and past participle shored up)

forms:
shores up (present singular third-person)
shoring up (participle present)
shored up (participle past)
shored up (past)

подпи́рам

sense: to reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure)

roman: podpíram

подпра́

roman: podprá

支撐 /支撑

roman: zhīchēng

支持

roman: zhīchí

whakatete

code: mi

ncarzà

code: nap

podpierać

code: pl

sustentar

code: pt

подде́рживать

code: ru

roman: poddérživatʹ

поддержа́ть

roman: podderžátʹ

упрочня́ть

roman: upročnjátʹ

упро́чить

roman: upróčitʹ

укрепля́ть

roman: ukrepljátʹ

укрепи́ть

roman: ukrepítʹ

подкрепля́ть

roman: podkrepljátʹ

подкрепи́ть

roman: podkrepítʹ

entibar

english: excavations

translation: excavations

stötta upp

code: sv

ค้ำ

code: th

roman: kám

طیامق

code: ota

roman: dayamak

etymology_text: From shore (“to provide with support”) + up. Shore is derived from Late Middle English shoren (“to prop, to support”) [and other forms], from shore (“a prop, a support”) [and other forms], + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); while shore (noun) is from Middle Dutch schore, schare (“a prop, a stay”) (modern Dutch schoor), and Middle Low German schōre, schāre (“a prop, a stay; barrier; stockade”) (compare Old Norse skorða (“a prop, a stay”) (Norwegian skor, skorda)); further etymology unknown.

inh

shoren


susning

text: jag har inte en susning

english: I have no idea

translation: I have no idea

links: clue clue

glosses: clue; hint or idea about the correct answer

head

sv

nouns

g: c

expansion: susning c

sv-noun

c

forms:
susning (indefinite nominative singular)
susnings (genitive indefinite singular)
susningen (definite nominative singular)
susningens (definite genitive singular)
susningar (indefinite nominative plural)
susningars (genitive indefinite plural)
susningarna (definite nominative plural)
susningarnas (definite genitive plural)

etymology_text: susa + -ning

suffix

susa

ning

expansion: susa + -ning


pull over

text: Can you pull over just after the post office? My house is next door.

links:
hard shoulder
hard shoulder

raw_glosses: (idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder).

text: The cops pulled me over for speeding.

raw_glosses: (transitive) To command or force someone to drive their vehicle to the side of the road or curb and come to a stop.

links: pull pull#English

links: over over#English

glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, over.

en-verb

expansion: pull over (third-person singular simple present pulls over, present participle pulling over, simple past and past participle pulled over)

forms:
pulls over (present singular third-person)
pulling over (participle present)
pulled over (participle past)
pulled over (past)

pull up

sense: for a vehicle, to come to a stop and turn off the road

pysähtyä tien reunaan

code: fi

sense: come to a stop on the roadside or the hard shoulder

lehúzódik

code: hu

accostare

code: it

道の脇に寄る

roman: michi no waki ni yoru

道の脇に寄せる

roman: michi no waki ni yoseru

車を路肩に寄せる

roman: kuruma o rokata ni yoseru

車を止める

roman: kuruma o tomeru

길가-에 정차하다

code: ko

roman: gilga-e jeongchahada

trage pe dreapta

code: ro

çekmek

code: tr

pysäyttää

sense: cause someone/something to pull over

道路脇に止めさせる

roman: dōro-waki ni yamesaseru

길가-에 정차시키다

roman: gilga-e jeongchasikida

audio: En-au-pull over.ogg


hard shoulder

text: As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.

ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:

links: verge verge

links: highway highway

links: emergency emergency

links: motorway motorway

glosses: A verge to the side of a highway, which should be used only in case of an emergency (especially on a motorway)

en-noun

expansion: hard shoulder (plural hard shoulders)

forms: hard shoulders (plural)

vorera d'emergència

code: ca

sense: verge to the side of a highway

硬路肩

code: cmn

roman: yìnglùjiān

vluchtstrook

code: nl

bande d'arrêt d'urgence

code: fr

Standstreifen

code: de

ΛΕΑ

code: el

roman: LEA

bahu jalan

code: id

принудна лента

code: mk

roman: prinudna lenta

смуга руху для аварійної зупинки

code: uk

roman: smuha ruxu dlja avarijnoji zupynky

аварійна смуга

roman: avarijna smuha

llain galed

code: cy


iniciada

links: iniciat iniciat#Catalan

head

past participle form

g: f-s

expansion: iniciada f sg


iniciada

links: iniciado iniciado#Portuguese

pt


iniciada

links: iniciado iniciado#Spanish

es-noun

f

expansion: iniciada f (plural iniciadas)

forms: iniciadas (plural)

ipa: /iniˈθjada/

ipa: /iniˈsjada/

rhymes: -ada


iniciada

head

es

adjective form


pull away

text: Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers.

text: As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.

ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:

links: move move

links: ahead ahead

text: She pulled away from me when I approached her.

text: We used to be close, but Paul has been pulling away from me for years.

text: My 7-year-old son pulled away from my lover when she picked him up. He was upset. He said he loves her but he's afraid because he knows when he gets home Daddy is going to ask him if he touched us and if he says 'yes' he's going to get a spanking.

ref: 1983 August 13, Jil Clark, quoting Ronni Sanlo, “Lesbian's Activism 'Confusing' to Children”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 3:

raw_glosses: (transitive) To move oneself further from a target, either literally or figuratively

en-verb

expansion: pull away (third-person singular simple present pulls away, present participle pulling away, simple past and past participle pulled away)

forms:
pulls away (present singular third-person)
pulling away (participle present)
pulled away (participle past)
pulled away (past)

qopmaq

code: az

sense: to move ahead

отрыва́ться

code: ru

roman: otryvátʹsja

оторва́ться

roman: otorvátʹsja

отдаля́ться

roman: otdaljátʹsja

отдали́ться

roman: otdalítʹsja

відрива́тися

roman: vidryvátysja

відірва́тися

roman: vidirvátysja

audio: En-au-pull away.ogg


columnist

text: a sports columnist

text: a news columnist

text: a sporadic columnist

text: Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.

ref: 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

text: As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body.

ref: 2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian:

links: column column

links: magazine magazine

links: newspaper newspaper

glosses: A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

en-noun

expansion: columnist (plural columnists)

forms: columnists (plural)

عَمُود كَاتِب

code: ar

sense: regular writer of a column

roman: kātib ʕamūd

սյունակագիր

code: hy

roman: syunakagir

sloupkař

code: cs

klummeskriver

code: da

columnista

code: gl

स्तंभ-लेखक

code: hi

roman: stambh-lekhak

colúnaí

code: ga

kolumnis

code: ms

स्तंभलेखक

code: mr

roman: stambhlekhak

ستوننویس

code: fa

felietonista

code: pl

colunista

code: pt

ਕਾਲਮ ਨਵੀਸ

code: pa

roman: kālam navīs

колумни́ст

roman: kolumníst

colbhair

code: gd

columnista

code: es

krönikör

code: sv

manunudling

code: tl

колумни́ст

roman: kolumnýst

kuncnuştoğ

code: zza

etymology_text: From column + -ist, from Latin and Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.

af

en

column

-ist

expansion: column + -ist

der

ine-pro

*kʷel-

expansion: Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-

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

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-columnist2.wav


columnist

links: columnist columnist#English

glosses: a (male or unspecified) regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper; a columnist

nl-noun

m

-en

f: columniste

expansion: columnist m (plural columnisten, diminutive columnistje n, feminine columniste)

forms:
columnisten (plural)
columnistje (diminutive neuter)
columniste (feminine)

etymology_text: Borrowed from English columnist, equivalent to column + -ist.

bor+

nl

en

columnist

expansion: Borrowed from English columnist


columnist

ro-noun

columniști

expansion: columnist m (plural columniști)

forms:
columniști (plural)
columnist (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
columnistul (accusative definite nominative singular)
columniști (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
columniștii (accusative definite nominative plural)
columnist (dative genitive indefinite singular)
columnistului (dative definite genitive singular)
columniști (dative genitive indefinite plural)
columniștilor (dative definite genitive plural)
columnistule (singular vocative)
columniștilor (plural vocative)

ro-decl-noun

nsi: columnist

nsd: columnistul

npi: columniști

npd: columniștii

gsi: columnist

gsd: columnistului

gpi: columniști

gpd: columniștilor

vs: columnistule

vp: columniștilor

etymology_text: Borrowed from English columnist. By surface analysis, columnă + -ist.

ro

surf

columnă

expansion: By surface analysis, columnă + -ist

rhymes: -ist

parts: co lum nist


equilateral

text: Kissinger had wanted to keep an “equilateral” distance between the US, USSR and China. Under Carter, they became de facto partners.

ref: 2025 April 12, Edward Luce, “The revenge of geopolitics”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

links: geometry geometry

links: polygon polygon#English

raw_glosses: (geometry, of a polygon) Having all the sides equal.

links: polyhedron polyhedron#English

raw_glosses: (geometry, of a polyhedron) Having all the faces equal.

links: zoology zoology

raw_glosses: (zoology) Having the two sides equal, as a surface divisible by a longitudinal median line into two halves of the same form.

links: foraminifers foraminifer#English

raw_glosses: (zoology) Having all the convolutions of the shell in one plane, chiefly of foraminifers.

en-adj

expansion: equilateral (not comparable)

ewesydig

code: af

sense: referring to a polygon all of whose sides are of equal length

barabrinjës

code: sq

հավասարակողմ

code: hy

roman: havasarakoġm

bərabərtərəfli

code: az

роўнабо́чны

code: be

roman: rownabóčny

равностра́нен

code: bg

roman: ravnostránen

equilàter

code: ca

等邊的 /等边的

code: cmn

gelijkzijdig

code: nl

tasasivuinen

code: fi

équilatéral

code: fr

gleichseitig

code: de

ισόπλευρος

code: el

roman: isóplevros

ἰσόπλευρος

code: grc

roman: isópleuros

שווה צלעות

code: he

alt: shvé tsla`ót

egyenlőoldalú

code: hu

equilatera

code: io

equilatero

code: it

lygiakraštis

code: lt

co-lhiatteeagh

code: gv

равносторо́нний

code: ru

roman: ravnostorónnij

рівносторо́нній

code: uk

roman: rivnostorónnij

рівнобі́чний

roman: rivnobíčnyj

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Latin aequi-der.
English equi-
English lateral
English equilateral
From equi- + lateral.

ety

:af

equi-

lateral

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Latin aequi-der.
English equi-
English lateral
English equilateral
[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*aikʷos", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "aiquos", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "aequus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "aequi-", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "equi-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "lateral", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "equilateral", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="equilateral">
From equi- + lateral.

rhymes: -ætəɹəl

forms: æquilateral (alternative archaic)


equilateral

glosses: A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others.

en-noun

expansion: equilateral (plural equilaterals)

forms:
equilaterals (plural)
æquilateral (alternative archaic)


equiangular

links: polygon polygon

links:
interior angle
interior angle

links:
regular polygon
regular polygon

links: equilateral equilateral

links: rectangle rectangle

links: square square

raw_glosses: (geometry) Of a polygon, having all interior angles equal. This is not necessarily a regular polygon, since that would also be equilateral; a rectangle is equiangular but not equilateral, unless it is a square.

en-adj

expansion: equiangular (not comparable)

роўнаку́тны

code: be

sense: geometry: having all internal angles equal

roman: rownakútny

роўнавуго́льны

roman: rownavuhólʹny

равноъ́гълен

code: bg

roman: ravnoǎ́gǎlen

rovnoúhlý

code: cs

ισογώνιος

roman: isogónios

истоаголен

code: mk

roman: istoagolen

równokątny

code: pl

equiângulo

code: pt

echiunghiular

code: ro

равноуго́льный

roman: ravnougólʹnyj

rovnouhlý

code: sk

enakokoten

code: sl

equiángulo

code: es

likvinklig

code: sv

parisiha

code: tl

рівноку́тний

roman: rivnokútnyj

etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Latin aequi-der.
English equi-
English angular
English equiangular
From equi- + angular.

ety

angular

expansion:
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Latin aequi-der.
English equi-
English angular
English equiangular
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From equi- + angular.

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

forms:
æquiangular (alternative archaic)
equangular (alternative)


solarium

text: My brother kept a health-lift a few years ago... and then he had a blue-glass solarium.

ref: 1891, Edward Eggleston, The Faith Doctor, page 289:

text: The solariums on the roofs of the houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans testify to the benefits obtained by them from sun baths.

ref: 1894 September 20, The Voice

text: The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.

ref: 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:

links: room room

links: rooftop rooftop

links: balcony balcony

links: terrace terrace

links: use use

links: abundant abundant

links: sunlight sunlight

links: medical medical

links: treatment treatment

raw_glosses: (chiefly US and Canada) A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight, especially when used as a medical treatment.

links:
tanning salon
tanning salon#English

links: business business

links: sunlamp sunlamp

links:
tanning bed
tanning bed

raw_glosses: (chiefly UK) Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.

tanning salon

links: earthen earthen

links: structure structure

links: ant ant

links: brood brood

links: incubation incubation

glosses: An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.

text: […] this solarium being made for a different meridian […]

ref: 1842, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, page 487:

text: […] lifting his eyes from the solarium set under the aplustre for reference in keeping the course...

ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur, page 142:

links: sundial sundial#English

en-noun

s

solaria

expansion: solarium (plural solariums or solaria)

forms:
solariums (plural)
solaria (plural)
Solarium (alternative)

etymology_text: Borrowed from Latin sōlārium (“sundial, place for enjoying sunlight”), from sōl (“sun”) + -ārium (“-arium: indicating related places or devices”).

bor+

la

sōlārium

t: sundial, place for enjoying sunlight

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


solarium

links: sunbed sunbed

links:
tanning salon
tanning salon

head

da

noun

g: n

singular definite

solariet

f1accel-form: def|s

plural indefinite

solarier

f4accel-form: indef|p

expansion: solarium n (singular definite solariet, plural indefinite solarier)

da-noun

solariet

solarier

forms:
solariet (definite singular)
solarier (indefinite plural)
solarium (indefinite nominative singular)
solariet (definite nominative singular)
solarier (indefinite nominative plural)
solarierne (definite nominative plural)
solariums (genitive indefinite singular)
solariets (definite genitive singular)
solariers (genitive indefinite plural)
solariernes (definite genitive plural)

da-decl

solarierne

da-noun-infl-base

sg-indef: solarium

sg-def: solariet

pl-indef: solarier

pl-def: solarierne

gen-sg-indef: solariums

gen-sg-def: solariets

gen-pl-indef: solariers

gen-pl-def: solariernes

etymology_text: From Latin sōlārium. First attested in 1965.

bor

expansion: Latin sōlārium

etydate

expansion: First attested in 1965