text:
chaff

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, regional 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
 * 2) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
 * 3)  Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
 * 4) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
 * 5)  Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
 * 1) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
 * 2)  Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
 * 3) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
 * 4)  Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
 * 1) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
 * 2)  Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
 * 1)  Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
 * 1)  Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
 * 1)  Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: мякі́на, пало́ва
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cimbrian: bülla
 * Czech: pleva
 * Danish: avne
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: tasco, muíña,, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄχυρον, λέπυρον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: lóchán, cáith
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 왕겨
 * Latin: apluda, palea
 * Luxembourgish: Kuef
 * Macedonian: плева
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: karfa
 * Manchu: ᠠᡵᠠ
 * Maori: pāpapa
 * Occitan: àbet,, òlva, balòfa
 * Polabian: plåvoi
 * Polish: plewy
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: плева, пљева
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: plevy
 * Slovene: pleva
 * Spanish:, barcia,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: pīsäl
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: توپان, كىپەك
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: manus
 * West Frisian: tsjêf
 * White Hmong: npluag

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: плева, пљева
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:

 * Finnish:
 * German:

 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, empallada, , mastullada
 * Hungarian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: pāpapa, tiawhe
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: сі́чка

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Maori: whakatara

Verb

 * 1)  To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
 * 2)  To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
 * 3)  To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
 * 1)  To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: закачам се
 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakatara

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Ido:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakatara

title: chaff


text:
Talk:ain't

Do we know that "The supposition that the original meaning of ain't was am not is a myth." According to this web site: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001061.php that I found while researching amn't:
 * English doesn't like two nasal consonants like "m" and "n" together, however, and in most dialects they merged into "an't", the spelling of which eventually evolved into "ain't". Kevin Rector 04:50, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I would love to see this article sourced. Without sourcing, I tend to believe that there may be more to this.  I often have to research such questions for work, so I know how hard this can be.  Still, I would like to see such sourcing that was not the fruit of hours of my own labor, for once.  In fact, the wikipedia article for ain't tells a different story alltogether, but it's still not sourced.--Smallwhitelight 21:56, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC).--70.149.208.47 21:52, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. Etymologies and usage notes are two areas where we could stand to be much more rigorous.  Otherwise, there are bound to be continual edit wars over whose story is correct.  Unfortunately, sourcing etymologies and patterns of use is a lot harder than sourcing definitions (which just requires a few supporting quotes). -dmh 18:31, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I noticed that someone changed "is looked down upon" to "is still considered an illiteracy". Was there discussion behind this, or was it just Bold? -dmh 19:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

 * FWIW: From Online Etymology: ain't -1706, originally a contraction of am not, and in proper use with that sense until it began to be used as a generic contraction for are not, is not, etc., in early 19c. Cockney dialect of London; popularized by representations of this in Dickens, etc., which led to the word being banished from correct English. --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 13:45, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

"ain't" as "have not"
I don't think I've ever heard "ain't" meaning "have not" except where "have" is an auxiliary - "I ain't a clue" sounds strange to me (it would mean "I'm not a clue"), but "I ain't got a clue" (heard quite frequently on EastEnders) sounds quite natural. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Hairy Dude 18:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Yep, it's the auxiliary sense. Another common form is ain't never, as "He ain't never been there." (He hasn't ever been there) -dmh

Usage
I believe that the word aint (no apostrophe necessary) can be correctly used to mean 'is not' as it was in polite society in victorian England. It only became slang in recent times. Ref. the novels of Anthony Trollope.

 * One thing to point out is there may be a difference between usage in the UK and US. I don't know what things are like across the pond, but here in the US ain't has a high stigma attached and is mainly heard in less educated speech. I've known a few people from the UK who've surprised me with use of ain't, in cases where an American saying the same thing may come off as a redneck and would probably avoid saying it. –Andyluciano 06:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * "High stigma?" ... Maybe if you live in the NE. In the South there is no stigma attached to it except by a few pedants (and often they are yankee transplants). It's use is common across all classes. I'v heard it in many Midwestern states and across the Plains. I don't think you speak for the whole US. --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 13:45, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

 * I'm from the Midwest (N.Dak., Iowa, Ind.), and yes it's used, but there is definitely a difference between different classes. Many people (like me) only use it for emphasis or humor. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 14:00, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

is possibly stigmatized often based on "racist" issues
Where does this come from? The usage of ain't has nothing to do with race or jargon associated with race. It has entirely to do with how one wants to be perceived in regards to their education, intellect or social status. Usage of what has been considered slang does not identify one's race or bigotry.

Tea room discussion
I believe a couple of points in the usage notes may only apply to the US, or don't apply to UK usage. For example, "This word is commonly considered non-standard and is possibly stigmatized often based on racist issues,", well I am not aware of any racial issue surrounding 'ain't' in England. Also "However, its use is common among all social classes." In England, I would say its use is not common among all social classes, it's more of (but not exclusively) a working-class thing. It sounds like 'ain't' is somehow more controversial in the US than the UK. In England, it's just part of some accents like a London accent, and sounds a bit slangy. If anyone is aware of these issues existing in the UK then I would be interested to know about it. Kaixinguo 20:13, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with you, I know of no racial connotations to "ain't" in the UK. It is a feature of some dialects more than others - I head it far more in Yorkshire than in Somerset for example. It's a slang word that isn't considered proper, at least in middle and upper class speech, although I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it's working class. Thryduulf 11:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that "ain't" is just a focal point for broader concerns about dialectal English in the US, which are somewhat associated with race and with education policy and practice. Although ain't is used in AAVE, it is also used in dialects of mostly white speakers. As statistics suggest, we don't seem to have enough US users, especially contributors, to be well covered with respect to US regional dialects and slang. DCDuring TALK 12:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * As a Southerner, I can tell you that ain't is used across all classes both black and white in the South in speech. --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 13:45, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * AAVE is notoriously similar to spoken Southern American English and some of its features are even more widespread in English – but the features of AAVE which are simply features of spoken/dialectal English are often misjudged as "broken English": whites perceive "incorrect" (but really only nonstandard) features (such as double negation) in the speech of blacks (and also in pidgins/creoles or creoloids) even though they use them themselves, a classic case of mote and beam (in this case out of racist prejudice). --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:31, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

RFC discussion: August 2010–March 2015
I think the usage notes need work; for example, they include the word "racist", but the syntax is so poor that it's not clear who's being accused of racism. (I imagine the intent is something like, "This Wiktionarian thinks some of the attitude toward is due to racist attitudes toward AAVE", but it's really not clear.) There are no references, so I'm half-tempted to just remove them, but I think there's something useful to be said here, and the current notes may be a start in that direction. —Ruakh TALK 19:12, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

 * In the five years since this thread was opened, someone has removed the usage notes entirely. - -sche (discuss) 04:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

(African American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject
Isn't ain't used in AAVE before an emphatic negative subject as is don’t (don't nobody care), e.g. 'ain't nobody got time for that' unless it's a question, which I do not know Backinstadiums (talk) 11:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Ain't nobody kill my vibe
What's its meaning in Ain't nobody kill my vibe? --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:23, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

inversion
ain't it the truth shows idiomatic inversion --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:48, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

didn't
Why you ain’t give me one like that? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:41, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: June–July 2023
Rfv-sense (dialectal or informal) don't, doesn't.

Rfv-sense (dialectal or informal) didn't.

Two senses are tagged and not listed. - TheDaveRoss  14:20, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm surprised these were tagged as they clearly exist, though certainly aren't part of my idiolect. They have a distinctively African-American feel to them, I've just added a citation from the brilliant song 'Uncommon Valor' by Jedi Mind Tricks for the didn't meaning but I'm sure other examples are out there. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:15, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
 * didn't sense is now cited. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:49, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
 * In fact both senses now are (thanks to AndrewSheedy). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:58, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 17:46, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

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title: Talk:ain't


text:
cybercrud

Etymology

 * in Computer Lib (1974).

Noun

 * 1) Computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse.
 * 2) Any worthless material supplied by or relating to computers.
 * 1) Any worthless material supplied by or relating to computers.

title: cybercrud


text:
猴子

Noun

 * 1) monkey
 * 2)  dice
 * 3)  praying mantis
 * 4)  boy

title: 猴子


text:
rolling stone

Etymology
From the proverb.

Noun

 * 1)  A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.
 * 2)  A womanizer.
 * 3)  A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
 * 4)  A meteoroid.
 * 1)  A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
 * 2)  A meteoroid.
 * 1)  A meteoroid.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * French:, ,
 * German: Rumtreiber,
 * Maori: waewae kura
 * Portuguese: ludâmbulo
 * Spanish:, , , , , bala perdida

title: rolling stone


text:
老虎

Etymology
is used to indicate respect for the dangerous animal, which is subject to taboo. Compare ancient Chu dialect.

Noun

 * 1) tiger
 * 2)  tractor
 * 3)  energy-consuming unit or machine
 * 4)  one who uses one's power and influence to engage in large-scale embezzlement, theft or tax evasion
 * 1)  one who uses one's power and influence to engage in large-scale embezzlement, theft or tax evasion

title: 老虎


text: 维基百科

title: 维基百科


text:
維基百科

Proper noun

 * 1)  Wikipedia

title: 維基百科


text: 共产主义

title: 共产主义


text:
piston

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
 * 2)  A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 活塞
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: píst
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: piŝto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: pistón, émbolo, sucho
 * Georgian: დგუში
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: hao kuʻe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: піспек, поршень
 * Khmer: ពីស្តុង
 * Korean: 피스톤
 * Latin: embolus, fundulus
 * Latvian: virzulis
 * Macedonian: клип
 * Malay: piston,
 * Maori: kōkeke
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stempel
 * Nynorsk: stempel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: pistón,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tublik
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: pít tông

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, työntöventtiili
 * French:
 * German: Pumpventil, Perinetventil
 * Russian: ,

 * Arabic: مِدَكّ
 * Belarusian: іглі́ца, уда́рнік
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Piston, Zündhütchenträger
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: odrzut
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Ukrainian: уда́рник

Verb

 * 1)  To move up and down or in and out like a piston.

Etymology
16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from (15th century), from, from the root.

Noun

 * 1)  contact, connection
 * 1)  contact, connection

Etymology
From, from , from (15th century), from , from the root.

Etymology
.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) piston

title: piston


text:
tenebrae

Etymology
With regressive dissimilation (*m-b > n-b) from, nominalized feminine plural from , from , from. Related to.

Noun

 * 1) darkness, especially the darkness of night
 * 2)  shadow of death
 * 3) prison, dungeon
 * 4)  gloom or darkness of the mind
 * 1) prison, dungeon
 * 2)  gloom or darkness of the mind
 * 1)  gloom or darkness of the mind

title: tenebrae


text:
黑人

Noun

 * 1) black person
 * 2) person in hiding as a result of having broken the law
 * 1) person in hiding as a result of having broken the law

Verb

 * 1)  to make fun of others; to mock others
 * 2)  to extort money from someone

title: 黑人


text:
importune

Etymology
From, from , from , originally "having no harbor".

Verb

 * 1) To bother, irritate, trouble.
 * 2) To harass with persistent requests.
 * 3) To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
 * 4)  To import; to signify.
 * 1) To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
 * 2)  To import; to signify.
 * 1) To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
 * 2)  To import; to signify.
 * 1)  To import; to signify.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, натрапвам се
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * German: ,
 * Maori: patete, unene
 * Polish: napraszać się
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: sıkboğaz etmek, ,

 * Bulgarian: предлагам се
 * Finnish:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1)  Grievous, severe, exacting.
 * 2)  Inopportune; unseasonable.
 * 3)  Troublesome; vexatious; persistent.
 * 1)  Troublesome; vexatious; persistent.

title: importune


text:
西非

Proper noun

 * 1) West Africa

title: 西非


text:
importunate

Etymology 1
From + English suffix, influenced by.

Adjective

 * 1)  Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
 * 2)  Given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.
 * 1)  Given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: importú
 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: у́порен, на́стојчив
 * Maori: mānene, unene
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: liosta

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: importú
 * Finnish: vaativainen
 * Irish: achainíoch
 * Macedonian: на́траплив, на́метлив
 * Maori: tōwenewene

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
 * 2) * 1581 June 23, Thomas Churchyard, letter to Sir Christopher Hatton, in Sir Harris Nicolas (editor), Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G., Richard Bentley (publisher, 1847), page 173:
 * All which notwithstanding, I obtained licence at length to make my supplication to the noble Parliament house; but I could find no messengers till Sir John Seton went, whom I importunated daily to obtain me favor for my return home again.
 * 1) * 1847 December 18, N. Roussel, “Spiritual Destitution of Paris.—Appeal to British Christians”, in Evangelical Christendom: Its State and Prospects, Volume II (1848), Partridge and Oakey, page 43:
 * Is my work ended? The fear of importunating my friends answers, “Yes.”
 * 1) * 1910 July, David Leslie Brown, “The Need of To-day”, in Sunset, Volume 25, Southern Pacific Company, reverse of frontispiece:
 * It is the concrete that impresses, that importunates until it influences—in writing as in everything else.

Translations

 * Portuguese:

title: importunate


text:
onaabanad

Verb

 * 1) "there is a crust on the snow"

Derived terms

 * (plural onaabani-giizisoog)
 * March

title: onaabanad


text:
pycnocline

Noun

 * 1) A boundary layer in a body of water between areas of different temperature or salinity.
 * The bay has fresher water at the surface and saltier water at the bottom, in between is the pycnocline.
 * 1) A layer of water where the density changes rapidly with depth

title: pycnocline


text:
mashkawaagwanewadin

Verb

 * 1) "there is a hard crust on the snow"

title: mashkawaagwanewadin


text:
aagim

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) snowshoe

Derived terms

 * bebookwaadaagime-giizis
 * bebookwaadaagime-giizis
 * bebookwaadaagime-giizis

title: aagim


text:
unbiased

Adjective

 * 1) Impartial or without bias or prejudice.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: nezaujatý
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: નિષ્પક્ષ
 * Irish: neamhlaofa
 * Maori: ngākau tapatahi, matatika
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: neo-chlaon
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: неупере́джений,

title: unbiased


text:
unbidden

Adjective

 * 1) not invited, requested or asked for

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀκέλευστος, ἄκλητος
 * Latin: iniussus, invocātus
 * Russian:

title: unbidden


text:
unblemished

Adjective

 * 1) faultless or lacking blemishes.
 * 2) Free from evil or corruption.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: gan on
 * Maori: parakore
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tibetan: དྲི་མེད

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Maori: harakore
 * Tibetan: དྲི་མེད

title: unblemished


text:
unbreakable

Adjective

 * 1) Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.
 * 2)  Resilient.
 * the unbreakable spirit of the rebels
 * 1)  Not able to be broken in.
 * the unbreakable spirit of the rebels
 * 1)  Not able to be broken in.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ubrydelig
 * Finnish: rikkoutumaton
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄρρηκτος, ἀαγής
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: infragilis
 * Manx: do-vrishey
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: uknuselig
 * Occitan: incopable, imbresable
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: незла́мний, нерозри́вний

 * Ukrainian: незла́мний

Noun

 * 1) Something that cannot be broken.

title: unbreakable


text:
unburden

Verb

 * 1)  To free from burden, or relieve from trouble.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Swedish:

title: unburden


text:
bookoshkaa

Etymology
(broken (in two)) +

Verb

 * 1) it breaks/is broken in two

Verb

 * 1) he/she/it is broken in two
 * 2) he/she is broke (out of money)

title: bookoshkaa


text:
disturbance

Etymology
From, from , , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
 * 2) Something that disturbs.
 * 3) A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
 * 4) An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
 * 5)  A serious mental imbalance or illness.
 * 1)  A serious mental imbalance or illness.
 * 1)  A serious mental imbalance or illness.
 * 1)  A serious mental imbalance or illness.

Derived terms

 * disturbance regime

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: pertorbació,
 * Czech: rušení
 * Danish: forstyrrelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: perturbo
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌽𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄραδος
 * Hebrew: הפרעה
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Luhya: bunani
 * Malagasy:
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forstyrrelse
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: gedrefnes
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: aimhreit
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tocharian B: krämpālñe

 * Bengali:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forstyrrelse
 * German:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Maori: āheihei, ngangau, rarī, rawehoi, raweoi, ngari
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forstyrrelse
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, încomodare
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ταραχή
 * Latin:
 * Maori: taute, ngangau, āheihei,, manioro, rarī

 * Bulgarian:, бъротия
 * Czech: narušení, vyrušení
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Maori: ngaungau, āheihei,, pororaru
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: atharrachadh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

 * Czech: duševní porucha
 * German:, Geistesstörung
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,

 * Dutch:
 * German: [1] [2], ,  [3] , ,  [4]
 * Irish:
 * Mandarin: ,

title: disturbance


text:
aandeg

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) crow

Synonyms

 * SE, SO
 * NE, SE, SO
 * NW, NO
 * NW
 * NW

title: aandeg


text:
nika

Pronoun

 * 1) I
 * 2) my

Etymology
derived from.

Noun

 * 1)  niche
 * 2)  niche
 * 3)  niche
 * 1)  niche

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  nigger

Verb

 * 1) to give

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) goose, Canada goose

Verb

 * 1) to give

Verb

 * 1)  to give

Verb

 * 1)  to give
 * 2)  to hand, to hand over
 * 3)  to offer
 * 4)  to grant

title: nika


text:
ziinzibaakwad

Noun

 * 1) sugar
 * 2) maple sugar
 * 1) maple sugar

title: ziinzibaakwad


text:
maang

Noun

 * 1) message stick

Noun

 * 1) loon (genus )

Derived terms

 * maango-giizis

Adjective

 * 1) ignorant

Pronoun

 * 1)  what?

title: maang


text:
umpteenth

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Occurring in a relatively large but unspecified position in a sequence.

Synonyms

 * nth, ,

Translations

 * Danish: hundredogsyttende, hundredsyttende
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vaikka kuinka mones
 * French: ,
 * German: soundsovielte, zigte, xte, zigste
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: ørtende
 * Portuguese: enésimo
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, sjuttielfte, hundrasjuttielfter, hundrafemtioelfte

title: umpteenth


text:
nth

Alternative forms

 * nth
 * Sometimes spelled as n'th, n-th, or nth.

Adjective

 * 1)  Occurring at position n in a sequence.
 * 2)  Occurring at a relatively large but unspecified position in a series.

Translations

 * Basque: enegarren
 * Breton: nvet
 * Catalan: enèsim
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 第n
 * Czech: n-tý
 * Danish: n'te
 * Esperanto: n-a, noa
 * Estonian: n-is
 * Finnish: n\:s, ännäs
 * French: ,
 * German: n-te
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: n-edik
 * Indonesian: ke-n
 * Italian:, n-esimo
 * Japanese: 第ｎ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: n-te
 * Polish:, n-ty
 * Portuguese: enésimo, n-ésimo
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: n-tý
 * Spanish: enésimo
 * Swedish: n\:te

Noun

 * 1)  The item at position n in a sequence.
 * 2)  The item in a relatively large but unspecified position in a series.

Translations

 * Catalan: enèsim
 * Finnish: n:s, ännäs
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian: n-edik
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: enésimo
 * Spanish: enésimo

title: nth


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛnθ

Pronunciation
-ĕnth, /-ɛnθ/, /-EnT/

One syllable

 * length (some accents)
 * nth
 * strength (some accents)
 * tenth

title: Rhymes:English/ɛnθ


text:
Caucasian

Etymology

From. The anthropological sense (no longer regarded as scientific) was popularized by the German anthropologist and physician (1752–1840), based on the belief that the first humans originated from there.

Noun sense 2 (“cocktail”) was popularized by the film  (1998): see the quotation.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its culture, languages, and people.
 * 2)  Of a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.
 * 3)  Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.
 * 1)  Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.
 * 1)  Of a person: having a white complexion and European ancestry; white.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Arabic: قَوْقَازِيّ
 * Armenian: կովկասյան
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: кавка́зки
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chechen: кавказхойн
 * Coptic: ⲕⲁⲩⲕⲟⲥ, ⲭⲁⲩⲕⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kaukasisk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კავკასიური, კავკასიის
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingush: кавказски
 * Irish: Cugasach
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kaukasisk
 * Nynorsk: kaukasisk
 * Ossetian: кавказаг
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, caucasiano
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Kawkasin
 * Turkish: Kafkas

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: indaa
 * Arabic: يَافِثِيّ, أَحْمَرِيّ, قَوْقَازِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: кӏайн
 * Danish: kaukasisk
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: კავკასიური, ევროპეოიდური
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: haole
 * Lakota: wasicu
 * Mandinka: toubob
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: Kafkas

Noun

 * 1) A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
 * 2)  A member of the Caucasian racial classification (adjective sense 2).
 * 3)  A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
 * 4)  A white person.
 * 1)  A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
 * 2)  A white person.

Translations

 * Arabic: قَوْقَازِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 高加索人
 * Czech: Kavkazan
 * Danish: kaukasier
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კავკასიელი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: קווקזי, קווקזית
 * Irish: Cugasach
 * Japanese: カフカース人
 * Kazakh: кавказдық
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kaukasier
 * Ossetian: кавказаг
 * Portuguese:, caucasiana
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: caucáseo
 * Tagalog: Kawkaseyo
 * Turkish: Kafkas,

 * Arabic: يَافِثِيّ, يَافِثِيَّة, أَحْمَرِيّ, حَمْرَاء, قَوْقَازِيّ, قَوْقَازِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Cheyenne: vé'ho'e
 * Chichewa: mzungu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 白種人
 * Chiricahua: dáadatł’ijénde, indaa, indaałigańde, indaałigaénde, indaa’
 * Czech:, europoid
 * Danish: kaukasier
 * Dena'ina: gasht’ana
 * Esperanto: kaŭkazulo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: თეთრი რასა,, თეთრკანიანი, ევროპეოიდი
 * German:, ,
 * Gullah: buckruh
 * Hawaiian: haole
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Jicarilla: Ma̠gáanii
 * Karok: apxantínihich, simsimtâar, mákay
 * Kikuyu: Mũthũngũ
 * Korean:
 * Lakota: wasicu
 * Mandinka: toubob
 * Maori: pākehā
 * Navajo: bilagáana
 * Ojibwe: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ, zhaaganaash, waabishkiiwe
 * Portuguese:, caucasiana
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, kaukas,
 * Taos: phonsáyna
 * Thai: คนผิวขาว
 * Turkish: Kafkas,
 * Vietnamese: người da trắng (𠊛𤿦𤽸), người trắng (𠊛𤽸)
 * Western Apache: indaa, innaa
 * Yup'ik: kass'aq
 * Zulu: umlungu

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: inná
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , 高鼻子
 * Esperanto: blankulo
 * Lutshootseed: pastəd

title: Caucasian


text:
matutinal

Etymology
Borrowed from (modern 🇨🇬), and from its , from  (from  (from ) +  +.

Sense 2 (“active in the morning; waking up early”) is possibly modelled after 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * Of, occurring in, or relating to the morning, especially the early morning upon waking up.
 * 1) * 1874, Henry James, "Professor Fargo" in The Galaxy 18(2) (August 1874): 233–253.
 * [A] young lady was introduced who had come to request him to raise a ghost—a resolute young lady, with several ringlets and a huge ancestral umbrella, whose matutinal appetite for the supernatural had not been quenched by the raw autumnal storm.
 * 1) Active in the morning; waking up early.
 * [A] young lady was introduced who had come to request him to raise a ghost—a resolute young lady, with several ringlets and a huge ancestral umbrella, whose matutinal appetite for the supernatural had not been quenched by the raw autumnal storm.
 * 1) Active in the morning; waking up early.
 * 1) Active in the morning; waking up early.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: утринен
 * Esperanto: matena
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: maidiniúil, maidine
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,

Etymology
From, from its , from  (from  (from ) +  +.

title: matutinal


text:
omakakii

Noun

 * 1) frog (amphibian of the family )

Derived terms

 * omakakiiwi-giizis
 * omakakiiwi-giizis

title: omakakii


text:
gaiety

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being happy or merry.
 * 2)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.
 * 1)  Merrymaking or festivity.

Usage notes

 * Gaiety is not used to refer to sexual orientation, the word for which is . Despite this, gaiety has largely fallen out of use due to the adjective gay's semantic shift in that direction.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: munterhed
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: მხიარულება, სიმხიარულე
 * German:, Glücklichsein
 * Irish: meidhir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ハピネス
 * Maori: hiwa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Walloon:

title: gaiety


text:
gayness

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being gay colorful or festive; display or dressiness.
 * 2)  The state of being gay cheerful; gaiety.
 * 3)  The state of being gay homosexual; homosexuality.
 * 1)  The state of being gay cheerful; gaiety.
 * 2)  The state of being gay homosexual; homosexuality.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:

 * Finnish: ,
 * Greenlandic: anguteqatinik atoqateqartarneq, arnaqatinik atoqateqartarneq
 * Northern Sami: homovuohta, lesbavuohta
 * Swedish: ,

title: gayness


text:
iskigamizige

Verb

 * 1) boil sap, be sugaring
 * 2) boil down
 * 1) boil down

title: iskigamizige


text:
gonorrhea

Etymology
From, from , from , from +  (ca. 1526). .

Noun

 * 1)  A sexually transmitted infection caused by, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.

Synonyms

 * the clap

Translations

 * Afrikaans: gonorree
 * Arabic: سَيَلَان
 * Arikara: karahkotkaáhux
 * Armenian:, գոնոռեա
 * Assamese: গনৰিয়া
 * Assiniboine: cé otùyąbi
 * Asturian: gonorrea
 * Azerbaijani: süzənək, qonoreya
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ганарэ́я
 * Bulgarian: гоноре́я, три́пер
 * Burmese: ညောင်းကျရောဂါ,
 * Catalan: gonocòccia
 * Central Franconian: Tripper, Gonorrhoe
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 淋病
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 淋病
 * Chuvash: гонорея, триппер
 * Czech:
 * Dagbani: kpaɣipiɛliga
 * Danish: gonoré
 * Dhivehi: ކިހުނުވުން
 * Dinka: biyuu, nyagino
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: gonoreo
 * Estonian: gonorröa
 * Faroese: dryppari
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: gonorrea, blenorraxia, blenorrea, gonococia
 * Georgian: გონორეა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γονόρροια
 * Haitian Creole: gonore
 * Hausa: ciwon sanyi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, गोनोरिया
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: lekandi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: gónairith
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: ganariya
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಗೊನೊರಿಯಾ
 * Kashubian: tripel
 * Kazakh: соз,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 임질 (淋疾)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سووزەنەک
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, гонорея
 * Latin: gonorrhoea
 * Latvian: gonoreja, triperis
 * Limburgish: druper, gonorroe
 * Lithuanian: gonorėja
 * Low German: drüpper
 * German Low German: Gonorrhö, Drüpper
 * Macedonian: гонореја, трипер, калавец
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: gonorea
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: pakiwhara
 * Mingrelian: გონორეა, ტრიპერი
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭ
 * N'Ko: ߞߙߐ߬ߛߌ߬ߣߍ߲
 * Nandi: kipnonog
 * Neapolitan: scarfatura
 * Nepali: धातुमेह
 * Norman: gôrre, vétheule honteuse
 * Norwegian: gonoré
 * Odia:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, گنوره
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, пари́жский на́сморк , , ,
 * Sami:
 * Inari Sami: tippur, gonorrea
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гонореја
 * Roman: ,
 * Shona: chizonono, chinzonono
 * Sinhalese: සුදු බිංදුම, ගොනෝරියාව
 * Slovak:, , gonokoková infekcia
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: gonore, gonoré
 * Swahili:, kisalisali
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: tulas, gonoreya, gonoria, gonorea
 * Tajik: сӯзок, пармев, гонорея, триппер
 * Tamil: கொணோறியா
 * Tatar: гонорея
 * Telugu: సెగవ్యాధి, గనేరియా
 * Thai: หนองใน
 * Tibetan: གྲང་གཞི, གྲང་བ
 * Turkish:, gonore
 * Ukrainian: гоноре́я, трипер, чєрвєница, наконе́шник
 * Urdu: جریان
 * Vietnamese: lậu mủ,
 * Waray-Waray: gonorea
 * Yakut: бүлтүрэй, һонорейа
 * Yurok: mechomee'
 * Zhuang: nyouhin

title: gonorrhea


text:
trichomoniasis

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1)  A common sexually transmitted disease caused by the parasite  and infecting the urinary tract or vagina.
 * 2) * 2009, Sarah L. Cudmore, Gary E. Garber, Chapter 74: Diagnosis and Treatment of Metronidazole-Resistant Trichomonas vaginalis Infection, Douglas Mayers (editor), Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Volume 2: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, page 1092,
 * Trichomoniasis has long been considered a disease of women, but the disease can also cause significant morbidity in men.
 * 1) * 2009, Sarah L. Cudmore, Gary E. Garber, Chapter 74: Diagnosis and Treatment of Metronidazole-Resistant Trichomonas vaginalis Infection, Douglas Mayers (editor), Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Volume 2: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, page 1092,
 * Trichomoniasis has long been considered a disease of women, but the disease can also cause significant morbidity in men.

Synonyms

 * , trich

Translations

 * Czech: trichomoniáza
 * Finnish:
 * French: trichomonase
 * Polish: rzęsistkowica
 * Portuguese: tricomoníase

title: trichomoniasis


text:
human papillomavirus

Noun

 * 1) Any of a large number of virus species in the family  that affect humans, sometimes causing cervical or other cancer; it is sometimes classified as a sexually transmitted disease.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ihmisen papillomavirus
 * Spanish: virus del papiloma humano
 * Swahili: virusi vya papilloma ya binadamu

title: human papillomavirus


text:
sister-wife

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse.
 * 2) In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.
 * 3) A co-wife in general.
 * 1) In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.
 * 2) A co-wife in general.
 * 1) In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.
 * 2) A co-wife in general.
 * 1) A co-wife in general.

Translations

 * Dutch: zuster-vrouw
 * French: sœur-épouse

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 娣媵
 * Dutch: zuster-vrouw
 * French: sœur-épouse

title: sister-wife


text: HPV

title: HPV


text:
box the compass

Verb

 * 1)  To know, and demonstrate by reciting, the 32 points and quarter points of the magnetic compass from North or East, both clockwise and anticlockwise.
 * 2)  To make a complete reversal in stance or opinion.
 * 1)  To make a complete reversal in stance or opinion.
 * 1)  To make a complete reversal in stance or opinion.

Translations

 * Finnish: luetella ilmansuunnat
 * Spanish: cuartear la aguja

 * Finnish: kääntää kelkkansa,
 * French:

title: box the compass


text:
hong

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) A foreign trading company in China.

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) forest pine

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) book

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) old or dead forest pine

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to dry (in the wind, sun, or near the fire)

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) work; labor

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  thing; object

Verb

 * 1) open

title: hong


text:
brace aback

Verb

 * 1)  to bring the wind onto the forward side of the sails to slow the ship

Translations

 * Norwegian: brase bakk

title: brace aback


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛbɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕbĭng, /-ɛbɪŋ/, /-EbIN/

Two syllables

 * webbing

title: Rhymes:English/ɛbɪŋ


text:
brace about

Verb

 * 1)  to brace the ship's yards on the opposite tack when going about

title: brace about


text:
brace abox

Verb

 * 1)  To bring the foreyards flat aback to stop the ship.

title: brace abox


text:
brace by

Verb

 * 1)  to bring the yards in opposite directions on different masts when doing certain maneuvers

title: brace by


text:
salve

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
 * 2) Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَرْهَم, زَبْدَة, بَلْسَم
 * Catalan: ungüent, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: eli
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ungvento
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: voije, maazi
 * Irish: ungadh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Korean: 연고
 * Latvian: ziede, svaide
 * Luxembourgish: Sallef
 * Macedonian: мелем
 * Maori: rongoā maene
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: salve
 * Ottoman Turkish: مرهم
 * Plautdietsch: Saulw
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Tocharian B: laupe, ṣalype
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, мазь
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: זאַלב

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: rongoā maene

 * Ido: ,

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from (whence ).

Verb

 * 1)  To calm or assuage.
 * 2) To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
 * 3) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
 * 4)  To salvage.
 * 1) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
 * 2)  To salvage.
 * 1)  To salvage.
 * 1)  To salvage.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,

 * Finnish:
 * Italian:

Etymology 3
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
 * 2)  To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
 * 3)  To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
 * 1)  To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

Etymology 4
From.

Interjection

 * 1) Hail; a greeting.

Etymology 5
From the interjection.

Verb

 * 1)  To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) salvo
 * 2) volley
 * 3) burst
 * 4) tirade

Etymology 3
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) anoint

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) salvo, volley of shots
 * 2) round

Etymology 1
.

Interjection

 * 1)  hello!; hi!; hail!
 * 2) greetings
 * 1) greetings

Etymology
Imperative of the verb.

Interjection

 * 1) hail!, hello!, welcome!
 * 2) farewell!

Usage notes

 * This is the singular form. When greeting a group, is used.

Etymology 1
From the oblique forms of, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A ; a curative ointment.
 * 2) A remedy, cure, or deliverance.
 * 3) Any ointment or balm.

Etymology
From (sense 1), and  (sense 2).

Noun

 * 1) ointment,
 * 2) salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) ointment,

Verb

 * 1)  to anoint

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

Etymology 1
From.

Interjection

 * 1)  hail!
 * 2)  greetings, hi
 * 1)  greetings, hi

Noun

 * 1)  shout out

Etymology
.

Interjection

 * 1) welcome!, greetings!, cheerio!
 * 2) so long!, bye-bye!

Etymology 1
.

Interjection

 * 1)  hello
 * 2)  hail

title: salve


text:
brace in

Verb

 * 1)  to bring the yards more square to the fore and aft line

title: brace in


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛtʃɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕchĭng, /-ɛtʃɪŋ/, /-EtSIN/

Two syllables

 * catching
 * etching
 * fetching
 * fletching
 * kvetching
 * retching
 * sketching
 * stretching

title: Rhymes:English/ɛtʃɪŋ


text:
brace sharp

Verb

 * 1)  to bring the yards around to make the smallest possible angle with the fore and aft line when sailing close-hauled

title: brace sharp


text:
close-hauled

Adjective

 * 1)  with the sails trimmed as close to the wind as possible with all sails full and not shivering

Translations

 * Czech: ostře proti větru

Adverb

 * 1) with the sails close-hauled

title: close-hauled


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛdɪŋ

Pronunciation
,

Two syllables

 * bedding
 * heading
 * leading
 * Reading
 * redding
 * shedding
 * spreading
 * tedding
 * yedding
 * Spedding (surname - see especially Chris Spedding, Cory Spedding, David Spedding, Frank Spedding and James Spedding)
 * threading
 * wedding

title: Rhymes:English/ɛdɪŋ


text:
brace of shakes

Noun

 * 1)  The time taken for a sail to shake or shiver twice as a ship comes into the wind.
 * 2)  A very short time.

title: brace of shakes


text:
январь

Etymology
,, from , , from , from Latin , from (perhaps).

Noun

 * 1) January

Descendants

 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) January

title: январь


text:
bedding

Etymology 1
From, , from , equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
 * 2)  The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
 * 3) Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
 * 4)  A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
 * 5)  The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.
 * 1)  A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
 * 2)  The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.
 * 1)  The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.

Derived terms

 * bedding set, carpet bedding
 * bedding set, carpet bedding

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: yorğan-döşək
 * Czech:, lůžkoviny, ložní prádlo
 * Danish: sengetøj
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: litaĵo
 * Ewe: abaɖonuwo
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: alus, tila, voovve
 * Irish: cóir leapa, córacha leapa, éadach leapa, éadaí leapa
 * Italian: biancheria da letto,
 * Macedonian: постелнина
 * Mongolian: ор дэрний хэрэгсэл
 * North Frisian: beedswåår
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sengetøy
 * Nynorsk: sengetøy
 * Plautdietsch: Badinj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬਿਸਤਰਾ
 * Russian: посте́льное бельё,
 * Scottish Gaelic: aodach-leapa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: постељина
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ropa de cama
 * Swedish:

 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: простирка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Irish: cisealú, cisealúchán
 * Russian:

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
From. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) bed of any body of water; riverbed, seabed.
 * 2) floor or frame on which an artillery mount or gun carriage is deployed
 * 3) * 1871, F. H. W. Kuypers, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche artillerie van de vroegste tijden tot heden, vol. 2, publ. by Adolf Blomhert, page 232.
 * "nl"
 * 1) floor or frame on which an artillery mount or gun carriage is deployed
 * 2) * 1871, F. H. W. Kuypers, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche artillerie van de vroegste tijden tot heden, vol. 2, publ. by Adolf Blomhert, page 232.
 * "nl"
 * "nl"

- De bedding was niet langer dan het affuit. Achter de bedding werd de aarde vast aangestampt zoo ver als het stuk achteruit liep.

title: bedding


text:
bedclothes

Etymology
From, plural of , , , from , , equivalent to 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) Sheets, blankets, quilts or other coverings used on a bed.
 * 2) Clothing worn to bed.
 * 1) Clothing worn to bed.
 * 1) Clothing worn to bed.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: beddegoed, kooigoed
 * Arabic: أَغْطِيَةُ السَّرِير
 * Azerbaijani: yorğan-döşək,
 * Brunei Malay: cadar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 床上用品
 * Czech: lůžkoviny, ložní prádlo
 * Danish: sengelinned, sengetøj
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: litkovrilo, litkovriloj, litaĵo
 * Finnish:, petivaatteet, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ἐνεύναιον
 * Gujarati: પાગરણ, બિસ્તરો, પથારી
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: alus
 * Irish: cóir leapa, córacha leapa, éadach leapa, éadaí leapa, línéadach leapa
 * Italian: biancheria da letto
 * Macedonian: постелнина
 * Maori: paraikete
 * Norwegian: sengetøy
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lenjerie de pat,
 * Scottish Gaelic: aodach-leapa, adhart
 * Spanish: ropa de cama
 * Swedish:

title: bedclothes


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛfɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕfĭng, /-ɛfɪŋ/, /-EfIN/

Two syllables

 * effing

title: Rhymes:English/ɛfɪŋ


text:
effing

Adjective

 * The effing car's broken down again!
 * The effing car's broken down again!

Translations

 * German:, Mist-
 * Portuguese:, do caneco, pra caneco, ate dizer chega, a beça, pra K7, ,
 * Russian: ,

Adverb

 * She is effing hot!
 * I effing hate snow!
 * I effing hate snow!

Verb

 * I wish he'd stop effing and blinding.
 * I wish he'd stop effing and blinding.

title: effing


text:
eff and blind

Etymology
From and  (for "God blind me").

Verb

 * 1)  To swear; to use swear words.
 * I can't stand the way he's always effing and blinding.

title: eff and blind


text:
effing and blinding

Etymology
Effing is for "f'ing", a euphemism for fucking; blinding is related to blimey, i.e. "God blind me!".

Noun

 * 1)  swearing, cursing.
 * Much effing and blinding could be heard from the fans when they discovered that their team had lost.

title: effing and blinding


text:
февраль

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) February

Noun

 * 1) February

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) February

Descendants

 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:

Noun

 * 1) February

title: февраль


text:
март

Noun

 * 1) March, the third month of the year

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) March

Noun

 * 1) the month of March

Etymology
, Old Church Slavonic, from , from Latin , from Latin.

Noun

 * 1) March

Descendants

 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:

Noun

 * 1) March

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) March

Noun

 * 1) March

title: март


text:
апрель

Noun

 * 1) April

Related terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) April

Etymology
, earlier, from , from from (perhaps) Etruscan  from. The form with ѣ in the second syllable is explained by Sobolevsky as a loan from the Novgorodian written language.

Noun

 * 1) April

Noun

 * 1) April

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) April

title: апрель


text:
май

Noun

 * 1) May

Related terms

 * Previous: . Next:

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * (one syllable)
 * (one syllable)

Noun

 * 1) butter
 * 2) oil, liquid fat
 * 3) fat
 * 4) petroleum-based fluid, oil
 * 5) grease
 * 1) petroleum-based fluid, oil
 * 2) grease

Noun

 * 1) May

Noun

 * 1) May

Particle

 * 1) it seems (to me that)
 * 2) in all probability/likelihood, most probably, apparently, to all appearances, by all appearances, very likely
 * 1) in all probability/likelihood, most probably, apparently, to all appearances, by all appearances, very likely

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) nose
 * 2) toe

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fat

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fat

Noun

 * 1) butter
 * 2) oil

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fat

Etymology 1
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from.

Noun

 * 1) butter
 * 2) oil
 * 3) fat

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology 1
Akin to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) fat, grease

Etymology 2
Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) nose

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) fat

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology 1
from from  from  (perhaps) from  from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Descendants

 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:
 * South Karelian:

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology 2
From. cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) butter
 * 2) fat

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) May

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

title: май


text:
spud gun

Noun

 * 1) A toy gun that fires a plug of potato by compressing the air in the barrel, forcing the potato projectile out at speed.
 * 2) A larger version of the same, powered by compressed air, butane or other propellant, which fires a complete potato.

title: spud gun


text:
pop gun

Noun

 * 1) A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string.
 * 2) A firearm of unimpressive appearance.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: špuntovka
 * Finnish: korkkipyssy
 * German: Kindergewehr, Pufferchen, Kinderspielpistole
 * Maori: pakoro
 * Plautdietsch: Knaulflint, Loftflint
 * Polish:
 * Slovak: špuntovka
 * Swedish: korkpistol
 * Volapük: cilapistol

 * Czech:
 * Polish:

title: pop gun


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛɡɪŋ

Pronunciation
,

Two syllables

 * begging
 * legging
 * pegging
 * squegging

Four syllables

 * level pegging

title: Rhymes:English/ɛɡɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛdʒɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕjĭng, /-ɛdʒɪŋ/, /-EdZIN/

Two syllables

 * edging
 * pledging

title: Rhymes:English/ɛdʒɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛkɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕkĭng, /-ɛkɪŋ/, /-EkIN/

Two syllables

 * decking
 * necking

title: Rhymes:English/ɛkɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛldɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕldĭng, /-ɛldɪŋ/, /-EldIN/

Two syllables

 * gelding
 * melding
 * welding

title: Rhymes:English/ɛldɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛlɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕlĭng, /-ɛlɪŋ/, /-ElIN/

Two syllables

 * felling
 * gelling
 * selling
 * shelling
 * smelling
 * Belling
 * spelling
 * swelling
 * telling
 * Welling
 * welling

Three syllables

 * cabbeling
 * compelling

title: Rhymes:English/ɛlɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛltɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕltĭng, /-ɛltɪŋ/, /-EltIN/

Two syllables

 * belting
 * felting
 * melting
 * pelting

title: Rhymes:English/ɛltɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛmɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕmĭng, /-ɛmɪŋ/, /-EmIN/

Two syllables

 * Fleming (surname - see especially Alexander Fleming and Ian Fleming)
 * hemming
 * lemming
 * stemming

title: Rhymes:English/ɛmɪŋ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ

Pronunciation
,, /-EndIN/

title: Rhymes:English/ɛndɪŋ


text:
pettifogger

Etymology
+

Noun

 * 1) Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
 * 2) An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.
 * 1) An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: буквояд,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: pilkunviilaaja
 * German: Haarspalter,, ,
 * Latin: lēgulēius
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ordkløyver
 * Polish:, kłótnica,
 * Swedish:, hårklyvare

 * Danish: vinkelskriver, lovtrækker, lommeprokurator
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: lēgulēius, rabula
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: rábula
 * Spanish:, , , rábula, soplacausas, abogadillo,
 * Swedish:, lagvrängare

title: pettifogger


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛnɪŋ

Pronunciation
-ĕnĭng, /-ɛnɪŋ/, /-EnIN/

Two syllables

 * penning
 * Denning
 * Henning

title: Rhymes:English/ɛnɪŋ


text:
mutiny

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
 * 2)  commotion; tumult; strife.
 * 1)  commotion; tumult; strife.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عِصْيَان, تَمَرُّد,, قِيَام
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: qiyam,
 * Belarusian: бунт, мяце́ж
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:, ပုန်ကန်မှု
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Czech: vzpoura
 * Danish:, oprør
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: mäss
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ამბოხი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बग़ावत,, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: buntta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: бүлік, бүліншілік, көтеріліс
 * Khmer: សង្កុបកម្ម, ឧទ្ទាមកម្ម
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: козголоң,
 * Lao: ກະບົດ
 * Latin: sēditiō
 * Latvian: dumpis
 * Lithuanian: maištas,
 * Macedonian: бунт, побуна
 * Malay: dahagi
 * Maori: whananga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠰᠤᠯᠭᠠ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mytteri
 * Nynorsk: mytteri
 * Ottoman Turkish: زوربهلق
 * Pashto:, سرکشي, , , ,
 * Persian:, , , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , motinada, ,
 * Punjabi: ਗਦਰ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу́на, по̏буна
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: vzbura
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: balwat
 * Tajik: исён, саркашӣ, балво, бағоват
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gozgalaň
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: سَرکَشی, عِصْیان, غَدَر, بَغاوَت
 * Uyghur: ئىسيان
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Welsh: gwrthgodiad, gwrthgodiadau

Verb

 * 1)  To commit a mutiny.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: бунтувам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Latin: seditionem coeptabat
 * Macedonian: бу́нтува, се бу́нтува, се бу́ни
 * Maori: whana
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh:

title: mutiny


text:
netto

Etymology
Early modern borrowing from.

Adjective

 * 1) net including deductions

Adverb

 * 1) net including deductions

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) net remaining after expenses or deductions

Usage notes
Used attributively in a similar manner to the English net:.

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) net (as in net profit or net weight)

Etymology 1
From, a syncopation of. , which is borrowed.

Adjective

 * 1) clear
 * 2) net
 * 1) net

Adverb

 * 1) clearly

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) the money left over after all expenses have been payed, net amount, profit
 * 2)  the state of being naked

Adjective

 * 1) net or nett
 * 2)  naked

Adverb

 * 1) net or nett
 * 2)  naked

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) net or nett
 * 2)  naked

Etymology
, from, a syncopation of.

Adjective

 * 1)  net

Adverb

 * 1)  net

title: netto


text:
post office

Noun

 * 1)  A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc.
 * 2)  An organisation that delivers letters.
 * 3)  A party game involving the exchange of kisses.
 * 1)  A party game involving the exchange of kisses.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: poskantoor
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ፖስታ ቤት, ፖስታ
 * Arabic: مَكْتَب الْبَرِيد, بَرِيد
 * Egyptian Arabic: بريد, بوسطة
 * South Levantine Arabic: بريد, بوسطة
 * Armenian:, փոստային բաժանմունք,
 * Assamese: ডাকঘৰ
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܒܝܼܠܕܵܪܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani:, poçt idarəsi, poçt şöbəsi
 * Belarusian: пашто́вае аддзяле́нне, по́шта, пашта́мт
 * Bengali: ডাক বিভাগ,
 * Bislama: postofis
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: oficina de correus, oficina postal
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 郵局, 郵政局
 * Dungan: юҗү
 * Gan: 郵政局
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 郵局, 郵政局
 * Cornish: lytherva, sodhva an post
 * Czech:
 * Danish: posthus,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: postkontor
 * Faroese: posthús
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფოსტა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: પોસ્ટ ઓફિસ
 * Hausa: fasa'ofis
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, पोस्ट-ऑफ़िस, डाकख़ाना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: oifig an phoist, oifig poist
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kazakh: пошта
 * Khmer:, , ប្រអប់ប្រៃសណីយ៍
 * Korean:, 우편국(郵便局)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پۆستخانە, پۆستە
 * Northern Kurdish:, postxane
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໄປສະນີ,
 * Latin: diribitorium
 * Latvian: pasta nodaļa
 * Lithuanian: pašto skyrius,
 * Macedonian: пошта
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: പോസ്റ്റ് ഓഫീസ്, താപാലാപ്പീസ്
 * Maori: tari poutapeta
 * Mòcheno: post
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: шууангийн салбар
 * Navajo: naaltsoos ndahageehígi, naaltsoos báhooghan, naaltsoos nehegeehégi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: postkontor, posthus
 * Occitan:, ofici postal
 * Odia:
 * Oromo: mana poostaa
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: اِدارِهٔ پُسْت,
 * Plautdietsch: Postaumt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: estação de correios,
 * Punjabi: ਡਾਕਖ਼ਾਨਾ, ਪੋਸਟ ਆਫ਼ਿਸ
 * Romanian: oficiu poștal
 * Russian: почто́вое отделе́ние,, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: oifis a' phuist
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏шта
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: තැපැල් කන්තෝරුව
 * Slovak: pošta
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, casa de correos,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: koreo
 * Tajik:, почтахона
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: పోస్టాఫీసు
 * Thai: ที่ทำการไปรษณีย์,
 * Tibetan: སྦྲག་ཁང
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: poçta
 * Ukrainian: пошто́ве відді́лення,, пошта́мт
 * Urdu: ڈاک خانَہ, پوسْٹ آفِس, ڈاک گَھر
 * Uyghur: پوچتا, پوچتىخانا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: sở bưu điện (所郵電), phòng bưu điện (房郵電), ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yami: ibingkiok

 * Amharic: ፖስታ
 * Arabic: بَرِيد
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܝܼܠܕܵܪܵܐ
 * Belarusian: по́шта
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: postvæsen
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფოსტა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 우편국(郵便局)
 * Macedonian: пошта
 * Norman: poste
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏шта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pošta
 * Slovene:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:

title: post office


text:
Rhymes:English/eɪdɪn

Pronunciation
-ādĭn, /-eɪdɪn/, /-eIdIn/

Two syllables

 * trade-in

title: Rhymes:English/eɪdɪn


text:
break ground

Verb

 * 1)   To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
 * 2)  To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
 * 3)  To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
 * 4)  To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
 * 1)  To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
 * 2)  To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
 * 3)  To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
 * 1)  To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
 * 2)  To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
 * 1)  To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.

Translations

 * Finnish: ; pistää lapio maahan

 * Finnish: olla uraauurtava

 * Finnish: nousta ilmaan, lähteä lentoon

title: break ground


text:
prefect

Etymology
From and, from  (Mod. French ), from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
 * the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, or of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person
 * 1) The head of a department in France.
 * 2) The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
 * 3) The head of a prefecture in Japan.
 * 4)  A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
 * 5) A commander.
 * 1)  A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
 * 2) A commander.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: префект
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔπαρχος
 * Italian:
 * Latin: praefectus
 * Maori: piriwheke
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

 * Albanian:
 * Czech: prefekt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: praefectus
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 風紀
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: valvojaoppilas
 * Irish: maor
 * Italian: capoclasse
 * Maori: piriwheke
 * Polish:, dyżurna
 * Russian: (кла́сса)
 * Welsh:

 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: praepositus
 * Plautdietsch: Launtsrot
 * Russian:

Etymology
.

title: prefect


text:
paramour

Etymology
From, , , , from. The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.

Noun

 * 1)  An illicit lover, either male or female.
 * 2)  The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
 * 1)  The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
 * 1)  The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
 * 1)  The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
 * 1)  The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
 * 1)  The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: خَلِيل, خَلِيلَة; عَشِيق, عَشِيقَة
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Belarusian: палюбо́ўнік, каха́нак, палюбо́ўніца, каха́нка
 * Bulgarian: извънбра́чен любо́вник, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ; 姦婦,  ,  ,  ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:,  ,
 * German:, , , , , ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:,  ,
 * Korean:,  ,  , 남첩(男妾)
 * Macedonian: љубо́вник, љубо́вница, шва́лерка
 * Middle English: paramour
 * Nogai: суьеркер
 * Occitan: amant
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: љу́ба̄внӣк, шва̀ле̄р, љу́ба̄вница, шва̀ле̄рка
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Slovak: milenec,
 * Slovene:, ljubimka
 * Spanish:, amor prohibido
 * Ukrainian:, , полюбо́вник,

Verb

 * 1) To go with a paramour; to have an affair.

Adverb

 * 1)  Passionately, out of sexual desire.

Etymology

 * equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1) In a loving or sexual way; amorously, passionately.
 * 2) In a kind or caring way; affectionately.
 * 3) Please
 * 1) In a kind or caring way; affectionately.
 * 2) Please
 * 1) Please

Noun

 * 1) A lover; a sexual or romantic partner:
 * 2) A ; an illicit sexual or romantic partner.
 * 3) Sexual, romantic or less often spiritual passion.
 * 1) Sexual, romantic or less often spiritual passion.

title: paramour


text:
breakwater

Etymology
From 🇰🇲. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
 * 2)  A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
 * 3)  A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
 * 1)  A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
 * 2)  A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
 * 1)  A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: breekwater
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, bølgebryder
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: crebaondas, quebraondas
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πρόχωσις
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: tonnchosc, bábhún
 * Italian:, frangimare, frangionde
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ជញ្ជាំងការពារឆ្នេរសមុទ្រ
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: насип
 * Maori: rongoteka
 * Norman: caûchie
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bølgebryter
 * Nynorsk: bølgebrytar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: doirlinn-fasgaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: vlnolam
 * Spanish: rompeolas,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pamasag-alon
 * Ukrainian: хвилері́з
 * Welsh: morglawdd

 * Italian:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian: diga foranea
 * Korean:
 * Polish: ostroga brzegowa
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: rompeolas

 * Hebrew: (1)
 * Korean:

title: breakwater


text:
breeches buoy

Noun

 * 1)  A ring lifebuoy, fitted with canvas breeches, rigged between ship and shore, for rescuing seamen when a ship is in danger of breaking up; also used for transferring people from ship to ship at sea.

Usage notes
Also colloquially called britches buoy or britches boy.

title: breeches buoy


text:
methodology

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1)  The study of methods used in a field.
 * 2)  A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
 * 3) The implementation of such methods etc.
 * 1)  A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
 * 2) The implementation of such methods etc.
 * 1)  A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
 * 2) The implementation of such methods etc.
 * 1) The implementation of such methods etc.
 * 1) The implementation of such methods etc.
 * 1) The implementation of such methods etc.
 * 1) The implementation of such methods etc.

Usage notes
Etymologically, methodology refers to the study of methods. Thus the use of methodology as a synonym for (or other simple terms such as means, technique, or procedure) is proscribed as both inaccurate and pretentious.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: metodologie
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მეთოდიკა, მეთოდოლოგია
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: modheolaíocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Malay: perkaedahan, metodologi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: metodikk
 * Nynorsk: metodikk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: методоло́гія
 * Volapük: metodav

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მეთოდოლოგია
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: modheolaíocht
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Polish: metodyka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: методоло́гія
 * Yiddish: מעטאָדיק

 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Portuguese:

title: methodology


text:
basileus

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
<

Noun

 * 1) basileus title of the Byzantine emperor

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  king, emperor

title: basileus


text:
sir-reverence

Etymology
An alteration of or "save your reverence" (seen e.g. in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, act 1 scene 4), an apology for alluding to anything likely to shock one's sense of decency.

Noun

 * 1)  excrement

title: sir-reverence


text:
retain

Etymology 1
From Late, , from , , , and (modern 🇨🇬), from , from , the    of  (compare 🇨🇬), from  +  (ultimately from ).

(“to declare (a sin) not forgiven”) is derived from John 20:23 in the Bible, in quorum retinueritis, retenta sunt, and in  ἄν τινων κρατῆτε, κεκράτηνται: see the 1526 quotation.

Verb

 * 1) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
 * 2)  To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
 * 3) Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
 * 4)  To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
 * 5) To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
 * 6) To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
 * 7) To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
 * 8) To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
 * 9) To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
 * 10)  To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a ; specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
 * 11) To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also,  to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
 * 12)  To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
 * 13)  To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving.
 * 14)  To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
 * 15) To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
 * 16) To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
 * 17)  Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
 * 18) To refrain from doing something.
 * 19) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 20)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1) To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
 * 2) To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
 * 3) To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
 * 4)  To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a ; specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
 * 5) To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also,  to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
 * 6)  To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
 * 7)  To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving.
 * 8)  To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
 * 9) To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
 * 10) To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
 * 11)  Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
 * 12) To refrain from doing something.
 * 13) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 14)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1)  To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a ; specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
 * 2) To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also,  to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
 * 3)  To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
 * 4)  To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving.
 * 5)  To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
 * 6) To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
 * 7) To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
 * 8)  Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
 * 9) To refrain from doing something.
 * 10) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 11)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1) To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
 * 2) To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
 * 3)  Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
 * 4) To refrain from doing something.
 * 5) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 6)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1) To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
 * 2)  Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
 * 3) To refrain from doing something.
 * 4) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 5)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1) To refrain from doing something.
 * 2) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 3)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1) To be a dependent or follower to someone.
 * 2)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1)  To continue, to remain.
 * 1)  To continue, to remain.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: jättää luokalle
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian: за́држи
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: pitää (kiinni)
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Arabic: أَبْقَى, أَدَامَ, بَقَّى, حَفِظَ, رَعَى,, اِحْتَفَظَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:, uchovat
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: reteni
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ინარჩუნებს, ინახავს
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: coinnigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Maori: whakauenuku, whakapupuri
 * Norwegian:, motta
 * Old English: æthabban
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, , unutmamak, , elinden kaçırmamak

 * Finnish: pitää palkattuna
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian: на́јми
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: pitää palveluksessaan
 * Turkish:

 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Finnish:, pitää mielessä
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

Etymology 2
Partly:

 * from, ; and
 * from the (see etymology 1).

Noun

 * 1) An act of holding or keeping something; a possession, a retention.

title: retain


text:
rete

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A network of blood vessels or nerves.
 * 2) An anatomical part resembling or including a network.
 * 3) A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features.

Verb

 * 1) be good

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) net

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) net

Pronoun

 * 1) they will never
 * 2) so they do not

Adverb

 * 1) with a net
 * 2)  on the Internet

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to live, reside
 * 2) to stay
 * 3)  Wait a short while.
 * 1)  Wait a short while.

Etymology
Borrowed from, , and , all ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  structure of interconnected elements for transit or communication or in a fabric, group of interacting agents

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) net, mesh
 * 2) network
 * 3)  channel
 * 4)  goal
 * 5) base
 * 1)  channel
 * 2)  goal
 * 3) base

Etymology
From, of uncertain origin. Some theories:

 * From a root, related to, 🇨🇬, and other roots with the general meaning "bind, twist".
 * Or, for an alternative reconstruction, from.
 * Alternatively, ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) net, snare, network
 * 2)  trap
 * 3)  Web, Internet

Descendants

 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré
 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré
 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré
 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré
 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré
 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré
 * Old Francoprovençal: *ré

Verb

 * 1)  to stack up, pile, layer

title: rete


text:
brig

Etymology 1
Abbreviated from, from ; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

Noun

 * 1)  A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
 * 2)  A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

Translations

 * Catalan: bergantí
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: brigantijn,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: bregantín
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bruig
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pereki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: brigg
 * Nynorsk: brigg
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, brigantim
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

 * Catalan: calabós
 * Dutch:, legergevangenis, militaire gevangenis, scheepsgevangenis,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: calabós, câbozo
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
 * 2)  To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

Etymology 2
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  Bridge.

Noun

 * 1) Brigadier.

Etymology 1
Inherited from.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1) bridge

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) bank, shore of a river

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) bridge

Etymology
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) hill, hillock (smaller hill)

Etymology
Morris Jones derives it from [see ], by.

Noun

 * 1) treetop, crown of a tree
 * 2) crest, peak, summit, top
 * 3) hair (on head)

title: brig


text:
brigantine

Etymology 1
Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier, from , probably from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: brigantijn
 * Finnish: brigantiini
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: brigantin
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pereki
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: brigantin

Etymology 2
Variant form.

Noun

 * 1) trapeze-shaped type of sail

title: brigantine


text:
larboard

Etymology
From, , most likely referring to the side of the ship on which cargo was loaded. Changed to larboard in the 16th century by association with. (Texts from the 1500s have spellings like lerbord, leereboord, larboord, corresponding to how they spell sterbord, steereboord, starboord.)

Noun

 * 1)  The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.

Usage notes

 * In 1833, Henry W. Acland used the term "set sail on larboard tack" in his "Log of the Vansittart" (Ms. Acland d. 197, Bodleian Library)
 * In 1844, the Royal Navy ordered that port be used instead of larboard in reference to that side of a ship; port had been used since at least the 1500s and was already the usual term when referring to the helm (ie. sailing direction), in order to avoid any confusion between starboard and larboard in such an important matter. The United States Navy followed suit in 1846.
 * Larboard continued to be common into the 1850s by whalers and others. In chapter 12 of Life on the Mississippi (1883) Mark Twain writes larboard was used to refer to the left side of the ship (Mississippi River steamboat) in his days on the river, circa 1857-1861. In his book A Dead Whale Or A Stove Boat (1967) Naturalist Robert Cushman Murphy recalls his 1912-1913 whaling voyage and mentions that the blowhole of a sperm whale is "asymmetrically located on the larboard side ('port' on a modern merchantmen, but larboard on a whaler)."

title: larboard


text:
zoysia

Etymology
After zu Laubach, Austrian botanist.

Noun

 * 1) Any of a genus  of creeping perennial grasses of southern Asia and New Zealand having fine wiry leaves and including some suitable for lawn grasses, especially in warm regions.

title: zoysia


text:
zwieback

Etymology
From, from +  (i.e “twice-baked”), a calque of  (but not to be confused with it).

Noun

 * 1) A form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.
 * 2) * Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel
 * She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: fetta biscottata
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сдобный сухарь
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: сухар

title: zwieback


text:
Talk:brig

In answer to the question along the lines of "is this how multiple etymolgies are done?":

Actually no in two ways. When a word gains new senses they still go under the same etymology. Only when a word enters the language from outside does it need a new etymology. For instance if two words were borrowed from two different languages but but both had the same spelling.

Now if these sense really did have separate etyms then a 2nd etym section followed by all the other sections would be required.

Hope this helps. — Hippietrail 16:54, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, but even more helpful would have been a correction of the entry. SemperBlotto 18:43, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. It was about 4am and I was burned out. — Hippietrail 03:15, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:brig


text: User:Dubaduba~enwiktionary/matrix

title: User:Dubaduba~enwiktionary/matrix


text:
Talk:fish

Ncik, I have to disagree with you here. Paul G's formatting was much better. Names are better than numbers because they don't become invalid when people add, delete or move things around. And the empty double square brackets are just plain ugly. — Hippietrail 16:58, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Herman Melville, etc.
"Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport."

"In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman's Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot."

"A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah--'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'" "

"By old English statutory law, the whale is declared "a royal fish." "

" The grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: "On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem," and finally, "ex lege naturae jure meritoque." I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficient.  Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.

Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me. This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal respect does the whale differ from other fish. Above, Linnaeus has given you those items. But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood; whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.

Next: how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals, so as conspicuously to label him for all time to come? To be short, then, a whale is A SPOUTING FISH WITH A HORIZONTAL TAIL. There you have him. However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded meditation. A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious. But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first. Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail. Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position. "

So a fish is any vertebrate that lives in the water and cannot venture onto land. (Whether squid are fish is another question.)

Another argument is that mammals are more closely related to ordinary modern fish than agnatha, such as lampreys and hagfish, are. David R. Ingham 21:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

adj vs attributive noun
"Fish dinner" and "fish hook" are cases of using fish as an attributive noun, a construction that serves the same function as an adjective, but IIRC does not imply the existence of an adjective. Hopefully this has been discussed elsewhere on Wikt; am i foolish in my confidence that such discussion would/did come to a conclusion that examples of attributive use are worth inclusion somehow, but not labelled as adjectives? --User:Jerzy·t 19:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

 * We are wrestling with how to constructively handle this. Many contributors are convinced that, for entries that don't have an adjective listed for a the attibutive senses of the noun, they should add their favorite one of those senses. We have a substantial number of such entries. We are trying to come up with some way of reminding folks that almost any noun can be used attributively. The problem with putting in the usage examples is that it would double the number for almost every sense of almost every noun. Take a look at the discussion at Tea_room and at Tea_room, which references earlier discussions. probably in WT:BP (page search for "attributive") . Would you say that, if a noun forms a comparative (and/or superlative) that it merits being deemed an adjective? That's my own principal operational criterion. In the case of "fish", I don't think that happens. We have "fish-y" (-i-:-er/-est) and compounds like (more/most) "fish-flavored" that seem to have prevented such comparatives from emerging. DCDuring TALK 19:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the prompt & helpful response. I just wander in from WP sometimes, so i doubt i should get involved, knowing (thanks to you) that it's at least being grappled with. --User:Jerzy·t 19:59, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

 * We can always use fresh eyes, especially knowledgable ones. Also we like it if a few folks from WP grasp our kind of issues a bit. So, do drop in! DCDuring TALK 20:36, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for verification
There are two adjectives: "of or relating to fish", and "of or relating to fishing". I dispute the second one, which is exemplified in the entry by "fish hook". I'd say that's a hook that relates to fish. (And on second thoughts, perhaps we shouldn't have the first one either, since it's attributive use of a noun.) Equinox ◑ 02:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't think this meets the adjective tests. Certainly not *"too fish" or *"very fish" or *"become fish" (in adj sense) or *"more fish than" (in adj sense). The availability of "fishy" probably eliminates the need for it as adj. DCDuring TALK 02:53, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Looks like attributive use of the noun to me. I'm hard-pressed to think of any true adjectival use. --EncycloPetey 22:53, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, "of or relating to fishing" sense removed. I didn't touch the "of or relating to fish" sense because it wasn't tagged, but feel free to RFV or RFD it (or even to just remove it unilaterally). —Ruakh TALK 02:47, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Request for deletion
3. (intransitive, followed by "about," "around," "through," etc.) To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
 * Why are you fishing through in my things? [sic in the entry]

6. (transitive, followed by "for") To attempt to get hold of (an object) that is among other objects.
 * He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.

These coincide AFAICT and should be merged. Past discussion at User talk:DCDuring. — msh210 ℠ 17:44, 5 March 2010 (UTC) Done. —msh210℠ 16:55, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * What is the new definition you are proposing? Polarpanda 21:43, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Something like
 * 3. (intransitive) To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
 * Why are you fishing through my things?
 * He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
 * — msh210 ℠ 16:43, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion
"(of a drag queen or transsexual) Resembling a biological woman. Girl, yo chick was lookin fish tonight." Equinox ◑ 17:24, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

 * RFV failed, sense removed. —Ruakh TALK 12:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

When did "fish" take on it's current meaning?
I'm pretty sure "fish" used to mean "any creature that lives in water", so that when in past times people said that whales (for example) were fish, they weren't being ignorant, they were correct by the definition of the day. Does any one know when the usage or definition changed to the current meaning?

 * Approximate dates like that would be helpful for the entry, but while it's easy to date new meanings for words, it's trickier to pinpoint when older meanings fell into disuse (if it is the case that that meaning has fallen into disuse). I'd guess 1700s, what with words like jellyfish apparently coined as late as then (though a jellyfish was originally something else) and it being tied down to the then existent Class Pisces in zoology. Greatgavini (talk) 20:24, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

 * Not really relevant, but interesting: the Webster 1913 dictionary (which is pretty recent, really, in language terms) glosses all seaweeds as botanical terms, whereas now seaweeds/algae are not regarded as plants. Equinox ◑ 19:07, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Why is there a picture of a chimpanzee on this page?
If there is a good reason for it, I can't discern it from the context. bd2412 T 15:16, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March–July 2014
Rfv-sense: adjective

Needs citations that are not attributive use of the noun. — Ungoliant (falai) 02:10, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Rather tempting to speedy it, especially when I see the hyperformal "piscine; ichthyic" above "It was a fine fish dinner". Nobody ever had a piscine, ichthyic dinner. Equinox ◑ 02:12, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Failed. — Ungoliant (falai) 18:34, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Probably fictitious language removed
I've removed the following from the translation table: *: Classical Tynian: Not only is "bh2" an invalid language code, I can find no evidence anywhere of a language called "Tynian" (classical or otherwise) and suspect that someone has added their own personal conlang. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 08:20, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Swahili translations
It seems that samaki has been given as a translation for every noun sense, which seems rather fishy unlikely to be correct —umbreon 126 18:34, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Missing sense: derogatory gay slang for women?
Equinox ◑ 20:04, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

 * Also presumably the sense in . Equinox ◑ 07:54, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

 * I came to this page because I wondered if quasi-adjectival fish was covered, as in 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (ISBN 9781551527215): "She'd never be little, she'd never be fish.", but on inspection I suppose both it and the gay slang you mention might be covered by the noun sense (added sometime before 2019) "(uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman."...? Unsure. Sometimes "fish" (instead of "fishy") seems to function as the base form of "fishier, fishiest", like 2021, David Yi, Pretty Boys (ISBN 9780358412670), page 132: "When it comes to drag, the fishier, the better. Well, at least according to RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 contestant Plastique Tiara. (For those who don't know what “fish” means, the fishier you are, the more convincing [it is that you are] a cisgender woman.)" - -sche (discuss) 21:50, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Slang for money?
Possibly only in, e.g. "grab a purse worth six hundred fish". See also Talk:potato where I mention a similar Runyon usage. Equinox ◑ 01:37, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:fish


text:
észt

Etymology 1
From. Compare the etymology of 🇨🇬 and ultimately 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Estonian of or relating to Estonia, its people or language

Noun

 * 1) Estonian (person)
 * 2) Estonian (language)

Usage notes
It is currently more common than its alternative form, especially in phrases like , or , and  (also in the past tense and in its negated form). However, both forms are endorsed and acceptable. See also the quotations at.

title: észt


text:
angina

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  An inflammatory infection of the throat, particularly quinsy.
 * 2)  A chest pain or shortness of breath occurring with lesser degrees of arterial blockage.
 * 1)  A chest pain or shortness of breath occurring with lesser degrees of arterial blockage.

Usage notes
Although the use of angina as a shorthand for is common and accepted by most dictionaries, it may be considered imprecise or improper by some medical practitioners.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: angina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: angina
 * Esperanto: angino
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aingíne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: angina
 * Nynorsk: angina
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian:

 * Arabic: ذَبْحَة صَدْرِيَّة
 * Danish: angina
 * Esperanto: brustangoro, brustangino
 * Finnish: rintakipu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: angina
 * Nynorsk: angina
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: стенокарді́я

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   infection of the throat

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversible myocardial ischemia

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) an inflammatory infection of the throat, particularly quinsy.
 * 1) an inflammatory infection of the throat, particularly quinsy.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) choking, suffocation
 * 2) quinsy, tonsillitis

Descendants

 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:

Noun

 * 1) death

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)  tonsillitis

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)   infection of the throat

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  tonsillitis
 * 1)  tonsillitis

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   infection of the throat

title: angina


text: Category:German proper nouns

title: Category:German proper nouns


text:
dán

Adjective

 * 1) Danish of or pertaining to Denmark, its people or language

Noun

 * 1) Danish person
 * 2)  Danish language

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  gift, offering
 * 2)  craft, calling: allotted task
 * 3) art, faculty, art of poetry
 * 4) poem
 * 5) one's lot, fate

Declension

 * Alternative plural:

Noun

 * 1) halter

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) gift
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Ní rïat na dánu díadi ara n-indeb domunde.

Verb

 * 1) to paste, to glue

title: dán


text:
angina pectoris

Alternative forms

 * angina

Etymology
(1700s).

Noun

 * 1)  Intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversible myocardial ischemia.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: angina de pit
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: brustangoro, brustangino
 * Finnish: rasitusrintakipu,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: aingíne chléibh
 * Italian: angina pectoris
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, dławica piersiowa
 * Portuguese: angina de peito, angina do peito
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ангина пекторис
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paninikip-dibdib

title: angina pectoris


text:
Phillips head

Etymology
From Phillips head screwdriver and Phillips head screw, by shortening; eponymous of Henry F. Phillips of, the inventor of the '+' shaped socket for screws.

Noun

 * 1) A screwdriver with a '+' shaped head for turning screws so socketed.
 * 2) A screw turned by such a screwdriver.

Translations

 * Catalan: tornavís d'estrella, tornavís Phillips
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 十字頭螺絲刀
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ristipääruuvimeisseli
 * German:
 * Italian: cacciavite a stella, cacciavite a croce
 * Japanese: プラスドライバー
 * Russian: кресто́вая отвёртка

 * Catalan: caragol de cap Phillips, caragol d'estrella
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 十字頭螺絲釘
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ristikantaruuvi
 * German: Kreuzschlitzschraube
 * Italian: vite a stella, vite a croce
 * Japanese: プラスネジ
 * Russian: винт для кресто́вой отвёртки

title: Phillips head


text:
görög

Etymology 1
From a language, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  Greek, Grecian of, from, or relating to Greece, its people or language

Noun

 * 1) Greek (person)
 * 2) Greek (language)

Etymology 2
From an onomatopoeia +.

Verb

 * 1)   to roll to turn over and over

title: görög


text:
septicemia

Etymology
Borrowed from, from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: се́псис
 * Catalan: septicèmia, sèpsia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sepsis
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: blóðeitran
 * Finnish:, septikemia
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:, blóðsýking
 * Italian:
 * Maori: mate ero, mate toto ero
 * Navajo: kʼaasdá atsʼíístah ahisheegizh
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , зараже́ние кро́ви
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: gwenwyn gwaed

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)   disease caused by pathogens in the bloodstream

Etymology
From +. .

title: septicemia


text: Category:Tools

title: Category:Tools


text:
broadside

Noun

 * 1)  One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
 * 2)  A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
 * 3) * 1993,, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
 * Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
 * 1) A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
 * 2) The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
 * 1) A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
 * 2) The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
 * 1) The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: bredside
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 舷側砲
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian: бордов залп
 * Danish: bredside
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, breiside
 * Nynorsk: breiside
 * Polish: salwa burtowa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Spanish:

 * Portuguese: folhetão

 * Danish: skillingsvise
 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:

Adverb

 * 1) Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
 * 2) * 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * They were going some 60-80 mph [on a motorcycle] down a 30 mph street, hit a car broadside & Pat pushed against Bert, who was crushed into the side of the car.
 * They were going some 60-80 mph [on a motorcycle] down a 30 mph street, hit a car broadside & Pat pushed against Bert, who was crushed into the side of the car.

Translations

 * Finnish: sivuittain, kyljittäin
 * Irish: go cliathánach
 * Maori:, koronae

Verb

 * 1)  To collide with something side-on.

title: broadside


text:
oölogy

Etymology
From.

title: oölogy