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Talk:less

Words ending in -less
What about words ending in less:

Wireless ... a radio. Fireless engine ... a steam engine with no firebox, but loaded with steam to do its work. Batteryless radio ... a clockwork radio.

203.41.133.81 02:47, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Synonym of fewer?
The definition very cleverly side-stepped the argument over the use of less to mean fewer. I hope that my clarification is sufficiently neutral in PoV. I have held both views. Can you determine which view I currently hold?  D b f  i  r  s   23:15, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Strictly, less used in this sense is a determiner, but that's just a fussy grammarian's word for a special sort of adjective isn't it? Are the other adjectival senses of less also determiners?  (I'm not proposing that we change the header!)   D b f  i  r  s   20:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Less as determiner
I don't see English less listed as a determiner, which is how I would classify it, but then in the adjective section it says something like "less as a determiner..."

Etymology
The etymology of LESS is unattestable beyond the Old English form; but various kinships including Cornish LÊ[5] and Ancient Greek ΈΛΑΣΣΩΝ (ELASSŌN)[6], point to a Proto-Indo-European root *L2Gh2S[4], partly due to the lemma ἘΛΑΧΥΣ (ELAKHUS) (small, light) and Sanskrit LAGHUS (light in weight). Andrew H. Gray 11:23, 8 October 2016 (UTC) Andrew (talk) [0] means 'Absolutely not; [1] means 'Exceedingly unlikely'; [2] means 'Very dubious'; [3] means 'Questionable'; [4] means 'Possible'; [5] means 'Probable'; [6] means 'Likely'; [7] means 'Most Likely' or *Unattested; [8] means 'Attested'; [9] means 'Obvious' - only used for close matches within the same language or dialect, at linkable periods. '2' inserted in root words stands for a laryngeal to represent an 'a' that does not exist. √ means original or earliest root. Andrew H. Gray 18:56, 18 January 2020 (UTC)Andrew

RFV discussion: November 2019
Verb. to lessen Sole cite is from, a contemporary of Chaucer's. DCDuring (talk) 19:04, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

 * cited. I even added a few quite recent quotes to the citations page, but I think they are by non-native speakers. The three on the page itself, however, I think are convincing. Kiwima (talk) 00:27, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I've adjusted the dates of 2 of the cites to show the dates the words were originally written, in one case ("1650") very approximately. DCDuring (talk) 20:03, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:33, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

pay less taxes vs pay less in taxes ; Less for singular nouns or units of measure
Garner's fourth edition reads

As a noun, less means “a smaller amount” or “something not as important.” Occasionally, writers make it an adjective when it should be a noun—e.g.: “He wants business to make money and everyone to pay less taxes [read less in taxes].”

''Less for singular nouns or units of measure: less tonic water, one less golfer, less than six ounces of epoxy --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:45, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * one less/fewer person --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:41, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

[with a negative word or phrase] in any way different; other:
Adverb: [with a negative word or phrase] in any way different; other: He's nothing less than a thief. https://www.wordreference.com/definition/less Compare the current no less --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:47, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

St James the Less
What part of speech is used in St James the Less ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:56, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

 * Adjective, same as lesser. Equinox ◑ 11:58, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

fewer vs less than
When followed by than, LESS occurs at least as often as FEWER in modifying plural nouns that are not units or groups: less than eight million people; no less than 31 of the 50 states. https://www.wordreference.com/definition/less --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:20, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

noun: 2. something not as important
People have been imprisoned for less --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:57, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

less than
less than Not at all: He had a less than favorable view of the matter. https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=less --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:05, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

adjective
least reads "(Adjective) superlative form of less: most less". Which entry is wrong? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:29, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

 * I'm adding an adjective sense here now (citing "a less matter" from Stevenson). Dated synonym of . Equinox ◑ 01:46, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

still less
LESS adverb (a comparative of little with  least as superlative) 2. [much/still + ~] To say nothing of: I could barely pay for my own meal, much less hers. https://www.wordreference.com/definition/less --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:50, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

less of
What PoS is it in sentences such as we see less of John these days or less of a success than I'd hoped ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:31, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * What about We should eat less of some fats ?. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:32, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * (noun) a smaller amount or quantity: Hundreds of soldiers arrived, but less of them remained. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

in less than no time
How should in less than no time be parsed? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:43, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:less


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long-windedness

Noun

 * 1) The use of more words than are necessary for clarity or precision; verbosity, prolixity.

Translations

 * German: Langatmigkeit
 * Greek:

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: long-windedness


text: neighbours

title: neighbours


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neighboured

Etymology 1
From, equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  The state or condition of being a neighbour; neighbourhood; neighbourship.
 * 2) * 1556, Marye the Quene:
 * [...] thinking even that by that or patience to have enduced him to beare us true amytie and to use good neighbored towards us and or subjects, for the which respect we were not only contented to heare such iniuries as to or sell had been by hym doon, [...]

Etymology 2
From.

title: neighboured


text:
Happy Thanksgiving

Translations

 * Esperanto: feliĉan Dankotagon
 * Navajo: Yáʼátʼéehgo Tązhii Daʼaghał Adííłeeł

title: Happy Thanksgiving


text: monks

title: monks


text:
downloading

Noun

 * 1) The process by which something is downloaded.

title: downloading


text: lamps

title: lamps


text:
anklet

Etymology
, based on bracelet

Noun

 * 1) A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
 * 2) An ankle sock.

Translations

 * Arabic: خَلْخَال
 * Bikol Central: baksal
 * Catalan: turmellera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 腳鐲, 腳鏈
 * Danish: ankelkæde
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , chaîne de cheville
 * German: Fußkette, Fußband
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: περισφύριον
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bráisléad murnáin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アンクレット
 * Kannada:
 * Lü: ᦶᦛᧃᦎᦲᧃ, ᦷᦂᧂᧈᦃᦱ
 * Malay: gelang kaki
 * Malayalam:, കൊലുസ്
 * Maori: kōmore
 * Ottoman Turkish: خلخال
 * Persian: پای‌ابرنجن
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ножно́й брасле́т, цепо́чка на ноге́
 * Spanish: ajorca de tobillo,
 * Swedish: vristlänk
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish: ayak bilekliği, ayak bileziği, ayak zinciri,

title: anklet


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lads

Noun

 * 1)  A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
 * 1)  A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) ice

title: lads


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Poindexter

Etymology
From. The sense is from the character of the same name in the cartoon .

Noun

 * 1)  A bookish or socially unskilled person.

title: Poindexter


text:
Talk:alumni

Practical Definition of Alumni
In this case, a method of explaining the role of those with more experience....

A team of people acting as mentors, coaches......

title: Talk:alumni


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prostrate

Etymology
, past participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) Lying flat, face-down.
 * 2) * 1945,, VE Day speech from House of Commons:
 * Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
 * 1)  Emotionally devastated.
 * 2) Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
 * 3)  Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
 * 1)  Emotionally devastated.
 * 2) Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
 * 3)  Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
 * 1)  Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: ležící na břiše
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: hason fekvő
 * Maori: taitakoto, tāpapa
 * Norwegian: prostrert
 * Russian:, лежа́щий ничко́м
 * Spanish:, acostado boca abajo
 * Welsh: ar eich hyd, ar eich gorwedd

Verb

 * 1)   To lie flat or face-down.
 * 2)  To throw oneself down in submission.
 * 3) To cause to lie down, to flatten.
 * 4)  To overcome or overpower.
 * 1)  To overcome or overpower.
 * 1)  To overcome or overpower.

Usage notes

 * and are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: лежа по очи
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: zich prosterneren
 * Finnish: maata pitkällään, maata kasvoillaan , maata vatsallaan
 * French:
 * Greek: κείτομαι μπρούμυτα, μπρουμυτίζω
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Malay: telangkup
 * Maori: taitakoto, tukupapa, tāpapa
 * Norwegian: prostrere
 * Polish: bić pokłony
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: лежа́ть ничко́м
 * Vietnamese: nằm úp,
 * Yoruba: dọ̀bálẹ̀

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: унижавам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ter aarde werpen
 * Finnish: heittäytyä maahan
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πέφτω μπρούμυτα, μπρουμυτίζω
 * Ancient Greek: προσκυνέω
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: legge seg flat
 * Portuguese: prostrar-se
 * Russian: па́дать ниц, пасть ниц
 * Slovak: zvaliť sa

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: foálgi
 * Latin: prosternō
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: поверга́ть ниц, пове́ргнуть ниц
 * Slovak: zvaliť

title: prostrate


text:
close-knit

Adjective

 * 1)  Closely linked or connected, as by a common identity, culture, or bond.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 團結一致
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: eng verbunden, engverbunden
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: zgrany
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

title: close-knit


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piezoelectricity

Noun

 * 1)  A voltage generated by certain crystals in response to an applied mechanical stress.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 壓電性,
 * Wu: 壓電性
 * Czech: piezoelektřina
 * Finnish: pietsosähköisyys
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 圧電気
 * Portuguese: piezoeletricidade
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: piezoelectricidad
 * Ukrainian: п'єзоеле́ктрика

title: piezoelectricity


text:
panty

Etymology
Recorded since 1845 in the plural, meaning “drawers for men”, a derogatory diminutive of (the shortening of ); meaning “underpants for women or children” first recorded 1908.

Noun

 * 1)  Short trousers for men, or more usually boys.
 * 2)  An article of clothing worn as underpants by women.
 * 3) * 1952 October 13, Advertisement, Life, page 13,
 * For, unlike old-fashioned diapers, PLAYTEX Dryper confines all wetness to the panty area; brings your baby a whole new world of comfort plus cleaner, finer protection.
 * 1) * 2003, Glamour, Volume 101, Issues 4-6, page number unknown,
 * “One time I was going to run and change before a concert because I realized I had panty lines showing,” says Britta Phillips,.
 * 1)  A helmet cover.
 * 1)  A helmet cover.

Usage notes
One wears a pair of panties (like pant(aloon)s), not a panty. The singular form is used in derived terms, but rarely to refer to a single pair of panties.

Etymology
Borrowed from,.

Noun

 * 1)  A pantyhose, nylon tights worn about legs by women
 * 2)  Originally, short and/or legless undershorts worn by women and children

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) panty girdle

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) pantyhose

title: panty


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barometric

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to atmospheric pressure.
 * 2) Made or done with a barometer
 * 1) Made or done with a barometer

Translations

 * Catalan: baromètric
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: barometryczny
 * Portuguese: barométrico
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:

 * Polish: barometryczny
 * Portuguese: barométrico

Etymology
.

title: barometric


text:
anti-personnel

Adjective

 * 1)  Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 反人員
 * Georgian: ქვეითსაწინააღმდეგო, ცოცხალი ძალის საწინააღმდეგო, ცოცხალი ძალის დასაზიანებელი
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 인명 살상용(人命殺傷用)
 * Portuguese: antipessoal

title: anti-personnel


text:
scintillate

Etymology

Borrowed from, past participle of , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To give off sparks; to shine as if emanating sparks; to twinkle or glow.
 * 2)  Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
 * 3)  Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
 * 4)  To throw off like sparks.
 * 5) * 1857,, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 911659634 ; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: , 18 Ann Street, [1860],  863553483 , page 201:
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
 * 1)  Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
 * 2)  Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
 * 3)  To throw off like sparks.
 * 4) * 1857,, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 911659634 ; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: , 18 Ann Street, [1860],  863553483 , page 201:
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
 * 1)  Especially of a phosphor: to emit a flash of light upon absorbing ionizing radiation.
 * 2)  To throw off like sparks.
 * 3) * 1857,, “Mr. Arabin”, in Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 911659634 ; republished as Barchester Towers. [...] In Two Volumes (Hand and Pocket Library; II), volume I, New York, N.Y.: , 18 Ann Street, [1860],  863553483 , page 201:
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.
 * As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great [John Henry] Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَأَلَّقَ, تَلَأْلَأَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: třpytit se, jiskřit
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: flagreti, flagri, trembrili
 * French:
 * German:, , szintillieren, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, fényt lövell,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: aibhligh, drithligh
 * Latin: scintillō
 * Maori: kikiwa
 * Old English: blīcan
 * Shan:
 * Spanish:

title: scintillate


text:
forged

Adjective

 * 1) Fake (as documents); falsified.
 * Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
 * 1) Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
 * The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.
 * The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:fake

Related terms

 * drop-forged

Translations

 * Azerbaijani:, geydirmə
 * Bashkir: ялған
 * French:
 * German:
 * Manx: foalsey
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

 * German: ,
 * Manx: obbrit
 * Polish: kuty
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: făurit
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: dövülü

Verb

 * 1) . To force forward against opposition.
 * He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.

title: forged


text:
languid

Etymology 1
Borrowed from (modern 🇨🇬), or from its , from  (from , ) +. .

Adjective

 * 1) Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
 * 2) Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
 * 3) Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
 * 4) Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
 * 5) Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
 * 6) Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
 * 7) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
 * 1) Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
 * 2) Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
 * 3) Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
 * 4) Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
 * 5) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
 * 1) Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
 * 2) Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
 * 3) Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
 * 4) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
 * 1) Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
 * 2) Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
 * 3) Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
 * 4) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
 * 1) Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
 * 2) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
 * 1) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
 * 1) Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.

Translations

 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: малàксао
 * Latin: malàksao

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 無精打采的
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 気だるい, 物憂い,
 * Latin: languidus
 * Maori: haumāruru, toupiore
 * Norman: langouotheux
 * Ottoman Turkish: مخمور
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мли̏тав
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * West Frisian: têd

 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: апа̀тичан, бе̏животан, мли̏тав,
 * Roman:, ,

Etymology 2
A variant of.

title: languid


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sodium chloride

Noun

 * 1)  Common table salt, a compound composed of equal number of sodium and chlorine atoms. Chemical formula.

Translations

 * Arabic: كلوريد الصوديوم
 * Armenian: նատրիումի քլորիդ
 * Asturian: cloruru de sodiu
 * Avar: натриялъул хлорид
 * Azerbaijani: natrium xlorid
 * Basque: sodio kloruro
 * Bengali: সোডিয়াম ক্লোরাইড
 * Bikol Central: sodium chloride
 * Bulgarian: натриев хлорид
 * Catalan: clorur de sodi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 氯化鈉
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: chlorid sodný
 * Danish: natriumchlorid,
 * Dutch: natriumchloride
 * Esperanto: natria klorido
 * Estonian: naatriumkloriid, keedusool
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნატრიუმის ქლორიდი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: सोडियम क्लोराइड
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: natríumklóríð
 * Indonesian: natrium klorida
 * Irish: clóiríd sóidiam
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 塩化ナトリウム,
 * Kazakh: натрий хлориді
 * Kyrgyz: натрий хлориди
 * Latvian: nātrija hlorīds
 * Lithuanian: natrio chloridas
 * Malay: natrium klorida
 * Malayalam: സോഡിയം ക്ലോറൈഡ്, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: natriumklorid
 * Nynorsk: natriumklorid
 * Persian: سدیم کلرید
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: cloreto de sódio
 * Punjabi: ਸੋਡੀਅਮ ਕਲੋਰਾਈਡ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: natrijev klorid
 * Sicilian: cloruru di sodiu
 * Slovak: chlorid sodný
 * Slovene: natrijev klorid
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sodyum klorad
 * Tamil: சோடியம் குளோரைடு
 * Telugu: సోడియం క్లోరైడు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хлорид натрію
 * Urdu: سوڈیم کلورائڈ
 * Uzbek: natriy xlorid
 * Welsh:

title: sodium chloride


text:
Talk:loose

Needs a definition for the transitive verb form
"loose" is also a transitive verb for release, untie, or detach, see loose[2,verb] at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=loose

People don't get the adjective "these baggy pants are loose" confused with the verb "I don't want to lose my wallet", rather they get the rare verb form "loose the hounds so they can attack the intruder" confused.

(Sorry, I don't know how to make a Wiktionary definition for multiple forms or I'd add this myself.)

Skierpage 04:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

This definition is out of whack. There's definite confusion in the description about what "lose" is and what "loose" is.

Loose means not restrained, or contained. Lose means to no longer keep track of.

The entry for loose seems copied from the entry for lose. Middle English word for loose was "louse" (Old Norse "lauss"), not as for "lose": middle English "losen", from old English "losian",

Nathan 8 August 2006

I agree, looking through the article history, it looks like 69.178.90.247 ignored the usage note and copied over the article for "lose". I'm not sure what's been added that's relevant to the proper usage, but perhaps it would be best to revert to the last edit before August 3rd? Something needs to be done about sorting through this mess; Unfortunately I'm a little too new to wiki to feel confident mucking about with major changes.

Gravillian 24 August 2006

 * Right, I'm changing it. You may or may not be right about lauss but it looks like a better candidate than losian. If anyone knowledagable disagrees they can revert and explain here. J.A.Treloar 80.254.147.68 15:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I repeatedly see the word "loose" used with the exact same meaning as "lose," as in, to be defeated. At first I thought it must just be a typo but I've seen it so many times over and over that I really wonder if it must be some sort of alternate spelling. I have yet to find a single dictionary that says "to loose" means to be defeated. Is there some basis for this, or are people just that stupid? 72.178.131.225 02:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

 * It isn’t a typo, it’s a misspelling. Many people are confused by the single ‘o’ of lose that is pronounced like ‘oo’, so they write it with ‘oo’. The verb "to loose" is pronounced with an ‘s’ sound and means to release. The verb "to lose" is pronounced with a ‘z’ sound and means to be defeated. —Stephen 18:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree that the misspelling is so common now that it may already be far more common in unedited writing than the correct spelling. Will that make "Loose" the correct spelling of "Lose" in the near future? Maybe "Looze" is preferable? "Loser" and "Looser" are rarely confused in this way however. J.A.Treloar 80.254.147.68 14:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

loose
The poker definitions "A player who plays many hands" and "A strategy which involves playing many hands" define nouns, but this they are in the adjective section. Are senses nouns or adjectives? — Paul G 10:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

In poker "loose" refers to the quality of the hands played rather than the quantity. In this sense "loose" might be considered synonymous with "optimistic".

 * Failed; no verification after more than a year. --EncycloPetey 15:46, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

where to put misspelling of lose in loose
I don't really want to put this under a new Etymology - but it doesn't really belong under the existing one. Perhaps a section ===Misspelling of lose=== ? Facts707 17:43, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Very oddly, a Google Groups search (not restricting to Usenet) shows more results for "loose his|my|her mind" than for "lose...". (Restricting to "Google Groups" shows a more reasonable relative count.) In any event: We don't include misspellings unless they're "common" (see Help:Misspellings), and then, yes, AFAICT it ought to be (per the rules and also IMO) in a separate Etymology section, since we do currently divide things up by etymology. —msh210℠ 19:20, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion
I exchanged loose for lose

adverb
in a loose manner; loosely (in combination): loose-fitting hang loose ⇒ informal chiefly us to behave in a relaxed, easy fashion Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:27, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

release somebody from obligation; fire missile
transitive verb: to release somebody from an obligation or pressure transitive and intransitive verb: to fire an arrow, bullet, or other missile Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:29, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

unloose
unloose reads un- + loose. What meaning of loose is used in that etymology? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:42, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

on the loose
OED includes it in the entry of loose (noun). Is this nominal meaning already included ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:23, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:loose


text:
NaCl

Etymology
🇰🇲

Symbol

 * 1) The chemical formula for, table salt.

Etymology
From the chemical formula; see,.

Noun

 * 1) Sodium chloride; table salt.

title: NaCl


text:
sea salt

Noun

 * 1) salt prepared by evaporating seawater.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: морска сол
 * Burmese: ပင်လယ်ဆား
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mara salo, marsalo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: מלח ים
 * Indonesian:, garam laut
 * Irish: salann sáile
 * Italian: sale marino
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, sjøsalt
 * Nynorsk: havsalt, sjøsalt
 * Polish: sól morska
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: havssalt
 * Tibetan: རྒྱམ་ཚྭ
 * Ukrainian: морська́ сіль
 * Vietnamese: muối biển

title: sea salt


text: bytes

title: bytes


text:
rarebit

Etymology
By, corruption of.

Pronunciation
Either identically to, or as -. When used in, some insist that it be pronounced identically to , as the spelling is a corruption, while others insist that it be pronounced as - specifically to differentiate it from actual rabbit meat. When used alone, the potential for confusion exists, but is almost exclusively used in the compounds  and.

Noun

 * 1) Welsh rarebit

title: rarebit


text: Welsh rabbit

title: Welsh rabbit


text:
delict

Etymology
Borrowed from, from neuter of , past participle of , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
 * 2)  The branch of law dealing in delicts.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: нарушение на закона
 * Finnish: delikti
 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian: пре́стап, прекршу́вање на за́конот, пре́кршок
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:

Etymology
From, from , from neuter of , past participle of.

Noun

 * 1) crime, wrong

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) crime

title: delict


text: downloaded

title: downloaded


text: downloads

title: downloads


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bewildered

Adjective

 * 1) Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
 * He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
 * He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
 * He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
 * He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
 * He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 困惑的
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , pyörällä päästään
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: apampado,, confuso
 * German:, ,
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Macedonian: збу́нет, ста́писан
 * Maori: pōkīkī, pōauau
 * Portuguese:, , , , , ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: сбитый с толку
 * Sanskrit:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lingming, nalingming

title: bewildered


text: hears

title: hears


text: bewilders

title: bewilders


text:
bewildering

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: matoucí
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, , irremachend, , konfus machend, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ᾰ̓́σκοπος, μαυρός
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: избезумувачки
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: drai-ede, bruya
 * Turkish: hayret verici,, sersemletici

Noun

 * : bewilderment.

title: bewildering


text:
skies

Noun

 * 1)  though essentially synonymous with singular form; the heavens; the firmament; the atmosphere.

title: skies


text: tongues

title: tongues


text:
sheets

Noun

 * 1) Collective noun meaning a large amount, when used of rain, or other precipitation.
 * When I looked out, all I could see were sheets of rain.

title: sheets


text:
spoiler effect

Noun

 * 1)  A situation where a losing alternative affects the results of some competition, such as a sporting event or election.

title: spoiler effect


text: manifested

title: manifested


text: preached

title: preached


text: hearings

title: hearings


text:
Nader effect

Etymology
Named after Ralph Nader, whose candidacy for President of the United States in the year 2000 was contended to have "spoiled" the election for Al Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in Florida and many other states to allow George W. Bush to win.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The effect that a candidate for the corresponding political office (especially the office of President of the United States) can have on a close political election, when their candidacy results in the election being won by a candidate dissimilar to them, rather than a candidate similar to them.

Synonyms

 * (earlier term)

title: Nader effect


text: manifesting

title: manifesting


text:
bidding

Noun

 * 1) That which one is bidden to do; a command.
 * 2) The act of placing a bid.
 * 1) The act of placing a bid.

Translations

 * Latin: licitātiō

title: bidding


text:
stretching

Etymology 1
From, , equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The act by which something is stretched.
 * 2) A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
 * 1) A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.

Translations

 * Belarusian: расця́жка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: strečink, protahování
 * French: ,
 * German: Dehngymnastik
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ストレッチ体操
 * Korean: 스트레칭
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: розтя́жка

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , present participle of , equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1) Requiring a high level of effort or performance.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  (form of physical exercise)

title: stretching


text:
snatched

Adjective

 * 1)  Good-looking.
 * 2)  Having a narrow waist.
 * 3)  Narrow.
 * 1)  Having a narrow waist.
 * 2)  Narrow.
 * 1)  Narrow.

title: snatched


text: bids

title: bids


text: stretches

title: stretches


text:
sweeping

Noun

 * 1)  An instance of sweeping.
 * The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.
 * 1)  The activity of sweeping.
 * Sweeping took all morning.
 * The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.

Translations

 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, lesöprés, összesöprés, kisöprés
 * Italian: ,
 * Occitan: escobatge,, escobàs, ecobassa, escobeta, , espolseta

 * Bulgarian: метене
 * French:
 * German: Fegen,
 * Hungarian:, sepregetés, söprögetés
 * Norman: brîng'gie

Adjective

 * 1) Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
 * 2) Completely overwhelming.
 * He claimed a sweeping victory.
 * 1) Completely overwhelming.
 * He claimed a sweeping victory.
 * 1) Completely overwhelming.
 * He claimed a sweeping victory.
 * He claimed a sweeping victory.

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive or Thesaurus:generic

Collocations

 * sweeping changes
 * sweeping generalisations
 * sweeping reductions
 * sweeping cuts
 * sweeping rain
 * sweeping gesture

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, обхватен
 * Finnish:, , yleisluontoinen
 * French:, , , ,
 * Georgian: ფართო
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Polish:

 * Hungarian:

title: sweeping


text:
sweeps

Noun

 * 1)  The  used to measure television show viewership several times a year.
 * 1)  The  used to measure television show viewership several times a year.

title: sweeps


text: preaches

title: preaches


text:
preaching

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The act of delivering a sermon or similar moral instruction.

Translations

 * German: Predigen
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃

title: preaching


text: manifests

title: manifests


text: perished

title: perished


text:
proceeds

Noun

 * 1) Revenue; gross revenue.
 * 2) Profit; net revenue.
 * 1) Profit; net revenue.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, , výtěžek
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: fáltas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: reditus
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: inntekter
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:, ,

title: proceeds


text:
perishing

Adjective

 * 1) Extremely cold.
 * 2) Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.

Noun

 * 1) The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.

title: perishing


text: perishes

title: perishes


text:
sunfish

Etymology

 * From.
 * Perhaps from the rounded body shape.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
 * 2) Any of various large marine fishes of the family  that have an oval compressed body.

Translations

 * Catalan: centràrquid
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: okounek
 * Finnish: aurinkoahven
 * French:
 * German: Sonnenbarsch
 * Polish:, okończyk
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: со́лнечный о́кунь, со́лнечная ры́ба
 * Spanish: centrárquido

 * Basque: atalo
 * Bulgarian: риба луна
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:, 曼波魚
 * Czech:
 * Danish: klumpfisk
 * Dutch: klompvis,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: möhkäkala
 * French:, , molidé
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: דג השמש
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tunglfiskur
 * Italian: pesce luna,
 * Japanese: 翻車魚,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: mēnesszivs
 * Ligurian: mêua
 * Lithuanian: paprastoji mėnulžuvė, mėnulžuvė
 * Maori: rātāhuihui
 * Norman: solé
 * Norwegian: månefisk, klumpfisk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: peixe-lua
 * Russian: рыба-луна
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: pez luna
 * Swedish:, solfisk
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: риба-місяць
 * Vietnamese: cá mặt trăng

 * Chinese:
 * Maori:

Verb

 * 1)  Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.

title: sunfish


text: mouths

title: mouths


text: suspicions

title: suspicions


text: parishes

title: parishes


text:
nurse shark

Etymology
See ''nurse, nusse, huss

Noun

 * 1) Any of various bottom-dwelling sharks of the family  that have two fleshy barbels hanging from the lower jaw.
 * 2)  Any small shark; a dogfish.

Translations

 * French: requin nourrice
 * German: Ammenhai
 * Italian: squalo nutrice
 * Manx:
 * Portuguese: tubarão-lixa, lambaru
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: tiburón nodriza

title: nurse shark


text: regiments

title: regiments


text: draws

title: draws


text:
User talk:Philipvs

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Capitalization
Only proper nouns are capitalized here. Also we prefer singular rather than plural as the base definition. Therefore see Political Risks and political risk SemperBlotto 07:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

risk assessment
I see that you have given this two definitions. Does that mean it has two different meanings? By the way, dictionaries do not normally repeat the word being defined in the actual definition. SemperBlotto 09:02, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Adding translations
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title: User talk:Philipvs


text:
koi

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Ornamental domesticated varieties of the , of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: koristekarppi
 * French:
 * German:, Koi-Karpfen
 * Irish: carbán koi
 * Japanese:, ニシキゴイ, ,
 * Korean: 비단잉어
 * Macedonian: јапонски крап,
 * Russian: карп ко́и, ко́и

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cougar
 * 2) mountain lion
 * 3) puma.

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  clothes moth
 * 2) some other species of moth, such as the

Etymology 2
From Low German.

Noun

 * 1) berth (a bed on a ship or boat), bunk bed

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

Noun

 * 1)  moth: common clothes moth,
 * 2)  any of the moths in the family
 * 3)  cancer
 * 1)  cancer

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) dawn

Etymology 3
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) koi carp

Verb

 * 1) to urge

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) moth

Etymology
From. Related to.

Verb

 * 1)  to open

Noun

 * 1) moth

Noun

 * 1) bed

Pronoun

 * 1) me, I

Adjective

 * 1) sharp

Noun

 * 1) spike

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) gray, darkish color

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) banana

Etymology
Possibly related to 🇨🇬, synonym of the more common Tabaru term.

Noun

 * 1) banana

Etymology
From *kori, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to scratch

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moth, clothes moth

title: koi


text: drawings

title: drawings


text: regimenting

title: regimenting


text:
regimented

Adjective

 * 1) Organised, ordered, formed into regiments.

title: regimented


text: echoed

title: echoed


text:
fulfilled

Verb

 * 1)   or

Adjective

 * 1) Emotionally satisfied; feeling a sense of fulfilment.

Translations

 * Greek: ,
 * Maori: maiea

title: fulfilled


text:
swinging

Etymology 1
The sexual practice is so called after the custom in swing dancing of changing partners after each dance, unlike traditional ballroom dance styles where one has a single partner.

Noun

 * 1) The act or motion of that which swings.
 * 2) An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners, often in a group setting.
 * 1) An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners, often in a group setting.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 交換配偶
 * Czech: grupensex
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Swingen
 * Hungarian: svédszex, párcsere,
 * Italian: scambismo
 * Japanese: スワッピング, スインギング
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: intercambio de pareja

Adjective

 * 1)  Fine, good, successful.
 * 2) * 1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * Didn't do anything great except saw "The Beatles" on The Ed Sullivan Show and Kathy practically had a bird. They are sorta cute but I think Ringo is swingin, George is cute, Paul is a good singer and John is icky. Too!
 * 1) Sexually promiscuous.
 * 1) Sexually promiscuous.

Noun

 * 1)  (sexual practice)

title: swinging


text: subjected

title: subjected


text:
moray eel

Etymology
See.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various brightly colored marine eels of the family, of warm coastal waters.

title: moray eel


text:
conger eel

Noun

 * 1) Any of various large marine eels of the family, having no scales and found in temperate and tropical coastal waters.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 海鰻
 * Finnish: meriankerias
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Meeraal,
 * Hungarian: tengeri angolna
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, アナゴ
 * Latin: conger
 * Norman: andgulle
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: țipar-de-mare
 * Russian: ко́нгер, морско́й у́горь
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: mığrı

title: conger eel


text: subjecting

title: subjecting


text:
geolo

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) yellow

title: geolo


text: varves

title: varves


text:
varve

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

Translations

 * Czech: varva
 * French:
 * Irish: varbh
 * Swedish:

title: varve


text:
User talk:Darkwiinter

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This is a simple dictionary, not an encyclopedia. I have converted Varves into a dictionary entry at varves / varve. Your image is not really needed here; it would be better at Commons or even Wikipedia. SemperBlotto 09:35, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Darkwiinter


text:
Sid

Proper noun

 * , which flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth.
 * , which flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth.
 * , which flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth.

title: Sid


text:
delictum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fault, offense, misdeed, crime, transgression

title: delictum


text:
delinquo

Etymology
From la.

Verb

 * 1) to fail in one's duty
 * 2) to be wanting, lacking
 * 3) to transgress, offend, err
 * 4) to commit a fault, do something wrong
 * 1) to transgress, offend, err
 * 2) to commit a fault, do something wrong
 * 1) to transgress, offend, err
 * 2) to commit a fault, do something wrong
 * 1) to commit a fault, do something wrong

title: delinquo


text:
wyrt

Etymology 1
From, from , the oblique stem of (whence ).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) plant
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The 16th Sunday After Pentecost"
 * "ang"

- Wyrta sind īeðelīca ġesċeafta and þurh winterlīcne ċiele simle forsēariaþ.

 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius'
 * "ang"

- Sumra wyrta oþþe sumes wuda eard biþ on dūnum, sumra on merscum, sumra on mōrum, sumra on clūdum, sumra on barum sandum.

 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- Æppla, græs, and wyrta, and treowu forealdiaþ and forsēariaþ, and ōðru cumaþ, grēnu weaxaþ, and ġierwaþ and rīpaþ, for þæt hīe eft onġinnaþ sēarian.

 * 1) vegetable
 * 2) * c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
 * "ang"

- Holus: "wyrt."

 * 1) * early 11th century, anonymous of Ælfric's  Colloquy (c. 995)
 * "ang"

- "Hwæt māre itst þū?" "Wyrta and ǣġru, fisċ and ċīese, buteran and bēana."

 * 1) * early 11th century, anonymous of Ælfric's  Colloquy (c. 995)
 * "ang"

- Ġif ġē mē ūt ādrīfaþ fram ēowrum ġefērsċipe, ġē etaþ ēowre wyrta grēne and ēowre flǣsċmetas hrēawe.

 * 1) * unknown date and author, monastic sign language guide
 * "ang"

- Ġesodenra wyrta tācn is þæt þū dō mid þīnre ōðerre handa niðewearde be þǣre sīdan swelċe þū sċearfian wille. Þonne þū grēne wyrta habban wille, þonne sete þū þīnne finger on þīne winestran hand.

 * 1) herb, spice
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Dedication of a Church"
 * "ang"

- Hire olfendas bǣron sūðerne wyrta, and dīerwierðe ġimmas, and unġerīm goldes.

 * , "Palm Sunday"
 * "ang"

- Marīa ġenam ān pund dīerwierðre smierenesse and smierede mid þæs Hǣlendes fēt and mid hire loccum drȳġde. Þā wæs eall þæt hūs ġefylled mid þon swētan stenċe. Þēos smierenes wæs ġeworht of eahtatīene cynna wyrtum.

 * 1)  root of a plant
 * 2) * c. 950–1050. Anonymous, "'", in, ll. 497–499. Reprinted in 2013', Bintley, Michael D. J.; Shapland, Michael G. (eds.), Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-968079-5, p. 219. Translation from the same.
 * Þuhte him þæt on foldan | fægre stode / wudubeam wlitig, | se wæs wyrtum fæst, / beorht on blædum.
 * It seemed to him that there stood, fair upon the earth, a peerless tree that was steadfast in its roots and bright in its fruits.
 * 1) * 975–1025 (date of MS). Anonymous, ', in the . Translated and reprinted in 1999'. (trans.), Beowulf: A New Verse Translation'', New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-11119-7, pp. 94–95, l. 1364.
 * wudu wyrtum fæst | wæter oferhelmað
 * Woods secured by roots cover over the water

Descendants

 * (attested in plural )
 * (attested in plural )
 * (attested in plural )

Etymology 2
From a merger of and. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  as in brewing

title: wyrt


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪdəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭdō, /-ɪdəʊ/, /-Id@U/

Two syllables

 * kiddo
 * widow

title: Rhymes:English/ɪdəʊ


text:
ægwyrt

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dandelion

title: ægwyrt


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪfəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭfō, /-ɪfəʊ/, /-If@U/

Two syllables

 * Biffo
 * BIFFO

title: Rhymes:English/ɪfəʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪɡəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭgō, /-ɪɡəʊ/, /-Ig@U/

Two syllables

 * Viggo

title: Rhymes:English/ɪɡəʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪkəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭkō, /-ɪkəʊ/, /-Ik@U/

Two syllables

 * clicko
 * sicko
 * thicko

title: Rhymes:English/ɪkəʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪləʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭlō, /-ɪləʊ/, /-Il@U/

Two syllables

 * Brillo
 * Brillo
 * Brillo
 * Brillo
 * Brillo
 * Brillo

Four syllables

 * Amarillo
 * armadillo

title: Rhymes:English/ɪləʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪməʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭmō, /-ɪməʊ/, /-Im@U/

Two syllables

 * limo
 * Nimmo (surname - see especially Derek Nimmo)

title: Rhymes:English/ɪməʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪnəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭnō, /-ɪnəʊ/, /-In@U/

Two syllables

 * minnow
 * winnow

title: Rhymes:English/ɪnəʊ


text:
ælf

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  elf

title: ælf


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪŋɡəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭnggō, /-ɪŋɡəʊ/, /-INg@U/

Two syllables

 * bingo
 * dingo
 * jingo
 * gringo
 * Ingo
 * lingo
 * pingo
 * Ringo
 * stingo

Three syllables

 * by jingo
 * flamingo

title: Rhymes:English/ɪŋɡəʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪŋkəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭngkō, /-ɪŋkəʊ/, /-INk@U/

Two syllables

 * pinko
 * Plinko
 * thinko
 * stinko
 * zinco-

title: Rhymes:English/ɪŋkəʊ


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪntəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭntō, /-ɪntəʊ/, /-Int@U/

Two syllables

 * Shinto

title: Rhymes:English/ɪntəʊ


text:
holding company

Noun

 * 1)  A company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies, as opposed to producing goods or offering services.

Translations

 * Arabic: شَرِكَة قَابِضَة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 控股公司
 * Danish: holdingselskab
 * Esperanto: holdingo
 * Finnish: holding-yhtiö, hallintayhtiö
 * French: société faîtière, ,
 * German: Holding-Gesellschaft
 * Irish: cuideachta sealbhaíochta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 持ち株会社
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: хо́лдинговая компа́ния, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: förvaltningsbolag,
 * Turkish:

title: holding company


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪpəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭpō, /-ɪpəʊ/, /-Ip@U/

Two syllables

 * gippo
 * hippo

title: Rhymes:English/ɪpəʊ


text:
bimolecular

Adjective

 * 1)  involving two molecules
 * 2) consisting of two layers of molecules
 * 3)  Relating to bimolecules

Translations

 * Catalan: bimolecular

 * Romanian:

Etymology
.

title: bimolecular


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪstəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭstō, /-ɪstəʊ/, /-Ist@U/

Two syllables

 * Bisto
 * Bristow

Four syllables

 * fritto misto

title: Rhymes:English/ɪstəʊ


text:
unimolecular

Adjective

 * 1)  involving a single molecule

Translations

 * French: unimoléculaire
 * Irish: aonmhóilíneach, monamóilíneach

title: unimolecular


text:
monomolecular

Adjective

 * 1)  involving a single molecule
 * 2) consisting of a single layer of molecules

Translations

 * French: monomoléculaire
 * German:

title: monomolecular


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪtəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭtō, /-ɪtəʊ/, /-It@U/

Two syllables

 * ditto

title: Rhymes:English/ɪtəʊ


text:
æppel

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) apple
 * 2) ball, sphere
 * 3) eyeball
 * 4) any fruit

Declension
Often it occurs as an a-stem:

title: æppel


text:
trimolecular

Adjective

 * 1)  Involving three molecules.

Translations

 * Italian:

title: trimolecular


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪksəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭksō, /-ɪksəʊ/, /-Iks@U/

Three syllables

 * Atrixo

title: Rhymes:English/ɪksəʊ


text:
molecular biology

Noun

 * 1)  the branch of biology that studies the macromolecules of life, such as proteins, lipoproteins and nucleic acids
 * 2)  the branch of biology that studies the manipulation of genetic sequence of DNA
 * 3)  the technology of gene manipulation

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: molekulyar biologiya
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: molekylærbiologi
 * Dutch: moleculaire biologie
 * Estonian: molekulaarbioloogia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: biologi molekuler
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ជីវាណូវិទ្យា
 * Malay: biologi molekul
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: biologie moleculară
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: mulatling haynayan
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: молекуля́рна біоло́гія

title: molecular biology


text:
æppelleaf

Noun

 * 1) the violet

title: æppelleaf


text:
molecular biologist

Noun

 * 1)  a scientist who specializes in molecular biology

Translations

 * French: biologiste moléculaire
 * German: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Swedish: molekylärbiolog
 * Tagalog: mulatling haynayanon
 * Turkish:

title: molecular biologist


text:
parantaa

Etymology
From, equivalent to

Verb

 * 1)  to improve, better
 * 2)  to heal, cure
 * 1)  to heal, cure
 * 1)  to heal, cure
 * 1)  to heal, cure
 * 1)  to heal, cure
 * 1)  to heal, cure

Usage notes

 * Telic (accusative) when something is improved to a certain goal or target, otherwise atelic (partitive).

Antonyms

 * (to improve, better)

title: parantaa


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪzəʊ

Pronunciation
-ĭzō, /-ɪzəʊ/, /-Iz@U/

Two syllables

 * bizzo
 * whizzo

title: Rhymes:English/ɪzəʊ


text:
molecular knife

Noun

 * 1) an enzyme capable of removing specific genes from a sequence of DNA, especially to disable the replication of a virus

title: molecular knife


text:
molecular medicine

Noun

 * 1)  the branch of medicine that studies the manipulation of genes, and the subsequent effect on genetic diseases

title: molecular medicine


text:
panssarintorjuntaohjus

Noun

 * 1) An anti-tank missile.

title: panssarintorjuntaohjus


text:
tietokoneohjelma

Noun

 * 1) computer program

title: tietokoneohjelma


text:
molecular modeling

Noun

 * 1)  a number of techniques for studying molecules and their interaction; originally involved the building of physical models, but now uses computer simulation

title: molecular modeling


text:
sattua

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (~ ), 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to hurt, be sore physically or mentally
 * 2)  to happen, to be (with "there"), occur, come about, come up
 * 3)  to happen  do or occur by chance or unexpectedly
 * 4)  to hit, strike
 * 5)  to touch  to come involuntarily into contact with
 * 1)  to happen, to be (with "there"), occur, come about, come up
 * 2)  to happen  do or occur by chance or unexpectedly
 * 3)  to hit, strike
 * 4)  to touch  to come involuntarily into contact with
 * 1)  to hit, strike
 * 2)  to touch  to come involuntarily into contact with
 * 1)  to hit, strike
 * 2)  to touch  to come involuntarily into contact with
 * 1)  to touch  to come involuntarily into contact with
 * 1)  to touch  to come involuntarily into contact with

title: sattua


text:
seitsemänkymmentä

Etymology
From. Equivalent to.

Numeral

 * 1)  seventy

title: seitsemänkymmentä


text:
suvaitsemattomuus

Noun

 * 1) intolerance, closed-mindedness

title: suvaitsemattomuus


text:
grenadier

Etymology
From, corresponding to.

Noun

 * 1)   A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the  of Canada and the United Kingdom.
 * 2)  Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the  or the.
 * 3)  Any of various deep-sea fish of the family  that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
 * 4)  Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies,  and, of Asia and Australia.

Derived terms

 * roundnose grenadier

Translations

 * Basque: granadari
 * Bulgarian: гренадир
 * Czech: granátník
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Granatier, Granatierer,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 擲弾兵
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

 * Finnish: ,

 * Bulgarian: миша опашка
 * Finnish: lestikala
 * Greenlandic: imminnguaq

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) pomegranate tree

Noun

 * 1) a Grenadian

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) person from Grenada

Usage notes
Not to be confused with.

title: grenadier


text:
biseksuaalisuus

Noun

 * 1) bisexuality

title: biseksuaalisuus


text:
naurukohtaus

Noun

 * 1) a fit of laughter

title: naurukohtaus


text:
kohtelias

Etymology
..

Adjective

 * 1) polite

title: kohtelias


text:
ær

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) ewe

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) ewe

Etymology 2
From, from. Cognate to 🇨🇬 (modern ).

Adjective

 * 1) mad

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) eider

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) eider

Usage notes

 * The compound is more commonly used.

Etymology 4
From.

Etymology
From, originally a comparative form (=‘earlier’).

Adjective

 * 1) early, previous, former

Preposition

 * 1) before, (in negative sentences) until

Conjunction

 * 1) before, (in negative sentences) until
 * 2) rather than (in preference to)
 * 3) * c. 992, Ælfric, "THE PASSION OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL"
 * "ang"
 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "THE PASSION OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL"
 * "ang"

- "Paulus cwæð to Petre, "Broðer, þu wære Gode gecoren ær ic,

Adverb

 * 1) previously
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
 * "ang"

- Uton fon nu on þæt godspel ðær we hit ǣr forlēton.

 * 1) already
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "For Palm Sunday"
 * "ang"

- Þam folce wearð cūð þæt se Hælend arærde lytle ær Lazarum of deaðe, seðe læg stincende feower niht on byrgene: þa comon þa togeanes Criste þe geleaffulle wæron, mid þam wurðmynte, swa we ǣr cwædon.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) ewe

title: ær


text:
gurnard

Etymology
From, from , from the verb , from. Compare, which evolved in a similar way.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various marine fish of the family  that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
 * 2)  Other fish with appearance like that of members of family, such as certain of those in families , , and.

Synonyms

 * sea robin

Hyponyms

 * ,, red gurnard, , , , ,

Derived terms

 * ( spp.)
 * flying gurnard ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * piper gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * red gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * piper gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * red gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * piper gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * red gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * red gurnard
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)

Translations

 * Bulgarian: морска лястовица
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * German: Seehahn,
 * Greek: τρίγλη,
 * Hungarian: morgóhal
 * Irish: cnúdán
 * Italian: gallinella di mare
 * Maori: kumukumu
 * Middle English: gurnard
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: морско́й пету́х, три́гла
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Latin:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: gyrned, penhaearn

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

title: gurnard


text:
päämäärä

Noun

 * 1) goal, aim, objective, purpose, end

title: päämäärä


text:
uhrata

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To sacrifice.

title: uhrata


text:
gudgeon

Etymology 1
The is derived from Late, from , , from , the  of , the  of , from , probably of  origin. The English word is a.

The is derived from the noun.

Noun

 * 1) A small freshwater fish,, that is native to Eurasia.
 * , more widely known as.
 * 1)  Any of various similar small fish of the family, often used as bait.
 * 2) Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families  and, but also in others.
 * 3)  A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
 * 4)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
 * , more widely known as.
 * 1)  Any of various similar small fish of the family, often used as bait.
 * 2) Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families  and, but also in others.
 * 3)  A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
 * 4)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
 * 1)  A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
 * 2)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
 * 1)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
 * 1)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
 * 1)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
 * 1)  Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.

Derived terms

 * B.
 * G.
 * G.
 * ,,  G.
 * G.
 * ,  E.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * B.
 * G.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * ,  E.
 * B.
 * ,  M.
 * E.
 * ,  E.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * M.
 * ,  G.
 * G.
 * B.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * ,  E.
 * B.
 * ,,  B.
 * C.
 * E.
 * G.
 * ,,  G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * Ga.
 * G.
 * ,  G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * ( spp.) G.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * B.
 * ,  E.
 * G.
 * B.
 * ( B., E.)
 * E.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * E.
 * ,  E.
 * T.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * B.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * ,  G.
 * G.
 * B.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * T.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * B.
 * E.
 * ,  G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * B.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * ( etc.) B.
 * G.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * ,  E.
 * G.
 * B.
 * E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * ,  E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * G.
 * ,  B.
 * E.
 * ,  E.
 * G.
 * ,  G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * B.
 * ,  E.
 * E.
 * E.
 * B.
 * B.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * G.
 * E.
 * E.
 * Familes: B. =, C. =  (carps etc.), E. =  , G. =  (gobies), Ga. = , M. =  , T. =

Translations

 * Armenian: սովորական քառթակ
 * Bashkir: ҡомай, ҡомтөркөс, ташбаш, хөмәй
 * Basque: zarbo arrunt
 * Belarusian: пячку́р, пячкур звычайны
 * Bulgarian: обикновена кротушка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: ырашпӑтри
 * Czech:, hrouzek obecný
 * Dutch:, elzenvoorn
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: harilik rünt, rünt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: gobio
 * Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი ციმორი
 * German:
 * Greek: μουστακάς, γυφτόψαρο
 * Ancient: κωβιός
 * Hungarian: fenékjáró küllő,
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: peskari
 * Irish: brannóg
 * Italian: gobione
 * Kazakh: тасбас
 * Korean: 모샘치
 * Latin: gōbius
 * Latvian: grundulis
 * Lithuanian: paprastasis gružlỹs
 * Livvi: peskari
 * Luxembourgish: Gif
 * Maori: taiwharu
 * Mari:
 * Western Mari: кадама
 * Mi'kmaq: so'qomu'j, so'qomu'j
 * Moksha: шуварбек
 * Nogai: суьйре
 * Norman: célérin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: grundling, sandkryper
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: blǣġe
 * Ossetian: хъыппи
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیا بالغی
 * Polish:, kiełb krótkowąsy, kiełb pospolity
 * Portuguese: gobião, góbio
 * Romanian:, porcușor comun
 * Russian: обыкновенный пескарь,
 * Scottish Gaelic: gùda, bronnag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кр̀куша
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hrúz obyčajný, hrúz škvrnitý
 * Southern Altai: боскос
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sandkrypare
 * Tatar: капкорсак,
 * Turkish: dere kaya balığı
 * Udmurt: öлёк
 * Ukrainian: пічкур звичайний
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: cá bống mú
 * Welsh: gwyniad pendew, llyfrothen,

 * Finnish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gùda

Verb

 * 1)  To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
 * 2)  To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.
 * 1)  To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.

Etymology 2
From, from , from +. is derived from, , ultimately from ,.

Noun

 * 1)  A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
 * 2)  In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.
 * 1)  In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γίγγλυμος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: gustún
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 축받이
 * Latin: cnōdāx
 * Luxembourgish: Zap

 * Catalan:, femellot
 * German: Ruderöse, unteres Ruderscharnier

title: gudgeon


text:
Pohjois-Eurooppa

Etymology
🇰🇲

Proper noun

 * 1) Northern Europe

title: Pohjois-Eurooppa


text:
sydänkohtaus

Noun

 * 1)  heart attack

title: sydänkohtaus


text:
vakaa

Etymology
From. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The long vowel probably emerged as a means to ensure the strong grade in all forms, and may have been inspired by and.

Adjective

 * 1) stable, steady, firm
 * 2) stable, steady, unchanging, constant
 * 3) firm, steadfast, secure
 * 4)  patient, calm
 * 1) firm, steadfast, secure
 * 2)  patient, calm
 * 1)  patient, calm

title: vakaa


text:
käyttöjärjestelmä

Noun

 * 1)  operating system

title: käyttöjärjestelmä


text:
bullfrog

Alternative forms

 * bull frog, bull-frog

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.

Derived terms

 * African bullfrog
 * ( or )
 * Indian bullfrog
 * Indian bullfrog
 * Indian bullfrog
 * Indian bullfrog
 * Indian bullfrog
 * Indian bullfrog
 * Indian bullfrog

Translations

 * Abenaki: agebalam
 * Afrikaans: brulpadda
 * Atikamekw: taretew
 * Breton: ran-darv
 * Chickasaw: haliilawiʼ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 美國牛蛙
 * Czech: skokan volský
 * Dakota: gnaškátȟaŋka, hnaškátȟaŋka
 * Danish: oksefrø
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: taŭra rano
 * Finnish: härkäsammakko
 * Fox: toˑtoˑwa
 * French: ,
 * Galician: bruión
 * German: Ochsenfrosch
 * Greek: κατεσβεϊανός
 * Icelandic: uxafroskur
 * Italian: rana toro, rana bue
 * Japanese: 牛蛙
 * Khmer: ហ៊‌ីង
 * Khoekhoe: ǁgôab
 * Kickapoo: tootoa
 * Korean:
 * Lakota: gnaškátȟaŋka
 * Latvian: vērša varde
 * Lithuanian: jautinė varlė
 * Menominee: ta͞ehtaew
 * Miami: toontwa
 * Navajo: chʼał nineezí
 * Northern Sotho: letlametlu
 * Omaha-Ponca: ttébi’a ttą́ga
 * Ottawa: dende
 * Portuguese: rã-touro
 * Quileute: há·gaʔy
 * Russian: лягу́шка-бык
 * Shawnee: tooto
 * Slovak: skokan volský
 * Southern Ndebele: idlhamedlhu
 * Southern Ohlone: wakračmin,  wakračim
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: palakang-kabkab
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Unami: xanhane

title: bullfrog


text:
albumi

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) An album.

title: albumi


text:
dodder

Etymology 1
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: треперя от слабост
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: тре́се
 * Maori: tārutu
 * Russian:
 * Thai: ,

Etymology 2
From, from , from , ultimately from (viz. theories of origin). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus . Formerly treated as the only genus in the family, it is now placed in the morning glory family,.

Synonyms

 * ,, , , goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, , love vine, pull-down, strangleweed,

Derived terms

 * ( or )
 * ( or )
 * ) or )
 * ( spp.)
 * ( or )
 * ) or )
 * ( spp.)
 * ( or )
 * ) or )
 * ( spp.)
 * ) or )
 * ( spp.)
 * ) or )
 * ( spp.)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: dodder
 * Akkadian: 𒃢
 * Albanian: helmëz,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: كُشُوث, حَامُول
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ
 * Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: כְּשׁוּתָא
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: তেলাকুচা
 * Breton: neud-gad, blev-diaoul
 * Bulgarian: кукувича прежда
 * Catalan: cuscuta, cúscuta, cabells d'angel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 菟 (tù),, , 蓎蒙
 * Coptic: ⲡⲁⲑⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kuskuto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, moudaña, gorga, sirgo da raposa
 * Georgian: აბრეშუმა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κασύτας, καδύτας
 * Modern: κουσκούτα
 * Hebrew: כְּשׁוּת
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: clamhán
 * Italian: cuscuta
 * Japanese: 根無葛
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Classical Latin: cassytas, cassythas, cadytas
 * Medieval Latin: cuscūta, cuscūtha
 * Latvian: vija
 * Lithuanian: brantas
 * Maori: māwhai
 * Navajo: tsiighájíłchí
 * Norman: touothelle
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: cuscuta
 * Russian: :
 * Slovak: kokotica
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: nässelsnärja
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ฝอยทอง
 * Tigre:
 * Tigrinya:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: повити́ця
 * Volapük: kuskut
 * Welsh: llindro

title: dodder


text: User:Gerrit

title: User:Gerrit


text:
kakku

Etymology
From, borrowed either from or earlier ; compare modern 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cake
 * 2)  pie whole of wealth or resource
 * 3)  bit prison sentence
 * 1)  bit prison sentence
 * 1)  bit prison sentence

Usage notes

 * Tends to refer to larger cakes served in slices. Small, individual cakes tend to be called or, but may also be called , particularly in compounds.

Pronoun
(demonstrative)

 * 1) ; those down a medial distance.

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) flatbread

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) flatbread, bread, pancake

title: kakku


text:
Talk:wend

Wends (Wendish) immigrants established schools in the USA, including Concordia College (as of ca. 2003 "Concordia University") in Austin, Texas, in ca. the 1860s. .
 * Yes, Wends are all Slavic people (that means akin to Russians, Belorussians, Little Russians, Serbs and so on), who once lived in the German Empire (according to the Wikipedia article). From these nowadays the predominant remnants are the Sorbs. Texas Wends are also mentioned in the article and a separate article for them is forecast, judging from the red link. Bogorm 17:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

 * See Wend, Sorb. DCDuring TALK 11:58, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

title: Talk:wend


text:
kaupungistuminen

Noun

 * 1) urbanization
 * 1) urbanization

title: kaupungistuminen


text:
vihata

Etymology
From. Equivalent to.

Verb

 * 1)  to hate

Etymology
From, equivalent to. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to hate

title: vihata


text:
ajatus

Etymology

 * see for more information on the semantic development

Noun

 * 1) thought form created in the mind
 * 2) idea image formed in the mind
 * 3) idea result of mental activity
 * 4) idea conception of something to be done, plan, intention
 * 5) idea vague or fanciful notion
 * 1) idea vague or fanciful notion

title: ajatus


text:
tarvita

Etymology
From. Equivalent to or alternatively, borrowed from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to need, require
 * 2)  to come in handy to be useful or helpful
 * 3)  to need to, have to
 * 1)  to come in handy to be useful or helpful
 * 2)  to need to, have to
 * 1)  to need to, have to

Related terms

 * nouns: ,
 * adjectives: ,

Etymology
From, equivalent to. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to need

title: tarvita


text:
nankeen

Etymology
Eye spelling of, itself a romanization of.

Noun

 * 1) A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
 * 2) * 1885, L. and A. Maude (translators),, "", in What Men Live By and Other Tales
 * He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat.
 * 1) * c. 1910-1920,,  (translator), A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
 * She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated.

Derived terms

 * (, also, , )
 * (, also, , )

title: nankeen


text:
passe

Verb

 * 1) to look after
 * Jeg lovede at passe min lillesøster.
 * I promised to look after my little sister.

Verb

 * 1) to be true
 * Kan det virkelig passe?
 * Can it really be true?
 * 1) to fit
 * Låget passer ikke til glasset; det må høre til et andet glas.
 * The lid doesn't fit with the jar; it must belong to a different jar.

Noun

 * 1) pass (the act of passing)
 * 2) pass (passageway)
 * 3)  pass

Noun

 * 1) pass (document allowing entry)

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to fit
 * 2) to suit
 * 3) to look after
 * 4) to pass

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to fit
 * 2) to suit
 * 3) to look after
 * 4) to pass

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) pass document granting admission or permission to pass
 * 2)  pass the act of moving the ball to another player
 * 3) an employment contract
 * 4)  pass the act of tricking the bull into running through the cape

title: passe


text: Template:User fi

title: Template:User fi


text: borsht

title: borsht


text:
Talk:penis

Due to the relatively high-risk for vandalism, the main entry penis is locked from being edited by users who are not administrators. If you feel that information should be added or changed, let us know here so an administrator can fix it. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 15:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Latin etymology
Current entry lacks sources.

My research (sourced on french witkionary (see: penis) : it derives from latin verb pendeo (hang, be hanging), it originally means tail (the thing that hangs at the back of an animal), analogy: penis, analogy with a cow-tail: brush.

Marathi

 * It seems page is locked for editing ,Here is a Marathi Language Translation entry please some one add the same after maori langugae for me.
 * * Marathi: बुल्ला,शीश्न,Jocular reference while talking to a child नुन्नी, Vulgar slangs:लवडा,लंड,In w:lavani Dance Song भुजंग,पोपट,latest addition in Lavani song बाबुराव
 * After you save, view it as

 * Marathi: बुल्ला,शीश्न,Jocular reference while talking to a child नुन्नी, Vulgar slangs:लवडा,लंड,In w:lavani Dance Song भुजंग,पोपट,latest addition in Lavani song बाबुराव

picture
Does anyone else think that having a penis picture on the page looks rather weird? I mean, it would make sense in case articles on Wiktionary would commonly have assisting pictures (like, let's say, on Wikipedia), but like that it looks, hmm, strange. - Filip 14:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

plurals
Someone is entering "penii" as the alternate plural. While that is common jocularly, the "correction" seems much less likely. Shouldn't each attested variant be listed? --Connel MacKenzie 07:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Recently this form reappeared. I support ardently its removal by Stephen G. Brown, ſince no ſerious perſon who has the ſlighteſt (a ſuperficial, even not thorough) idea of the notion third declenſion could even think of a plural ſuffix -ii for a noun from this group. Therefore the only poſſibilities are -iſes as a mundane unrefined, but wideſpread form and the gramatically and etymologically ſupported -es. Pleaſe, no third form! Bogorm 16:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is mostly internet slang, like pr0n for example; if you're an admin, read the entry that was summarily deleted: penii. I'm working on citations as well, but I think the administrative use of force in a content dispute is, to put it mildly, displeasing. —Locke Cole • t • c 16:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I am no admin and it is not a uſe of force, but of ſound Engliſh grammar. Bogorm 16:47, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to create a citations page at Citations:penii, if you can supply citations that will meet WT:CFI, but it is at most a jocular and non-standard form. It does not follow English or Latin rules for construction of the plural. --EncycloPetey 03:08, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * How about these five citations ranging from 1993 to 2004 and a label? Circeus 03:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No, five ignorant would-be writers. I ſtill ſupport the deletion. This form is either proſcribed or intentionally botched up for a facetious effect or ſimply caused by ignorance. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 13:19, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * "I don't like this word and thus will ignore publications by reputable publishers" is not a lexicographical argument. Let's see what WT:CFI says on this:
 * "[We include] a term if it is attested and idiomatic.", "'Attested' means verified through"
 * Clearly widespread use,
 * Blogs and Usenet (might I remind you that Usenet is considered appropriate for citations? It has over 6000 mentions) search at Google are more than enough to confim this
 * Usage in permanently recorded media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year.
 * We have five book quotes, or four book and one second-hand newspaper quote over the course of 15 years. The only reason there aren't more is because contemporary fiction is poorly covered in Google books, and there are MANY false hits for bad character recognition. Usenet citations goign all the way back to 1991.
 * I rest my case. Circeus 18:08, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Compare the equally Latin-invalid virii. Equinox ◑ 22:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like we have more than enough citations to meet CFI, including one from an internationally-known, award-winning playwright. --EncycloPetey 06:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Wellaway... The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 09:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, created with choice quotations. I think I'll amuse myself by trying to find as many citations for "penes" instead. My instinct inches toward "unlikely". Circeus 17:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Launching either attacks againſt or dubitations about penes is pointleſs, since this is the claſsical, ſtandard, mainſtream, indiſputable plural form uſed by every literate perſon. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 18:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, although I did expect it to be widespread in scientific writing (hence the tag I added), it was about as uncommon in general literature (at least as far as I could tell) as penii is (thouh Google Books has only so much book indexed, the rarity of cites was obvious). Circeus 19:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I find this faux-archaic style of yours quite irritating. Would anybody even have written claſſical when ſ was still a concern? I thought they didn't double. "...or poſseſs that becoming ſpirit..." Equinox ◑ 00:27, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm, I thought it is written always except the end and that only before f there was ſome ligature which hardly might have been digitaliſed. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 07:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Long ess hasn’t been used in English for a couple of centuries. For the rules governing long and short ess in English, see http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html . —Stephen 18:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

While this article was locked…
When anyone gets a chance, please add to the translations. Thanks.—Strabismus 00:19, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See the section above, there is a good reason for this. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 13:15, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hardly, abusing sysop access during a dispute you're involved in should be frowned upon. Treating a well-meaning contributor (myself) like a vandal and blindly reverting should be frowned upon. I doubt Wiktionary has many contributors as it is, but driving away potential contributors smacks of ownership. —Locke Cole • t • c 15:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

 * One can be well-meaning and damaging at the same time. Many well-meaning editors unknowingly insert ridiculously incorrect information with unfortunate frequency. This entry has a high-risk for vandalism, so regardless of the original circumstances under which it was protected, the protection is still necessary. In the mean time, you can edit other needful entries, and maybe one day you'll be lucky enough to be an administrator free to edit this entry. Until then, if you'd like to add to it, let us now on this talk page and an administrator will add it. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 15:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * So... this isn't a wiki. Thanks for clarifying, I don't think I want to be part of a project that has "haves" and "have nots", and where administrator misconduct is apparently the rule of the day. —Locke Cole • t • c 18:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

 * In other news, your local shopping complex "isn't a building" because they occasionally have to eject troublemakers. Equinox ◑ 18:44, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, what are you on about? I was adding a word, a valid word, and I'm the "troublemaker"? How do you figure that? —Locke Cole • t • c 18:57, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Chinese definition
The Chinese definition of 'penis' should really be this:

{{formal {{zh-tsp|陰莖|阴茎|yīnjīng}}, informal {{zh-tsp|陽物|阳物|yángwù}}

...to both add another possible translation and to keep up with current standards in Chinese definition templates. Can someone edit for me? Thanks Tooironic 08:50, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Also Turkish
"yarak" and "sik" must be "(vulgar, slang)". And there is also "penis" in Turkish:

Etymology

 * From Latin "penis" (tail, penis)

Noun
penis

 * 1) penis

Serbian
stidnik (m) - penis

kurac (m) - penis
 * Please, note that the correct header is Serbo-Croatian (see About Serbo-Croatian), so the correct layout is

* Serbo-Croatian: **Cyrillic spelling: стидник, курац ** Roman spelling:...
 * The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 09:04, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

French translation
Bite is feminine, not masculine. ☸ Moilleadóir ☎ 10:07, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Right, fixed. —Stephen 10:13, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Advertisement
When I first loaded this page, there was a large advertisement that covered the entire page, and I had to say "Skip this ad." Why is that?

 * I don’t see it now. It was probably the work of a vandal and has been deleted. —Stephen 05:49, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Italian arnese?
I strongly object to the Italian translation of "penis" as arnese. Arnese means "tool", and nothing else. Only as a euphemistic metonymy does it occasionally gain the meaning "penis"; but if we were to include euphemisms, there are dozen others that are more commonly used than arnese.

I see that the French translations suggested are pénis, bite, membre, and membre viril; I think the same list would work great for the Italian language as well: pene, cazzo, membro, and membro virile (of course both bite and cazzo should be tagged as vulgar). Another non-vulgar word to refer to the penis, usually in anthropological studies (just like in English) is fallo. --Xelloss (talk) 17:48, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Plural also penii, add it
Plural also penii, add it.

Translations
yiddish menlekher glid (yiddish dictionary); no way not adding Sanskrit lingam.Portuguese instrumento (instrument) and ferramenta (tool) have to be marked as euphemistic. --Manfariel (talk) 21:07, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:penis


text:
Talk:larva

-s plural
Is making -s plurals for Latin words like 'larva' really incorrect? As far as I know it is allowed, especially that lots of people form Latin irregular plurals incorrectly and without any knowledge of the language. - Filip 14:32, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It is fine, but may be "regarded by some as incorrect", as the usage note states. Equinox ◑ 03:53, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Missing sense? ghost, spectre
Chambers 1908 also defines this word as "a ghost, spectre". That matches the etymology; perhaps it's obsolete or poetic in English? Equinox ◑ 03:53, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

title: Talk:larva


text:
lukutaito

Noun

 * 1) literacy

title: lukutaito


text:
delfín

Etymology
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin
 * 2) butterfly stroke

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Etymology 1
, variant of (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from, a later form of , from.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) dauphin
 * 2) successor

title: delfín


text:
teos

Etymology
(through ). Compare, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) work (of art), oeuvre, opus literary, artistic, or intellectual production
 * 2) work, something wrought

title: teos


text:
teräs

Etymology
From, equal to , after its usage in tools.

Noun

 * 1) steel

Etymology
From, equivalent to. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) steel

title: teräs


text:
delfin

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Etymology 1

, from, from.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Etymology 2
, from.

Noun

 * 1) dauphin

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1) a dolphin, in particular

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1) a dolphin, in particular

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Noun

 * 1)  butterfly, butterfly stroke

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  dauphin
 * 2)  dauphin
 * 3)  dauphin

Etymology
or, earlier from.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin
 * 2) the Delphinus constellation
 * 3)  butterfly

Etymology
From, from , a later form of , from.

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Noun

 * 1) dolphin mammal
 * 2)  butterfly

Noun

 * 1) dolphin (aquatic mammal)
 * 2)  butterfly

Noun

 * 1) dolphin

Noun

 * 1) (male or female) dolphin

title: delfin


text:
hiekka

Etymology
Likely derived from, possibly by influence from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) sand fine-grained, finely-ground rock: according to the technical definition, with a grain size between 0.063 and 2.0 millimetres
 * 2) gravel small fragments of rock used to prevent slippery pavement conditions

title: hiekka


text:
hotelli

Etymology
<

Noun

 * 1) hotel

title: hotelli


text:
kansanperinne

Noun

 * 1) folklore

title: kansanperinne


text:
dagian

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to dawn

title: dagian


text:
naurettava

Adjective

 * 1) Laughable, ridiculous, ludicrous, preposterous.

title: naurettava


text:
dawning

Etymology
From, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of cognates (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). See.

Noun

 * 1)  Dawn.
 * 2) The first beginnings of something.
 * 1) The first beginnings of something.
 * 1) The first beginnings of something.
 * 1) The first beginnings of something.
 * 1) The first beginnings of something.
 * 1) The first beginnings of something.

Translations

 * Maori: pūaotanga
 * Russian:

title: dawning


text:
dawing

Noun

 * 1)  Dawn, daybreak.

title: dawing


text:
varjo

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), borrowed from  or derived in Finnic from  (whence 🇨🇬, with a frequentative suffix, and 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) shadow dark image projected onto a surface
 * 2) shade, shadow relative darkness where light is blocked
 * 3)  shadow that which looms as though a shadow
 * 4) shadow one who secretly or furtively follows another
 * 5)  shadow influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one
 * 6)  shadow unconscious aspect of the personality
 * 1)  shadow influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one
 * 2)  shadow unconscious aspect of the personality
 * 1)  shadow unconscious aspect of the personality

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) shelter

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) shade
 * 2) shadow
 * 3) shelter
 * 4)  mirror

title: varjo


text:
daw

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

Noun

 * 1) A western jackdaw,, a passerine bird in the crow family , more commonly called jackdaw.
 * 2)  An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
 * 1)  An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
 * 1)  An idiot, a simpleton; fool.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from , from. More at day, dawn.

Verb

 * 1)  To dawn.
 * 2)  To wake (someone) up.
 * 3)  To daunt; to terrify.
 * 1)  To daunt; to terrify.

Verb

 * 1) to throw, cast
 * 2) to sell
 * 1) to sell

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * : so they say; according to people; according to an aforementioned person

Usage notes

 * When the preceding word ends with a vowel, $⟨w⟩$, or $⟨y⟩$, is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made. Other words with this phenomenon include, , , and.

title: daw


text:
saarivaltio

Noun

 * 1) island state

title: saarivaltio


text:
dagung

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dawn, daybreak

title: dagung


text:
Talk:porn

Clean-up
Request for clean-up: check whether the unclassified synonyms exist, and then add those that do to the list for the appropriate sense. — Paul G 15:26, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

...........

I cleaned up a bit in response to RFC.

Deleted some of the syns, as these were just 'movie' (or flick or film) preceded by the word 'porn'.

Added Adjective heading, which is more appropriate to the above.

Moved all other syns to list below to save space in article. Add them if you can confirm usage.

 * beaver (flick), beaver loop, beefcake film, bluey, cock-movie, cockfest, cinebonds, cinema XXX, cinemaroticism, cinemarotic, exibeeshes, flesh flick, fuck film, het film, horn movie,

Removed plural porns, request verification.

Removed rfc.

--Dmol 13:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

porns/porno
I agree with the removal of "porns" as a pl. - I've only ever heard the uncountable pluralization "porn" or alternately "pornos". Additionally, I'd question the inclusion of "porno" as a derived term of "porn"; both are simply derivations of "pornography".

 * I agree wholeheartedly that "porno" should be moved to the "pornography" page as a derivation. The word "pornographic," for example, with the long o before the g (in contrast to the short o before the g in pornography), is more probably the specific source; hence, a porno[graphic] movie. StavinChain 20:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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See citations:porn for lots of cites of "porn" being used to describe things that aren't pornographic ("garden porn", "railway porn", etc). It means lots of, or gratuitous, pictures, videos, or other things (e.g. "timetable porn", although that isn't durably archived) related to whatever someone's hobby or interest is. E.g. "garden porn" is is beautiful gardens, "car porn" is fast/otherwise desirable cars. I don't know how to write this as a concise definition though. Thryduulf (talk) 14:51, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

 * The second definition at pornography is a starting point: "The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something." Perhaps it needs to be supplemented with the notion that the depiction has the effect (is prepared with the intent) of appealing to human desire in a way analogous to real (sexual) pornography. DCDuring TALK 16:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

 * On a more technical angle, the second definition ("(countable, informal) A pornographic film") implies that we'd say "I'm watching a porn" (or maybe "some porns"). Perhaps there was some confusion about which entry this was under as it seems to me to belong under "porno" but definitely not under "porn", which I have never heard used as a countable noun.

 * As far as as the "food [etc] porn" thing goes, isn't this just a very understandable extension of the word "porn" to refer to anything that might be intended to elicit desire in viewers?--Person12 08:09, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Regarding your comment about "foot [etc] porn", yes that's clearly the origin of the term, but the meaning is different - you don't get arrested for showing food porn to the vicar's 9 year old daughter. Thryduulf (talk) 09:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Is a consequence like that an inherent part of the term's meaning though? Hmmm.--Person12 01:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion
Rfv-sense "(countable, informal) A pornographic film."

The user tagging this left an edit summary indicating that it is specifically the countability that they find dubious. Thryduulf (talk) 09:08, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Perhaps it's based on the plural form pronz that you often find around the internet. —CodeCat 11:06, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

 * The plural is easily attested via b.g.c, also based on the edit summary I am not sure that the tagger knows what they are talking about; what do they mean by stating that "a porns" doesn't make sense? "Some porns" does make sense though, and is in common usage. -  19:20, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

 * In that sense porns is really a synonym of porn, hence a plurale tantum. —CodeCat 12:14, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. —msh210℠ (talk) 18:06, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Cited, but I've changed the def to "a pornographic work ", and tagged it as "especially in plural". says that  is a plurale tantum, which is mostly true, but this being the entry for countable, I specifically added cites where it was either singular or numerically quantified (as opposed to cites where “porns” could be changed to “porn” without any noticeable effect). —Ruakh TALK 23:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

porn
Adjective. I don't think it meets the CGEL tests for ajdective. See WT:English adjectives. DCDuring TALK 02:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree; delete the adjectival senses. --EncycloPetey 03:53, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete (or cite, I suppose). Mglovesfun (talk) 20:25, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I haveno idea what rules we're supposed to be using. (Wt:English adjectives hasn't AFAICT met with community support yet.) But this doesn't sound like an adjective to me. (Specifically, some of the wt:English adjectives tests sound off.) So probably delete. Cites would help determine whether it meets the wt:English adjectives (or other) tests. —msh210℠ (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It's used as an adjective for lack of a proper term "pornsome" "pornly", or instead of the complicated "pornographically" or the ignorant sounding "porny" but it is used in an incorrect but idiomatic manner. I added a usex to exemplify the usage that I have heard. I highly suggest we hold off on deleting this and put in an honest search for citations. I think it will take a while since most searches would result in having to swim through the much more prevalent noun use.Lucifer 10:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ... but won't nearly all the cites we find be just attributive usage of the noun? I'm not sure that the idiom "so (noun)" counts as evidence of adjectival usage.    D b f  i  r  s   10:40, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * What about "very porn", "its porn", "too porn"? It's definitely used as an adjective because their is lack of a clear and usable one, such as "pornly"Lucifer 07:45, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 21:40, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

title: Talk:porn


text:
net minder

Noun

 * 1)  goalkeeper, player whose role it is to defend the goal

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: burväktare ,

title: net minder


text:
äänestää

Etymology 1
..

Verb

 * 1)  to vote (for)

Derived terms

 * nouns: ,
 * idioms:

title: äänestää


text:
ääntää

Verb

 * 1)  to pronounce, enunciate, articulate

Etymology
From. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to sound

title: ääntää


text: south-west

title: south-west


text:
voittaa

Etymology
From. Equivalent to.

Verb

 * 1)  to win
 * 2)  to win/prevail against, defeat, beat, overcome, conquer a competitor
 * 3)  to win a prize

Etymology
From, equivalent to. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to win
 * 2)  to conquer

title: voittaa


text:
sudden death

Noun

 * 1)  Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.
 * 2)  A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.
 * 3)  A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.
 * 1)  A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَوْت الفَجْأَة
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal: sodo fá
 * French:
 * German: plötzlicher Tod
 * Greek: αιφνίδιος θάνατος
 * Hungarian: hirtelen halál
 * Icelandic: skyndidauði, skyndilegur dauði
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 돌연사(突然死), 돌발사(突發死)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Malay:
 * Maori: mate ohorere
 * Russian: внеза́пная смерть,
 * Spanish: muerte repentina, muerte súbita
 * Swahili:, kifo cha ghafla
 * Ukrainian: на́гла смерть

 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ξαφνικός θάνατος
 * Hungarian: hirtelen halál
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: サドンデス
 * Korean: 서든 데스
 * Portuguese: morte súdita
 * Spanish: muerte súbita

title: sudden death


text:
Jesse

Etymology
, from

Proper noun

 * 1)  The son of Obed and the father of king David.
 * : 1 Samuel 17:12:
 * Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
 * 1)  of biblical origin.
 * 2) * 1882, Jesse James (folk song):
 * Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, / He robbed the Glendale train. / He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, / He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.

Related terms

 * (to scold or beat)
 * (to scold or beat)

Translations

 * Albanian: Jése, Jéseu
 * Catalan: Jessè
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 耶西
 * Hakka: 耶西
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: Isaj
 * Finnish: Iisai
 * French: Isaï,
 * German: Isai, Jesse
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: Isai, Iesse
 * Latin: Iesse
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian: Isai
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Jessé
 * Russian: Иессе́й
 * Serbo-Croatian: Jišaj
 * Spanish: Isaí (Catholic versions), Jesé (Reina-Valera version)
 * Swedish: Isai, Jishaj, Isaj, Jesse

 * Albanian: Jése, Jéseu
 * Finnish:
 * Marathi: जेसी
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Jessé

Noun

 * 1)  A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.

Etymology 1
The Vulgate name,  was known in medieval Finland, but the modern revival of the name is much due to.

Proper noun

 * , popular since the 1980s

Etymology 2
Finnish.

Proper noun

 * 1) Jesus.

title: Jesse


text:
oikeudenkäynti

Etymology
, from

Noun

 * 1) A trial, (legal) process, judicial proceedings.

title: oikeudenkäynti


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ

Pronunciation
-îrdō, /-ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ/, /-I@(r)d@U/

title: Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ


text:
natsi

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a Nazi

title: natsi


text:
mieto

Etymology
, perhaps borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) mild, bland
 * 2) dilute, diluted

title: mieto


text:
kostaa

Etymology
From. Koivulehto considers it as a borrowing from or its Pre- descendant (whence 🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1)  to avenge, revenge, take revenge, get back at (on); to retaliate (to)
 * 2)  to turn in a particular direction
 * 1)  to turn in a particular direction

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to reward

title: kostaa


text:
agan

Alternative forms

 * gàn
 * -'gan

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to own, possess
 * 2) to cause to own: to give, to deliver

Etymology 2
From. Equivalent to ang.

Verb

 * 1) to go out, (in the past participle) gone
 * 2) * c. 990, , Mark 7:30
 * "ang"

- Þā hēo on hire hūs ēode, hēo ġemētte þæt mæġden on hire bedde liċġende and þæt dēofol ūt āgān.

 * 1) to pass
 * 2) to happen
 * 3) to become known: get out, come out

Etymology
Compare with 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) childlessness
 * 2)  A barren woman, a childless woman

title: agan


text:
paunch

Etymology
From, from , (🇨🇬), from.

Noun

 * 1) The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
 * 2) The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
 * 3) The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
 * 4)  A paunch mat.
 * 5) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
 * 1) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:paunch.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: méadail mhór
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: рубець

 * Arabic: كَرِش
 * Egyptian Arabic: كرش
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: vom, bug
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, andorga, panza,
 * Georgian: ღიპი
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌼𐌱𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: maróg,
 * Italian:, , buzzo,
 * Middle English: paunche
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਗੋਗੜ
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: buyon
 * Ukrainian: пузо, черевце
 * Volapük: lugötöp
 * Welsh:, cest

Verb

 * 1) To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:

title: paunch


text:
lainata

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Verb

 * 1)  to loan, lend
 * 2)  to borrow
 * 3)  to cite, quote (from)
 * 1)  to borrow
 * 2)  to cite, quote (from)
 * 1)  to cite, quote (from)
 * 1)  to cite, quote (from)

Usage notes

 * The choice for the case for the object depends on the nuance. In questions of permission, e.g. "may/can I borrow it?", the partitive case is often used for the object. In statements, the partitive case often implies loaning or borrowing something for a brief amount of time, while the accusative case implies a longer term loan or borrowing.

Etymology 1
From, equivalent to. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to borrow

Etymology 2
From. Cognates include dialectal 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to swallow

Etymology
From. Related to 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1) to swallow

title: lainata


text:
vakava

Etymology
. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) serious
 * 2) grave, sombre, solemn

title: vakava


text:
Rhymes:English/ɪəɹəʊ

Pronunciation
,

title: Rhymes:English/ɪəɹəʊ


text:
kakakaka

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to stutter, stammer

Adjective

 * 1) red

title: kakakaka


text:
suunnitelma

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) plan set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal
 * 2) scheme, blueprint systematic, detailed plan of future action
 * 3) design plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system
 * 1) scheme, blueprint systematic, detailed plan of future action
 * 2) design plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system
 * 1) design plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system

title: suunnitelma