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Talk:جدا

Disccusions with Stephen over the past months has had me thinking about a way to help overcome the problem with certain scripts such as Arabic and Thai being too small for him and other people. I didn't like the inline HTML font setting he experimented at the time but recent stuff with IPA and Cyrillic stress marks has given me some ideas.

I'll use this page to test the Arabic:

Arabic

 * I’m still trying it out, and so far it looks pretty good. However, now that it’s large enough to see clearly, I see a problem...but I don’t know if the problem is with the Wiki software or if it’s something on my system...perhaps my browser (IE 6) or my OS (Win2K). The problem is with compound diacritics...I can type them correctly in the edit window and they look correct, but after saving they are mangled. In the Arabic name of this article, you should see a double fatha (like an equal sign '=') above a shadda (a sort of 'w'). That’s how it appears before saving, but after I save it they are misplaced, and the = is inside and below the w. It is possible to have the = below the w, but this is a different sound (in versus an).
 * If this is not a bug in my browser or something like that, then I think we should avoid this combination of diacritics altogether.

 * Testing: (- over w),  (- under w),  (waw over w),  (= over w),  (= under w).

 * How do these five examples appear to you? —Stephen 08:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I saved this, then viewed it, and it is definitely being changed upon saving. In order to work properly, the shadda (w) always must be typed before the vowel mark. That’s how the GPos tables in the Arabic fonts are set up. But after I save the page, the order is switched so the the vowel is first and the shadda comes last. Let me try deliberately mistyping...I’ll type the vowel first and then the shadda. If it gets switched, then it should appear correctly:

 * Reverse order: (w under -),  (w over -),  (w under waw),  (w under =),  (w over =). —Stephen 09:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Nope, no difference...the order is still backwards. Apparently Wiki does not allow compound Arabic diacritics to be saved in the correct order. At least, I cannot save them using IE 6 in Win2K. —Stephen 09:30, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * It's probably one of two things. 1) The font in the edit window is different to the display font, and they have different quirks. 2) A couple of months ago, the Wikis started to do Unicode normalisation. This caused some problems with Hebrew because many well-known Microsoft Hebrew fonts were designed for an order of vowels and dagesh opposite that dictated by Unicode. Microsoft are apparently updating their fonts to overcome this problem. Perhaps there is a similar issue with normalized ordering of Arabic vowels, shaddas, sukuns, etc.
 * I recommend you try playing with the settings in Template:Arabic fonts. I'm on my work computer which is not set up for Arabic and I certainly don't know the script or the Unicode quirks as well as you but I am trying to learn. I also recommend you get the feel of Template:Arabic font size. Both of these can be overridden just for you or by any other user by customizing User:xxxxxx/monobook.css — Hippietrail 14:39, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

UniPad

 * The order is actually changing as I save the page. I can copy the saved Arabic word (from either the edit window or the display window, no difference) into MS Word, increase the size and select from any of my numerous Arabic fonts, and then I can insert a space between each of the Arabic glyphs...and the order is clearly reversed from my original "shadda-vowel" to "vowel-shadda." I don’t think messing with the Arabic fonts will do any good, because every one of my fonts requires the "shadda-vowel" sequence.
 * And in fact, this is the logical order. For any word with a double consonant, you have C (consonant), V (vowel), then CC (double consonant), then V again...like this: j-i-dd-a. The first consonant of the pair doesn’t receive any vowel, obviously...the vowel is only for the second of the pair...so you have to type the double consonant first (which is what the shadda does), and later put the vowel.
 * I suspect they got confused in the Normalization process because of right-to-left issues. They probably meant to have it save the shadda first, but got the whole thing bass-ackwards.
 * It could be that Microsoft was rushing to get things working before the nitty-gritty was finalized with Unicode, or they hadn't got as far as thinking about normalisation at that point. (Normalisation is important for searching as sorting but I'm sure you know all this stuff already.) The only was to see if it's different fonts rendering differently or normalisation having different ideas to font designers, is to check the exact sequence of Unicode codepoints both before and after saving the wiki page. A very good Unicode editor for this is SC UniPad available for download here: http://www.unipad.org/download/ - I would try to test it myself but I think you're the only contributor here who truly understands Arabic script and font design issues, but please report your findings.

 * I downloaded UniPad and tested جِدًّا, both before and after, and it showed what I already knew...before saving, I have j-d-{shadda}-{double-fatha}-alif. After saving, it turns into j-d-{double-fatha}-{shadda}-alif. In essence, it means we’re now typing the first consonant, then adding a vowel after the second consonant, and only then typing that second consonant after the fact...and the Arabic fonts do not allow this. Both consonants (meaning the consonant + shadda) must be on the page before any vowels are added after them.
 * Stretching things out a little to separate the diacritics for you, here is how I type the word "jissan": ... and this is how it gets switched: . The font’s GPos table tells {double-fatha} what to do when it follows {shadda}, but there are no instructions for the reverse order, so one glyph overlays and obscures the other. —Stephen 11:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've just tried asking about the normalisation problems on IRC but the right people are not there now. I have found a very basic discussion of the Hebrew case in English here, and an extensive one in Hebrew here - is your Hebrew as good as your Russian? — Hippietrail 12:56, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I filed a bug report on this if you're interested in following it. In fact you might be the best to field questions from the developers: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2399

CSS

 * By the way, I’m very interested in the User:xxxxxx/monobook.css page. Is there a template that I could use, or instructions somewhere? —Stephen 15:01, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It's annoyingly hard to find good info. There are various pages on meta, you can do a search there or on Google. If you have a look at my file you'll see these important lines:

/* test my experimental font-size template for certain scripts */ .AR { font-family: Courier New; color: green; } .TH { font-family: Courier New; color: blue; }

 * I only put the "color" stuff in for quick visual feedback. You'll be most interested in "font-family" and "font-size". I don't know how much CSS you know, I'm just learning myself but the standard docs are for free download from w3c.org. — Hippietrail 17:33, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There is a Thai test page here: Talk:ตุ๊กตุ๊ก

The Azeri entry
Is it correct to use the Perso-Arabic script for the Azeri language? As far as I know the Perso Arabic script has not been used for Azeri since 1918 so I'm not sure if it's correct to use the script as an entry? Shouldn't this entry be named "Old Azeri" or something similar to seperate it's script with the one currently used today? I'm mentioning this because it might get confusing for some people when they see the Azeri language written in Perso Arabic script and more commonly with the Latinized script. For example the Ottoman Turkish and the Turkish entries are more clear in their distinctions. Placebo 12:07, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Azeri is still written in Arabic script in Iran, the country in which a solid majority of all Azeris live. Kolmiel (talk) 13:48, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

title: Talk:جدا


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hauta

Noun

 * 1) choice

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) grave, tomb
 * 2) trench long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor
 * 3) pit in the ground
 * 1) pit in the ground

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) pit
 * 2) grave
 * 1) grave

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  pit
 * 2)  grave

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

title: hauta


text:
nimisõna

Etymology
🇰🇲

Noun

 * 1)  noun

title: nimisõna


text:
dramatic irony

Noun

 * 1) A theatrical effect in which the true meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.

title: dramatic irony


text:
Liettua

Proper noun

 * 1) Lithuania

title: Liettua


text: ตุ๊กตุ๊ก

title: ตุ๊กตุ๊ก


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Talk:ตุ๊กตุ๊ก

Disccusions with Stephen over the past months has had me thinking about a way to help overcome the problem with certain scripts such as Arabic and Thai being too small for him and other people. I didn't like the inline HTML font setting he experimented at the time but recent stuff with IPA and Cyrillic stress marks has given me some ideas.

I'll use this page to test the Thai:

Etymology
Imitative from the sound of the engine

Noun

 * 1) A small 3-wheeled motorised vehicle in very common in Thailand

 * Yes, this is a good size. The only problem that I see is that bolding blurs it almost beyond recognition for a new student. Without bolding, it becomes clear: . This may be due to the particular font...perhaps this font doesn’t have a bold counterpart, so a bold-effect is produced the way people used to use overstriking in mechanical type. Except for the bold, I think this looks very good. —Stephen 09:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Now the best thing about these "style templates" is that they are styles, not that they are templates. Firstly, we sysops can set the default font and size at Template:Thai fonts and Template:Thai font size. Advanced users, who know how to use CSS or javascript for styles can then override them if they have fonts they prefer or need to see them even bigger. To try this you need to edit User:User:Stephen G. Brown/monobook.css. I recommend you play with all these. I'm not sure if you already know CSS but you're our #1 guy on exotic scripts so I'm sure we'll all trust you to choose a good default. I just put in a size that showed up as different so we could see that it works.
 * I'm not sure exactly what to do re bolding yet. Our default syntax calls for bold in the headword section but it doesn't work well for CJKV or Thai, and probably other scripts. We can always decide not to do this anymore on scripts where bold is not really a native type concept. — Hippietrail 14:20, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Translations

 * tuk-tuk

title: Talk:ตุ๊กตุ๊ก


text:
kedutaan

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : the official residence of an organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state.

title: kedutaan


text:
User:Bergsten

See my page at Wikimedia Commons.

title: User:Bergsten


text:
User:Btw~enwiktionary

See my user page on Wikipedia.

fi:Käyttäjä:Btw

title: User:Btw~enwiktionary


text:
Sveitsi

Etymology
From.

title: Sveitsi


text: Päiväntasaajan Guinea

title: Päiväntasaajan Guinea


text:
archetype

Etymology
From (modern 🇨🇬), from, from , the  form of , from  (from , from ) +  (from , from ).

Noun

 * 1) An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
 * 2) An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
 * 3)  A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
 * 4)  According to Swiss psychologist : a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
 * 5)  A.
 * 1) An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
 * 2)  A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
 * 3)  According to Swiss psychologist : a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
 * 4)  A.
 * 1)  According to Swiss psychologist : a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
 * 2)  A.
 * 1)  A.
 * 1)  A.
 * 1)  A.
 * 1)  A.

Usage notes
Traditionally, archetype refers to the model upon which something is based, but it has also come to mean an example of a personality archetype, particularly a fictional character in a story based on a well-established personality model. In this fashion, a character based on the Jesus archetype might be referred to as a "Jesus archetype". See eponym for a similar usage conflict.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:model

Translations

 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܕܡܘܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: archetyp
 * Danish: arketype
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pratipo, arĥetipo, arketipo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: არქეტიპი,, მოდელი, ნიმუში, ორიგინალი, პირველსახე, პროტოტიპი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εἰκών
 * Hindi: आद्यरूप, आद्यप्ररूप,, आदिप्ररूप
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian: архетип
 * Manx: ard-chaslys
 * Middle English: forebīsen
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: arketyp, arketype
 * Nynorsk: arketyp, arketype
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Ido:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: malliesimerkki,
 * Georgian: პროტოტიპი
 * Greek:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:

 * Ancient Greek:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Mandarin:

Verb

 * 1) To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.

title: archetype


text:
Espanja

Etymology
From.

title: Espanja


text:
User talk:Kirk~enwiktionary

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wiktionary. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Two people have had a go at archetype already. Keep 'em coming. SemperBlotto 17:16, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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text:
egosurfing

Etymology
,.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.

Translations

 * Irish: mise-scimeáil, féinscimeáil
 * Japanese: エゴサーチ, エゴサ

title: egosurfing


text:
mebibyte

Etymology
en

Noun

 * 1)  Strictly,  220 (10242, or 1,048,576) bytes or 210 (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.

Synonyms

 * MiB

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: kibibyte
 * Next: gibibyte

Translations

 * Esperanto: mebibitoko
 * Finnish: mebitavu
 * French:
 * Georgian: მებიბაიტი
 * German:
 * Japanese: メビバイト
 * Russian:

title: mebibyte


text:
preamble

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

Noun

 * 1) A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
 * 2)  A syncword.
 * 1)  A syncword.
 * 1)  A syncword.
 * 1)  A syncword.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: Алагажәа
 * Arabic:
 * Basque: hitzaurre
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: preàmbul
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: პრეამბულა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: προοίμιον
 * Hindi:, , मुक़दमा, , , उद्देशिका
 * Icelandic: formáli,, inngangsorð, formálsorð
 * Irish: réamhrá, brollach
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: преамбула, кіріспе, алғысөз
 * Korean:
 * Maori: kupu whakataki
 * Polish:, arenga
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ro-ràdh
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:, ప్రవేశిక
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: biện ngôn (弁言)
 * Welsh: rhagymadrodd

 * Irish: réamhghiotán

Verb

 * 1)  To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.

title: preamble


text:
call screening

Noun

 * 1) The process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before a conversation. Some methods may include:
 * 2) * listening to the message being recorded on an answering machine,
 * 3) * checking a Calling Identity Display device,
 * 4) * checking the time or date.

title: call screening


text:
Talk:call screening

Wikipedia Edit History
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 * Time: 2005-06-10T08:06:43Z - By: w:User:144.135.190.104 - Comment: no idea what i'm doing, hope you can use it
 * Time: 2005-06-10T11:09:19Z - By: w:User:Darrien - Comment:

title: Talk:call screening


text:
unfair

Etymology
From, from , equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1) not fair, unjust
 * 2)  not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
 * 3)  sorrowful; sad
 * 4)  unseemly; disgraceful
 * 1)  not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
 * 2)  sorrowful; sad
 * 3)  unseemly; disgraceful
 * 1)  unseemly; disgraceful

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: несправядлі́вы
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: injust
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: uretfærdig, ufin
 * Esperanto: maljusta
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ósanngjarn
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: មិនយុត្តិធម៌
 * Korean: 불공평하다
 * Latin: inīquus
 * Luxembourgish: onfair
 * Macedonian: нечесен
 * Maori: makihuhunu
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: urettferdig
 * Old English: unrihtwīs
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: неправичан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: nespravodlivý
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: несправедли́вий
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1)  to make ugly

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) unfair

title: unfair


text:
nanodomain

Noun

 * 1)  A small set of atoms bound together, measuring between 1 and 100 nanometers.
 * 2)  In reference calcium signalling, is where the calcium-binding proteins (or "sensors") are located within a few nanometers of an open calcium channel.

title: nanodomain


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Talk:nanodomain

Wikipedia Edit History
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 * Time: 2005-06-11T12:56:27Z - By: w:User:138.38.32.84
 * Time: 2005-06-11T14:01:43Z - By: w:User:Infrogmation

title: Talk:nanodomain


text:
-ologist

Usage notes
Relatively few terms are directly derived using this suffix. Terms ending in logist are often derived from words formed in other languages or by suffixing -ist to a word ending in logy, as biologist = biology + -ist and theologist = theology + -ist, and snowologist = snowology + -ist.

Derived terms

 * See also -logy

Translations

 * Dutch: -oloog, -ologe
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: -ologi,
 * French: -ologue
 * German: -ologe
 * Hungarian: -ológus
 * Italian: -ologo, -ologa
 * Spanish: -ólogo, -óloga
 * West Frisian: -olooch, -ologe

title: -ologist


text:
Talk:-ologist

Wikipedia Edit History
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 * Time: 2005-06-09T19:54:13Z - By: w:User:146.145.220.126
 * Time: 2005-06-09T19:57:26Z - By: w:User:Qwertzy2
 * Time: 2005-06-09T20:37:17Z - By: w:User:Zzyzx11 - Comment: rm ;

Example
An example of a word apparently formed with this suffix: Bantologist. - -sche (discuss) 20:43, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

title: Talk:-ologist


text:
opsonize

Verb

 * 1)  To make (bacteria or other cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins.
 * 2)  To become more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins.
 * 1)  To become more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Spanish: opsonizar

title: opsonize


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Talk:opsonize

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 * Time: 2005-06-07T19:30:18Z - By: w:User:155.105.193.237
 * Time: 2005-06-07T19:50:05Z - By: w:User:M0nster0 - Comment: wikified
 * Time: 2005-06-09T23:41:01Z - By: w:User:66.67.235.193 - Comment: Move to Wiktionary

title: Talk:opsonize


text:
topless

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking a top.
 * 2)  Very high; towering.
 * 3) * late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:
 * Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
 * And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
 * 1)  Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.
 * 2)  Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
 * 1)  Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
 * 1)  Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
 * 1)  Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: без покрив
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 无顶, 無頂
 * Finnish: ;
 * Hungarian: tető nélküli
 * Russian: без ве́рха
 * Sicilian: â nuda; a l'ariò, a l'ària, a l'àriu
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: üstsüz
 * Welsh: di-dop

 * Finnish: korkeana siintävä
 * Hungarian: égbe nyúló, végtelen/irdatlan/mérhetetlen magas(ságú)

 * Bulgarian: гол до кръста
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: topløs
 * Esperanto: nudmama
 * Faroese: berbróstað
 * Finnish:
 * French:, seins nus
 * German:, topless, , busenfrei
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, meztelen/csupasz felsőtestű
 * Icelandic: topplaus, berbrjósta
 * Japanese: トップレス
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: toppløs, topplaus
 * Nynorsk: topplaus
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: с обнажённой гру́дью,  с го́лым то́рсом,
 * Sicilian: a spaḍḍa nuda; â nuda, a l'ariò, a l'ària, a l'àriu
 * Slovak: hore bez
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: üstsüz
 * Welsh: bronnoeth

 * Bulgarian: без горнище на банския
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * German:, topless
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: トップレス
 * Maori: ū tautau
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian: â nuda; a l'ariò, a l'ària, a l'àriu
 * Spanish:

 * Italian: col seno scoperto
 * Spanish: en topless, de topless
 * Swedish: topless (2), topless- (3), öppen (4)

Adverb

 * 1) Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.

Translations

 * Finnish: yläosattomana
 * Polish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1)  lacking clothes on the upper part of the body

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) the state of being topless
 * 2) a monokini or similar

Etymology
.

Noun
or

 * 1)  monokini

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)   naked from the waist up

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)  of a woman, naked from the waist up

title: topless


text:
tinder

Etymology
From, , , , from , from ,. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1) Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

Usage notes
Tinder refers to the first stage of building a fire: sparks light tinder, which then lights kindling, which then lights the main fire.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Aromanian: eascã, iascã
 * Asturian: esca, yesca
 * Azerbaijani: qov
 * Bulgarian: разпалки
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: lescje
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Ingrian: virite
 * Irish: sponc
 * Italian:
 * Latin: fōmes
 * Macedonian: борина
 * Maori: puaka, pangē, pangi, puaka, pūkoki, kōetoeto
 * Norman: tondre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: opptenningsved
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: estga, escha
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lulog
 * Turkish: ,
 * Udmurt: сеньки
 * Ukrainian: трут
 * Venetian: lesca, esca
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1)  To set fire to; torch.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * , firestarters

title: tinder


text:
sea lane

Etymology
+

Noun

 * 1)  A regularly used route for ocean-going vessels.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:
 * Maori: ara moana

title: sea lane


text:
Talk:sea lane

Wikipedia Edit History
This page was Transwikied from Wikipedia. Below is the edit history for the Wikipedia article.
 * Time: 2005-06-10T04:39:06Z - By: w:User:Mrtrey99
 * Time: 2005-06-10T05:49:42Z - By: w:User:71.102.72.201

title: Talk:sea lane


text:
sleepout

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A veranda or other outbuilding used as a sleeping area.
 * 2) an organised group of people sleeping in the open, often as a form of protest or to raise public awareness of an issue such as homelessness.
 * 3) a holiday in Africa where travellers sleep away from their home, generally in an open air safari lodge, private home or guest house.
 * 1) a holiday in Africa where travellers sleep away from their home, generally in an open air safari lodge, private home or guest house.

title: sleepout


text:
capo di tutti capi

Etymology
From, meaning "leader of all leaders".

Noun

 * 1)  Boss of all the bosses, especially in the mafia, Cosa Nostra etc. Often used by law enforcement, the media and the public in general to describe a Mafia boss who exerts significant influence on how the Mafia should run.

Translations

 * Polish: szef wszystkich szefów

title: capo di tutti capi


text:
trai

Etymology
From, from , present active infinitive of.

Verb

 * 1)  to throw; to dash
 * 2)  to shoot, to fire

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) living

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) three

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  gigolos; male prostitutes
 * 1)  gigolos; male prostitutes
 * 1)  gigolos; male prostitutes

Usage notes

 * Unlike other kinship terms, is gender-neutral when used to address a senior stranger, therefore it could be accompanied by trai or  for clarification.

Noun

 * a

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) ebb tide

title: trai


text: trae

title: trae


text: trasse

title: trasse


text: traeste

title: traeste


text: traigo

title: traigo


text: traéis

title: traéis


text:
dorme

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to doze

title: dorme


text:
dors

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) thirst

Adjective

 * 1) thirsty

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to thirst

Etymology 3
From, from , , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to thresh

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  back
 * 2) backside, reverse
 * 1) backside, reverse

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) threshing floor, usually in a barn
 * 2)  a barn or shed where agricultural equipment is stored
 * 1)  a barn or shed where agricultural equipment is stored

title: dors


text:
air show

Noun

 * 1) a public display of stunt flying, aerobatics, and historical aircraft.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 航空表演, 飛行表演
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: lentonäytös
 * French: spectacle aérien, meeting aérien
 * Georgian: საავიაციო გამოფენა, საჰაერო შოუ, ავიაშოუ
 * German:
 * Japanese: 航空ショー
 * Polish: air show
 * Russian:, , авиацио́нное шо́у
 * Swedish:

title: air show


text:
unverified

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Not (yet) confirmed; not verified.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: yoxlanmamış
 * Bulgarian: непотвърден,
 * French:
 * Greek: αδιασταύρωτος
 * Japanese: 未検証の
 * Manx: gyn feeraghey, neuhickyrit, gyn shickyraghey
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ubekrefta, ubekreftet
 * Nynorsk: ubekrefta
 * Swedish: obekräftad, overifierad

title: unverified


text:
Effie

Etymology 1
From +  (diminutive form), or, very rarely, from modern Greek Eftychia or Euthemia (diminutive form).

Proper noun

 * , also used as a formal given name in the 19th century.

Noun

 * 1)  An annual award given for effective marketing.

title: Effie


text:
faltar

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to be lacking/missing
 * 2) to disappear from
 * 3) to fail

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to be lacking
 * 2) to be left, to remain
 * 3) to be missing, to be absent

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to be missing; to be lacking
 * 2) to be lacking; to be absent
 * 3) to remain; to be left (for completing something)
 * 4) to skip, to miss
 * 5) to be missing; to be absent
 * 1) to skip, to miss
 * 2) to be missing; to be absent
 * 1) to be missing; to be absent

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to be missing; to be lacking
 * 2) to be lacking; to be absent
 * 3) to skip, to miss
 * 4) to remain; to be left (for completing something)
 * 5)  to be absent, not present
 * 1) to skip, to miss
 * 2) to remain; to be left (for completing something)
 * 3)  to be absent, not present
 * 1) to remain; to be left (for completing something)
 * 2)  to be absent, not present
 * 1)  to be absent, not present

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to be lacking, to lack, to not have
 * 2) to be lacking, to lack, to not have
 * 3) to remain
 * 4) to be absent, to be missing
 * 5) to miss
 * 1) to remain
 * 2) to be absent, to be missing
 * 3) to miss
 * 1) to be absent, to be missing
 * 2) to miss
 * 1) to miss

title: faltar


text:
no faltaba más

Phrase

 * 1)  don't mention it; you're welcome

title: no faltaba más


text:
airship

Etymology
From 🇰🇲.
 * is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.

Noun

 * 1)  A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
 * 2)  A police air unit, a police helicopter
 * 3)  Any aircraft.
 * 4)  A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
 * 1)  A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
 * 1)  A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.

Verb

 * 1) To transport goods by aircraft.

title: airship


text:
airstrip

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * German:
 * Indonesian: bandar udara perintis
 * Irish: aerstiall
 * Italian: pista di atterraggio
 * Latin: aeroportello
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: flystripe
 * Nynorsk: flystripe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pista de pouso
 * Spanish: pista de aterrizaje
 * Swedish:, ,

title: airstrip


text:
All Souls' Day

Proper noun

 * 1)  An annual feast day celebrating the faithful departed on the second day of November, immediately following All Saints' Day.
 * , a Chinese holiday.

Synonyms

 * Day of the Dead
 * Day of the Dead
 * Day of the Dead
 * Day of the Dead

Translations

 * Catalan: Dia dels Difunts, Dia dels Morts, Dia de les Ànimes
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 追思節
 * Mandarin: 諸靈節, 追思已亡節
 * Czech: Dušičky, Památka zesnulých
 * Dutch: allerzielen,
 * Esperanto: Tago de la Mortintoj
 * Faroese: alla sálnadagur
 * Finnish: vainajienpäivä, vainajien päivä
 * French: Commémoration des fidèles défunts
 * Galician: Día de Defuntos
 * German:, Allerseelentag
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: halottak napja
 * Irish: Lá Fhéile na Marbh
 * Italian: Giorno dei Morti, Commemorazione dei defunti
 * Luxembourgish: Allerséilendag, Allerséilen
 * Macedonian: Заду́шница
 * Maltese: Għid tal-Imwiet
 * Polish: Dzień Zaduszny,
 * Portuguese: Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos, Dia dos Mortos,
 * Russian: День всех усо́пших
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: Dušni dan
 * Spanish:, Conmemoración de los Fieles Difuntos, Día de los Difuntos
 * Swedish: alla själars dag
 * Turkish: Ölüler Günü
 * Vietnamese: lễ Các Đẳng
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: Dygwyl y Meirw, Gŵyl yr Holl Eneidiau

title: All Souls' Day


text:
All Saints' Day

Proper noun

 * 1)  In Christian tradition, the annual feast day celebrating the life of all saints, taking place on the first day of November, or (in the Greek church) on the first Sunday after Pentecost.

Translations

 * Arabic: عِيدُ جَمِيعِ اَلْقِدِّيسِين
 * Armenian: ամենայն սրբոց տոն
 * Asturian: Día de Tolos Santos
 * Belarusian: m
 * Bulgarian: Вси светии́
 * Catalan: Tots Sants
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 諸聖節, 萬聖節
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish:
 * Standard Cornish: De Halan Gwâv
 * Czech: všech svatých
 * Danish: allehelgensdag
 * Dutch: allerheiligen,
 * Esperanto: Tago de Ĉiuj Sanktuloj
 * Estonian: pühakutepäev
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Día de Tódolos Santos
 * German:
 * Greek: Αγίων Πάντων
 * Hungarian:, mindenszentek napja
 * Irish: Lá Fhéile na Naomh Uile, almas
 * Italian:, Tutti i Santi
 * Jamtish: hæłgjęmesse
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean: ^만성절
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Maltese: Jum il-Qaddisin Kollha
 * Norman: Toussaint
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: allehelgensdag
 * Nynorsk: allehelgensdag
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Dia de Todos-os-Santos, dia de todos os santos, dia de todos os Santos
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: День всех святы́х
 * Scottish Gaelic: Fèill nan Naoimh Uile
 * Serbo-Croatian:, Сви свети
 * Slovene: dan spomina na mrtve, Vsi sveti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: allhelgonadagen
 * Tagalog: Araw ng mga Patay, Todos los Santos
 * Turkish: Azizler Günü
 * Ukrainian: День усіх святих
 * Vietnamese: lễ Các Thánh, ngày lễ Các Thánh
 * Walloon:

title: All Saints' Day


text:
lo mein

Etymology
From. See also,.

Noun

 * 1) A Chinese dish consisting of soft noodles stir fried with vegetables and meat in sauce.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 撈麵
 * Mandarin:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:

title: lo mein


text:
missa

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)

Etymology
, from. , an inherited form.

Noun

 * 1) mass
 * 2)  money

Verb

 * 1) to lose

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to lose

Etymology 1
In use by the 6th century. Presumably from the phrase (said by a priest to dismiss the congregation after the service), where missa is 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, for, from  (ultimately from ) +.

An older derivation (16th century, attributed to Luther) adduced (compare ), but this is no longer considered a tenable etymology.

Noun

 * 1)  Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy
 * Omni dominica sex missas facite ("Each Sunday, do six masses") Caesarius of Arles, Regula ad monachos, PL 67, 1102B.

Etymology
From. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to lose

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  mass religious service
 * Eſta é de como ſta maria pareceu en toledo a ſant alifonſſo ⁊ deull ũa alua q̇ trouxe de paraẏſo con que diſſeſſe miſſa.
 * This one is (about) how Holy Mary appeared to Saint Ildefonso in Toledo and gave him an alb from paradise to celebrate mass.
 * This one is (about) how Holy Mary appeared to Saint Ildefonso in Toledo and gave him an alb from paradise to celebrate mass.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to miss, lose

Etymology 1
From, from (possibly a borrowing or semi-learned term), from , from.

Noun

 * 1) mass (religion: celebration of the Eucharist)

Etymology
From, from. .

Verb

 * 1) to miss; to fail to hit (a target)
 * 2) to miss; to be late for something
 * 3) to miss; to forget about (something which happened or should be done)
 * 4) to miss; to fail to attend
 * 5) to miss; to fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception
 * 6) to overlook; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) table

title: missa


text:
missio

Etymology
(see 🇨🇬), ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) mission

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) sending, mission
 * 2) dismissal
 * 3)  discharge
 * 4) quarter, mercy
 * 1) quarter, mercy

title: missio


text:
kibibyte

Etymology
en

Noun

 * 1)  Strictly, 210 (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.

Synonyms

 * KiB

Coordinate terms

 * Previous: byte
 * Next: mebibyte

Translations

 * Esperanto: kibibitoko
 * Finnish: kibitavu
 * French:
 * Georgian: კიბიბაიტი
 * German:
 * Japanese: キビバイト
 * Russian:

title: kibibyte


text: QTF

title: QTF


text:
esagerare

Etymology
, from +.

Verb

 * 1) to exaggerate
 * 2) to go too far, to overdo it, to go overboard

title: esagerare


text:
Guilin

Etymology
From the romanization of the, with particular reference to the area's.

Translations

 * Arabic: غُويْلِين, جُويْلِين
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 桂林
 * Hokkien: 桂林
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: კუეილინი
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ^구이린
 * Macedonian: Гу́јлин
 * Russian: Гуйли́нь
 * Thai: กุ้ยหลิน
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zhuang: Gveilinz

title: Guilin


text: esagero

title: esagero


text: esagererò

title: esagererò


text: Citations:frenetic

title: Citations:frenetic


text: franse

title: franse


text:
Citations:vexatious

 * 1955 - "To German intelligence, Major de Coverley was a vexatious enigma; not one of the hundreds of American prisoners would ever supply any concrete information about the elderly white-haired officer with the gnarled and menacing brow and blazing, powerful eyes who seemed to spearhead every important advance so fearlessly and successfully." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 136

title: Citations:vexatious


text:
Citations:enigma

 * 1955 - "To German intelligence, Major de Coverley was a vexatious enigma; not one of the hundreds of American prisoners would ever supply any concrete information about the elderly white-haired officer with the gnarled and menacing brow and blazing, powerful eyes who seemed to spearhead every important advance so fearlessly and successfully." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 136

title: Citations:enigma


text:
Citations:debauch

 * 1955 - "There were always more enlisted men, to begin with, and more women to cook and serve and sweep and scrub, and there were always the gay and silly sensual young girls that Yossarian had found and brought there and those that the sleepy enlisted men returning to Pianosa after their own exhausting seven-day debauch had brought there on their own and were leaving behind for whomever wanted them next." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 137

title: Citations:debauch


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Citations:repudiation

 * 1955 - "Colonel Cathcart was stung by the blunt rebuke and skulked guiltily about his room in smarting repudiation." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 140

title: Citations:repudiation


text:
croît

Noun

 * 1) breeding, propagation

title: croît


text:
Citations:contrite

 * 1955 - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 133
 * He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
 * 1853, William Cowper, The Poetical Works of William Cowper, vol 3, Little, Brown & Co., page 9
 * The Lord will happiness divine / On contrite hearts bestow

title: Citations:contrite


text:
Citations:brusque

Adjective

 * 1) Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.

title: Citations:brusque


text:
Citations:flaccid

floppy

 * 1995, David J. Rothman, Steven Marcus, Stephanie A. Kiceluk, Medicine and Western civilization, page 127:
 * The difference in average erective size increase between the smaller flaccid penis and the larger flaccid penis is not significant.

ambiguous

 * 1988 Travis Bogard, Contour in time: the plays of Eugene O'Neill, Oxford University Press US, p322
 * In the final analysis, Dynamo is made up of sweepings from the O'Neill workshop, containing surprisingly flaccid writing, and an irrevocably ambiguous theme.
 * 2002 Tom Goldstein & Jethro Koller Lieberman, The lawyer's guide to writing well, University of California Press, p112
 * Comfortable with "pursuant to," this writer unfortunately continues unmindful that his flaccid writing obscures the point.

title: Citations:flaccid


text:
Citations:paunch

 * 1861 - "It is better to hang without being paunched..." - Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management, Chapter 23, recipe for Roast Hare, no. 1027.
 * 1955 - "Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 140

title: Citations:paunch


text: Citations:swarthy

title: Citations:swarthy


text:
Citations:languorously

 * 1955 - "He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 14, page 148

title: Citations:languorously


text:
Citations:sand bar

 * 1955 - "He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 14, page 148

title: Citations:sand bar


text:
orbicular

Etymology
From the, from , diminutive of.

Adjective

 * 1) Circular or spherical in shape; round.
 * 2) * 1731 , Weekly Essays in June 1731, Craftman, Sat. June 5, No. 257, p. 238:
 * "en"

- the Method used by Sailors when they mutiny, by signing their names in an orbicular manner, which they call a round Robin;

Translations

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Finnish: kehämäinen
 * French: ,
 * German: orbikular,
 * Italian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: یومرو, طوپاق
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: orbicular,

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) orbicular muscle

title: orbicular


text:
Citations:sonorously

 * 1955 - "'Well, will you look at that,' Aarfy marvled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 15, page 151

title: Citations:sonorously


text:
Citations:enchantment

 * 1955 - "'Well, will you look at that,' Aarfy marvled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 15, page 151

title: Citations:enchantment


text:
Citations:orbicular

 * 1955 - "'Well, will you look at that,' Aarfy marveled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 15, page 151

 * 1856 - "… I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion." - Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

 * 1661 - "The Moon is manifestly like to the Earth in figure, which undoubtedly is spherical, as may be necessarily concluded from the aspect of its surface, which is perfectly Orbicular." - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, First Day.

title: Citations:orbicular


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changer

Noun

 * 1) Someone or something who changes things.
 * 2) Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
 * 3) A person employed in changing or discounting money.

Usage notes

 * Usually used together with another noun, eg, automatic tool changer, shape changer, mind changer.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to exchange (something)
 * 2)  to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.)
 * 3)  to change, alter (something en into)
 * 4)  to change (a diaper)
 * 5)  to change
 * 6)  to change (one's clothes), get changed

title: changer


text:
Template talk:seeCites

Where?
Where in the article does the Quotations section belong? WT:ELE isn't helpful. —Michael Z. 2008-05-03 06:15 z

 * This vote: Votes/pl-2007-06/ELE level 4 header sequence sets the preferred order of L4 sections. Quotations should come after Usage notes and Inflection, but before Synonyms. --EncycloPetey 18:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Isn't it a bit more logical to put it at L3, given that Citations namespace contains citations for all the senses of L3 PoS of the entry? If it is put on L4, ====Quotations==== header with boilerplate template would ought to be repeated in every instance of L3 section having quotations, like it's now on hinder:. Looks a bit awkward to me. --Ivan Štambuk 07:31, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

lang=
I'd like to add support for lang= parameter to this template, so that foreign-language citations having L2 header ==Foreign language== in the Citations namespace pages can be directly linked to, e.g.  . Just to ease linking to specific sections in case of multiple-language citations. --Ivan Štambuk 07:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Sadly, we don't actually seem to use L2 language headers on citations pages; instead, we use the odd template. But once we've fixed that, I'm all for the change you suggest. —Ruakh TALK 21:21, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Location
About a third of current usages of this template are not in a Quotations headers. I think it looks odd to have it as the only contents of a Quotations header and that it should be fine to put it at the bottom of a PoS section (e.g. abstemious). --Bequw → τ 16:02, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Changed doc. --Bequw → τ 13:42, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

—Ruakh TALK 12:56, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * On further thought, maybe we could have on option so that the notice floats on the right (a la ). That way we could include it in the POS section w/o the need for a spandrel =Quotations= header. --Bequw → τ 02:49, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I've been putting this template in the same place I'd put an actual quotation: Definition  But that approach became a bit less appealing once quotations became hidden by default, and anyway it never worked well when there were multiple senses with citations-page quotations. Something like would be very useful.
 * Done. If anyone would like to reword to make it fit on a single line, please do. --Bequw → τ 02:54, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

pos=right
Essentially when you enter  the template becomes an entirely new template; a right-floating one that works like. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:17, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Reword
The current phrasing of this template, "For quotations of use of this term…", sounds very awkward to this native English speaker. The wording has been changed several times in the past (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Can we get a consensus on a (different) wording?

My suggestion: "For quotations using this term…".

I would just make the change, but this template is apparently used on thousands of pages, so I don't want it to be edited more often than necessary. Also, whatever wording is adopted here should probably be used (along with the word "more") in Template:seemoreCites, as well. - dcljr (talk) 03:55, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I am not entirely happy with 'term'. It may be clear to us that it means in this context a given Language-Etymology-PoS, but it could mean a given Language, Language-Etymology, or even a specific definition. If it's the best we can do, let's use it. I suppose we don't have any evidence that it actually (rather than potentially) causes users problems. DCDuring (talk) 05:02, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * On the contrary, a Citations page for a given term is for all languages, etymologies and PoSes. For example, Citations:amœne has both English and French citations, and Citations:word has citations both for the term as a Noun and as an Interjection. The suggested replacement (using “using” instead of use of “of use of”) is an improvement. --Lambiam 12:04, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

OK, well, upon further reflection, I'm not sure which of the following changes I prefer: In Template:seemoreCites, change "For more examples of usage of this term" to "For more quotations using this term". In Template:seemoreCites, change "For more examples of usage of this term" to "For more examples of quotations using this term". , and whoever else: which version(s) do you prefer, 1 or 2? Or something else (in which case, please suggest something specific)? - dcljr (talk) 02:34, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) In Template:seeCites, change "For quotations of use of this term" to "For quotations using this term".
 * 1) In Template:seeCites, change "For quotations of use of this term" to "For examples of quotations using this term".
 * The changes you propose seem fine, but there is a BP discussion about usage examples and citations that may become relevant. DCDuring (talk) 02:59, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Link, please? - dcljr (talk) 03:02, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, you mean Beer parlour/2019/December, I assume. - dcljr (talk) 03:07, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Or Beer parlour/2019/December. - dcljr (talk) 00:49, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The #2 style seems more natural to me. To address 's valid objection, it should probably be "entry" rather than "term". E.g. it would be very handy to have usage examples of emoji and how they work in a certain context but those are not terms. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:25, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * To me, in the context of a dictionary, the term means the whole rigmarole including POS, definition, and quotations or examples of usage. The sign ☮  is not an entry but has an entry. So I prefer “term” over ”entry”. We could give the templates a   parameter to override “term” when the latter is less appropriate; e.g. seeCites.  --Lambiam 12:26, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

 * I prefer version 1, because it is consistent with the wording of [quotations ▼] / [quotations ▲] following the definitions and the Show quotations / Hide quotations in the side bar. --Lambiam 11:45, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * : Are you reading the options right? Both of them are proposing using the word "quotations". They differ only in the use or not of the additional phrase "examples of". - dcljr (talk) 13:23, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes. If it had been [examples of quotations ▼] / [examples of quotations ▲] and Show examples of quotations / Hide examples of quotations, I’d have preferred version 2.  --Lambiam 15:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, I wasn't sure… - dcljr (talk) 04:26, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

(time passes…)
 * I'm not totally enthusiastic about the idea of quotations using a term. I would say that their purpose is more to e.g. illustrate or document the use, e.g. "For quotations illustrating the use of this term, see Citations:blahblah". Or is there a reason why we don't just stick with the term "citations", i.e. "For citations of this term, see  Citations:blahblah"? I know it repeats the word "citations", but the second instance is a link, so I think it is reasonable. Or do we want to explain it further in case people don't understand the word "citations"? Mihia (talk) 18:22, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

I think it's a good idea to phrase it in a way that hints at what "citations" are. Here's another possibility: , how 'bout that? - dcljr (talk) 04:16, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
 * "See Citations:… for documented uses of this term." / "See Citations:… for more documented uses of this term."

 * By itself this is fine, but I am slightly concerned with a proliferation of terms for the same thing: (1) “citation” on the Citations pages and in the Citations tab on top of mainspace pages next to Discussion ; (2) “quotation” in [quotations ▼] / [quotations ▲] and Show quotations / Hide quotations ; and now perhaps (3) “documented use”. While the latter is indeed clearer, new users will naturally not immediately see that all these different terms mean exactly the same thing. Is it too late to agree on one term for all uses? (Not here of course, but over at the Beer parlour.) In that case I think “citation” has good papers (see, sense 6). --Lambiam 12:30, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
 * But as you know, our "quotations" don't have to be citations, so those are not always the same thing. - dcljr (talk) 14:50, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

(a lot more time passes…)

OK, I forgot about this discussion. Template:seemoreCites was just changed to use the horrible wording of this template, which we have been discussing here (I reverted the change). Something needs to be done about this. Unless there are any other objections in the next few days, I'm going to use the wordings I suggested immediately above: ? - dcljr (talk) 07:41, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * "See Citations:… for documented uses of this term." / "See Citations:… for more documented uses of this term."
 * My main beef is with the inconsistent use of the term referring to the same thing, sometimes ”citations”, sometimes “quotations”. IMO this is confusing for casual users. But also, as I understand these terms, there is a difference. The term “quotation” implies the use of an exactly copied piece of text, usually shown to be such by enclosing it between quotation marks. The term “citation”, to me, merely implies the specification of the source of some idea or statement, possibly expressed in a different way. In a comparison:
 * Citation: Even when the spirit is willing to do whatever God asks, the flesh remains weak. (Matth. 26:41)
 * Quotation: Jesus told his disciples: “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
 * It is in general good practice to cite a quotation, but some are so well known that this would be overkill. For our use here, though, citing quotations has become the standard. In a slogan: No taxation quotation without representation citation. This is reflected in the request embedded in the rfdatek templates: “ Can we date this quote by and provide title, author’s full name, and other details? ” Cited quotations are documented uses, but I see no advantage in introducing yet a third term (“documented uses”); I think it creates more confusion. In our context quotations are texts that use some specific term of interest, so the phrasing “quotations using this term” is IMO perfectly adequate. Should we go for ”citations”, then ”citations of uses of this term”, as short for ”citations of quotations using this term”, would also do. But ”citations of this term” is wrong; the thing being cited is not the term but its use. Finally, our quotations are examples of use, so “examples of quotations” would mean, pleonastically, “examples of examples”. --Lambiam 10:35, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

In Template:seemoreCites, change "For more examples of usage of this term" to "For more quotations using this term".
 * Thanks for the ping, I think this is fine. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:54, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with Lambiam's comments. Further, possibly stating the obvious, quotation is better for normal users. That we expect a citation to accompany a quotation is a matter that is important for the relatively small number of those who provide quotations. Using quotation instead of citation seems to expose us to the risk of new contributors providing uncited quotations. I think this is a small risk. If it turns out to be a serious problem, we can probably deal with it then. DCDuring (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with Lambiam. Let's use "quotations" in both templates. - -sche (discuss) 22:15, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmm. OK, so it sounds like we are coalescing around my original "#1" suggestion:
 * In Template:seeCites, change "For quotations of use of this term" to "For quotations using this term".
 * Right? (I'll make the change soon unless there are further significant objections.) - dcljr (talk) 09:02, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

 * OK, so I waited so long, -sche made the changes. - dcljr (talk) 22:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Merge
So now that Template:seeCites and Template:seemoreCites have the same wording except for the word "more", is there any reason not to merge the latter template into the former (i.e., adding the option to say "more" to the former template)? - dcljr (talk) 22:43, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

 * As long as is retained as a shortcut for  (or whatever), I don't care if the underlying functionality is combined. Since this are relatively simple templates, which don't need to do many (any?) fancy things like predict inflected form endings to add, and don't require frequent updates, it might not be worth the bother, but then again, I don't see any harm in it, either... - -sche (discuss) 23:45, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

title: Template talk:seeCites


text:
screw up

Verb

 * 1)  To tighten or secure with screws.
 * 2)  To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
 * 3)  To raise or summon up.
 * 4)  To twist into a contorted state.
 * 5)  To squint.
 * 6)   To make a mess of; to ruin.
 * 7)  To blunder; to make a mistake.
 * 1)  To squint.
 * 2)   To make a mess of; to ruin.
 * 3)  To blunder; to make a mistake.
 * 1)   To make a mess of; to ruin.
 * 2)  To blunder; to make a mistake.
 * 1)   To make a mess of; to ruin.
 * 2)  To blunder; to make a mistake.
 * 1)  To blunder; to make a mistake.
 * 1)  To blunder; to make a mistake.

Translations

 * Czech: zašroubovat
 * Danish: skrue fast
 * Finnish:, ruuvata kiinni
 * German: ,
 * Polish: przyśrubować
 * Russian: ,

 * Czech: našponovat,, přemrštit, , šroubovat
 * Finnish:, kiristää äärimmilleen

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Maori: kupi, arohea

 * Czech:, zbodat, ,
 * Danish: dumme sig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , mämmätä
 * French:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:

 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish:, , mämmätä
 * French: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,

 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, ,
 * French:, ,

title: screw up


text:
quackery

Noun

 * 1)  The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
 * 2)  An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
 * 1)  An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
 * 1)  An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 庸醫的醫術
 * Czech: šarlatánství, mastičkářství
 * Danish: kvaksalveri
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: skottulækningar
 * Italian: frode medica, ciarlataneria
 * Japanese: 偽医療
 * Korean: 엉터리 치료
 * Latin: pharmacopolia
 * Macedonian: надрилекарство
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kvakksalveri
 * Nynorsk: kvakksalveri
 * Polish: szarlataństwo, znachorstwo,
 * Portuguese: curandeirismo
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: curandería, curanderismo
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: cwacyddiaeth, crachfeddygaeth

 * Finnish:

title: quackery


text:
embezzlement

Noun

 * 1)  The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.

Translations

 * Arabic: اِخْتِلَاس
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: malversació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: zpronevěra,
 * Danish: underslæb
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: malversacio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მიტაცება, გაფლანგვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: ग़बन
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cúigleáil
 * Italian: appropriazione indebita,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: pecūlātus
 * Lithuanian: grobstymas
 * Macedonian: проневера
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: про̏невера,  про̏невјера
 * Roman: prȍnevera,
 * Spanish: apropiación indebida,, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: panlulustay, paglustay
 * Turkish:, , hortumculuk ,

title: embezzlement


text:
bats

Adjective

 * 1)  Mad, insane.
 * You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.

Noun

 * 1)  buttock

title: bats


text:
poistaa

Verb

 * 1) to remove, take away, take off
 * 2) to delete, erase, strike, eliminate from existence
 * 3)  to depreciate, write off
 * 4)  to sell or deal illegal recreational drugs
 * 1) to delete, erase, strike, eliminate from existence
 * 2)  to depreciate, write off
 * 3)  to sell or deal illegal recreational drugs
 * 1) to delete, erase, strike, eliminate from existence
 * 2)  to depreciate, write off
 * 3)  to sell or deal illegal recreational drugs
 * 1)  to depreciate, write off
 * 2)  to sell or deal illegal recreational drugs

Usage notes
Many English verbs that denote the removal of a specific material (often with the prefix ) are translated into Finnish with the verb (as in the collocations above). In that case, the direct object of the English verb will be an adverbial in the equivalent Finnish verb phrase, and it will be expressed in the elative case:

title: poistaa


text:
rikos

Noun

 * 1)  crime, offence/offense, criminality

title: rikos


text:
pääkaupunki

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) capital city

title: pääkaupunki


text:
identity theft

Noun

 * 1)  The deliberate assumption of another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: identiteettivarkaus
 * French: usurpation d'identité
 * German: Identitätsdiebstahl
 * Greek: κλοπή ταυτότητας
 * Hebrew: גניבת זהות
 * Hungarian:, személyiséglopás
 * Indonesian: pencurian identitas
 * Italian: furto di identità
 * Japanese: アイデンティティの盗難,
 * Korean: 신원 도둑질
 * Latin: ,
 * Portuguese: roubo da identidade, usurpação de identidade
 * Russian: похище́ние тождественности
 * Spanish: hurto de la identidad, robo de identidad
 * Swedish: identitetsstöld, id-kapning

title: identity theft


text:
kota

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) quota

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) muddy

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A conical or hemispherical shelter with an open fireplace in the middle, usually supported by a frame of wooden poles and covered with a variety of materials including hides, textile fabric, peat and timber; known in some English texts by its Northern Sami name goahti.
 * 2) Specifically, a.
 * 3)  capsule
 * 4) core of an apple

Etymology
From, from , from or. The sense in government was to translate  or.

Noun

 * 1) A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
 * 2)  The second-level urban administrative division in Indonesia.
 * 1)  The second-level urban administrative division in Indonesia.

Usage notes

 * 1) The sense of second-level urban administrative division is used since 1999. The previous term for second-level urban administrative division are  (1965-1999) and  (~1965). The second-level urban administrative division in Java during colonial period were 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.
 * 2) Before 1999,  was used to describe urban administrative division, which can be a first-level administrative division, a second-level administrative division , a third-level administrative division  , or a fourth-level administrative division.

Verb

 * 1) to go in, to enter

Verb

 * 1) to enter

Verb

 * 1)  to chew

Etymology
From or.

Noun

 * 1) city

Etymology
Inherited from.

Noun

 * 1) city

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cauldron

Noun

 * 1) a vertebra, an element of the backbone

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) quota

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) quota

title: kota


text:
epäilyttävä

Adjective

 * 1) suspicious, iffy

title: epäilyttävä


text:
danau

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A large, landlocked stretch of water; lake.

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬), from, from.

Noun

 * 1) lake

title: danau


text:
Appendix talk:Foucault's Pendulum

This novel was originally in Italian. Concordance should specify whose translation is being studied. Eclecticology 06:44, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
 * Very true. William Weaver was the English translator. He's about as famous as modern literary translators get these days. — Hippietrail 08:03, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The entries should be completely alphabetical, not just in respect to the initial letter in each word. I fixed the "I" section, but the rest are mixed up, making words harder to find.

title: Appendix talk:Foucault's Pendulum


text:
hiljaisuus

Noun

 * 1) silence

title: hiljaisuus


text:
Talk:MILF

This article needs to be expanded
It is now more than a mere definition and should be expanded from a simple definition into something more substantial including noted references and some of the information relayed below

Well, in my humble opinion, I believe that MILF stands for "Mother I Love Father" thank you.

But you would probably be wrong. MILF stands for "Moro Islamic Liberation Front" (MILF) which has been around much longer than the internet or American Pie.

That's great, but it's likely something made up by a parent to shelter their child from what it actually stands for.

MILF
In its proper use, MILF refers to a woman that is old enough to be the speaker's mother. The term originated with pubescent males commenting on the sexual desirability of each other's mother. Hence, these males were referring to women who were generally old enough to be their own mothers. Accordingly, a man age 30, cannot properly refer to a 35 year-old mother as a MILF. The term was originally coined specifically to describe significantly older women who are sexually attractive; for instance, a 22 year old mother does not meet all of the criteria for MILFness because she is not old enough to be the parent of a sexually interested speaker or his peers. Unfortunately, over the years it has been widely misused to describe any woman who has given birth and is still sexually attractive. This misuse robs the term of its critical and inherent original distinction as referring to the tittilatingly taboo act of sex between a young man and a much older woman. it was used in the 50's by us fighter pilots in the far east and stood for: mother; i like fucking!
 * What nonsense - God forbid someone would besmirch the the term "MILF" . It's "critical and inherent original distinction"? You mean a young man slobbering over how much he wants to have sex with an older women - That distinction?
 * You're trying to discredit him by implying this subject is too silly or obvious to deserve full analysis? 72.208.6.122 08:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

As master of the English Language I take offense when the term MILF is not used in it's proper context. So let's get the definition down, right here right now. MILF is an Acronym that stands for a Mother I'd Like to Fuck. To qualify for MILF status a woman must be old enough to have children who are either sexually active or trying to be sexually active. A mother in her 20s does not qualify for MILF status. For a woman in her 20s to qualify as a MILF she has to have given birth in her early teens. A mother with only daughters does not qualify for MILF status until her daughters begin dating and bringing boys by the home. A mother with sons qualifies for MILF status much earlier than a woman with only daughters. Do I need to explain why? The concept of MILF predates the term; Oedipus' mother, Jocasta, was a MILF that he fucked himself. In the recent past MILF's were referred to as Cradle Robbers, Mrs. Robinsons, Yummy Mummys, and most recently Cougars. A serious relationship with a MILF is referred to as a May-December romance.

So let's get it right!

 * It has nothing to do with the age of her children - it's her own age as well as her attractiveness that count. Jim Michael (talk) 18:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

 * Nonsense.   Any lady with kids qualifies for MILF status (as long as the lady is over 18 of course). 173.241.188.47 06:44, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

MILF WATCH
There should be a section of fictional female characters who are deemed MILFs for example Sue Richards from the fantastic four comics (in the comics she has two kids so it warrants), stifler's mom from the American Pie movies or Mantra from the malibu comics. this is bollox - it was used in the 50's by us fighter pilots in the far east and stood for: mother; i like fucking!
 * No, there should not. This is a dictionary, not an encyclopedia. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Mom vs. Mother
Is my recollection of this line in this movie wrong, or are there different versions of the movie out there (i.e. a British version with Mother dubbed over Mom?) --Connel MacKenzie 06:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Think "Stiffler's mother"

 * [From imdb.com]

[while looking at a picture of Stifler's mom]

MILF Guy #2: Dude that chick's a MILF!

MILF Guy #1: What to hell is that?

MILF Guy #2: M-I-L-F Mom I'd Like to Fuck!

MILF Guy #1: Yeah dude! Yeah!

I vote to change it to mom. It's how I've always heard it. --SeizureDog 19:51, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Where did the term first come from if it wasn't from this movie? does anyone know?

 * UPDATE - This acronym actually has earlier known usage, although the orginator of the term is unknown to this author. My friends and I started using the term regularly in Madison, WI, no later than 1993, after having been introduced to the term that year by a North Carolina teenager relative, so the origin as the southeast would be supported, but no later than 1993.

This acronym was first coined in 1996 and was used as a "Mom I'd Like to Fuck". This occurred in a Southeastern United States Beach and Water Park where the staff, which I was one of, used many code words to have conversations within hearing distance of the patrons without giving away the true meaning of the conversation. The name of the man responsible for coining the acronym and phrase is Jeff Jager (Yae-ger). I can attest to this with first hand knowledge of his coining of the phrase without any prior knowledge of any earlier uses of the acronym.
 * Thank you for this information, but I think it's still not verifiable enough to put on the article page. When I did a quick search for Jeff Jager in Yahoo People Search it gave me at least 14 distinct people including 2 in TX, and one each in GA and NC.  It would certainly not be appropriate to attribute such a term to the wrong person, and even the correct person may not be pleased to have this come back to him.  I don't, however, mind mentioning the name of the Park if you provide that name.  Eclecticology 22:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, I knew someone in college who used this term back in 1990. I think he was from Long Island and it was part of the lexicon him and his friends used.

The Jeff I am referring to is in Georgia and I did consult him before posting his name. The resort is Lake Lanier Islands Beach and Waterpark. If you would like to contact me for further questions, post it here.

 * From Googling, I find that this person is a teacher in a smaller Georgia town. Being associated with this kind of story can potentialy have an effect on a teacher's employment in the Christian South.  That makes me loath to use his name in this.  Eclecticology 21:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Without debating further your statement has nothing to do with our topic of the origin of the acronym MILF. Loathing it or not you now have the correct information. Thanks for the discussion.

 * Being loath and to loathe are two completely different ideas. Eclecticology 00:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh, I have found a |Usenet reference to MILF from 1995, so this can't be right. And the first reference was to "Mothers".philbog

My first exposure to the term "MILF" dates back to 1990 when I was a high school freshman in Massachusetts. Because of this I'd have to question the claim that the phrase was coined in 1996 at a water park. Perhaps this fellow never heard the term before he used it, but it was definitely in existence before he used it. I remember this clearly because there were two sects of guys at my school; One who used MILF and the other preferred "Yummy Mummy".

 * The nice thing about the movie citation is that it is (well, the transcript, at least) the first published evidence of the term. He said/she said doesn't meet any criteria for attestation, nor do fly-by-night websites.  The folk etymologies are nice in and of themselves, but really don't add anything helpful or meaningful to the entry, in my opinion.  --Connel MacKenzie 18:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not purporting to know the origin but had to put my 2 cents in after reading the above which stated that it was coined in 1996. I recall hearing my male friends use this term when I was in 4th grade, so back in 1984.

 * It was in frequent use in Massachusetts in the early and mid-1980s.

The origin of the acronym "MILF" was first coined as "Mother I'd Like to Fuck" it comes from Post Falls, Idaho. How do I know? I am embarrassed to say it but I made it up with a friend of sitting on a lifeguard stand in the summer of 1994. The entry stating the term was used in 1984 is inaccurate it did not exist then. I apologize if I have offended anyone I never thought it would catch on. The acronym was spread around by lifeguards. Two guards from my beach moved away, one to California, the other to Indiana. I can only assume this is the reason why so many have heard about the acronym on both coasts of the USA in so close a time period. I can verify all that I have written and so will my friend who was with me on the stand that day.

Actually... I'll disagree with the above. I was introduced to the term in 1988 by a college roommate from Chicago, IL. It was used often after that in the town of Rochester, NY.

Friends and I were using this term in the very early 1990s at the University of Illinois - Urbana, Champaign. We even expanded on it to MILFUTA (pronounced "Mill-fuh-ta") meaning "Mother I'd Like To Fuck Up The Ass". We reserved this term for moms that were so hot, they were hotter than just regular MILFs.

I have to second whoever said it goes as far back as the mid-80s. As a teen in Sacramento during said era one of my friends introduced me to it. I don't know where he first heard it. Maybe from his older half-brother from Wisconsin. Not sure.

i've been meaning to get on a site for a while & see what folks knew about the derivation of this term, because for many years (since it popped into mainstream use in american pie) i've been telling friends that i've known of the phrase since the fall of '78 or spring of '79. i went to a private high school in fairfield, ct & i can take you to the spot on one of the playing fields where a half dozen of us were in conversation during a break in lacrosse practice where i heard it for the first time. there were a handful of guys on the team from ridgefield, ct & two of them were present for this particular conversation. one of them dropped the phrase which caused the rest of us to have a "huh? what did you just say??" moment & the two ridgefield fellas explained (much to our delight) what it stood for and noted it was part of the young male vernacular in the hills of ridgefield. for the record, their use was "mother i'd like to f**k" (not mom). i remember the moment clear as day, have personally used the phrase since that time & hope to catch up to them some day to confirm my recollection. out of respect to them i won't state their names, and i will add they made no specific claim of having coined the phrase -- only that it was in circulation among their friends in ridgefield at the time. if you had to pick a town likely to have inspired such a phrase, ridgefield, ct in the late 70's would be high on the list of likely candidates. ;-)

I may or may not have a credited reliable source of were the word MILF actually took off and hit the main stream, as I am sure the term mothers I'd like to F. has been said many a time thruout the course of history... I can tell you that the abbreviation of the word started with a friend of mine after repeating the words so often from pointing out multiple older women (whom most we knew as some of our friends mothers) at mountainbrooke countryclub in birmingham. Instead of repeatedly pointing out the women on the tennis court and making the comment "there's a mother I would F." or "I'd like to F. her, isn't that blanks mom. Yeah she's hot" my friend came up with the abb. and from then on out we didn't have to lower our voices and could openly say aloud whom it was we thought was attractive enough to, well you know... We were teenagers and thought it was really cool we could shout it and no one knew what we were talking about. Now all this took place in 88 and I know what your thinking, sure it may have been around much longer than that and probably was used a time or two before,and if it had, us sothern boys had never heard it, but I think this is were it may have gone viral.. My friend and I were not only dead head followers but did quite a bit of traveling (epecially my frienc being his parents were wealthy)and he attended several colleges (by the way he is now an english proffessor and would probably kill me if he knew I was writing this) around the country and also had 3 other brothers who all attended diffrent schools. Everytime I would visit we would use the term loosely around all of our multy cultured freinds. Remember we were following the dead and thats a vast array of cultures all rolled up as one.. We wore the word out for about 3 or 4 years and as we got older never really gave it much thought until the word was used in the movie Am. Pie.. Whats funny if we would have realized then the vast power of networking maybe we would have come up with something profitable.... who knows, that's just our story beleive it or not.... I'm sure we will hear a hundred more versions before it over with.. and look forward to reading them.......

Female use of MILF
Why would a woman describe herself as MILF? Is there possibly another meaning or is she saying she's still fuckworthy to younger men even though she's past the nubile phase?
 * Yes, I too have heard 35 to 45 year old women call themselves a MILF. It's a yep-I-still-got-it boast, typically tongue-in-cheek or mock-serious.
 * I worked with a girl (She was about 18) who said when she was older, she wanted to be a MILF. She could pull it off, though.

Racial definition
A pretty African-American mother may be considered as a "chocolate MILF"..

Merci pour la traduction!... ;-)
Frenchman, (so my english come from school), I was reading that word on lot of websites and not understanding what it was exactly (only was about a category of girls and perhaps an acronym...). Wikipedia is the only place I found an explanation!... I was not thinking was related to "mother"... perhaps because in our latin countries, we have more respect to our mothers than USA... ;-)

That's rather offencive to an American's ears. It's (arguablely)not that we have less 'respect', it's that we still consider older citzens the same kind of people as the younger. A person can be considered sexually active and yet a proper mother in the US, even if they have left their spouse for a younger man.

Various MILF Initialisms
MILF--"Mothers Intelligently Loquacious and Famous" as used by Tulsa Indy Gazetter

MILF--"Much Intelligently Loquacious Females" as used by Pimp This Town

MILF--"Minimum International Legal Framework"
 * Thanks for noting these. Unfortunately these don't meet our criteria for inclusion so they shouldn't be added to the main entry at this time.  --Connel MacKenzie T C 16:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Acronym vs. Initialism?
Why are MILF (Mom I'd Like to Fuck) and MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) under separate headings? They're both acronyms are they not? Or is there any support for the contention that the latter is actually pronounced as a spelled-out M-I-L-F? bd2412 T 15:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I can understand classifying it as an abbreviation, but without a Filipino asserting here that it is an acronym, I'd doubt calling it one is correct. Confer IRA, or MNLF.  Since MILF came from MNLF originally, I'd think it would be very hard to assert the acronym retroactively.  --Connel MacKenzie 02:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It's just my experience that initialisms spelled like words susceptible to a regular pronunciation quickly become acronyms. I recall a Daily Show piece where Jon Stewart discussed the "MILF" (this definition of it) and pronounced it as an acronym, but that may have just been for comedic effect. bd2412 T 03:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm a Filipino. Regarding the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, yes, I do feel that's correct, that they're just initials, not an acronym. Yes, here in the Philippines we always spell it out, we don't say it like it's a word.92ESi (talk) 18:40, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

The word "putative"
Putative = ''Commonly believed to be true on inconclusive grounds. '' This suggests that the moniker MILF is a group decision, something debatable and perhaps false. When the (male) speaker calls a female a MILF, he needs no further validation, verification or empirical evidence, right? It's his internal observation and desire, irrespective of what the MILF thinks, does or says. By defintion, if you're termed a MILF, you are a MILF. Of course, the MILF can reject advances or be offended by the term, but that's irrelevent to the definition. I vote we remove (putative). --Robertkeller 23:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I think "putative" refers to the status of motherhood here - the speaker is presuming that the female is in fact a mother, when she may be older but childless. By the way, I've switched the "vulgar" tag for "slang"; I've done some research on this which indicates that the word is used during daytime radio broadcasts, and the FCC has not found it to be either a profanity nor an indecent term. bd2412 T 17:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

anyway, if you don't remove it, please wikify. thx. Torzsmokus 07:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Definitely older than American Pie
This term was definitely in widespread use on the Internet prior to 1999. I was using this term as a witty way to impress my equally nerdy friends as far back as late 1996, when I first started using the Internet. Needless to say, the Internet was where I picked up the term in the first place. Maybe someone out there can dig through some old backups of their downloaded porn from those days and provide a verifiable source...

 * In reference to the above paragraph, I can also verify that it was in use online in the early 90's. The first time I saw it was on Fidonet in 1994, in reference to porn.

This is the most viewed page on here
apart from the main page. 68.239.144.233 23:11, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Consult a lexicographer
Anyone who wants to do so can contact the Language Reference Service at Merriam-Webster www.m-w.com and ask them for the history of the word. They use only written citations, many of them from Lexis-Nexis. That's as close to definitive as you are likely to get.

Reword it?
Recommend "[a] mother I'd like to fuck" to make it clearer to those not familiar with the term's usage, since some of them (i.e., the offended lot) seem to misinterpret it as an insest-related term or something limited to a woman whose children they know socially. In fact, it is a slang term for an older woman that a younger man lusts after or finds highly attractive, despite a notable age discrepancy. A link to "cougar", in the case that this attraction is mutual and consumated, may also make some sense. 128.195.186.45 09:22, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Adieu

What moron writes this stuff?
I am TRULY offended by what I've read on this page. The subject matter is absolutely no problem. IT'S THE POOR SPELLING! IT'S THE BAD GRAMMAR! It's driving me crazy. How it is that this trash gets around spell-check I'll never know. And who thinks they're some kind of authority to be taken seriously when they clearly don't deserve a G.E.D.? You can be sure that the M.I.L.F. that this guy has the hots for can run literary circles around him in an eyelash bat. Because she graduated in a time before he was born, when a diploma indicated that there was an actual education. This is why Wiktionary gives all of Wiki-world a bad name.

At the risk of appearing crude, the true meaning of MILF is Mothers I'd Like (to) F**k. This acronym is in common use on sex contact sites. (Katiekinks)

 * We edit the entries carefully; talk pages are just a discussion; and yes, some people rant or can't spell. Robert Ullmann 09:36, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

The Author needs to be flogged
this article was defaced on April Fool's Day for obviously, Aprils Fools joke. I feel that when you run a reference website, like the wiki series, even if you're open to SOME inaccurate information there needs to be a general reference tone. By modifying a page, granted it's clever, it's just completely totally wrong. The mere fact this article was a target by a RESPECTED wiki editor is an absolute disgrace. You Mr Ullman might have a sense of humor, but you apparently have no place in up keeping sections of a wiki. This just would not be allowed in any other publication..why treat the wiki like this? Dewdude 17:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Dude, chill. This entry has always been a disgrace. And other very respectable publications have done much the same; the tradition originates from very staid institutions: Scientific American, the Times, the BBC, and many others. If you are just looking for someone or something to bash, fine. You've bashed.

 * So tell me: why were you looking at this entry? Huh? Robert Ullmann 17:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

 * April Fools' Day is not universal, your disruption of the wiki carries a cultural bias and is definitely vandalism. I don't approve of flogging, though. Wipe 17:12, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

 * First of all, I was bored. I like looking up random acronyms. While many publications have done so...I don't really consider Scientific American...the Times or the BBC a reference source..the kind of thing the really plain libarian would cite in a monotone voice. If Wiki wants to be taken as a reference source..it should act like one...and not copying the behavior of other so called respectable publications. Would AE modify THEIR contents for a joke? No.

I expect publications to have a sense of humor, I expect my reference sources to be straight-as-an-arrow boring-as-ben-stien.

Don't use "this entry is a disgrace" as an excuse for doing it. George W is a disgrace...but his article is treated with respect (most of the time). Am I doing it to bash? Yes, I'm bashing any and all vandalism to wiki. Dewdude 22:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

American Pie quote is wrong
The quote on the page is wrong, which is ironic considering there's an entry above that has the correct exchange. According to the wikiquote, it is: "Dude, chick's a MILF!"

24.24.211.239 19:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Our entry does match the above from IMDB, e.g. has the word "that" in it. Robert Ullmann 14:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Why is this entry locked?
If it is locked, shouldn't there be an explanation of why and for how long? Barsoomian 14:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Because it is a continual target. There isn't any anticipation of expiring the protection, as problems will just recur. (People endlessly want to add their favorite examples, etc, etc.)

 * Presumably you want to fix the quote? Can we find an authoritative source somewhere? We do want to get it right. Robert Ullmann 14:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

 * The quote we have matches IMDB (quoted above). Robert Ullmann 14:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

 * That explains why it was locked, not why there was no explanation. That's what I exptected to see here. Why isn't there a lock symbol as on wikipedia?

 * Because we aren't Wikipedia?

 * So just who can edit it then? Is it three days after registration, like wikipedia?

 * This particular one is sysop-only.

 * I wasn't going to change the quote. (Though IMDB is user edited and not really authoritative.) I see you've deleted FLILF, which I thought pretty whimsical. However, I think there are real citations for "GILF" (Grandmother....). (Google finds 1,280,000 hits).
 * Barsoomian 17:22, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Then create Citations:GILF and try add sufficient, then an entry at GILF and (if it survives ;-) we'll link it from here. Robert Ullmann 12:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

April fool
Can someone please revert this April Fool edit? Broluo 09:31, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * done. Conrad.Irwin 09:42, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Too small
What causes the phonetic indications to become (too) small after SAMPA, while they don't after IPA? I looked into the combined template IPA SAMPA, couldn't find anything (I'm not a prof) and I couldn't find either a separate template .--RobSchop 13:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

title: Talk:MILF


text:
persuader

Noun

 * 1) One who, or that which, persuades.
 * 2)  A tool used to pack the type into the form.
 * 3)  An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.
 * 4)  A spur (for riding a horse).
 * 5) * The Sportsman (volume 5, page 30)
 * He had very long legs, which he carried far back, and made most liberal use of his persuaders, so that what with his weight, and what with his style of riding, his horses were far from enjoying a sinecure.
 * 1)  A spur (for riding a horse).
 * 2) * The Sportsman (volume 5, page 30)
 * He had very long legs, which he carried far back, and made most liberal use of his persuaders, so that what with his weight, and what with his style of riding, his horses were far from enjoying a sinecure.

Etymology
, from.

Verb

 * 1) to persuade

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to persuade

title: persuader


text: Indoneesia

title: Indoneesia


text:
Mosambik

Etymology
From.

title: Mosambik


text:
fafanga

Verb

 * 1) to feed

title: fafanga


text:
persuadere

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to persuade, convince, prevail upon

title: persuadere


text:
perte

Etymology
, from, from the feminine of. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) loss
 * 2) ruin

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) loss

Etymology
From the feminine of.

Noun

 * 1) loss

title: perte


text:
Rhymes:French/ɑ̃dr

Pronunciation
/ɑ̃dʁ(ə)/, /A~dr(@)/

Two syllables

 * cendre
 * fendre
 * Flandre
 * gendre
 * pendre
 * prendre
 * rendre
 * tendre
 * vendre

title: Rhymes:French/ɑ̃dr


text:
Rhymes:French/ɛtʁ

Two syllables

 * fenêtre
 * être
 * êtres
 * hêtre
 * hêtres
 * lettre
 * lettrent
 * lettres
 * maitre
 * maitres
 * maître
 * maîtres
 * mètre
 * mètres
 * mettre
 * naitre, naître
 * paitre, paître
 * Pollestres
 * prêtre
 * prêtres

Three syllables

 * champêtre
 * connaitre,connaître
 * fenêtre
 * fenêtres
 * paraitre,paraître
 * permettre
 * peut-être
 * promettre
 * remettre
 * renaitre, renaître
 * soumettre
 * surmettre

title: Rhymes:French/ɛtʁ


text:
Saksa

Etymology
Borrowed from, a tribe/people inhabiting northern Germany (not to be confused with modern Saxony). Germans in general were identified with (Old) Saxons because contact with the German-speaking countries happened at first mainly via the Baltic Sea with people speaking Low German. Ultimately from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. .

Usage notes

 * Exceptionally, the country name has a plural as from 1949 to 1990 there were two German states:  and.

Etymology
From. Akin to 🇨🇬.

title: Saksa


text:
dihedral

Noun

 * 1)  An angle between two plane surfaces
 * 2)  The upward slope of an aircraft's wing
 * 3)  The angle between pairs of chemical bonds separated by a third bond

Adjective

 * 1)  Consisting of, relating to or contained between two plane surfaces.
 * 2)  Having wings that form a dihedral angle, especially when the angle between the upper sides is less than 180°.
 * 3)  Of wing pairs, inclined at an upward angle to each other.
 * 1)  Of wing pairs, inclined at an upward angle to each other.

title: dihedral


text:
anhedral

Adjective

 * 1)  Lacking sharp, recognisable crystal faces.

Translations

 * Portuguese: anedral

Noun

 * 1)  the downward slope of an aircraft’s wing

title: anhedral


text:
sankari

Etymology 1
Probably borrowed from. Compare with, the singing hero.

Noun

 * 1) hero, heroine

Declension

 * Literary/archaic genitive plural:

Etymology 2
Possibly from etymology 1 with the dialectal meaning "strong animal", due to its large size.

title: sankari


text: vînt

title: vînt


text:
downward

Adverb

 * 1) Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
 * 2) At a lower level.
 * 3) Southward.
 * 1) At a lower level.
 * 2) Southward.
 * 1) At a lower level.
 * 2) Southward.
 * 1) At a lower level.
 * 2) Southward.
 * 1) Southward.
 * 1) Southward.

Translations

 * Bashkir: аҫҡа, түбән
 * Bulgarian: надолу
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Faroese: oman, omaneftir, niður, niðureftir
 * Finnish:
 * German:, nach unten,
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌸
 * Hebrew:, לְמַטָּה, כְּלַפֵּימַטָּה־
 * Malayalam: താഴേക്ക്
 * Maori: ki raro, whakararo
 * Romanian: în jos, în coborâre, în vale
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: hacia abajo
 * Swedish: ,

Adjective

 * 1) Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
 * 2) Located at a lower level.
 * 3) * 1793, (translator),  in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of , London: Benjamin and John White, p.235,
 * often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
 * 1) Located at a lower level.
 * 2) * 1793, (translator),  in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of , London: Benjamin and John White, p.235,
 * often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
 * 1) Located at a lower level.
 * 2) * 1793, (translator),  in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of , London: Benjamin and John White, p.235,
 * often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
 * often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: lækkandi, hallandi
 * Finnish:
 * German: nach unten gehend,, , Abwärts-
 * Maori: whakararo
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,

title: downward


text: venons

title: venons


text:
Portugali

Etymology
From.

title: Portugali


text:
ranska

Etymology
See.

Noun

 * 1) French language

title: ranska


text:
selatan

Etymology
From, from (Western)

Noun

 * 1) south compass point

Adjective

 * 1) south of or pertaining to the south

Etymology
From, from , , from (Western) ,.

Noun

 * 1) south compass point

Adjective

 * 1) south of or pertaining to the south

Etymology
From, , from (Western) ,.

Noun

 * 1) south compass point

Adjective

 * 1) south of or pertaining to the south

title: selatan


text:
navire

Etymology
, from, variant of , probably from (compare 🇨🇬), alteration of Classical  (whence also Old French , ).

Noun

 * 1) ship

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1) ship

title: navire


text: revery

title: revery


text:
raiskata

Etymology
From, equivalent to with an original sense of "to ruin, to spoil, to waste".

Verb

 * 1) to rape
 * 2) to rape
 * 3) to ruin, damage, spoil, not do justice to

title: raiskata


text:
nazione

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) nation

title: nazione


text:
Talk:decile

The 'dec' part refers to the number 10 (ten). You may have heard of the word 'Percentile' (the 'cent' part referring to the number 100) which is used when looking at groups of 100 and establishing at what position a single person exists on that scale of 1 to 100.

It does not yet appear to be in the Oxford English Dictionery.

I have found many occurences of the word 'decile' in reports on children and their level of acheivement in education.

'Decile' appears to be a word created to describe a way of sub dividing groups, mailny children, based upon the students' ethnic origines. One report talks mainly of the Maori children (the original tribe of New Zealand) and their attendance at Low-Docile schools. This suggests that there are schools in existence that because of the low level of education and acheivement in that area, all students attending that school are described as belonging to the Low-Decile group.

title: Talk:decile


text:
reverie

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
 * 2) An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
 * 3) * November 17, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 225
 * If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both.
 * 1) An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
 * 2) * November 17, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 225
 * If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both.
 * 1) An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
 * 2) * November 17, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 225
 * If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both.
 * If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: бленуване
 * Danish: dagdrøm
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ოცნება, ზმანება
 * German:
 * Italian: sogno ad occhi aperti
 * Macedonian: зами́сленост, сону́вање
 * Maori: wawata
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, грёзы
 * Serbo-Croatian: sanjarenje
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, sogno ad occhi aperti
 * Macedonian: мечта́ење
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1) To daydream.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , of uncertain origin. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A caper, a frolic; merriment.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , any form of dreaming (e.g. daydreaming, dreaming, and thinking)

title: reverie