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ghettoize

Alternative forms

 * ghettoise

Verb

 * 1)  To put (someone) in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a ghetto.
 * 2)  To make (a place) into a ghetto, or to add the characteristics of a ghetto.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * French:
 * Italian:

title: ghettoize


text:
ghostliness

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being ghostly.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Irish: taibhsiúlacht

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title: ghostliness


text:
ghostwritten

Adjective

 * 1) Written by a ghostwriter.

title: ghostwritten


text: ghostwrote

title: ghostwrote


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ghoulishly

Adverb

 * 1) In a ghoulish manner.

title: ghoulishly


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ghoulishness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being ghoulish.

title: ghoulishness


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настоящее время

Noun

 * 1)  present tense

title: настоящее время


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Category:ru:Grammar

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title: Category:ru:Grammar


text:
единственное число

Noun

 * 1)  singular

title: единственное число


text:
множественное число

Noun

 * 1)  plural

title: множественное число


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действительное причастие настоящего времени

Noun

 * 1)  present participle active


text:
страдательное причастие настоящего времени

Noun

 * 1)  passive present participle


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страдательное причастие прошедшего времени

Noun

 * 1)  passive past participle


text:
действительное причастие прошедшего времени

Noun

 * 1)  past participle active


text:
будущее время

Noun

 * 1)  future tense

title: будущее время


text:
прошедшее время

Noun

 * 1)  past tense

title: прошедшее время


text:
повелительное наклонение

Noun

 * 1)  imperative mood

title: повелительное наклонение


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деепричастие настоящего времени

Noun

 * 1)  present adverbial participle, present gerund

title: деепричастие настоящего времени


text:
деепричастие прошедшего времени

Noun

 * 1)  past adverbial participle, past gerund

title: деепричастие прошедшего времени


text:
мужской род

Noun

 * 1)  masculine gender

title: мужской род


text:
средний род

Noun

 * 1)  neuter gender

title: средний род


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Zeitgleichung

Noun

 * 1) equation of time

title: Zeitgleichung


text:
Talk:peer review

There are precious few manuscripts that are reviewed nowadays .. archaic definition. GerardM 11:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:peer review


text:
первое лицо

Etymology
Rus. первый + лицо (in the sense of person, not face).

Noun

 * 1)  first person
 * 2) the top person in an organization or government

title: первое лицо


text:
второе лицо

Noun

 * 1)  second person
 * 2) assistant to the top person in an organization or government
 * 3)  prime minister

title: второе лицо


text:
третье лицо

Noun

 * 1)  third person
 * 2)  third party

title: третье лицо


text:
curtal

Etymology
From older (modern French ), from  +.

Noun

 * 1)  A variety of short-barrelled cannon.
 * 2)  An early type of bassoon.
 * 3)  A horse or other animal having a docked tail.
 * 4)  Anything docked or cut short.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of horses, having a docked tail.
 * 2)  Physically shortened; short.
 * 3)  Abridged, curtailed.
 * 1)  Abridged, curtailed.

title: curtal


text: 別兮

title: 別兮


text:
curtal friar

Noun

 * 1)  A friar with a short gown.

title: curtal friar


text: 别兮

title: 别兮


text: abidden

title: abidden


text:
liard

Etymology
, of unknown origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A small French coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou.

Etymology
. Compare obsolete, source of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, which designate a grey coat colour in horses.

Noun

 * 1)   a small bronze coin, equivalent to a quarter of a sou
 * 2) a trifling amount, a red cent, a pittance
 * 3)  cottonwood

title: liard


text:
別儂

Noun

 * 1)  others; other people

title: 別儂


text:
brown-bill

Etymology

 * see.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of halberd used by medieval foot-soldiers and constables, painted brown to prevent rust.

title: brown-bill


text: 别侬

title: 别侬


text: 呣爱

title: 呣爱


text: 呣愛

title: 呣愛


text: 呣免

title: 呣免


text: 无卜

title: 无卜


text: 無卜

title: 無卜


text:
불라

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) papal bull
 * 2) bulla lead seal attached to papal bulls

title: 불라


text:
червь

Etymology
From, distantly related to English.

Noun

 * 1) worm
 * 2)  caterpillar, maggot, helminth, grub, larva
 * 3)  a gnawing feeling, often with the verb
 * 4)  mere worm, an insignificant person
 * 5)  worm (a computer program)
 * 6)  name of the letter ч|Ч.
 * 7)  same as
 * 8)  part of cerebellum (vermis cerebelli)
 * 1)  part of cerebellum (vermis cerebelli)

title: червь


text: Category:Spanish reflexive verbs

title: Category:Spanish reflexive verbs


text:
putang ina mo

Etymology
lit. 'your mother is a whore'. See &.

Phrase

 * : your mother is a whore; you son of a bitch; fuck you

title: putang ina mo


text: walang hiya

title: walang hiya


text:
cardecu

Etymology
From quart d'écu ‘quarter of an écu’.

Noun

 * 1)  A silver French coin worth a quarter of an écu.

title: cardecu


text:
황소

Etymology
From. From +  +. However, later contaminated by +. For a similar change, see.

Noun

 * 1) bull

Synonyms

 * : bull
 * : young bull, castrated bull
 * : ox, castrated bull
 * : ox, castrated bull

Antonyms

 * : cow

Derived terms

 * : slow (but steady) step
 * : great stubbornness
 * : chilly blow through a small gap
 * : Taurus

Related terms

 * : cow (of both sexes)
 * : calf

title: 황소


text:
leman

Etymology
From, variant of , from "lover; sweetheart"; attested as a personal name, equivalent to 🇰🇲 "beloved person". In the past, incorrectly asserted to derive from.

Noun

 * 1)  One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover; a gallant or mistress).
 * 2)  A paramour.
 * 1)  A paramour.
 * 1)  A paramour.

Etymology
From, possibly from , ; related to 🇨🇬 (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  elephant.

title: leman


text:
pyet

Noun

 * 1)  A magpie; a water ouzel.

title: pyet


text:
piet

Etymology
From, with later forms remodelled after.

Noun

 * 1)  The magpie.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  foot

Noun

 * 1) VIP, important person
 * 2) canary
 * 3)  louse
 * 4)  penis
 * 1)  louse
 * 2)  penis
 * 1)  penis

Derived terms

 * (see list at )

title: piet


text:
pyot

Etymology
Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  A magpie; a water ouzel.

title: pyot


text:
User talk:Mbx391

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title: User talk:Mbx391


text:
User talk:J Bar

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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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title: User talk:J Bar


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brighten up

Verb

 * 1)  To become brighter
 * 2)  To make cheerful.
 * Her kindness brightened up my day.
 * You can brighten up a room by hanging new wallpaper.
 * 1)  To become more attractive.

Translations

 * Estonian: selginema
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:

 * German: ,

title: brighten up


text:
recheat

Etymology
Probably from ; compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A series of notes blown on a horn as a signal in hunting to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.

Verb

 * 1)  To blow the recheat.

Usage notes

 * According to the Poly-Olbion project, Drayton's is the last recorded use as a verb.

title: recheat


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sweetening

Noun

 * 1) The process of making something sweeter.
 * 2) A sweetener.
 * Honey is the oldest of sweetenings.

Translations

 * Italian: edulcorazione
 * Swedish: sötning

title: sweetening


text: Template:cattoc

title: Template:cattoc


text: insisting

title: insisting


text: inventing

title: inventing


text:
close-fitting

Alternative forms

 * closefitting

Adjective

 * 1)  Snug, tight, form-fitting.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:close-fitting

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, впит
 * French:
 * Georgian: მოკვალთული
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:, aðskorinn
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tettsittende
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: åtsittande
 * Turkish: ,

title: close-fitting


text:
exclamatory

Etymology
Formed from the root of + the suffix.

Adjective

 * 1) Resembling an exclamation.
 * 2) Emphatic.

title: exclamatory


text:
buskin

Etymology
Apparently from, variant of (compare modern 🇨🇬), probably from , of unknown origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A half-boot.
 * 2)  A type of half-boot with a high heel, worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors.
 * 3)  Tragic drama; tragedy.
 * 4) An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
 * 1)  A type of half-boot with a high heel, worn by the ancient Athenian tragic actors.
 * 2)  Tragic drama; tragedy.
 * 3) An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
 * 1)  Tragic drama; tragedy.
 * 2) An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
 * 1) An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.
 * 1) An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.

Translations

 * Dutch: toneellaars,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: κόθορνος
 * Italian:
 * Latin: cothurnus
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

title: buskin


text: metaphoric

title: metaphoric


text:
massively

Adverb

 * 1) In a massive manner, in a way that appears large, heavy or imposing.
 * 2)  Greatly.

title: massively


text:
nucleic

Adjective

 * 1) Referring to the nucleus of something.
 * Nucleic acids are found in the nuclei of cells.

Translations

 * Catalan: nucleic
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: nucleico
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: niùclasach
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: нуклеї́новий

Etymology
.

title: nucleic


text: черви

title: черви


text:
Template:cattoc/documentation

This module generates a list of linked letters to navigate the pages listed in categories. It uses Module:table of contents.

Usage

generates category index keys 1 to n, separated by spaces.

generates category index link to the top of the category.

For example, to make a simple alphabet category toc for English:

To make this look much better, and set up the layout as desired, wrap it in a wikitable:

Now you can use wikitable syntax to do whatever you like. ( ...  also works as expected.)

Link text
To show link text that is different from what is used in the link, use a colon. The text to the left of the colon is the position in the sort order that the link will go to, while the text to the right is what will display: →.

Note: You do not need to do this for sortkeys, which are handled automatically.

title: Template:cattoc/documentation


text: paints

title: paints


text:
Talk:montane

From WT:RFC
montane appears to be a copyvio from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=montane. -- Creidieki 04:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Deleted. Someone with a non-copyvio definition to add can replace this word later. —Dvortygirl 06:04, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:montane


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greenie

Etymology
From. Environmentalist sense first attested in Australia in 1973, referring to trade unionists who supported green bans.

Noun

 * 1)  An environmentalist, someone who shows concern for the environment; often aimed at environmental extremists.
 * 2) * 2009, Sean Dooley, Cooking With Baz, Large Print 16pt Edition, page 25,
 * ‘And whadda you want?’ the barman spat at me.
 * Above his head was a large sign that read ‘Fertilize the Bush – Doze in a Greenie’. I was dressed in a flannelette shirt and army trousers – exactly like the Greenie protestors they′d been battling the previous year.
 * 1)  A member of the Green Party.
 * 2)  A person from Colorado; after the color of the Colorado license plate.
 * 3)  An unripe fruit.
 * 4)  A beginner, a novice; a greenhorn.
 * 5)  A small, green object.
 * 6)  A blob of nasal mucus; a bogey.
 * 7)  Amphetamines used in baseball.
 * 8)  Any of various birds having predominantly green plumage.
 * 9) A green-headed sunbird, of Africa.
 * 10) A scaly-breasted lorikeet (''), of Australia.
 * 11) A white-plumed honeyeater, of Australia.
 * 12) A , of Western Australia.
 * 13)  An , a herring-like fish in the family.
 * 14)  The , a fish in the family.
 * 15)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  A small, green object.
 * 2)  A blob of nasal mucus; a bogey.
 * 3)  Amphetamines used in baseball.
 * 4)  Any of various birds having predominantly green plumage.
 * 5) A green-headed sunbird, of Africa.
 * 6) A scaly-breasted lorikeet (''), of Australia.
 * 7) A white-plumed honeyeater, of Australia.
 * 8) A , of Western Australia.
 * 9)  An , a herring-like fish in the family.
 * 10)  The , a fish in the family.
 * 11)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1) A scaly-breasted lorikeet (''), of Australia.
 * 2) A white-plumed honeyeater, of Australia.
 * 3) A , of Western Australia.
 * 4)  An , a herring-like fish in the family.
 * 5)  The , a fish in the family.
 * 6)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  The , a fish in the family.
 * 2)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.
 * 1)  The player whose ball is closest to the hole on a par-3 hole after the first shot (drive), in the case when multiple players reach the green on that first shot and the player with the closest ball sinks the ball within the next two shots.

title: greenie


text:
Talk:Christmas ham

From WT:RFC
The article doesn't actually define the term, and I haven't been able to determine it from the (somewhat brief) Wikipedia article either. Is it a joint, in slices, or what? Is it uncountable ("some Christmas ham") or countable ("two Christmas hams")? — Paul G 09:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

 * ✅ Someone fixed it. Equinox ◑ 13:41, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

 * However, the entry suggests it's only a Scandinavian thing, but Wikipedia says otherwise, mentioning Australia etc. Equinox ◑ 17:18, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 00:10, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:Christmas ham


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Talk:purpose

From WT:RFC
The definitions are weak. — Paul G 12:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Done. Vildricianus 19:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Which objects can have purpose
Some quotations from Google Books showing what kind of objects can have purpose, at least lexically: More can be found; this is a start. Dan Polansky (talk) 12:42, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The Purpose of Suffering
 * The purpose of God
 * The Purpose of Life
 * The Purpose of Existence
 * The Purpose of Man
 * The Purpose of Design
 * The Purpose of the Church
 * The purpose of painting
 * The purpose of it all
 * The Purpose of the Gospels
 * The Purpose of Ethics
 * The Purpose of History
 * the purpose of creation
 * the purpose of morality
 * The Purpose of Banking
 * The Purpose of Libraries
 * The Purpose of Power
 * The Purpose of the Dance
 * The Purpose of Death
 * the Purpose of Politics
 * The Purpose of Profit
 * the purpose of our efforts
 * The purpose of this investigation
 * the purpose of art
 * the purpose of your job
 * the purpose of your courtship
 * the purpose of your research
 * the purpose of your statement
 * the purpose of your visit
 * the purpose of your request
 * the purpose of your committee
 * the purpose of your speech
 * the purpose of your proposal
 * the purpose of your inquiry
 * the purpose of an artifact
 * the purpose of your action

Man-made objects (artifacts) with a purpose
Man-made objects can have a purpose per Talk:multipurpose: building, dam, device, helicopter, tool, robot, and vehicle. GNV reveals written things can have a purpose: act, book, law, bill, document, statute.

Ref:
 * Written things:
 * Written things:

--Dan Polansky (talk) 09:57, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Collocations
Some nice collocation dictionaries: Macmillan, cambridge.org. Macmillan uses the format that I used to use when I entered items like "Adjectives often used with", where I did not enter the collocations but merely the modifying parts. Cambridge.org lists complete collocations full with example sentences: this format is not fit for Wiktionary mainspace. This presents huge amount of work: someone has to pick the collocations (there are quite many) and pick the example sentences from corpora. If we wanted, we could add these as Further reading. Dan Polansky (talk) 13:13, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

New definition of sense 1
I made a bigger change to definition 1, so I will leave a note. I changed it from
 * An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.

to
 * The end for which an action or activity is done, an endeavor is undertaken, an artifact or its feature is made or an entity exists.

My reason for doing so was the frustration with trying to understand the senses. For one thing, a list of synonyms does not help clarification much. For another thing, this makes it seem like objective is a synonym ("to be reached" does not do any differentia work), but it is only an imperfect one: artifacts have purposes but usually not objectives. Furthermore, I expanded the definition to cover which kinds of things can have purposes, which I find very helpful for trying to understand the senses. Dictionaries usually do not do that, but they do says "is made, done or exists" or similar, so they do a little bit of that. I believe listing the entity types is rather helpful.

Why do we need "an entity exists"? It is because lexically, people assign purposes to things that are not artifacts made, and we need to cover this. "entity" is really broad so it covers everything that does not fit in the previous items. I saw the verb "exists" in one of the dictionaries. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:31, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

A genus-free definition:
 * That which something is for.

All the semantic work is done by the preposition "for". It is not a real proposal, just a point of contrast. It is genus free since the genus is really thing, the root of ontology. It emphasizes that the preposition "for" does a lot of semantic work in various candidate definitions. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:44, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

My purpose in X is Y, my purpose is X
I find the form "My purpose in X is Y" noteworthy. In it, it is not the action/artifact X that has a purpose but rather the agent of the action or the maker of the artifact; grammatically, the purpose is contained in the action/artifact. Whether this creates a separate sense is less clear: multiple dictionaries do not create a separate sense. One can rephrase "My purpose in X is Y" as "The purpose of X, of which I am the agent or make, is Y", and be back to the main sense.

Sometimes, it is not even "My purpose in" but rather "My purpose is X" without explicit reference to the action of which X is the purpose; whether this is more indicative of a separate sense is unclear. One can rephrase as "The purpose of the action/artifact that is in the context, of which I am the agent or maker, is X".

Some quotations from Wikisource:
 * My purpose in writing separately is to emphasize that the Court's holding in effect rejects the argument that this governmental entity-the Tribe-is completely immune from legal process.
 * My purpose in this letter has merely been to call attention to this family, which has impressed me all my life as one of great interest.
 * My purpose in making this digression was, as I said, to point out into what trifles the second childhood of genius is too apt to be betrayed;
 * I have well considered the subject, and propose to accomplish my purpose in this manner.
 * My purpose was to admit no testimony of living authors, that I might not be misled by partiality, and that none of my contemporaries might have reason to complain;
 * It has been my purpose to illustrate rather than to explain. Dan Polansky (talk) 10:00, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Other dictionaries
For what it's worth, looking at other dictionaries, they have noun senses amounting to: - -sche (discuss) 03:31, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) An aim, an object, an intention; the reason for which something is done, is created, or exists.
 * Webster 1913 noun sense 1: "That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. [...] As my eternal purpose hath decreed (Milton)"
 * Century noun sense 1: "A thing proposed or intended; an object to be kept in view or subserved in any operation or course of action; end proposed; aim. [...] to what purpose they built Castles so near", also Century noun sense 5: "Import; meaning; purport; intent. The intent and purpose of the law [...]"
 * Modern MW noun sense 1a; Dictionary.com noun senses 1 and 2; Lexico noun sense 1; Oxford Learner's Dictionary noun sense 1; Cambridge noun sense 1.
 * Compare/contrast Dictionary.com's separate noun sense (5) for "practical result, effect [...] act to good purpose"
 * 1) Resoluteness, determination; (sense of) having a reason for existing or doing things.
 * Modern MW noun sense 1b; Dictionary.com noun sense 3; Lexico noun sense 1.1; Oxford Learner's Dictionary noun senses 3 (for [volunteering gives her] a sense of purpose) and 4 (for confidence and strength of purpose); Cambridge noun sense 2 (for strength of purpose, sense of purpose).
 * 1) The subject at hand, at issue, or under discussion.
 * Modern MW noun sense 2; Dictionary.com noun sense 4.
 * 1)  Proposal, proposition, point to be considered.
 * Webster 1913 noun sense 2: "Proposal to another; discourse. [Obs.] Spenser."
 * Century noun sense 2: "†Proposition; proposal; point to be considered or acted upon. [...] And therefore have we / Our written purposes before us sent; / Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know / If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword. (Shak.)"
 * 1) * 1623, William Shakespeare, :
 * And therefore have we / Our written purposes before us sent; / Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know / If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword.
 * Century also has another noun sense, "Hence. 3 Intended or desired effect; practical advantage or result; use; subject or matter in hand; question at issue: as, you speak to the purpose. [...] It is to small purpose to have an erected face towards heaven, and a perpetual grovelling spirit upon the earth. (Bacon)"
 * 1)  Discourse, conversation.
 * Century noun sense 6: "Discourse; conversation. For she in pleasaunt purpose did abound, [...]"
 * 1)  Instance, example.
 * Webster 1913 noun sense 3: "Instance; example. [Obs.] L'Estrange."
 * Century noun sense 7: "† Instance; example."
 * 1) Century also has "8†. pl. A sort of conversational game. Compare cross-purpose, 2."
 * 2) and Century has "9†. A dance resembling a cotillion, a characteristic feature of which was the introduction of confidential or coquettish conversation."
 * 3) Some dictionaries also consider there to be a sense "need, requirement (typically one limited in scope, temporary, or otherwise particular)", for things like "considered income for tax purposes", "originally built for commercial purposes", "it will serve our purposes".
 * Lexico noun sense 1.2; Oxford Learner's Dictionary noun sense 2; Cambridge noun sense 3
 * Impressive. One quibble I have is with the use of intention as a synonym of the main sense: . The candidate synonyms of aim and object seem less suspect, but I would need to make a deeper analysis. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:48, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Intention as a synonym of the main sense
M-W has intention as a synonym of their main sense of purpose directly in their definition. As far as I can tell, this is incorrect.

The main sense currently reads "The end for which something is done, is made or exists", which is close to what Lexico and Collins have.

A simple formula is that people have intentions whereas actions and man-made things have purposes.

I see two main situations that illustrate the contrast between purpose and intention: In the first situation, Y is the intention of X while Z is the purpose of Y. In the second situation, "to make Y" is the intention of X while Z is the purpose of Y. It is not true that Z is the intention of Y, at least in the most customary use of intention. As an example, a person intends to visit the country, and someone asks, what is the purpose of the visit? I don't think they would ask *what is the intention of the visit. At the same time, Z is the intended outcome of Y or "make Y", which may lend itself to the idea that Z could be the intention of Y, but I find no evidence supporting the idea.
 * X intends to do Y to achieve or do Z
 * X intends to make Y to serve Z

Both intention and purpose are primarily relation nouns rather than entity type nouns; they indicate a relationship in which one entity stands to another. (For example, person is an entity type noun whereas brother is a relation noun.) Therefore, their mismatch in relations indicated above is a good indicator of failed synonymy. Both words have to do with intentionality, but they refer to different roles in relations.

There is a translation table for the currently RFV-nominated sense "A result that is desired; an intention", which for Czech (úmysl) and German (Intention, Absicht) appear not to fit the word purpose. The translation table gloss reads "intention". There is a chance that the translations were entered only based on the translation gloss and are incorrect; the table can be removed if the RFV-nominated sense fails. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:54, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Searches: --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:38, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - intention is rare
 * - intention not found
 * - intention is rare
 * - intention is rare

The whole picture is a bit more complicated: --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:53, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * One of the senses of intention is goal or purpose, exemplified by the following: . By contrast, "intention of the visit" is rare as per above. Thus, intention is a partial synonym of the main sense of purpose.
 * People can have purposes whereas my simplified formula was that people have intentions while actions and man-made things have purposes:
 * - my purpose is not less common than my intention
 * At least some of the above refers to one's purpose in life, which can be argued to be covered by the main sense: the end for which something (or actually someone) exists. As in: "If immortality is our purpose, is technology the means by which we will achieve it?", "My purpose is to excel in my career and somehow use that career to help other people." or "My purpose is to be a present and supportive husband, a loving father who is available and kind at all times." Other examples are an organization's purpose: "Our purpose is to provide insurance products and related services to help people achieve and sustain their financial well-being." These uses are not perfect synonyms of "intention": while such purposes are surely intended, "intention" seems much weaker. Another use is like this: "In this chapter, my purpose is to focus on various measures of the quality of democracy and to test the hypothesis by comparing the means of explanatory and dependent variables at different levels of national IQ." Here, my purpose is the purpose of this chapter.
 * Some of the "my purpose" uses match OED:purpose sense 1 a; our main sense (the end for which something is done, made or exists) is OED:purpose sense 2. And OED uses intention in the definition of sense 1 a.
 * Some of the "my purpose" uses match OED:purpose sense 1 a; our main sense (the end for which something is done, made or exists) is OED:purpose sense 2. And OED uses intention in the definition of sense 1 a.

Some more Ngram searches to differentiate purpose from intention: I used multipliers to achieve similar curve levels in the graphs. They do not conclusively show anything about synonymy, but at least suggest marked differences in usage. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:33, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Verb created in the definition of the main sense
The current definition reads "The end for which something is done, is made or exists." I wonder whether verb created would be required for the main sense, in addition to made. A case in point could be the one for books: the writer of a book creates it while the maker produces a copy. Real usage shows books have purposes and the purpose of a book is the purpose the writer had in mind, not the purpose the maker/manufacturer had in mind. On the other hand, suggests make could perhaps be also used to refer to the act of creating the information object that a book is (writing it), but I am not sure. If so, the case for created would not be compelling. The verb created is in Lexico. There could be other arguments for created. The verb made is in Collins, which has a similar definition as the one we currently have. Dan Polansky (talk) 07:46, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

The genus reason for the main sense
The current definition reads "The end for which something is done, is made or exists." Multiple dictionaries use reason as the genus of the main sense, whereas I used end to emphasize means-end relationship; end is not an entity type noun but rather relation noun, so it is a pseudo-genus, but seems to work. It would be reason in the sense of motive. That is not wrong, but seems suboptimal to me, suggesting a full synonymy between purpose and reason that does not seem to be there. Consider "he had good reasons for doing so"; one would not say "he had good purposes for doing so". One may argue that reason is really a hypernym and not a synonym and that the rest of the definition serves as differentia. If that is so, we should be able to replace a hyponym with the hypernym, but we would not say "the reason of the book is to elucidate X". And "the reason of the visit" is fairly rare:. But reason for the visit with for is common, suggesting that the holder of the reason is the agent, and the agent has the reason for the action; the action does not have or own a reason. People have reasons for actions, actions have purposes and man-made objects have purposes. The primary holders of reasons are people. On the other hand, by the same token, end is a misfit since we would not say "the end of the book" to mean this, and probably not the end of an action. Of note, for security purposes seems synonymous with for security reasons, supporting reason:. But when we compare "used for military purposes" with "used for military reasons", the latter seems much less common and to mean something slightly different; "used for military ends" exists but is fairly rare. ; . One might argue that the genus does not matter all that much and that the semantics is delivered by the preposition for. Dan Polansky (talk) 12:02, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Relation to goal
Some sources indicate goal to be a synonym of purpose. If so, it is not a perfect synonym. Man-made things have a purpose but usually not a goal. A goal is something to be met, to make progress on, and to complete. The purpose of a man-made thing is not made progress on and is not completed; it is a certain kind of use or function that the thing serves.

Ref:
 * - the goal collocations are often not of the building itself, like "goal of a building site evaluation"

WordNet has node "purpose, intent, intention, aim, design", of which the direct hypernym is "goal, end"; goal would be the hypernym of purpose. But it would possibly be the hypernym of purpose of an action since WordNet also has node "function, purpose, role, use", whose direct hypernym is "utility, usefulness" and which is exemplified by "the function of an auger is to bore holes". It would seem WordNet differentiates purpose of an action and purpose of an artifact as two nodes. As long as Wiktionary does not differentiate and says that purpose is something for which something is done or made, goal is not a suitable hypernym. I view the WordNet analysis with a bit of suspicion since I don't believe purpose is a synonym of intention in the main use of intention.

Recently, the main sense read "An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal", which would suggest goal is a perfect synonym or else it has no place to seek on the definition like. As said, I don't believe that to be correct, but it is not entirely incorrect. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:23, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Czech and German for purpose, intention and goal
Some sources indicate purpose, intention and goal to be synonyms. I don't think so. That does not work for Czech and German, for which the three terms map as follows: The Czech terms are not synonyms and neither are the German ones. All three belong to intentionality and goal-seeking but that alone does not make them synonyms. If the English terms are to be synonyms, something strange must be going on here. For intention, I tried to articulate the difference in. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:23, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * purpose: účel, Zweck
 * intention: úmysl, Absicht
 * goal: cíl, Ziel

purpose
Rfv-sense: A result that is desired; an intention.

What quotations of use substantiate this sense as anything other than sense 1:
 * The end for which an action or activity is done, an endeavor is undertaken, an artifact or its feature is made or an entity exists.

I see that there is a corresponding translation table with different translations; could the translations be most fitting to the word "intention" rather than "purpose"? It seems to be so for Czech. Multiple dictionaries do not seem to have two senses like these; M-W does not. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:50, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Welcome back, Dan. I tend to agree that there is some redundancy in the definitions, I also think that the first definition is needlessly arcane. I think we should rewrite it more simply, something along the lines of "The reason for which a thing is made or is done." Senses 2,3,4 and 6 are perhaps subordinate to this sense, or else totally redundant to the sense. - TheDaveRoss  13:15, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Definitions often need to overlap to cover the range of meaning in actual usage. When we write simple definitions, it seems to tempt contributors to add more specific ones that don't seem to clearly be covered by the simple definition. Subsense structures sometimes address the issue. I think it helps that definitions not have too many elements and that each element be unambiguously supported by more than one citation.
 * In this case, definition 1 seems overly long (ie, have too many elements) and may well include others of the definitions. MWOnline has three definitions, which adds to my skepticism about our seven. Only one of our definitions is fully attested.
 * I also note that we lack the use of purpose as used in some descriptions of the functioning of organisms where the meaning is "function" as there is no one evident that has the purpose.
 * I doubt that RfDs and RfVs of individual definitions can address the problems with the entry. DCDuring (talk) 16:19, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I like the new arcane definition, but I see that people may want to see it simplified. I would be sorry to see it go, but I am only one person. I really like how it explicates the kind of entities to which purpose applies. As for "The reason for which a thing is made or is done", I don't like the genus "reason" and prefer "end", which M-W has together with "object". Furthermore, "made or done" does not cover "exists", which I see as a problem since purposes are lexically assigned to things neither made nor done. I posted some reasoning about the new definition at Talk:purpose.
 * The RFD-nominated sense of intention could be kept if we assign the example "It has been my purpose to illustrate rather than to explain" to it, but I am not sure we should; there is more at Talk:purpose. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:36, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think there is an interesting philosophical question there - can a thing have a purpose if it merely exists without having been made? But that is not in the scope of this project. - TheDaveRoss  17:43, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Exactly right. And to avoid the philosophical question, we allow "exists" just like one of the dictionaries does, just to be on the safe side, to cover all uses, even those uses that a proper philosophical analysis would declare dubious. On Talk:purpose, I posted a list of things that are implied to have purpose, on phrase level. By the way, are organizations "made" or "created"? And is art "made" or "created"? This is why I picked so many entity types and verbs. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:54, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * To wit: "Although the purpose of wings is to fly, they are structurally different. The wings of bats consist of skin that fills between the very elongated finger bones." Are bat wings made? They can be analyzed as "made" by evolution by natural selection, but do we need to make that analysis? Since wings are not really made by grow; they are "made" by cell division processes. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:01, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think there's some conceptual confusion going on, as that seems to be a separate question (and covered by sense 8). I think there are three concepts here, which are all intertwined. Roughly:
 * Intention (the will expressed in carrying out an action) - currently sense 2.
 * Reason (the justification for that action) - currently sense 5.
 * Role (the function of an action/object) - currently sense 8.
 * can refer to all three in separate ways:
 * "My purpose in X is Y" neatly separates intention from reason. X is the intention, while Y is the reason.My purpose in this letter has merely been to call attention to this family can be rewritten as "My intention in this letter has merely been to call attention to this family". You could of course write "My reason for this letter has merely been to call attention to this family", but that isn't quite the same thing. One is raw intention, while the other is the justification for that intention.
 * It's quite clear that something can have a role without that role having been instated with intention. I don't think we need to get bogged down in the philosophy of it, as the current gloss is adequate.
 * As a result, I think it's actually sense 1 that's superfluous, which should make it straightforward to cite sense 2. Sense 1 currently reads: The end for which an action or activity is done, an endeavor is undertaken, an artifact or its feature is made or an entity exists. This tries to cover all three at once, and as a result it comes off as conceptually muddled and difficult to interpret. In fact, without this discussion I'm not sure I'd have been able to interpret it at all. Theknightwho (talk) 18:57, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Can’t we simplify the definition of sense 1 to “An end intended to be served by something”? --Lambiam 19:10, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * That goes too far in deontologizing the definition, failing to show what that something could be. At least say "The end for which something is done, made or exists"; that at least hints at entity types that have purpose by the used verbs, and is reasonably short and simple. I ontologized the definition a lot, which is unusual and it seems people don't like; I do.
 * About intention being the lead sense: not to me. The lead sense of purpose is that which something is for and involves means-end relationship, whereas the lead sense of intention is the course of action intended, with means-end relationship not involved. M-W seems to disagree, though. The second sense of intention does involve means-end, which complicates the analysis. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * DCDuring added sense "Function, role", with beautiful quotations. This would be the "exists" part in "end for which something is done, made or exists" or as-if made. It would be an implied end or an as-if, but still a kind of end. E.g. "The purpose of the gall-bladder is obviously to permit the accumulation of bile". gall-bladder's design was created by a design-like process of natural selection which tends to create purpose-like things. Thus, the objects of biology are interpreted as if made with a purpose, and indeed, the implied or as-if purpose permeates biology even though some philosophers don't like it. I am not convinced this has to be a separate sense. What do we do with "the purpose of the universe" if we assume that the universe was not made with a purpose? We have to let language users interpret things as if made with a purpose even when it is philosophically rather dubious. The quotations are beautiful, in any case. Are there any external references that we could use to support the sense, to add to our internal deliberations? --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:33, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
 * In the common senses, it seems to me that a person can have a purpose in the sense of what the person intends and that the objects of such intent have the purpose of the intender. There is also the feeling of purpose. These three are the senses in most common use, for which we need to have definitions that are clear and relatively simple. What doesn't fit under these are the relatively uncommon uses of purpose as applied to things that do not form intentions and are not the object of the intention of persons. We could argue that such usages are error, crypto-theism, or habitual vestiges of theistic thinking. We could dispense with a definition for this last, but only if we make the first two definitions I refer to more complicated or force the reader to include personified God, Nature, Evolution, of the Invisible Hand as persons. DCDuring (talk) 21:16, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Seeing the opinions above, I have changed the def to "The end for which something is done, is made or exists." It is close to the def in Lexico but "reason" was changed to "end", which hints at "means-end" relationship. I kept "exists", which is supported by Lexico and AHD. If someone feels strongly enough about removing "exists", I won't object: things that were not made but are implied to have purpose will have to be interpreted as if made. If someone feels strongly that "reason" is better than "end", go ahead: it is supported by some dictionaries; I don't like it but I can't exactly say why; I feel "reason" is not synonymous enough to purpose ("He had good reasons for doing so" but not "He had good purposes for doing so"), while "end" is in "ends justify the means". I added some public domain quotes as usexes to show that man-made things can have purposes: usexes have no visual identification noise and are not hidden, which is very useful for gaining an overview of use. --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:15, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

 * Just noting I have cited the sense "(obsolete) The subject of discourse; the point at issue." which was tagged, with help from Century which alerted me to collocations. I note that neither Merriam-Webster (which has it as one of just two noun senses they deign to cover) nor Dictionary.com mark it as obsolete, as we do; we should see if modern citations exist... - -sche (discuss) 09:20, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, it seems possible to add something like "; the reason for the present discourse" to the definition, to make the connection to the noun's primary sense. - -sche (discuss) 16:45, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

 * I agree with Dan (or with what I think Dan's stance is, above) that the "Function, role" sense does not seem separate from the main sense (although I did notice Century has a comparable sense in their Supplement, saying it's used in biology without reference to intentionality), "the purpose of the gallbladder" is "the reason it exists" whether or not anyone thinks it is also "the reason it was created" by anyone with intentionality; it's why, when early forms of it evolved through random mutation etc, it survived natural selection and evolved further. I think it should be made a subsense of sense 1 (or maybe merged into it). - -sche (discuss)

 * I am inclined to expand our "Resolution; determination" sense to "Resolution; determination; (sense of having a) reason for existing or doing things", to better cover things like saying volunteering or  (and in line with some other dictionaries). - -sche (discuss) 16:45, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * That last extension seems to me to be rather distinct. It seems to be very close to "meaning" or "meaningfulness". Perhaps purpose is a particular kind of meaning. A common collocation for the "resolution/determination" sense is (do/say something) with purpose, synonymously purposively or purposefully. The emphasis is on the intention of the doer. Your examples are of the collocation give (someone/something) purpose. In these cases the purpose is often something lacking in a person which is found externally. Emotionally these seem very different.
 * I don't see the advantage of confining our criteria for recognizing distinct senses to distinct instances of formal logic. DCDuring (talk) 17:10, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * About meaning: the phrases purpose of life and meaning of life seem to refer to the same thing or almost the same thing. This suggests there would be synonymy of meaning and purpose in some sense, but this does not seem to be the case for the main sense of purpose: "what is the meaning of your visit" does not work. A similar term is meaning of art, which could be synonymous with purpose of art; . The associated German terms could be Sinn and Bedeutung, which incidentally also have the same sense of "semantics; word or sentence meaning"; Czech is smysl but not účel, which is the lead Czech translation of the main sense of purpose. Another term is meaning of history and purpose of history:, . A synonym could be import, but I am not sure; another candidate is significance. meaningfulness is not a synonym for these kinds of phrases: it is not an answer to the question what does it mean?
 * In defense of DCDuring's "function, role", WordNet has item "function, purpose, role, use", which supports DCDuring's sense as a separate notion. I do not feel compelled to support a merge or subsensing at this point; WordNet probably has better notion/concept engineering than lexicographical dictionaries, and I see some plausibility in having "function, role" as a separate sense". --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:23, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

 * Ok, I'm persuaded that "function, role" can be a separate (sub)sense. And I'm detagging "The subject of discourse; the point at issue." as it's cited, unless anyone would like to dispute the interpretation of the cites. - -sche (discuss) 19:06, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

"Conversation"; "example"
The primary sense RFV'd by Dan, "A result that is desired; an intention", can be considered failed at this point. There are still no citations for it and half a year on there's no consensus for how to distinguish it from sense 1, so I've removed it accordingly. I don't find TKW's distinction between "reason for" and "intention" above convincing or at any rate lexically salient, and it doesn't seem to have been taken up in the discussion above.

That leaves the tags for the obsolete "conversation" and "example" senses. The first is tricky to find but should be citable. The latter is more problematic: the early modern phrase for the purpose does mean "for example", but I'm not satisfied that within the phrase "purpose" itself means "example"; it's being used in another sense, i.e. "here is an example for the purpose at hand". This seems clearer in some other cases, e.g. "Well then, for the purpose: ...". The OED also treats it as an obsolete fixed phrase and not an obsolete sense of purpose itself. I would only consider this cited if people can find an example where it means this outside of that fixed phrase, otherwise an entry should just be made for the phrase as a whole. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 19:11, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

RFV Failed for all RFV'd senses Ioaxxere (talk) 19:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Rfv-sense: "(transitive, passive) To design for some purpose." Does this exist distinctly from passive use of the preceding sense 1? - -sche (discuss) 03:10, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

 * PS: because RQ-templated quotes don't include the year anywhere visible in wikitext (to enable sorting them into the right chronological place when adding other quotes), I just added some other quotes (to sense 1) after the RQ. - -sche (discuss) 03:15, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed Ioaxxere (talk) 19:56, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

RFD discussion: August 2022–February 2023
Rfd-sense: The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.

This sense is redundant to sense 1. I have just changed sense 1 from
 * An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.

to
 * The end for which an action or activity is done, an endeavor is undertaken, an artifact or its feature is made or an entity exists.

so it is now even clearer than it was before that this is redundant. I have checked multiple dictionaries to see whether these could be different senses, and I do not see that. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:20, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I doubt that you could find citations that unambiguously support each element of your rewritten definition 1. See WT:RFVE for more. DCDuring (talk) 16:26, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

The definition of the main sense now reads "The end for which something is done, is made or exists." I still maintain that the RFD-nominated definition is redundant and should be removed. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:26, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

 * Deleted, uncited and redundant. - -sche (discuss) 22:35, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * While I am glad the sense is gone, my position has been that at least two delete votes are required to establish consensus, which did not happen here; the vote of the closer does not count toward that tally unless the closer voted previously. Would anyone consider posting an additional delete vote? --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:19, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't necessarily agree with Dan's position, but if this discussion was still properly open I would vote delete, so I'm marking it as closed now. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 22:26, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:purpose


text:
Kingdom County

Proper noun

 * 1)  County Kerry.

title: Kingdom County


text:
gate guard

Noun

 * 1) A decommissioned aircraft, artillery piece, or tank, displayed near the entrance to an airport or military base.

title: gate guard


text:
first bite free

Noun

 * 1)  the concept that a dog is not considered dangerous until it has bitten someone.

title: first bite free


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Appendix talk:Slovak declension pattern ulica

From WT:RFC

 * Slovak declension pattern ulica

Does this belong in the Appendix: pseudo-namespace or Index:? --Connel MacKenzie T C 03:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

 * It certainly doesn't belong in the main namespace, right? --Connel MacKenzie T C 23:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Right, not in the main namespace. I think we’re putting these in the Appendix. I’ll move it. —Stephen 23:39, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you! --Connel MacKenzie T C 05:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)


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hull splash

Verb

 * 1)  To reverse-engineer the hull of a boat by making a cast of it.

Noun

 * 1) The wave produced by the hull of a boat hitting the water.

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bush baptist

Noun

 * 1)  A fictitious religious affiliation, invoked by a person who does not claim or admit affiliation with a particular church.
 * I asked Jim what religion he was, and he replied "bush baptist".
 * 1)  A person not educated in any particular religion; a religious zealot or proselytiser not educated in religion.
 * 2) * 1999, American Association for State and Local History, History News, Volumes 54-56, |%22bush+baptists%22+-intitle:%22bush%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22bush+baptist%22|%22bush+baptists%22+-intitle:%22bush%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j6kWT6jMHOiaiAez-qGGBA&redir_esc=y page 69,
 * The Creole slave revolts in Dominica in 1823, involved bush Baptists and slave catechists who attacked plantations and which led to 250 deaths;
 * The Creole slave revolts in Dominica in 1823, involved bush Baptists and slave catechists who attacked plantations and which led to 250 deaths;

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money tree

Noun

 * 1) An imaginary tree from which money can be plucked. See.
 * 2)  The Malabar chestnut,.
 * 3) The jade plant,.
 * 4) The cocoa tree,.
 * 5)  A kind of holy tree believed to bring money and good fortune.
 * 6)  A miniature tree sculpture decorated with currency, often used as a raffle prize or a gift.
 * 7) * 1972, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, American Association of Industrial Nurses, Occupational Health Nursing, Volume 20, |%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22money+tree%22|%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sSOyT9-rM8-viQeCrqjZCA&redir_esc=y page 26,
 * NIAIN′s one money making project of the year, a money tree, was raffled off and won by Virginia Call of Bell and Howell.
 * 1) * 2001, Daniel J. Brown, Chapter 11: School Voluntarism, Social Capital, and Civil Society, Heinz-Dieter Meyer, William Lowe Boyd (editors), Education: Between States, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, |%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sSOyT9-rM8-viQeCrqjZCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22money%20tree%22|%22money%20trees%22%20raffle%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 173,
 * Donations from teachers and others were converted into coinage for a money tree that was raffled for $500.
 * 1) * 2003, North Carolina Folklore Society, North Carolina Folklore Journal, Volumes 50-53, |%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22money+tree%22|%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sSOyT9-rM8-viQeCrqjZCA&redir_esc=y page 23,
 * Some families offer elaborate money trees, fashioned from decorated branches and streamers made of bills carefully pinned together.
 * 1)  A cheap tree sculpture, decorated with currency, used as a raffle prize because it would be illegal to offer a cash prize.
 * Donations from teachers and others were converted into coinage for a money tree that was raffled for $500.
 * 1) * 2003, North Carolina Folklore Society, North Carolina Folklore Journal, Volumes 50-53, |%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22money+tree%22|%22money+trees%22+raffle+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sSOyT9-rM8-viQeCrqjZCA&redir_esc=y page 23,
 * Some families offer elaborate money trees, fashioned from decorated branches and streamers made of bills carefully pinned together.
 * 1)  A cheap tree sculpture, decorated with currency, used as a raffle prize because it would be illegal to offer a cash prize.

Translations

 * Danish: pengetræ

title: money tree


text:
myelitis

Etymology
. From +.

Noun

 * 1) Inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.

title: myelitis


text: mynah

title: mynah


text:
mysteriousness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being mysterious.
 * 2) * 1651,, Twenty-Seven Sermons for the Summer Half-Year, Sermon II, Part II in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year, London: Tyler & Royston, 1668, p. 14,
 * This may seem strange; and indeed it is so: and it is one of the great mysteriousnesses of the Gospel.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: tajemnost, záhadnost, tajuplnost
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kazakh: тылсымдылық
 * Malayalam: നിഗൂഢത
 * Polish:

title: mysteriousness


text:
mystically

Adverb

 * 1) In a mystical manner.
 * 2)  Cryptically, disguisedly, with a meaning not openly stated.

Translations

 * Hungarian:

title: mystically


text: Category:de:Pharmaceutical drugs

title: Category:de:Pharmaceutical drugs


text:
historiador

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) historian

Noun

 * 1) historian

Noun

 * 1) historian scholar of history

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) historian

title: historiador


text:
mystification

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
 * 2) A mystifying thing.
 * 1) A mystifying thing.
 * 1) A mystifying thing.

Translations

 * Finnish:, , mystifikaatio
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From.

title: mystification


text:
mythologize

Etymology
From, after.

Verb

 * 1)  To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
 * 2)  To construct a myth or mythology.
 * 3)  To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.
 * 1)  To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * French:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: mitologizar
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: міфологізува́ти

title: mythologize


text: neurotransmiters

title: neurotransmiters


text:
histórico

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) historical pertaining to history
 * 2) historic having significance in history

Noun

 * 1) history aggregate of past events
 * 2)  history record of previous events

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) historical concerning recorded history
 * 2) historical in accordance with the past
 * 3) historic having significance in history

title: histórico


text:
odisse

Usage notes

 * Irregular in that perfect tense conjugations are used to express present tense.

title: odisse


text: neurotransmitters

title: neurotransmitters


text: gāowán

title: gāowán


text: Category:Neurotransmitters

title: Category:Neurotransmitters


text: Category:it:Neurotransmitters

title: Category:it:Neurotransmitters


text: Category:it:Biochemistry

title: Category:it:Biochemistry


text: Category:it:Neurology

title: Category:it:Neurology


text: Category:it:Pharmacology

title: Category:it:Pharmacology


text:
User talk:Leftmostcat

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Samhain
Thanks for the pronunciation file! If you'd like to help out with additional words of Irish origin, we could really use the help. I think more than 99% of our sound files are for English, with very few in other languages. --EncycloPetey 04:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Could you add a sound file for fleadh? I know it's supposed to be pronounced something like /flah/, but I've never heard it pronounced, so I don't know which of the several possible "ah" sounds to use in an IPA pronunciation.  Thanks, --EncycloPetey 05:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Old English
I've noticed a bit of inconsistency with specify the name of Old English (I've seen both Anglo-Saxon and Old English) and I'm wondering if there's a particular preference on this. I'd tend to steer toward the latter myself, but word is you're the resident OE editor.

Additionally, I've come across the word "seþeah" in doing some translation work, which appears to be a form of "swa þeah", "nevertheless". Bosworth and Toller says this latter (and by extension the former) is an "adv. conj.". I'm wondering if you have a particular preference as to how to specify part of speech on this. Adverbial Conjunction seems like a good start, but I wanted to double check. (I have difficulty with Be Bold.) Thank you for your input! --Leftmostcat 06:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

 * No I think what Bos & Tol mean is that it can be used either as an adverb or as a conjunction. That's certainly the case with swa þeah – I haven't come across the contracted form but I imagine it's the same thing.  As for the name of the language, we call it Old English - Anglo-Saxon is a very outdated term for it.  For more, see About Old English.  Widsith 08:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:past participle of
Please be careful with whitespace in templates, per the above. DAVilla 11:11, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Per your explanation, I don't understand why the links in the template weren't working as I hadn't followed that discussion or experimented with it myself. I left a brief to that effect concerning the rollback. I want to make it clear that I wasn't blaming you for those other problems. I rolled back your changes mainly because the whitespace was causing the # not to display, and I wanted to alert you to that to avoid that specific problem in the future, with this or any other inline template. DAVilla 06:36, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Breck/Brecken
Hi, the etymology appears on countless baby name sites, and similar sites giving the meanings of Irish names. Here are two:
 * http://www.parenting.com/baby-names/boys/Breck
 * http://www.baby-names-guide.co.uk/baby-names/Brecken/meaning/origin/1 If there's no truth to it, how did this meme get started in the first place? 24.29.228.33 17:35, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your excellent comment. I agree that the names should be added as English entries, linking to the actual Irish term(s). 24.29.228.33 20:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Discordianist
You are right: Discordian seems a lot more common. There is enough on Google Groups to make it attestable (barely), but perhaps it's not worth the entry. Equinox 08:12, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Look
Edit. - Amgine/talk 01:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

hunger is a good sauce
Hmm... not one I've ever heard. Should it be tagged rare? archaic? --EncycloPetey 07:41, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * A b.g.c search turns up mostly 18th century uses, with only 3 that I've seen (on the first few pages of hits) dated after 1919. --EncycloPetey 07:46, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * A bit of mix-up in the mail.:) All this editing is happening to fast for me. Looking quickly through the citations on Google Books, dated may be appropriate. You're right: the majority of citations occur between the mid-1800s and first years of the 1900s. Only a handful are recent. I'll make the appropriate change. —Leftmostcat 07:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

new buttons
Hi there. Welcome to sysophood. There is help somewhere. Please add an entry to Wiktionary:Administrators. Cheers. SemperBlotto 22:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Could you please use "rollback" rather than "undo" to get rid of vandalism/rubbish. That way, the edits all get marked as patrolled. Cheers. SemperBlotto 22:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Recommendation: Protect your user page (now that you can). Admin user pages are frequent vandalism targets. --EncycloPetey 22:12, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

More work for you!
Look! Not sure about that L3, and you may wish to meander through xyr other edits. I dinnae sprake Gale! ([w:Beaufort scale|Beaufort 7-10]) - Amgine/talk 00:34, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

òglach
Hey, the Irish section here is messy (and copied from another dictionary). If you get time, could you please tweak it. Conrad.Irwin 12:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * m'anam could also do with a check. (Yay for error-message-by-products of index-generating scripts). Conrad.Irwin 12:47, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Maybe your turf?
diff - Amgine/talk 01:43, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool stuff
I rather think that the style of database described at http://neo4j.org/ is much more suited to the task of modelling linguistic data than the relational approach. If you want to waste a few minutes, it's well worth reading. Conrad.Irwin 15:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Finlandia
I've only just discovered that you deleted the nation of Finland in February. Yes, an anon had vandalized the page with promotional material, but that's no reason to delete the page. Just revert! --EncycloPetey 15:33, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

d'
Soooo, in Scots is there a specificity in the punctuation? d’ or d'? - Amgine/talk 14:38, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Vandals
Hi, this guy was not the only one. Hammer of Elephants is also making nonsensical edits. Jcwf 04:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ...and "this guy" is re-posting, maybe a block is in order? Fathorsehead (block · contribs)  Cbrown1023   talk   05:00, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like you did while I was writing this up, go raibh maith agat!  Cbrown1023   talk   05:02, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

DILLIGAF
Please restore the page, it is citable. I'll add a quotation if you want L☺g☺maniac chat? 19:00, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Reason for reversion
Can you explain the reason for this edit on the entry's talk page after you've read my edit summary and the corresponding entry in the German counterpart of Wiktionary? 76.17.204.112 17:48, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Re: ga Verb Conjugation Templates
Hi LMC, I saw the note about the verb conjugation templates. I had found that the (now) old templates (the grey ones) were easier for me to read and parse than the new (blue) ones. The blue ones had some things that struck out at me: 1) the links in red, while standard in Wiktionary, did my head in whilst trying to read the table as a whole; 2) the sizing of the font seems to cause "page stretch", and even with more modern monitors and their sizes, this could still be an issue for some; 3) when imputing verbs not in the Wiktionary, I found the old (grey) format easier to check mistakes (in part because of issues 1 and 2.

I was thinking that perhaps a compromise of the two might work? Including the (required) pronouns would be great, but the "blue" format seems a bit clunky.

I have an idea, just now, on how to reconcile the formats... Give me a day to work on something. Thanks. Reidca 22:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Etymology of messinki
There are entries in every dictionary whose etymology is presented with doubts, so it's just absurd that Wiktionary will only accept those entries which are absolutely sure. Indeed there are several entries here which do flirt with a possibility (tuoda) and it's obvious that messinki, Messing and mässing are all cognates. Due to the fact that there are thousands of words in Finnish that come from Swedish, I am actually certain that Messinki come from a Germanic language. I just left the question mark so that someone in possession of an etymology dictionary research it further and complete it if I missed anything. 201.95.64.72 01:55, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If you are unsure of the etymology, that's probably an instance to use instead of just a question mark. L☺g☺maniac ☃ 01:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * While it's true that it does seem very likely that it came from a Germanic language, the particular manner in which it was added made me believe that you were uncertain of the provenance of the word. It'd be preferable, certainly, to specify the language it originates in, but with the question mark and the two separate speculations, I was led to believe that it was simply a guess. —Leftmostcat 02:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Template:The Original Barnstar
Shouldn't this go through the RFD process before being deleted? As far as I know, there never was specific consensus not to have barnstars... --Yair rand 04:10, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Translation requests
I think this one's for you. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 18:48, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

You boot me from #wiktionary for what?
I only asked a question that I was told to ask you, and you insta-kick me like I asked something uncomfortably intimate. What was that for? Why do you have a problem with a simple question? --129.130.239.10 18:53, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * What was the question? Were you blocked on an account? You don't seem to have ever contributed here, at the very least not with your current IP.50 Xylophone Players talk 19:02, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

About Irish
I have recently expanded the page About Irish. Please take a look, be bold in changing it, and make comments on the talk page. Thanks! —Angr 14:54, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:ja-noun
I see that it says to use “kk” for a word made with kanji followed by kana, but what do I put if the word is kana followed by kanji, or kana-kanji-kana, or kanji-kana-kanji, or any other forms? I’m guessing I use the same one, right? If that’s the case, they should really change it on the template page. 〜britannic124 (talk) 19:29, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Wiktionary-l moderatorship
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title: User talk:Leftmostcat


text: synapses

title: synapses


text: gāngqín

title: gāngqín


text:
odiosus

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) hateful, odious, vexatious, offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, annoying, troublesome

title: odiosus


text:
mobilizer

Alternative forms

 * mobiliser

Noun

 * 1) a person who mobilizes something

Related terms

 * immobiliser

title: mobilizer


text: Category:es:Neurotransmitters

title: Category:es:Neurotransmitters


text: Category:es:Biochemistry

title: Category:es:Biochemistry


text:
mobster

Noun

 * 1) A member of a mob or Mafia.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, мафиот
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: drongadóir
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: мафија́ш, га́нгстер
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: mafián

title: mobster


text: Category:es:Neurology

title: Category:es:Neurology


text:
mocker

Noun

 * 1) A person who mocks.
 * 2) A mockingbird.
 * 3)  A deceiver; an impostor.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καταγελαστής, μωκός
 * Latin: irrīsor
 * Plautdietsch: Spetta
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: hånare,
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon:, ,

title: mocker


text:
modeling

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
 * 2) The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
 * 3) The profession of someone who models clothes.
 * 4)  The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
 * 5) The learning of a new skill by copying other people.

Translations

 * Czech: modelování
 * Finnish: muovaaminen,
 * French:
 * Irish: mionsamhlú, múnlú
 * Polish: modelunek
 * Ukrainian: моделюва́ння

 * Finnish: syvyysvaikutelma
 * Polish: modelunek

 * Arabic: عارضة أزياء
 * Finnish: mallin työ
 * French:
 * Irish: mainicíneacht
 * Polish:
 * Spanish: modelaje

 * Arabic: نمذجة
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: pemodelan
 * Irish: samhaltú
 * Malay: pemodelan
 * Ukrainian: моделюва́ння

 * Irish: aithris, eiseamláiriú

Etymology
.

title: modeling


text:
moderateness

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) the quality of being moderate

Translations

 * Irish: réasúntacht, nádúrthacht
 * Italian: modicità
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀мјерено̄ст, у̀мерено̄ст
 * Roman: ,

title: moderateness


text: Category:Hormones

title: Category:Hormones


text:
moleskin

Noun

 * 1) The fur of a mole.
 * 2) A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap.
 * 3)  Clothing made of this fabric.
 * 4) A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: кожа от къртица
 * Finnish: myyrännahka, myyränkarva
 * German:
 * Irish: craiceann caocháin
 * Polish: krecia skórka
 * Swedish: mullvadsskinn

 * Bulgarian: молескин
 * Catalan: molesquí, pell de préssec
 * French:
 * German:, Englischleder, Pilotstoff
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: mohikena
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: moleskine
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To cover with a moleskin bandage.

Etymology
.

title: moleskin


text: enzymes

title: enzymes


text: adaptive enzymes

title: adaptive enzymes


text:
Talk:gray

Translations link is wrong, (not in the proper color/colour format) but I put this link in preemptively, until that method is better established. --Connel MacKenzie 17:38, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the "Chiefly US" tags, due to the fact that the definitions at grey were exactly the same, meaning that the US definition is not unique. X Parasite
 * Your edits were reverted; the US definition is not unique, but this is the spelling of the name of the color that is unique to the US. L☺g☺maniac ☃ 21:07, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The spelling difference is covered in the "Alternative Spellings" section. By saying "Chiefly US in a definition, you indicate that that meaning is not used elsewhere. X Parasite
 * The meaning is not used elsewhere. Elsewhere, that meaning is carried by a different sequence of letters grey. --EncycloPetey 00:50, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I hear no particular difference; it's exactly the same word. Therefore, defining gray as "grey" is grossly inadequate. X Parasite

"his grey head" = having grey hair?
Is this a separate sense? e.g. "the old man shook his grey head". It's the hair, not the head, that is grey. Equinox ◑ 01:15, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

title: Talk:gray


text:
5-hydroxytryptamine

Etymology
It is a tryptamine with a hydroxyl group attached to the carbon atom that is numbered as 5.

Noun

 * 1) The neurotransmitter serotonin.

Synonyms

 * 5-HT

Translations

 * Finnish: 5-hydroksitryptamiini
 * German: 5-Hydroxytryptamin

title: 5-hydroxytryptamine


text: Category:de:Neurotransmitters

title: Category:de:Neurotransmitters


text: Category:de:Biochemistry

title: Category:de:Biochemistry


text: Category:de:Neurology

title: Category:de:Neurology


text:
tercera edad

Etymology
lit. 'third age'.

Noun

 * 1)  old age, retirement age

title: tercera edad


text:
astoundingly

Adverb

 * 1) In an astounding manner; so as to astound, surprise, or amaze.
 * For such a fancy, well-known restaurant, the food was astoundingly bad.

Translations

 * Finnish: ällistyttävästi

title: astoundingly


text:
天下

Etymology
Earliest attestations are in the ' and ' (as「天之下」then「天下」).

thinks it "likely that "originally tianxia referred to the area under the direct rule of the Son of Heaven [a.k.a. the Zhou king], and its limits might have shrunk together with the contraction of royal power". See there for more on the term's gradual semantic evolution through the, , until after.

Noun

 * 1)  the world; everything under the sky; all under heaven
 * 2)  China; the Chinese nation
 * 3)  state power; domination
 * 1)  China; the Chinese nation
 * 2)  state power; domination
 * 1)  state power; domination
 * 1)  state power; domination
 * 1)  state power; domination

Synonyms

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 1
From. The kan'on, so likely a later borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) the whole world, the earth
 * 2) the whole country, all of Japan
 * 3) the government of Japan
 * 4) power, control over the government
 * 5)  the shogun
 * 6)  in traditional Japanese card games, one of the strong cards known as
 * : the best in the world often used attributively with the particle

Etymology 2
From. The go'on, so likely the earlier borrowing.

Appears with this reading in the , dating to roughly 974 CE. Superseded in modern Japanese by tenka above.

Noun

 * 1)  the world, the earth

title: 天下


text:
不可

Verb

 * 1)  cannot
 * 2) should not; must not
 * 1) should not; must not
 * 1) should not; must not

Usage notes
In the sense should not, is usually preceded by  in the structure, meaning must.

Etymology
The prefix.

Noun

 * 1) being bad or unacceptable
 * 2) a failing grade on a test

title: 不可


text:
stylistic

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to style, especially to linguistic or literary style.

Translations

 * Asturian: estilísticu
 * Belarusian: стылісты́чны
 * Bulgarian: стилистичен
 * Catalan: estilístic
 * Czech: stylistický
 * Danish: stilistisk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: stilistinen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λεκτικός
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: стилистикалық, стильдік
 * Latvian: stilistisks
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stilistisk
 * Nynorsk: stilistisk
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: стилісти́чний

title: stylistic


text:
User:FelixCheng

Hello. I'm Felix Cheng. I'm an American (currently I'm 14 years old) and lived in Indiana for 3 years. I have recently moved to Minnesota.

You can find out more information about me on Wikipedia

title: User:FelixCheng


text:
Wiktionary talk:Requested entries (Finnish)

 * Finnish declension types
 * Finnish conjugation types

Bluelinks
Can the bluelinks be removed, if entries for these words now exist? 24.29.228.33 21:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, assuming the entry actually for Finnish.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 19:20, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
 * In fact, i removed a blue link, "avaimet käteen"; here is the brief discussion for it:
 * This seems idiomatic to me, but I'm not sure of its part of speech. It is used attributively in terms like avaimet käteen -toimitus, avaimet käteen -talopaketti or avaimet käteen -talo, but it isn't a normal adjective as it is never inflected. Only seldom is it used without a headword and then usually with quotation marks as in Miksi kannattaa valita rakentaminen ”Avaimet käteen”?. Its English equivalent is which article currently gives  as Finnish translation. I have added avaimet käteen as usex under  and directed the Finnish translation of "turnkey" to avain, but is that sufficient? --Hekaheka (talk) 07:27, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * IMO it could just be under "Phrase" which is what I did. — S URJECTION / T / C / L / 18:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * IMO it could just be under "Phrase" which is what I did. — S URJECTION / T / C / L / 18:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Copying entries to their articles' discussion
Perhaps it would be a good idea to copy the entries here to the discussion pages of their respective articles, as they these entries normally have additional (and important) information concerning their the word's use. Wisapi 18:19, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if they are better here, because no one looking for a term would know to look for it here. If there's something worth keeping, a better place would be the discussion page of the respective entry. --Hekaheka 18:25, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, that's what I tried to say :) Wisapi 16:09, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

A bit confused
It's a bit hard to tell what actually still needs addressing, since it looks like most of these are resolved. That is judging by the comments left below or beside each word. How does one figure out the real needs? Thanks.

Kven

 * Not sure where best to leave this, but there's a request from the Unidentified page for a Kven word, . —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 07:26, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * According to this dictionary it means "Kven". In Finnish it is spelled "kveeni". --Hekaheka (talk) 07:43, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I made a stub of it (it doesn't appear we have any infrastructure for Kven inflection tables at the moment). —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:06, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Cleanup?
The page is filled with some blue links and a bunch of still red link requests from 2010 or thereabouts. It's probably better to clean the page up, I'm not sure what to do with the red links though. I feel a lot of those wouldn't warrant their own entries. S URJECTION ·talk·contr·log· 07:11, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Any ideas on how to do this the best way? S URJECTION ·talk·contr·log· 19:59, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Don't know really. The page used to be three times the current size, but it is still big. One possibility might be to copy the approach of some other request-pages: to create an archive for everything older than, say, a year - and then forget it for ever. --Hekaheka (talk) 20:15, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Archiving is one option, although I'm not sure whether any other entry request page does it. It may be better to go over all the requests and decide for the final time which to include and which to not, based on whether they fulfill the criteria for inclusion. I could take this up. S URJECTION ·talk·contr·log· 20:30, 13 May 2018 (UTC)


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play doctor

Noun

 * 1) A professional who is called in to revise a play written by someone else.

Verb

 * 1) To pretend to be doctor and patient as a form of child play.
 * 2)  To explore or sexually engage with  another person's private parts, particularly in the context of roleplay of a medical nature.

Translations

 * Finnish: leikkiä lääkäriä
 * French:
 * German: Doktorspiele spielen
 * Polish: bawić się w doktora

title: play doctor


text:
dinq

Etymology
Initialism of delinquent in nuclear qualifications, originally used in nuclear submarine programs.

Adjective

 * 1)  Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications.
 * My mate is so dinq that he could get 100 signatures a day and he'd still be behind.

title: dinq


text: 操场

title: 操场


text:
操場

Noun

 * 1)  playground; sports ground;  parade ground

title: 操場


text: cāochǎng

title: cāochǎng


text: 运动埕

title: 运动埕


text:
運動埕

Noun

 * 1)  playground; sports ground;  parade ground

title: 運動埕


text: ūn-tōng-tiâⁿ

title: ūn-tōng-tiâⁿ


text: celestial bodies

title: celestial bodies


text:
philography

Noun

 * 1) An academic discipline of all forms and styles of writing
 * 2) A love for writing

title: philography


text:
Talk:chit

When I was in US Navy boot camp at RTC Great Lakes, Illinois in 1991, we were given chits instead of real money to buy our toiletries and pay for haircuts and laundry services, etc. I would be interested in seeing if someone could find a way to define this better and fit it into one of the numismatic / exonumia articles.

Another type of chit we had in the Navy, was a request chit. Anything we had to ask for in writing was done on this, in triplicate. It was routed up the Chain of Command and approved or disapproved.

Another type of chit I have heard of is a blood chit. I'd like to see that defined in here also.

Sorry, I would do all this myself, but I don't feel I know enough about chits to do it justice. Wikipedia User:JAYMEDINC --JAYMEDINC 20:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Board game chit
The word chit (as a noun) is commonly used by board game players (on specialised discussion forums, in particular). According to the Chit (board wargames) article on Wikipedia, “chits are a type of wargame counter that are generally not directly representational”. My impression is that the term is used in all kinds of board games, though, and not just war games. I can only guess that this use of the word is related to those derived from Hindi chit (a small piece of paper or a note), but it could as well have another origin. In any case, it would be nice if this use of the word could be covered. Wlgrin 01:14, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

title: Talk:chit


text: ’s

title: ’s


text:
philographer

Noun

 * 1) A person devoted to studying and producing written works.

title: philographer


text:
biede

Etymology 1
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to bid, to offer

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Verb

 * 1) to beat, to excel, to surpass, to triumph over

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to offer, to bid

title: biede


text:
molecularity

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being molecular
 * 2)  (of a reaction) The number or molecules that react directly with one another

title: molecularity


text:
momentousness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being momentous.

Translations

 * German:, ,

title: momentousness


text:
monocled

Adjective

 * 1) Wearing a monocle.

title: monocled


text:
motiveless

Adjective

 * 1) Without a motive.
 * This seems to have been a motiveless crime: no money was stolen, and nobody had cause to hate the victim.

title: motiveless


text:
Talk:庄

Surname?
Is 庄 the simplified spelling for the surname 莊? Or is the surname only spelled in the traditional form? 24.223.167.112 22:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:庄


text: proprioceptors

title: proprioceptors


text: chángcháng

title: chángcháng


text:
定定

Adverb

 * 1) surely; certainly
 * 2)  often
 * 3)  calmly; steadily
 * 4)  slowly
 * 1)  slowly

Synonyms

Particle

 * 1)  that's all; nothing more

title: 定定


text: tiāⁿ-tiāⁿ

title: tiāⁿ-tiāⁿ


text: meta-ethics

title: meta-ethics


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feast day

Noun

 * 1)  A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.
 * 17th March is St Patrick's feast day.

Translations

 * Cebuano: pista
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: lá féile, féile
 * Macedonian: пра́зник
 * Ottoman Turkish: بیرام, عید
 * Tagalog: pista
 * Ukrainian:, свято, святковий день

title: feast day


text:
battery hen

Noun

 * 1) A hen kept in a small cage or battery.

Translations

 * Danish: burhøne
 * Finnish: häkkikana
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: burhøne, burhøns
 * Swedish: burhöna

title: battery hen


text:
sauve qui peut

Etymology
lit. 'may he who can, save himself' or 'save yourself if you can'.

Phrase

 * 1)  every man for himself; devil take the hindmost

title: sauve qui peut


text: toils

title: toils


text: mends

title: mends