kite

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

leko

military aviation, slang: aircraft — see also aircraft

leija

sailing, slang: spinnaker — see also spinnaker

But she said, "if this was a kite, he didn't realize that you don't have the float time of the old days," which made check-kiting easier.

1991 May 21, Alex Barnum, “Suspect named in kiting case”, in San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, Calif.: Mercury Herald Co., →OCLC, page 8E:

(banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.

The advantages which are alleged to belong to the district system [of banking] are the following:— […] as each bank will have an agent in London, the bills they draw will thus have two parties as securities, and the public will have a pledge that there is no excessive issue in the form of kites or accommodation bills.

1871, James W. Gilbart, “Section XI. The Administration of Joint-stock Banks, with an Inquiry into the Causes of Their Failures.”, in The Principles and Practice of Banking, new edition, London: Bell & Daldy, […], →OCLC, part I (Of Practical Banking), pages 324–325:

accommodation bill
accommodation bill#English

(finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).

Four-sided figures without parallel sides include trapezoids and kites.

A kite is a quadrilateral with exactly two pairs of adjacent congruent sides. Note that a parallelogram has opposite congruent sides, whereas the congruent sides of kites are adjacent. Therefore, a kite is also a parallelogram only when both pairs of adjacent congruent sides of the kite are congruent to each other, making the kite a rhombus.

2011, W. Michael Kelley, “Quadrilaterals”, in The Humongous Book of Geometry Problems: Translated for People Who Don’t Speak Math!!, New York, N.Y.: Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 216:

(geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.

鷂形 /鹞形

geometry: a polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite; a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end


kite

en-verb

kite (third-person singular simple present kites, present participle kiting, simple past and past participle kited)

kites (present singular third-person)
kiting (participle present)
kited (participle past)
kited (past)

извисявам

to cause (something) to move upwards rapidly

He was convicted of kiting checks and sentenced to two years in prison.

“An affair of honour!” said O’Flaherty, squaring himself. He smelt powder in everything.
 “More like an affair of dishonour,” said Toole, buttoning his coat. “He’s been ‘kiting’ all over the town. Nutter can distrain for his rent to-morrow, and Cluffe called him outside the bar to speak with him; put that and that together, sir.”

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Dr. Sturk Tries This Way and That for a Reprieve on the Eve of Execution”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:

The fame and money brought in by Only in America meant no more name changes, no need to kite checks, and no sneaking past the landlord.

2015, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Scandal and Resurrection”, in Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 163:

(transitive, intransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.


barrel

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

vat

round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205:

23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons.

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.

(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.

tynnyri

surfing: wave that breaks with a hollow compartment


oko

pl-noun

oko n (diminutive oczko, augmentative oczysko)

oczko (diminutive)
oczysko (augmentative)
oko (nominative singular)
oczy (nominative plural)
oka (genitive singular)
oczu (genitive plural)
ócz (genitive plural)
oczów (genitive plural)
oku (dative singular)
oczom (dative plural)
oko (accusative singular)
oczy (accusative plural)
okiem (instrumental singular)
oczami (instrumental plural)
oczyma (instrumental plural)
oku (locative singular)
oczach (locative plural)
oko (singular vocative)
oczy (plural vocative)

czego oczy nie widzą, tego sercu nie żal

źdźbło w oku bliźniego widzisz, a belki w swoim nie dostrzegasz

(countable) eye (manner of seeing that expresses one's emotions i.e. through art)

(Middle Polish) eye (colorful circle on a peacock's tail)


oko

oko (nominative singular)
oka (nominative plural)
oka (genitive singular)
ok (genitive plural)
oku (dative singular)
okom (dative plural)
oko (accusative singular)
oka (accusative plural)
okiem (instrumental singular)
okami (instrumental plural)
oku (locative singular)
okach (locative plural)
oko (singular vocative)
oka (plural vocative)

(uncountable, sailing, colloquial) observation duty on the bow of a ship


sheaf

From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”).
Cognates
Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”).

cog

Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:

A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf ℱ whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover U_i of U:

If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.

Given a family of sections s_i∈ℱ(U_i) such that all pairs (s_i,s_j) agree under restriction to U_i∩U_j, there is a (unique) section s over U whose restriction to U_i is s_i.


tun

From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, barrel”), from Proto-Germanic *tunnǭ, *tunnō (“tun, barrel, cask”), from Latin tunna, probably of Gaulish origin.
Cognate with North Frisian tenn (“tun, barrel, cask”), Dutch ton (“tun, barrel, cask”), German Tonne (“tun, barrel, drum”), Danish tønde (“barrel”), Swedish tunna (“barrel, cask, tun”), Icelandic tunna (“barrel”). Compare also Old French tonne, French tonneau (“ton, barrel”), Medieval Latin tunna (“cask”), Middle Irish tunna (“cask”), Welsh tynell (“tun, barrel”). It is uncertain whether the Germanic or the Celtic forms are the original.

Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.


돈

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 돈〯 (Yale: twǒn).
The etymology beyond Middle Korean is unknown. Native etymologies have been hypothesized, such as an 隱 (*-n) nominalization from 되다 (doeda, “to measure in containers”). Others have speculated a pre-Sino-Korean or nativised Chinese etymon, perhaps from a phrase involving 刀 (OC *taːw, “knife”) such as 刀銀 (OC *taːw ŋrɯn, “knife silver”), Chinese knife money being the first form of coinage in Korea, or alternately from 錢 (OC *ʔslenʔ, *zlen, “money”).
There is a pervasive but spurious folk etymology connecting it to 돌— (dol-, “to spin around, to circulate”), hence "that which is circulated".

金

used to form compounds related with money

그 반지는 3돈 정도 한다.

(units of measure) a don, a Korean unit of weight equivalent to about 4 g


nautical mile

(historical) Synonym of sea mile, a historical Scandinavian unit of distance equal to about 4 nmi.

مِيل بَحْرِيّ

nautical: a unit of measure equal to 1852 metres


wari

a yard (unit of measurement, 3 feet long)


carve

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

cog

... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...

1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland:

Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.

1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31


amp

en-noun

amp (countable and uncountable, plural amps)

(colloquial, countable) Short for ampere.

(colloquial, countable) Short for amplifier.

The physician had included a note which said: "Dear Miss ........, I could not get the name of your friend over the phone so I am sending two prescriptions for Methedrine amps and one prescription for Drinalfa ten cc vials.

1963, Washington (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on Governmental Cooperation, Report and Recommendations (page 45)

(colloquial, countable) Short for ampoule.

(colloquial, countable) Short for amputee.

(colloquial, uncountable) Short for amphetamine.

(colloquial, uncountable) Short for ampicillin.

(colloquial, countable) Short for ampersand.


coss

Borrowed from Hindustani کوس / कोस (kos). Doublet of krosa.

... the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) ...

1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85

A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'In Flood Time', In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 410–11:

(British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.


gauss

Named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist.

The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla.


dyne

From the French dyne, from the Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμῐς (dŭ́nămĭs, “force”).

der

A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.


canna

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew קָנֶה (qané), Aramaic קַנְיָא (qanyā), Classical Syriac ܩܢܝܐ (qanya), and English canon, cannon, canal, and channel. Doublet of cane and kaneh.

A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 7:

Still, some of Mr. Cooper’s tender salvias are wintering over, and he plans to leave a few clumps of cannas in the ground next fall.

2007 January 18, Anne Raver, “Is It Spring? Winter? What’s a Flower to Think?”, in New York Times:

Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.


erg

erg (nominative singular)
ergi (nominative plural)
erga (genitive singular)
ergów (genitive plural)
ergowi (dative singular)
ergom (dative plural)
erg (accusative singular)
ergi (accusative plural)
ergiem (instrumental singular)
ergami (instrumental plural)
ergu (locative singular)
ergach (locative plural)
ergu (singular vocative)
ergi (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).


erg

erg (nominative singular)
ergi (nominative plural)
ergu (genitive singular)
ergów (genitive plural)
ergowi (dative singular)
ergom (dative plural)
erg (accusative singular)
ergi (accusative plural)
ergiem (instrumental singular)
ergami (instrumental plural)
ergu (locative singular)
ergach (locative plural)
ergu (singular vocative)
ergi (plural vocative)


jigger

→ Catalan: gigre

From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

“an air-brush is a big thing-a-ma-bob or whatcha-callit, full of gas, and when you turn on a little jigger, it causes compressed air to squeeze out, which, in turn, going through a needle—” “That wasn't part of the contract, Mr. Jones,” […]

(US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.


micron

From French micron, from Ancient Greek μικρόν (mikrón), neuter of μικρός (mikrós, “small”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-micron.wav

2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water
As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).

(physics, metrology) The thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.


dram

desctree

→ Danish: dram
→ Faroese: drammur
→ Norwegian: dram

→ Scottish Gaelic: dràm

From Middle English dragme, dramme, from Old French dragme, drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”). Doublet of drachma, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.

doublet

(units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:

Alternative form of drachm (“One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).

drachm

(pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“One eighth of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).

units of measurement; pharmacy; pharmacy

drachm

a dram of brandy

Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing.

1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

When Friday came to him I bade him ſpeak to him, and tell him of his Deliverance, and pulling out my Bottle, made him give the poor Wretch a Dram, which, with the News of his being deliver'd, reviv'd him, and he ſat up in the Boat […]

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 281–282:

Oh, brethren, if you wants more preachin'
 Save a little dram for me (Glory hallelujah!)
 Drinkin' gin ain't against my teachin'

1920, Marshall Walker, Will E. Skidmore (lyrics and music), “Save a Little Dram for Me”performed by Bert Williams:

(by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

The rolling stock, consisting entirely of four-wheel open trucks, or drams, was broken up at Bonvilles Court Colliery.

1946 November and December, “The Saundersfoot Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:

(historical, mining) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.


marc

Of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marką.

(historical) marco, Spanish mark, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 230 g


rutty

en-adj

rutty (comparative ruttier, superlative ruttiest)

ruttier (comparative)
ruttiest (superlative)

I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell

1970, Ramon Guthrie, “Loin de Moi …”, in Maximum Security Ward, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 45:

You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.

2001, Fred Mustard Stewart, chapter 30, in The Savages in Love and War,, New York: Forge, page 275:

Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.


rutty

[…] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes,
Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes,
Was paynted all with variable flowers,

1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion, London: William Ponsonby:

[…] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues,
And with their verdure his white head embraues,
To chide the windes,

1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, Over, and After Death, Cambridge, page 47:


rutty

en-noun

rutty (plural rutties or ruttys or ruttees)

rutties (plural)
ruttys (plural)
ruttees (plural)

From Hindi रत्ती (rattī), literally “the seed of the plant Abrus precatorius.”

[…] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […]

1768, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, The History of Hindostan, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 12, p. 112:

1858, Henry Yule, Narrative of the Mission … to the Court of Ava, London: Smith, Elder, Appendix, “Note on Metals, Minerals, &c., of Burma,” p. 348,
[Sapphires] of ten to fifteen rutties without a flaw are common, whereas a perfect ruby of that size is hardly ever seen.

[…] vast numbers of infatuated wretches have accustomed themselves to consume from 6 rutties (9 grains) to a rupee’s weight (180 grains) of nearly pure opium daily […]

1870, Norman Chevers, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, page 227:

(India, obsolete) A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.


butt

From Middle English bit, bitte, bytte, butte (“leather bottle”), from Old English bytt, byt (from Proto-West Germanic *buttjā) and Old French boute (“cask”) and other etymologies on this page, all from Vulgar Latin *buttia. Doublet of boccia.

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, page 205:

(English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.


slat

head

slat f (genitive singular slaite, nominative plural slata or slatacha)

slaite (genitive singular)
slata (nominative plural)
slatacha (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
slat (indefinite singular)
slata (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a shlat (indefinite singular)
a shlata (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
slaite (indefinite singular)
slat (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
slait (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an tslat (definite singular)
na slata (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na slaite (definite singular)
na slat (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an tslat (definite singular)
leis an tslait (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don tslat (definite singular)
don tslait (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na slata (definite plural)
slat
shlat
tslat

[sˠl̪ˠaːt̪ˠ]

From Middle Irish slat, from Proto-Celtic *slattā (“stalk, staff”). Cognate with Welsh llath.


slat

slat f (genitive singular slait or slaite, plural slatan)

slait (genitive singular)
slaite (genitive singular)
slatan (plural)
slat (indefinite nominative singular)
slatan (indefinite nominative plural)
slaite (genitive indefinite singular)
slait (genitive indefinite singular)
shlat (genitive indefinite plural)
slait (dative indefinite singular)
slatan (dative indefinite plural)
slataibh (dative indefinite plural)
t-slat (definite nominative singular)
an t-slat (definite nominative singular)
slatan (definite nominative plural)
na slatan (definite nominative plural)
slaite (definite genitive singular)
na slaite (definite genitive singular)
slait (definite genitive singular)
slat (definite genitive plural)
nan slat (definite genitive plural)
t-slait (dative definite singular)
an t-slait (dative definite singular)
slatan (dative definite plural)
na slatan (dative definite plural)
slataibh (dative definite plural)
shlat (definite singular vocative)
shlata (definite plural vocative)
slat
shlat
after "an"
t-slat


torr

Clipping of Torricelli; named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who discovered the principle of the barometer.

named-after

millimeter of mercury

not exactly synonyms, but practically equal

(metrology) A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.


torr

torr (nominative singular)
torry (nominative plural)
torru (genitive singular)
torrů (genitive plural)
torru (dative singular)
torrům (dative plural)
torr (accusative singular)
torry (accusative plural)
torre (singular vocative)
torry (plural vocative)
torru (locative singular)
torrech (locative plural)
torrem (instrumental singular)
torry (instrumental plural)


torr

fo-noun

torr n (genitive singular tors, plural torr)

tors (genitive singular)
torr (plural)
torr (indefinite nominative singular)
torrið (definite nominative singular)
torr (indefinite nominative plural)
torrini (definite nominative plural)
torr (accusative indefinite singular)
torrið (accusative definite singular)
torr (accusative indefinite plural)
torrini (accusative definite plural)
torri (dative indefinite singular)
torrinum (dative definite singular)
torrum (dative indefinite plural)
torrunum (dative definite plural)
tors (genitive indefinite singular)
torsins (definite genitive singular)
torra (genitive indefinite plural)
torranna (definite genitive plural)

Named for Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist

torr, approximately 1.316·10⁻³ atmosphere or 133.3 pascals.


torr

sv-adj

torr (comparative torrare, superlative torrast)
sv:sv-adj

torr sv:sv-adj (canonical)
torrare (comparative)
torrast (superlative)
torr (indefinite positive)
torrare (comparative indefinite)
torrast (indefinite superlative)
torrt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
torrare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
torrast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
torra (indefinite plural positive)
torrare (comparative indefinite plural)
torrast (indefinite plural superlative)
torre (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
torrare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
torrast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
torre (definite masculine positive singular)
torrare (comparative definite masculine singular)
torraste (definite masculine singular superlative)
torra (definite positive)
torrare (comparative definite)
torraste (definite superlative)

From Old Norse þurr, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *térsus, from *ters- (“dry”).

(overly) matter-of-fact and humorless, dull


pica

en-noun

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.

der

I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […].

1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 30:

(typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.


deviation

en-noun

deviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.

(metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.


volta

head

volta m (genitive singular volta, nominative plural voltanna)

volta (genitive singular)
voltanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
volta (indefinite singular)
voltanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a volta (indefinite singular)
a voltanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an volta (definite singular)
na voltanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
dative (definite)
leis an volta (definite singular)
don volta (definite singular)
leis na voltanna (definite plural)


volta

volta (nominative singular)
volttat (nominative plural)
voltta (accusative singular)
volttaid (accusative plural)
voltta (genitive singular)
volttaid (genitive plural)
voltii (illative singular)
volttaide (illative plural)
volttas (locative singular)
volttain (locative plural)
volttain (comitative singular)
volttaiguin (comitative plural)
voltan (essive)
voltan (first-person possessive singular)
voltame (dual first-person possessive)
voltamet (first-person plural possessive)
voltat (possessive second-person singular)
voltade (dual possessive second-person)
voltadet (plural possessive second-person)
voltas (possessive singular third-person)
voltaska (dual possessive third-person)
voltaset (plural possessive third-person)


sen

From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.

Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen.


gauge

English: gauge

Scots: gauge

/ˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

From Old Northern French gauge, from Frankish *galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô. Doublet of galwes.


pas

Inherited from Old Catalan pas, from Latin passus (“step”). Its use as an auxiliary adverb comes from an accusative use (Latin nec…passum) in negative constructions – literally ‘not…a step’, i.e. ‘not at all’ – originally used with certain verbs of motion. Compare similarly used French pas. Cognate with Galician and Spanish paso and Portuguese passo.

(historical, measure) paso, Spanish pace, a traditional unit of length


brace

English: brace

Scots: brace

From Old French brace, from Latin bracchia, plural of bracchium.


lest

lesten (definite singular)
lester (indefinite plural)
lestar (indefinite plural)
lestene (definite plural)
lestane (definite plural)

From Old Norse lest f, from either Old English hlæst, Old Frisian hlest, or Middle Low German last. In any case, from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz and Doublet of last m.

(historical) An old measure of weight, about half up until a full dozen skippund.


peck

Probably from Anglo-Norman pek, pekke, of uncertain origin.

She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.

a peck of uncertainties and doubts

1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.


stang

stanga (definite singular)
stangen (definite singular)
stenger (indefinite plural)
stengene (definite plural)

a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft


swathe

English: swaðe

A strip or wrap, especially for wrapping babies in.


swathe

English: swath, swathe

Scots: swa, swarth

From Old English swaþu, from Proto-Germanic *swaþō, from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to bend, turn, swing”).

der

(rare) A strip of land as a unit of measure.

(rare) A trace left behind by something.


staid

head

staid f (genitive singular staide, nominative plural staideanna)

staide (genitive singular)
staideanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
staid (indefinite singular)
staideanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a staid (indefinite singular)
a staideanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
staide (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an staid (definite singular)
na staideanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na staide (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an staid (definite singular)
don staid (definite singular)
leis na staideanna (definite plural)

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

stadium (venue where sporting events are held; Greek measure of length)


span

From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ġespan, ġespann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann.

der

We use the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer to the number of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number of processors.

2017, Ananya Kumar, Guy E. Blelloch, Robert Harper, “Parallel Functional Arrays”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, →DOI:

(computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.


stadium

From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio.

der

An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.

stadion

race course, especially, the Olympic course for foot races


stadium

la-noun

stadium n (genitive stadiī or stadī); second declension

stadiī (genitive)
stadī (genitive)
stadium (nominative singular)
stadia (nominative plural)
stadiī (genitive singular)
stadī (genitive singular)
stadiōrum (genitive plural)
stadiō (dative singular)
stadiīs (dative plural)
stadium (accusative singular)
stadia (accusative plural)
stadiō (ablative singular)
stadiīs (ablative plural)
stadium (singular vocative)
stadia (plural vocative)

[ˈs̠t̪äd̪iʊ̃ˑ]

From the Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).


ulna

ulna f (genitive ulnae); first declension

ulnae (genitive)
ulna (nominative singular)
ulnae (nominative plural)
ulnae (genitive singular)
ulnārum (genitive plural)
ulnae (dative singular)
ulnīs (dative plural)
ulnam (accusative singular)
ulnās (accusative plural)
ulnā (ablative singular)
ulnīs (ablative plural)
ulna (singular vocative)
ulnae (plural vocative)

→? Proto-Albanian: *ulnā

→ Catalan: ulna (learned)

→ English: ulna

→ Galician: ulna (learned)

→ Italian: ulna (learned)

→ Portuguese: ulna (learned)

→ Spanish: ulna (learned)

From Proto-Italic *olenā, presumably from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l(e)n-, from the root *Heh₃l- (“to bend”), although this reconstruction remains uncertain. Related to Old Armenian ուլն (uln, “neck”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 (aleina, “cubit”), Old Church Slavonic ланита (lanita, “cheek”), Ancient Greek ὠλένη (ōlénē, “elbow”), Sanskrit अणि (aṇi, “the point of a needle”), Albanian llërë (“upper arm”), Welsh elin (“forearm; elbow”).


International System of Units

(metrology) A standard set of units of measurement for use in scientific literature worldwide. The newest and most widespread version of the metric system.

Beynəlxalq vahidlər sistemi

standard set of basic units of measurement

Sistema internazionale di unità di misura

Sistemul Internațional de Unități (de măsură)


candy

From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

(obsolete) A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.


GC

(metrology) Symbol for gigacoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 10⁹ coulombs.


eon

From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).

It’s been eons since we last saw each other.

(US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.

вечност

informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time


eon

eon (nominative singular)
eony (nominative plural)
eonu (genitive singular)
eonów (genitive plural)
eonowi (dative singular)
eonom (dative plural)
eon (accusative singular)
eony (accusative plural)
eonem (instrumental singular)
eonami (instrumental plural)
eonie (locative singular)
eonach (locative plural)
eonie (singular vocative)
eony (plural vocative)

eon (immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time)


lot

lot (nominative)
lotnıñ (genitive)
lotqa (dative)
lotnı (accusative)
lotta (locative)
lottan (ablative)

A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 mısqal = 12.797 g (archaic) (see Tatar units of measurement#Mass)


mHz

(metrology) Symbol for millihertz, an SI unit of frequency equal to 10⁻³ hertz.


pH

electrical inductance
electrical inductance

(metrology) Symbol for picohenry, an SI unit of electrical inductance equal to 10⁻¹² henrys.


piede

it-noun

piede m (plural piedi, diminutive piedìno, augmentative piedóne, pejorative piedàccio, diminutive-endearing piedùccio)

piedi (plural)
piedìno (diminutive)
piedóne (augmentative)
piedàccio (pejorative)

From Latin pedem (“foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Compare Catalan peu, French pied, Piedmontese pé, Latvian pēda, Lithuanian pėdės, Portuguese pé, Sardinian pei, Spanish pie.


megahertz

en-noun

megahertz (plural megahertz or megahertzes)

A unit equal to one million cycles per second.


megahertz

megahertz (nominative singular)
megahertzy (nominative plural)
megahertzu (genitive singular)
megahertzů (genitive plural)
megahertzu (dative singular)
megahertzům (dative plural)
megahertz (accusative singular)
megahertzy (accusative plural)
megahertze (singular vocative)
megahertzy (plural vocative)
megahertzu (locative singular)
megahertzech (locative plural)
megahertzích (locative plural)
megahertzem (instrumental singular)
megahertzy (instrumental plural)


kat

Symbol for katal, an SI unit of measurement of catalytic activity.


κόρος

grc-noun

κόρος • (kóros) m (genitive κόρου); second declension

kóros (romanization)
κόρου (genitive)
ὁ κόρος (nominative singular)
τὼ κόρω (dual nominative)
οἱ κόροι (nominative plural)
τοῦ κόρου (genitive singular)
τοῖν κόροιν (dual genitive)
τῶν κόρων (genitive plural)
τῷ κόρῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν κόροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς κόροις (dative plural)
τὸν κόρον (accusative singular)
τὼ κόρω (accusative dual)
τοὺς κόρους (accusative plural)
κόρε (singular vocative)
κόρω (dual vocative)
κόροι (plural vocative)

From Hebrew כֹּר (kor), itself from Akkadian kurru (cognate with Aramaic kor כֹּר, Syriac-Aramaic kora ܟܽܘܪܳܐ), itself from the Sumerian measure GUR.

kor (a dry measure containing 10 medimnes)


US survey acre

Unit of measure for areas, defined as 43,560 square feet,https://web.archive.org/web/20041204052555/http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/appxc/appxc.htm or 4,046.8564224 square meters. A square mile has 640 acres.


길

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 질〮 (Yale: cíl).
Was subject to hypercorrection by Seoul speakers to avoid the /ki/ > /t͡ɕi/ palatalization in southern dialects, producing Early Modern Korean 길 (kil); 김치 (gimchi) and 기와 (giwa) are two other well-known examples of this phenomenon. Non-standard dialects commonly preserve the original form.

ko-etym-native

갓 산 새 신발이라 아직 길이 안 들었다.
Gat san sae sinbar-ira ajik gir-i an deureotda.
Having just bought these shoes, they haven't been broken in yet.

literally, “Having just bought these shoes, breaking in hasn't entered them yet.”


길

Korean: 길 (gil)

굴허〮ᅌᅦ〮 ᄆᆞᄅᆞᆯ〮 디〯내〯샤〮 도ᄌᆞ기〮 다〯 도라〮가니〮 半 길〯 노ᄑᆡᆫ〮ᄃᆞᆯ〮 년기〮 디〯나리〮ᅌᅵᆺ가〮

1447, “Stanza 48”, in 龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가 [Yongbi Eocheon'ga]:

[Chased] into an alley, [emperor Taizu] had his horse leap over [a cliff a gil high], and all the bandits [had no choice but to] turn back. Even if it were half a gil high, could anyone else [i.e. the bandits] have done the same?

kwùlhéng-éy mòl-ól tǐnǎysyá twòcòk-í tǎ twòlákàní PAN kǐl nwòphóy-ntól nyènk-í tǐnàlíngìká

a gil, a traditional Korean unit of length equal to the height of a person; a fathom


castellano

From Spanish castellano (“Castilian”), from Medieval Latin Castella (“Castile, Land of Fortresses”) + -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”), from Latin castrum (“fort”) + -ella (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of Castilian, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain.

doublet

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 4.8 g.

(historical) A former Spanish coin, notionally equivalent to a castellano of gold.


castellano

es-adj

castellano (feminine castellana, masculine plural castellanos, feminine plural castellanas)

castellana (feminine)
castellanos (masculine plural)
castellanas (feminine plural)

From Latin Castellānus (“Castilian”), from Castella (“Castile”) + -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”), q.v.

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

(sometimes offensive) Spanish (of or related to Spain, particularly the Castilian or European forms of the Spanish language)


castellano

Castilian Spanish (the dialect of the kingdom or region of Castile)

(inexact) European Spanish, Spanish Spanish (the dialects of Spain generally, particularly as opposed to those in Latin America)

(sometimes offensive) Spanish (the Spanish language generally)


castellano

castellano (a former Spanish coin, notionally equivalent to a castellano of gold)


mille

mīlle (canonical neuter)
mīlle (nominative singular)
mīlia (nominative plural)
mīllia (nominative plural)
mīlle (genitive singular)
mīlium (genitive plural)
mīllium (genitive plural)
mīlle (dative singular)
mīlibus (dative plural)
mīllibus (dative plural)
mīlle (accusative singular)
mīlia (accusative plural)
mīllia (accusative plural)
mīlle (ablative singular)
mīlibus (ablative plural)
mīllibus (ablative plural)
mīlle (singular vocative)
mīlia (plural vocative)
mīllia (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: migliu

Italian: miglia, miglio (back-formation)

Gallo-Romance:

French: mille

Norman: mille

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: miza

Iberian-Romance:

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: milha
Galician: milla
Portuguese: milha

Borrowings:

desc

→ Ancient Greek: μίλιον (mílion), μείλιον (meílion), μίλιν (mílin)

Greek: μίλι (míli)

→ Hebrew: מַיְל (mayl)

desctree

→ Old Armenian: մղոն (młon), միլոն (milon), մողոն (mołon)
→ Armenian: մղոն (młon) (learned)

desc

→ Aramaic: [script needed] (mīlā), [script needed] (mīl)

Classical Syriac: ܡܝܠܐ (mīlā), ܡܝܠ (mīl)

→ Arabic: ميل (mīl)

→ Middle Armenian: միլ (mil)

→ Ottoman Turkish: مِیل (mīl)

Turkish: mil

→ Persian: میل (mil)

desctree

→ Old Irish: míle
Middle Irish: míle
Irish: míle
Manx: milley
Scottish Gaelic: mìle

→ Catalan: milla

→ Spanish: milla

Shortened from Latin mīlle passūs, mīlle passuum (“Roman mile”, literally “a thousand of paces”).

a mile, particularly a Roman mile of 8 stades (stadia); 1,000 paces (passūs); or 5,000 feet (pedes)


mud

en-noun

mud (countable and uncountable, plural muds)

From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), Danish mudder (“mud”). Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), from Proto-Uralic *muďa).

cog

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick


mud

Ultimately from Arabic مُدّ (mudd, “a certain dry measure”)

bor

Satu sha' setara dengan empat mud

(Islam) a dry measure (for dates, water, grains, and other things) varying in size, roughly around 510 grams.


våg

våga (definite singular)
våger (indefinite plural)
vågene (definite plural)

(measure unit): Russenorsk: våga

From Old Norse vág f, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”).

(historical, units of measure) an older unit of weight used to measure heavier goods, around 18 kg.


ounce

→ Tokelauan: aunehe

From Middle English ounce, unce, from Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“Roman ounce, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Doublet of a, one, inch, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.

doublet

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-ounce.wav

an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure

an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.

A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.

A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.

A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.

He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.

(figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.


ounce

From Middle French once, from Old French lonce (“lynx”), by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from Italian lonza, ultimately from Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx, “lynx”). Doublet of onza and lynx.

The ounce, a leopard-like creature, is dreaded for its depredations by the Indians of Brazil.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 235:

(cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.


ounce

English: ounce, unce

Scots: ounce

From Middle French once, from Old French once, unce, from Latin uncia. Doublet of ynche.

By ounces henge his lokkes that he hadde / And therwith he his shuldres overspradde

a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, archived from the original on 2019-02-22, lines 677–678:

By very little hung the locks that he had; / He draped them over his shoulders

(rare) A minuscule or insignificant amount or quantity.


ounce

ouncen (definite singular)
ouncer (indefinite plural)
ouncene (definite plural)

From English ounce. Doublet of inch and unse.


ounce

ouncen (definite singular)
ouncar (indefinite plural)
ouncane (definite plural)


derived unit

The derived unit of electrical resistance (ohm) is derived from length, mass, time, and electric current.

(In the SI system of units) Any unit derived from one of the seven base units of length (meter), mass (kilogram), time (second), electric current (ampere), thermodynamic temperature (kelvin), amount of substance (mole) and luminous intensity (candela).

導出單位 /导出单位

any unit derived from one of the seven base units


hoon

Capricornia (novel)
Kelmscott, Western Australia
The Australian National Dictionary
Xavier Herbert

Uncertain; used initially as a general term of abuse. It first appeared in print in Capricornia (1938) by Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901–1984); in a 1941 letter Herbert stated he had heard the term in his youth.

'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'

1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia: A Novel, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC:

(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.

When the girls were sick, the hoons would beat the shit out of them and put them back on the street.

2009, Adam Shand, The Skull: Informers, Hit Men and Australia's Toughest Cop, Melbourne: Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-438-9; republished Melbourne, Black Inc., 2010, ISBN 978-1-86395-482-2, page 85

Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006. Hoon related offences include burnouts, doughnuts, drag racing, repeated driving while disqualified and high-level speeding. Offences are detailed in section 84C of the Road Safety Act 1986.

2008 July 30, “Hoon Laws”, in Victoria Police, archived from the original on 2009-05-15:

The hoons piled out of the wreck brimming with righteous road rage, and were settling to the task of beating the shit out of Wozza, Mutton and the hapless wheelman when they discovered the plastic bag.

2009, Damien Broderick, Rory Barnes, I'm Dying Here: A Comedy of Bad Manners, New York, N.Y.: Point Blank, →ISBN, page 29:

[T]here is an overwhelming sense of youth as a social group with nowhere to go and nothing to do. […] Predictably, this has produced a series of strategies among young people through which to counter the boredom and frustration they often experience. One of the more spectacular – and illegal – examples of this is "hooning" (a localized term for dangerous driving) by young males. […] [H]oons transform the quiet, often sleepy streets of neighborhoods on the Gold Coast into playscapes of their own. […] Equally salient in the context of the present discussion is the random night-time appropriation by hoons of particular streets and neighborhoods on the Gold Coast in which to enact the collective rituals that give the hoon culture both internal cohesion and local notoriety.

2012, Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett, Patricia Wise, “Living ‘The Strip’: Negotiating Neighborhood, Community, and Identity on Australia's Gold Coast”, in Chris Richardson, Hans A[rthur] Skott-Myhre, editors, Habitus of the Hood, Bristol, Chicago, Ill.: Intellect, →ISBN, pages 109–110:

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.

wegpiraat

young man who drives badly or excessively quickly


hoon

Borrowed from Hokkien 分 (hun). Doublet of fen and fan.

This abovementioned Chandoo or prepared opium for smoking is retailed by them [the East India Company] at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, […]

1838, N[athaniel] Wallich, “XVII.—A Few Brief Notices on the State of the Population of Prince of Wales' Island, and of the Price at which Opium is Retailed in that Colony”, in Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, volume I, Calcutta: Re-printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, →OCLC, page 57:

Visited in company with the agent of the Opium farmer 4 Opium shops, found them filled with Chinese except one which had in addition 7 Malays and natives of India. Amongst these were 3 tailors; one woman 30 years old, was there smoking her pipe,—she had been in the habit of doing so for 3 years at the rate of 3 hoons daily,—before she commenced the habit of smoking had children but none since,—thinks that it is owing to the bad habit,—would like much to give up but is frightened.

1848 January, R. Little, “On the Habitual Use of Opium in Singapore”, in J[ames] R[ichardson] Logan, editor, The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, volume II, number I, Singapore: Printed at the Mission Press, →OCLC, page 23:

Examined thirty-one men. Their average consumption was six hoons. The greatest daily consumption by one man was fifteen hoons; the smallest, two. The average number of years they had been addicted to the smoking of opium was seven years and some odd months.

1860, A chaplain in H. M. Indian Service [pseudonym; James Aberigh Mackay], “An Explanation of the Peiho Massacre”, in From London to Lucknow: With Memoranda of Mutinies, Marches, Flights, Fights, and Conversations. To which is Added, An Opium-smuggler's Explanation of the Peiho Massacre. By a Chaplain in H. M. Indian Service. In Two Volumes, volume II, London: James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, →OCLC, page 553:

Chinese Catty = 1.33 lb (605 g) / = 16 Tahil (liang or tael). / 1 Tahil = 10 Chee (chandu measures) / = 100 Hoon (fen).

1999, Carl A. Trocki, “Weights and Measures”, in Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750–1950, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page x:

The average smoker used only four hoons, leaving him 36 hoons, nearly half an ounce, to sell on the black market.

2005, Derek Mackay, “Retail Monopoly”, in Eastern Customs: The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium, London: The Radcliffe Press, →ISBN, page 141:

(historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.


hoon

Borrowed from Hindi हून (hūn, “pagoda, a gold coin of Southern India”), from Sanskrit हून (hūna, “a kind of gold coin from a particular kingdom”).

derived

The plaintiff in his plaint states, that the first and second defendants' elder brother, Soobbiya Shetty, on the 8th Ashweeja Bahoola of the year Veya, mortgaged to him, for 2½ hoons, his two slaves, viz. a female Dher, named Honnoo, and a male Pardeshey, together with their offspring, and made them over to him; that while they were in his possession, Soobba Shetty died, and the first and the second defendants succeeding to his (Soobba Shetty's) property, they further executed a document to him for hoons 4-8-12, on account of a balance against themselves of rice, &c., making a total mortgage on the slaves of hoons 7-3-12.

1835 July 29, “Decree Passed by the Barcoor Moonsif, in Original Cause, No. 126 of 1835, on the 29th July 1835: Hossamunay Manddawanna Shetty, residing in the Hondady Village, and Brumawhar Mogany, in the Barcoor Talook, versus Sheevy Shetty, his younger brother, Honniya, both nephews of Hossamunay Pomma Shetty, and younger brothers of Soobbiya Shetty, residing in the said Hondady Village, and Bennaycoodra Krooshna Shetty”, in Slavery (East Indies). Return to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons Dated 22 April 1841;—for, Copy of the Despatch from the Governor-General of India in Council to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, Dated the 8th Day of February 1841 (No. 3), with the Report from the Indian Law Commissioners, dated the 15th Day of January 1841, and its Appendix Enclosed in that Despatch, on the Subject of Slavery in the East Indies, [London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, published 26 April 1841, →OCLC, appendix IX, page 505:

(India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.


fara

[faː˧˧ ɹaː˧˧]

[faː˧˧ zaː˧˧]

[faː˧˧ ɹaː˧˧]

[faː˧˧ ɹaː˧˧]


calibrate

en-verb

calibrate (third-person singular simple present calibrates, present participle calibrating, simple past and past participle calibrated)

calibrates (present singular third-person)
calibrating (participle present)
calibrated (participle past)
calibrated (past)

Trent Alexander-Arnold was prominent in the early running, stepping up from right-back into midfield, calibrating his passing range. He had already teed up Harry Kane for a free header – the captain headed high – when he sent Anthony Gordon clean through.

2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, in The Guardian:

To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.

калибрирам

to check or adjust by comparison with a standard


nl

(metrology) Symbol for nanolitre, an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10⁻⁹ litres.


mil

An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.


mil

mt-noun

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

milejn (dual)
mjiel (plural)
mili (plural)


mil

head

mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

mila (definite singular)
milen (definite singular)
mil (indefinite plural)
milene (definite plural)

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

(today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres

gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres

engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.


mil

mila (definite singular)
mil (indefinite plural)
milene (definite plural)

gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres


mil

mīl (canonical feminine)
mīl (nominative singular)
mīla (nominative plural)
mīle (nominative plural)
mīle (accusative singular)
mīla (accusative plural)
mīle (accusative plural)
mīle (genitive singular)
mīla (genitive plural)
mīle (dative singular)
mīlum (dative plural)

Middle English: myle, mile

Scots: mile

English: mile

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād.

Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.


mil

mil (indefinite nominative singular)
mils (genitive indefinite singular)
milen (definite nominative singular)
milens (definite genitive singular)
mil (indefinite nominative plural)
mils (genitive indefinite plural)
milen (definite nominative plural)
milens (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

engelsk mil

mile (in the English sense), international mile

IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om 1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg.

2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road]”, in Vi bilägare:

IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if 17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads.

(after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters


mil

mil (nominative)
milnıñ (genitive)
milga (dative)
milnı (accusative)
milda (locative)
mildan (ablative)

(archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)


mil

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

mili (accusative definite)
miller (plural)


gran

From Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Portuguese grão, Spanish grano, and Catalan gra.

E nos dedes del de cada anno em paz et em salvo en a ayra do dito casar quarta de todo pan e grao que Deus em el der

1396, M. Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV; page 449:

and you shall give us each year, pacifically and safely, in the threshing ground of that farm, a quarter of all the bread and the grain that God there gives

(uncountable) grain, the seed of grass food crops

(historical, countable) grano, Spanish grain, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 50 mg

Tamen bay ese tabeque
meu velliño, pois fungàs
que cada grao de èl gorenta,
con eso as fremas sairàn.

1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

Also there it goes this tobacco,
my little old man, since you snivel:
each grain of it is delectable,
with this phlegms will go out.

(figurative, countable) speck, ounce, any extremely small quantity or amount


gran

gran (indefinite nominative singular)
grans (genitive indefinite singular)
granen (definite nominative singular)
granens (definite genitive singular)
granar (indefinite nominative plural)
granars (genitive indefinite plural)
granarna (definite nominative plural)
granarnas (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Old Norse grǫn. First attested in the early 14th century.

etydate

hugga ner en gran

klä (jul)granen

spruce (mostly the species Picea abies or Norway spruce, the species found most often in Sweden)


board-foot

A unit of cubic measure for timber, equal to one foot square by one inch thick.


statute mile

The land mile in its various forms, distinguished from the nautical mile.


British thermal unit

en-noun

British thermal unit (plural British thermal units)

The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at a particular temperature (there are several different precise definitions) and a pressure of one atmosphere.

英熱單位 /英热单位

the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at a particular temperature


angstrom

Borrowed from Swedish ångström, named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström.

named-after

electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic radiation#English

(physics, metrology) A unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.


cubit

From Middle English cubite, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cubitus.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:27:

The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.


poise

en-verb

poise (third-person singular simple present poises, present participle poising, simple past and past participle poised)

poises (present singular third-person)
poising (participle present)
poised (participle past)
poised (past)

From Middle English poys, poyse, from Anglo-Norman pois, Middle French pois (“weight”) and Anglo-Norman poise, Middle French poise (“measure of weight”), from Latin pēnsāre (“to ponder, weight, think”).

der

(obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.


pl

(metrology) Symbol for picoliter (picolitre), an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10⁻¹² liters (litres).


MV

(metrology) Symbol for megavolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10⁶ volts.


من

ar-noun

مَنّ • (mann) m (plural أَمْنَان (ʔamnān))

مَنّ (canonical)
mann (romanization)
أَمْنَان (plural)
مَنّ (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَنّ (definite informal singular triptote)
مَنّ (construct informal singular triptote)
مَنٌّ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَنُّ (definite nominative singular triptote)
مَنُّ (construct nominative singular triptote)
مَنًّا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَنَّ (accusative definite singular triptote)
مَنَّ (accusative construct singular triptote)
مَنٍّ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَنِّ (definite genitive singular triptote)
مَنِّ (construct genitive singular triptote)
مَنَّيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَنَّيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
مَنَّيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
مَنَّانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَنَّانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
مَنَّا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
مَنَّيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَنَّيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
مَنَّيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
مَنَّيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَنَّيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
مَنَّيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
أَمْنَان (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْأَمْنَان (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
أَمْنَان (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَمْنَانٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَمْنَانُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
أَمْنَانُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَمْنَانًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَمْنَانَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
أَمْنَانَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَمْنَانٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَمْنَانِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
أَمْنَانِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

From Aramaic מָנָא (mānā), from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû), whence also Sumerian 𒈠𒈾 (ma-na /mana/) and Hebrew מָנֶה (mānḗ).

a historical unit of mass – translatable as mina or maund – varying usually between ca. 1–3 kilograms, however in some cases also going up over 40 kilograms.


من

From Middle Persian, from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû).


motti

motti (nominative singular)
motit (nominative plural)
motti (accusative nominative singular)
motit (accusative nominative plural)
motin (accusative genitive singular)
motit (accusative genitive plural)
motin (genitive singular)
mottien (genitive plural)
mottia (partitive singular)
motteja (partitive plural)
motissa (inessive singular)
moteissa (inessive plural)
motista (elative singular)
moteista (elative plural)
mottiin (illative singular)
motteihin (illative plural)
motilla (adessive singular)
moteilla (adessive plural)
motilta (ablative singular)
moteilta (ablative plural)
motille (allative singular)
moteille (allative plural)
mottina (essive singular)
motteina (essive plural)
motiksi (singular translative)
moteiksi (plural translative)
motitta (abessive singular)
moteitta (abessive plural)
motein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
mottini (nominative singular)
mottini (nominative plural)
mottini (accusative nominative singular)
mottini (accusative nominative plural)
mottini (accusative genitive singular)
mottini (accusative genitive plural)
mottini (genitive singular)
mottieni (genitive plural)
mottiani (partitive singular)
mottejani (partitive plural)
motissani (inessive singular)
moteissani (inessive plural)
motistani (elative singular)
moteistani (elative plural)
mottiini (illative singular)
motteihini (illative plural)
motillani (adessive singular)
moteillani (adessive plural)
motiltani (ablative singular)
moteiltani (ablative plural)
motilleni (allative singular)
moteilleni (allative plural)
mottinani (essive singular)
motteinani (essive plural)
motikseni (singular translative)
moteikseni (plural translative)
motittani (abessive singular)
moteittani (abessive plural)
motteineni (comitative plural)
mottisi (nominative singular)
mottisi (nominative plural)
mottisi (accusative nominative singular)
mottisi (accusative nominative plural)
mottisi (accusative genitive singular)
mottisi (accusative genitive plural)
mottisi (genitive singular)
mottiesi (genitive plural)
mottiasi (partitive singular)
mottejasi (partitive plural)
motissasi (inessive singular)
moteissasi (inessive plural)
motistasi (elative singular)
moteistasi (elative plural)
mottiisi (illative singular)
motteihisi (illative plural)
motillasi (adessive singular)
moteillasi (adessive plural)
motiltasi (ablative singular)
moteiltasi (ablative plural)
motillesi (allative singular)
moteillesi (allative plural)
mottinasi (essive singular)
motteinasi (essive plural)
motiksesi (singular translative)
moteiksesi (plural translative)
motittasi (abessive singular)
moteittasi (abessive plural)
motteinesi (comitative plural)
mottimme (nominative singular)
mottimme (nominative plural)
mottimme (accusative nominative singular)
mottimme (accusative nominative plural)
mottimme (accusative genitive singular)
mottimme (accusative genitive plural)
mottimme (genitive singular)
mottiemme (genitive plural)
mottiamme (partitive singular)
mottejamme (partitive plural)
motissamme (inessive singular)
moteissamme (inessive plural)
motistamme (elative singular)
moteistamme (elative plural)
mottiimme (illative singular)
motteihimme (illative plural)
motillamme (adessive singular)
moteillamme (adessive plural)
motiltamme (ablative singular)
moteiltamme (ablative plural)
motillemme (allative singular)
moteillemme (allative plural)
mottinamme (essive singular)
motteinamme (essive plural)
motiksemme (singular translative)
moteiksemme (plural translative)
motittamme (abessive singular)
moteittamme (abessive plural)
motteinemme (comitative plural)
mottinne (nominative singular)
mottinne (nominative plural)
mottinne (accusative nominative singular)
mottinne (accusative nominative plural)
mottinne (accusative genitive singular)
mottinne (accusative genitive plural)
mottinne (genitive singular)
mottienne (genitive plural)
mottianne (partitive singular)
mottejanne (partitive plural)
motissanne (inessive singular)
moteissanne (inessive plural)
motistanne (elative singular)
moteistanne (elative plural)
mottiinne (illative singular)
motteihinne (illative plural)
motillanne (adessive singular)
moteillanne (adessive plural)
motiltanne (ablative singular)
moteiltanne (ablative plural)
motillenne (allative singular)
moteillenne (allative plural)
mottinanne (essive singular)
motteinanne (essive plural)
motiksenne (singular translative)
moteiksenne (plural translative)
motittanne (abessive singular)
moteittanne (abessive plural)
motteinenne (comitative plural)
mottinsa (nominative singular)
mottinsa (nominative plural)
mottinsa (accusative nominative singular)
mottinsa (accusative nominative plural)
mottinsa (accusative genitive singular)
mottinsa (accusative genitive plural)
mottinsa (genitive singular)
mottiensa (genitive plural)
mottiaan (partitive singular)
mottiansa (partitive singular)
mottejaan (partitive plural)
mottejansa (partitive plural)
motissaan (inessive singular)
motissansa (inessive singular)
moteissaan (inessive plural)
moteissansa (inessive plural)
motistaan (elative singular)
motistansa (elative singular)
moteistaan (elative plural)
moteistansa (elative plural)
mottiinsa (illative singular)
motteihinsa (illative plural)
motillaan (adessive singular)
motillansa (adessive singular)
moteillaan (adessive plural)
moteillansa (adessive plural)
motiltaan (ablative singular)
motiltansa (ablative singular)
moteiltaan (ablative plural)
moteiltansa (ablative plural)
motilleen (allative singular)
motillensa (allative singular)
moteilleen (allative plural)
moteillensa (allative plural)
mottinaan (essive singular)
mottinansa (essive singular)
motteinaan (essive plural)
motteinansa (essive plural)
motikseen (singular translative)
motiksensa (singular translative)
moteikseen (plural translative)
moteiksensa (plural translative)
motittaan (abessive singular)
motittansa (abessive singular)
moteittaan (abessive plural)
moteittansa (abessive plural)
motteineen (comitative plural)
motteinensa (comitative plural)


motti

A semantic shift either from motti (etymology 1), as an analogy comparing a pocket of troops to a lump, or motti (etymology 3), comparing a pocket to a stere of firewood to be chopped down. First attested in 1940.

(military) encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment


tunti

tunti (nominative singular)
tunnit (nominative plural)
tunti (accusative nominative singular)
tunnit (accusative nominative plural)
tunnin (accusative genitive singular)
tunnit (accusative genitive plural)
tunnin (genitive singular)
tuntien (genitive plural)
tuntia (partitive singular)
tunteja (partitive plural)
tunnissa (inessive singular)
tunneissa (inessive plural)
tunnista (elative singular)
tunneista (elative plural)
tuntiin (illative singular)
tunteihin (illative plural)
tunnilla (adessive singular)
tunneilla (adessive plural)
tunnilta (ablative singular)
tunneilta (ablative plural)
tunnille (allative singular)
tunneille (allative plural)
tuntina (essive singular)
tunteina (essive plural)
tunniksi (singular translative)
tunneiksi (plural translative)
tunnitta (abessive singular)
tunneitta (abessive plural)
tunnein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tuntini (nominative singular)
tuntini (nominative plural)
tuntini (accusative nominative singular)
tuntini (accusative nominative plural)
tuntini (accusative genitive singular)
tuntini (accusative genitive plural)
tuntini (genitive singular)
tuntieni (genitive plural)
tuntiani (partitive singular)
tuntejani (partitive plural)
tunnissani (inessive singular)
tunneissani (inessive plural)
tunnistani (elative singular)
tunneistani (elative plural)
tuntiini (illative singular)
tunteihini (illative plural)
tunnillani (adessive singular)
tunneillani (adessive plural)
tunniltani (ablative singular)
tunneiltani (ablative plural)
tunnilleni (allative singular)
tunneilleni (allative plural)
tuntinani (essive singular)
tunteinani (essive plural)
tunnikseni (singular translative)
tunneikseni (plural translative)
tunnittani (abessive singular)
tunneittani (abessive plural)
tunteineni (comitative plural)
tuntisi (nominative singular)
tuntisi (nominative plural)
tuntisi (accusative nominative singular)
tuntisi (accusative nominative plural)
tuntisi (accusative genitive singular)
tuntisi (accusative genitive plural)
tuntisi (genitive singular)
tuntiesi (genitive plural)
tuntiasi (partitive singular)
tuntejasi (partitive plural)
tunnissasi (inessive singular)
tunneissasi (inessive plural)
tunnistasi (elative singular)
tunneistasi (elative plural)
tuntiisi (illative singular)
tunteihisi (illative plural)
tunnillasi (adessive singular)
tunneillasi (adessive plural)
tunniltasi (ablative singular)
tunneiltasi (ablative plural)
tunnillesi (allative singular)
tunneillesi (allative plural)
tuntinasi (essive singular)
tunteinasi (essive plural)
tunniksesi (singular translative)
tunneiksesi (plural translative)
tunnittasi (abessive singular)
tunneittasi (abessive plural)
tunteinesi (comitative plural)
tuntimme (nominative singular)
tuntimme (nominative plural)
tuntimme (accusative nominative singular)
tuntimme (accusative nominative plural)
tuntimme (accusative genitive singular)
tuntimme (accusative genitive plural)
tuntimme (genitive singular)
tuntiemme (genitive plural)
tuntiamme (partitive singular)
tuntejamme (partitive plural)
tunnissamme (inessive singular)
tunneissamme (inessive plural)
tunnistamme (elative singular)
tunneistamme (elative plural)
tuntiimme (illative singular)
tunteihimme (illative plural)
tunnillamme (adessive singular)
tunneillamme (adessive plural)
tunniltamme (ablative singular)
tunneiltamme (ablative plural)
tunnillemme (allative singular)
tunneillemme (allative plural)
tuntinamme (essive singular)
tunteinamme (essive plural)
tunniksemme (singular translative)
tunneiksemme (plural translative)
tunnittamme (abessive singular)
tunneittamme (abessive plural)
tunteinemme (comitative plural)
tuntinne (nominative singular)
tuntinne (nominative plural)
tuntinne (accusative nominative singular)
tuntinne (accusative nominative plural)
tuntinne (accusative genitive singular)
tuntinne (accusative genitive plural)
tuntinne (genitive singular)
tuntienne (genitive plural)
tuntianne (partitive singular)
tuntejanne (partitive plural)
tunnissanne (inessive singular)
tunneissanne (inessive plural)
tunnistanne (elative singular)
tunneistanne (elative plural)
tuntiinne (illative singular)
tunteihinne (illative plural)
tunnillanne (adessive singular)
tunneillanne (adessive plural)
tunniltanne (ablative singular)
tunneiltanne (ablative plural)
tunnillenne (allative singular)
tunneillenne (allative plural)
tuntinanne (essive singular)
tunteinanne (essive plural)
tunniksenne (singular translative)
tunneiksenne (plural translative)
tunnittanne (abessive singular)
tunneittanne (abessive plural)
tunteinenne (comitative plural)
tuntinsa (nominative singular)
tuntinsa (nominative plural)
tuntinsa (accusative nominative singular)
tuntinsa (accusative nominative plural)
tuntinsa (accusative genitive singular)
tuntinsa (accusative genitive plural)
tuntinsa (genitive singular)
tuntiensa (genitive plural)
tuntiaan (partitive singular)
tuntiansa (partitive singular)
tuntejaan (partitive plural)
tuntejansa (partitive plural)
tunnissaan (inessive singular)
tunnissansa (inessive singular)
tunneissaan (inessive plural)
tunneissansa (inessive plural)
tunnistaan (elative singular)
tunnistansa (elative singular)
tunneistaan (elative plural)
tunneistansa (elative plural)
tuntiinsa (illative singular)
tunteihinsa (illative plural)
tunnillaan (adessive singular)
tunnillansa (adessive singular)
tunneillaan (adessive plural)
tunneillansa (adessive plural)
tunniltaan (ablative singular)
tunniltansa (ablative singular)
tunneiltaan (ablative plural)
tunneiltansa (ablative plural)
tunnilleen (allative singular)
tunnillensa (allative singular)
tunneilleen (allative plural)
tunneillensa (allative plural)
tuntinaan (essive singular)
tuntinansa (essive singular)
tunteinaan (essive plural)
tunteinansa (essive plural)
tunnikseen (singular translative)
tunniksensa (singular translative)
tunneikseen (plural translative)
tunneiksensa (plural translative)
tunnittaan (abessive singular)
tunnittansa (abessive singular)
tunneittaan (abessive plural)
tunneittansa (abessive plural)
tunteineen (comitative plural)
tunteinensa (comitative plural)

From earlier *stunti, borrowed from Old Swedish stund.


בת

he-noun

בַּת • (bat) m or f (plural indefinite בָּתִּים)

בַּת (canonical)
bat (romanization)
בָּתִּים (indefinite plural)

→ English: bath

desc

→ Ancient Greek: βάτος (bátos), βάδος (bádos)

Perhaps related to Arabic بَاطِيَة (bāṭiya, “wine-vessel”) etc. what is mentioned there.

(Biblical Hebrew) a liquid measure of about 40 litres


ZH

(metrology) Symbol for zettahenry, an SI unit of electrical inductance equal to 10²¹ henrys.


decilitre

When the boy was admitted, Carter said, the haemoglobin count was 8.3 grams per decilitre.

2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:

(metrology) An SI unit of fluid equal to 10⁻¹ liters. Symbol: dl.


minuutti

minuutti (nominative singular)
minuutit (nominative plural)
minuutti (accusative nominative singular)
minuutit (accusative nominative plural)
minuutin (accusative genitive singular)
minuutit (accusative genitive plural)
minuutin (genitive singular)
minuuttien (genitive plural)
minuuttia (partitive singular)
minuutteja (partitive plural)
minuutissa (inessive singular)
minuuteissa (inessive plural)
minuutista (elative singular)
minuuteista (elative plural)
minuuttiin (illative singular)
minuutteihin (illative plural)
minuutilla (adessive singular)
minuuteilla (adessive plural)
minuutilta (ablative singular)
minuuteilta (ablative plural)
minuutille (allative singular)
minuuteille (allative plural)
minuuttina (essive singular)
minuutteina (essive plural)
minuutiksi (singular translative)
minuuteiksi (plural translative)
minuutitta (abessive singular)
minuuteitta (abessive plural)
minuutein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
minuuttini (nominative singular)
minuuttini (nominative plural)
minuuttini (accusative nominative singular)
minuuttini (accusative nominative plural)
minuuttini (accusative genitive singular)
minuuttini (accusative genitive plural)
minuuttini (genitive singular)
minuuttieni (genitive plural)
minuuttiani (partitive singular)
minuuttejani (partitive plural)
minuutissani (inessive singular)
minuuteissani (inessive plural)
minuutistani (elative singular)
minuuteistani (elative plural)
minuuttiini (illative singular)
minuutteihini (illative plural)
minuutillani (adessive singular)
minuuteillani (adessive plural)
minuutiltani (ablative singular)
minuuteiltani (ablative plural)
minuutilleni (allative singular)
minuuteilleni (allative plural)
minuuttinani (essive singular)
minuutteinani (essive plural)
minuutikseni (singular translative)
minuuteikseni (plural translative)
minuutittani (abessive singular)
minuuteittani (abessive plural)
minuutteineni (comitative plural)
minuuttisi (nominative singular)
minuuttisi (nominative plural)
minuuttisi (accusative nominative singular)
minuuttisi (accusative nominative plural)
minuuttisi (accusative genitive singular)
minuuttisi (accusative genitive plural)
minuuttisi (genitive singular)
minuuttiesi (genitive plural)
minuuttiasi (partitive singular)
minuuttejasi (partitive plural)
minuutissasi (inessive singular)
minuuteissasi (inessive plural)
minuutistasi (elative singular)
minuuteistasi (elative plural)
minuuttiisi (illative singular)
minuutteihisi (illative plural)
minuutillasi (adessive singular)
minuuteillasi (adessive plural)
minuutiltasi (ablative singular)
minuuteiltasi (ablative plural)
minuutillesi (allative singular)
minuuteillesi (allative plural)
minuuttinasi (essive singular)
minuutteinasi (essive plural)
minuutiksesi (singular translative)
minuuteiksesi (plural translative)
minuutittasi (abessive singular)
minuuteittasi (abessive plural)
minuutteinesi (comitative plural)
minuuttimme (nominative singular)
minuuttimme (nominative plural)
minuuttimme (accusative nominative singular)
minuuttimme (accusative nominative plural)
minuuttimme (accusative genitive singular)
minuuttimme (accusative genitive plural)
minuuttimme (genitive singular)
minuuttiemme (genitive plural)
minuuttiamme (partitive singular)
minuuttejamme (partitive plural)
minuutissamme (inessive singular)
minuuteissamme (inessive plural)
minuutistamme (elative singular)
minuuteistamme (elative plural)
minuuttiimme (illative singular)
minuutteihimme (illative plural)
minuutillamme (adessive singular)
minuuteillamme (adessive plural)
minuutiltamme (ablative singular)
minuuteiltamme (ablative plural)
minuutillemme (allative singular)
minuuteillemme (allative plural)
minuuttinamme (essive singular)
minuutteinamme (essive plural)
minuutiksemme (singular translative)
minuuteiksemme (plural translative)
minuutittamme (abessive singular)
minuuteittamme (abessive plural)
minuutteinemme (comitative plural)
minuuttinne (nominative singular)
minuuttinne (nominative plural)
minuuttinne (accusative nominative singular)
minuuttinne (accusative nominative plural)
minuuttinne (accusative genitive singular)
minuuttinne (accusative genitive plural)
minuuttinne (genitive singular)
minuuttienne (genitive plural)
minuuttianne (partitive singular)
minuuttejanne (partitive plural)
minuutissanne (inessive singular)
minuuteissanne (inessive plural)
minuutistanne (elative singular)
minuuteistanne (elative plural)
minuuttiinne (illative singular)
minuutteihinne (illative plural)
minuutillanne (adessive singular)
minuuteillanne (adessive plural)
minuutiltanne (ablative singular)
minuuteiltanne (ablative plural)
minuutillenne (allative singular)
minuuteillenne (allative plural)
minuuttinanne (essive singular)
minuutteinanne (essive plural)
minuutiksenne (singular translative)
minuuteiksenne (plural translative)
minuutittanne (abessive singular)
minuuteittanne (abessive plural)
minuutteinenne (comitative plural)
minuuttinsa (nominative singular)
minuuttinsa (nominative plural)
minuuttinsa (accusative nominative singular)
minuuttinsa (accusative nominative plural)
minuuttinsa (accusative genitive singular)
minuuttinsa (accusative genitive plural)
minuuttinsa (genitive singular)
minuuttiensa (genitive plural)
minuuttiaan (partitive singular)
minuuttiansa (partitive singular)
minuuttejaan (partitive plural)
minuuttejansa (partitive plural)
minuutissaan (inessive singular)
minuutissansa (inessive singular)
minuuteissaan (inessive plural)
minuuteissansa (inessive plural)
minuutistaan (elative singular)
minuutistansa (elative singular)
minuuteistaan (elative plural)
minuuteistansa (elative plural)
minuuttiinsa (illative singular)
minuutteihinsa (illative plural)
minuutillaan (adessive singular)
minuutillansa (adessive singular)
minuuteillaan (adessive plural)
minuuteillansa (adessive plural)
minuutiltaan (ablative singular)
minuutiltansa (ablative singular)
minuuteiltaan (ablative plural)
minuuteiltansa (ablative plural)
minuutilleen (allative singular)
minuutillensa (allative singular)
minuuteilleen (allative plural)
minuuteillensa (allative plural)
minuuttinaan (essive singular)
minuuttinansa (essive singular)
minuutteinaan (essive plural)
minuutteinansa (essive plural)
minuutikseen (singular translative)
minuutiksensa (singular translative)
minuuteikseen (plural translative)
minuuteiksensa (plural translative)
minuutittaan (abessive singular)
minuutittansa (abessive singular)
minuuteittaan (abessive plural)
minuuteittansa (abessive plural)
minuutteineen (comitative plural)
minuutteinensa (comitative plural)

From Swedish minut, ultimately from Latin minūta.


pud

pudowy (adjective)
pud (nominative singular)
pudy (nominative plural)
pudu (genitive singular)
pudów (genitive plural)
pudowi (dative singular)
pudom (dative plural)
pud (accusative singular)
pudy (accusative plural)
pudem (instrumental singular)
pudami (instrumental plural)
pudzie (locative singular)
pudach (locative plural)
pudzie (singular vocative)
pudy (plural vocative)

(historical) pood (obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg)


square metre

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-square metre.wav

A floor 4 metres square contains 16 square metres.

As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:

A standard unit of area, regardless of its shape, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one metre long (that is, an area one meter square) Symbol: m²


gill

From Middle English gille, from Old French gille (“a wine measure”), from Medieval Latin gillo (“earthenware jar”).

der

(dated, US) A unit of measure equal to 4 US fluid ounces (half a cup, a quarter of a US pint), approximately 118 milliliters.


år

år (indefinite nominative singular)
års (genitive indefinite singular)
året (definite nominative singular)
årets (definite genitive singular)
år (indefinite nominative plural)
års (genitive indefinite plural)
åren (definite nominative plural)
årens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish ār, from Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r-.


knob

knob (indefinite nominative singular)
knobet (definite nominative singular)
knob (indefinite nominative plural)
knobene (definite nominative plural)
knobs (genitive indefinite singular)
knobets (definite genitive singular)
knobs (genitive indefinite plural)
knobenes (definite genitive plural)

From Middle Low German knōp (“knot”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knuttô (“knot”). Compare Dutch knoop and Swedish knop.


stig

fo-noun

stig n (genitive singular stigs, plural stig)

stigs (genitive singular)
stig (plural)
stig (indefinite nominative singular)
stigið (definite nominative singular)
stig (indefinite nominative plural)
stigini (definite nominative plural)
stig (accusative indefinite singular)
stigið (accusative definite singular)
stig (accusative indefinite plural)
stigini (accusative definite plural)
stigi (dative indefinite singular)
stiginum (dative definite singular)
stigum (dative indefinite plural)
stigunum (dative definite plural)
stigs (genitive indefinite singular)
stigsins (definite genitive singular)
stiga (genitive indefinite plural)
stiganna (definite genitive plural)


carat

From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate.

quilate

historical Iberian and Latin American contexts

Meronym: grain

A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.

(historical) Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.


gal

gal (nominative singular)
gale (nominative plural)
gala (genitive singular)
gali (genitive plural)
galowi (dative singular)
galom (dative plural)
gal (accusative singular)
gale (accusative plural)
galem (instrumental singular)
galami (instrumental plural)
galu (locative singular)
galach (locative plural)
galu (singular vocative)
gale (plural vocative)


mina

Borrowed from Latin mina, from Ancient Greek μνᾶ (mnâ, “mna”). Compare maneh, from Biblical Hebrew מָנֶה (māne), as well as maund.

What then of the actual fine of thirty minae Socrates proposes? Thirty minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years′ wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a library of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras′ book is any guide (26d6-e2).

1989, C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato′s Apology of Socrates, page 174:

(historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.


gross

en-adj

gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)

grosser (comparative)
more gross (comparative)
grossest (superlative)
most gross (superlative)

From Middle English gross (“whole, entire; flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stout”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), influenced by Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to stroke, to grind”).
Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (“large”) (Berry) and grô (“large”) (Burgundy), Catalan gros (“big”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great.

der

gross anatomy

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effect and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard.

1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 12, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 190:

(sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]

1860, John Ruskin, chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, , § 5:

He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.

1944, Emily Carr, “Lorenzo Was Registered”, in The House of All Sorts:

(of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.


gross

en-noun

gross (countable and uncountable, plural gross or grosses)


kilowatt

And one California kilowatt equals 3 East Coast KWs. And—as everybody knows that—we, on the East Coast, are the only legal ones.

1974, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 36:

Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.

2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, pages 36–37:


ps

(metrology) Symbol for picosecond, an SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹² seconds.


ri

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Mandarin Chinese 里 (lǐ).

(music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.


fut

fut (nominative)
futnıñ (genitive)
futqa (dative)
futnı (accusative)
futta (locative)
futtan (ablative)

a unit of length: 1 fut = 12 duym (inches) = 1 foot = 304.8 mm


min

International System of Units
International System of Units

(metrology) minute in International System of Units


ól

óil (genitive)
ól (nominative singular)
ól (dual nominative)
ól (nominative plural)
óla (nominative plural)
ól (singular vocative)
ól (dual vocative)
ól (plural vocative)
óla (plural vocative)
ól (accusative singular)
ól (accusative dual)
ól (accusative plural)
óla (accusative plural)
óil (genitive singular)
ól (dual genitive)
ól (genitive plural)
ól (dative singular)
ólaib (dative dual)
ólaib (dative plural)
ól
n-ól

From older óol. Most likely from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃(y)-, although the exact derivation is uncertain, as the vowel ó and the hiatus are hard to explain. Usually derived via Proto-Celtic *ɸotlom or *ɸōtlom from Proto-Indo-European *péh₃tlom (whence also Latin pōculum (“drinking cup”) and Sanskrit पात्र (pātra, “drinking vessel”)) from *peh₃(y)-.
Gordon prefers a derivation via Proto-Celtic *ɸoyalom from Proto-Indo-European *poyh₃-lo-m. He considers the required metathesis *h₃y* > *yh₃ unmotivated, but it is assumed by other Indo-European derivatives, e.g. Ancient Greek πῑ́νω (pī́nō, “to drink”) and Proto-Slavic *pìti (“to drink”).


minuto

→ Cebuano: minuto

→ Kapampangan: minútu

→ Maguindanao: minutu

→ Maranao: minotos

→ O'odham: minu꞉to

→ Quechua: minutu

→ Tagalog: minuto

Borrowed from Latin minūtus. Compare the inherited menudo.

minute (a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or ¹⁄₆₀ hour)


minuto

Borrowed from Spanish minuto, from Latin minūtus. Doublet of menu and menudo.

Isang oras at dalawampung minuto ang biyahe sa eroplano mula Maynila hanggang Tacloban.

2015, Joi Barrios, Intermediate Tagalog: Learn to Speak Fluent Tagalog (Filipino), the National Language of the Philippines (Downloadable material included), Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 103:

The airplane trip from Manila to Tacloban lasts one hour and twenty minutes.


lán

lán (nominative singular)
lány (nominative plural)
lánu (genitive singular)
lánů (genitive plural)
lánu (dative singular)
lánům (dative plural)
lán (accusative singular)
lány (accusative plural)
láne (singular vocative)
lány (plural vocative)
lánu (locative singular)
lánech (locative plural)
lánem (instrumental singular)
lány (instrumental plural)

From Middle High German lēhen, from Old High German lēhan, from Proto-Germanic *laihną.


punt

head

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint or punta)

puint (genitive singular)
puint (nominative plural)
punta (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
punt (indefinite singular)
puint (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a phuint (indefinite singular)
a phunta (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
puint (indefinite singular)
punt (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an punt (definite singular)
na puint (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an phuint (definite singular)
na bpunt (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an bpunt (definite singular)
don phunt (definite singular)
leis na puint (definite plural)

/pˠuːn̪ˠt̪ˠ/

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”), from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), from pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).

der

pound (unit of weight, unit of currency)

take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves

is é cosaint na pingine a chruachas na puint


punt

head

punt m (genitive singular punt, plural puint)

punt (genitive singular)
puint (plural)
punt (mutation mutation-radical)
phunt (lenition mutation)
bunt (eclipsis mutation)

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”).


punt

punnoedd (plural)
punnau (plural)
punt
bunt (soft)
mhunt
phunt

Inherited from Middle Welsh punt, borrowed from Old English pund.

Costiodd yr holl adeiladau hyn tua deg a thrigain mil o bunnau.

1874 May 20, “Llundain a'ch "Ewyrth"”, in Baner ac Amserau Cymru, page 13:

All these buildings cost about seventy thousand pounds.


virgate

Borrowed from Latin virgāta, from Old English ġeardland, "yard" compared to "virga" as a measuring rod. Doublet of vergée.

(historical) The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ¹⁄₄ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.


nook

From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”).
If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”) or Dutch hoek (“corner”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”). Also cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”).

cog

You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, section 57:

Nook, an old legal term for 12+¹⁄₂ acres of land; still in use at Alston.

1903, English Dialectical Dictionary, volume IV, page 295:

They poured their wine by the aume or the fust, and cut their cloth by the goad—not to be confused with the gawd, which was a measure of steel. Their nook was not cosy; it covered 20 acres.

(historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.

virgate

unit of area; An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.

acre

various fractions & for further subdivisions


yarda

Borrowed from Spanish yarda, from English yard.


yarda

[ˈɟ͡ʝaɾ.ð̞a]

[ˈɟ͡ʝaɾ.ð̞a]

Borrowed from English yard. Cognate with Portuguese jarda.

English or American yard (unit of length)


yarda

manner in which something was measured in yards


myriagram

(obsolete) A unit of mass of ten thousand grams, or ten kilograms. Adopted as an equivalent of the French avoirdupois XX.