See Comet on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Comet meaning in All languages combined (4.2kB)
{ "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "comet" }, "expansion": "comet", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From comet.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Comet", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "95 5", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Christmas", "orig": "en:Christmas", "parents": [ "Christianity", "Holidays", "Abrahamism", "Observances", "Religion", "Calendar", "Culture", "Timekeeping", "Society", "Time", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "91 9", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Fictional characters", "orig": "en:Fictional characters", "parents": [ "Fiction", "Artistic works", "Art", "Culture", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "coordinate_terms": [ { "word": "Blitzen" }, { "word": "Cupid" }, { "word": "Dancer" }, { "word": "Dasher" }, { "word": "Donner" }, { "word": "Prancer" }, { "word": "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" }, { "word": "Vixen" } ], "glosses": [ "The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus." ], "id": "en-Comet-en-name-8gpdROIv", "links": [ [ "reindeer", "reindeer" ], [ "Santa Claus", "Santa Claus" ] ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Huìxīng", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "word": "彗星" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "word": "Komeetta" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Comète" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "Komítis", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Κομήτης" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Cometa" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "Kometto", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "word": "コメット" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Kometek" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Cometa" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Cometa" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Veloz" } ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "A Visit from St. Nicholas", "Santa Claus's reindeer" ], "word": "Comet" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "Ajax" }, "expansion": "Ajax", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "Coined by software engineer Alex Russell in March 2006. After the Comet brand of cleaning products, as a pun on Ajax, which is also both a Web programming technique and a brand of cleaning products.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Comet", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Programming", "orig": "en:Programming", "parents": [ "Computing", "Software engineering", "Technology", "Computer science", "Engineering", "Software", "All topics", "Sciences", "Applied sciences", "Media", "Fundamental", "Communication" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "12 88", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it." ], "id": "en-Comet-en-name-367XUSy6", "links": [ [ "programming", "programming#Noun" ], [ "web application", "web application" ], [ "model", "model" ], [ "HTTP", "HTTP" ], [ "web server", "web server" ], [ "browser", "browser" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(programming) A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it." ], "topics": [ "computing", "engineering", "mathematics", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences", "programming", "sciences" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "Comet (cleanser)", "Santa Claus's reindeer" ], "word": "Comet" }
{ "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English proper nouns", "English uncountable nouns", "en:Christmas", "en:Fictional characters" ], "coordinate_terms": [ { "word": "Blitzen" }, { "word": "Cupid" }, { "word": "Dancer" }, { "word": "Dasher" }, { "word": "Donner" }, { "word": "Prancer" }, { "word": "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" }, { "word": "Vixen" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "comet" }, "expansion": "comet", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From comet.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Comet", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus." ], "links": [ [ "reindeer", "reindeer" ], [ "Santa Claus", "Santa Claus" ] ] } ], "translations": [ { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Huìxīng", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "word": "彗星" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "word": "Komeetta" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Comète" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "Komítis", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Κομήτης" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Cometa" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "Kometto", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "word": "コメット" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Kometek" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Cometa" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Cometa" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "reindeer of Santa Claus", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Veloz" } ], "wikipedia": [ "A Visit from St. Nicholas", "Santa Claus's reindeer" ], "word": "Comet" } { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English proper nouns", "English uncountable nouns", "en:Christmas", "en:Fictional characters" ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "Ajax" }, "expansion": "Ajax", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "Coined by software engineer Alex Russell in March 2006. After the Comet brand of cleaning products, as a pun on Ajax, which is also both a Web programming technique and a brand of cleaning products.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "Comet", "name": "en-proper noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "en:Programming" ], "glosses": [ "A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it." ], "links": [ [ "programming", "programming#Noun" ], [ "web application", "web application" ], [ "model", "model" ], [ "HTTP", "HTTP" ], [ "web server", "web server" ], [ "browser", "browser" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(programming) A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it." ], "topics": [ "computing", "engineering", "mathematics", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences", "programming", "sciences" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "Comet (cleanser)", "Santa Claus's reindeer" ], "word": "Comet" }
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.