"afterpiece" meaning in All languages combined

See afterpiece on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: afterpieces [plural]
Etymology: From after- + piece. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|after|piece}} after- + piece Head templates: {{en-noun}} afterpiece (plural afterpieces)
  1. (now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play. Tags: historical Translations (piece performed after a play): jälkinäytös (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-afterpiece-en-noun-yyVCOrZY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with after-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with after-: 85 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of 'piece performed after a play': 98 2
  2. (nautical) The heel of a rudder. Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-afterpiece-en-noun-wVcsPLQP Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "piece"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + piece",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + piece.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterpieces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "afterpiece (plural afterpieces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with after-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, Preface:",
          "text": "To preface much concerning these little after-pieces of Poetry, I hold needlesse, having spoke my mind so fully before.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1787, George Colman, “Notes on the Epistle to the Pisos”, in Prose on Several Occasions, volume 3, London: T. Cadel, page 96:",
          "text": "The idea of farces, or after-pieces, tho’ an inferior branch of the Drama, is, in fact, among the refinements of an improved age.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225",
          "text": "There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 257-258:",
          "text": "[…] let us have a play entire from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what, with a good tricking, shifting after-piece, and a figure-dance, and a horn-pipe, and a song between the acts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, O. Henry, “Blind Man’s Holiday”, in Whirligigs, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 273:",
          "text": "The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play."
      ],
      "id": "en-afterpiece-en-noun-yyVCOrZY",
      "links": [
        [
          "entertainment",
          "entertainment"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "piece performed after a play",
          "word": "jälkinäytös"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The heel of a rudder."
      ],
      "id": "en-afterpiece-en-noun-wVcsPLQP",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "heel",
          "heel"
        ],
        [
          "rudder",
          "rudder"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) The heel of a rudder."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterpiece"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with after-",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "piece"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + piece",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + piece.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterpieces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "afterpiece (plural afterpieces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, Preface:",
          "text": "To preface much concerning these little after-pieces of Poetry, I hold needlesse, having spoke my mind so fully before.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1787, George Colman, “Notes on the Epistle to the Pisos”, in Prose on Several Occasions, volume 3, London: T. Cadel, page 96:",
          "text": "The idea of farces, or after-pieces, tho’ an inferior branch of the Drama, is, in fact, among the refinements of an improved age.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225",
          "text": "There was a silly after-piece called Carnarvon Castle, or, The Birth of the Prince of Wales."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 257-258:",
          "text": "[…] let us have a play entire from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what, with a good tricking, shifting after-piece, and a figure-dance, and a horn-pipe, and a song between the acts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, O. Henry, “Blind Man’s Holiday”, in Whirligigs, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 273:",
          "text": "The policeman, perceiving that the interest of the entire group of spectators was centred upon himself and Lorison […] was fain to prolong the situation—which reflected his own importance—by a little afterpiece of philosophical comment.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "entertainment",
          "entertainment"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) An additional work following the main work; especially, a minor entertainment performed after a play."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The heel of a rudder."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "heel",
          "heel"
        ],
        [
          "rudder",
          "rudder"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) The heel of a rudder."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "piece performed after a play",
      "word": "jälkinäytös"
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterpiece"
}

Download raw JSONL data for afterpiece meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.