"decant" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /dəˈkænt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decant.wav [Southern-England] Forms: decants [present, singular, third-person], decanting [participle, present], decanted [participle, past], decanted [past]
Rhymes: -ænt Etymology: From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|décanter}} French décanter, {{der|en|la-med|dēcanthō|dēcanthāre}} Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, {{affix|la|dē-|canthus|nocat=1|t2=beak of a cup or jug}} dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} decant (third-person singular simple present decants, present participle decanting, simple past and past participle decanted)
  1. (transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. Tags: transitive Translations (to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine): отдекантирам (otdekantiram) (Bulgarian), (Chinese Mandarin), (bì) (Chinese Mandarin), slít [perfective] (Czech), dekantere (Danish), dekantoida (Finnish), décanter (French), dekantieren (German), fejt (Hungarian), lefejt (Hungarian), dekantál (Hungarian), szűr (Hungarian), leszűr (Hungarian), leönt (Hungarian), lefölöz (Hungarian), decantare (Italian), āta tāhoro (Maori), decantar (Portuguese), деканти́ровать (dekantírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), decantar (Spanish), transvasar (Spanish), trasvasar (Spanish), dekantera (Swedish), ริน (rin) (Thai), декантувати (dekantuvaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-decant-en-verb-LqPHoMJp Disambiguation of 'to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine': 74 21 0 3 2
  2. (transitive) To pour from one vessel into another. Tags: transitive Translations (to pour from one vessel into another): преливам (prelivam) (Bulgarian), (dào) (Chinese Mandarin), stočit [perfective] (Czech), overgieten (Dutch), kaataa astiasta toiseen (Finnish), transvaser (French), umgießen (German), umfüllen (German), αποχύνω (apochýno) (Greek), μεταφέρω από ένα μπουκάλι σε άλλο (metaféro apó éna boukáli se állo) (Greek), áttölt (Hungarian), átvezet (Hungarian), szív (Hungarian), tölt (Hungarian), vezet (Hungarian), fejt (Hungarian), áttelepít (Hungarian), áthelyez (Hungarian), átönt (Hungarian), travasare (Italian), перелива́ть (perelivátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), перели́ть (perelítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), transvasar (Spanish), trasvasar (Spanish), decantar (Spanish), trasegar (Spanish), เท (tee) (Thai), ริน (rin) (Thai), переливати (perelyvaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-decant-en-verb-rHjJhKZR Disambiguation of 'to pour from one vessel into another': 10 85 0 4 1
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To flow. Tags: archaic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-decant-en-verb-q4Ph1ru-
  4. (science fiction) To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb. Categories (topical): Science fiction
    Sense id: en-decant-en-verb-TgoYZY8A Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 8 4 41 31 Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
  5. To rehouse people while their buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt.
    Sense id: en-decant-en-verb-bq020h-S
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: decantation, decanter Related terms: canthus

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To pour from one vessel into another."
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "apochýno",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "αποχύνω"
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          "_dis1": "10 85 0 4 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "metaféro apó éna boukáli se állo",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "μεταφέρω από ένα μπουκάλι σε άλλο"
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          "_dis1": "10 85 0 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "áttölt"
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          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
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          "_dis1": "10 85 0 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "szív"
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          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
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          "_dis1": "10 85 0 4 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "áttelepít"
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        {
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          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "áthelyez"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "travasare"
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        {
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "perelivátʹ",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
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        {
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "perelítʹ",
          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
          "word": "trasvasar"
        },
        {
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          "word": "decantar"
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          "code": "es",
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          "roman": "tee",
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          "word": "เท"
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          "word": "ริน"
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          "_dis1": "10 85 0 4 1",
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "perelyvaty",
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          "word": "переливати"
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          "ref": "1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor",
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          "ref": "1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World",
          "text": "“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future …” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead.",
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        "(science fiction) To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb."
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      "expansion": "Medieval Latin dēcanthāre",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "dē-",
        "3": "canthus",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t2": "beak of a cup or jug"
      },
      "expansion": "dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "decants",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decanting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decanted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "decanted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decant (third-person singular simple present decants, present participle decanting, simple past and past participle decanted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "de‧cant"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "canthus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle",
          "text": "After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to decant wine"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pour from one vessel into another."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pour from one vessel into another."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor",
          "text": "Swincombe, formerly Swan-combe, runs to the north of the ridge, and has the sources of its river in the Fox Tor mires and near Childe's Tomb. It runs north-east, and then abruptly passes north to decant into the West Dart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To flow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, intransitive) To flow."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World",
          "text": "“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future …” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "clone",
          "clone"
        ],
        [
          "vat",
          "vat"
        ],
        [
          "artificial",
          "artificial"
        ],
        [
          "womb",
          "womb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction) To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To rehouse people while their buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈkænt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænt"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otdekantiram",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "отдекантирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "潷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bì",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "滗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "slít"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "dekantere"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "dekantoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "décanter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "dekantieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "fejt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "lefejt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "dekantál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "szűr"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "leszűr"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "leönt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "lefölöz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "decantare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "āta tāhoro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "decantar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dekantírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "деканти́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "decantar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "transvasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "trasvasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "dekantera"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "rin",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "ริน"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dekantuvaty",
      "sense": "to pour off gently so as not to disturb the sediment; to decant wine",
      "word": "декантувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prelivam",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "преливам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dào",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "倒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "stočit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "overgieten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "kaataa astiasta toiseen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "transvaser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "umgießen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "umfüllen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apochýno",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "αποχύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "metaféro apó éna boukáli se állo",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "μεταφέρω από ένα μπουκάλι σε άλλο"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "áttölt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "átvezet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "szív"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "tölt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "vezet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "fejt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "áttelepít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "áthelyez"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "átönt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "travasare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perelivátʹ",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "перелива́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perelítʹ",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "перели́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "transvasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "trasvasar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "decantar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "trasegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tee",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "เท"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "rin",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "ริน"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "perelyvaty",
      "sense": "to pour from one vessel into another",
      "word": "переливати"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Decantation"
  ],
  "word": "decant"
}

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