"please excuse my dear Aunt Sally" meaning in All languages combined

See please excuse my dear Aunt Sally on Wiktionary

Phrase [English]

Etymology: Ultimately from PEMDAS. Head templates: {{head|en|phrase|head=please excuse my dear Aunt Sally}} please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
  1. (mathematics) A mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order. Categories (topical): Mathematics Synonyms: PEDMAS, BODMAS, BOMDAS, BEDMAS
    Sense id: en-please_excuse_my_dear_Aunt_Sally-en-phrase-rX2v~gYK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English imperative sentences, English mnemonics, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: mathematics, sciences
{
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from PEMDAS.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"
      },
      "expansion": "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English imperative sentences",
          "parents": [
            "Imperative sentences",
            "Sentences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English mnemonics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "en:Mathematics",
          "parents": [
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order."
      ],
      "id": "en-please_excuse_my_dear_Aunt_Sally-en-phrase-rX2v~gYK",
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "mnemonic",
          "mnemonic#English"
        ],
        [
          "order of operations",
          "order of operations#English"
        ],
        [
          "PEMDAS",
          "PEMDAS#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) A mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "PEDMAS"
        },
        {
          "word": "BODMAS"
        },
        {
          "word": "BOMDAS"
        },
        {
          "word": "BEDMAS"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from PEMDAS.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"
      },
      "expansion": "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English imperative sentences",
        "English lemmas",
        "English mnemonics",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Mathematics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "mnemonic",
          "mnemonic#English"
        ],
        [
          "order of operations",
          "order of operations#English"
        ],
        [
          "PEMDAS",
          "PEMDAS#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) A mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "PEDMAS"
    },
    {
      "word": "BODMAS"
    },
    {
      "word": "BOMDAS"
    },
    {
      "word": "BEDMAS"
    }
  ],
  "word": "please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"
}

Download raw JSONL data for please excuse my dear Aunt Sally meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.