See windless on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for windless meaning in All languages combined (4.7kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "wyndles"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wyndles",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wind",
"3": "less"
},
"expansion": "wind + -less",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "vindlauss",
"t": "windless"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more windless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most windless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "windless (comparative more windless, superlative most windless)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "breathless"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Devoid of wind; calm."
],
"id": "en-windless-en-adj-of5OcpDH",
"links": [
[
"Devoid",
"devoid"
],
[
"wind",
"wind#Noun"
],
[
"calm",
"calm#Adjective"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezvetren",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "безветрен"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "windstil"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ukaro",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "უქარო"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "nḗnemos",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "νήνεμος"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezvetren",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "безветрен"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "windless"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 93 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 91 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 88 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 81 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -less",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 59 8",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Wind",
"orig": "en:Wind",
"parents": [
"Weather",
"Atmosphere",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Out of breath."
],
"id": "en-windless-en-adj-7mPIPk6V",
"links": [
[
"Out of breath",
"out of breath"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪndləs/"
},
{
"homophone": "windlass"
}
],
"word": "windless"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "wyndles"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wyndles",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wind",
"3": "less"
},
"expansion": "wind + -less",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "vindlauss",
"t": "windless"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "windlesses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "windless (plural windlesses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "windlass"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1661, “Of making cloth with sheeps wool”, in The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, volume I, London: A. Millar, published 1756, page 62",
"text": "The next work is racking or tentering the cloth […] and this is performed by setting it in a frame, which we call tenters, such as are to be seen in many fields about London, wherein (it having a windless at one end) it is first strained to its length, then afterwards to its breadth and parallelism […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1724, Daniel Defoe (attributed), A General History of the Pirates, London: T. Warner, 2nd edition, Chapter, pp. 114-115,\n[…] the Boatswain immediately called to his Consorts, laid hold of the Captain, and made him fast to the Windless, and there pelted him with Glass Bottles, which cut him in a sad Manner […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of windlass"
],
"id": "en-windless-en-noun-NIgENIWF",
"links": [
[
"windlass",
"windlass#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative form of windlass"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪndləs/"
},
{
"homophone": "windlass"
}
],
"word": "windless"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -less",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"en:Wind"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "wyndles"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wyndles",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wind",
"3": "less"
},
"expansion": "wind + -less",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "vindlauss",
"t": "windless"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more windless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most windless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "windless (comparative more windless, superlative most windless)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "breathless"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Devoid of wind; calm."
],
"links": [
[
"Devoid",
"devoid"
],
[
"wind",
"wind#Noun"
],
[
"calm",
"calm#Adjective"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Out of breath."
],
"links": [
[
"Out of breath",
"out of breath"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪndləs/"
},
{
"homophone": "windlass"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezvetren",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "безветрен"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "windstil"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ukaro",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "უქარო"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "nḗnemos",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "νήνεμος"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bezvetren",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "безветрен"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "devoid of wind",
"word": "windless"
}
],
"word": "windless"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -less",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"en:Wind"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "wyndles"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wyndles",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wind",
"3": "less"
},
"expansion": "wind + -less",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "vindlauss",
"t": "windless"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "windlesses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "windless (plural windlesses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "windlass"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1661, “Of making cloth with sheeps wool”, in The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, volume I, London: A. Millar, published 1756, page 62",
"text": "The next work is racking or tentering the cloth […] and this is performed by setting it in a frame, which we call tenters, such as are to be seen in many fields about London, wherein (it having a windless at one end) it is first strained to its length, then afterwards to its breadth and parallelism […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1724, Daniel Defoe (attributed), A General History of the Pirates, London: T. Warner, 2nd edition, Chapter, pp. 114-115,\n[…] the Boatswain immediately called to his Consorts, laid hold of the Captain, and made him fast to the Windless, and there pelted him with Glass Bottles, which cut him in a sad Manner […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of windlass"
],
"links": [
[
"windlass",
"windlass#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative form of windlass"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪndləs/"
},
{
"homophone": "windlass"
}
],
"word": "windless"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.