play

play (third-person singular simple present plays, present participle playing, simple past and past participle played)

plays (present singular third-person)
playing (participle present)
played (participle past)
played (past)

desc

→ Kashubian: plejowac (Canada, United States)

From Middle English pleyen, playen, pleȝen, plæien, also Middle English plaȝen, plawen (compare English plaw), from Old English pleġan, pleoġan, plæġan, and Old English plegian, pleagian, plagian (“to play, exercise, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *plehan (“to care about, be concerned with”) and Proto-West Germanic *plegōn (“to engage, move”); both perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *blek- (“to move, move about”), from Proto-Indo-European *bal- (compare Ancient Greek βλύω (blúō), βλύζω (blúzō, “I gush out, spring”), Sanskrit बल्बलीति (balbalīti, “it whirls, twirls”)).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots play (“to act or move briskly, cause to move, stir”), Saterland Frisian pleegje (“to look after, care for, maintain”), West Frisian pleegje, pliigje (“to commit, perform, bedrive”), Middle Dutch pleyen ("to dance, leap for joy, rejoice, be glad"; compare Modern Dutch pleien (“to play a particular children's game”)), Dutch plegen (“to commit, bedrive, practice”), German pflegen (“to care for, be concerned with, attend to, tend”). Related also to Old English plēon (“to risk, endanger”). More at plight, pledge.
The noun is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, plega, plæġa (“play, quick motion, movement, exercise; (athletic) sport, game; festivity, drama; battle; gear for games, an implement for a game; clapping with the hands, applause”), deverbative of plegian (“to play”); see above.

gloss

compare English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">plaw</i>

gloss

"to dance, leap for joy, rejoice, be glad"; compare Modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">pleien</i> (“to play a particular children's game”)

cog

The juke box is playing our favourite song.

The radio was playing in the background.

This DVD is scratched and won't play.

Channel 9 is playing that old comedy series again.

My cassette player won't play this worn-out old tape.

(transitive, intransitive) To produce sound (especially music), moving pictures, or theatrical performance.

(transitive, intransitive, of a device, media, broadcast, etc.) To emit or relay sound (especially music) or moving pictures; (of a device) to operate media.

His latest film is playing in the local theatre tomorrow.

Some kind of lounge music was playing in the background.

(intransitive, of a theatrical performance, film or music) To be performed, reproduced, or shown.


stone

en-noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (UK, as unit of weight) stone)

Sranan Tongo: ston

→ Esperanto: ŝtono

From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also West Frisian stien, Saterland Frisian Steen, Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.

cog

The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.

1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38:

(printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.


fog

hu-conj

Forms in parentheses are somewhat archaic or literary.

This verb has no prefix that could split, despite its first few letters.

fogok (indefinite informal second-person singular)
fogsz (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogsz (indefinite singular third-person)
fog (first-person indefinite plural)
fogunk (indefinite informal plural second-person)
fogtok (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogtok (indefinite plural third-person)
fognak (indefinite)
fogom (definite informal second-person singular)
fogod (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogod (definite singular third-person)
fogja (definite first-person plural)
fogjuk (definite informal plural second-person)
fogjátok (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogjátok (definite plural third-person)
fogják (definite)
foglak (informal second-person singular)
fogtam (indefinite informal past second-person singular)
fogtál (formal indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogtál (indefinite past singular third-person)
fogott (first-person indefinite past plural)
fogtunk (indefinite informal past plural second-person)
fogtatok (formal indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogtatok (indefinite past plural third-person)
fogtak (indefinite past)
fogtam (definite informal past second-person singular)
fogtad (definite formal past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogtad (definite past singular third-person)
fogta (definite first-person past plural)
fogtuk (definite informal past plural second-person)
fogtátok (definite formal past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogtátok (definite past plural third-person)
fogták (definite past)
fogtalak (informal past second-person singular)
or a time adverb (first-person future plural)
or a time adverb (formal future second-person-semantically third-person)
or a time adverb (future informal second-person)
or a time adverb (future third-person)
e.g. fogni fog. (first-person future plural)
e.g. fogni fog. (formal future second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. fogni fog. (future informal second-person)
e.g. fogni fog. (future third-person)
fogék (future indefinite)
fogál (indefinite informal second-person singular)
foga (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foga (indefinite singular third-person)
fogánk (first-person indefinite plural)
fogátok (indefinite informal plural second-person)
fogának (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogának (indefinite plural third-person)
fogám (definite future)
fogád (definite informal second-person singular)
fogá (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogá (definite singular third-person)
fogánk (definite first-person plural)
fogátok (definite informal plural second-person)
fogák (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogák (definite plural third-person)
fogálak (future)
e.g. fog vala (future)
fogott vala (future)
volt. (future)
fogandok (future indefinite)
fogandasz (indefinite informal second-person singular)
fogand (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogand (indefinite singular third-person)
fogandunk (first-person indefinite plural)
fogandotok (indefinite informal plural second-person)
fogandanak (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogandanak (indefinite plural third-person)
fogandom (definite future)
fogandod (definite informal second-person singular)
fogandja (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogandja (definite singular third-person)
fogandjuk (definite first-person plural)
fogandjátok (definite informal plural second-person)
fogandják (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogandják (definite plural third-person)
fogandalak (future)
fognék (indefinite informal second-person singular)
fognál (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fognál (indefinite singular third-person)
fogna (first-person indefinite plural)
fognánk (indefinite informal plural second-person)
fognátok (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fognátok (indefinite plural third-person)
fognának (indefinite)
fognám (definite future indefinite)
fognád (definite informal second-person singular)
fogná (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogná (definite singular third-person)
fognánk (definite first-person plural)
or fognók (definite first-person plural)
fognátok (definite informal plural second-person)
fognák (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fognák (definite plural third-person)
fognálak (future indefinite)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (indefinite past)
e.g. fogott volna (indefinite past)
fogjak (indefinite informal second-person singular)
fogj or (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogj or (indefinite singular third-person)
fogjál (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogjál (indefinite singular third-person)
fogjon (first-person indefinite plural)
fogjunk (indefinite informal plural second-person)
fogjatok (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogjatok (indefinite plural third-person)
fogjanak (indefinite)
fogjam (definite informal second-person singular)
fogd or (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogd or (definite singular third-person)
fogjad (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogjad (definite singular third-person)
fogjalak (informal second-person singular)
e.g. fogott légyen
fogni (infinitive)
fognom (infinitive informal second-person singular)
fognod (formal infinitive second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fognod (infinitive singular third-person)
fognia (first-person infinitive plural)
fognunk (infinitive informal plural second-person)
fognotok (formal infinitive plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fognotok (infinitive plural third-person)
fogniuk (infinitive)
fogás (noun-from-verb)
fogó (future)
fogott
fogandó
fogva (adverbial first-person participle plural)
fogva (adverbial informal participle plural second-person)
fogván (adverbial first-person participle plural)
fogván (adverbial informal participle plural second-person)
-(t)et suffix as the causative
foghatok (indefinite informal second-person singular)
foghatsz (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatsz (indefinite singular third-person)
foghat (first-person indefinite plural)
foghatunk (indefinite informal plural second-person)
foghattok (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghattok (indefinite plural third-person)
foghatnak (indefinite)
foghatom (definite informal second-person singular)
foghatod (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatod (definite singular third-person)
foghatja (definite first-person plural)
foghatjuk (definite informal plural second-person)
foghatjátok (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatjátok (definite plural third-person)
foghatják (definite)
foghatlak (informal second-person singular)
foghattam (indefinite informal past second-person singular)
foghattál (formal indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghattál (indefinite past singular third-person)
foghatott (first-person indefinite past plural)
foghattunk (indefinite informal past plural second-person)
foghattatok (formal indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghattatok (indefinite past plural third-person)
foghattak (indefinite past)
foghattam (definite informal past second-person singular)
foghattad (definite formal past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghattad (definite past singular third-person)
foghatta (definite first-person past plural)
foghattuk (definite informal past plural second-person)
foghattátok (definite formal past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghattátok (definite past plural third-person)
foghatták (definite past)
foghattalak (informal past second-person singular)
foghaték (indefinite)
foghatál (indefinite informal second-person singular)
foghata (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghata (indefinite singular third-person)
foghatánk (first-person indefinite plural)
foghatátok (indefinite informal plural second-person)
foghatának (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatának (indefinite plural third-person)
foghatám (definite)
foghatád (definite informal second-person singular)
foghatá (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatá (definite singular third-person)
foghatánk (definite first-person plural)
foghatátok (definite informal plural second-person)
foghaták (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghaták (definite plural third-person)
foghatálak
e.g. foghat vala (first-person past plural)
e.g. foghat vala (first-person past singular third-person)
e.g. foghat vala (first-person plural)
e.g. foghat vala (first-person singular third-person)
e.g. foghat vala (formal past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
e.g. foghat vala (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
e.g. foghat vala (informal past second-person)
e.g. foghat vala (informal second-person)
foghatott vala (first-person past plural)
foghatott vala (first-person past singular third-person)
foghatott vala (first-person plural)
foghatott vala (first-person singular third-person)
foghatott vala (formal past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatott vala (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatott vala (informal past second-person)
foghatott vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person past plural)
volt. (first-person past singular third-person)
volt. (first-person plural)
volt. (first-person singular third-person)
volt. (formal past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
volt. (informal past second-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
foghatandok (indefinite)
or fogandhatok (indefinite)
foghatandasz (indefinite informal second-person singular)
or fogandhatsz (indefinite informal second-person singular)
foghatand (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatand (indefinite singular third-person)
or fogandhat (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or fogandhat (indefinite singular third-person)
foghatandunk (first-person indefinite plural)
or fogandhatunk (first-person indefinite plural)
foghatandotok (indefinite informal plural second-person)
or fogandhattok (indefinite informal plural second-person)
foghatandanak (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatandanak (indefinite plural third-person)
or fogandhatnak (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or fogandhatnak (indefinite plural third-person)
foghatandom (definite)
or fogandhatom (definite)
foghatandod (definite informal second-person singular)
or fogandhatod (definite informal second-person singular)
foghatandja (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatandja (definite singular third-person)
or fogandhatja (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or fogandhatja (definite singular third-person)
foghatandjuk (definite first-person plural)
or fogandhatjuk (definite first-person plural)
foghatandjátok (definite informal plural second-person)
or fogandhatjátok (definite informal plural second-person)
foghatandják (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatandják (definite plural third-person)
or fogandhatják (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or fogandhatják (definite plural third-person)
foghatandalak
or fogandhatlak
foghatnék (indefinite informal second-person singular)
foghatnál (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatnál (indefinite singular third-person)
foghatna (first-person indefinite plural)
foghatnánk (indefinite informal plural second-person)
foghatnátok (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatnátok (indefinite plural third-person)
foghatnának (indefinite)
foghatnám (definite indefinite)
foghatnád (definite informal second-person singular)
foghatná (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatná (definite singular third-person)
foghatnánk (definite first-person plural)
or foghatnók (definite first-person plural)
foghatnátok (definite informal plural second-person)
foghatnák (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatnák (definite plural third-person)
foghatnálak (indefinite)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (first-person indefinite past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (formal indefinite past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (indefinite informal past second-person)
e.g. foghatott volna (first-person indefinite past third-person)
e.g. foghatott volna (formal indefinite past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. foghatott volna (indefinite informal past second-person)
foghassak (indefinite informal second-person singular)
foghass or (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghass or (indefinite singular third-person)
foghassál (formal indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghassál (indefinite singular third-person)
foghasson (first-person indefinite plural)
foghassunk (indefinite informal plural second-person)
foghassatok (formal indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghassatok (indefinite plural third-person)
foghassanak (indefinite)
foghassam (definite informal second-person singular)
foghasd or (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghasd or (definite singular third-person)
foghassad (definite formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghassad (definite singular third-person)
foghassa (definite first-person plural)
foghassuk (definite informal plural second-person)
foghassátok (definite formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghassátok (definite plural third-person)
foghassák (definite)
foghassalak (informal second-person singular)
e.g. foghatott légyen
foghatni (infinitive)
foghatnom (infinitive informal second-person singular)
foghatnod (formal infinitive second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatnod (infinitive singular third-person)
foghatnia (first-person infinitive plural)
foghatnunk (infinitive informal plural second-person)
foghatnotok (formal infinitive plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatnotok (infinitive plural third-person)
foghatniuk (infinitive)
fogható
foghatatlan (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatatlan (informal second-person singular)
foghatatlan (singular third-person)
foghatva / foghatván (adverbial first-person participle plural third-person)
foghatva / foghatván (adverbial formal participle plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatva / foghatván (adverbial informal participle plural second-person)

From Proto-Ugric *puŋɜ- (“to grasp, to catch”). Cognates include Northern Mansi пувуӈкве (puvuňkve).

inh

Egyébként egészen jól lehetett fogni az adást.

1996, István Kamarás, István Péter Németh, “Világverseny a berekben”, in Origósdi:

As a matter of fact, I received the broadcast quite clearly.

[…] azóta minden este otthon a régi VEF-en a Kossuthot próbálták fogni – a határokat már lezárták, kívülről nem jöhetett segítség –, így amint meghallotta az egyre ütemesebb és összehangoltabb utcai kiabálást, tudta, hogy ez már nem afféle tét nélküli kóruspróba […]

2010, Andrea Tompa, A hóhér háza, 2nd edition, Budapest: Libri Kiadó, published 2015, →ISBN, page 5:

(transitive, broadcasting) to receive (to detect a signal from a transmitter)


space

en-noun

space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)

From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“to stretch, to pull”).

مَسَافَة

gap between written characters, lines etc.

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism

If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.

1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 240–1:

Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.

1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110:

Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.

2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91:

(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

(letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).


space

en-verb

space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)

spaces (present singular third-person)
spacing (participle present)
spaced (participle past)
spaced (past)

The captain spaced the traitors.

Sound effect of blow with blunt instrument, groan, and the unmistakable cycling of an air lock—Castor: "Sorry, folks. My assistant has just spaced Mr. Rudolf. […]"

1952, Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones:

A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will.

1995, J. Michael Straczynski, And Now for a Word (Babylon 5), season 2, episode 15, spoken by Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs):

(transitive, science fiction) To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.

He well remembered, when he was a junior officer, how the sight of a well dressed, impeccably neat commanding officer, no matter how long they had been spacing, maintained the enthusiasm, confidence and morale of the officers and men.

1947 January 2, Bernard I. Kahn, “Command”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 5:

(intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.


volume

From Old Galician-Portuguese volume, borrowed from Latin volūmen.

(publishing) volume (issues of a periodical over a period of one year)

(publishing) volume (individual book of a publication issued as a set of books)


lift

en-noun

lift (countable and uncountable, plural lifts)

→ Cantonese: 𨋢 /䢂 (lip¹)

→ Dutch: lift
→ Papiamentu: left

→ Malay: lif

desctree

→ Russian: лифт (lift)
→ Armenian: լիֆտ (lift)
→ Georgian: ლიფტი (lipṭi)
→ Kazakh: лифт (lift)
→ Mongolian: лифт (lift)
→ Uyghur: لىفت (lift)
→ Uzbek: lift
→ Yakut: лифт (lift)

→ Swahili: lifti

→ Swedish: lift

From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)).

der

(broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.


ether

Afrikaans: eter

→ Indonesian: ètêr

→ Japanese: エーテル (ēteru)

From Middle Dutch ether, from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

De televisieaanbieder gaat digitale televisie via de ether uitzenden.

The television provider is going to broadcast digital television over the air.

(broadcasting, uncountable) air, broadcasting


key

From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.

2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 195:

There are key controls that adjust the “slice level” or the level at which the key kicks-in and starts cutting a hole for the “fill” […] Chroma key is another form of keying, which derives the key cutter or hole from a selected color.

2016, Jerry C. Whitaker, The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook:

(computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.


key

en-verb

key (third-person singular simple present keys, present participle keying, simple past and past participle keyed)

keys (present singular third-person)
keying (participle present)
keyed (participle past)
keyed (past)

(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).

(radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).

avaintaa

radio: operate (transmitter switch of a two-way radio)


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

(electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.


apostrophe

apostrophes (plural)
apostrophë (alternative)
apostrophy (alternative)

From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

der

Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation.

2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 30:

(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.


apostrophe

→ English: apostrophe

→ Romanian: apostrof

desctree

→ Russian: апо́строф (apóstrof)
→ Azerbaijani: apostrof

→ Persian: آپاستروف (âpâstruf)

→ Turkish: apostrof

From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”).


dagger

From Middle English daggere, daggare, dagard, probably adapted from Old French dague (1229), related to Occitan, Italian, Spanish daga, Dutch dagge, German Degen, Middle Low German dagge (“knife's point”), Old Norse daggarðr, Danish daggert, Faroese daggari, Welsh dager, dagr, Breton dac, Albanian thikë (“a knife, dagger”), thek (“to stab, to pierce with a sharp object”).
In English attested from the 1380s.
The ultimate origin of the word is unclear. Grimm suspects Celtic origin.
Others have suggested derivation from an unattested Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian [knife]", from the Latin adjective dācus. Chastelain (Dictionaire etymologique, 1750) thought that French dague was a derivation from German dagge, dagen, although not attested until a much later date).
The knightly dagger evolves from the 12th century. Guillaume le Breton (died 1226) uses daca in his Philippide. Other Middle Latin forms include daga, dagga, dagha, dagger, daggerius, daggerium, dagarium, dagarius, diga; the forms with -r- are late 14th century adoptions of the English word).
OED points out that there is also an English verb dag (“to stab”) from which this could be a derivation, but the verb is attested only from about 1400.
Relation to Old Armenian դակու (daku, “adze, axe”) has also been suggested. Alternatively, a connection from Proto-Indo-European *dʰāg-u- and cognate with Ancient Greek θήγω (thḗgō, “to sharpen, whet”).


編

From Middle Chinese 編 (MC pen|pjien|penX).


四

Numbers in Chinese culture#Four
Qin dynasty
Spring and Autumn period
Western Zhou

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (四):
* → Japanese: 四(し) (shi)
* → Korean: 사(四) (sa)
* → Vietnamese: tứ (四)

Wutunhua: se

desctree

→ Proto-Tai: *siːᴮ (“four”)
Northern Tai
Bouyei: sis
Tai Do: xì
Zhuang: seiq
Central Tai
Nong Zhuang: siq
Nùng: slỉ
Tày: slí
Proto-Southwestern Tai: *siːᴮ
Thai: สี่ (sìi)
Northern Thai: ᩈᩦ᩵
Lao: ສີ່ (sī)
Phake: ꩬီ (sī)
Lü: ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹)
Tai Dam: ꪎꪲ꪿
Shan: သီႇ (sìi)
Tai Laing: ꩬီ
Tai Nüa: ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ)
Khamti: ꩬီ
Ahom: 𑜏𑜣 (sī)
Aiton: ꩬီ (sī)

→ Vietnamese: tư (“four”)

The word "four" was written as 亖 (sì) before Western Zhou and 四 (sì) appeared in late Spring and Autumn period. This alternative form was used to prevent confusion of 亖 (sì) and 二 (“two”) or 三 (“three”) in vertical writing. It was standardized in Qin dynasty.
The bronzeware style of the character featured a repositioning of those four lines inside 口 (kǒu); this later evolved into the combination used today of 口 (kǒu, “mouth”) and 八 (bā, “divide”) which meant a dispersal of breath. It could thus be said that four is a borrowed meaning for this character. The original sense is preserved in 呬 (OC *hrids), by adding an extra 口. Compare this character with 只 and 曰.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-lij.

肆
亖
皿
龱
𠁤
𠃢
𦉭

(printing) English; The size of type between 小四 (little 4) and 小三 (little 3), standardized as 14 point.


五

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (五):
* → Japanese: 五(ご) (go)
* → Korean: 오(五) (o)
* → Vietnamese: ngũ (五)

desctree

→ Proto-Tai: *haːꟲ (“five”)
Northern Tai
Bouyei: hac
Saek: ฮ̂า
Tai Do: ha
Zhuang: haj
Central Tai
Nùng: hà
Tày: hả
Southwestern Tai
Ahom: 𑜑𑜡 (hā)
Lao: ຫ້າ (hā)
Lü: ᦠᦱᧉ (ḣaa²)
Northern Thai: ᩉ᩶ᩣ
Shan: ႁႃႈ (hāa)
Tai Dam: ꪬ꫁ꪱ
Tai Nüa: ᥞᥣᥲ (hàa)
Thai: ห้า (hâa)

Originally written 𠄡, consisting of 㐅 with a bar on the top and bottom. One hypothesis explains that this may have meant five because when counting on a single hand, one first counts to five and then crosses back the other way to ten.
In 韋, the upper component (𫝀) is the stylization of a footprint, hence it is similar but unrelated to 五.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-ŋaʔ (“five”).

(printing) The size of type between 小五 (xiǎowǔ) (little 5) and 小四 (xiǎosì) (little 4), standardized as 10½ point.


六

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (六):
* → Japanese: 六(ろく) (roku)
* → Korean: 육/륙(六) (yuk/ryuk)
* → Vietnamese: lục (六)

desctree

→ Proto-Tai: *krokᴰ (“six”)
Northern Tai
Bouyei: rogt
Tai Do: hốc
Zhuang: roek, loeg
Central Tai
Tày: hốc
Nùng: róc
Nong Zhuang: choak
Proto-Southwestern Tai: *xrokᴰ¹ˢ
Thai: หก (hòk)
Northern Thai: ᩉᩫ᩠ᨠ
Lao: ຫົກ (hok)
Lü: ᦷᦠᧅ (ḣok)
Tai Dam: ꪶꪬꪀ
Shan: ႁူၵ်း (húuk)
Tai Nüa: ᥞᥨᥐᥱ (hǒk)
Aiton: ꩭုက် (huk)
Phake: ꩭုက် (huk)
Ahom: 𑜍𑜤𑜀𑜫 (ruk)

Pictogram (象形) – perhaps a shed. Originally using the similar-sounding word 廬 (OC *ra, “shed, cabin”) to represent the concept “six” (Liu Xinglong). Alternatively, it may be an ancient counting symbol.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k-ruk (“six”).

(printing) small text; The size of type between 小五 (xiǎowǔ, “little 5”) and 小六 (xiǎoliù, “little 6”), standardized as 7½ point.


七

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (七):
* → Japanese: 七(しち) (shichi); 七(しつ) (shitsu)
* → Korean: 칠(七) (chil)
* → Vietnamese: thất (七)

→ Ai-Cham: sit⁷

desctree

→ Proto-Tai: *cetᴰ
Northern Tai
Bouyei: xadt
Tai Do: chết
Zhuang: caet
Central Tai
Nong Zhuang: jiat
Tày: chết
Southwestern Tai
Thai: เจ็ด (jèt)
Lao: ເຈັດ (chet)
Lü: ᦵᦈᧆ (ṫsed)
Tai Dam: ꪹꪊꪸꪒ
Shan: ၸဵတ်း (tsáet)
Tai Nüa: ᥓᥥᥖᥱ (tsět)
Tai Laing: ၸဵတ်
Ahom: 𑜋𑜢𑜄𑜫 (chit)

Characters in the same phonetic series (七) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a vertical stroke and a horizontal stroke bisecting each other – original character of 切 (OC *sn̥ʰiːds, *sn̥ʰiːd, “to cut”).
The top-most horizontal stroke is done from left to right. The vertical stroke and bottom-most horizontal stroke are done as one stroke, from top-left to bottom-right.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

Han etyl

(printing) agate: The size of type between 小六 (xiǎoliù, “little 6”) and 八 (bā, “8”), standardized as 5½ point.


-sama

(anime and manga, fandom slang) Appended to a person's name or nickname to convey honour and respect.


display

en-verb

display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)

displays (present singular third-person)
displaying (participle present)
displayed (participle past)
displayed (past)

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

der

(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.


still

stills (plural)
stil (alternative)
stille (alternative)
styll (alternative)
stylle (alternative)

From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, silent, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.

(cinematography) A single frame from a film.


skein

skeins (plural)
skean (alternative obsolete)
skain (alternative obsolete)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-skein.wav

From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”). Compare Irish scáinne (“skein, clew”).

der

All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]

Three comedy shows from the U. S. are in the CTV lineup: CBSTV's Phil Silvers and Danny Thomas skeins and NBC-TV's "Harry's Girls."

1963, Radio Television Daily, volume 93, page 5:

(radio, television, dated) A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).


wedge

en-noun

wedge (countable and uncountable, plural wedges)

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.

1982, Thomas Pyles, John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language, 3rd edition, page 49:

The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.

1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide, 2nd edition, page xxvi:

The háček or ‘wedge’ ⟨ˇ⟩ is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. […] As a tone mark the wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.

1999, Florian Coulmas, “háček”, in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, page 193:

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.

(linguistics, calligraphy, typography) A line making up a written character.

خَطّ

line or mark made on a surface by an implement for drawing, writing, etc.

筆畫 /笔画

line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character

(computing) In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").

Subject: Fire. Dear Sir-stroke-Madam: I am writing to inform you of a fire which has broken out at the premises of … No. That's too formal.

2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, “Calamity Jen”, in The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").


nut

→ Japanese: ナット (natto)

From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.

dió

walnut in particular and an element in the name of some other nuts

dióféle

literally: ’walnut-like’, the family of this fruit

walnuts, hazelnuts/peanuts, chestnuts, and related fruits

even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while

(typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

Halbgeviert

typography: unit equal to half of the height of the type in use


mare

head

mare c (singular definite maren, plural indefinite marer)

maren (definite singular)
marer (indefinite plural)
mare (indefinite nominative singular)
maren (definite nominative singular)
marer (indefinite nominative plural)
marerne (definite nominative plural)
mares (genitive indefinite singular)
marens (definite genitive singular)
marers (genitive indefinite plural)
marernes (definite genitive plural)


mare

nb-noun-c

mare f or m (definite singular mara or maren, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

mara (definite singular)
maren (definite singular)
marer (indefinite plural)
marene (definite plural)


mare

mare f (definite singular mara, indefinite plural marer, definite plural marene)

mara (definite singular)
marer (indefinite plural)
marene (definite plural)
Mara (alternative dialectal)
mara (alternative dialectal)
maru (alternative dialectal)
muru (alternative dialectal)
murru (alternative dialectal)


MOR

/ɛm əʊ ˈɑː(ɹ)/

But MOR as a programming powerhouse began to lose strength as the radio industry evolved during those decades.

2003, Christopher H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of Radio, page 1575:

At a hip grocery store, Maggie meets David (Kelvin Harrison Jr., from “Waves”), a handsome singer-songwriter with a rockin’ MOR vibe, and the two have a “High Fidelity” music-geek convo that dances on the edge of cringey-ness.

2020 May 25, Owen Gleiberman, “‘The High Note’: Film Review”, in Claudia Eller, editor, Variety, Los Angeles, Calif.: Variety Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-25:

middle of the road
middle of the road#English

(radio) Initialism of middle of the road.


gram

grams (plural)
gramme (alternative British)

(broadcasting, dated) A gramophone recording.


hammer

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.

sense

Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.

1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104:

(journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline.


femme

en-adj

femme (comparative more femme, superlative most femme)

more femme (comparative)
most femme (superlative)

Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.

Admittedly, Kiedis was concerned about the lack of femme rockers on the bill: the only women featured were in British band Lush, who would open each day's festivities before a few hundred curious onlookers.

2009, Jeff Apter, Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story:

High heels are something like neckties for women, in that it can be harder to look both formal and femme without them.

2019 March 20, Summer Brennan, “Sex, power, oppression: why women wear high heels”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly Canada, US, journalism, entertainment) Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.


humanoid

pl-noun

humanoid m animal (related adjective humanoidalny)

humanoidalny (adjective)
humanoid (nominative singular)
humanoidy (nominative plural)
humanoida (genitive singular)
humanoidów (genitive plural)
humanoidowi (dative singular)
humanoidom (dative plural)
humanoida (accusative singular)
humanoidy (accusative plural)
humanoidem (instrumental singular)
humanoidami (instrumental plural)
humanoidzie (locative singular)
humanoidach (locative plural)
humanoidzie (singular vocative)
humanoidy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English humanoid, French humanoïde, German Humanoid, ultimately from Latin hūmānus.

(robotics, science fiction) humanoid (being having the appearance or characteristics of a human)


開く

ja-verb

開(ひら)く • (hiraku) transitive or intransitive godan (stem 開(ひら)き (hiraki), past 開(ひら)いた (hiraita))

開く (canonical)
hiraku (romanization)
開き (stem)
開いた (past)
開か
ひらか
hiraka
開き
ひらき
hiraki
開く
ひらく
hiraku
開け
ひらけ
hirake
開かれる (passive)
ひらかれる (passive)
hirakareru (passive)
開かせる (causative)
開かす (causative)
ひらかせる (causative)
ひらかす (causative)
hirakaseru (causative)
hirakasu (causative)
開ける (potential)
ひらける (potential)
hirakeru (potential)
開こう (volitional)
ひらこう (volitional)
hirakō (volitional)
開かない (negative)
ひらかない (negative)
hirakanai (negative)
開かず (continuative negative)
ひらかず (continuative negative)
hirakazu (continuative negative)
開きます (formal)
ひらきます (formal)
hirakimasu (formal)
開いた (perfective)
ひらいた (perfective)
hiraita (perfective)
開いて (conjunctive)
ひらいて (conjunctive)
hiraite (conjunctive)
開けば (conditional hypothetical)
ひらけば (conditional hypothetical)
hirakeba (conditional hypothetical)
開か (irrealis stem)
ひらか (irrealis stem)
firaka (irrealis)
開き (continuative stem)
ひらき (continuative stem)
firaki (continuative)
開く (stem terminative)
ひらく (stem terminative)
firaku (terminative)
開く (attributive stem)
ひらく (attributive stem)
firaku (attributive)
開け (realis stem)
ひらけ (realis stem)
firake (realis)
開け (imperative stem)
ひらけ (imperative stem)
firake (imperative)
開かず (negative)
ひらかず (negative)
firakazu (negative)
開けど (contrastive)
ひらけど (contrastive)
firakedo (contrastive)
開けば (causative)
ひらけば (causative)
firakeba (causative)
開かば (conditional)
ひらかば (conditional)
firakaba (conditional)
開きき (past)
ひらきき (past)
firakiki (past)
開きけり (past)
ひらきけり (past)
firakikeri (past)
開きつ (perfect)
ひらきつ (perfect)
firakitu (perfect)
開きぬ (perfect)
ひらきぬ (perfect)
firakinu (perfect)
開けり (continuative perfect)
開きたり (continuative perfect)
ひらけり (continuative perfect)
ひらきたり (continuative perfect)
firakeri (continuative perfect)
firakitari (continuative perfect)
開かむ (volitional)
ひらかむ (volitional)
firakamu (volitional)

(proofreading, orthography) to write a Japanese word using hiragana


beard

PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart). Cognate further to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá): the word may date to Proto-Indo-European as *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Doublet of barb.

(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.


hyperbole

en-noun

hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)

From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.

der

Hyperbole soars too high, or creeps too low,
Exceeds the truth, things wonderful to shew.

1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Hyperbole.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 12:

The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.

1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Legends of the Province House:

"Nay, nay, good Sumach," interrupted the Deerslayer, whose love of truth was too indomitable to listen to such hyperbole, with patience[…]

1841, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, chapter VIII, in The Deerslayer: A Tale. […], 1st British edition, volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 248:

c. 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, Productive Scholarship
Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. ..People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.

1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, page 58:

In these circumstances, hyperbole is called for, the rhetorical figure that raises its objects up, excessively, way above their actual merit : it is not to deceive by exaggeration that one overshoots the mark, but to allow the true value, the truth of what is insufficiently valued, to appear.

1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole-driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.

2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe:

Trump has always believed in “truthful hyperbole,” as he called it in “The Art of the Deal.” But now it’s untruthful hyperbole.

2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.


American

Americans (plural)
Am. (alternative)
Amer. (alternative)
Americanian (alternative)
Murican (alternative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *amalą
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
Middle English -n
English -n
English American
From America + -n. compare Latin amerī̆canus.

etymon

(uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type smaller than German, 1-point type.


animé

From Japanese アニメ (“anime”), from アニメーション (“animēshon”), from English animation.


manga

en-noun

manga (countable and uncountable, plural manga or mangas)

manga (plural)
mangas (plural)
mangwa (alternative obsolete)

desc

→ Hindi: मांगा (māṅgā), माँगा (māṅgā), मैंगा (maiṅgā)

Black Cat (manga)
Hokusai
manga (disambiguation)

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Compare Mandarin 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà), Korean 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa). After an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai. Doublet of manhua and manhwa.

zh-l

漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà)

English speakers are quick to notice the at times incorrect use of English in anime and manga. Many English words are customarily used in standard Japanese speech, and sometimes they are pronounced and employed in a manner quite different from their native use.

2001, Gilles Poitras, “What makes anime unique”, in Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know, page 63:

Manga (Japanese comics) are everywhere. Even here in Auckland. One can find various titles in their original versions as well as in Chinese, Korean and English translations.

2007, Yukako Sunaoshi, “Who reads comics? Manga readership among first-generation Asian immigrants in New Zealand”, in Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan, page 94:

Manga-influenced comics by Western authors are frequently sold alongside manga, although in most bookstores the decision is primarily a matter of format and packaging (i.e., whether the book is printed in the compact manga size or the traditionally larger American comic book format).

2012, Jason Thompson, “Introduction”, in Manga: The Complete Guide, page 46:

(countable, comics) A comic originating in Japan.


manga

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), after an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai.

(comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


manga

manga (indefinite nominative singular)
mangaen (definite nominative singular)
mangaer (indefinite nominative plural)
mangaerne (definite nominative plural)
mangas (genitive indefinite singular)
mangaens (definite genitive singular)
mangaers (genitive indefinite plural)
mangaernes (definite genitive plural)

De har vist læst alt for mange mangaer.

I believe they have read far too many mangas.

(countable, comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


manga

nl-noun

manga m (plural manga's, diminutive mangaatje n)

manga's (plural)
mangaatje (diminutive neuter)


manga

manga (nominative singular)
mangat (nominative plural)
manga (accusative nominative singular)
mangat (accusative nominative plural)
mangan (accusative genitive singular)
mangat (accusative genitive plural)
mangan (genitive singular)
mangojen (genitive plural)
mangain (genitive plural rare)
mangaa (partitive singular)
mangoja (partitive plural)
mangassa (inessive singular)
mangoissa (inessive plural)
mangasta (elative singular)
mangoista (elative plural)
mangaan (illative singular)
mangoihin (illative plural)
mangalla (adessive singular)
mangoilla (adessive plural)
mangalta (ablative singular)
mangoilta (ablative plural)
mangalle (allative singular)
mangoille (allative plural)
mangana (essive singular)
mangoina (essive plural)
mangaksi (singular translative)
mangoiksi (plural translative)
mangatta (abessive singular)
mangoitta (abessive plural)
mangoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
mangani (nominative singular)
mangani (nominative plural)
mangani (accusative nominative singular)
mangani (accusative nominative plural)
mangani (accusative genitive singular)
mangani (accusative genitive plural)
mangani (genitive singular)
mangojeni (genitive plural)
mangaini (genitive plural rare)
mangaani (partitive singular)
mangojani (partitive plural)
mangassani (inessive singular)
mangoissani (inessive plural)
mangastani (elative singular)
mangoistani (elative plural)
mangaani (illative singular)
mangoihini (illative plural)
mangallani (adessive singular)
mangoillani (adessive plural)
mangaltani (ablative singular)
mangoiltani (ablative plural)
mangalleni (allative singular)
mangoilleni (allative plural)
manganani (essive singular)
mangoinani (essive plural)
mangakseni (singular translative)
mangoikseni (plural translative)
mangattani (abessive singular)
mangoittani (abessive plural)
mangoineni (comitative plural)
mangasi (nominative singular)
mangasi (nominative plural)
mangasi (accusative nominative singular)
mangasi (accusative nominative plural)
mangasi (accusative genitive singular)
mangasi (accusative genitive plural)
mangasi (genitive singular)
mangojesi (genitive plural)
mangaisi (genitive plural rare)
mangaasi (partitive singular)
mangojasi (partitive plural)
mangassasi (inessive singular)
mangoissasi (inessive plural)
mangastasi (elative singular)
mangoistasi (elative plural)
mangaasi (illative singular)
mangoihisi (illative plural)
mangallasi (adessive singular)
mangoillasi (adessive plural)
mangaltasi (ablative singular)
mangoiltasi (ablative plural)
mangallesi (allative singular)
mangoillesi (allative plural)
manganasi (essive singular)
mangoinasi (essive plural)
mangaksesi (singular translative)
mangoiksesi (plural translative)
mangattasi (abessive singular)
mangoittasi (abessive plural)
mangoinesi (comitative plural)
mangamme (nominative singular)
mangamme (nominative plural)
mangamme (accusative nominative singular)
mangamme (accusative nominative plural)
mangamme (accusative genitive singular)
mangamme (accusative genitive plural)
mangamme (genitive singular)
mangojemme (genitive plural)
mangaimme (genitive plural rare)
mangaamme (partitive singular)
mangojamme (partitive plural)
mangassamme (inessive singular)
mangoissamme (inessive plural)
mangastamme (elative singular)
mangoistamme (elative plural)
mangaamme (illative singular)
mangoihimme (illative plural)
mangallamme (adessive singular)
mangoillamme (adessive plural)
mangaltamme (ablative singular)
mangoiltamme (ablative plural)
mangallemme (allative singular)
mangoillemme (allative plural)
manganamme (essive singular)
mangoinamme (essive plural)
mangaksemme (singular translative)
mangoiksemme (plural translative)
mangattamme (abessive singular)
mangoittamme (abessive plural)
mangoinemme (comitative plural)
manganne (nominative singular)
manganne (nominative plural)
manganne (accusative nominative singular)
manganne (accusative nominative plural)
manganne (accusative genitive singular)
manganne (accusative genitive plural)
manganne (genitive singular)
mangojenne (genitive plural)
mangainne (genitive plural rare)
mangaanne (partitive singular)
mangojanne (partitive plural)
mangassanne (inessive singular)
mangoissanne (inessive plural)
mangastanne (elative singular)
mangoistanne (elative plural)
mangaanne (illative singular)
mangoihinne (illative plural)
mangallanne (adessive singular)
mangoillanne (adessive plural)
mangaltanne (ablative singular)
mangoiltanne (ablative plural)
mangallenne (allative singular)
mangoillenne (allative plural)
mangananne (essive singular)
mangoinanne (essive plural)
mangaksenne (singular translative)
mangoiksenne (plural translative)
mangattanne (abessive singular)
mangoittanne (abessive plural)
mangoinenne (comitative plural)
mangansa (nominative singular)
mangansa (nominative plural)
mangansa (accusative nominative singular)
mangansa (accusative nominative plural)
mangansa (accusative genitive singular)
mangansa (accusative genitive plural)
mangansa (genitive singular)
mangojensa (genitive plural)
mangainsa (genitive plural rare)
mangaansa (partitive singular)
mangojaan (partitive plural)
mangojansa (partitive plural)
mangassaan (inessive singular)
mangassansa (inessive singular)
mangoissaan (inessive plural)
mangoissansa (inessive plural)
mangastaan (elative singular)
mangastansa (elative singular)
mangoistaan (elative plural)
mangoistansa (elative plural)
mangaansa (illative singular)
mangoihinsa (illative plural)
mangallaan (adessive singular)
mangallansa (adessive singular)
mangoillaan (adessive plural)
mangoillansa (adessive plural)
mangaltaan (ablative singular)
mangaltansa (ablative singular)
mangoiltaan (ablative plural)
mangoiltansa (ablative plural)
mangalleen (allative singular)
mangallensa (allative singular)
mangoilleen (allative plural)
mangoillensa (allative plural)
manganaan (essive singular)
manganansa (essive singular)
mangoinaan (essive plural)
mangoinansa (essive plural)
mangakseen (singular translative)
mangaksensa (singular translative)
mangoikseen (plural translative)
mangoiksensa (plural translative)
mangattaan (abessive singular)
mangattansa (abessive singular)
mangoittaan (abessive plural)
mangoittansa (abessive plural)
mangoineen (comitative plural)
mangoinensa (comitative plural)


manga

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga). Doublet of manhwa.

Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!

Osamu Tezuka est le plus grand dessinateur de manga. De 1947 à 1989, il dessine 150000 pages et crée d’innombrable séries : Astro Boy, le roi Léo, Metropolis, BlackJack, Les trois Adolf, Ayako, Phénix […]

Osamu Tezuka was the greatest manga artist. From 1947 to 1989, he drew 150,000 pages and created countless series: Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Metropolis, Black Jack, Message to Adolf, Ayako, Phoenix…


manga

Ultimately from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).


manga

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Doublet of manhua and manhwa.


manga

manga (nominative singular)
mangi (nominative plural)
mangi (genitive singular)
mang (genitive plural)
mandze (dative singular)
mangom (dative plural)
mangę (accusative singular)
mangi (accusative plural)
mangą (instrumental singular)
mangami (instrumental plural)
mandze (locative singular)
mangach (locative plural)
mango (singular vocative)
mangi (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: anime


manga

manga (indefinite nominative singular)
mangas (genitive indefinite singular)
mangan (definite nominative singular)
mangans (definite genitive singular)
mangor (indefinite nominative plural)
mangors (genitive indefinite plural)
mangorna (definite nominative plural)
mangornas (definite genitive plural)
manga (indefinite nominative singular)
mangas (genitive indefinite singular)
mangan (definite nominative singular)
mangans (definite genitive singular)
manga (indefinite nominative plural)
mangas (genitive indefinite plural)
mangana (definite nominative plural)
manganas (definite genitive plural)

(countable, uncountable, comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


manga

head

manga (definite accusative mangayı, plural mangalar)

mangayı (accusative definite)
mangalar (plural)


doujinshi

en-noun

doujinshi (countable and uncountable, plural doujinshi or doujinshis)

doujinshi (plural)
doujinshis (plural)
dojinshi (alternative)
dōjinshi (alternative)

Borrowed from Japanese 同(どう)人(じん)誌(し) (dōjinshi, “fan-produced manga or essay booklets”), from 同(どう)人(じん) (dōjin, “group for the same interest”) + 誌(し) (shi, “magazine or a pamphlet”).

ja-r

(manga) A fan-produced book or magazine of Japanese fiction; especially manga.


platform

en-verb

platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)

platforms (present singular third-person)
platforming (participle present)
platformed (participle past)
platformed (past)

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

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But serious movies are not necessarily good movies. A studio that decides to platform a film had better be sure the film will get the necessary good reviews and audience approval. Otherwise, like United Artists' "A Small Circle of Friends," which was platformed around the same time as "The Elephant Man," the film will fail calamitously.

1981 September 2, Aljean Harmetz, “Comes Fall, a Chance for Serious Movies?”, in The New York Times, page C21:

Each of these films will be "platformed," the industry term to describe the strategy of opening a movie first in a limited number of theaters to give it an aura of exclusivity, then having its appeal build through word of mouth.

1993 November 25, Bernard Weinraub, “For Movie Industry, Thanksgiving Means A Box-Office Feast”, in The New York Times, page C11:

(film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.


faction

Near-synonym: fictionalization

Blind genius of faction / Obituary of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer [title]

1986 June 16, W. J. Weatherby, “Blind genius of faction”, in The Guardian:

Contemporary reviewers offered different labels in attempts to describe the genre of Schindler's List. Lorna Sage, D.J. Enright and Robert Taubman called it a ‘documentary novel’; Paul Bailey and Gay Firth ‘faction’; […]

2000, Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 93:

[Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.

2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:

(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.


gem

en-noun

gem (countable and uncountable, plural gems)

Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.

der

(uncountable, printing, uncommon, obsolete) A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.


leader

→ Catalan: líder

→ Czech: lídr

→ Galician: líder

→ Japanese: リーダー (rīdā)

→ Korean: 리더 (rideo)

→ Polish: lider

→ Portuguese: líder

→ Romanian: lider

→ Russian: ли́дер (líder)

→ Spanish: líder

→ Turkish: lider

→ Ukrainian: лі́дер (líder)

From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī (“leader”), equivalent to lead + -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

cog

Someone or something that leads or conducts.

(UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.

If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette.

2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:

(film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.

The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.

1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 15:

(printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

(printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.


device

From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).

Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. … To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.

1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1

(printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.

tunnus

printing: image denoting authority or provenience


teek

She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?

2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 140:

(science fiction) A telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.


teek

en-verb

teek (third-person singular simple present teeks, present participle teeking, simple past and past participle teeked)

teeks (present singular third-person)
teeking (participle present)
teeked (participle past)
teeked (past)

Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.

1957 April 2, Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If, page 27:

With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.

2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 44:

(science fiction, transitive) To use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.


charade

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From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.

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CHARADE, a trifling species of composition, or quasi-literary form of amusement, which may perhaps be best defined as a punning enigma propounded in a series of descriptions. A word is taken of two or more syllables, each forming a distinct word; each of these is described in verse or prose, as aptly and enigmatically as possible; and the same process is applied to the whole word. The neater and briefer the descriptive parts of the problem, the better the charade will be. In selecting words for charades, special attention should be paid to the absolute quality of the syllables composing them, inaccuracy in trifles of this sort depriving them of what little claim to merit they may possess. The brilliant rhythmic trifles of W. Mackworth Praed are well known. Of representative prose charades, the following specimens are perhaps as good as could be selected:—“My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch!” “My first is company; my second shuns company; my third collects company; and my whole amuses company.” The solutions are Tar-tar and Co-nun-drum.

1878, "Charade" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 398

(literature, archaic) A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.


errata

errata (nominative singular)
erraty (nominative plural)
erraty (genitive singular)
errat (genitive plural)
erracie (dative singular)
erratom (dative plural)
erratę (accusative singular)
erraty (accusative plural)
erratą (instrumental singular)
erratami (instrumental plural)
erracie (locative singular)
erratach (locative plural)
errato (singular vocative)
erraty (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).

lbor

(typography) errata (typeface whose letters slant to the right)


wire

en-noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

Breaking news reports have just come in to us over the wire.

(journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.


tractor beam

Possibly a shortening of attractor beam; note however the broader meaning of tractor (“machinery that pulls something”). Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1931 in his novel Spacehounds of IPC, first serialized in Amazing Stories.

coin

Through it Stevens saw with satisfaction that the Forlorn Hope was not being abandoned; in the grip of powerful tractor beams, every fragment of the wreckage was following close behind them in their flight through space.

1931 August, E. E. “Doc” Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 5, page 549:

By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.

1945 June, Murray Leinster, “The Ethical Equations”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 35, number 4, page 122:

We're caught in a tractor beam! It's pulling us in!

1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, spoken by Han Solo (Harrison Ford):

(science fiction) A device-generated beam used to attract other objects from a distance.


escape pod

(chiefly science fiction) Any small, secondary, emergency-use vehicle used to evacuate from the main vehicle during times of danger.


亂

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *roːns): phonetic 𤔔 (*[r]ˁo[n]-s) + semantic 乚. The left-side component 𤔔 is itself ideogrammatic, depicting the effort to comb a tangle of threads, hence the semantic link to order and disorder.
Area word of Austroasiatic origin. Compare Khmer ប្រួល (pruəl, “changing; unstable”) < Khmer រួល (ruəl, “to cook; to grill”), and also Khmer កំរោល (kɑmraol, “to go berserk; to become excited”) < Khmer រោល (rool, “to burn; to roast”) (Schuessler, 2007). Burmese ရုန်း (run:, “to struggle, to warp, to cause chaos”) and Tibetan ཁྲལ་ཁྲུལ (khral khrul, “fragments; scattered”) are Austroasiatic loans. Compare also Vietnamese lộn (“to turn the inside out, upside down, to reverse, to return, etc.”) and trộn (“to mix; to blend; to turn upside down”).

cog

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乨
乿
𠃶
𠃹
𠃿
𢿢
𢿮
𤕅
𤔪

The Master said, "When the music master Zhi first entered on his office, the finish of the Guan Ju was magnificent — how it filled the ears!"

The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Zǐyuē: “Shī Zhì zhī shǐ, “Guānjū” zhī luàn, yángyáng hū yíng ěr zāi!”

子曰：「師摯之始，《關雎》之亂，洋洋乎盈耳哉！」

子曰：「师挚之始，《关雎》之乱，洋洋乎盈耳哉！」

(obsolete, literary, music or poetry) coda; finale; conclusion of a piece


pipe

→ Bengali: পাইপ (paip)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: پيپ (pēp, bēb, “smoking pipe”), پايپ (pāyp, bāyb, “medium of transportation (sense 2.1)”)

→ Hindi: पाइप (pāip)

→ Japanese: パイプ (paipu)

→ Korean: 파이프 (paipeu)

→ Malay: paip

→ Maori: paipa

→ Russian: пайп (pajp)

→ Urak Lawoi': ปาเฮะ (pahëq)

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.

2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help (Usenet):

(computing, typography) The character |.

Meanings relating to computing.
The character |.


pipe

en-verb

pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)

pipes (present singular third-person)
piping (participle present)
piped (participle past)
piped (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

[…] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.

1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259:

If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.

Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.

2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, page 91:

(US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).


仄

(linguistics, poetry, of a tone) being neither the ngang or huyền tone

(poetry, of a rhyme) carrying a trắc tone


令

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (令):
* → Japanese: 令(りょう) (ryō); 令(れい) (rei)
* → Vietnamese: lệnh (令), lành (令)

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 亼 + 卩. The upper part is an open mouth to convey the idea of giving orders, while the bottom part is a kneeling man. Compare 兄, in which an open mouth on top of the character conveys the same idea of giving orders.
Usually thought to be related to 命 (OC *mreŋs, “order”) (Schuessler, 2007). As a surname, 令 has many origins, one of them is 令狐 (Línghú).


mask

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).

蒙版

two-color bitmap used to create transparency in an image

(publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.


倍

2倍

(typography) a multiple of 全角 (zenkaku, “fullwidth/-height”) or 1 em in Western typography

(typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 88 mils, ⁸⁸⁄₁₀₀₀ in, 8 U (U) and ¹⁄₁₆ 段 (dan)


傳

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (傳):
* → Japanese: 伝(でん) (den)
* → Korean: 전(傳) (jeon)
* → Vietnamese: truyện (傳)

→ Vietnamese: chuyện (𡀯)

/t͡syːn²²⁻³⁵/

/t͡syːn²²⁻³⁵/

In the histories (i.e., the Book of Documents) it is written: "I, the One, enjoy felicity; the people will look to me as their sure dependence," which refers to this.

Zhuàn yuē: “Yīrén yǒu qìng, zhào mín lài zhī.” Cǐ zhī wèi yě.

傳曰：「一人有慶，兆民賴之。」此之謂也。

传曰：「一人有庆，兆民赖之。」此之谓也。

(historical, literature) a category of historical literary works

historical narrative; record; chronicle; historical documents

《公羊傳》

《公羊传》

The Grand Commentary to the Yi (i.e., the Xi Ci) has it, that "All under heaven, the one answer is found by myriad contemplations, the one destiny is reached by diverse routes."

The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

“Yì” dàzhuàn: “Tiānxià yīzhì ér bǎilǜ, tóngguī ér shūtú.”

《易》大傳：「天下一致而百慮，同歸而殊塗。」

《易》大传：「天下一致而百虑，同归而殊涂。」

a category of historical literary works
commentary; annotation

to be a nobody (literally, "the name does not appear in canons or para-canons")

名不見經傳

名不见经传

Beside the canons (i.e. in Xunzi), the following is written: "How is it that rain comes after a sacrifice of rain-dance? Answer: There is no 'how'. It is the same as any occurrence of rain without the rain-dance."

c. 2nd century BCE, Han Shi Wai Zhuan (《韓詩外傳》)

Zhuàn yuē: “Yú ér yǔ zhě, hé yě? Yuē: wúhé yě, yóu bùyú ér yǔ yě.”

傳曰：「雩而雨者，何也？曰：無何也，猶不雩而雨也。」

传曰：「雩而雨者，何也？曰：无何也，犹不雩而雨也。」

The Annalist wrote: In the para-canons (i.e. the Analects, itself not considered canonical at the time) it is written: "When one's own personal conduct is correct, his government is effective without the issuing of orders. If not correct, he may issue orders, but they will not be followed." Is this not a proper description of General Li?

Tàishǐgōng yuē: zhuàn yuē: “Qí shēn zhèng, bù lìng ér xíng; qí shēn bùzhèng, suī lìng bù cóng,” qí Lǐ jiāngjūn zhī wèi yě?

太史公曰：傳曰：「其身正，不令而行；其身不正，雖令不從，」其李將軍之謂也？

太史公曰：传曰：「其身正，不令而行；其身不正，虽令不从，」其李将军之谓也？

paracanonical work (any work that complements a canon or a canonical body of texts but not considered canonical by itself, often including the above)

自傳

自传

列傳

列传

《水滸傳》

《水浒传》

(historical, literature) novel or story written in the historical style


儘

Sound shift from 随(まにま) (manima, “state of following other's will or the way things develop”).

ja-r

北川さんの「見っけた写真」〔ママ〕


儷

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *reːls): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 麗 (OC *reːls, *rel).


冠

(poetry) first (traditionally, five) morae of a haiku, etc.; specifically, the first verse or line of a poem


jeg

head

jeg n (singular definite jeget, plural indefinite jeger)

jeget (definite singular)
jeger (indefinite plural)
jeg (indefinite nominative singular)
jeget (definite nominative singular)
jeger (indefinite nominative plural)
jegerne (definite nominative plural)
jegs (genitive indefinite singular)
jegets (definite genitive singular)
jegers (genitive indefinite plural)
jegernes (definite genitive plural)

From the pronoun. Calque of German Ich (“ego”).


generation

en-noun

generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.

inh+

With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]

2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book:

Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.

2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology, page 131:

(television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.


Palestine

⇒ Dutch: Palestine

⇒ Italian: Palestina

(printing, dated) double pica (large size of type standardized as 24 points)


勒

(calligraphy) the horizontal stroke; the second of the Eight Principles of Yong


吟

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms): semantic 口 + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm).


喉

/nomito/ > /nomto/ > /nomdo/ > /nondo/ > /nodo/.
From 喉(のみと) (nomito).

(printing, of a page) the inside margin, whichever vertical margin that is adjacent to the spine of the book


地

From Middle Chinese 地 (dijᴴ). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. The devoicing of the initial consonant might indicate a dialectal source. Compare modern Hakka thi, Min Nan tī.


天

From Middle Chinese 天 (MC then, “sky; heavens”). Compare modern Mandarin reading tiān.

天狗: long-nosed yōkai of Japanese mythology

天変地異

an extraordinary natural phenomenon or occurrence


字

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (字):
* → Japanese: 字(じ) (ji)
* → Korean: 자(字) (ja)
* → Vietnamese: tự (字)

→ Proto-Tai: *ɟɤ:ᴮ (“name”)

Lao: ຊື່ (sư̄, “name”)

Thai: ชื่อ (chʉ̂ʉ, “name”)

Zhuang: coh (“name”)

desc

→ Vietnamese: chữ (“script; letter; writing; word”), chửa (“to be pregnant”)

Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *zlɯs): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ, “child”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa ~ za (“child; to give birth; to take care; to be kind”). Related to:
* 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ, “child, son”) (also its phonetic component)
* 慈 (OC *zɯ, “to be kind, loving”)
* 滋 (OC *ʔsɯ, “to nourish, to grow”)
* 詞 (OC *ljɯ, “word, term”)
* 辭 (OC *ljɯ, “word, from testimony”)
Original sense (1): “to become pregnant, to give birth to, to nurture, to love” has essentially become obsolete. The sense (2) “letter, character” is either from a different root or a derivation from the sense “to produce, to generate”.
Cognate with Tibetan ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “nephew”), Tibetan ཚ་རུས (tsha rus, “descendant”), Tibetan བཙའ (btsa', “to give birth to; to guard”), Tibetan མཛའ (mdza', “kind, peaceful, friendly”) (Quan, 1996), Burmese စာ (ca, “writing, letter”).

cog

柳字 ― liǔzì ― style of calligraphy of Liu Gongquan

(calligraphy) style of handwriting; printing type

字畫／字画

(calligraphy) (a calligrapher's) calligraphy work


季

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 禾 + 子.
Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007).


acatalectic

From Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληκτος (akatálēktos, “leaving off”).

der

(poetry, prosody) Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot


acatalectic

(poetry, prosody) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables


penultimate

penultimates (plural)
pænultimate (alternative archaic)

From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin paenultimus + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

af

Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two.

(uncommon) A penult, a next to last, particularly:

(linguistics, literature, uncommon) The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.


彎

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (彎):
* → Japanese: 彎(わん) (wan)
* → Korean: 만(彎) (man)
* → Vietnamese: loan (彎)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qroːn): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).
May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).
; “homosexual”

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)


徒

徒花

blossom that bear no fruit; things which being gorgeous in the pretence but worthless in actuality

蕉風俳諧(しょうふうはいかい) 蕉風俳諧#Japanese

(historical, poetry) the term of the 蕉風俳諧(しょうふうはいかい) (shōfūhaikai, “Bashō style haikai”) to indicate innocent and humorous style


折

Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Originally 㪿, an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): ⿱屮屮 (“a tree 木 cut in half”) + 斤 (“axe”) – an axe cutting a tree in half.
In the current form, the left side has become 扌 (“hand”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tset (“to cut off; to sever; to break”).

inh

(Chinese calligraphy) a change in direction of a stroke (such as in ㇕, ㇉, or ㇜)


挑

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 兆 (OC *l'ewʔ).

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) a rising stroke (㇀)


捺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *naːd): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 奈 (OC *naːls, *naːds) – to press down with the hand, stamp.

Han compound

one character does not have two falling strokes (rule used in calligraphy)

yī zì bù èr nà

一字不二捺

(Chinese calligraphy) a stroke that falls downwards towards the right (㇏)


提

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *deː, *dje): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 是 (OC *djeʔ).


撇

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰeːd): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed).

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) stroke that falls downwards towards the left (㇒)


散

The original version visible on oracle bone script is 㪔, hence Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 林 (“trees, forest”) + 攴 (“to knock, to tap”), also written with hemp stalks 𣏟 (> 𢽳) or bamboo 竹 instead of two trees. The original meanings are "to clear a place from vegetation; to kill". The character later started meaning "to dissipate, to disperse" since bamboo in particular breaks easily into pieces; eventually, the meaning shifted to "to walk around, to stroll".
Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *saːnʔ, *saːns): semantic 肉 + phonetic 𢽳, written as 𣀙, in which 林 is well visible on top.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjwar ~ g/b-sjwa-n/t (“flow; pour; scatter; spill; sow; broadcast”). Cognate with 撒 (OC *saːd, “to cast away; to let go”), 宣 (OC *sqʰon, “to spread; to proclaim”), Tibetan འཆོར་བ ('chor ba, “to escape; to flow out”), Burmese သွန် (swan, “to pour out; to spill”), Lahu šē (“to sow; to broadcast”), Lahu šêʔ (“to pour; to spill; to disperse; to sow; to broadcast”).

cog

㪔
𢽳
𢿷
𣀙
𢿱
㪚
撒
嘇
糝
剼


斜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *lja, *laː): semantic 斗 (“ladle/dipper”) + phonetic 余 (OC *la). The character expresses the idea of scooping or drawing out. By extension, it is also used to mean "slant" or "diagonal."

Han compound

(Chinese calligraphy) a bend to the right (such as in ㇂, ㇃, or ㇠)


星

/posi/ → /ɸoɕi/ → /hoɕi/
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pəsi.

See also: 星人 (seijin)

この星を守ると決めた


星

From Middle Chinese 星 (MC seng).
The Singapore sense derives from the pre-World War Two kanji spelling 星加坡 (modern kanji spelling 新加坡) as borrowed from Chinese, itself a transliteration of Malay Singapura.

1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “なにがなんだか 前編 [What’s What: First Chapter]”, in SHORT PROGRAM(ショート・プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 256:

——Oh, my name is Maxim AGF. I came here from planet Lipton. I’m still taken aback by Earth’s coldness. It is a pleasure to meet all of you.

——あ、わたくしマキシムＡＧＦです。リプトン星からやってまいりました。地球の寒さにおどろいてます。どぞよろしく。

——A, watakushi Makishimu Ējīefu desu. Riputon-sei kara yatte mairimashita. Chikyū no samusa ni odoroitemasu. Dozo yoroshiku.

(loosely, especially fiction) attached to names of planets


校

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

A derivative, with causative suffix -s, of 交 (OC *kreːw). (Schuessler, 2007).


cardinal

Learned borrowing from Latin cardinālis. Doublet of cardeal, which was inherited.


樣

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (樣):
* → Japanese: 様(よう) (yō)
* → Korean: 양(樣) (yang)
* → Vietnamese: dạng (樣)

desc

→ Khmer: យ៉ាង (yaang, “kind, type, way, particle for forming adverbial phrases”)

→ Lao: ຢ່າງ (yāng, “kind, type; standard, pattern; way, method”)

→ Lü: ᦊᦱᧂᧈ (ẏaang¹)

→ Lü: ᦊᦱᧂᧈ (ẏaang¹)

→? Malay: yang (“(he, the one) who, (that) which”)

→ Mongolian: зан (zan)

→ Northern Thai: ᩀ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨦ

→ Thai: อย่าง (yàang, “variety; kind; manner; like, as; adverbial particle”), เยี่ยง (yîiang, “like, as if; example, model”)

→ Proto-Turkic: *yaŋ

→ Old Uyghur: yaŋ

→ Karakhanid: يَانگ

→ Vietnamese: dáng (“gait, figure”), dường (“to seem, to be like”)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *laŋs): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 羕 (OC *laŋs).
; “appearance; etc.”
; “(ACG slang) -sama”


橫

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ).
; “crosswise > door rail; side; cross-grained; unrestrained”
* Related to 衡 (OC *ɡraːŋ, “crossbar”), 桁 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, “purlin”), 珩 (OC *ɡraːŋ, “top horizontal gem of a girdle-pendant”) and 璜 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “jade pendant”) (Wang, 1982), and possibly 樑 (OC *raŋ, “roof beam”) (Schuessler, 2007).
* Schuessler (2007) connects these with Khmer ខ្វែង (khvaeng, “to cross; to intersect; to crisscross; diagonal; etc.”) < Old Khmer khveṅ (“to go far around; to encircle; to enclose”). Compare Thai ขวาง (kwǎang, “to lie across; to bar; to obstruct; to thwart”) and the Khmer derivatives កំពែង (kɑmpɛɛng, “enclosing wall; rampart”), កំពង់ (kɑmpŭəng, “crossing-place; ford; port; shore”) (cf. Malay kampung). Note also Burmese ခြင် (hkrang, “bamboo rafter”) (Luce, 1981).

cog

(Chinese calligraphy) horizontal stroke (㇐)


檔

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *taːŋ, *taːŋs): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 當 (OC *taːŋ, *taːŋs).

Han compound

八點檔／八点档


歌

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ota.


歯

/pa/ > /ɸa/ > /ha/.
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pa. Cognate with Okinawan 歯 (hā).

(typography) a unit equal to 1 Q (kyū) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as H; ha is used for spacing, while Q is used for font size


段

Meronym: 行 (gyō, “line”)

段数

段間

(typography) the equivalent to a column in Western layout, but that can be horizontal or vertical depending on the writing direction


段

(typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 1408 mils, ¹⁴⁰⁸⁄₁₀₀₀ in, 128 U (U) and 16 倍 (bai)


海

⟨umi₁⟩ → */umij/ → /umi/
From Old Japanese, theorized as descending from Proto-Japonic *omi.
Has been thought to have been derived from a compound. There are two leading theories regarding the ultimate derivation:
* Shift from 大 (ō-, “big, great”) + 水 (mi, “water”, combining form).
: This is problematic phonetically because there is no known term having a related shift from /opo/ → /oː/ → /o/ → /u/, and semantically as there already exists a compound 大水 (ōmizu, “flood”).
* From う (u-, stem indicating “ocean”) + 水 (mi, “water”, combining form). The u- stem is evident in 魚 (uo, “fish”) and 潮 (ushio, “salt water; tide”), and in the 海 (una) element in various ancient terms (see below).

海を渡る

cross over the ocean → go to a foreign country

(calligraphy) in a 硯 (suzuri, “inkstone”), a reservoir where water is stored


fighter

From Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.

Task Force 42 consisted of almost two dozen main line spinships, including the carriers Olympus Shadow and Neptune Station. Each of these can launch more than a hundred fighters or ALRs.

1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

I toss around [37,654 tonne] dreadnoughts like they were fighters; dimly aware of the former crews being crushed to liquescence.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):

A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.

(science fiction, by extension) A starfighter


image

German: Image

Slovak: imidž

Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)

Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

(radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.


image

→ Franco-Provençal: émâge

→ Turkish: imaj

Inherited from Old French image, borrowed from Latin imaginem (“a copy, likeness, image”).


link

Azerbaijani: link

Belarusian: лінк (link)

Bulgarian: линк (link)

Catalan: link

Chinese:

Hong Kong Cantonese: link (ling1), 拎 (ling1)

Czech: link

Danish: link

Dutch: link

Estonian: link

Finnish: linkki

Georgian: ლინკი (linḳi)

German: link

Hebrew: לינק (línk)

Hindi: लिंक (liṅk)

Hungarian: link

Italian: link

Japanese: リンク (rinku)

Korean: 링크 (ringkeu)

Lower Sorbian: link

Macedonian: линк (link)

Persian: لینک (link)

Polish: link

Portuguese: link

Romanian: link

Serbo-Croatian: линк, link

Slovak: link

Spanish: link

Russian: линк (link)

Thai: ลิงก์ (líng)

Turkish: link

Ukrainian: лінк (link)

Yiddish: לינק (link)

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

tejlidhje

computing: short for hyperlink — see also hyperlink

a chain is only as strong as its weakest link

Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.

2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 53:


版

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *praːnʔ): semantic 片 + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).
Related to 板 (OC *praːnʔ, “plank, board”); see there for more.

Han compound

銅版

铜版

活字版


bullet

en-noun

bullet (countable and uncountable, plural bullets)

From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.

inh

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

odrážka

typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle


bullet

head

bullet (plural indefinite bullets, no definite forms)

Borrowed from English bullet, from Middle French [Term?].

(typography) bullet (a printed symbol, e.g. •, used for marking items in a list)


生

From Old Japanese. Numerous derivatives already in use in the Heian period.

生演奏


直

desc

→ Old Turkic: tik (“vertical, straight, straightforward”)

Oghuz: دیك

Azerbaijani: dik

Turkish: dik

Turkmen: dik

Turkmen: dikan (“honest, straight, direct”)

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 目 (“eye”) + 丨 (“vertical stroke”) – vertical stroke above the eye; looking straight ahead. Then, a black dot was drawn inside the vertical stroke and this point later became a horizontal stroke (hence getting a shape similar to 十).
The line on the side appears in bronze script and subsequently stretched under the 目 shape, while the traditional form appears in seal script.
A conservative version is used inside the character 𢛳 (> 德), while the modern version is used inside its variant 惪. Unrelated to 具 and 真.
; "simply; only"
; "straight; right"
; “heterosexual”

Han compound

直
⿱十且
𡇛
𥄂
𬽈
𰥐
𰥑
𠅺
𣓟
𣖇
𣖈
𣖴
𥠤

(Chinese calligraphy) vertical stroke in Chinese characters


真

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (真):
* → Japanese: 真(しん) (shin)
* → Korean: 진(眞) (jin)
* → Vietnamese: chân (真)

→ Lao: ຈິງ (ching)

→ Proto-Turkic: *čïn (see there for further descendants)

→ Thai: จริง (jing)

/t͡sz̩ʷøŋ⁵²/

/t͡sz̩ʷøŋ⁵²/

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔljin): phonetic 𠂈 (OC *l'ɯːnʔ) + semantic 貝 (“cowry”); 𠂈 (a knife or dagger) was then a phonetic component. Often 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ) (a nail) was added as a second phonetic component at the bottom; originally, it appeared as a black dot. He Linyi posits it to be the original character for 珍 (OC *ʔl'ɯn, “rare; valuable”).
The sound component 𠂈 corrupted into 十 in the modern form, and into 匕 in the orthodox seal script form 眞. The bottom of the character in both forms derives from the components 貝 and 丁 corrupting into 目 and 丌.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བདེན (bden, “true; truth”). Possibly connected with 貞 (OC *teŋ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

眞
𡙊
𠤛
⿱𥃭大
⿱𥃰大
⿱𥃰六
𰶵
𰶱
⿳上目大
⿳止目六
⿳十且八

(Chinese calligraphy) short for 真書／真书 (zhēnshū, “regular script”)


磔

(literary, Chinese calligraphy) synonym of 捺 (nà)


PS

(literature) initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, postscript


穂

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *po. Related to 秀(ほ) (ho, “exceling; standing out”).


策

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (策):
* → Japanese: 策(さく) (saku)

/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/

/t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰreːɡ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs).
;"to whip"
Etymologically the same word as 冊 (OC *sʰreːɡ), with an original meaning of "bamboo slips" (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

筞
*筴
箣
𠞁
𠞦
𠷽
𢄆
𥳯

Eight Principles of Yong
w:Eight Principles of Yong

(calligraphy) upward horizontal stroke (the fifth of the Eight Principles of Yong)


級

級 (canonical)
kyū (romanization)
kifu (romanization)
きふ (hiragana historical)

/kipu/ → /kiɸu/ → */kiwu/ → /kiu/ → /kyuː/.
From Middle Chinese 級 (MC kip).

最上級

最上級 さいじょうきゅう

収束級数

収束級数 しゅうそくきゅうすう

調和級数

調和級数 ちょうわきゅうすう

等差級数

等差級数 とうさきゅうすう

等比級数

等比級数 とうひきゅうすう

無限級数

無限級数 むげんきゅうすう

(typography) a unit equal to 1 H (ha) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as Q, which happens to be the initial of English quarter; Q is used for font size, while ha is used for spacing