ace

→ Japanese: エース (ēsu)

→ Korean: 에이스 (eiseu)

→ Russian: эйс (ejs)

→ Swedish: ess

(?) → Finnish: ässä

Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".

der

[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.

1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:

If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.

1996, Arthur M. Smith, Robert Thomas King, Let's Get Going, page 65:


angle

From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus, anglus (“corner, remote area”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus and ankle.

cog

(astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.


ochre

en-noun

ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)

→ Irish: ócar

→ Welsh: ocr

From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).

der

A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide

(molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."

Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.


dart

en-verb

dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)

darts (present singular third-person)
darting (participle present)
darted (participle past)
darted (past)

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help

(transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.


flat

en-adj

flat (comparative flatter, superlative flattest)

flatter (comparative)
flattest (superlative)

bumpy

antonym(s) of “having no variations in altitude”

→ Portuguese: flat

From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.

inh

The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.

(figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.

(authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.


flat

(geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.

This same publisher notes pricing is a crucial factor in the mass market field of $1, $1.95 and $2.95 "flats."

1970, The Publishers Weekly, volume 197, page 85:

(publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.

Short for flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).

"When sampling the aperture of a telescope, using auto-collimating flats (ACFs) is more economical"

2013 April 1, Spechler et al., “Advanced Dispersed Fringe Sensing Algorithm for Coarse Phasing Segmented Mirror Telescopes”, in NASA Tech Briefs, retrieved 2021-12-27:


demon

Anthony the Great
Michelangelo
en:demon
en:demon (disambiguation)

From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.

daimon

now chiefly in reference to the ancient Greek spirit

After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.

(in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.

An evil supernatural spirit.
A person's fears or anxieties.

(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.

Coordinate term: Canfield

‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 89:

(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.


demon

Daemon (computing)
Maxwell's demon
en:demon (disambiguation)

From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.

(computing) Alternative spelling of daemon


bob

From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”).


awl

From Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-West Germanic *al, from Proto-Germanic *alaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Äil (“awl”), Dutch aal (“awl”), German Low German Ahl (“awl”), German Ahle (“awl”), Icelandic alur (“awl”). Spelling was influenced by the Old English synonym awel, awul (“awl”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahwal, from Proto-Germanic *ahwalaz (“fork, hook”), of unknown origin. Doublet of elsen.

(entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies.


swift

en-adj

swift (comparative swifter, superlative swiftest)

swifter (comparative)
swiftest (superlative)

From Middle English swift, from Old English swift (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Germanic *swiftaz (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weyp- (“to twist; wind around”). Cognate with Icelandic svipta (“to pull quickly”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”). More at swivel.


swift

Swift (bird)
Swift (disambiguation)
Swift (textiles)

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

ҫыр чӗкеҫӗ

śyr č̬ĕk̬eś̬ĕ

, spiny lizard

As a guide to start your collection we'd suggest either iguanas, tejus, swifts, basilisks, horned toads or alligator lizards.

Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.

(entomology) A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.

Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:

(entomology) Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.


swift

en-adv

swift (comparative more swift, superlative most swift)

more swift (comparative)
most swift (superlative)

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

Ply swift and strong the oar.


policeman

→ French: policeman

→ Maori: pirihimana

→ Welsh: plismon

The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378:

(law enforcement) A male police officer, sometimes used for any police officer regardless of gender.

(chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.

(entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.

A team may have a policeman or enforcer.

2002, P. J. Harari, Dave Ominsky, Ice Hockey Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide, page 26:


hopper

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

der

I went over and found the mealies and ground covered with large hoppers, about two weeks old.

1901, J. H. Stansell, “Locust Destruction”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, page 21:

Various insects
A grasshopper or locust, especially:
The immature form of a locust.

Various insects
The larva of a cheese fly.

Various insects
Any of various hesperiid butterflies.


lancer

(entomology) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.


darter

Any of the similar South American (and Panamanian) freshwater fish in the characin family Crenuchidae


flitter

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.


red-eye

en-noun

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Agkistrodon contortrix Linnaeus.—Cotton-mouth, Highland Moccasin, Rattlesnake Pilot, Red-eye.

[1905, F. N. Notestein, “The Ophidia of Michigan with an Analytical Key”, in Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: […], Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, →OCLC, page 120:

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

(US) Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).


chequered skipper

chequered skipper (plural chequered skippers)

This summer the chequered skipper, which became extinct in England in 1977, is being returned to the forest of Rockingham in Northamptonshire via specimens from Belgium.

2018 April 7, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:

A brown and orange chequered butterfly, Carterocephalus palaemon, of the family Hesperiidae


dingy skipper

A small, cryptic, dull brown butterfly, Erynnis tages, of the family Hesperiidae


European skipper

European skipper (plural European skippers)

A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus lineola, of the family Hesperiidae. Also known as the Essex skipper


Essex skipper

The Essex skipper declined by 67% between 2000 and 2009 and the small skipper declined by 62% in the same period. Both species’ caterpillars live on grasses found on field margins.

2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:

A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus lineola, of the family Hesperiidae.


grizzled skipper

grizzled skipper (plural grizzled skippers)

Any butterfly of the genus Pyrgus, of the family Hesperiidae.


large skipper

Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper' (35%).

A small, brown butterfly, Ochlodes sylvanus, of the family Hesperiidae.


Lulworth skipper

Lulworth skipper (plural Lulworth skippers)

The first specimens in Great Britain were collected in 1832 at Lulworth Cove in Dorset.

The dull brown butterfly Thymelicus acteon, of the family Hesperiidae.


small skipper

Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use. […] The Essex skipper declined by 67% between 2000 and 2009 and the small skipper declined by 62% in the same period.

A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus sylvestris, of the family Hesperiidae.


hesperiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper.


megathymid

(zoology) Any skipper in the family Megathymidae, now considered to be part of the Hesperiidae, perhaps as the subfamily Megathyminae.


yucca borer

A large moth-like butterfly (skipper), Megathymus yuccae of the family Hesperiidae, whose larva bores in yucca roots.


large grizzled skipper

large grizzled skipper (plural large grizzled skippers)

Pyrgus alveus, a species of skipper butterfly found throughout most of continental Europe.


large chequered skipper

large chequered skipper (plural large chequered skippers)

(lepidopterology, entomology) A butterfly, Heteropterus morpheus, of the family Hesperiidae.


hesperiine

Any skipper (butterfly) of the tribe Hesperiini


hesperian

Any butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper


dusk-flat

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Chaetocneme.


grass-skipper

Any of various hesperiid butterflies that inhabit grasslands.


shield-skipper

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Signeta.


grass-dart

Any of various hesperiid butterflies inhabiting grassy areas.


sedge-skipper

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Hesperilla and Oreisplanus.


iris-skipper

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Mesodina.


sedge-darter

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Telicota.


palm-dart

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Cephrenes.


awlet

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Bibasis and Burara.


water skipper

A motorized recreational over-water vehicle built from modifying a snowmobile, that is run at high speeds, to hydroplane across the surfaces of bodies of water.


Lyell's swift

A species of hesperiid butterfly, Pelopidas lyelli, inhabiting Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.


starry bob

A species of skipper butterfly, Iambrix stellifer, family Hesperiidae, of Southeast Asia, having dark underwings marked with a few star-like spots.


dingy dart

A hesperiid butterfly, of species Suniana lascivia, endemic to Australia.


palmetto skipper

palmetto skipper (plural palmetto skippers)

Euphyes arpa, a species of skipper butterfly.


paradise skipper

paradise skipper (plural paradise skippers)


spurwing

Any of various butterflies of the genus Antigonus.


duskywing

A butterfly of the skipper family, genus Erynnis.


silverpatch

A tropical American butterfly of the genus Aides


fiery skipper

So called because the males are a bright flame-like color.

Hylephila phyleus, a hesperiid butterfly.


rice swift

A species of hesperiid butterfly, Borbo cinnara, of south and east Asia through to northern Australia.