"machete" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /məˈʃɛ.ti/, /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/ Audio: En-us-ncalif-machete.ogg [Northern-California, US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-machete.wav [Southern-England] Forms: machetes [plural]
Etymology: From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|machete}} Spanish machete, {{m|es|macho||sledgehammer}} macho (“sledgehammer”), {{der|en|la|mattea}} Latin mattea, {{m|la|mactare||slaughter in sacrifice}} mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”), {{cog|fro|machier}} Old French machier, {{cog|fr|massue}} French massue, {{m|fr|mace}} mace Head templates: {{en-noun}} machete (plural machetes)
  1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick. Synonyms: bolo, sundang Translations (a sword-like tool): thikare [feminine] (Albanian), مِحَشّ (miḥašš) [masculine] (Arabic), մաչետե (mačʻete) (Armenian), matxet [masculine] (Catalan), sapla (Chamicuro), 關刀 (Chinese Cantonese), 关刀 (gwaan¹ dou¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 大柄刀 (daai⁶ beng³ dou¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 大砍刀 (dàkǎndāo) (Chinese Mandarin), 彎刀 (Chinese Mandarin), 弯刀 (wāndāo) (Chinese Mandarin), 寬刃刀 (Chinese Mandarin), 宽刃刀 (kuānrèndāo) (Chinese Mandarin), mačeta [feminine] (Czech), kapmes [neuter] (Dutch), maĉeto (Esperanto), viidakkoveitsi (Finnish), machette (French), coupe-coupe [masculine] (French), machete [masculine] (Galician), talladeira [feminine] (Galician), მაჩეტე (mačeṭe) (Georgian), Machete [feminine] (German), μαχαίρα (machaíra) [feminine] (Greek), ματσέτα (matséta) [feminine] (Greek), manchèt (Haitian Creole), מצ׳טה (machéta) [feminine] (Hebrew), machete (Hungarian), bozótvágó kés (Hungarian), macséta (Hungarian), machete [masculine] (Italian), マチェテ (machete) (Japanese), (nata) (alt: なた) (Japanese), លៀម (liəm) (Khmer), 마체테 (machete) (Korean), kohtlas (Krio), mačetė (Lithuanian), маче́та (mačéta) [feminine] (Macedonian), मचेटे (maceṭe) [feminine] (Marathi), putshari [class-5, class-6] (Ngazidja Comorian), machete [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), machete [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), gajaraa (Oromo), کارد بزرگ و سنگین (Persian), maczeta [feminine] (Polish), catana [feminine] (Portuguese), facão [masculine] (Portuguese), machete [masculine] (Portuguese), маче́те (mačétɛ) [masculine, neuter] (Russian), mačeta (Serbo-Croatian), machete [masculine] (Spanish), panga (Swahili), machete (Swedish), sundang (Tagalog), พร้า (práa) (Thai), มีดพร้า (mêet práa) (Thai), pala (Turkish), маче́те (mačéte) [masculine, neuter] (Ukrainian), rựa (Vietnamese), matchete [feminine] (Walloon), twca [feminine, masculine] (Welsh), sa̲hwere (Záparo)
    Sense id: en-machete-en-noun-1UMS8UbG Disambiguation of 'a sword-like tool': 93 7
  2. A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs. Categories (topical): Swords
    Sense id: en-machete-en-noun-6AMlcw2N Disambiguation of Swords: 34 49 4 12 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 53 2 18 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 27 55 2 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 56 3 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bolo, panga, sundang Derived forms: machete beta Related terms: bolo, cleaver, golok (english: Indonesian), knife, hatchet, parang

Verb

IPA: /məˈʃɛ.ti/, /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/ Audio: En-us-ncalif-machete.ogg [Northern-California, US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-machete.wav [Southern-England] Forms: machetes [present, singular, third-person], macheting [participle, present], macheteing [participle, present], macheted [participle, past], macheted [past]
Etymology: From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|machete}} Spanish machete, {{m|es|macho||sledgehammer}} macho (“sledgehammer”), {{der|en|la|mattea}} Latin mattea, {{m|la|mactare||slaughter in sacrifice}} mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”), {{cog|fro|machier}} Old French machier, {{cog|fr|massue}} French massue, {{m|fr|mace}} mace Head templates: {{en-verb|pres_ptc2=macheteing}} machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheting or macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)
  1. To cut or chop with a machete.
    Sense id: en-machete-en-verb-78QT0OwM
  2. To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.
    Sense id: en-machete-en-verb-PATpVLRE

Inflected forms

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          "word": "მაჩეტე"
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          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "bozótvágó kés"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "alt": "なた",
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          "roman": "nata",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "鉈"
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          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "liəm",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "លៀម"
        },
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          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "machete",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "마체테"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "kri",
          "lang": "Krio",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "kohtlas"
        },
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          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "maceṭe",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "मचेटे"
        },
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          "code": "zdj",
          "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
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            "class-6"
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          "word": "putshari"
        },
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          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "om",
          "lang": "Oromo",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "gajaraa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "کارد بزرگ و سنگین"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "maczeta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "catana"
        },
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          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "facão"
        },
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          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "mačétɛ",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "маче́те"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "mačeta"
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          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "panga"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "machete"
        },
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          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "sundang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "práa",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "พร้า"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "mêet práa",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "มีดพร้า"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "pala"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "mačéte",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "маче́те"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "rựa"
        },
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          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "twca"
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          "lang": "Záparo",
          "sense": "a sword-like tool",
          "word": "sa̲hwere"
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      "word": "panga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "machete"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "sundang"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "práa",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "พร้า"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "mêet práa",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "มีดพร้า"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "pala"
    },
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mačéte",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
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        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "маче́те"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "rựa"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "matchete"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "twca"
    },
    {
      "code": "zro",
      "lang": "Záparo",
      "sense": "a sword-like tool",
      "word": "sa̲hwere"
    }
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    "machete"
  ],
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}

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