"prusik" meaning in English

See prusik in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹʌsɪk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prusik.wav Forms: prusiks [plural]
Etymology: Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik. Head templates: {{en-noun}} prusik (plural prusiks)
  1. (climbing, chiefly attributive) A type of friction hitch. Tags: attributive Categories (topical): Climbing Translations (friction hitch): Prusíkův uzel (Czech), prusík [masculine] (Czech), prusikknoop [masculine] (Dutch), Prusikin solmu (Finnish), prusik (Finnish), Prusik [masculine] (German), Prusikknoten [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-prusik-en-noun-XnlSeBn0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 80 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 76 24 Topics: climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: prussik

Verb

IPA: /ˈpɹʌsɪk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prusik.wav Forms: prusiks [present, singular, third-person], prusiking [participle, present], prusiked [participle, past], prusiked [past]
Etymology: Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik. Head templates: {{en-verb}} prusik (third-person singular simple present prusiks, present participle prusiking, simple past and past participle prusiked)
  1. (climbing) To climb a rope using a prusik. Categories (topical): Climbing
    Sense id: en-prusik-en-verb-vpJsVDCr Topics: climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: prussik

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prusiks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prusik (plural prusiks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Climbing",
          "orig": "en:Climbing",
          "parents": [
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of friction hitch."
      ],
      "id": "en-prusik-en-noun-XnlSeBn0",
      "links": [
        [
          "climbing",
          "climbing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "friction hitch",
          "friction hitch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(climbing, chiefly attributive) A type of friction hitch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climbing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "word": "Prusíkův uzel"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prusík"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prusikknoop"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "word": "Prusikin solmu"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "word": "prusik"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Prusik"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "friction hitch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Prusikknoten"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹʌsɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prusik.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "prussik"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Karl Prusik",
    "prusik"
  ],
  "word": "prusik"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prusiks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prusiking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prusiked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prusiked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prusik (third-person singular simple present prusiks, present participle prusiking, simple past and past participle prusiked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Climbing",
          "orig": "en:Climbing",
          "parents": [
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To climb a rope using a prusik."
      ],
      "id": "en-prusik-en-verb-vpJsVDCr",
      "links": [
        [
          "climbing",
          "climbing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(climbing) To climb a rope using a prusik."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climbing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹʌsɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prusik.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "prussik"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Karl Prusik",
    "prusik"
  ],
  "word": "prusik"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prusiks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prusik (plural prusiks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Climbing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of friction hitch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "climbing",
          "climbing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "friction hitch",
          "friction hitch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(climbing, chiefly attributive) A type of friction hitch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climbing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹʌsɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prusik.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "prussik"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "word": "Prusíkův uzel"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prusík"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prusikknoop"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "word": "Prusikin solmu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "word": "prusik"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Prusik"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "friction hitch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Prusikknoten"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Karl Prusik",
    "prusik"
  ],
  "word": "prusik"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named for Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prusiks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prusiking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prusiked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prusiked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prusik (third-person singular simple present prusiks, present participle prusiking, simple past and past participle prusiked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Climbing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To climb a rope using a prusik."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "climbing",
          "climbing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(climbing) To climb a rope using a prusik."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climbing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹʌsɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prusik.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prusik.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "prussik"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Karl Prusik",
    "prusik"
  ],
  "word": "prusik"
}

Download raw JSONL data for prusik meaning in English (3.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.