book

Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3, column 1:

I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.

1962, Luis Borges, translated by James East Irby, The Library of Babel:

I can be anything.
Take a look!
It's in a book:
A reading rainbow.

1983, Steve Horelick et al., Reading Rainbow:

Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’

She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.

He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.

A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.

I have three copies of his first book.

“I would never read a book,” he once told an interviewer. “I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.”

2022 December 6, Stephen Marche, quoting Sam Bankman-Fried, “The College Essay Is Dead”, in The Atlantic:

A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

Genesis is the first book of the Bible.

Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.

I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.

(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

(informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.

a book of stamps

a book of raffle tickets

A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

The guild helps ensure that the ownership and control of the music, lyrics, and book of a show remain in the hands of its authors and composers—not the producers.

2010, David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 172:

(theater) The script of a musical or opera.

(usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.

(law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).

(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents that happened in a game.

Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.

2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC:

(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.

(horse racing) The list of mares that a stallion will breed in a given season.

(horse racing) A list of the races that a jockey is scheduled to ride in.

(cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.

The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.

1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero, page 11:

On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.

1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly, volume 21, page 36:

(with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.

Getting your book (portfolio) organised is the first step, and knowing both what to include, and what to leave out, is an essential step towards achieving that important agency placement.

2017, Nik Mahon, Basics Advertising 02: Art Direction, page 8:

Your portfolio — your book — has to be killer.

(advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.

The opposite-colored bishops endgame is usually a book draw.

A book move

out of book

White to move and win. How can he do it? The BK plans a march to h8, eating the f4 pawn en route, for a book draw.

2018 April 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Schoolboy Vincent Keymer secures shock triumph at Grenke Open”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-01-12:

This seems certain to simplify into a battle between White's king, rook and two pawns against Black's king and rook. In some cases a book draw is possible. But a book win is more likely.

2020, Andrew Soltis, How to Swindle in Chess, Batsford Books, →ISBN:

(chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.

books (plural)
boke (alternative)
booke (alternative)

have more chins than a Chinese phone book

why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join the library

Sranan Tongo: buku

Tok Pisin: buk
→ Rotokas: vuku

→ Chichewa: buku

→ Hawaiian: puke

→ Lingala: búku

→ Malagasy: boky

→ Maori: pukapuka (with reduplication)

→ Marshallese: bok

→ Motu: buka

→ Malagasy: boky

→ Shona: bhuku

→ Somali: buugga

i

possibly also from Afrikaans <i class="Latn mention" lang="af">boek</i>

→ Sotho: buka (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

→ Zulu: ibhuku (possibly also from Afrikaans boek)

𖽐𖼊𖽠𖾑

collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material

boek

convenient collection of small paper items, such as stamps

boek

major division of a published work, larger than a chapter

boeke

usually in plural: records of the accounts of a business

кни́га

конто́рская or бухга́лтерская

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”). Bookmaker sense by clipping.

some speakers from Northern England and Ireland

buck (without the foot-strut split, when pronounced /bʊk/)


book

I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.

I can book tickets for the concert next week.

I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

They booked that message from the hill.

(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

I booked a flight to New York.

(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

The police booked him for driving too fast.

(law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

(sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.

He was really booking until he passed the speed trap.

(intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.

The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.

(transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.

He was here earlier, but he booked.

en-verb

book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)

books (present singular third-person)
booking (participle present)
booked (participle past)
booked (past)

From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).


book

(UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past of bake

From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).


book

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to book; to reserve


book

From Middle Low German bôk, from Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.


pound

A unit of weight in various measurement systems.

A unit of mass in various measurement systems.

Research shows that retaining even one or two pounds after giving birth can make problems more likely in a subsequent pregnancy, experts said, with women who have several children facing a "slippery slope" if they continue to gain weight each time.

2010 July 28, Rachel Williams, “Mothers who lose weight before further pregnancy ‘reduce risks’”, in The Guardian:

A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.

A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.

A unit of force in various measurement systems

(informal, non-scientific) Short for pound-force.

A unit of currency in various currency systems.

"Only a hundred and ninety-three pound," said Mr. Tulliver. "You've brought less o' late; but young fellows like to have their own way with their money. Though I didn't do as I liked before I was of age." He spoke with rather timid discontent.

1860, George Eliot, chapter 6, in The Mill on the Floss, book 5:

For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online?

2012 November 11, Carole Cadwalladr, “Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?”, in Observer:

The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.

He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 4]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.

the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound

He knocked out cans of warm cola at two pound fifty a time.

2010, Steven Field, Dusty's Fort, →ISBN, page 33:

Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.

Holonym: hashtag

To be connected, press pound.

en-noun

pound (plural pounds or (UK colloquial) pound)

pounds (plural)
pound (UK colloquial plural)

an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves

From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish pund and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt.


pound

‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’

1854, Dickens, chapter 4, in Hard Times:

“He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 70:

(slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.

en-verb

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

pounds (present singular third-person)
pounding (participle present)
pounded (participle past)
pounded (past)


pound

Mr. Sarnoff also sent to the pound one of the best-known dogs in the world. Nipper, the black-and-white terrier usually depicted peering with head cocked into the horn of a Victrola, listening for “His Master's Voice,” was de-emphasized as a corporate symbol.

1997 February 24, N. R. Kleinfield, “Robert Sarnoff, 78, RCA Chairman, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.

(Police officer to a dog owner) "He'd better stay calm or I'll have the pound come and get him."

2002, 00:27:30 from the start, in 25th Hour:

(metonymic) The people who work for the pound.

Inspector Douglas Todd: Where did you get a truckload of cigarettes from anyway? / Detective Axel Foley: From the Dearborn Hijacking. / Todd: The Dearborn Hijacking? That bust went down weeks ago. That load's supposed to be in the damn pound!

1984, Beverly Hills Cop, Paramount Pictures:

(UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.

A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.

(Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.

приют

place for the detention of stray animals

From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English *pund (“an enclosure”). Related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).


pound

When I short haue shorne my sowce face
& swigg’d my horny barrell,
In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
as a suite of guilt apparrell

c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man, who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.

1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England:

To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.


pound

She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:

I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way

1964, Bob Dylan, “Motorpsycho Nitemare”:

(transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.

Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]

1887, Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page 67:

It was the hour before the first crowing of the cocks, and along with Nyo Boto and Grandma Yaisa's clattering, the first sound the child heard was the muted, rhythmic bombpabombpabomp of wooden pestles as the other women of the village pounded couscous grain in their mortars, preparing the traditional breakfast of porridge that was cooked in earthen pots over a fire built among three rocks.

1976, Alex Haley, chapter 1, in Roots: The Saga of an American Family:

(transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.

You really pounded that beer!

The sounds of a house-party rolled down the street / So we pounded our Pilsner and leapt to our feet

2007, “Fire Marshall Willy”, performed by The Dreadnoughts:

(transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.

The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.

(transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.

As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.

My head was pounding.

It was now about three o’clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again, woke suddenly, frightened in a dream of the bloody-headed lion standing over him, and listening while his heart pounded, he realized that his wife was not in the other cot in the tent.

1936, Ernest Hemingway, The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber:

(intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.

generally heart; blood; or head; generally heart; blood; or head

I was pounding her all night!

She acting, so I'm attacking, try break the mattress / Sexy, so I suggested to switch to sideways / Pounded for 'bout a hour she said she tired

2008, Gucci Mane, “Bachelor Pad”, in The Movie:

(transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.

We pounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom–house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God–forsaken wilderness, with a tin shed and a flag–pole lost in it; landed more soldiers—to take care of the custom–house clerks, presumably.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

The engine pounds.

(engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.

pounds (present singular third-person)
pounding (participle present)
pounded (participle past)
pounded (past)
poun (alternative)
pown (alternative)

enough sense to pound sand into a rathole

pommittaa

baseball: to pitch consistently to a certain location

чукам

slang: to penetrate sexually, with vigour

From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”).


pound

pounds (plural)
poun (alternative)
pown (alternative)


pound

A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.

A pound or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.

Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.

enm-noun

pound (plural poundes or pounden or pound)

poundes (plural)
pounden (plural)
pound (plural)
pounde (alternative)
pund (alternative)
punde (alternative)
powund (alternative)

English: pound

Scots: pund, poond

From Old English pund, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, from Latin pondō.


pound

pounzi (plural)
pound (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
poundul (accusative definite nominative singular)
pounzi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
pounzii (accusative definite nominative plural)
pound (indefinite singular)
poundului (definite singular)
pounzi (indefinite singular)
pounzilor (definite plural)
poundule (singular vocative)
pounzilor (vocative)


pound

head

pound (definite accusative poundı, plural poundlar)

poundı (accusative definite)
poundlar (plural)
pound (nominative singular)
poundlar (nominative plural)
pound'ı (accusative definite singular)
pound'u (accusative definite singular)
pound'ları (accusative definite plural)
pounda (dative singular)
poundlara (dative plural)
pountta (locative singular)
poundlarda (locative plural)
pounttan (ablative singular)
poundlardan (ablative plural)
poundın (genitive singular)
poundun (genitive singular)
poundların (genitive plural)


GDP

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

Or take Wikipedia. Supported by investments of time rather than money, it has left the old Encyclopedia Britannica in the dust – and taken the GDP down a few notches in the process.

2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 5, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 104:

gross domestic product
gross domestic product#English

(economics) Initialism of gross domestic product.

Coordinate term: GTP

(biochemistry) Initialism of guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide.

BBP

gross domestic product — see also gross domestic product


GDP

國內生產總值 國內生產總值#Chinese

国内生产总值 国内生产总值#Chinese

(economics) GDP (“gross domestic product”); Synonym of 國內生產總值 /国内生产总值 (guónèi shēngchǎn zǒngzhí)

/t͡ɕi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ pʰi⁵¹/

/t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ti⁵⁵ pʰi⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ pʰi⁵¹/

/t͡ɕy⁵⁵ ti⁵⁵ pʰi⁵⁵/


GDP

国内総生産 国内総生産#Japanese

(economics) Synonym of 国内総生産 (kokunai sōseisan, “gross domestic product”); GDP (“gross domestic product”)

国内総生産

Initialism of English gross domestic product; From English GDP.


chien

fr-noun

chien m (plural chiens, feminine chienne)

Inherited from Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).


chien

fr-adj

chien (feminine chienne, masculine plural chiens, feminine plural chiennes)

chienne (feminine)
chiens (masculine plural)
chiennes (feminine plural)

chien hargneux a toujours l’oreille déchirée

Haitian Creole: chyen


chien

French: chien

From Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem.


chien

fro-noun

chien oblique singular, m (oblique plural chiens, nominative singular chiens, nominative plural chien)

chien oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chiens (oblique plural)
chiens (nominative singular)
chien (nominative plural)

Middle French: chien

French: chien

Angevin: chin

Bourguignon: chein

Champenois: chin

Franc-Comtois: tchïn

Norman: quien

Picard: tchien, kien, quien

Walloon: tchén


rain cats and dogs

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rain cats and dogs.

(impersonal, idiomatic) To rain very heavily.

en-verb

rain cats and dogs (third-person singular simple present rains cats and dogs, present participle raining cats and dogs, simple past and past participle rained cats and dogs)

rains cats and dogs (present singular third-person)
raining cats and dogs (participle present)
rained cats and dogs (participle past)
rained cats and dogs (past)
rain dogs and cats (alternative)

Unknown, but see examples of early use in Citations.


pond

But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.

I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.

(informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.


pond

The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.

2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds, →ISBN, page 201:

(transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

(transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)

ponds (present singular third-person)
ponding (participle present)
ponded (participle past)
ponded (past)


pond

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

1579, Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:


pond

Tot 1961, was die Suid-Afrikaanse pond onderverdeel in 20 sjielings.

Until 1961, the South African pound was subdivided into 20 shillings.

From Dutch pond, from Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.


pond

Hij gaat een pondje kaas kopen op de markt.

He is going to buy a pound (500 g) of cheese at the market.

unit of mass, often broadly similar to 500 grams

(historical) pound, any of several local units, with a range between 420 and 500 grammes, divided into 16 historical ounces

(historical, Dutch metric system) kilogram

Ik heb nog wat ponden van mijn vakantie in Wales.

I still have a few pounds left over from my holiday in Wales.

British pound, pound sterling (currency)

one of several monetary units
Egyptian pound

one of several monetary units
(historical) Flemish pound

one of several monetary units
Flemish pound

nl-noun

pond n (plural ponden, diminutive pondje n)

ponden (plural)
pondje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pond

Berbice Creole Dutch: pontu

Negerhollands: pond, pon

→ Caribbean Javanese: pun

→ Munsee: poonthee

→ Unami: punthikan

From Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.


pond

third-person singular present indicative of pondre


pies

third-person singular simple present indicative of pie


pies

piesen (singulative)
pies (unmutated)
bies (soft)
fies

Potentially borrowed from Middle English pye, a borrowing from Old French pie. Cognate with Welsh piod.


pies

(slang or childish) Alternative form of pis; pee, piss


pies

(reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present subjunctive of piar


pies

Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris#Translingual


pies

second-person singular present active subjunctive of piō


pies

Nyektorzy szwyerzs gonyony przes psy (per canes) drvgego wszącz nye sromayą

1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 81:

Psszy lowcze (canes ad venandum) wyączey kostvgya, nyszly [v]uzythku noszą

1874-1891 [End of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume I, page XLV:

Canis lupus familiaris
Canis lupus familiaris#Translingual

(attested in Masovia) dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

O, impudens canis nyesromyeslyvy psye!

1874-1891 [End of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XXV, page 179:

zlw-opl-noun

pies m animacy unattested (diminutive psek, related adjective psi)

pies m animacy unattested (canonical)
psek (diminutive)
psi (adjective)

Polish: pies

Silesian: pies

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pь̀sъ. First attested in the 14th century.


pies

dog (any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid)

(obsolete, music) place where strings of a violin are connected

(obsolete) wooden peg with a blade with one end sharply cut, used to collect pulp

Phoca vitulina
Phoca vitulina#Translingual

(Middle Polish) harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)

pl-noun

pies m animal (diminutive piesek, augmentative psisko, related adjective psi)

piesek (diminutive)
psisko (augmentative)
psi (adjective)
pies (nominative singular)
psy (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psów (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psom (dative plural)
psa (accusative singular)
psy (accusative plural)
psem (instrumental singular)
psami (instrumental plural)
psie (locative singular)
psach (locative plural)
psie (singular vocative)
psy (plural vocative)


pies

(derogatory, law enforcement, slang) cop, policeman

(colloquial, derogatory) dog (someone contemptible)

pies m animal or (canonical masculine person)
pies (nominative singular)
psy (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psów (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psom (dative plural)
psa (accusative singular)
psy (accusative plural)
psów (accusative plural)
psem (instrumental singular)
psami (instrumental plural)
psie (locative singular)
psach (locative plural)
psie (singular vocative)
psy (plural vocative)


pies

(Przemyśl) peg stuck in the lower end of a rafter

(Kielce, in the plural) sewn-in strips on the shoulders of shirts

jak się chce psa uderzyć, to kij się znajdzie


pies

pies (nominative singular)
psy (nominative plural)
psa (genitive singular)
psōw (genitive plural)
psu (dative singular)
psōm (dative plural)
psa (accusative singular)
psy (accusative plural)
psym (instrumental singular)
psami (instrumental plural)
psōma (instrumental plural)
psie (locative singular)
psach (locative plural)
psie (singular vocative)
psy (plural vocative)


pies

second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of piar


nonsense

After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.

Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.

While at the hospital, David kept screaming and yelling nonsense, stating Vladimir Putin bailed him out of jail and is a god.

2022 April 13, “Man Gets Arrested Twice in One Day”, in Code Blue Cam:

That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.

and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up.

2008 October 9, “Nick Leeson has some lessons for this collapse”, in Telegraph.co.uk:

(literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.

(biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

en-noun

nonsense (usually uncountable, plural nonsenses)

nonsenses (plural)
nonsence (alternative)
non-sense (alternative)

From non- (“no, none, lack of”) + sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 497. Absurdity

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 517. Unmeaningness


nonsense

At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.

a. 1909, Bernard Shaw, “The Red Robe”, in James Huneker, editor, Dramatic Opinions and Essays by G. Bernard Shaw, volume 2, page 73:

"They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."

1997 June 3, “Rockies respond to whip”, in Denver Post:

Very commanding: very much 'end of this nonsensing'. Mister Fared spread his hands and shook his thin head imperceptibly, as if to say he understood.

2000, Leon Garfield, Jason Cockcroft, Jack Holborn, page 131:

He further nonsensed press suggestions that the Petroleum Unit was set up to assist in the administration of sporting activities.

2006 March 17, “Sierra Leone: Petroleum Unit Calls for Auditing”, in AllAfrica.com:

To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.

When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.

1963, C. F. Griffin, The Impermanence of Heroes, page 170:

(intransitive) To joke around, to waste time

en-verb

nonsense (third-person singular simple present nonsenses, present participle nonsensing, simple past and past participle nonsensed)

nonsenses (present singular third-person)
nonsensing (participle present)
nonsensed (participle past)
nonsensed (past)
nonsence (alternative)
non-sense (alternative)


nonsense

(biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

en-adj

nonsense (comparative more nonsense, superlative most nonsense)

more nonsense (comparative)
most nonsense (superlative)
nonsence (alternative)
non-sense (alternative)

無義 /无义

resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon


nonsense

The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about the train they thought they were catching. It simply disappears.

2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4:

An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

nonsence (alternative)
non-sense (alternative)


nonsense

nonsense (nominative singular)
nonsenset (nominative plural)
nonsense (accusative nominative singular)
nonsenset (accusative nominative plural)
nonsensen (accusative genitive singular)
nonsenset (accusative genitive plural)
nonsensen (genitive singular)
nonsensejen (genitive plural)
nonsensein (genitive plural rare)
nonsensea (partitive singular)
nonsenseja (partitive plural)
nonsensessa (inessive singular)
nonsenseissa (inessive plural)
nonsensesta (elative singular)
nonsenseista (elative plural)
nonsenseen (illative singular)
nonsenseihin (illative plural)
nonsensella (adessive singular)
nonsenseilla (adessive plural)
nonsenselta (ablative singular)
nonsenseilta (ablative plural)
nonsenselle (allative singular)
nonsenseille (allative plural)
nonsensena (essive singular)
nonsenseina (essive plural)
nonsenseksi (singular translative)
nonsenseiksi (plural translative)
nonsensetta (abessive singular)
nonsenseitta (abessive plural)
nonsensein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
nonsenseni (nominative singular)
nonsenseni (nominative plural)
nonsenseni (accusative nominative singular)
nonsenseni (accusative nominative plural)
nonsenseni (accusative genitive singular)
nonsenseni (accusative genitive plural)
nonsenseni (genitive singular)
nonsensejeni (genitive plural)
nonsenseini (genitive plural rare)
nonsenseani (partitive singular)
nonsensejani (partitive plural)
nonsensessani (inessive singular)
nonsenseissani (inessive plural)
nonsensestani (elative singular)
nonsenseistani (elative plural)
nonsenseeni (illative singular)
nonsenseihini (illative plural)
nonsensellani (adessive singular)
nonsenseillani (adessive plural)
nonsenseltani (ablative singular)
nonsenseiltani (ablative plural)
nonsenselleni (allative singular)
nonsenseilleni (allative plural)
nonsensenani (essive singular)
nonsenseinani (essive plural)
nonsensekseni (singular translative)
nonsenseikseni (plural translative)
nonsensettani (abessive singular)
nonsenseittani (abessive plural)
nonsenseineni (comitative plural)
nonsensesi (nominative singular)
nonsensesi (nominative plural)
nonsensesi (accusative nominative singular)
nonsensesi (accusative nominative plural)
nonsensesi (accusative genitive singular)
nonsensesi (accusative genitive plural)
nonsensesi (genitive singular)
nonsensejesi (genitive plural)
nonsenseisi (genitive plural rare)
nonsenseasi (partitive singular)
nonsensejasi (partitive plural)
nonsensessasi (inessive singular)
nonsenseissasi (inessive plural)
nonsensestasi (elative singular)
nonsenseistasi (elative plural)
nonsenseesi (illative singular)
nonsenseihisi (illative plural)
nonsensellasi (adessive singular)
nonsenseillasi (adessive plural)
nonsenseltasi (ablative singular)
nonsenseiltasi (ablative plural)
nonsensellesi (allative singular)
nonsenseillesi (allative plural)
nonsensenasi (essive singular)
nonsenseinasi (essive plural)
nonsenseksesi (singular translative)
nonsenseiksesi (plural translative)
nonsensettasi (abessive singular)
nonsenseittasi (abessive plural)
nonsenseinesi (comitative plural)
nonsensemme (nominative singular)
nonsensemme (nominative plural)
nonsensemme (accusative nominative singular)
nonsensemme (accusative nominative plural)
nonsensemme (accusative genitive singular)
nonsensemme (accusative genitive plural)
nonsensemme (genitive singular)
nonsensejemme (genitive plural)
nonsenseimme (genitive plural rare)
nonsenseamme (partitive singular)
nonsensejamme (partitive plural)
nonsensessamme (inessive singular)
nonsenseissamme (inessive plural)
nonsensestamme (elative singular)
nonsenseistamme (elative plural)
nonsenseemme (illative singular)
nonsenseihimme (illative plural)
nonsensellamme (adessive singular)
nonsenseillamme (adessive plural)
nonsenseltamme (ablative singular)
nonsenseiltamme (ablative plural)
nonsensellemme (allative singular)
nonsenseillemme (allative plural)
nonsensenamme (essive singular)
nonsenseinamme (essive plural)
nonsenseksemme (singular translative)
nonsenseiksemme (plural translative)
nonsensettamme (abessive singular)
nonsenseittamme (abessive plural)
nonsenseinemme (comitative plural)
nonsensenne (nominative singular)
nonsensenne (nominative plural)
nonsensenne (accusative nominative singular)
nonsensenne (accusative nominative plural)
nonsensenne (accusative genitive singular)
nonsensenne (accusative genitive plural)
nonsensenne (genitive singular)
nonsensejenne (genitive plural)
nonsenseinne (genitive plural rare)
nonsenseanne (partitive singular)
nonsensejanne (partitive plural)
nonsensessanne (inessive singular)
nonsenseissanne (inessive plural)
nonsensestanne (elative singular)
nonsenseistanne (elative plural)
nonsenseenne (illative singular)
nonsenseihinne (illative plural)
nonsensellanne (adessive singular)
nonsenseillanne (adessive plural)
nonsenseltanne (ablative singular)
nonsenseiltanne (ablative plural)
nonsensellenne (allative singular)
nonsenseillenne (allative plural)
nonsensenanne (essive singular)
nonsenseinanne (essive plural)
nonsenseksenne (singular translative)
nonsenseiksenne (plural translative)
nonsensettanne (abessive singular)
nonsenseittanne (abessive plural)
nonsenseinenne (comitative plural)
nonsensensa (nominative singular)
nonsensensa (nominative plural)
nonsensensa (accusative nominative singular)
nonsensensa (accusative nominative plural)
nonsensensa (accusative genitive singular)
nonsensensa (accusative genitive plural)
nonsensensa (genitive singular)
nonsensejensa (genitive plural)
nonsenseinsa (genitive plural rare)
nonsenseaan (partitive singular)
nonsenseansa (partitive singular)
nonsensejaan (partitive plural)
nonsensejansa (partitive plural)
nonsensessaan (inessive singular)
nonsensessansa (inessive singular)
nonsenseissaan (inessive plural)
nonsenseissansa (inessive plural)
nonsensestaan (elative singular)
nonsensestansa (elative singular)
nonsenseistaan (elative plural)
nonsenseistansa (elative plural)
nonsenseensa (illative singular)
nonsenseihinsa (illative plural)
nonsensellaan (adessive singular)
nonsensellansa (adessive singular)
nonsenseillaan (adessive plural)
nonsenseillansa (adessive plural)
nonsenseltaan (ablative singular)
nonsenseltansa (ablative singular)
nonsenseiltaan (ablative plural)
nonsenseiltansa (ablative plural)
nonsenselleen (allative singular)
nonsensellensa (allative singular)
nonsenseilleen (allative plural)
nonsenseillensa (allative plural)
nonsensenaan (essive singular)
nonsensenansa (essive singular)
nonsenseinaan (essive plural)
nonsenseinansa (essive plural)
nonsensekseen (singular translative)
nonsenseksensa (singular translative)
nonsenseikseen (plural translative)
nonsenseiksensa (plural translative)
nonsensettaan (abessive singular)
nonsensettansa (abessive singular)
nonsenseittaan (abessive plural)
nonsenseittansa (abessive plural)
nonsenseineen (comitative plural)
nonsenseinensa (comitative plural)


pie

The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.

SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)

Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.

Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.

It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.

2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek:

(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.

Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.

1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8:

Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.

1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 91:

(informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.

"Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.

1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box:

Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238:

Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper

1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”performed by Sean Combs ft. Mase:

My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly

[1998 October 18, “Ebonics”performed by Big L:

I love the cutie pies, never the zootie pies

1999 July 13, “Discipline”performed by Gang Starr ft. Total:

(slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.

en-noun

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

→ Bulgarian: пай (paj)

→ Cantonese: 批 (pai¹)

→ Finnish: pai

→ Hebrew: פַּאי

→ Japanese: パイ

desc

→ Kashubian: paja (Canada, United States)

→ Korean: 파이 (pai)

→ Malay: pai

→ Persian: پای (pây)

→ Scottish Gaelic: pàidh

→ Spanish: pay

→ Swedish: paj

→ Tok Pisin: pai

→ Welsh: pei

→ Yiddish: פּײַ (pay)

From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.


pie

I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.

2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:

just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud

2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-27:

(transitive, UK, slang, often followed by off) To ignore (someone).

en-verb

pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)

pies (present singular third-person)
pieing (participle present)
pied (participle past)
pied (past)


pie

Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of a pie.

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 174:

From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate with speight. Doublet of pica.


pie

I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 117:

(historical) A former low-denomination coin of northern India.

From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).


pie

(zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.

pie-dog

From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).


pie

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.

From Spanish pie (“foot, Spanish foot”), from Latin pēs (“foot, Roman foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of foot, pes, and pous.


pie

(letterpress typography) Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”)


pie

The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain:

(transitive) Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”)


pie

Inherited from Old French pie, from Latin pica.


pie

Nadja pie stariĝis apud la kruco.

1922, Ivan H. Krestanoff (tr.), “En la tombejo”, in Nuntempaj Rakontoj, Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, translation of original by G. P. Stamatov, page 15:


pie

Inherited from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”), feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”).


pie

(reintegrationist norm) inflection of piar:

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of piar:
third-person singular imperative


pie

La ciudad de Bursa es fraguada en amphitheatre a los pies del Olympe (Oulou Dağ) y abrasa una vaste y magnifica valle con un hermoso panorama.

1940, La boz de Türkiye, numbers 11–34, page 78:

The city of Bursa has constructed an amphitheatre at the feet of Olympus and embraces a vast and wonderful valley with a beautiful panorama.

Inherited from Old Spanish pie, pied, piet (“foot”), from Latin pedem.
Cognate with Asturian pie, Galician and Portuguese pé, and Catalan peu.


pie

la-adv

piē (comparative pius, superlative pissimē)

piē (canonical)
pius (comparative)
pissimē (superlative)


pie

es biju pie tēva

māja pie jūras

braukšu pie tevis


pie

Vieille pie a plus d'un pertus à son nic.

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 520:

An old magpie has more than one hole in her nest.

From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus (“woodpecker”).


pie

fro-noun

pie oblique singular, f (oblique plural pies, nominative singular pie, nominative plural pies)

pie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
pies (oblique plural)
pie (nominative singular)
pies (nominative plural)

Champenois: pie

French: pie

Jersey Norman: pie ⇒ piêté

desctree

→ Middle English: pye
English: pie ⇒ magpie, piebald, pied
Scots: pie ⇒ pyat
→ Scottish Gaelic: pitheid
Yola: pee
→ Welsh: pi, pia ⇒ piod


pie

Vinierõ al flũ con el arca del teſtamẽt e q̃ndo cataron los pies de los ſac̃dotes enel agua partierõ ſe las aguas adieſtro ⁊ aſinieſtro e eſtidierõ cuemo mõtõ […]

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 28r:

They came to the river with the Ark of the Testimony, and when the feet of the priests touched the water the waters parted to the right and to the left, and they stood up like a heap […]

Aduxo moẏſẽ el pueblo del albergada. Al encuẽtro del nr̃o sẽnor e eſtidierõ al pie del mõt en mõte sẏnaẏ.

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:

Moses led the people from the camp to meet Our Lord, and they stood at the foot of the mountain, Mount Sinai.

Ladino: pye

Spanish: pie

From Latin pedem, singular accusative of pēs, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.


pie

pies (plural)
peh (alternative)
py (alternative)
pye (alternative)


pie

English or American foot (a unit of length equal to 30.48 cm)

(historical, measure) pie, a Spanish foot (a former unit of length equivalent to about 27.9 cm)

Para hacer daño a una persona, se hecha un sapo dentro de su bacinica con orines, se tapa el tiesto y se entierra al pie de un árbol. Desde ese momento comienza a enflaquecer la persona a quien se ha hecho el daño y muere hética cuando el líquido ha concluído de evaporarse y el sapo se ha momificado.

1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 203:

(design, typography) footer (the bottom of a page or design)

Inherited from Old Spanish pie, from Latin pedem.
Cognate with Asturian pie, Galician and Portuguese pé, and Catalan peu. As an English unit, a calque of English foot.


pie

first-person singular preterite indicative of piar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


A

basic modern Latin alphabet
Appendix:Latin script

The first letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

From the Etruscan letter 𐌀 (a), from the Ancient Greek letter Α (A, “alpha”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓃾.


A

A. Go to the store. B. Get some food. C. Return home. D. Eat.

Person A had 5 apples, and person B...

A hypothetical item or person designated the first, usually when there are more than one.

Decimal 270 can be converted as duodecimal 1A6 or vigesimal DA.

(computing) The variable was a byte with value A0, or 160 in decimal.

Ten, especially used in bases above ten, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on.

A standard size of dry cell battery, slightly larger than AA.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as A0, A1, A2, etc.

An academic grade lower than A+ but greater than A-.

(linguistics) A wildcard for an open vowel

(finance) Long-term bond credit rating by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings, indicating that a bond is upper-medium grade with low risk of default.


A

(chemistry, obsolete) Obsolete chemical symbol for argon.

atomic mass number
atomic mass number#English

(chemistry, physics) Symbol for mass number (“nucleon number”). Abbreviation of English atomic mass number..

Vienna Convention on Road Traffic
w:Vienna Convention on Road Traffic

(international standards) A category of vehicle licence under the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, referring to motorcycles.


A

International System of Units
International System of Units

(physics, International System of Units) Ampere, a unit of electrical current.

(genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.

(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter symbol for alanine in proteins.


A

Apple starts with A.

Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.

head

A (upper case, lower case a, plural As or A's)

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter A and split of Middle English and Old English upper case letter Æ.
* The Old English letters A and Æ replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters ᚪ (a, “āc”) and ᚫ (æ, “æsc”), derived from the Runic letter ᚫ (a, “Ansuz”), in the 7th century.


A

Item A is "foods", item B is "drinks".

The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

We assign each item inspected a rating from A through G, depending on various factors.

In the UK, the highest social grade is A – upper middle class.

The only standard brassiere cup size smaller than the A cup is the AA cup.

A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.

I was so happy to get an A on that test.

Darcy's pretty sharp. She pulls A's.

1999, W. Peter Iliff, Varsity Blues, spoken by Mox (James Van Der Beek):

(education) The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).

Orchestras traditionally tune to a concert A.

(music) A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.

My blood type is A negative.

(medicine) A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.

(logic) A universal affirmative suggestion.

Hester Prynne, the historical character in The Scarlet Letter, was exposed and convicted by neighborhood gossip. [...] Gossip continues to brand some young ladies in small towns with this symbolic letter, but in our larger cities one rarely sees young ladies branded with an "A".

1966 July 30, Ralph McGill, “Today's students aim for humanistic values”, in Latrobe Bulletin, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, page 6:

(historical) Abbreviation of adulterer, adulteress, used as a human brand.

(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of A.M. (“ante meridiem”) or AM

* (highest rank, grade, music): From the initial position of the letter A in the English alphabet.
* (blood type): From A antigen


A

A-bomb


A

The first letter of the Acehnese alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Acheron alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Adzera alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Afar alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Alekano alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Alemannic German alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Aleut alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Amaimon alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Amarasi alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ambrak alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Anāl alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The third letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ankave alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Anuki alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Araki alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Aromanian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ashéninka Pajonal alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Assiniboine alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Atsahuaca alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Auhelawa alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Avokaya alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Awara alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Balanta-Kentohe alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Barai alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Bari alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Basque alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Bavarian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Beja alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Bemba alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Blagar alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Blin alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The thirty-second letter of the Brahui alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Breton alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Busa alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Catalan alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

* /a/ is from Middle High German a in most closed syllables.
* /aː/ is from a before certain clusters, in most dialects also in open syllables; in southern Moselle Franconian from ou.


A

The first letter of the Chachi alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The second letter of the Chamorro alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Chechen alphabet, written in the Latin script.

A (upper case, lower case a, Cyrillic А)


A

The first letter of the Cheyenne alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

(slang, neologism) to attack; to assault

(slang, neologism) to pursue romantically

From the hotkey in many video games associated with the command "attack".


A

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) single, open to a relationship


A

From the letter A of the English pattern playing cards. Various names exist for this symbol in the spoken language.
; Mandarin jiān
; Cantonese jin1


A

see: ABO, B, and O

2020 December 9, 晚秋初十, 晋江文学城, archived from the original on 2024-12-26:

After Having Become Omega From Alpha In Front Of My Rival In Love, I Got Pregnant

“Zài Qíngdí Miànqián A Biàn O Hòu Wǒ Huáiyùn Le”

《在情敌面前A变O后我怀孕了》

《在情敵面前A變O後我懷孕了》

(fandom slang) Alternative form of 阿爾法 /阿尔法 (ā'ěrfǎ)


A

The first letter of the Chiwere alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Choctaw alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ch'orti' alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Cofán alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Comanche alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Corsican alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Cypriot Arabic alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

A (the 1st letter in the Czech alphabet)


A

The first letter of the Dagbani alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Danish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

A n (singular definite A'et, plural indefinite A'er)

A'et (definite singular)
A'er (indefinite plural)
A (indefinite nominative singular)
A'et (definite nominative singular)
A'er (indefinite nominative plural)
A'erne (definite nominative plural)
A's (genitive indefinite singular)
A'ets (definite genitive singular)
A'ers (genitive indefinite plural)
A'ernes (definite genitive plural)
a (alternative)


A

The first letter of the Dinka alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The second letter of the Domari alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Duun alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

a (lowercase)
ᛅ (alternative)
ᚷ (alternative)


A

The first letter of the Esan alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Estonian alphabet, called aa and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ewe alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Fe'fe' alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Fijian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Finnish alphabet, called aa and written in the Latin script.

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and A for information on the development of the glyph itself.


A

Alternative letter-case form of a (“A (musical note)”)


A

(linguistics) Either the vowel a /ɑ/ or ä /æ/, depending on vowel harmony.


A

The first letter of the Fon alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Friulian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Fula alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ga alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Gagauz alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Galician alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Gallo-Italic of Sicily alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

Von A bis Z.

Wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen.

de-noun

A n (strong, genitive A or As, plural A or As)

A (genitive)
As (genitive)
A (plural)
As (plural)
A (nominative singular)
A (definite nominative plural)
As (definite nominative plural)
A (genitive singular)
As (genitive singular)
A (definite genitive plural)
As (definite genitive plural)
A (dative singular)
A (dative definite plural)
As (dative definite plural)
A (accusative singular)
A (accusative definite plural)
As (accusative definite plural)


A

Alternative form of Å (symbol for Ångström)


A

The first letter of the Gilbertese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Gimi (Goroka) alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Greenlandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Haida alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Haitian Creole alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The thirty-seventh letter of the Halkomelem alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Hausa alphabet, written in the Latin script. followed by B.


A

The first letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Hunsrik alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Hupa alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Igbo alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Inari Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

From the Latin letter A, from the Etruscan letter 𐌀 (a), from the Ancient Greek letter Α (A, “alpha”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓃾.


A

a rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters

(education) the highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses)

(music) a tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote

(vehicle-distinguishing signs) vehicle number plate code for the Banten, Cilegon, Serang, Pandeglang, Lebak and Tangerang areas

From the initial position of the letter A in the Indonesian alphabet.


A

(medicine) A: A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B


A

The first letter of the Ingrian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Interlingua alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Inupiaq alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ḃ ḃ

dotted letters used chiefly in Gaelic type


A

The first letter of the Italian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Jarai alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The ninety-sixth letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kabyle alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kaingang alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kakabai alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kalo Finnish Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called ey and written in the Latin script.

Borrowed from Tagalog A. Pronunciation is influenced by English A.


A

The first letter of the Kanuri alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Karakalpak alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Karelian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

A letter of the Kari'na alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kashaya alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kashubian alphabet, called A and written in the Latin script.

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and A for development of the glyph itself.


A

The first letter of the Kawésqar alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kikuyu alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kobon alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Krio alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Kwak'wala alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Lakota alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Latgalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

(sometimes with littera) The first letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Bokmål: A

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Α (A, “alpha”), likely through Etruscan.


A

The first letter of the Latvian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.


A

The first letter of the Lingala alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Lithuanian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Lou alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Luxembourgish alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

Ech hunn eppes am A.

From Old High German ouga, from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). The phonetic development in Luxembourgish is regular: Old High German -ou- becomes -ā-; intervocalic -g- is lost; word-final short vowels are apocopated.


A

(only used in place names) floodplain, meadow

From Middle High German ouwe, from Old High German ouwa, from Proto-Germanic *awjō. Cognate with German Aue, English eyot, Icelandic ey, Danish ø, Swedish ö.


A

The first letter of the Malagasy alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Mampruli alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Mankanya alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Manx alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Maori alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Mapudungun alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Marba alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Marshallese alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Maskelynes alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Massachusett alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Mayoyao Ifugao alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Mecayapan Nahuatl alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Mohawk alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Moore alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Muinane alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Muong alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Nauruan alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Navajo alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Nisga'a alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Noon alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Nootka alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Northern Kurdish alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Northern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «A», «a».ogg

From Latin A, from Ancient Greek Α (A, “alpha”), likely through the Etruscan language, from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ), from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from Egyptian 𓃾 representing the head of an ox.


A

(physics) symbol for massetall (“nucleon number”)

head

A m (definite singular A-en, indefinite plural A-er, definite plural A-ene)

A-en (definite singular)
A-er (indefinite plural)
A-ene (definite plural)


A

The first letter of the Norwegian Nynorsk alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

A m (definite singular A-en, indefinite plural A-ar, definite plural A-ane)

A-en (definite singular)
A-ar (indefinite plural)
A-ane (definite plural)


A

The first letter of the Nuer alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Occitan alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Okanagan alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the O'odham alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Paraguayan Guaraní alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Plautdietsch alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Polish alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and A for development of the glyph itself.


A

The first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Q'eqchi alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Rohingya alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Romanian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ronga alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Rotokas alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Rotuman alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Saafi-Saafi alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Samoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Samogitian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Sango alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Scots alphabet, called aw and written in the Latin script.


A

From Middle English a, an unstressed form of I, itself a reduced form of ik, ic, from Old English ic, from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

A' (alternative)
Aa (alternative)
Ah (alternative)
Aw (alternative)


A

The first letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is followed by b. Its traditional name is ailm (“elm”).


A

The first letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Serer alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Seri alphabet, called ha and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Shilluk alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Shona alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and A for development of the glyph itself.


A

The first letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.

The first letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.

The first letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

From Gay's Latin alphabet A, from Czech alphabet A, from the Etruscan letter 𐌀 (a), from the Ancient Greek letter Α (A, “alpha”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓃾.


A

The name of the Latin script letter A / a.

Ā (canonical inanimate masculine)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
Ā (nominative singular)
Ā-ja (dual nominative)
Ā-ji (nominative plural)
Ā-ja (genitive singular)
Ā-jev (dual genitive)
Ā-jev (genitive plural)
Ā-ju (dative singular)
Ā-jema (dative dual)
Ā-jem (dative plural)
Ā (accusative singular)
Ā-ja (accusative dual)
Ā-je (accusative plural)
Ā-ju (locative singular)
Ā-jih (dual locative)
Ā-jih (locative plural)
Ā-jem (instrumental singular)
Ā-jema (dual instrumental)
Ā-ji (instrumental plural)
Ā (nominative singular)
Ā (dual nominative)
Ā (nominative plural)
Ā (accusative singular)
Ā (accusative dual)
Ā (accusative plural)
Ā (genitive singular)
Ā (dual genitive)
Ā (genitive plural)
Ā (dative singular)
Ā (dative dual)
Ā (dative plural)
Ā (locative singular)
Ā (dual locative)
Ā (locative plural)
Ā (instrumental singular)
Ā (dual instrumental)
Ā (instrumental plural)

Masculine inan., no endings


A

The twenty-third letter of the Somali alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Southern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

19. Ac4xd5, Ab7xd5

1997, Anatoly Karpov, EL AJEDREZ. Aprender y progresar, page 24:

Tae1, Ae6

1998, Benito López Esnaola, Ajedrez a la ciega, page 87:

Veamos un ejemplo: 1. e4, e5; 2. Cf3, Cc6; 3. Ac4, Cd4?

2006, Antonio Lopez Manzano, Joan Segura Vila, “Los Errores en la Apertura. Las celadas.”, in Iniciación al ajedrez, volume 59, page 79:

Let's look at an example: 1. e4, e5; 2. Nf3, Nc6; 3. Bc4, Nd4?


A

The first letter of the Squamish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Swedish alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

Meronyms: Aa, Ab, Ac, Ad, Ae, Af

Holonym: detaljplan

(zoning, dated) allmänt ändamål (“public purpose”); all operations with a public body as principal


A

indication of being of a higher rank, successful


A

(2011–) the highest grade in the current grade system

(1897–1962) the highest grade in the older grade system

(1820–1897) the highest grade in the oldest grade system


A

The first letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called ey and written in the Latin script.

tl-letter

A (upper case, lower case a, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜌ᜔)

Borrowed from Spanish A. Each pronunciation has a different source:
* Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English A.
* Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜀ (a).
* Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish A.


A

The first letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called a and written in the Latin script.

(historical) The first letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called a and written in the Latin script.

A (upper case, lower case a, Baybayin spelling ᜀ)


A

A Miguel


A

The first letter of the Tahitian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

A letter of the Tashelhit alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tày alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tetum alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tigon Mbembe alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tongan alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tonkawa alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tuareg alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tundra Nenets alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Turkish alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Tyap alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Ubykh alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Udihe alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Upper Sorbian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.

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A (lower case a, upper case, lower case a)


A

The first letter of the Uzbek alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Venda alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Veps alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Vilamovian alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Volapük alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Võro alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Votic alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Wakhi alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Walloon alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Welsh alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script. It is followed by B.


A

The first letter of the West Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Winnebago alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Xârâcùù alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Xhosa alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Yámana alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The second letter of the Yele alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called á and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Zarma alphabet, written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Zazaki alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


A

The first letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.


crow

Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.

A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.

Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.

He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.

1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 267:

Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

“Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.”

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:

By nine o'clock on the evening of November 12, 1854, Pierce had his confederates in their places. The crow, Agar's woman, lounged across the street from the Trent mansion.

1975, Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery:

(now rare, slang) Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.

(historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.

(among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.

But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?'

1899, George Horton, A Fair Brigand, H.S. Stone, page 242:

(Mrs. Meany to Woody, from a window) "I don't care! I'm not running a pet shop."
"Well it looks like one with an old crow in the window!"

1970, Paul J. Smith, 0:13 from the start, in Woody Woodpecker: "Seal on the Loose", spoken by Woody Woodpecker (Grace Stafford):

(derogatory) An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.

(ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.

A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.

2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive, page 46:

The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.

2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky, page 106:

(military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.

From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.


crow

Coordinate term: raven

"Though her her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks. Since she saw Hugh, she's given me no peace.” Sheffield's square , good-looking face shaped a grimace.

1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company:

[…] only her crow hair could be seen. Her appearance could not be seen as she anxiously called out, "Mother ..." The setting sun cast a dim yellow light on the interior of the house. The woman lay on her back and looked up at the beams overhead[…]

2019 December 6, Shi Shuifeiyan, Escaped Consort: Hubby, Don’t Chase Me: Volume 3, Funstory, →ISBN:

(uncommon) Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.


crow

Yet once me thought it [the ghost of Hamlet's father] was about to ſpeake, / And lifted vp his head to motion, / Like as he would ſpeake, but euen the / The morning cocke crew lowd, and in all haſte / It ſhrunke in haſte away, and vaniſhed / Our ſight.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

This is the Cock that crowed in the Morn[.]

1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8:

'You are that Psyche' Cyril said again / 'The mother of the sweetest little maid, / That ever crow'd for kisses.'

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 37:

The child was at this time about ten months old, and was a strong, hearty, happy infant, always laughing when he was awake and always sleeping when he did not laugh, because his little limbs were free from pain and his little stomach was not annoyed by internal troubles. He kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!

1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Lady Milborough as Ambassador”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 87:

Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 48:

When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn / Look out your window and I'll be gone.

1962, Bob Dylan, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, in The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan:

(intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.

He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.

Touting its sponsorship of local engineering and sustainability programs, Amazon crows about such “investments” as its dog park, playing fields, art installations, and Buckyball-reminiscent domical gardens.

2017 September 27, Julianne Tveten, “Zucktown, USA”, in The Baffler:

Another of my favorite dishes, the Asian chicken salad, was inspired by a skit by comedian Margaret Cho (“This is not the salad of my people…” she crows).

2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Margaret Cho, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 77:

(intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

(intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

en-verb

crow (third-person singular simple present crows, present participle crowing, simple past crowed or (UK) crew, past participle crowed or (archaic) crown)

crows (present singular third-person)
crowing (participle present)
crowed (past)
crew (UK past)
crowed (participle past)
crown (archaic participle past)

The verb is from Middle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-West Germanic *krāan, from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).
The noun is from Middle English crowe, from the verb.
Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.

onomatopoeic

imitative


crow

The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.

onomatopoeic

imitative


crow

My young boys hop out the ride in a crop yard searching, tryna find this crow

2024 June 13, Bagzoverfame X General Jamz - Imagine, “Imagine” (0:37 from the start):

Alternative spelling of cro (“marijuana”)


raven

Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).

raven:

A lone man walks the shores of Nantucket; his noble form is slightly bent, and with the raven of his hair is blended the faintest tinge of gray, though he is evidently a man to whom the meridian of life is yet far in the distance […]

1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:

en-noun

raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)

From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz (“raven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to croak, crow”).


raven

raven curls; raven darkness

She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.


raven

Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

плячкосване

prey; plunder; food obtained by violence

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-raven (not bird).wav

From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

ravin (alternative)
ravine (alternative)


raven

(transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.

And the hound Time, when all the Worlds and cities are swept away whereon he used to raven, having no more to devour, shall suddenly die.

1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 93:

I refer to the danger of keeping a dog of this nature and disposition in a bedroom, where it can spring out ravening on anyone who enters.

1938, P.G. Woodhouse, The Code of the Woosters:

(transitive) To devour with great eagerness.

The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

[…] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]

1587, Leonard Mascall, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof”, in The First Booke of Cattell, London:

They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]

1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story”, in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales:

The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.

1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, chapter 8, in The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 114:

On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.

1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1932, act 3, page 237:

(intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).

en-verb

raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

ravens (present singular third-person)
ravening (participle present)
ravened (participle past)
ravened (past)
ravin (alternative)
ravine (alternative)


raven

Raven is leven.

raven (infinitive)
raven (gerund neuter)
rave (first-person present singular)
ravede (first-person past singular)
ravet (present second-person singular)
rave (present second-person singular)
ravede (past second-person singular)
ravet (formal present second-person singular)
ravede (formal past second-person singular)
ravet (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
ravet (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
ravede (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
ravede (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
ravet (present singular third-person)
ravede (past singular third-person)
raven (plural present)
raveden (past plural)
rave (archaic present singular subjunctive)
ravede (archaic past singular subjunctive)
raven (archaic plural present subjunctive)
raveden (archaic past plural subjunctive)
rave (imperative present singular)
ravet (archaic imperative plural present)
ravend (participle present)
geraved (participle past)

Borrowed from English rave. By surface analysis, rave + -en.


raven

nl-noun

raven m (plural ravens or ravenen, diminutive raventje n)

ravens (plural)
ravenen (plural)
raventje (diminutive neuter)

Original form of raaf which represents a rebracketing of this form and which existed alongside it since (late) Middle Dutch. The singular raven persisted in some dialects until at least the 18th century.


raven

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.