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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??.?s/
• Rhymes: -??r?s
• Homophone: Taurus

Noun

torus (plural tori or toruses)

1. (geometry) The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).

   Hypernym: toroid

   1. (topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.

      Hyponym: solid torus

      1. (topology, in combination, n-torus, 4-torus, etc.) The product of the specified number of circles.
   2. A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
2. (architecture) A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
3. (anatomy) A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
4. (botany) The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached.

   Synonyms: receptacle, thalamus

5. (botany) The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.

Derived terms

Related terms

• torus tubarius

Translations

See also

• annulus
• hoop

References

• “torus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “torus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Rusto, Stour, Tours, roust, routs, stour, sutor, tours

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: to?rus

Noun

torus m (plural torussen, diminutive torusje n)

1. (geometry) torus

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?torus/, [?t?o?rus?]
• IPA^(key): /?to?rus/, [?t?o??rus?] (proscribed)
• Rhymes: -orus
• Syllabification: to?rus

Noun

torus

1. (geometry, topology) torus

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?torus/, [?t?o?rus?]
• Rhymes: -orus
• Syllabification: to?rus

Verb

torus

1. Second-person singular imperative present form of torua + the suffix -s.

Anagrams

• ruots., rusto, turso

Latin

Alternative forms

• torum, thorus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh?-.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.rus/, [?t????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.rus/, [?t????us]

Noun

torus m (genitive tor?); second declension

1. round, swelling, bulging place; elevation, protuberance
2. bulge, knot
3. (zootomy, usually poetic) muscular or fleshly part, muscle, brawn of an animal bodies
   1. (transferred sense, botany) bulge, thickness of trees
4. raised ornament, knot on a garland
5. (usually poetic) bolster, cushion; bed, couch, sofa
   1. marriage bed
   2. (transferred sense, figuratively) marriage (sometimes any sexual relationship)

      Synonym: thalamus

6. embankment, elevation of earth
7. (architecture) large round molding at the base of a column

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• toral
• tor?ria
• tor?sus (adjective)
• torulus (diminutive)

Descendants

References

• torus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• torus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• torus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

• sutor

Swedish

Noun

torus c

1. (geometry, topology) torus; a shape consisting of a ring, or an object of the same topology residing in a space of higher dimension; especially considered as a Cartesian product of two circles in a four-dimensional space

Declension

Related terms

• flat torus

Anagrams

• oturs

English

Etymology

Uncertain. May be either derived from Middle English monk, or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial *moneke, which in turn is possibly a diminutive from Middle French monne, from Old Spanish mona, shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic ????????? (maym?n, “baboon”)). Compare Old French Monequin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??ki/
• enPR: m?ng?ki
• Rhymes: -??ki

Noun

monkey (plural monkeys)

1. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.

   He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.

2. (informal) Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.

3. (informal) A mischievous child.
   • 1909, Algernon Blackwood, You May Telephone From Here

     "Yes. He gets to Paris at seven in the morning. He promised to telephone the first thing."
     "You expensive little monkey!"
     "Why?"
     "It's ten shillings for three minutes, or something like that, and you have to go to the G.P.O. or the Mansion House or some such place, I believe."

4. A dance move popular in the 1960s.
5. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling; (US, dated) five hundred dollars.
6. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
7. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
8. (blackjack) A face card.
9. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
10. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
11. (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
12. (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
    • 1938, Alfred R. Lindesmith, "Argot of the Underworld Drug Addict", Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 29, Issue 2 (July-August):

      Monkey: a habit, as in "I have a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.

    • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with The Golden Arm:

      "Man, I wasn't hooked, I was crucified. The monkey got so big he was carryin' me. […] When I hear a junkie tell me he wants to kick the habit but he just can't I know he lies even if he don't know he does. He wants to carry the monkey, he's punishin' hisself for somethin' 'n don't even know it. […] Then I got forty grains 'n went up to the room 'n went from monkey to nothin' in twenny-eight days 'n that's nine-ten years ago 'n the monkey's dead."
      "The monkey's never dead, Fixer," Frankie told him knowingly.

    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 431]:

      I thought I would like to learn about the dope scene anyway, and the boy must have some character, you know, if he got the monkey off his back (as they used to say in our time) without outside help.

13. A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
14. (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
    • 1864, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week (volume 11, page 267)

      I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]

    • 2019, John Hughes-Wilson, 1918 - Defeat into Victory: A Tommy Gunn Adventure (page 98)

      Reminded me of running up that hill by the Marne – or was it the Morin? – in 1914 when Kearey had got his face ripped open by a bullet and Hedley had got his monkey up [Lost his temper, Ed.] over the Huns killing 8 of my platoon.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Chukchi: ????? (ma?ky)
• ? Coeur d'Alene: moonki
• ? Irish: moncaí
• ? Navajo: mágí
• ? Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh
• ? Tumbuka: munkhwele
• ? Welsh: mwnci

Translations

Verb

monkey (third-person singular simple present monkeys, present participle monkeying, simple past and past participle monkeyed or monkied)

1. (intransitive, informal) To meddle; to mess (with).
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter XII

     “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! […] Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”

   Synonyms: interfere, fiddle

2. (transitive) To mimic; to ape.
   • 2011, Elizabeth Mosier, The Playgroup (page 83)

     He winked at Liza, who monkeyed him, holding her own eye shut.

Derived terms

• monkey around
• monkey up
• spank the monkey

Translations

See also

• ape
• primate

Anagrams

• My?ken