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wile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
- Homophone: while
Etymology 1
From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English w?l (“wile, trick”) and wi?le (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *w?l? (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigul?, *wihul? (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle.
Noun
wile (plural wiles)
- (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
- He was seduced by her wiles.
Synonyms
- beguilement
- allurement
Derived terms
- wileful
- wily
Related terms
- guile
Translations
Verb
wile (third-person singular simple present wiles, present participle wiling, simple past and past participle wiled)
- To entice or lure
Derived terms
- bewile
- outwile
Etymology 2
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hw?len, "passing, transitory". It is also seen in whilend, "temporary, transitory". But since wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.
Verb
wile
- Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).
- Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
References
- Grammarist.com While away or wile away?
- Common Errors in the English Language Wile Away, While Away
Anagrams
- Lewi, Liew, Weil, lwei
Mapudungun
Noun
wile (using Raguileo Alphabet)
- tomorrow
Synonyms
- ule
- wvle
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English w?l, wi?le (“wile, trick”), cognate with Old Norse vél (“artifice, craft”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wi?l(?)/
Noun
wile
- wile, trick, artifice
- a sorcerer
Derived terms
- wili
Descendants
- English: wile
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?i.l?/
Noun
wile m
- locative/vocative singular of wi?
Noun
wile f
- dative/locative singular of wi?a
Further reading
- wile in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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weapon
English
Etymology
From Middle English wepen, from Old English w?pn, from Proto-Germanic *w?pn? (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *w?bnom. Cognate with Scots wapyn, wappen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon”), Dutch wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Low German wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Swedish vapen (“weapon”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?.p?n/
- Rhymes: -?p?n
- Hyphenation: weap?on
Noun
weapon (plural weapons)
- An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
- An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.
- Choose your weapon.
- (Scotland, Britain, slang, derogatory) An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:weapon
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
weapon (third-person singular simple present weapons, present participle weaponing, simple past and past participle weaponed)
- (transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
- 1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68 (page 425)
- […] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]
- 1868, Henry Wilson, History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68 (page 425)
See also
weapon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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