Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Initialism of emergency locator transmitter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, communication, communications, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Initialism of euglobulin lysis time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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noun
Initialism of English language teaching.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Abbreviation of element.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Initialism of extract, load, transform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Qualifier: data warehousing
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
To injure (anything) by rough handling; handle roughly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
Synonyms: befoul, soil, stain, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To work persistently or laboriously; be occupied in working (e.g. in the earth, rake among dirt, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To meddle; interfere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To knead dough; stir dough previously kneaded to a proper consistency before baking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To become soft; become moist, as damp earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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History
Shortening.
From Middle English elten (“to mold, knead, work”), from Old Norse elta (“to chase, hunt, knead”), from Proto-Germanic *alatjaną (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1elh2- (“to drive, move, go”). Cognate with Danish ælte (“to knead”), Swedish älta (“to dwell upon, brood, stir, knead”), Norwegian elte (“to knead”), Norwegian elta (“to pursue, plod”), Icelandic elta (“to chase”).
