English words for '(transitive) To write a sonnet about.'
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- Composed of Shakespearean sonnets.
- Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship.
- (literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.
- of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works
name
noun
noun
noun
- (poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
- The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
- (informal, also attributively) A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
- (Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
- (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
- (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
- (informal, also attributively) A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.
- (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
- (virology) A fringe of large, bulbous surface projections on coronaviruses, formed by viral spike peplomers, creating an appearance reminiscent of the solar corona.
- A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.
- (pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.
- A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
- A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
- The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.
- (mineralogy) A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.
- (also geology) An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
- The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
- (electricity) A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
- The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
- The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.
- An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
- (botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium or paracorolla.
- (meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
- a long cigar with blunt ends
- an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
- (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
- a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020
- the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
- one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
- (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
verb
verb
noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- Poetic form in general.
- A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
- a piece of poetry
- literature in metrical form
- a line of metrical text
noun
- (poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
- (music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
- (music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
noun
- (poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
- (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
- a musical composition written for six performers
- a rhythmic group of six lines of verse
- a set of six similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- six performers or singers who perform together
verb
noun
- (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
- A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
- A person regarded as the product of some place.
- A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
- A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
- (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- One's male offspring.
- (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
- a male human offspring
noun
- (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- (music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
- (signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
- (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- (astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
- (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
- (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- (Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
- a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- a musical interval of eight tones
- a feast day and the seven days following it
verb
noun
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- (informal, by extension, African-American Vernacular, hip hop, always plural) A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
- (informal, African-American Vernacular, hip hop) An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- a piece of poetry
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- (intransitive, figurative, followed by with) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- (intransitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- (intransitive, of an utterance, text, etc.) To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
- (reciprocal, of two or more words) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
verb
noun
- (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
- (veterinary medicine) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
- (music) A snare drum.
- A mental or psychological trap.
- strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
- a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
- a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
verb
- (transitive) To begin to tell a story.
- (informal) Of sound, to emit.
- (transitive) To release.
- To rent out.
- To disclose.
- (of clothing) To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams.
- (Canada, US, intransitive) Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home.
- To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- bring out of a specific state
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- make (clothes) larger
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
- (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
- (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
- (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
- to gain with effort
verb
adj
noun
- (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- Any faint light through which something is seen.
- The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- (figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
- a condition of decline following successes
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
verb
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To constitute; to measure.
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- (music) To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
- (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
- take turns working
- relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn
- indicate or signify
- place under a spell
- orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
noun
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A period of rest; time off.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
noun
noun
- (poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
- The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
- (informal, also attributively) A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
- (Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
- (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
- (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
- (informal, also attributively) A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.
- (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
- (virology) A fringe of large, bulbous surface projections on coronaviruses, formed by viral spike peplomers, creating an appearance reminiscent of the solar corona.
- A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.
- (pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.
- A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
- A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
- The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.
- (mineralogy) A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.
- (also geology) An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
- The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
- (electricity) A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
- The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
- The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.
- An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
- (botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium or paracorolla.
- (meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
- a long cigar with blunt ends
- an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
- (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
- a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020
- the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
- one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
- (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
verb
noun
- (poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
- (music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
- (music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
noun
- (poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
- (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
- a musical composition written for six performers
- a rhythmic group of six lines of verse
- a set of six similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- six performers or singers who perform together
noun
- (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- (music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
- (signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
- (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- (astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
- (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
- (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- (Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
- a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- a musical interval of eight tones
- a feast day and the seven days following it
verb
noun
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- (informal, by extension, African-American Vernacular, hip hop, always plural) A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
- (informal, African-American Vernacular, hip hop) An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- a piece of poetry
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- (intransitive, figurative, followed by with) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- (intransitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- (intransitive, of an utterance, text, etc.) To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
- (reciprocal, of two or more words) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- Poetic form in general.
- A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
- a piece of poetry
- literature in metrical form
- a line of metrical text
verb
noun
- (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
- A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
- A person regarded as the product of some place.
- A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
- A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
- (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- One's male offspring.
- (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
- a male human offspring
verb
noun
- (surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- (music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
- (veterinary medicine) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
- (music) A snare drum.
- A mental or psychological trap.
- strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
- a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
- a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
verb
- (transitive) To begin to tell a story.
- (informal) Of sound, to emit.
- (transitive) To release.
- To rent out.
- To disclose.
- (of clothing) To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams.
- (Canada, US, intransitive) Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home.
- To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- bring out of a specific state
- express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- make (clothes) larger
verb
- (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
- (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
- (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
- (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
- to gain with effort
verb
adj
noun
- (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- Any faint light through which something is seen.
- The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- (figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
- a condition of decline following successes
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
verb
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To constitute; to measure.
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- (music) To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
- (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
- take turns working
- relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn
- indicate or signify
- place under a spell
- orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
noun
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A period of rest; time off.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
adj
- Composed of Shakespearean sonnets.
- Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship.
- (literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.
- of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works