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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /laɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪm
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-West Germanic *līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm, German Leim (“glue”), Danish lim (from Old Norse lím), Latin limus (“mud”).
Noun
[edit]lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)
- (chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
- 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 149:
- Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.
- (poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
- 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 IV, scene i]:
- Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, They called Thee Merry England, in old time [first line of unnamed poem]:
- Like the lime which foolish birds are caught with.
- (theater) A spotlight.
- 1980, Peter Evans, Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask, page 30:
- Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act.
- 2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 121:
- Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from lime (alkali substance)
- acid lime
- birdlime
- carbonate of lime
- caustic lime
- chloride of lime
- chlorinated lime
- cream of lime
- delime
- hydraulic lime
- Jew's lime
- lime-ash
- lime burning
- Limedale
- lime-fingered
- lime kiln
- limekiln
- limelight
- limelighter
- lime mortar
- lime pit
- limescale
- limestone
- lime sulfur
- lime-twig
- lime-twigged
- limewater
- limeworking
- milk of lime
- nitrolime
- pickling lime
- quicklime
- shell lime
- slaked lime
- soda lime
- soda-lime
- soda-lime glass
- tobacco lime
- unslaked lime
- white lime
Translations
[edit]inorganic material containing calcium
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gluey or adhesive substance
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Verb
[edit]lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)
- (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Land:
- If I were you, I'd lime.
- (transitive) To smear with birdlime.
- (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 39:
- Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
- (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
- (transitive) To apply limewash.
Translations
[edit]to treat with lime
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to smear with birdlime
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to apply limewash
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Etymology 2
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Lime (17th c.) and line (16th c.) are alterations of obsolete lind, from Middle English lynde, from Old English lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindijō. The phonetic development is unusual, but it has been suggested that it began in compounds (loss of -d- perhaps before tree, the change to -m- before labials as in bark or wood). Doublet of linden, which see.
Noun
[edit]lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)
- A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 38:
- But there was nothing of an ascetic's expression in her bright full eyes, as she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes, whose shadows touched each other.
- The wood of this tree.
Usage notes
[edit]- Both this and the citrus are trees having fragrant flowers, but this is more temperate and the citrus is more tropical and subtropical. Outside of Europe and adjoining parts of Asia, the citrus sense is much more common.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from noun lime (tree)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]linden tree — see linden
Etymology 3
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From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة (līma), from Persian لیمو (limu). Doublet of lemon.
Noun
[edit]lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)
- Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
- Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
- (uncountable) A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
- lime:
- web lime:
- (fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
- 1998 December 29, [email protected], “[EVA][FanFic][Lemon] Garden of EVA 0:6x - Wet Dreams Bite!”, in rec.arts.anime.creative[2] (Usenet):
- Even with all the sex in Garden of EVA, I still think the main stories are better for just being the lemon-scented limes that they are.
Usage notes
[edit]- Both this and the linden are trees with fragrant flowers, but the linden is more temperate and this is more tropical and subtropical. Outside of Europe and adjoining parts of Asia, this sense is much more common.
Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
- Australian desert-lime (Citrus glauca)
- Australian finger-lime (Citrus australasica)
- Australian lime (Citrus glauca, C. australasica, C. australis)
- caviar lime (Citrus australasica)
- desert lime (Citrus glauca)
- finger lime (Citrus australasica)
- Indian sweet lime
- kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix)
- Key lime (Citrus × aurantifolia)
- Key lime pie
- lemon and lime
- lemon lime
- lemon-lime
- limeade
- lime butterfly
- lime disease
- lime-green
- lime juice
- lime-juicer
- limequat (Citrus × floridana)
- lime rickey
- limey
- makrut lime
- Mandarin lime (Citrus limonia)
- musk lime (Citrus × microcarpa, syn. ×Citrofortunella mitis)
- Palestinian sweet lime
- Persian lime (Citrus × latifolia)
- Rangpur lime (Citrus limonia)
- Spanish lime (Melicoccus bijugatus)
- sweet lime (Citrus limettioides)
- Tahiti lime (Citrus latifolia)
- Thai lime (Citrus hystrix)
- wild lime (Adelia ricinella, (Zanthoxylum fagara)
Translations
[edit]green citrus fruit
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citrus tree
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colour
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| red | orange | yellow | green | blue (incl. indigo; cyan, teal, turquoise) |
purple / violet | |
| pink (including magenta) |
brown | white | gray/grey | black | ||
Adjective
[edit]lime (not comparable)
- Containing lime or lime juice.
- Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
- Lime-green.
Translations
[edit]containing lime or lime juice
having the aroma or taste of lime
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Etymology 4
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Back-formation from limer.
Verb
[edit]lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)
- (Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, informal) To hang out or socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
Noun
[edit]lime (plural limes)
- (Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago) A casual gathering to socialize.
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime (plural limes)
- Alternative form of lyam (“a leash”)
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Bakumpai
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima.
Numeral
[edit]lime
Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime c (singular definite limen, plural indefinite lime or limes)
- lime (fruit)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of lime
Etymology 2
[edit]From the noun lim (“glue”).
Verb
[edit]lime (imperative lim, infinitive at lime, present tense limer, past tense limede, perfect tense har limet)
- to glue
Fataluku
[edit]Numeral
[edit]lime
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime
- (proscribed) lime (citrus tree and its fruit)
- Synonym: limetti
- lime or lemon juice as part of a cocktail
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of lime (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | lime | limet | |
| genitive | limen | limejen | |
| partitive | limeä | limejä | |
| illative | limeen | limeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lime | limet | |
| accusative | nom. | lime | limet |
| gen. | limen | ||
| genitive | limen | limejen limein rare | |
| partitive | limeä | limejä | |
| inessive | limessä | limeissä | |
| elative | limestä | limeistä | |
| illative | limeen | limeihin | |
| adessive | limellä | limeillä | |
| ablative | limeltä | limeiltä | |
| allative | limelle | limeille | |
| essive | limenä | limeinä | |
| translative | limeksi | limeiksi | |
| abessive | limettä | limeittä | |
| instructive | — | limein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “lime”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime f (plural limes)
- file (tool)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة (līma).
Noun
[edit]lime f (plural limes)
Further reading
[edit]- “lime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]lime
- inflection of limar:
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime f pl
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime m (invariable)
- lime (citrus tree)
Anagrams
[edit]Jamaican Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime (plural lime dem, quantified lime)
- lime (small green citrus fruit)
- It sour like lime. ― It's as sour as a lime.
- When the virus get drastic, mi a guh draw fi mi garlic and lime.
- When the virus gets worse, I'm going to start taking garlic and lime.
- hangout, get-together (social gathering)
Verb
[edit]lime
Further reading
[edit]- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 348
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈliː.me/, [ˈlʲiːmɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.me/, [ˈliːme]
Noun
[edit]līme
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime
- Alternative form of lym (“quicklime”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime
- Alternative form of lyme (“limb”)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Persian لیمو (limu), via Arabic لِيمَة (līma), Spanish lima, and English lime.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limer, definite plural limene)
- a lime (citrus fruit)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]lime (imperative lim, present tense limer, passive limes, simple past lima or limet or limte, past participle lima or limet or limt, present participle limende)
Related terms
[edit]- lim (noun)
References
[edit]- “lime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]lime (present tense limer, past tense limde/limte, past participle limt, passive infinitive limast, present participle limande, imperative lim)
- (transitive) to glue
Alternative forms
[edit]- lima (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
[edit]- liming f
Related terms
[edit]- lim n
Etymology 2
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Borrowed from English lime. From Persian لیمو (limu), via Arabic لِيمَة (līma).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limar, definite plural limane)
- (citrus fruit) a lime
- (usually uncountable) lime juice
Synonyms
[edit]- (citrus fruit): limett
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limar, definite plural limane)
Derived terms
[edit]- sopelime m
References
[edit]- “lime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
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Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]lime
- inflection of limar:
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]lime
- inflection of limar:
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]lime c
- a lime (fruit)
- Synonym: limefrukt
- lime juice
- Synonym: limejuice
Declension
[edit]Declension of lime
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- lime in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- lime in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- lime in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Yakan
[edit]Numeral
[edit]lime
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