{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "seɪ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English seyen, seien, seggen, from Old English seċġan (“to say, speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-h₁-yé-, a suffixed o-grade form of *sekʷ- (“to tell, talk”).\nCognate with West Frisian sizze (“to say”), Dutch zeggen (“to say”), German sagen (“to say”), Danish sige (“to say”), Norwegian Bokmål si (“to say”), Norwegian Nynorsk seia (“to say”), Swedish säga (“to say”), Yiddish זאָגן‎ (zogn, “to say; to tell”).\nThe adverb and interjection are from the verb.", "From Middle French saie, from Latin saga, plural of sagum (“military cloak”).", "Aphetic form of assay.", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "saie, saye, seye (obsolete)\nthay, zay (pronunciation spelling)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To pronounce.\nPlease say your name slowly and clearly." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To recite.\nMartha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.\nHe said he would be here tomorrow." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To indicate in a written form.\nThe sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris." }, { "mean": "(impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.\nThey say \"when in Rome, do as the Romans do\", which means \"behave as those around you do.\"" }, { "mean": "(informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.\nA holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.\nSay he refuses. What do we do then?\nSay your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it okay to steal some food?" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply." }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "For example; let us assume.\n\nPick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.\nHe was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(colloquial) Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion\nSay, what did you think about the movie?" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "say in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\nsay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. Merriam, 1913" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "say (countable and uncountable,pluralsays)\n\n A type of fine cloth similar to serge.\n1579, Immeritô , “August. Aegloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender:, London Hugh Singleton,, →OCLC republished as The Shepheardes Calender, London Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger,, 1586, →OCLC, folio 32, recto:Per. VVell decked in a frocke of gray, Will. hey ho, gray is greet, Per. And in a kirtle of greene ſaye, Will. the greene is for maydens meete.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene., London John Wolfe for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 53:All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay He clothed was" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To try; to assay.\n1600 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson , “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. ”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: Will Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:I, that had sayed on one of his customers sutes." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Trial by sample; assay; specimen.\n1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J S, editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):, page 193\nIf those principal works of God be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.\nc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 308:Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes." }, { "mean": "Tried quality; temper; proof.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 47, page 505:He found a sword of better say." }, { "mean": "Essay; trial; attempt.\n1610 (first performance), Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, London: Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, , published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):This fellow, Captaine, Will come, in time, to be a great distiller, And giue a say at the philosophers stone." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(Scotland) A strainer for milk." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "인터젝션", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "레퍼런스", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [], "kor": [] } } }