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wɜrt, wɔrtwort

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wortnoun

    usually used in combination: `liverwort'; `milkwort'; `whorlywort'

  2. wortnoun

    unfermented or fermenting malt

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wortnoun

    Etymology: wirt , Saxon; wort, Dutch.

    If in the wort of beer, while it worketh, before it be tunned, the burrage be often changed with fresh, it will make a sovereign drink for melancholy. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

Wikipedia

  1. WORT

    WORT (89.9 FM) is a listener-sponsored community radio station, broadcasting from 118 S. Bedford St. in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. WORT offers a range of programming. WORT's FM signal reaches a roughly 50-mile radius around Madison. In early 2006, the station began webcasting all of its programming in both high-quality (96k) and low-quality (32k) streams. WORT also maintains an archive of recent news and public affairs programs available for podcast, download, or stream.

ChatGPT

  1. wort

    A wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. It contains the sugars that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wortnoun

    a plant of any kind

  2. Wortnoun

    cabbages

  3. Wortnoun

    an infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation

  4. Etymology: [OE. worte, wurte, AS. wyrte; akin to OD. wort, G. wrze, bierwrze, Icel. virtr, Sw. vrt. See Wort an herb.]

Wikidata

  1. WORT

    WORT is a listener-sponsored community radio station, broadcasting from 118 S. Bedford St. in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. WORT offers a range of programming. WORT's FM signal reaches a roughly 50-mile radius around Madison. In early 2006, the station began webcasting all of its programming in both high quality and low quality streams. WORT also maintains an archive of recent news and public affairs programs available for podcast, download, or stream.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wort

    wurt, n. a plant of the cabbage kind. [A.S. wyrt; Ger. wurz, wurzel, a root.]

  2. Wort

    wurt, n. new beer unfermented or in the act of fermentation: the sweet infusion of malt. [A.S. wyrte, new beer (Ice. virtr)—wyrt, root. See preceding word.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WORT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wort is ranked #95955 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Wort surname appeared 190 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wort.

    95.7% or 182 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WORT in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WORT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of WORT in a Sentence

  1. Gabrielle Francis:

    The protein helps to keep the blood sugar stable so it does n’t crash and wake you up -- and then there’s herbs like St. John's Wort, passionflower and Melissa Officinalis that all help to soothe the nervous system.

  2. Jorgen Stoltz:

    In the summer there is arrowgrass, which tastes of coriander, all year round we find scurvy grass, which is what the Vikings used to bring around Europe as a medicinal herb. We also call it wasabi wort because of its intensity, just like horseradish.

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