cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕl'ər
ipa: /ˈstɛlə/
ipa: /ˈstɛlɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsʈɛllɑ(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
homophone: steller
homophone: Steller
homophone: Stella
homophone: stella (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more stellar
form: most stellar
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stēllāris.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: astral
starly
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
glosses: Heavenly.
examples: text: The actress gave a stellar performance.
text: Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.
ref: 1931, Music and Dance, volume 21, Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Musical News Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 27, column 2:
text: Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.
ref: 1970, Hardware Age, volume 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:
text: Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.
ref: 2012, Linda A. Jenkins, “What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker, Gold Alliance Group, →ISBN, page 1:
synonyms: wonderful
glosses: Exceptional, exceptionally good.
Coordinate terms: starry
Derived terms: bistellar
interstellar
interstellar comet
interstellar medium
interstellar planet
interstellar space
less than stellar
quasi-stellar
quasi-stellar object
quasi-stellar radio-source
quasi-stellar radio source
quasi-stellar radiosource
stellar black hole
stellar day
stellar disk
stellar engine
stellarite
stellar mass black hole
stellar month
stellar nova
stellar nursery
stellar population
stellar system
Stellarton
stellar wind
enema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ə.mə/
Forms: form: enemas
form: enemata
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).
Senses: examples: text: To the distensile enema of simple tepid water, no valid objection can be urged.
ref: 1875, Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 12, page 133:
text: […] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.
ref: 1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company:
text: Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.
ref: 1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249:
text: But alcohol enemas are no laughing matter, experts say. […] Using an alcohol enema involves placing a small tube into someone’s rectum and pouring alcohol into the colon.
ref: 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN:
glosses: An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
glosses: The fluid so injected.
glosses: A device for administering such an injection.
Synonyms: sense: fluid so injected
word: clyster
Derived terms: alcohol enema
enematic
enema
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ə.mə/
Forms: form: enemas
form: enemaing
form: enemaed
form: enemaed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).
Senses: examples: text: It's common to enema before anal sex.
text: It would take simpler souls with little or no training to do the yeoman work of enemaing and puking the sick people of the community.
ref: 1975, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia:
text: "So, there I was, shaved and enemaed, in the labor room with my husband.
ref: 1977, Brennan, Barbara; Heilman, Joan Rattner, The Complete Book of Midwifery:
text: I got out of the hospital after my last suicide attempt — the one where I tried to enema myself to death with hot buttered rum
ref: 1998, Susan Smith Nash, Doomsday Belly:
text: Shower and she enemas herself and I put towels on the bed, which in retrospect weren't enough because her enema spilt over onto the sheets
ref: 2024 March 3, CABAL, TokyoAdultGuide.com:
glosses: To administer an enema.
International Date Line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After 119 years to the east of the International Date Line, they are shifting to the west so they can be on the same calendar day as their main economic partners, Australia and New Zealand.
ref: 2011 December 29, Rowan Callick, “What a difference a day makes in Samoa”, in The Australian:
glosses: An imaginary line on the Earth's surface at 180° longitude, mostly through the Pacific Ocean, to the east of which the calendar date is one day earlier than to the west.
Synonyms: Date Line
prime meridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime meridians
Senses: examples: text: Other prime meridians were presented as candidates for the world's baseline: Jerusalem; Ferro; Kamchatka; the mid-Atlantic; the Bering Strait; and Greenwich's antimeridian.
ref: 2017, Charles W. J. Withers, Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 183:
synonyms: Greenwich meridian
zero meridian
coordinate_terms: antimeridian
glosses: The reference line at 0° longitude, passing through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is measured.
meridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/
ipa: /mɪ-/
ipa: /məˈɹɪ.di.ən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: meridians
Etymology: Borrowed from French méridien or German Meridian (“pathway on the body along which life force is thought to flow”), from Latin merīdiānum (“midday; position of the sun at noon; the south”) (see further at etymology 2); the French and German words are calques of Mandarin 經 /经, 经 (jīng, “pathway on the body along which life force is thought to flow; longitude; warp of woven fabric; to go or pass through”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body.
great circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great circles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
examples: text: Wherever a navigator may be, it certainly would be to his advantage to be able to find the great circle, or shortest course, and the distance, to his port of destination, [....]
ref: 1902, S. L. Penfield, “Use of the Stereographic Projection for Geographical Maps and Sailing Charts”, in American Journal of Science:
text: The shortest distance between two points on an ocean Mercator chart is not a straight line - it is a curve known as a 'great circle'.
ref: 2003, Jeff Toghill, The Navigator's Handbook: Essential Methods and Equipment--and how to Use Them:
text: Because the Earth's surface is curved, the shortest distance is actually a curve over the surface called a great circle.
ref: 2005, Phil Medina, Homework Helpers: Earth Science, page 52:
synonyms: great-circle arc
glosses: A segment of such circle representing the shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.
Hyponyms: vertical circle
Derived terms: great circle route
Related terms: small circle
great circle route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great circle routes
Senses: glosses: A route, taken by intercontinental aircraft for instance, which is the shortest distance between two destinations on the surface of the Earth; an arc of a great circle.
Related terms: great circle
intercontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tə.kɒn.tɪˈnɛn.təl/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚ.kɑn.tɪˈnɛn.təl/
Etymology: From inter- + continental.
Senses: examples: text: Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.
ref: 2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
glosses: Taking place between two or more continents.
glosses: Having the ability to travel between continents.
Derived terms: intercontinental ballistic missile
ICBM
intercontinentally
SSTH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSTHs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Acronym of super slender twin hull (“a catamaran with very slender hulls which are designed to reduce wake wash and increase passenger comfort, generally intended for use as fast-moving ferries, both ocean-going and operating close to shore”).
peruse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: peruses
form: perusing
form: perused
form: perused
Etymology: From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: To examine or consider with care.
examples: text: This survey may be made by perusing al Books and taking notice of all Mechanicall Inventions.
ref: 1647, William Petty, The Advice to Hartlib:
text: We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia […]
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it. […]But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there still was time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.
ref: 1960, William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, page 81:
glosses: To read completely.
examples: text: Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge.
ref: 2001, Doug Stanton, In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, →ISBN, page 35:
text: She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.
ref: 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: To look over casually; to skim.
examples: text: I loved to straggle off in the mornings […], just perusing around for firewood.
ref: 1957, Robert Ruark, The Old Man And The Boy, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: To go from place to place; to wander.
Derived terms: perusable
perusal
perusement
peruser
reperuse
unperused
peruse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: peruses
Etymology: From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”)) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”)), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.
Senses: examples: text: A peruse of the website looked promising […]
ref: 2008 September 12, Dave Robson, “Hi-tea, low cost!”, in Evening Gazette:
glosses: An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.
dialectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: dialectics
form: dialectick
Etymology: From Old French dialectique, from Late Latin dialectica, from Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “relating to dialogue”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “through, across”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
Senses: glosses: Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
examples: text: This situation created the inner dialectic of American history.
glosses: A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
glosses: development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
Related terms: dialect
dialectical
dialogue
trialectic
trialectics
dialectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more dialectic
form: most dialectic
form: dialectick
Etymology: From Latin dialecticus, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰλεκτῐκός (dĭălektĭkós).
Senses: glosses: Dialectical (of or relating to dialectic)
dialectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more dialectic
form: most dialectic
form: dialectick
Etymology: From dialect + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Is it [prodezza] a mere dialectic variation of prudenza,[…]?
ref: 1813, W[illiam] Taylor, Jun[ior] of Norwich, English Synonyms Discriminated, London: W. Pople, page 51:
text: […] if any one has, in common discourse, an indistinct, hesitating, dialectic, or otherwise faulty, delivery, his Natural manner certainly is not what he should adopt in public speaking; […]
ref: 1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric. Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana: with Additions, &c., 2nd edition, Oxford: W. Baxter, for John Murray, London; and J. Parker, Oxford, page 351:
text: But our able Secretary, Mr. Laidlay, has referred me to another alphabet, dialectic of the Hebrew, as set forth in the interpretation of the bilingual inscription of Thongga (Journal Asiatique, Fevrier, 1843) to which be conceives the characters of this brief specimen may be considered more properly to belong.
ref: 1850 January, Henry [Whitelock] Torrens, “Some conjectures on the progress of the Bráhminical Conquerors of India”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume XIX, number XXXVII, Calcutta: J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, published 1851, page 13:
text: […] we have a theory sufficiently consistent with the remote philological relations traceable between Cymri and Gael, and with the close dialectic affinities between Celtic Scotland and Ireland.
ref: 1863, Daniel Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, 2nd edition, volume II, London; Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., page 185:
glosses: Dialectal (of or relating to a dialect).
Derived terms: dialectician
dialecticism
nondialectic
diary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɹi/
rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi
Forms: form: diaries
Etymology: From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).
Senses: examples: text: They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
text: No, I’m just going over the stuff Tara wrote in my diary.
She’s writing your diary? Could you be any lazier?
ref: 2005 January 30, Jef Biederman, “Feng Shui Is Like So Passe”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Andrea Baker as Clover and Katie Griffin), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
text: Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.
ref: 2016 March 24, Darryl Sterdan, “ZAYN’s ‘Mind of Mine’ and Gwen Stefani’s ‘This is What the Truth Feels Like’ top this week’s new music”, in The Toronto Star, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2018:
synonyms: daybook
journal
glosses: A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
examples: text: It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable.
ref: 2004, Victoria Kidwell, Homework, page 29:
synonyms: agenda
glosses: A personal organizer or appointment diary.
Coordinate terms: calendar
daybook
chronicle
log
Derived terms: cyberdiary
dear diary
diarial
diarism
diarist
diarization
diarize
diarylike
e-diary
homework diary
nondiary
video diary
visual diary
Related terms: diurnal
journal
diary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɹi/
rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi
Forms: form: diaries
form: diarying
form: diaried
form: diaried
Etymology: From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).
Senses: examples: text: As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. "It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience."
ref: 2015, Hugh O'Donovan, Mindful Walking:
glosses: To keep a diary or journal.
diary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɹi/
rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi
Etymology: From Latin diārius.
Senses: examples: text: the offer of a usurpation, though it were but as a diary ague
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, a letter to the Lord Chancellor, touching the History of Britain:
glosses: Lasting for one day.
verdict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/
ipa: /ˈvɜɹ.dɪt/
Forms: form: verdicts
Etymology: From Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman verdit (> Medieval Latin veredictum), from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”); possibly a calque of a Germanic term such as Old English sōþword, sōþsprǣċ, sōþspell, sōþsagu, or sōþcwide, all meaning "true story, statement of truth, account, history". Doublet of veredictum.
Senses: examples: text: The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.
text: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: When his body was retrieved, it was apparent that he had not raised his hands to cover his face. Had he suffered some sort of fit or seizure? The coroner’s verdict was accidental death.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger’s history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 124:
text: The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] “We took this case to decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial – as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment – requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense,” Gorsuch wrote.
ref: 2020 April 20, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court says unanimous jury verdicts required in state criminal trials for serious offenses”, in CNN:
topics: law
glosses: A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
examples: text: a “not out” verdict from the umpire
glosses: An opinion or judgement.
Derived terms: bastard verdict
directed verdict
narrative verdict
open verdict
party verdict
Scotch verdict
Scottish verdict
special verdict
sympathy verdict
verdictive
verdict’s in
verdict’s out
vegetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: vegetations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
text: Thus the growth of vegetation, though effected in a greater or less degree by the strong wind, the violent rain, and the heat and glare of the noonday sun, is yet still more effectually promoted by the mild action of the gentler breezes, the softly descending dew, and the less intense heat.
ref: 1838, William Andrus Alcott, chapter I, in The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, third stereotype edition, Boston: George W. Light, page 21:
text: As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]
ref: 1880 November 6, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, chapter XII, in The Power of Movement in Plants, page 555:
text: Similarity of vegetation on meadows was the result of heavy grazing and trampling by large numbers of driveway sheep before the study was begun.
ref: 1951 August, Albert Watts Moore, Elbert Hann Reid, “The Dalles Pocket Gopher and Its Influence on Forage Production of Oregon Mountain Meadows”, in Circular, number 884, Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Agriculture, →DOI, →OCLC, page 11:
text: As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast.
ref: 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:
synonyms: verdure
glosses: Plants, taken collectively.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
glosses: The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Derived terms: devegetation
vegetation of salts
vegetate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪteɪt/
Forms: form: vegetates
form: vegetating
form: vegetated
form: vegetated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vegetatum, past participle of vegeto (“I enliven, I arouse”).
Senses: glosses: To grow or sprout.
raw_tags: of a plant
glosses: To spread abnormally.
raw_tags: of a wart etc
examples: text: Nor indeed is it likely I shall now ever be able to do more than vegetate, for my few remaining years or months in this or some other solitude. It is literally vegetating, for I have very little locomotive powers beyond those that appertain to a cauliflower.
ref: 1804 March 5, Charlotte Smith, letter to Sarah Rose, quoted in Judith Phillips Stanton, “Introduction to Charlotte Smith’s Letters”, in The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith, Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, section “Friendships”, page xx:
text: I am amazed to see a young man of your appearance and talents—though, after I have been thus depreciating the latter, it is almost an affront to say any thing about those you possess—I am amazed to see you vegetating among your own oaks, as if, like them, growth were your only value."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 105:
text: We are isolated, locked in hospital rooms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, subjected to discrimination stemming from hatred, with no constructive programs or activities to occupy our minds. We vegitate ^([sic]) and deteriorate physically and emotionally.
ref: 1986 April 26, James Pierce, “AIDS Prisoners Shackled Behind Plexiglass”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
Related terms: vegetable
veneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /vəˈnɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: veneers
Etymology: From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish.
Senses: examples: text: Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit the varied interior decoration.
ref: 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, pages 327-328:
text: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
examples: text: “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
ref: 2014 December 5, “Joy From the World”, in The New York Times Magazine, retrieved 06 Dec 2014:
glosses: An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings, the veneer of culture.
Derived terms: brick veneer
reed veneer
veneer moth
veneer saw
veneer theory
wainscot veneer
veneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /vəˈnɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: veneers
form: veneering
form: veneered
form: veneered
Etymology: From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish.
Senses: examples: text: to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany
text: The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
ref: 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: To apply veneer to.
examples: text: [O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: The currently advocated Family Protection Act, which thinly veneers its discriminatory attitudes about strict social conformity and the disallowance of individual choice with a stated concern for today's social fabric.
ref: 1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4:
glosses: To disguise with apparent goodness.
Coordinate terms: scumble
KKK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Philippine sense is from Tagalog KKK.
Senses: examples: text: […] 1919, a time when African American hopes for a just future following their service in World War I were dashed by violent reassertions of white supremacy, including the efflorescence and expansion of the KKK into the Midwestern and northwestern U.S.
ref: 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
text: The “over” and “under” prefixes, however, seem only to be applied to things that we, as a culture or collective, determine to be tolerable in the first place. Each prefix transmits a deviation in what is or can be tolerated. For example, when was the last time you heard a KKK member described as “overracist?” Why don’t we speak of law-abiding citizens as “undercriminal?” When was the last time you spoke of “underviolence” or “overcomfortable?” The “over” and “under” is only applied to those things we already understand as manageable or expected.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Chris Christou, “There is No Such Thing as Overtourism”, in The End of Tourism:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Ku Klux Klan.
glosses: Initialism of Katipunan.
Derived terms: Amerikkka
demokkkracy
DemoKKKrat
RepubliKKKan
LiKKKud
pantomime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.təˌmʌɪm/
ipa: /ˈpæn.təˌmaɪm/
Forms: form: pantomimes
Etymology: First appears c. 1606, from Latin pantomīmus, from Ancient Greek παντόμιμος (pantómimos), from πᾶς (pâs, “each, all”) + μιμέομαι (miméomai, “I mimic”). The verbal form first appears c. 1768.
Senses: examples: text: [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
ref: 1865, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization:
glosses: A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime.
glosses: The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
examples: text: With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
ref: 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.
examples: text: #*: A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 26”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 26:
glosses: The act of gesturing without speaking; a dumb-show, a mime.
Derived terms: panto
pantomime horse
pantomimer
pantomimery
pantomimesque
pantomime villain
pantomimic
pantomimish
pantomimist
Related terms: dame
dumb show
mime
pantomimical
sign language
pantomime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.təˌmʌɪm/
ipa: /ˈpæn.təˌmaɪm/
Forms: form: pantomimes
form: pantomiming
form: pantomimed
form: pantomimed
Etymology: First appears c. 1606, from Latin pantomīmus, from Ancient Greek παντόμιμος (pantómimos), from πᾶς (pâs, “each, all”) + μιμέομαι (miméomai, “I mimic”). The verbal form first appears c. 1768.
Senses: examples: text: I pantomimed steering a car; he understood, and tossed the keys to me.
glosses: To make (a gesture) without speaking.
glosses: To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
pallid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪd/
rhymes: -ælɪd
Forms: form: pallider
form: pallidest
Etymology: From Latin pallidus. Doublet of pale.
Senses: examples: text: The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.
synonyms: ashen
pale
pasty
ghastly
glosses: Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
Synonyms: word: ashen
word: ashen-faced
word: ashy
word: blake
word: blanched
word: bleak
word: bloodless
word: chalky
word: exsanguious
word: ghastly
word: grey
word: livid
word: pale
word: pallid
word: pasty
word: sallow
word: wan
word: washed out
word: white
word: whey-faced
Hypernyms: word: cadaverous
word: sickly
Derived terms: word: impallid
taxonomic: Antrozous pallidus
word: pallid bat
taxonomic: Cacomantis pallidus
word: pallid cuckoo
taxonomic: Leptotila pallida
word: pallid dove
word: pallid fox
taxonomic: Circus macrourus
word: pallid harrier
word: pallidity
word: pallidly
word: pallidness
taxonomic: Scaphirhynchus albus
word: pallid sturgeon
Related terms: word: pale
word: pallor
word: faded
palsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːlzi/
rhymes: -ɔːlzi
Forms: form: palsies
form: palsie
Etymology: From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + λύω (lúō, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
Senses: examples: text: The palsie plagues my pulses
when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
your culuers take, or matchles make
your Chanticleare or sullen
ref: c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: "Young lady, there is no hope; one side of the Duchesse is struck with palsy; she retains her senses, and will, most probably, to the last; but she cannot live through the night."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 73:
text: "Ah! now we come to business! Barber, who's dead?"
 "Alderman Croten, sir."
"Tut-tut. Croten gone?"
"Yes, sir; palsy took him at a ripe age. And Abel's gone, the Town Crier;"
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:
text: Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: paralysis
glosses: Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
Derived terms: artisan's palsy
Bell's palsy
cerebral palsy
Erb-Duchenne palsy
Erb's palsy
honeymoon palsy
impalsy
night palsy
palsical
palsylike
palsywort
Saturday night palsy
scrivener's palsy
shaking palsy
supranuclear palsy
wasting palsy
palsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːlzi/
rhymes: -ɔːlzi
Forms: form: palsies
form: palsying
form: palsied
form: palsied
Etymology: From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + λύω (lúō, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
Senses: examples: text: 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html
In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.
text: Its streets were blocked up with snow - the few passengers seemed palsied with snow, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IX, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To paralyse, either completely or partially.
Related terms: apoplexy
palsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːlzi/
rhymes: -ɔːlzi
ipa: /ˈpælzi/
ipa: /ˈpɔːlzi/
rhymes: -ɔːlzi
Forms: form: more palsy
form: most palsy
Etymology: From pal + -sy.
Senses: glosses: Chummy, friendly.
palsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːlzi/
rhymes: -ɔːlzi
ipa: /ˈpælzi/
ipa: /ˈpɔːlzi/
rhymes: -ɔːlzi
Forms: form: palsies
Etymology: From pal + -sy.
Senses: examples: text: Listen, palsy, you're not the boss.
ref: 2013, James Hadley Chase, You Can Say That Again:
glosses: Mate, chum.
farcical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)sɪkəl/
Forms: form: more farcical
form: most farcical
Etymology: From farce + -ical, after comical etc.
Senses: examples: text: A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea's Bluff.”, in New York Times:
text: In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
text: An inquiry into lockdown parties in Downing Street, which could determine the fate of Boris Johnson, is expected to lay bare a “farcical” culture of drinking and impromptu socialising, with little oversight from senior officials, the Guardian understands.
ref: 2022 January 13, Rajeev Syal et al., “No 10 party inquiry will reveal ‘farcical’ culture, say Whitehall sources”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.
Derived terms: farcicality
farcically
farcicalness
semifarcical
unfarcical
Related terms: farce
tragicofarcical
farcical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)sɪkəl/
Etymology: From farcy + -ical.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to farcy.
cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăts
ipa: /kæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: plural of cat
cats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăts
ipa: /kæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cat
truly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: trulier
form: more truly
form: truliest
form: most truly
form: trooly
form: truely
form: trully
Etymology: From Middle English truely, treuly, treuli, trewely, treoweliche, treowliche, from Old English trēowlīċe (“faithfully; truly”), equivalent to true + -ly. Cognate with Dutch trouwelijk, Middle Low German truwlike, German treulich, Swedish trolig, Icelandic trygglega.
Senses: examples: text: He adds, very truly, that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter I, in History of Western Philosophy, page 27:
topics: manner
glosses: In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
examples: text: That is truly all I know.
text: Truly, that is all I know.
glosses: Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
examples: text: You are truly silly.
text: I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing.
ref: 2014 August 20, Mark Potok, “What’s in a Name?”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:
qualifier: degree
glosses: Very.
Synonyms: sense: truthfully, accurately
word: frankly
word: sincerely
word: honestly
sense: in fact, really
word: in point of fact
word: literally
word: actually
sense: very
word: extremely
word: exceedingly
word: very
Derived terms: really truly
truly yours
untruly
well and truly
yours truly
know-how
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.haʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɑː.huː/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.haʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊhaʊ
rhymes: (US) -oʊhaʊ
homophone: nohow
Forms: form: knowhow
Etymology: Deverbal from know how. American English, 1838.
Senses: examples: text: Marlo has the know-how to fix your computer.
text: American innovators — with their world-class strengths in product design, marketing and finance — may have a historic opportunity to convert the scientific know-how from abroad into market gains and profits. Mr. Hill views the transition to “the postscientific society” as an unrecognized bonus for American creators of new products and services.
ref: 2008 April 20, G. Pascal Zachary, “How Scientific Gains Abroad Pay Off in the U.S.”, in New York Times:
synonyms: expertise
savoir-faire
glosses: The knowledge and skill to be able to (do something correctly).
Derived terms: snow-how
birthweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthweights
Etymology: From birth + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Premature infants often have a very low birthweight.
glosses: The amount that a baby weighs at the time of birth.
glottochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡlɒtəʊkɹəˈnɒlədʒi/
ipa: /ˌɡlɑːtoʊkɹəˈnɑːləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From glotto- + chronology.
Senses: glosses: The method or study in estimating the time at which a related language diverged from its common ancestor.
Derived terms: glottochronological
Related terms: lexicostatistics
founded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊndɪd/
rhymes: -aʊndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of found
glosses: simple past and past participle of find
founded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊndɪd/
rhymes: -aʊndɪd
Forms: form: more founded
form: most founded
Senses: examples: text: She offered a well-founded hypothesis.
glosses: Having a basis.
Synonyms: grounded
Hyponyms: ill-founded
well-founded
Derived terms: foundedness
microfounded
unfounded
outfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtfɪt/
rhymes: -aʊtfɪt
Forms: form: outfits
form: out-fit
Etymology: Variant of earlier out-fit, from fit out. Equivalent to out- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: She wore a fashionable outfit with matching purse and shoes.
text: Don't call what you're wearing an outfit.
ref: 2003, Jason Isbell, Outfit:
coordinate_terms: getup#Noun
costume#Noun
glosses: A set of clothing (with accessories).
glosses: Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
examples: text: The League of One was suddenly exposed and in danger of being hunted by enemies of the salarians. Before any harm could be done, the team mysteriously disappeared.[...]Realizing the threat posed by this rogue outfit, the Special Tasks Group dispatched a team of hunters. When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers. Only two returned; they reported no evidence of the League.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: League of One Codex entry:
glosses: Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
examples: text: Should we buy it here, or do you think the outfit across town will have a better deal?
glosses: A business or firm.
examples: text: With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities.
ref: 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sports team.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
antonyms: infit
glosses: An outlier-sensitive fit.
examples: text: […] the outfit of 1821, which outfit suffered a loss. From 1822 there were profits on each outfit as the many subsequent credit entries indicate.
ref: 1949, John McLoughlin, The Financial Papers of Dr. John McLoughlin, page 56:
glosses: A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
Derived terms: boutfit
groutfit
outfit doctor
outfit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtfɪt/
rhymes: -aʊtfɪt
Forms: form: outfits
form: outfitting
form: outfitted
form: outfitted
form: out-fit
Etymology: Variant of earlier out-fit, from fit out. Equivalent to out- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: The expedition was outfitted with proper clothing, food, and other necessities.
glosses: To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.
Synonyms: equip
fit
Derived terms: outfitter
preoutfit
reoutfit
Nijubashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 二重橋 (nijūbashi, literally “double bridge”).
Senses: glosses: The iron bridge to the Kokyo.
Tennou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Japanese 天皇 (てんのう, ten’nou).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tenno.
st
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: sst
Etymology: Imitative. Compare hist.
Senses: glosses: Expressing a sudden desire for silence.
st
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sts
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of st. and St.; abbreviation of street.
glosses: Abbreviation of state.
examples: text: Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
ref: 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
glosses: Abbreviation of stone; not capitalized or usually spaced.
glosses: Abbreviation of store.
examples: text: insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted
ref: 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63:
text: Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.
ref: 2009, Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne, Diana Miller, Pet Projects: The Animal Knits Bible, page 71:
text: Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]
ref: 2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: crochet
glosses: Abbreviation of stitch.
Derived terms: g st
rev st st
sl st
st st
Greenwich Mean Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: GMT
Coordinated Universal Time
Greenwich Time
UTC
Z time
ZULU
Zulu time
glosses: The apparent time at the Greenwich meridian.
Derived terms: word: Greenwich Time Signal
english: on Mars
translation: on Mars
word: Airy Mean Time
Related terms: Zulu
time zone