cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Charlotte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːlət/
ipa: /ˈʃɑɹlət/
ipa: /ˈʃaːlət/
ipa: /ˈʃaɹlət/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lət
Etymology: From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Senses: examples: text: My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.
In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.
ref: 1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 117:
text: "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty." "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte's her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named Charlotte. But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VII, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: 'Can I call you Charlotte?'
'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
ref: 2007, Sophie Hannah, Hurting Distance, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A civil parish of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Eaton County, Michigan, United States.
examples: text: The past three decades have been a roller-coaster ride for the Charlotte, N.C., company, aiming to keep investors on a sugar high as it works out how to expand while remaining true to its heritage of serving fresh doughnuts.
ref: 2025 August 25, Julie Creswell, “Krispy Kreme Bets on Big-Box Stores to Stay Fresh”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
text: Local, state and national Republicans have accused Lyles and other Democrats who lead Charlotte of installing criminal justice policies at the expense of public safety.
ref: 2025 September 10, Holly Yan, Jeff Winter, “Suspect in Charlotte train stabbing that killed a Ukrainian refugee is charged with a federal crime. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: The largest city in North Carolina, United States and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Dickson County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Derived terms: Charlotte County
Charlotte Court House
Charlotte Harbor
Charlottean
Charlottesville
Queen Charlotte Sound
Charlotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːlət/
ipa: /ˈʃɑɹlət/
ipa: /ˈʃaːlət/
ipa: /ˈʃaɹlət/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lət
Forms: form: Charlottes
Etymology: From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Senses: examples: text: The Charlotte bonnet, form'd to please, / And Strelitz coif she wore with ease.
ref: 1764 Sep, The Scots Magazine:
text: the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther, was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.
ref: 1819 Apr, La Belle Assemblée:
text: Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.
ref: 1968, Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance:
glosses: A type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Either of two theorems in mathematical logic that demonstrate the inherent limitations of every formal axiomatic system containing basic arithmetic.
Related terms: Rosser's trick
skipping rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skipping ropes
Senses: glosses: An item for play or physical exercise consisting of a length of rope with a handle attached to each end, intended to be swung over and under a person jumping in a continual rhythm.
Synonyms: jump rope
skip rope
skipping rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skip rope
tug of war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɡ əv ˌwɔː(r)/
Forms: form: tugs of war
form: tug of wars
form: tug-of-war
Senses: examples: text: [Gordon Burn:] You told me you had tugs-of-war with your sisters over small, common-or-garden, apparently insignificant household things, things that you felt meant more to you than the others.
ref: 2005 June 16, Rachel Whiteread, Gordon Burn, “Rachel Whiteread in conversation with Gordon Burn”, in Embankment (The Unilever Series), London: Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 74, column 2:
glosses: A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams.
examples: text: To sum up, the dynamics of a "tug-of-war" between the supporters and opponents of the powerful and independent constitutional court dispel the traditional version of judicial empowerment as a struggle between “prostrong Court” reformers and antistrong Court” reactionaries.
ref: 2008, Alexei Trochev, Judging Russia: The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990-2006, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute.
Related terms: dig in one's heels
Navajo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
ipa: /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnæ.voʊ/
Forms: form: Navajo
form: Navajos
form: Navajoes
form: Navaho
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
Senses: examples: text: As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII.
ref: 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:
synonyms: Tavasuh
glosses: A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
Derived terms: Navajo County
Navajo disease
Navajo flu
navajoite
Navajo Nation
Navajoness
Navajo neuropathy
Navajo Springs
Navajo taco
Navajo white
Navajo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/
ipa: /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnæ.voʊ/
Forms: form: Navaho
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
Senses: examples: text: Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe.
ref: 2023 December 30, Daniel W. Hieber, “Why I hate conlangs”, in Linguistic Discovery, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:
glosses: An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
examples: text: One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.
ref: 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:
glosses: An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Dine
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Diné
sense: people
word: Dine
sense: people
word: Diné
sense: people
word: Navajo People
Derived terms: Navajo Indian Reservation
Navajo Nation
Navajo People
Navajo Reservation
Navajo Tribal Nation
Navajo Tribe
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Navajo terms
tug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭg
ipa: /tʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: tugs
form: tugging
form: tugged
form: tugged
Etymology: From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”).
Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tow.
Senses: examples: text: The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
glosses: To pull or drag with great effort.
examples: text: He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
glosses: To pull hard repeatedly.
glosses: To tow by tugboat.
glosses: To masturbate.
Derived terms: heart-tugging
tug down
tug off
tug one's forelock
tug up
tug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭg
ipa: /tʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: tugs
Etymology: From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”).
Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tow.
Senses: examples: text: At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Even though the authors note that they have not "exhausted the subject of San Francisco's queer history," the hope is that enough of "us" outside the Bay Area will find something of ourselves represented in the book and will feel that tug of connection to and solidarity with the gay capital's community.
ref: 1996 September, Doreen Drury, “The Gay Capital of the World”, in Gay Community News, page 22:
text: But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.
ref: 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A sudden powerful pull.
examples: text: Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A tugboat.
examples: text: Trailers are delivered by road to Poole, Portsmouth, or Rosslare in Ireland. They are then loaded onto ferries by dockyard tractors called "tugs". After crossing the Channel, the driverless loads are disembarked by tug and taken to the specially constructed freight terminal in Cherbourg port. Each rail wagon holds two lorry trailers and features a new 'pivoting pocket' which moves through 45° to allow the tug to push the trailer onto the wagon from alongside.
ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “Ro Ro Rail takes the freight train to Spain”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 49:
glosses: A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
examples: text: Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug
ref: 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon:
glosses: A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
glosses: A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
glosses: A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
examples: text: He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
glosses: An act of male masturbation.
Derived terms: rub and tug
tugboat
tug of love
tug of war
tug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭg
ipa: /tʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: tugs
Etymology: Related to toga.
Senses: glosses: A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
Derived terms: tuggery
repeatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpiːtɪdli/
Forms: form: more repeatedly
form: most repeatedly
Etymology: From repeated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He repeatedly violated the court order, and shall now be punished.
text: Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
text: Since 2017, the DfT has "repeatedly altered the scope of the TRU [TransPennine Route Upgrade] to meet differing ministerial priorities and budget constraints", says the NAO [National Audit Office].
ref: 2022 August 10, Mel Holley, “Network News: Question marks over TransPennine upgrade spending”, in RAIL, number 963, page 24:
glosses: Done several times or in repetition.
Synonyms: word: again and again
word: once and again
word: over and over
word: over and over again
word: repeatedly
word: time after time
word: time and again
word: time and time again
Related terms: repeat
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wares
Etymology: From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).
Senses: examples: text: Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.
ref: 1923, John Lord, Capital and steam-power, 1750–1800:
text: On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.
ref: 2002 March 28, “Kenya National Assembly Official Record”, in parliamentary debates:
text: What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.
ref: 2011, Tonya Kappes, Carpe Bead'em:
text: Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.
ref: 2012, Julie Watson, Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, page 179:
glosses: Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
glosses: See wares.
examples: damascene ware, tole ware
glosses: Pottery or metal goods.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A style or genre of artifact.
glosses: Crockery.
Derived terms: Abruzzi ware
Belleek ware
Biddery ware
biscuit ware
Bizen ware
Böttger ware
cameo ware
Chien ware
Jian ware
Cizhou ware
Corded Ware culture
crouch ware
Della Robbia ware
Gombroon ware
Hafner ware
Haymarket ware
Iga ware
iridescent ware
Iznik ware
Jackfield ware
jasperware
Ju ware
Karatsu ware
Kubachi ware
lacquer-ware
lava ware
Limoges ware
Minyan ware
Nabeshima ware
Oribe ware
Orvieto ware
Palissy ware
Quimper ware
rustic ware
Ru ware
Samian ware
sanitary ware
Satsuma ware
Sèvres ware
Shino ware
Torquay ware
-ware
Yixing ware
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more ware
form: most ware
Etymology: From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.
Senses: examples: text: And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing.
ref: 1485 July 24, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter I, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte D’Arthur, volume 1:
text: But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Aware.
Derived terms: aware
beware
unware
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wares
form: waring
form: wared
form: wared
Etymology: From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).
Senses: examples: text: 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
text: c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː
Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.
text: c. 1470, The Macro Playsː
‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.
text: Ware cleaners.
ref: 1987, Kangs, Doctor Who: Paradise Towers:
glosses: To be ware or mindful of something.
examples: text: Ware thee.
translation: Watch yourself.
english: Watch yourself.
glosses: To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more ware
form: most ware
Etymology: From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).
Senses: examples: text: He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.
ref: 1549 April 1 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Thyrde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latymer whyche He Preached before the Kynge [Edward VI], wythin Hys Graces Palayce at Westminster, the XXII. Daye of Marche.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 39, verso:
text: Of whom be thou ware also.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:15:
text: Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.
ref: 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, page 385:
glosses: Wary; cautious.
Derived terms: wary
Related terms: ward
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Scots wair (“seaweed”), Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).
Senses: examples: text: On many of the farms in East Lothian, from 100 to 120 Imperial acres are annually manured with sea-ware; and when I mention that 30 double-cart loads are spread on 1 acre, you may conceive the labour incurred in carting from 3000 to 3600 loads during a short season; for it is only in winter that the ware is cast ashore by storms,[…]
ref: 1844, Henry Stephens, The book of the farm, page 1238:
text: The said farm, having been possessed […] in the deed of 12th July 1794, with the privilege of taking ware from the sea-shore for the use of the farm, and having been let by them to a tenant in 1804, with "liberty of the droven sea-ware, along with the other tenants of the Elie barony, for manuring the farm," […]
ref: 1861 April 25, “William Baird, Appellant, v. William Ranken Fortune, Respondent”, in The Scottish Jurist: Being Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 437:
text: Each ware-strand, or beach where drift-weed comes to land, is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs, and each 'brook of ware' as it comes ashore is divided among these tenants, usually in proportion to their rents.
ref: 1896, Charles James Longman, Longman's Magazine, page 34:
glosses: Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
Derived terms: ware goose
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wares
form: waring
form: wared
form: wared
form: wore
form: wore
Senses: examples: text: The Ship wares bravely, steddy, steddy; she is before it. […] The Ship wares round, so right the Helm; hard up.
ref: 1724, Joshua Kelly, The Modern Navigator's Compleat Tutor; Or, a Treatise of the Whole Art of Navigation in Its Theory and Practice, page 54:
text: […] [page 67:] He then stood off to windward, and opening his lower parts, wore round under her stern, […] [pages 365-372:] I have previously to observe, that the first part of this question implies that two distinct significations appertain to the signal for waring a fleet in the manner proposed; viz . to ware the sternmost first; and secondly, to ware the sternmost and leewardmost first. […] If to form on the opposite tack, the division L D ware together, and keep away […] [page xxi, glossary:] To Ware (or Veer), is to do the reverse [of Turning in or out or up, tacking to reach an object to windward]; or to turn round by going from the wind and hauling to it gradually; or, as it is termed, coming to the wind upon the other tack. To veer is more properly applied to paying-out or giving out more cable, or hawser; […]
ref: 1824, Sir Charles Ekins, Naval Battles, from 1744 to the Peace in 1814: Critically Reviewed and Illustrated, pages 67,365-372:
text: ... to ware to the eastward.
ref: 1838, James Fenimore Cooper, Cooper's Novels, page 210:
text: [page 44:] If the vessel (being as above, without lower canvas) lie to under bare poles, and from some unexpected cause, such as a ship being discovered at day-light so close upon her to windward, that she must by any means be wore, to avoid the dreadful consequence of the other's falling on board […] [page 73:] When it is necessary to drive on the other tack, she is either wared, box-hauled, or put in stays. […] [page 203:] If this vessel, having these three square sails and a jib, be to ware, or recede from the wind, it appears that the power of the sails abaft the centre of gravity, or[…]
ref: 1863, Darcy Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: Or, a Key to the Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship, page 44,73,203:
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: tack
glosses: Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wares
Etymology: From Middle English ware, from Old Norse vár (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wazrą. Cognate with Icelandic vor (“spring”), Swedish vår (“spring”), Danish vår (“spring”), Scots ware, wair (“spring”).
Senses: glosses: Spring, springtime.
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.
ref: 1684, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, Selected from the Manuscripts of John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., One of the Senators of the College of Justice, volumes second (1683–1688), Edinburgh, published 1848, page 533:
text: c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
A larg concors ware standing round
glosses: Old eye dialect spelling of were.
ware
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə/
enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiə/
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: wear
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: simple past of wear
greenery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnəɹi/
rhymes: -iːnəɹi
Forms: form: greeneries
Etymology: From green + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Green foliage or verdure.
glosses: Foliage used as decoration.
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Marijuana.
Derived terms: evergreenery
greenery-yallery
Related terms: vegetation
foliage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: foliages
form: foilage
form: feuillage
Etymology: From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by Latin folium (“leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: The leaves of plants.
glosses: Fall foliage.
glosses: An architectural ornament representing foliage.
Derived terms: foliaged
foliage-gleaner
foliage leaf
foliagelike
foliageous
foliologist
snowliage
Kummer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Kummer (“distress, grief”).
* Also as a German and Swiss German surname, from a derivative of the medieval personal name Kunemar, from Old High German kuoni (“bold”) + mari (“fame”).
* As a Slavic surname, Germanized from Upper Sorbian Komor, Komar, from komor (“mosquito, gnat”), see Kommer. Also sometimes Germanized from Kumer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Kummerian
Kummer ring
Kummer's theorem
Kummer surface
Kummer variety
Zorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Zorn's lemma
whitefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiteflies
Etymology: From white + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest
Derived terms: Japanese bayberry whitefly
wilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildings
Etymology: From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.
ref: 2023, Ray Mears, chapter 1, in British Woodland, Ebury Spotlight, →ISBN:
glosses: A wild apple or apple tree.
examples: text: Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 1”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
ref: 1824–1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]:
glosses: Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
wilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wild + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 804:
glosses: present participle and gerund of wild
wilding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wild + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The wilding bee hums merrily by.
ref: a. 1844, William Cullen Bryant, The Gladness of Nature
text: And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Not cultivated or tame; wild.
winceyette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛt
Forms: form: winceyettes
Etymology: From wincey + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A soft cotton flannelette material with a raised brushed surface (a nap), on both sides.
wintry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹɪ/
enpr: ʹwĭnt(ə-)rē
ipa: /ˈwɪnt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾ̃(ə)ɹi]
rhymes: -ɪntɹi
Forms: form: wintrier
form: wintriest
form: wintery
Etymology: From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).
Senses: examples: text: wintry weather
text: A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 19:
text: In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses collapsed, according to the state-run New China News Agency. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.
ref: 2003 February 24, John Pomfret, “Quake Kills More Than 250 in Western China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024:
synonyms: brumal
hibernal
hiemal
glosses: Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
examples: text: It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
synonyms: sleety
snowy
glosses: Containing sleet or snow.
raw_tags: of precipitation
synonyms: word: grisly
word: hoary
word: ancient
word: aged
word: age-old
word: antediluvian
word: auld
word: cobwebbed
word: cobwebby
word: decrepit
word: eld
word: eldern
word: gray
word: hoary
word: moss-grown
word: old
word: old as the hills
word: old as the Pyramids
word: olden
word: older than dirt
word: older than the hills
word: older than the Pyramids
word: venerable
word: wintry
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
raw_tags: in this metonymic sense
word: gerontologic
raw_tags: in this metonymic sense
word: gerontological
raw_tags: in this metonymic sense
word: long in the tooth
word: matured
word: of a certain age
word: old as Methuselah
word: on in years
word: over the hill
word: senior
word: superannuated
word: ivy-covered
word: preserved
word: wintry
glosses: Aged, white-haired.
examples: text: a wintry remark
text: He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
ref: 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Bounder's Folly:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: dreary
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Chilling, cheerless.
Derived terms: unwintry
wintrily
wintriness
wintry mix
wintry shower
wired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪəd/
ipa: /waɪɹd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more wired
form: most wired
Etymology: From wire + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
glosses: Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
glosses: Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
examples: text: After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
text: I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired
ref: 1980, “Totally Wired”, performed by The Fall:
text: I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
ref: 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
text: Too wired to die, too under fire to think
ref: 2016, Doseone, “Enter the Gungeon”, in Enter the Gungeon OST:
glosses: Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having wiry feathers.
examples: text: You find out where the rocks are, how the waves are breaking over the rocks or reef. Find out if there's any funny little fish who might be mad - things like that. What we call "getting a place wired." After you get it wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: All worked out; completely understood.
topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: back to back
glosses: Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
examples: text: I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
examples: text: In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.
ref: 2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state, page 247:
text: Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS[…]
ref: 2004 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 38, number 3, page 44:
glosses: Connected to the Internet; online.
raw_tags: of people or communities
Synonyms: sense: equipped with a connection wire
word: corded
Derived terms: autowired
hardwired
hot-wired
razor-wired
wired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪəd/
ipa: /waɪɹd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From wire + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wire
wiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From wire + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wire
wiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: wirings
Etymology: From wire + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A mass of electric wires.
Derived terms: electrical wiring
structured wiring
wiring diagram
wiring harness
wiring loom
Related terms: rewiring
cording
wither away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: withers away
form: withering away
form: withered away
form: withered away
Senses: glosses: To atrophy, or waste away.
Derived terms: withering away of the state
viceroyalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪsˈɹɔɪəlti/
Forms: form: viceroyalties
Etymology: From vice- + royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté.
Senses: glosses: The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom.
examples: India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.
glosses: The place governed by a viceroy.
Witzelsucht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Witzelsucht, a compound of witzeln (“to joke”) + Sucht (“obsession, addiction”).
Senses: glosses: A tendency to tell inappropriate or pointless stories and poor jokes; excessive facetiousness, especially when due to some medical condition.
writer's block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writer's blocks
form: writers' blocks
Senses: examples: text: Laymen speak of ‘a writer’s block’ as if it were singular and are often encouraged in this fallacy by authors who are understandably reluctant to discuss something as personal as mental impotence. There are many kinds of writers’ blocks and probably as many reasons for blocks as there are reasons for writing, […]
ref: 1994, André Jute, “Writer’s Blues: breaching the blocks”, in Writing a Thriller, 2nd edition, London: A & C Black, →ISBN, page 89:
hypernyms: mental block
glosses: The (usually temporary) inability to begin or continue work on a piece of writing, especially creative writing.
cirri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: plural of cirrus Tendrils or claspers.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: plural of cirrus Grouped cilia that function as "legs" in certain species of protists.
logic board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logic boards
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Macintosh
glosses: A motherboard.
matter of fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matters of fact
Etymology: First attested in the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: Whether he left his house on the night of the murder is a matter of fact.
topics: law
glosses: An issue concerning the factual circumstances of a cause of action that is to be tried or proved; an allegation forming the basis of a claim or defense, as opposed to a matter of law.
examples: text: It’s a matter of fact that I came into work yesterday.
text: And all that I pretend to in this ensueing Treatise, is only to poynt with the finger from the Text unto the mater of fact, shewing how here & there, these & those words of the Text were fulfilled.
ref: 1690, John Butler, Bellua Marina: or the Monstrous Beast Which Arose out of the Sea […], page 3:
glosses: A point of fact; a claim or statement about (empirical) facts, as opposed to conjecture or opinion.
Derived terms: as a matter of fact
matter-of-fact
matter-of-factly
matter of fact
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: First attested in the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: “Are you familiar with the Trade Mart building?” ¶ “Yes,” I replied. “Matter of fact, I had drinks up at the top of the Mart only a few nights ago.”
ref: 1970, James Kirkwood, American Grotesque: An Account of the Clay Shaw–Jim Garrison Affair in the City of New Orleans, page 570:
text: Matter of fact, I vaguely recall interviewing him at a public appearance at The New York Times Building on Wednesday evening.
ref: 2009 November 14, George Vecsey, “In Assessing Agassi, the Title Tells It All”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Ellipsis of as a matter of fact.
Related terms: matter of course
matter of routine
snuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of snorkel + scuba
Senses: examples: text: This isn’t scuba, or even snuba, but simply underwater walking!
ref: 2001, Christie Stilson, Maui and Lanaʻi, Ninth Edition, Prima, page 400
text: One raft will support two snuba-divers. ¶ […] Orientation for the snuba activity is usually about 30 min, followed by a 30-min undersea experience.
ref: 2008, Charles Hammersley, “Snuba”, in Michael Lück, editor, The Encyclopedia of Tourism and Recreation in Marine Environments, CABI, →ISBN, page 439:
text: A fun alternative in the sea is a “snuba” tour, where snorkelers can go underwater tethered by a breathing tube to an air-supply float on the surface.
ref: 2010, Marcie and Rick Carroll, The Unofficial Guide to Hawaii, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 290:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A combination of snorkeling and scuba diving where the swimmer uses the fins, mask, and breathing apparatus commonly used in scuba diving, but the oxygen tanks usually strapped to the back are instead attached to floating rafts that remain on the water's surface.
theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiː.ə.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˈθɪəɹ.əm/
rhymes: (US) -ɪəɹəm
Forms: form: theorems
form: theoreming
form: theoremed
form: theoremed
Etymology: From Middle French théorème, from Late Latin theōrēma, from Ancient Greek θεώρημα (theṓrēma, “speculation, proposition to be proved”) (Euclid), from θεωρέω (theōréō, “I look at, view, consider, examine”), from θεωρός (theōrós, “spectator”), from θέα (théa, “a view”) + ὁράω (horáō, “I see, look”). See also theory, and theater.
Senses: glosses: To formulate into a theorem.
unforeseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːn/
ipa: /ˌʌnfɔɹˈsin/
ipa: /ˌɐnfoːˈsiːn/
ipa: /ˌanfɔːˈsiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From un- + foreseen.
Senses: examples: text: unforeseen catastrophe
text: unforeseen consequences
text: unforeseen failure
glosses: Not foreseen.
glosses: Not expected.
unforeseen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːn/
ipa: /ˌʌnfɔɹˈsin/
ipa: /ˌɐnfoːˈsiːn/
ipa: /ˌanfɔːˈsiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: unforeseens
Etymology: From un- + foreseen.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, many of the unforeseens are created by the client.
ref: 1997, Gerry Souter, Buying and Selling Multimedia Services, page 25:
glosses: An event, incident, cost, etc. that was not foreseen.
unproven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːvən
Etymology: From un- + proven.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unconfirmed; see also Thesaurus:baseless
text: Furthermore, the system is not entirely unproven.
ref: 2025 June 11, Richard Wilcock, “Helping to shape rail's future”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 26:
coordinate_terms: experimental
;
untested
untried
glosses: Not proved.
manifesto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.təʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.toʊ/
Forms: form: manifestos
form: manifestoes
form: manifesti
Etymology: Since the mid 17th century, from Italian manifesto, from manifestare, from Latin manifestō (“to make public”). Doublet of manifest.
Senses: examples: text: the Communist Manifesto
text: A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.
text: During the worst days of Bolshevík tyranny, when book publishing had become impossible, the imaginists were a living reminder of undying freedom; they were the only independent group that were not afraid to make themselves noticed by the authorities, and they were wonderfully skilled in getting their slender little collections and manifestoes printed by fair means or foul.
ref: 1949, D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Book Two, Chapter 6, pp. 494-5:
text: As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.
ref: 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).
ref: 2023 November 20, Nitish Pahwa, “What the Heck Just Happened at OpenAI??”, in Slate, →ISSN:
glosses: A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.
Derived terms: countermanifesto
cybermanifesto
manifestolike
mini-manifesto
personifesto
womanifesto
manifesto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.təʊ/
ipa: /ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.toʊ/
Forms: form: manifestos
form: manifestoing
form: manifestoed
form: manifestoed
Etymology: Since the mid 17th century, from Italian manifesto, from manifestare, from Latin manifestō (“to make public”). Doublet of manifest.
Senses: glosses: To issue a manifesto.
legged
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡd/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈlɛɡəd/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪd
rhymes: -ɛɡd
rhymes: -ɛɡəd
Forms: form: leggeds
Etymology: From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.
glosses: Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
raw_tags: in combinations
legged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡd/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈlɛɡəd/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪd
rhymes: -ɛɡd
rhymes: -ɛɡəd
Etymology: From leg (“verb”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leg