cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
united
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈnaɪtɪd/
ipa: /jʊˈnaɪtɪd/
enpr: yo͞o-nīʹtĭd
enpr: yo͝o-
ipa: /juˈnaɪtɪd/
ipa: /jʊˈnaɪtɪd/
ipa: [juˈnaɪ̯ɾɪ̈d]
ipa: [ju̟ˈnaɪ̯ɾɪ̈d]
ipa: [jʊˈnaɪ̯ɾɪ̈d]
ipa: [jəˈnaɪ̯ɾɪ̈d]
rhymes: -aɪtɪd
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *éy?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Latin -iō
Latin ūniō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin ūnītuslbor.
Middle English uniten
English unite
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English united
From unite + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Joined into a single entity.
examples: text: The two parties stood united against the proposal.
text: A united effort is needed to solve the problem.
glosses: Involving the joint activity of multiple agents.
Derived terms: Trellech United
United Arab Emirates
United Canada
United Canadas
united church
United Counties of Leeds and Grenville
United Counties of Prescott and Russell
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
united flower
united inch
United Kingdom
United Province of Canada
United Provinces
United States
store
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stô
ipa: /stɔː/
enpr: stôr
ipa: /stɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: stōr
ipa: /sto(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /stoə/
homophone: stower stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: stores
form: storing
form: stored
form: stored
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: store
form: store
form: stored
form: store
form: storest
form: stored
form: storedst
form: stores
form: storeth
form: stored
form: store
form: stored
form: store
form: stored
form: store
form: -
form: storing
form: stored
Etymology: From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
Senses: examples: text: I'll store these books in the attic.
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
coordinate_terms: lay aside
lay away
lay by
lay in
lay up
put aside
put away
put by
save
store away
store up
glosses: To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
examples: text: The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
glosses: To contain.
examples: text: They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
glosses: Have the capacity and capability to contain.
examples: text: This operation stores the result on the stack.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To write (something) into memory or registers.
examples: text: I have eaten my fill, and had my pockets well stored.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 244:
glosses: To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the verb "store"
word: store away
sense: Terms derived from the verb "store"
word: store up
sense: Terms derived from the verb "store"
word: warm store
foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox
foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fox
excited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsaɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more excited
form: most excited
Etymology: From excite + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He was very excited about his promotion.
text: Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday / Today i-is Friday, Friday / We-we-we so excited / We so excited / We gonna have a ball today
ref: 2011, “Friday”, performed by Rebecca Black ft. Patrice Wilson:
synonyms: enthusiastic
aflutter
glosses: Having great enthusiasm, passion and energy.
examples: text: The excited electrons give off light when they drop to a lower energy state.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Being in a state of higher energy.
glosses: Having an erection; erect.
examples: text: When you lick my neck like that, I get really excited, baby!
glosses: Sexually aroused.
Derived terms: deexcited
excimer
exciplex
excited delirium
excitedly
excitedness
excited state
Excited States
Excited States of America
hyperexcited
nervicited
nervited
nonexcited
overexcited
sad-cited
sadcited
self-excited
superexcited
unexcited
excited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsaɪtɪd/
Etymology: From excite + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excite
sealed system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealed systems
Senses: examples: text: There are many types of sealed systems, for example an audio speaker, a printing machine, a heating system, or a grain storage system.
glosses: Any device with inner workings obscured.
seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēl
ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: SEAL
homophone: ceil
homophone: seel
homophone: Cel
Forms: form: seals
Etymology: From Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare Scots selch,selkie, North Frisian selich, Middle Dutch seel, zēle, Old High German selah, Danish sæl, Middle Low German sale), Icelandic selur, either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare dialectal Finnish hylki, standard hylje, Estonian hüljes).
Senses: examples: text: The seals in the harbor looked better than they smelled.
glosses: A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
Derived terms: acme seal
Arctic seal
arctic seal
Atlantic gray seal
Atlantic grey seal
Baikal seal
bay seal
bearded seal
bottle-nosed seal
Caspian seal
common seal
crab-eater seal
crabeater seal
crab-eating seal
crawling seal
crested seal
eared seal
earless seal
elephant seal
fur seal
fur-seal
gray seal
grey seal
Greenland seal
hair seal
hair-seal
harbor seal
harbour seal
harp seal
harp-seal
Hawaiian monk seal
heart seal
hooded seal
Hudson bay seal
Hudson seal
jar seal
kid seal
Ladoga seal
land seal
Larga seal
leonine seal
leopard seal
leporine seal
maned seal
marbled seal
monk seal
monk-seal
native seal
pied seal
pin seal
ribbon seal
ringed seal
river seal
rock seal
Ross seal
rough seal
saddleback seal
seal-bird
seal bomb
seal brown
seal-brown
seal calf
sealchie
seal-cloth
seal dog
seal dribble
sealery
seal-fin deformity
seal finger
seal fingers
seal-fish
seal-fisher
seal-fishing
seal-fur
seal-grain
seal-hole
seal-hunter
seal-hunting
seal limbs
seal-lynx point
seal-man
seal-oil
seal oil
seal-plush
seal point
sealpoint
seal rookery
seal row
seal salamander
seal shark
sealskin
seal-tortie lynx point
seal-tortie point
seal-vat
small-ringed seal
spotted seal
square flipper seal
swan-necked seal
thong seal
true seal
ursine seal
walking seal
Weddell seal
Weddell's seal
Related terms: vent
seal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēl
ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: SEAL
homophone: ceil
homophone: seel
homophone: Cel
Forms: form: seals
form: sealing
form: sealed
form: sealed
Etymology: From Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare Scots selch,selkie, North Frisian selich, Middle Dutch seel, zēle, Old High German selah, Danish sæl, Middle Low German sale), Icelandic selur, either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare dialectal Finnish hylki, standard hylje, Estonian hüljes).
Senses: examples: text: They're organizing a protest against sealing.
glosses: To hunt seals.
Related terms: clapmatch
dolphin
sea lion
selkie
walrus
seal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēl
ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: SEAL
homophone: ceil
homophone: seel
homophone: Cel
Forms: form: seals
form: sealing
form: sealed
form: sealed
Etymology: From Middle English *selen (suggested by Middle English sele (“harness; hame”)), perhaps from Old English sǣlan (“to bind”).
Senses: glosses: To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
badian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French badiane, from Persian بادیان (bâdiyân).
Senses: glosses: Star anise.
apocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒkəlɪps/
ipa: /əˈpɑkəlɪps/
Forms: form: apocalypses
Etymology: From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”, literally “uncovering”), from ἀπό (apó, “back, away from”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “I cover”). The sense evolution to "catastrophe, end of the world" stems from the depiction of such events in the biblical Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of (i.e. Revelation to) John.
Senses: examples: text: The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
synonyms: revelation#Noun
glosses: A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, holocaust; armageddon, doomsday, end times, eschaton, judgement day, judgment day
text: A nuclear apocalypse would have been possible if tensions went out of control during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
text: Man has forgotten the soul and thus doomed his civilization to apocalypse.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:
text: The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 699:
text: In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025.
ref: 2025 January 10, Peter Thiel, quoting Barack Obama, “A time for truth and reconciliation”, in Financial Times:
glosses: A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.
examples: Meronyms: Final Judgment, Judgment Day, judgement day, judgment day
Near-synonym: Ragnarok
topics: Christianity
related: word: Apocalypse
synonyms: armageddon
doomsday
end times
eschaton
glosses: The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
topics: Christianity
related: word: Apocalypse
synonyms: Revelation
glosses: The Book of Revelation.
Derived terms: AIpocalypse
apocalyptic
apocalypticism
Brexocalypse
eco-apocalypse
jobpocalypse
postapocalypse
post-apocalypse
replyallpocalypse
retail apocalypse
snowpocalypse
Twitpocalypse
zombocalypse
Zombocalypse
Petrarchan sonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petrarchan sonnets
Etymology: Named after Italian scholar, poet and humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), who did not invent but made large use of this form in his authorship.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
synonyms: Italian sonnet
glosses: A sonnet comprising an octave and a closing sestet, following the rhyme scheme of either abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd or abba abba cce dde or abba abba cdd cee.
Related terms: Shakespearean sonnet
Spenserian sonnet
venue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛnjuː/
rhymes: -ɛnjuː
Forms: form: venues
Etymology: From Middle English venu, from Old French venue, the feminine singular past participle of the verb venir (to come). Doublet of veny.
Senses: glosses: A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events.
examples: text: The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes.
synonyms: venew
glosses: A bout; a hit; a turn.
examples: text: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
examples: text: The metalworking forum is not the appropriate venue for this discussion about politics.
glosses: The place where something happens.
Hyponyms: stadium
arena
Derived terms: change of venue
sex-on-premises venue
Related terms: lay a venue
bienvenue
venew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛnjuː/
rhymes: -ɛnjuː
Forms: form: venews
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of venue.
examples: text: a quick venew of wit
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
synonyms: thrust
hit
veney
glosses: A bout, or turn, as at fencing
veney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛneɪ/
rhymes: -ɛneɪ
Forms: form: veneys
Senses: examples: text: I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A bout; a thrust; a venew.
Related terms: venew
visne
exploiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exploiters
Etymology: From exploit + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who exploits.
Derived terms: sexploiter
exploiter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exploiters
form: exploitering
form: exploitered
form: exploitered
Etymology: Irregular adoption of French exploiter.
Senses: examples: text: Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favors and spiritual graces from her Saviour, but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally, and use her expertness to give instruction to those less privileged.
ref: 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 347:
glosses: To make use of (something).
dr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dr (debitor)
glosses: Abbreviation of drachm (“dram”).
Related terms: dr. wt.
Dr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drs
form: Dr.
Senses: examples: text: The defenders, Drs Smith and Lowe, ought not to have detained the pursuer in their said asylum.
ref: 1859, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Court of Exchequer, and House of Lords, volume XXI, Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; London: Stevens and Norton, page 786:
glosses: Doctor, a title used before a doctor's name or surname (Dr Jane Doe, Dr Doe)
glosses: drive, used in street names
glosses: debit
glosses: debitor
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of drums (of a rock band)
Derived terms: Dr. Watsonish
Related terms: Jr.
Sr.
Mr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Messrs
Etymology: Abbreviation of Mister.
Senses: examples: text: In recent months Mr Balaji had publicly spoken out against artificial intelligence company OpenAI's practices, which has been fighting a number of lawsuits relating to its data-gathering practices.
ref: 2024 December 14, Alys Davies, “OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment”, in BBC:
glosses: Abbreviation of Mister.
glosses: Abbreviation of March.
Derived terms: Mr Fixit
Related terms: Br
Bro
Jr
Sr
Mr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of Mister.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of March.
toccer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒk.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɑk.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Etymology: Blend of tennis + soccer
Senses: glosses: A sport in which two teams of eight players contend to get a ball resembling a tennis ball into the other team's goal, defended by a player with a racquet.
Synonyms: tennis polo
Ms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: mĭsʹ
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪs/
homophone: miz
homophone: mizz
homophone: Miz
rhymes: -ɪz
enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: məz
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /məz/
Forms: form: Mss
form: Mses
form: Ms.
form: M/s
Etymology: Found since the 1600s as an abbreviation of mistress (whence also Miss and Mrs), a title which initially did not indicate marital status. Suggestions that the term be revived began in 1901, and referenced the fact that dialects such as Southern US English already made no distinction between Miss and Mrs (/ˈmɪz/) in speech. With the founding of Ms. magazine in 1971, the term quickly became widespread as an alternative to Miss and Mrs., which require knowing (and publicizing) the referent's marital status.
Senses: examples: Ms Jane Doe, Ms. Roe
glosses: Title used before an adult woman's name or surname, especially when it is not desired or possible to indicate her marital status with Miss or Mrs.
Derived terms: mizz
Miz
Ms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: mĭsʹ
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪs/
homophone: miz
homophone: mizz
homophone: Miz
rhymes: -ɪz
enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: məz
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /məz/
ipa: /ɛmz/
enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: mĭsʹ
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪs/
homophone: miz
homophone: mizz
homophone: Miz
rhymes: -ɪz
enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: məz
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /məz/
Forms: form: M's
Etymology: From M + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of M
Ms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: mĭsʹ
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪs/
homophone: miz
homophone: mizz
homophone: Miz
rhymes: -ɪz
enpr: mĭzʹ
enpr: məz
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
ipa: /məz/
ipa: /ɛmz/
Etymology: From a shortening of its name.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of mesyl.
Jr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Jr.
Etymology: Abbreviation of junior.
Senses: glosses: A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name.
Related terms: word: Sr
word: Sr.
Sgt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sgts
form: Sgt.
form: SGT
form: SGT.
Senses: glosses: A title added before the name of a sergeant.
Related terms: MGy Sgt
Sergeant
sergeant
sgt
Pres
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: President (used as a title written before a president's name)
Synonyms: Pres.
Pres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of preserve.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of preservation.
clambake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmˌbeɪk/
Forms: form: clambakes
form: clam bake
Etymology: From clam + bake.
Senses: examples: text: In Newport, R. I., the clambake is more than just a way to pass a summer afternoon; it’s a beloved New England tradition that locals take very seriously. […] Traditionally, a clambake involves building a fire pit, coating the hot rocks and coals with seaweed and cooking a mélange of treats — lobsters, clams, sausage, potatoes, corn on the cob — topped with a wet tarp.
ref: 2015 July 10, Alexandria Symonds, “How to Throw a Clambake Like You’re From Rhode Island”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.
synonyms: hotbox
glosses: An instance of smoking (usually marijuana) in an enclosed space.
synonyms: taco fest
glosses: A meeting of predominantly females.
clambake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmˌbeɪk/
Forms: form: clam bake
Etymology: From clam + bake.
Senses: examples: 2004, New Yorker, 9-16 August
not in their Ivy privilege or clambake geography
glosses: Informal, makeshift, sloppy.
clambake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmˌbeɪk/
Forms: form: clambakes
form: clambaking
form: clambaked
form: clambaked
form: clam bake
Etymology: From clam + bake.
Senses: examples: text: When I was 16, I used to clambake with these two friends almost every day on the way to school
ref: 1995 October 6, Nicholas Meshes, “My Favorite Story”, in alt.drugs.pot (Usenet):
text: i love clmabaking..it's been so long since ive done it though..i remember once my friends and i were clambaking at the forest preserve in the car and this ranger comes along so we roll all the windows down and there was like a huge cloud floating over the car.
ref: 1999 November 13, Jozlyn, “clam bake?”, in alt.drugs.pot (Usenet):
text: Its 4:02 pm, but i couldnt wait for 4:20 so im high right now... actuelly, i smoked bout 25 mins ago.... i let my dogg sit in my clambaked room for like 20 mins, now shes scarfing down her food in the kitchen... lol
ref: 2000 April 18, Hardcore, “Re: High”, in alt.drugs.pot (Usenet):
text: recently i went on a camp out with a bunch o friends and we packed one of the biggest blunts ive ever had. i think it was about 6 grams. this thing was huge. we smoked it between like 4 people, and afterward, when we were all sittin in the clambaked tent, the kid across from me was glowing...
ref: 2000 April 11, Mrs. P, “weirdest feleling ever”, in alt.drugs.pot (Usenet):
text: I was rolling this huge joint in my car and all of the sudden I hear this tapping noise on the passenger door, It was a drudge ravener, So I let him come on in and we clambaked for 3 hours, man it was great...
ref: 2000 June 27, Vacas Relic, “Re: Symptoms that you are playing too much AC”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.asherons_call (Usenet):
text: I've clambaked before, and you'd have to smoke for *hours* to get it that smoky in there.
ref: 2003 April 13, Nike Shinoda Drone, “Re: Favorite and awful commercials - OT”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):
glosses: To smoke marijuana in an enclosed space such as a car with the windows up.
examples: text: We clambaked the car last night!
glosses: To enclose something and fill it with smoke by smoking (usually marijuana) inside it.
Synonyms: hotbox
eric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
homophone: Eric
Forms: form: erics
form: eriach
form: erick
Etymology: From Irish éiric.
Senses: examples: text: The court-poets of Wales […] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.
ref: 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18
glosses: A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
testudinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testudinate
form: most testudinate
Etymology: From Late Latin testūdinātus (“arched, vaulted”). By surface analysis, Latin testūdō (testūdin- in compounds) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: 2003: Fans of the testudinate pace and art-house vibe of writer-director Sally Potter — editorial review of the DVD The Man Who Cried, http://amazon.com
glosses: Of, like or relating to a tortoise.
glosses: Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; arched; vaulted.
Synonyms: testudinal
testudinarious
testudinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testudinates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin testūdō (testūdin- in compounds) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Cope..enumerates.. 13 sea-saurians, 48 testudinates, and 50 sea serpents.
ref: 1880, Library of Universal Knowledge, volume IV. 454:
glosses: A turtle.
Related terms: potamian
thalassian
Ragnarok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɒk/
ipa: /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɔk/
ipa: /ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɑk/
Forms: form: Ragnarök
form: ragnarök
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse ragnarǫk (modern Icelandic ragnarök), from regin (“gods”) + rǫk (“fate, judgment”).
Senses: examples: text: Wilhelmina weeps, now and then, with her good Sonsfeld; hopes nevertheless there will be some dawn to this ragnarök, or general ‘twilight of the gods.’
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 274:
text: And all that is before them and the whole civilised world, would be long centuries of anarchy such as the world has not seen for ages—a true Ragnarok, a twilight of the very gods, an age such as the wise woman foretold in the old Voluspà.
ref: 1902, Charles Kingsley, “Ancient Civilisation”, in Historical Lectures and Essays, Macmillan and Co.:
text: But this heaven was not to last forever. Some day would come Ragnarok, or the Twilight of the Gods, when all creation would be destroyed, and all the Gods and men save Alfadur perish. Surtur, after killing the last of these Gods, would burn up the world.
ref: 1916 February, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Teuton's Battle-Song”, in United Amateur:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki, and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.
Synonyms: sense: final battle
word: apocalypse
sense: final battle
word: armageddon
sense: final battle
word: doomsday
sense: final battle
word: Götterdämmerung
sense: final battle
word: judgement day
sense: final battle
word: Twilight of the Gods
homestretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homestretches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of home stretch.
Enigma machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːn
Forms: form: Enigma machines
Senses: glosses: A small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII.
examples: text: No one needed an Enigma machine to figure out why Jimmy Carter was recalling his days aboard a nuclear submarine.
ref: 2004, New Yorker, 9 - 16 August 2004, page 37
glosses: Something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic.
quaich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kweɪx/
ipa: /kweɪk/
ipa: /kwex/
rhymes: -eɪx
Forms: form: quaichs
form: quaiches
form: quaigh
form: quegh
Etymology: From Scots quaich, from Scottish Gaelic cuach (“bowl, goblet”), from Old Irish cuäch (“goblet”), from Proto-Celtic *kaɸukos (“cup, bowl, vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: The quaighs were deep, the liquor strong, / And on the tale the yeoman throng, / Had made a comment sage and long, [...]
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Third. The Hostel, or Inn.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XXVIII, page 101:
text: Every evening through all the summer Lampusa put out for them before her rock-hewn kitchen a silver quaich of milk; then she summoned the creatures with a low call.
ref: 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 13:
text: A quaich was an ideal gift when made from the timber of the fifteenth-century Alloway Kirk, which, "as you will have read in 'Tam O'Shanter', was a ruin in [Robert] Burns day but had the roof nearly intact until the turn of that century, (18th-19th). The rafters and other load bearing beams were ideal for souvenir makers" (letter, Nov. 19, 1991).
ref: 1994, John A. Hyman, Silver at Williamsburg: Drinking Vessels, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, page 48:
glosses: A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship, originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor.
glosses: Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy.
quaigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaighs
Senses: examples: text: The quaighs were deep, the liquor strong, / And on the tale the yeoman throng, / Had made a comment sage and long, [...]
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Third. The Hostel, or Inn.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XXVIII, page 101:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quaich.
chuppah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈxʊpə/
/ˈhʊpə/
Forms: form: chuppahs
form: chuppot
form: chuppoth
form: chupa
form: chupah
form: chuppa
form: hupah
form: huppah
form: khuppa
form: khuppah
form: chippah
form: chuppeh
Etymology: From Hebrew חופה \ חֻפָּה (ḥuppâ).
Senses: examples: text: The dveykut that accompanied the groom as he walked down the aisle to the chupah was truly inspirational.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 116:
text: Everyone was standing under a kind of thatched chuppa. Parts of the concrete structure still stained wet from the day before.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
glosses: The canopy over a Jewish couple during their marriage ceremony.
glosses: A marriage ceremony, wedding.
pagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pā'gən
ipa: /ˈpeɪɡən/
rhymes: -eɪɡən
Etymology: From Middle English pagan (adjective and noun), from Latin pāgānus (“rural, rustic", later "civilian”), replaced Middle English payen from the same root.
The meaning "not Christian" arose in Vulgar Latin, probably from the 4th century, owing to the Roman countryside being largely non-christian, or potentially from the "civilian" meaning - denoting those not in the "army of Christ". As a self-designation of neopagans, attested since 1990.
Partly displaced native heathen, from Old English hǣþen.
Senses: examples: text: Under Christianization, many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints.
text: Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.
ref: 2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN:
glosses: Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.
glosses: Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.
Synonyms: sense: adhering to a non-main world religion
word: heathen
sense: uncivilized
word: barbarian
sense: uncivilized
word: barbaric
Hyponyms: pantheistic
neo-pagan
Derived terms: anti-pagan
Christopagan
curse like a pagan
neopagan
nonpagan
pagandom
paganess
paganic
paganing
paganise
paganish
paganism
paganist
paganistic
paganity
paganization
paganize
paganly
paganness
paganophile
paganry
playgan
postpagan
semipagan
swear like a pagan
technopagan
unpagan
pagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pā'gən
ipa: /ˈpeɪɡən/
rhymes: -eɪɡən
Forms: form: pagans
Etymology: From Middle English pagan (adjective and noun), from Latin pāgānus (“rural, rustic", later "civilian”), replaced Middle English payen from the same root.
The meaning "not Christian" arose in Vulgar Latin, probably from the 4th century, owing to the Roman countryside being largely non-christian, or potentially from the "civilian" meaning - denoting those not in the "army of Christ". As a self-designation of neopagans, attested since 1990.
Partly displaced native heathen, from Old English hǣþen.
Senses: examples: text: This community has a surprising number of pagans.
glosses: A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
glosses: An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
glosses: An unruly, badly educated child.
glosses: An outlaw biker who is a member of the Pagans MC.
glosses: Alternative form of paigon
Synonyms: sense: heathen
word: paynim
sense: uncivilised
word: philistine
sense: uncivilised
word: savage
sense: child
word: brat
Derived terms: neo-pagan
Related terms: peasant
paynim
heretic
infidel
paganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪɡənɪzm̩/
Forms: form: paganisms
Etymology: From Latin pāgānismus (“heathenism”), from pāgānus (“peasant, rural, rustic”). The term was used pejoratively by local Orthodox Christian Demonyms to belittle what remained of alternative native ideas and ideals. By surface analysis, pagan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Most people in that region practise their own form of paganism.
glosses: Any indigenous polytheistic religion.
examples: text: Various neopagan movements have arisen, each advancing its own form of paganism. Some are monotheist.
glosses: Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.
Derived terms: Christopaganism
neopaganism
technopaganism
Related terms: pagan
neo-paganism
Christianity
heathen
heathendom
heathenism
gentile
tag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tăg
ipa: /tæɡ/
ipa: /teɪɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: tags
form: tagging
form: tagged
form: tagged
Etymology: From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.
Senses: glosses: To label (something).
glosses: To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
examples: text: Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
glosses: To remove dung tags from a sheep.
examples: text: He really tagged that ball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball hard.
examples: text: Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
glosses: to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
examples: text: He tagged the runner for the out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
examples: text: I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: untag
glosses: To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
examples: text: One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.
ref: 2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:
glosses: To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
examples: text: A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “By Courier”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:
glosses: To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
glosses: To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
examples: text: He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
ref: 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
examples: a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
glosses: To fasten; to attach.
Derived terms: word: bag and tag
word: retag
word: tag along
word: tagged
word: tagger
word: tagging
word: tag out
tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăg
ipa: /tæɡ/
ipa: /teɪɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: tagin
form: tagim
Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (taga, “crown”). Doublet of taj.
Senses: glosses: A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
Synonyms: word: dobby
word: it
word: hit
word: tig
word: tiggy
word: tuggy
word: touch
word: catch
word: chase
word: tick
word: tip
word: had
Hypernyms: word: game
sportswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportswomen
Etymology: From sports + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who engages in sports; a female athlete.
Related terms: sportsman
also-ran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: also-rans
Etymology: From the world of horse race betting, where lists of winners would be published with non-paying positions printed in a block under the heading “Also Ran”.
Senses: glosses: A person or animal who competed in a race but did not win.
examples: text: It also turned Palmer from an also-ran into a challenger.
ref: 1960 June 18, “Nerves of Steel”, in The New York Times:
text: I have 37 actors and actresses I would supply for television and radio work and then I have maybe 150 to 200 also-rans who get extra work and television commercials.
ref: 1962, Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament, volume 4, Australia, page 261:
text: […]some of Mr. Scorsese's accomplishments have been so stunning—that it's impossible to view "The Last Waltz" as anything but an also-ran.
ref: 1978 April 26, Janet Maslin, “Film: Scorsese and the Band”, in The New York Times:
text: And, of course, it is also far easier, quicker, and less embarrassing to dismiss an also-ran over the phone than it is in person […]
ref: 1993, Martin Yate, Hiring the Best, Adams Media, page 58:
text: […]as the drug came out of the R&D laboratory, it could have been just another also-ran […]
ref: 1998, Richard C Dorf, The Technology Management Handbook, CRC Press, page 40:
text: The transition from comer to also-ran can be quick […]
ref: 2004 August 9, The New Yorker, page 40:
glosses: A loser; a person or thing soon to be forgotten.
Related terms: first loser
nearly man
underdog
hype man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hype men
form: hypeman
Senses: examples: text: Hammer and the Posse, a group consisting of four dancers, two DJs and one hype man (“He’s the guy who pumps the crowd up,” Hammer explained), hope to win over rap fans.
ref: 1988 April 3, Lee Hildebrand, “M.C. Hammer Nails Down A Royal Reputation”, in San Francisco Chronicle, page 42:
text: Puff is up on stage with Biggie rappin’ almost as much as Biggie. He’s not just the hype man on stage goin’ Yea Yea, he’s rappin’ whole verses.
ref: 1995 August 30, Richard Payton, “Re: Suge Vs Puffy”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: Hype men, for those of you unfamiliar with the lingo, are the fellas you see at rap shows who stand next to MCs and bellow certain words along with the rap to add emphasis.
ref: 2004 May 26, Jordan Harper, “I Love a Parade: Radar Station hitches a ride with great big rappers”, in Riverfront Times, St. Louis, Mo.:
text: Mills appeared first, performing with a hype man (someone who exorts the crowd and sings along with key lines) and a disk jockey.
ref: 2004 August 9, The New Yorker, page 100:
glosses: A hip-hop performer responsible for backup rapping and singing and increasing an audience’s excitement with call-and-response chants.
dose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊs/
ipa: /doʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: doses
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.
Senses: examples: text: Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
glosses: A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
examples: text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
glosses: The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
synonyms: fill
glosses: Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
examples: text: “I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas - a regular dose of the East - six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilise you.”
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197:
text: The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:
glosses: A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
examples: text: Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.
ref: 1972, Shel Silverstein, “Don't Give A Dose to the One You Love Most”:
text: It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 382:
glosses: A venereal infection.
examples: text: There's a dose going round.
glosses: A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
Derived terms: absorbed dose
banana equivalent dose
black dose
booster dose
committed dose
dose dumping
dose equivalent
dosemeter
dose of one's own medicine
dose rate
dosology
effective dose
elephant dose
equivalent dose
flight-time equivalent dose
funny as a dose of the clap
heroic dose
interdose
isodose
lethal dose
like a dose of salts
low-dose CT scanning
macrodose
megadose
metered-dose inhaler
multidose
paleodose
postdose
predose
radiation dose
semilethal dose
the dose makes the poison
under-dose
underdose
zero-dose
Related terms: dosage
dose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊs/
ipa: /doʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: doses
form: dosing
form: dosed
form: dosed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.
Senses: examples: text: "She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate."
ref: 1871, George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond, page 270:
glosses: To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
glosses: To prescribe a dose.
examples: text: The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.
ref: 2016, Pamela Donovan, Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History, page 71:
glosses: To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
examples: text: Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.
ref: 1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok:
glosses: To transmit a venereal disease to.
Derived terms: doseable
microdose
dose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊs/
ipa: /doʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: doses
Senses: examples: text: Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]
ref: 1839, Benjamin Abbott, Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rev. Benjamin Abbott:
glosses: Archaic form of doze.
dose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊs/
ipa: /doʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: doses
form: dosing
form: dosed
form: dosed
Senses: examples: text: It was to me a marvellous experience; to be here, propped up with pillows in a dimly-lighted room, the night-nurse idly dosing by the fire; the sound of the everlasting wind in my ears, howling outside […]
ref: 1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away And Long Ago:
glosses: Archaic form of doze.
vum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: vums
form: vumming
form: vummed
form: vummed
Etymology: Alteration of vow.
Senses: examples: text: I vum it's Sunday—you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere—come along then; do come; won't ye come?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Ch. 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To vow, swear.
vum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: Alteration of vow.
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of surprise.
prosit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊzɪt/
rhymes: -əʊzɪt
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊzɪt/
Etymology: From German prosit.
Senses: glosses: Toast to indicate one is drinking to someone's, or to each other's, health.
functionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functionalities
Etymology: From functional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Glu Mobile, who realigned its workforce towards centralized GaaS functions last year, announced earlier this month that it will shut down GameSpy Technology on May 31. The service provides multiplayer functionality for dozens of games on consoles, computers and mobile devices.
ref: 2014 May 1, Jenna Pitcher, “Glu Mobile acquires Diner Dash developer PlayFirst”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
glosses: The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
topics: law
glosses: In trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than the identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
examples: text: To appreciate the tasks and problems arising in the synthesis of the monomers it is of fundamental importance to understand that the process used must be capable of yielding organosilanes with different functionalities, since all functionalities are required for synthesis of silicones.
ref: 2012, Walter Noll, Chemistry and Technology of Silicones, page 25:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The presence of a functional group.
Derived terms: bifunctionality
biofunctionality
cofunctionality
hyperfunctionality
hypofunctionality
isofunctionality
monofunctionality
multifunctionality
nonfunctionality
plurifunctionality
polyfunctionality
Related terms: function
functional