cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unenthusiastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnɛnθjuːziˈæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more unenthusiastic
form: most unenthusiastic
Etymology: From un- + enthusiastic.
Senses: synonyms: word: languid
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: uninterested
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
antonyms: enthusiastic
glosses: Without enthusiasm; unexcited.
Derived terms: unenthusiastically
Culm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A German bishopric, founded in 1234.
Culm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Devon, England, which joins the River Exe near Stoke Canon.
Derived terms: Culm Valley
Malachi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæləkaɪ/
Etymology: From Latin Mālāchiās, from Ancient Greek Μαλαχίας (Malakhías), from Hebrew מַלְאָכִי (mal'achi, malʼāḵî, literally “my messenger”), singular form of מַלְאָךְ (mal'akh, “angel; messenger; ambassadors”) with first-person singular personal pronoun as possessor.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Mal.
glosses: A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A minor prophet.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Malachy.
Derived terms: Malachi crunch
number one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Piecewise doublet of numero uno.
Senses: examples: text: Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car.
text: He is my enemy number one.
text: Road safety is a daily tragedy that doesn’t seem to make the front pages even though it’s a number one killer. In some countries, it causes more deaths than small firearms, and in others, more than illnesses.
ref: 2024 July 8, Lotte Knudsen, quotee, “Road crashes: a silent killer”, in Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2024:
glosses: First; foremost; best, often used after its headword.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Black, African-American.
number one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number ones
Etymology: Piecewise doublet of numero uno.
Senses: glosses: The most important person, the one who is in charge.
examples: text: The phone rings, in the middle of the night / My father yells "what you gonna do with your life" / Oh, daddy, dear, you know you're still number one / But girls, they wanna have fun / Oh, girls just wanna have...
ref: 1979, Robert Hazard, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, in She's So Unusual, performed by Cyndi Lauper, published 1983:
text: Djokovic came through 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 to end Nadal's reign as Wimbledon champion, before overtaking the Spaniard as world number one on Monday.
ref: 2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Someone who is top of a ranking, who is ranked first.
examples: text: No man should have more than two attachments—the first, to number one, and the second to the ladies; that's what I say—ha! ha!
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: Oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist.
examples: text: He might have got up, without the bell's sounding, to do his number one, or number two, in his great big white chamber-pot.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Urine; urination.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The single that has sold the most in a given period.
examples: text: England number one Hart produced a magnificent moment to deny Van Persie once more just after the hour mark, leaping across his goal to fingertip the Dutchman's crashing 25-yard, top corner-bound drive away.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who opens the batting.
glosses: A first lieutenant.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A large town where theatrical performances may expect to achieve success.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, one.
Coordinate terms: english: especially regarding the urination sense
translation: especially regarding the urination sense
word: number two
word: number three
word: and so on
Derived terms: do number one
go number one
look out for number one
number one with a bullet
Christmas number one
ESS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: IBM
glosses: Initialism of Enterprise Storage Server.
glosses: Initialism of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
ESS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESSes
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Initialism of evolutionarily stable strategy
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of electronic switching system.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of energy storage system.
glosses: Initialism of employee self-service.
glosses: Initialism of earth system science.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of explained sum of squares.
glosses: Initialism of euthyroid sick syndrome.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of electronic still store.
moegoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊxu/
ipa: /ˈmʊxuː/
ipa: /ˈmʊɡuː/
Forms: form: moegoes
form: mugu
Etymology: From Afrikaans moegoe and Camtho moegoe. Further etymology uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Gordon is dead. He belongs to us. What's this mugu got to do with him?’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 180:
text: Legend has it that it was the year he spent in Alex that altered the young Madiba from a rural moegoe to a township clever.
ref: 2002 November 1, Kgafela Oa Magogodi, Mail & Guardian:
text: This is my backyard and l don't necessarily want a whole bunch of moegoes banging along a mountain l've known since my barefoot boerseun days.
ref: 2004, Herman Mills, Best Mountain Bike Rides in South Africa, page 25:
glosses: An idiot, a fool; a country bumpkin.
dimpled chad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimpled chads
Senses: glosses: a chad that is punched or dimpled but is still attached to the voting ballot at all four corners
Related terms: hanging chad
pregnant chad
pushknees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushknee
conformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɔː.mɪst/
ipa: /kənˈfɔɹ.mɪst/
ipa: /kənˈfoː.mɪst/
Forms: form: conformists
Etymology: From conform + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who tries to conform to the mainstream.
glosses: A noctuid moth (Lithophane furcifera)
Derived terms: word: anticonformist
word: conformistic
word: hyperconformist
word: osmoconformist
taxonomic: Lithophane consocia
word: scarce conformist
word: semiconformist
word: ultraconformist
word: unconformist
Related terms: lemming
conformist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɔː.mɪst/
ipa: /kənˈfɔɹ.mɪst/
ipa: /kənˈfoː.mɪst/
Forms: form: more conformist
form: most conformist
Etymology: From conform + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Conforming to established customs, etc.
Related terms: nonconformist
oh God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oh, God
Senses: examples: text: Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink.
Jen: Oh. Oh!
Roy: Yeah...
Jen: Which sink?
Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house.
Jen: Oh, God, I have to fire him.
ref: 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
text: Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again.
ref: 1962, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes:
glosses: Alternative form of oh my God.
genetive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it Irios in the genetiue caſe.
ref: 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Meon or Mew”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto:
glosses: Archaic spelling of genitive.
genetive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetives
Etymology: A variant of genitive; compare Latin genetīvus with genitīvus.
Senses: examples: text: This older kind of genetive [i.e., the direct genetive] is apparently expressed only by the position of the two substantives, in which the governing word stands before the governed: pr:Z1-i-mn:n-A40 pr i̓mn "House of Amon."
ref: 1894, Adolf Erman, “Nouns”, in James Henry Breasted, transl., Egyptian Grammar […], London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, § 122*, page 49:
glosses: Archaic spelling of genitive.
mampara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamparas
Etymology: Unknown. Zulu for 'fool'. Possibly an imitative rendition of the call of the Cape Turtle Dove. A slang term used by hunters for this particularly silly pigeon.
*
 Cape Turtle Dove: (file)
Senses: examples: text: Every week the Sunday Times names and shames a mampara—generally a public figure who has said or done something so idiotic that it boggles the mind.
glosses: A fool; a buffoon.
he said, she said
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-said-she-said
form: he say, she say
Senses: examples: text: And after he got caught he, along with his attorney, chose the strategy of putting the victim on trial. He said, she said. It was reasonable doubt.
ref: 1999, The Practice (TV, episode 3.18)
text: "Eddie said that she was into it." "He said, she said. It's about the evidence, Catherine."
ref: 2000, CSI (TV, episode 1.06)
text: He said, she said. We'll never know what really happened.
ref: 2001, Frasier (TV, episode 8.23)
text: Our summary is brief and does not include a lot of he said, she said information. In the scene section of the narrative we give a detailed description of the scene as it is seen upon our approach.
ref: 2008, Robert Allison, Investigation of Crime Scene, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Conflicting reports from two or more parties on an issue, prototypically involving a situation between a man and a woman with no other witnesses.
Related terms: blame game
fixative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixatives
Senses: glosses: A substance that fixes, protects, or preserves.
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: The components of a perfume that prolong or bolster the notes, and may or may not be the base note itself.
fixative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fixative
form: most fixative
Senses: glosses: Serving to fix or bind.
Derived terms: cryofixative
immunofixative
macrofixative
microfixative
postfixative
prefixative
kaolinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaolinites
Etymology: From kaolin + -ite (see kaolin for more).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A common hydrous aluminosilicate mineral found in sediments, soils and sedimentary rocks, Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄; one of the kaolin group of minerals.
Synonyms: kaolin
kaoline
lithomarge
lithomarga
china clay
paper clay
Derived terms: kaolinitic
Related terms: dickite
halloysite
nacrite
Kapitza resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kapitza resistances
Etymology: For Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A resistance to the flow of heat across the interface between liquid helium and a solid that produces a temperature discontinuity.
wikipedia: Pyotr Kapitsa
liquid helium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The liquified form of helium that does not solidify even at absolute zero; it shows unusual properties, such as superfluidity, due to quantum effects.
Synonyms: word: LHe
word: He(l)
Derived terms: word: LHe
word: He(l)
Related terms: liquid oxygen
liquid nitrogen
liquid air
liquified natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas
von Kármán vortex street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: von Kármán vortex streets
form: von Karman vortex street
Etymology: After Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A double row of vortices in a fluid sometimes found in the wake of a cylindrical body (such as in a river, downstream of a bridge support), eddies being produced from alternate sides of the body.
Synonyms: Kármán vortex street
Karman vortex street
Kármán street
Karman street
Kármán vortex street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kármán vortex streets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of von Kármán vortex street.
synonyms: word: von Kármán vortex street
Kelvin bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kelvin bridges
Etymology: Named after Lord Kelvin.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A specialized form of a Wheatstone bridge network designed to eliminate the effect of lead and contact resistance and thus permit accurate measurement of low resistances.
badder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbædə/
ipa: /ˈbædɚ/
ipa: [ˈbæɾɚ]
homophone: batter (t-flapping)
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bad: more bad.
raw_tags: for non-slang definitions
glosses: comparative form of bad: more bad.
raw_tags: for slang definitions
Related terms: bad
baddest
Jeanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Related terms: Jeannette
billionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪl.i.ənθ/
ipa: /ˈbɪl.jənθ/
Etymology: From billion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number one billion.
billionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪl.i.ənθ/
ipa: /ˈbɪl.jənθ/
Forms: form: billionths
Etymology: From billion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the billionth position.
examples: text: That is an extraordinary achievement for a spiky ball of genetic material coated in fatty chemicals called lipids, and which measures 80 billionths of a metre in diameter. Humanity has been brought low by a very humble assailant.
ref: 2020 April 19, Robin McKie, “Coronavirus: five months on, what scientists know about Covid-19”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One of a billion equal parts of a whole.
reliability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reliabilities
Etymology: From reliable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
ref: 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:
synonyms: dependability
antonyms: unreliability
glosses: The quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy.
topics: education
glosses: the ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: measurable time of work before failure
sandbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændˌbæɡ/
Forms: form: sandbags
Etymology: From sand + bag.
Senses: glosses: A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.
glosses: A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.
glosses: An engraver's leather cushion, etc.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A deceptive play whereby a player with a strong hand bets weakly or passively.
quencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quenchers
Etymology: From Middle English quenchere, equivalent to quench + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is a terrible long and slippery descent, and a shocking bad road. At the bottom, however, there is a pleasant public; whereat we must really take a modest quencher, for the down air is provocative of thirst.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: Something that quenches (thirst, fire, etc.)
quick-freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick-freezes
Etymology: From quick + freeze.
Senses: glosses: A chamber or device in which the temperature may be rapidly lowered to below to freezing point.
quick-freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quick-freezes
form: quick-freezing
form: quick-froze
form: quick-frozen
Etymology: From quick + freeze.
Senses: examples: text: Sandra liked to buy blueberries that had been quick-frozen, since she thought that their taste was better preserved that way.
glosses: To rapidly reduce the temperature of something to below the freezing point, thereby preserving some aspect of it (such as position or flavor) that would otherwise be lost during the freezing process.
examples: text: Ed liked to pore through his old photographs, looking back over moments of his life quick-frozen in time.
glosses: Preserved in an unaltered state, reminiscent of quick-freezing.
quick-frozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: During the years 1954-60, the sales of quick-frozen foods in Great Britain increased from £4,000,000 to £46,000,000, [...].
ref: 1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 682:
glosses: Whose temperature has been lowered rapidly to below the freezing point.
quick-frozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of quick-freeze
quilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quilted
form: most quilted
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a quilt; specifically, having two layers of cloth sewn together, with a layer of padding between them.
examples: text: a brand of quilted toilet paper
text: The stateroom panelling is veneered with quilted maple and walnut, and the furniture is in sycamore and walnut.
ref: 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
glosses: Having characteristics that approximate the above to some degree.
quilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quilt
quotability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quotabilities
Etymology: From quote + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The president's quick and humorous replies gave his speech great quotability.
glosses: The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
Related terms: quotable
Dina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Etymology: Equivalent of the biblical name Dinah in several European languages, ultimately from Hebrew דִּינָה.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Dina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Etymology: Borrowed clipping of longer names in many languages, such as Italian Dina.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Coordinate terms: english: male form
translation: male form
word: Dino
Related terms: Dina-ayan
clam bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam bakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clambake.
Emma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmə/
rhymes: -ɛmə
Etymology: Brought to England by the Normans; short form of compound given names beginning with a Frankish prototheme Ermin- or Irmin- "entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz.
Senses: examples: text: Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
ref: 1854, Matthew Hall, The Queens Before the Conquest, pages 259–260:
text: Emma Calvé...since Madame Bovary the name Emma suggests a solid bourgeois foundation, a country family...Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
ref: 1917, Carl Van Vechten, Interpreters and Interpretations., A.A.Knopf, page 92:
text: The cottage now belonged to Emma's mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights, so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
ref: 1980, Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system.
ref: 2019 August 13, Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly, “Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Derived terms: Emma Chisit
Emma Lake
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Em
word: Emmie
word: Emmy
sense: female given names
word: Ermengarde
word: Irma
word: Emmett
word: Emmitt
word: Emmott
factorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factorizations
form: factorisation
Etymology: From factorize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: A fifth-grade class will spend a set number of days on prime factorization and then move on to study greatest common factors — whether or not every student is ready.
ref: 2013 October 23, Tina Rosenberg, “In ‘Flipped’ Classrooms, a Method for Mastery”, in The New York Times:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of creating a list of factors.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An expression listing items that, when multiplied together, will produce a desired quantity.
examples: text: Actual factorizations are now known for every p ≤ 89.
ref: 1991, Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Big Primes, page 172:
glosses: A list of factors.
Derived terms: complete factorization
integer factorization
overfactorization
prime factorization
refactorization
unique factorization domain
unique factorization ring
factorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: factorisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of factorization.
Derived terms: prime factorisation
refactorisation
factorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛksə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: factorizes
form: factorizing
form: factorized
form: factorized
form: factorise
Etymology: From factor + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To create a list of the factors of.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To divide an expression into a list of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity.
glosses: To warn not to pay or give up goods.
glosses: To attach the effects of a debtor in the hands of a third party.
Derived terms: factorizable
factorizer
refactorize
unfactorized
Related terms: factor
factorization
factorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: factorises
form: factorising
form: factorised
form: factorised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of factorize.
Derived terms: factorisable
slighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slighted
form: most slighted
Senses: glosses: Cheated; short-changed; ripped off.
glosses: Treated as unimportant or not worthy of attention.
glosses: Treated with disdain or neglect; ignored disrespectfully.
slighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slight
dishwashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishwasher
cable guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable guys
Senses: glosses: A man who works for the cable television service and installs cable television.
skerrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Forms: form: skerricks
Etymology: Unknown. Originally used in British dialect.
Senses: examples: text: He stood in front of Vonnie Kyle and his eyes examined hers with every skerrick of judgment he could muster.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 131:
text: When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 117:
text: "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".
ref: 2007 April, Kennedy Warne, “Blue Haven”, in National Geographic, section 74:
synonyms: word: bit
word: fleck
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A very small amount or portion; the least bit.
to beat the band
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Jonathon Green suggests that it means to drown out the band, that is, talk or sing louder than the band. See also beat the band.
Senses: examples: text: Fifty dollars gold 'd buy beer to beat the band—enough to drown me if I fell in head first.
ref: 1917, Jack London, chapter 7, in Michael, Brother of Jerry:
text: Last time I saw you, you were a kiddy in short frocks, running around and shouting to beat the band.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in The Little Warrior:
text: You rile me to beat the band sometimes, Skinner.
ref: 1922, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 54, in Cappy Ricks Retires:
glosses: In such a way as to surpass all competition; hence, contextually, very vigorously, at a frantic pace, to a high degree.
Synonyms: word: a lot
word: beyond compare
word: like the new time
year 2000 problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: year 2000 problems
Senses: glosses: the millennium bug
bandstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænd.stænd/
rhymes: -ændstænd
Forms: form: bandstands
Etymology: From band + stand.
Senses: examples: Brian Cox as Logan Roy (2019), 31:28 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I saw a mistle thrush at the bandstand.”
glosses: A small, open-air platform or enclosure for bands to play on, usually roofed.
glosses: A small, informal stage, usually located in nightclubs, where local and amateur musicians perform.
Related terms: band rotunda
roofed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rooved
Etymology: From Middle English rofed derived from the noun, replaced earlier Old English hrēfed attested in unoferhrēfed (“unoverroofed”), equivalent to roof + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a roof, or a particular kind of roof.
Derived terms: gambrel-roofed
mud-roofed
roofed turtle
turf-roofed
roofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rooved
Etymology: From Middle English rofed derived from the noun, replaced earlier Old English hrēfed attested in unoferhrēfed (“unoverroofed”), equivalent to roof + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roof
adulteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adulteresses
form: adultress
Etymology: From adulter (noun) + -ess. In later use typically apprehended as the female equivalent corresponding to adulterer instead.
Senses: examples: text: And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:45:
glosses: A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
Synonyms: word: adulterer
word: advoutress
ach-laut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːx laʊt/
Forms: form: ach-lauts
Etymology: From German Ach-Laut, ach-Laut, from ach (which has this sound) + Laut (“sound”).
Senses: glosses: The guttural phoneme /x/ (the voiceless velar fricative) of the German language, the sound of the letters ch in German coming immediately after a, o and u (central and back vowels), also found in other languages.
Related terms: word: ich-laut
english: Wikipedia
translation: Wikipedia
word: Voiceless uvular fricative – ach-sound in e.g. German Dach
english: Wikipedia
translation: Wikipedia
word: German Phonology
arytenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɹ.ɪˈtiː.nɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌæɹ.əˈtiˌnɔɪd/
ipa: /əˈɹɪt.n̩ˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -iːnɔɪd
Forms: form: arytaenoid
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin arytaenoīdēs (“ladle-shaped”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής (ărŭtainoeidḗs), from ᾰ̓ρύ̆ταινᾰ (ărú̆taină, “a ladle or cup”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or being an arytenoid cartilage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or being an arytenoid muscle.
Derived terms: aryepiglottic
arytenoid cartilage
arytenoid muscle
cricoarytenoid
interarytenoid
oblique arytenoid
subarytenoid
thyroarytenoid
arytenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɹ.ɪˈtiː.nɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌæɹ.əˈtiˌnɔɪd/
ipa: /əˈɹɪt.n̩ˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -iːnɔɪd
Forms: form: arytenoids
form: arytaenoid
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin arytaenoīdēs (“ladle-shaped”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής (ărŭtainoeidḗs), from ᾰ̓ρύ̆ταινᾰ (ărú̆taină, “a ladle or cup”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of arytenoid cartilage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of arytenoid muscle.
Derived terms: arytenoidal
arytenoidectomy
arytenoiditis
arytenoidopexy
spirit lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirit lamps
Senses: examples: text: By way of armoury and utensils, I took a revolver, a little spirit-lamp and pan, a lantern and some halfpenny candles, a jack-knife and a large leather flask.
glosses: A lamp that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol, ethanol or denatured alcohol.
Synonyms: alcohol burner
abscessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From abscess + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abscess
abscessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abscessed
form: most abscessed
Etymology: From abscess + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The sore was abscessed and filled with pus.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Affected by an abscess.
Derived terms: nonabscessed
aquifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækwɪfə/
ipa: /ˈɑkwɪfɝ/
ipa: /ˈækwɪfɝ/
Forms: form: aquifers
Etymology: From aqui- + -fer.
Senses: examples: text: The water in the well came from an aquifer.
text: An aquifer is rock or sediment that holds groundwater – rain that is held below the surface of the soil and collected in empty spaces underground. Aquifers feed rivers to keep their flows at a healthy level, and are also important sources of water when reservoirs or other sources run low.
ref: 2023 August 16, Helena Horton, “United Utilities fined £800,000 for taking 22bn litres of water from aquifer”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.
Coordinate terms: aquitard
Derived terms: aquitard
artesian aquifer
N-aquifer
Related terms: oasis
aquavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækwəˈviːt/
ipa: /ˌɑkwəˈviːt/
Forms: form: aquavits
form: akvavit
Etymology: From Swedish and Danish akvavit and Norwegian akevitt, from Medieval Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”). Doublet of aqua vitae and akvavit. Compare eau de vie, whisky, whiskey, and water of life from the same source.
Senses: glosses: A Scandinavian liquor distilled from potato or grain mash to about 40% ABV and typically flavored with anise, although caraway seeds, fennel, dill, and other spices and herbs are also used.
aquatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of aquatic
aquatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: Sports involving water.
Derived terms: subaquatics
Related terms: watersport
aquaplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækwəpleɪn/
ipa: /ˈækwəˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: aquaplanes
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂ékʷeh₂
The noun is derived from aqua- (prefix meaning ‘water’) + plane (“flat or level surface”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)).
The verb is derived from the noun, and is analysable as aqua- + plane (“to glide; to soar; to skim a water surface”).
Senses: examples: text: At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 47:
qualifier: water sports
glosses: A board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.
Derived terms: word: aquaplaner
word: aquaplaning
Related terms: english: planar surface that generates lift in water
translation: planar surface that generates lift in water
word: hydrofoil
english: airplane that alights on the sea
translation: airplane that alights on the sea
word: seaplane
aquaplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækwəpleɪn/
ipa: /ˌækwəˈpleɪn/
ipa: /ˈækwəˌpleɪn/
ipa: /ˌækwəˈpleɪn/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -eɪn
Forms: form: aquaplanes
form: aquaplaning
form: aquaplaned
form: aquaplaned
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂ékʷeh₂
The noun is derived from aqua- (prefix meaning ‘water’) + plane (“flat or level surface”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)).
The verb is derived from the noun, and is analysable as aqua- + plane (“to glide; to soar; to skim a water surface”).
Senses: examples: text: She waved her arm—a significant and imperative signal—but she realised, almost as she did it, that there was scant chance of any one aquaplaning at thirty or forty kilometres an hour looking to the right or to the left.
ref: 1933, E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 1, in Crooks in the Sunshine, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →OCLC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: water ski#Verb
glosses: To ride for leisure standing up on a board pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.
examples: text: So much water. They were held up by it, the tyres skating over a film of rain. Aquaplaning. Flying his sister’s fancy car through the wet air. Touching nothing.
ref: 2015, Anne Enright, “Shannon Airport”, in The Green Road, New York, N.Y.; London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 2, page 203:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: hydroplane
glosses: Of a car or other road vehicle: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle's tyres sliding on a film of water on the road.
aquaculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækwəˌkʌlt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈɑːkwəˌ-/
ipa: /ˈækwəˌkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑkwəˌ-/
Forms: form: aquacultures
Etymology: From aqua- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: The indigenous species used in aquaculture are: B. gonionotus, Jullien carp (Probarbus jullieni), Jullien's mud carp (Cirrhinus jullieni), soldier-river barb (Cyclocheilichthys enoplos), Leptobarbus hoevenii, Catlocarpio siamensis and Osteochilus hasseltii.
ref: 2005, David J. Penman, Modadugu V. Gupta, Madan Mohan Dey, Carp genetic resources for aquaculture in Asia, WorldFish, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Finally, sturgeon aquaculture would create a sustainable industry […]
ref: 2010 September, Andrew Faulkner, "Caviar", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 77
glosses: The cultivation of aquatic produce such as aquatic plants, fish, and other aquatic animals.
Derived terms: aquacultural
aquaponics
Related terms: aquaculturist
vaticination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˌtɪsɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: vaticinations
Etymology: From vaticinate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Yorick ſcarce ever heard this ſad vaticination of his deſtiny read over to him, but with a tear ſtealing from his eye, […]
ref: 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 66:
text: […]for that honest gentleman, never the most susceptible of extraneous impressions, had just that moment parted from Meg Merrilies, and was too deeply wrapt up in pondering upon her vaticinations, to make any answer to Hazlewood's call.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
ref: 1836, [Ralph Waldo Emerson], “Discipline”, in Nature, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 56:
text: The anonymous oracle, the author of this pamphlet, is an example of entertaining dullness. He has manufactured a very damp squib; he is a serious man in motley; and practical ideas occasionally drop in among his fantastic vaticinations.
ref: 1858 May 29, The Launceston Examiner, Tasmania, page 6, column 2:
text: Archer had been wont to smile at these annual vaticinations of his mother's; but this year even he was obliged to acknowledge, as he listened to an enumeration of the changes, that the "trend" was visible.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: […][Nineteen Eighty-Four] breaks all records for gloomy vaticination[…]
ref: c. 1949, Edward Shanks, The Sunday Times, London:
glosses: Prediction, prophecy.
Related terms: vaticinate
vaticinatory
awestruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awestruck
form: most awestruck
Etymology: From awe + struck.
Senses: examples: text: Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.
ref: 2018 June 16, Fiona Sturges, “Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2020:
synonyms: awestricken
glosses: Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
Related terms: awestrike
awestriking
thunderstruck
horror-struck
awesomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.səm.li/
ipa: /ˈɔ.səm.li/
ipa: /ˈɑ.səm.li/
Forms: form: more awesomely
form: most awesomely
Etymology: From awesome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create "guilty pleasure" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, "awesomely bad."
ref: 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a manner inspiring awe.
contumelious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmiː.li.əs/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.tʊˈmiː.li.əs/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.tjuˈmiː.li.əs/
Forms: form: more contumelious
form: most contumelious
Etymology: From Old French contumelieus, from Latin contumēliōsus (“insulting; abusive”), from contumēlia (“affront, abuse, insult”).
Senses: examples: text: VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 100, column 1:
text: To sin against his law, is an high affront to his majesty; but to sin against his love and benefits is more contumelious to him.
ref: a. 1699, William Bates, “The Danger of Prosperity”, in The Whole Works of the Rev. W. Bates, Volume 2, published 1815, page 262:
text: Such, and more contumelious, was the language of opposition in parliament, and of the pretended patriots in their private meetings, during the whole administration of sir Robert Walpole, who understood and pursued the true interests of his country, but, perhaps, without sufficiently attending to its honour.
ref: 1784, William Russell, The History of Modern Europe, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son, new edition, volume 5, published 1822, page 104:
text: The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: "How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44:
glosses: Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
Synonyms: sense: rudely contemptuous
word: disdainful
sense: rudely contemptuous
word: insolent
Related terms: contumeliousness
contumeliously
contumely
awe-inspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awe-inspiring
form: most awe-inspiring
Senses: examples: text: The Taj Mahal is an awe-inspiring sight.
text: Across the far end of the cavern, with a grinding and crashing noise - a noise so dreadful and awe-inspiring that we all trembled, and Job actually sank to his knees - there flamed out an awful cloud or pillar of fire, like a rainbow many-coloured, and like the lightning bright.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: There is nothing so terrifying or so awe-inspiring as the unknown. The more mysterious the phenomenon, the more feared on the one hand, or the more respected on the other. This truism survives even in these modern ultra-sophisticated days.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 8:
text: All goods vehicles are fitted with the Westinghouse brake, with the exception of those on the isolated railway serving Nelson. However, as some compensation for this deficiency, the four 2-6-4 tanks on this section are fitted with steam smokebox-ash blowers, which are unique, useful, and awe-inspiring pieces of apparatus.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 562:
glosses: Inspiring awe; awesome.
Synonyms: dreadful
Derived terms: awe-inspiringly
awe-inspiringness
Related terms: awe-inspire
awe-inspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of awe-inspire
awestricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From awe + stricken.
Senses: glosses: Filled with awe.
Synonyms: awestruck
awed
Related terms: awestrike
awestriking
awed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: odd
homophone: oared (cot–caught merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of awe
awed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: odd
homophone: oared (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: more awed
form: most awed
Senses: glosses: Filled with awe.
examples: text: Even now my heart faints before the recollection of it, as she stood and smiled at our awed faces, and I would give half my remaining time upon this earth to see her once like that again.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Having or showing awe.
Synonyms: sense: filled with awe
word: thunderstruck
sense: filled with awe
word: awestruck
sense: filled with awe
word: awestricken
Derived terms: awedness
unawed
Candide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A novel by Voltaire (in which the protagonist shares his moniker with the title.)
glosses: The Operetta of the same name, by Leonard Bernstein.
examples: http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=%22like+a+candide%22&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wp
http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22a+naive+candide%22
glosses: A naive and innocent person.
Related terms: Panglossian
dative executor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dative executors
Senses: glosses: An executor or administrator appointed to administer the estate of a deceased who did not leave a valid will.
Coordinate terms: nominate executor