cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ghostly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊstli/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊstli
Forms: form: ghostlier
form: ghostliest
Etymology: From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).
Senses: examples: text: a ghostly figure with a hood
text: The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.
text: The ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.
glosses: Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
examples: text: A ghostly hush fell.
text: Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:
text: His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
ref: 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 134:
synonyms: word: affreux
word: alarming
word: spine-tingling
word: appalling
word: awful
word: buggish
word: butt-clenching
word: buttock-clenching
word: dismayful
word: dreadful
word: fearful
word: flaysome
word: flesh-crawling
word: formidable
word: freaky
word: frightening
word: frightensome
word: frightful
word: ghastly
word: ghostly
word: grisly
word: hair-curling
word: hair-raising
word: horrible
word: horrid
word: horrific
word: horrifying
word: horripilating
word: pulse-pounding
word: scaring
word: scary
word: shocking
word: skin-crawling
word: terrible
word: terrifying
word: terrorsome
glosses: Spooky; frightening.
examples: text: a ghostly confessor
text: Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
ref: 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC:
text: one of the ghostly children of St. Jerome
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
Synonyms: word: apparitional
word: ghastly
word: ghostish
word: ghostlike
word: ghostly
word: phantomic
word: phantomlike
word: phantasmal
word: phantasmic
word: spectral
word: spooky
word: wraithlike
word: wraithy
Derived terms: ghostlily
ghostliness
ghostly father
nonghostly
unghostly
Related terms: word: ghastly
word: demonic
word: demonical
word: fiendish
incestuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛstjuəs/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɛst͡ʃuəs/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɛst͡ʃuəs/
Forms: form: more incestuous
form: most incestuous
Etymology: From incest + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: If you engaged in an incestuous relationship with a family member, that would make you an inbreeder.
glosses: Pertaining to or engaging in incest.
examples: text: It’s an incestuous thing. Faculty at the liberal, Ivy League schools are involved in hiring other faculty, who later hire the next generation of faculty. There’s very little intellectual or philosophical diversity in our newsrooms as a result. Furthermore, as I pointed out in the book, there’s a large number of so-called journalists who work for Democrat politicians, who go back and forth between politics and journalism.
ref: 2019 July 3, Omri Nahmias, Mark Levin, “Mark Levin, Unplugged”, in Mishpacha:
text: Democrats have the luxury of controlling the public narrative, thanks, in large part, to their incestuous relationship with the news media.
ref: 2019 November 14, Tim Bryce, “What I Have Learned About the Democrats”, in Bryce on Politics, LinkedIn:
glosses: Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders.
Synonyms: incestual
incesty
Derived terms: incestuously
incestuousness
nonincestuous
pseudoincestuous
twincestuous
unincestuous
-cade
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formed from cavalcade, inferred to be a suffix
Senses: glosses: procession
Derived terms: motorcade
filmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: filmographies
Etymology: From film + -ography.
Senses: glosses: A selective list of movie titles that share a similar characteristic such as the same genre, the same director, the same actor etc.
Derived terms: filmographer
filmographic
Related terms: bibliography
RORO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: roro
form: ro-ro
form: ro/ro
form: Ro-Ro
form: RoRo
form: Ro/Ro
form: RO-RO
form: RO/RO
Senses: examples: text: two RORO vessels at anchor upriver
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of roll-on roll-off.
RORO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROROs
form: roro
form: ro-ro
form: ro/ro
form: Ro-Ro
form: RoRo
form: Ro/Ro
form: RO-RO
form: RO/RO
Senses: examples: text: two ROROs at anchor upriver
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A RORO ship.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Risk-on, risk-off, a sharp distinction between market conditions dominated and not dominated by risk or volatility pricing of securities.
Coordinate terms: english: float-on float-off
translation: float-on float-off
word: FLO/FLO
fervor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː.və/
ipa: /ˈfɝ.vɚ/
Forms: form: fervors
form: fervour
Etymology: From Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent.
Senses: examples: text: The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.
glosses: An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
glosses: A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
glosses: Heat.
Synonyms: sense: passionate enthusiasm
word: fire in the belly
sense: passionate enthusiasm
word: zeal
Derived terms: fervorent
fervorless
fervorous
Related terms: fervent
fervid
fever
kowhai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊfaɪ/
/ˈkoʊwaɪ/
Forms: form: kowhais
Etymology: From Maori kōwhai (“yellow”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several small woody legume trees in the genus Sophora native to New Zealand that have yellow flowers. The national flower of New Zealand.
chandelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chandelles
Etymology: From French chandelle (“chandelle”). Doublet of candela and candle.
Senses: examples: text: The FAA terms a chandelle as a maximum fight performance maneuver. During the course of a chandelle the plane should gain the greatest amount of altitude possible for a given degree of bank, and without stalling.
ref: 1998, Michael Charles Love, Flight Maneuvers, page 190:
glosses: An aerobatic maneuver in which a 180° turn is combined with a climb.
chandelle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chandelles
form: chandelling
form: chandelled
form: chandelled
Etymology: From French chandelle (“chandelle”). Doublet of candela and candle.
Senses: glosses: To perform an aerobatic maneuver in which a 180° turn is combined with a climb.
shouldn't've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊd(ə)n(t)ə(v)/
Forms: form: shouldn’t’ve
Etymology: shouldn't + -'ve
Senses: examples: text: She’s right. I shouldn’t’ve come.
ref: 1990 October, Jamie Delano, “The Bogeyman”, in Hellblazer, number 34, DC Comics, page 8:
glosses: Contraction of should not have.
Synonyms: word: shouldna
Related terms: couldn't've
wouldn't've
oughtn't've
Kalbfleisch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalbfleisches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kalbfleisch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
calcium carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless or white inorganic compound, CaCO₃, occurring as chalk, limestone, marble etc. Reacts with acids to liberate carbon dioxide.
Synonyms: E170
carbonate of lime
Hyponyms: aragonite
calcite
vaterite
pres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Senses: glosses: Clipping of presentation.
pres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of present.
pres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
ipa: /pɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Etymology: From pre + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of pre
pres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
ipa: /pɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Etymology: From pre + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pre.
pres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
ipa: /pɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pregames.
Related terms: cy pres
skeeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeezes
form: skeez
Etymology: Back-formation from skeezy.
Senses: examples: text: Jackie was an old skeeze with an IQ of about 85, and the only thing she was good at, apart from picking out Chanel suits, was lying under men who could put her on easy street.
ref: 2000, Frank Sinatra, alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
text: “Shit. You talkin’ about that skeeze over in the Yard?”
ref: 2001, George Pelecanos, Right as Rain, →ISBN, page 246:
text: Is he bothering you? Jason, why are you such a skeeze?
ref: 2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls (motion picture), spoken by Regina George (Rachel McAdams):
text: In her 1950's ideal, 19 was the age to be married. The entire time they have been dating she has been an adult. DL uses the word teenager for shock value, to make this guy look like a skeeze.
ref: 2005, Bridgett, alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet):
glosses: A sleazy or sexually promiscuous person.
Synonyms: skank
slut
Related terms: skeezy
skeezer
skeeze out
speechwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechwriters
Etymology: From speech + writer.
Senses: glosses: someone who writes speeches for others, especially as a profession
sesquiennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sesquiennium (compare sesqui- and biennial).
Senses: examples: text: The endemic Australian sea lion is one of the world's rarest and most unusual seals: rare in terms of very small numbers and unusual in its having a sesquiennial reproductive cycle.
[Australian sea lions' breeding cycle is a 17-18 month aseasonal one.]
ref: 2009, John K. Ling, Australian Sea Lion, Neophoca cinerea, in the Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals →ISBN
text: Delta Mu Delta, a national honor society in business administration, held its regular sesquiennial meeting at New York Institute of Technology DeSeversky Conference Center in Old Westbury, Long Island, New York, on Saturday, April 24, 1976. […]
The next sesquiennial meeting of Delta Mu Delta is scheduled for October, 1977. […]
The regular sesquiennial meeting of the National Chapter of Delta Mu Delta national honor society in business administration will be held on Saturday, October 29, 1977, at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
ref: 1977, CN & V, volumes 27-30, pages 39–40:
glosses: Occurring once every one and a half years (i.e. once every 18 months, or twice every three years); sesquiannual.
Related terms: sesquiannual
POL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P.O.L.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of petroleum, oil, and lubricants; consumable supplies for vehicles and machinery, collectively.
glosses: Initialism of port of loading.
lo and behold
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: The lo in the expression probably originated from the shortening of the word look, commonly seen in Middle English texts. Its presence in literature can be traced to at least as early as the 18th century. The literal meaning of the expression is "look and see", and it is always used as if in the imperative.
Senses: examples: text: Here was I sat down, full of Love and Respect to write my dearest Friends a dutiful and loving letter, when lo, and behold! I was made happy by the receipt of yours.
ref: 1766, "Miss N", Select letters Between the Late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, Mr Whistler, ... and Others, Thomas Hull (editor)
text: 1995, Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice : The Farseer Trilogy Book 1, Del Rey Mass Market Edition, p. 117.
And when Regal and I rode down to get it, lo and behold, it's from Patience, to tell us Chivalry's dead.
glosses: Used to express surprise.
agateophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌɡeɪ.ti.əʊˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A fear of insanity.
Derived terms: agateophobic
semi-final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-finals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semifinal.
Derived terms: semi-finalist
agliophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of algophobia.
algophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear of pain.
Synonyms: agliophobia
algiophobia
b/w
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of backed with, commonly used with old 45 and 78 RPM records, referring to the flip side (commonly called "B-side") of the record.
b/w
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Initialism of black-and-white.
b/w
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: SnowAngel:maybe it's not healthy to like someone as much as i like him, but i can't help it. when things are good b/w us, they're so so good, he's, like, my soulmate, i swear to god.
ref: 2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Abbreviation of between.
Related terms: b&w
haft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæft/
ipa: /hɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: hafts
Etymology: From Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.
Senses: examples: text: See this brandiſh'd Dagger: / […] / I'll bury to the haft, in her fair breaſt, / This Inſtrument of my Revenge.
ref: 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act V, page 74:
glosses: The handle of a tool or weapon.
Synonyms: helve
Hyponyms: english: sword handle
translation: sword handle
word: hilt
word: stale
word: stail
word: stele
english: axe handle
translation: axe handle
word: steal
haft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæft/
ipa: /hɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: hafts
form: hafting
form: hafted
form: hafted
Etymology: From Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 218:
glosses: To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon).
glosses: To grip by the handle.
Derived terms: haftable
haft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæft/
ipa: /hɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: hafts
Etymology: See heft (etymology 3).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heft (“piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to; flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland”).
haft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæft/
ipa: /hɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
rhymes: -æft
Forms: form: hafts
form: hafting
form: hafted
form: hafted
Etymology: See heft (etymology 3).
Senses: examples: text: […] I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canogate of Edinburgh.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 28:
english: […] I had heard him say, that the root of the matter was more deeply hafted in that wild moorland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
translation: […] I had heard him say, that the root of the matter was more deeply hafted in that wild moorland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
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glosses: Alternative spelling of heft (“(transitive) to accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland; to establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence; to establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; (intransitive, reflexive) of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place”)
infestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnfɛsˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: infestations
Etymology: From Middle French infestation, from Late Latin infestatio. Morphologically infest + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Guatemalan snowpea production has continually been harmed by insect and disease infestations.
ref: 2007, George W. Norton, E. A. Heinrichs, Gregory C. Luther, Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Process, page 87:
text: You've probably heard about Beemageddon. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder – thought to be brought on by a pernicious combination of overwork, bad weather, pesticides and infestations of parasitic varroa mites – has been threatening to wipe out honeybees all over the world, and with them many of our food crops.
ref: 2013 November 16, Caroline Williams, “I, bee bot”, in New Scientist, page 43:
text: A. The exterior of the premises and all structures thereon shall be kept free of all nuisances, unsanitary conditions and fire or safety hazards in the public areas and any of the foregoing shall be removed and abated promptly by the owner or manager.
B. Without limiting the generality of Subsection A, the maintenance includes: . . . (3) Keeping the premises free of conditions conducive to infestation by vermin or insects, such as rodent harborages or stagnant water, and other known sources of infestation.
ref: 2016, Jersey City, N.J. Code of Ordinances § 254-43. - Maintenance of exterior of premises:
text: "We have done some targeted pest control, and it has made a huge difference. It's a serious topic. We looked at why there were so many power trips at Ladbroke Grove. And it was an infestation of birds."
ref: 2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 28:
glosses: The presence of a large number of pest organisms in an area or field, on the surface of a host or anything that might contact a host, or in the soil.
Derived terms: disinfestation
hyperinfestation
postinfestation
preinfestation
reinfestation
lockring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockrings
form: lock ring
Etymology: From lock + ring.
Senses: glosses: A textured or threaded washer used to prevent components from become loose during rotation. On bicycles they are found, for example, on a bottom bracket and a track hub.
glosses: A ring (usually of steel) that is part of a wheelrim on some types of heavy equipment; it locks down the tire's mounting.
glosses: Any of various types of jewellery or components thereof, such as rings with a locking feature or rings that lock a chain closed.
Contra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Contras
Etymology: Short for Spanish contrarrevolucionarios (“counter-revolutionaries”).
Senses: glosses: A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s.
cariad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹiæd/
Forms: form: cariads
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh cariad.
Senses: examples: text: Eh, dear, Mr. Robert, sir, the master's waiting to hear you ask after your little cariad (sweetheart), Miss Hirell.
ref: 1869, John Saunders, Hirell:
text: "Wilt thou be my cariad?" said she.
ref: , T. H. Thomas, “A Fisher-Story and Other Notes from South Wales”, in Folklore, page 338:
text: As for the women, I believe Catherine Zeta-Jones might not be equine, and is, in fact, quite representational of Welsh women. I'll stick to my cariads, thank you very much.
ref: 1999 June 16, Martin Phillips, “Re: "Wales is a gay nation"”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet), message-ID <7k99jo$2og$1@uranium.btinternet.com>:
text: I'd say collegeboy is a high contender, Warren, cariad.
ref: 2000 April 11, Taffy3Rock, “Re: A Final Fairwell”, in alt.tv.3rd-rock (Usenet), message-ID <20000411122402.16739.00000693@nso-fo.aol.com>:
text: And all because we are together, my little cariad.
ref: 2007, Barbara Williams Cook, Led by Faith:
text: [...] as he suckled at her breast beneath the Welsh shawl. Tired but happier, Susannah Holmes remembered Mary's native logic when her name had been called. "Oh well, cariads. One hell is as good as another."
ref: 2011, Mary MacLauren, The Four Elizabeths, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Darling.
ideals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdi.əlz/
ipa: /aɪˈdɪəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ideal
emotionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: emotionalisms
Etymology: From emotional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Yet once the emotionalism of those ‘great gusts of words’ had been flensed, the flesh and bones of the programme looked disappointingly like the mixture as before […].
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 304:
glosses: An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics.
Derived terms: antiemotionalism
Related terms: emotivism
chappal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /tʃəppəl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌp.əl/
Forms: form: chappals
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चप्पल (cappal), itself borrowed from Telugu చెప్పులు (ceppulu).
Senses: examples: text: Chappals and shoes will fill up the garbage pit too quickly. I think it is impossible to burn old shoes and chappals. They melt and become very bad.
ref: 2016, Megan Adamson Sijapati with Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya, page 173:
glosses: A type of footwear used in India, Mauritius, and Pakistan, similar to a sandal.
Synonyms: word: sandal
english: similar
translation: similar
word: flip-flop
Related terms: mojari
extremum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɹiːməm/
Forms: form: extrema
form: extremums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin extrēmum, neuter form of extrēmus (“extreme in degree”). Doublet of extreme.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point, or value that is a maximum or a minimum.
wikipedia: extremum
meninx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmen.ɪŋks/
ipa: /ˈmi.nɪŋks/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.ɪŋks/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋks
rhymes: -ɛnɪŋks
Forms: form: meninges
form: meninge
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin mēninx, from Ancient Greek μῆνῐγξ (mênĭnx, “membrane of the eye; membrane enclosing the brain; eardrum”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: mater
meronyms: arachnoid mater
dura mater
pia mater
glosses: A membrane, especially one of the three membranes lining the skull and vertebral canal and enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates.
Derived terms: meningo-
mening-
pachymeninx
Related terms: meningeal
meningitis
eyetooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeteeth
form: eye tooth
form: eye-tooth
Etymology: From eye + tooth, so called because of their position directly below the eyes.
Senses: examples: text: the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A canine tooth of the upper jaw in humans.
Derived terms: cut one's eyeteeth
give one's eye-teeth
Frenchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frenchmen
Etymology: From Middle English Frenshman; equivalent to French + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The former recommended that all members of the Chamber of Deputies be elected by the scrutin de liste: that they be elected by all Frenchmen of both sexes over 21 years old.
ref: 1975, Sue Helder Goliber, The Life and Times of Marguerite Durand: A Study in French Feminism, page 128:
glosses: A man of French birth or nationality.
glosses: A home-made tool used by bricklayers to cut excess mortar from newly pointed brickwork.
glosses: The red-legged partridge.
Related terms: Frenchwoman
Frenchwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frenchwomen
Etymology: From Middle English Frensche wymen pl, equivalent to French + -woman.
Senses: synonyms: Française
frogess
coordinate_terms: Frenchman
glosses: A French woman; a woman of French ancestry, descent or citizenship.
Related terms: France
French
Frank
tidemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidemarks
Etymology: From tide + mark.
Senses: glosses: a line (of seaweed or differently coloured sand etc) on the shore showing the level of high or low tide
glosses: any mark showing the limit of some past activity
glosses: a line of scum left on a bath tub when the water is drained away
flagstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡstæf/
ipa: /ˈflæɡstɑːf/
Forms: form: flagstaffs
form: flagstaves
form: flag-staff
form: flag staff
Etymology: From flag + staff.
Senses: examples: text: Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning.
ref: 1945, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm:
text: 1988, Rhodes Boyson, Hansard, 7 June, 1988, Criminal Justice Bill, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
The abolition of the death penalty has been the flagstaff of the permissive society. We know what that has meant for the people of this country. Local newspapers are full of articles about robbery, murder, rape and, literally, pillage.
glosses: A pole on which a flag is raised.
Synonyms: flagpole
Derived terms: Flagstaff County
Plimsoll line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plimsoll lines
Etymology: From Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol merchant and member of Parliament; promoter of the Merchant Shipping Act.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Properly the International Load Line, a mark on the hull of a merchant ship to show the waterline under specified conditions. The line shows the maximum capacity load the ship may carry.
wikipedia: Samuel Plimsoll
Synonyms: load line
load water line
Plimsoll mark
Related terms: plimsoll
pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: plural of pump
pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pump
gym shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gym shoe
knees-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knees-ups
Etymology: UK 20th century. From the song "Knees Up Mother Brown" (from at least 1918; published 1938). Suggesting the motions of dancing.
Senses: examples: text: Let's have a bit of a knees-up, Arp.
ref: 1956, Wolf Mankowitz, My Old Man's a Dustman:
text: However, having heard all the mutinous chants Taxpayer FC’s fans sang about Gollivan at Vicarage Road, Moyes has realised it’s probably part of his remit to spread some love and urge everyone in east London to have a good old Cockney knees-up before Friday’s visit from Leicester City.
ref: 2017 November 24, Jacob Steinberg, “There’s no pleasing some people”, in The Guardian:
text: William Hill today cut the price of a Scottish knees-up from an original 25/1 into 9/1 favourite.
ref: 2017 December 1, Mary McCool, “Prince Harry set to spend his stag do in Scotland as bookies slash odds – but Vancouver, Barcelona and Berlin are also in the running”, in The Scottish Sun:
glosses: A party.
wikipedia: Knees Up Mother Brown
nationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nationist
form: most nationist
Etymology: From nation + -ist, from nationism, Joshua Fishman, 1968.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: A language used for the day-to-day functioning of government – official forms, intra-government communication.
glosses: Misspelling of nationalist.
Related terms: nationism
nationalism
nationalist
ambush marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A marketing strategy wherein advertisers associate themselves with, and therefore capitalize on, a particular event without paying any sponsorship fee.
infomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From info + -mania.
Senses: glosses: impairment of concentration caused by frequent response to text messages, e-mails, and other forms of digital communication
Related terms: infomaniac
unctuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unctuously
form: most unctuously
Etymology: From unctuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Insincerely and excessively charming
proficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/
ipa: /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more proficient
form: most proficient
Etymology: From Latin proficiens, present participle of proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + facere (“to make, do”); see fact.
Senses: examples: text: He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
text: By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
glosses: Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
Synonyms: sense: good at
word: skilled
sense: good at
word: fluent
sense: good at
word: practiced
Derived terms: haploproficient
hyperproficient
nonproficient
overproficient
proficience
proficiently
proficientness
superproficient
underproficient
unproficient
proficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/
ipa: /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: proficients
Etymology: From Latin proficiens, present participle of proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + facere (“to make, do”); see fact.
Senses: examples: text: The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
ref: 1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202:
text: Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 10, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: An expert.
Synonyms: sense: expert
word: expert
word: skilled person
Related terms: profit
profitability
profitable
profiteer
proficiency
Mackenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Scotland, traditional elsewhere
ipa: /mɑˈkɛn.ji/
ipa: /məˈkɛn.ziː/
ipa: /məˈkɛn.zi/
Forms: form: Mackenzies
Etymology: Spelling pronunciation of Scots MacKenȝie with the letter ⟨ȝ⟩ confused with ⟨z⟩. Ultimately from Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, itself from mac (“son, descendant”) + Coinnich (“of Coinneach”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic of Scottish origin.
glosses: A unisex given name
A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later usage, also in the form Makenzie.
glosses: A unisex given name
A male given name.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in Canada
A river in the Northwest Territories, the longest in Canada, running from Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea.
related: word: Mackenzie River
synonyms: Deh Cho
glosses: A placename
A number of places in Canada
A district municipality in the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, central British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in Canada
A community in Shuniah, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename
A community in Linden, Guyana.
glosses: A placename
A territorial authority in south Canterbury, New Zealand; in full, Mackenzie District.
Derived terms: Mackenzie District
Mackenzie River
Mackenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Scotland, traditional elsewhere
ipa: /mɑˈkɛn.ji/
ipa: /məˈkɛn.ziː/
ipa: /məˈkɛn.zi/
Forms: form: Mackenzies
Etymology: Spelling pronunciation of Scots MacKenȝie with the letter ⟨ȝ⟩ confused with ⟨z⟩. Ultimately from Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, itself from mac (“son, descendant”) + Coinnich (“of Coinneach”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of cocktail made with gin and fruit juices.
Related terms: MacCoinneach
MacKenna
MacKenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mackenzie.
iron lung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron lungs
Senses: examples: text: To a polio victim who can no longer breathe for himself nothing is more disheartening than the thought of spending every hour of his life flat on his back in an iron lung.
ref: 1953 October 19, “A Better Break for Polio Patients”, in LIFE, Time Inc, page 127:
synonyms: negative pressure ventilator
hypernyms: life support
hyponyms: Both respirator
glosses: A pneumonic device for assisted breathing.
examples: text: Most criminal cases, when I was practising, were paid for by SLAB, which kept a vice-like grip on the purse strings, paying a pittance no self-respecting plumber would get out of bed for, so an iron lung (bung) was the order of the day when dealing with the professionals of the underworld.
ref: 2023, James J. McIntyre, Jimmy Two Guns: The Life and Crimes of a Gangland Lawyer:
glosses: A bung; a bribe.
forb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbs
form: phorb
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek φορβή (phorbḗ, “food”), from φέρβω (phérbō, “to feed”).
Senses: examples: text: So younger is better and the part nearest the roots is better, but what makes life possible for the pronghorn is a supply of forbs—small broadleaf plants growing among the grasses.
ref: 2002, Dale F. Lott, American Bison: A Natural History, page 122:
text: 2004, A. Kirilov, P. Todorova Development of forage areas and forage resources in Bulgaria during the period of transition, A. Lüscher, et al. (editors), Land Use Systems in Grassland Dominated Regions: Proceedings of the 20th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Grassland Science in Europe, Volume 9, page 859,
Buchgraber (1995) recommends 50-70% of grasses, 10-30% of legumes and also 10-30% of forbs on meadows, while Kessler (1994) recommends the same proportion of grasses, 10-20% of legumes and 20-40% of forbs on natural meadows.
text: Common understory forbs included, but were not limited to, large-leaved aster, bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), bluebead lily, species of clubmoss, Canada mayflower, and sweet coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus).
ref: 2009, Mesaba Energy Project Environmental Impact Statement, 3.8-3:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).
Derived terms: forbivorous
AAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AARs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Aircraft accident report.
topics: government
management
military
politics
war
glosses: after-action report; after-action review.
AAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Axis2 ARchive file (extension .aar)
topics: government
politics
glosses: Air America Radio
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: All-American Rejects
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: American Academy of Religion
topics: transport
glosses: Association of American Railroads
AAR
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: At any rate.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: against all risks.
hegemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.d͡ʒɛ.mən/
Forms: form: hegemons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡγεμών (hēgemṓn, “a leader, guide, commander, chief”), from ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead”).
Senses: glosses: A dominating leader or force, especially that which dominates a separate political entity; a hegemonist.
Related terms: hegemony
Aare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑ.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɑː.ɹə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aar.
Aar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: /ɑːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑɹ
rhymes: -ɑːɹ
Forms: form: Aare
Etymology: From German Aare, probably from a Celtic language.
Senses: glosses: A river in Switzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the Bernese Alps into the Rhine at Koblenz, on the Swiss–German border.
glosses: A river in Germany that flows 50 km from the Taunus in Hesse into the Lahn at Diez, Rhineland-Palatinate.
glosses: A tributary in Hesse, Germany of the Dill river, itself a tributary of the Lahn.
Related terms: AAR
De Aar
synonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
ipa: /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVII. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
text: For much of the time that incels have self-described as such, their collective worldview has been synonymous with the ‘blackpill’.
ref: 2023 January 24, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue, page 5:
qualifier: particularly in semantics
glosses: Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
raw_tags: construed with with
glosses: Of, or being a synonym.
raw_tags: construed with with
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.
raw_tags: of a SNP
Synonyms: word: synonymal
word: synonymic
word: synonymical
sense: narrower sense, having identical meaning
word: homosemous
sense: narrower sense, having identical meaning
word: homosemic
Derived terms: asynonymous
nonsynonymous
nonsynonymously
parasynonymous
synonymously
synonymousness
unsynonymous
Related terms: synonym
synonymity
Wiktionary:Semantic relations
marksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹksmən/
Forms: form: marksmen
Etymology: From mark + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: A man or person skilled at hitting targets, as with a firearm, bow, or thrown object.
examples: text: In what was a characteristic Bent display, he made only an occasional impact - but proved once again in front of England coach Fabio Capello that he is one of the most reliable marksmen in the domestic game.
ref: 2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Goalscorer.
Synonyms: sense: skilled shooter
word: sharpshooter
Derived terms: marksmanly
marksmanship
markswoman
mawashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawashi
Etymology: From Japanese 廻し or 回し (mawashi), same meaning.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The belt worn by rikishi during training and in competition
Derived terms: kesho-mawashi
Ummon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: You-Mon
Senses: glosses: A Buddhist monk and philosopher, Yunmen Wenyan.
ataxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtæksɪə/
ipa: /eɪˈtæksɪə/
Forms: form: ataxias
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀταξία (ataxía, “disorder”), derived from ἄτακτος (átaktos, “disorderly”).
Senses: examples: text: Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).
ref: 2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: ataxy
word: dystaxia
glosses: Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random
examples: text: 1569, John Leslie, A Defence of the Honour of the Right Highe, Mightye and Noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande, Rheims, Book 3,
Ye frame an other argumente of inconueniences, as thowghe vnder the womans regimente, Ataxia, that ys to saye disorder moste commonlye creapethe in.
text: 1614, Thomas Adams, The Devills Banket, London: Ralph Mab, The Second Service, Sermon 2, p. 51,
Let not Gods eutaxie, Order, by our friuolous scruples be brought to ataxie, Confusion.
text: Neither is there any Ataxie to bee feared in bringing in this distinction, betwixt Pastors and flock; It is an Eutaxie rather:
ref: 1640, Joseph Hall, Episcopacie by Divine Right, London: Nathanael Butter, Part 3, § 1, p. 212:
synonyms: word: dystaxia
glosses: Disorder; irregularity.
Derived terms: acroataxia
ataxiagraph
ataxiameter
ataxia-telangiectasia
ataxia telangiectasia
ataxic
ataxin
ataxiology
Cayman ataxia
Friedreich's ataxia
hemiataxia
locomotor ataxia
selo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selos
form: sela
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.
Senses: examples: text: Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.
ref: 1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194:
glosses: A village, in various Slavic regions.
AND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: ANDs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator.
examples: text: The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.
ref: 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The binary operator and, only true if both of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
Coordinate terms: FALSE
OR
NOR
NOT
TRUE
XNOR
XOR
Derived terms: XAND
AND
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: ANDs
form: ANDing
form: ANDed
form: ANDed
Senses: examples: text: If an internal node is encountered that contains a mask, the search key is logically ANDed with the mask and another search is made of the subtree...
ref: 2006, Gary R Wright, W Richard Stevens, The Implementation:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To combine (a value) with another value by means of this operator.
Related terms: nand
nor
or
xor
xnor
not
AND
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more AND
form: most AND
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of airplane nose down.
FOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of field Of research.
glosses: Initialism of frame of reference.
FOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fellowship of Reconciliation, any of a number of religious nonviolent organizations, particularly in English-speaking countries.
IF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IFs
Senses: examples: text: The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.
ref: 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88:
glosses: Initialism of interactive fiction.
glosses: Initialism of impact factor.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of intermediate filament.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of intermediate frequency.
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Initialism of intermittent fasting.
priests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːsts/
rhymes: -iːsts
Senses: glosses: plural of priest
priests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːsts/
rhymes: -iːsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of priest
leaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: leanings
Etymology: From Middle English lening, leninge, from Old English hlinung (“leaning; resting; place of rest”), equivalent to lean + -ing.
Senses: examples: a man of socialist leanings
glosses: A tendency or propensity.
leaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lean
Derived terms: leaningly
limiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limitings
Senses: examples: text: After the discoveries of criticism, the new reverence for the Bible will teach one thing, and that namely which has been my theme, — how much deeper the truth that is in Christ lies than the errors and limitings of the understanding […]
ref: 1846, George Frederick Simmons, Letter to the So-called "Boston Churches", page 19:
glosses: A limitation.
Derived terms: bandlimiting
limiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of limit
Derived terms: career-limiting move
colimiting
life-limiting
limiting adjective
limiting belief
limiting factor
limitingly
nonlimiting
rate limiting
unlimiting