cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rivulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/
Forms: form: rivulets
Etymology: From Old French riveret (“little stream”) or from Italian rivoletto, from Italian rivo, from Latin rivus.
Senses: examples: text: A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
text: Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:
text: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.
ref: 1945, Charles Cotton, Geomorphology: An Introduction to the Study of Landforms:
glosses: A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
glosses: Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.
Synonyms: sense: small brook or stream
word: rill
Derived terms: Blomer's rivulet
Related terms: rival
Goidelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡɔɪˈdɛlɪk/
Etymology: From Goidel + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Gaels.
Goidelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɔɪˈdɛlɪk/
Etymology: From Goidel + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Division of the Celtic languages including Irish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic.
Goidel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔɪd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: Goidels
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Irish Goídel (“Gael”). Doublet of Gael.
Senses: glosses: A Gael; a member of the Goidelic division of Celtic languages as opposed to the Brythonic division.
Derived terms: Goidelic
cyberpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.bə.pʌŋk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.bɚˌpʌŋk/
Forms: form: cyberpunks
Etymology: From cyber- + -punk, coined by American writer and software developer Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.
Senses: examples: text: But by 1987, cyberpunk had become a cliche. Other writers had turned the form into formula: implant wetware (biological computer chips), government by multinational corporations, street-wise, leather-jacketed, amphetamine-loving protagonists and decayed orbital colonies.
ref: 1991 January 7, Lewis Shiner, “Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Cyberpunk stories are set in a futuristic, dystopic environment—the opposite of utopian—in which computer technology plays an important role. […] The protagonists of cyberpunk stories are technologically proficient, lonely adventurers struggling with issues of identity and forced to use computer skills to fight menacing forces of domination.
ref: 2015, Abby H. P. Werlock, Encyclopedia of the American Short Story, Infobase Learning, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
examples: text: The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
glosses: A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
examples: text: […] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd^([sic]), Bruce Sterling […]
ref: 1989 January, SPIN, volume 4, number 10, page 50:
glosses: A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
examples: text: A more technologically elaborate current of microtonal music can be found at M.I.T and Berklee College of Music, where R. Boulanger works in exotic equal temperaments and non-octave scales (E₆₀ and the 13th root of 3, i.e. the Bohlen-Pierce scale) using the CSOUND acoustic compiler, the Mathews radio drum and various MIDI synthesizers; nearby, E. Mullen performs cyberpunk music in E₁₉ and the 13th root of 3.
ref: 2003, Jan Haluska, The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, →ISBN, page 109:
text: At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice tea and vodka in hand I saw your real face and something changed.
ref: 2014, Gemma White, Furniture is Disappearing, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Indeed, 'Mindphaser' (and Tactical Neural Implant more generally) represents a high point of cyberpunk in the industrial music scene.
ref: 2017, Tristanne Connolly, Tomoyuki Iino, Canadian Music and American Culture: Get Away From Me, →ISBN, page 182:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
Derived terms: cyberpunkish
cyberpunky
cypherpunk
postcyberpunk
Related terms: steampunk
solarpunk
apple juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple juices
Senses: hypernyms: fruit juice
glosses: Filtered and pasteurized juice of apples, as opposed to apple cider and hard cider.
have kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has kittens
form: having kittens
form: had kittens
form: had kittens
Senses: examples: text: Your mum will have kittens when she sees what you've done to your hair!
text: My teacher has kittens every time I get a question wrong.
text: He re-gurgled. “But this is terrible.” “Might be considerably better, I agree.” “Your uncle will be most upset.” “He'll have kittens.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: ‘Prepare yourself,’ he warned. ‘Your dad is having kittens.’
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Safari”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
glosses: To become extremely upset.
examples: text: The guests are starting to arrive, but the hostess is having kittens because nothing is ready yet.
text: Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”
ref: 2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: To be in a state of frantic nervousness.
qualifier: literal
glosses: Usually of a female cat, to give birth to kittens.
Related terms: have a cow
c-decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From c (“the symbol used in physics for the speed of light”) + decay.
Senses: topics: creationism
lifestyle
pseudoscience
religion
glosses: The discredited theory that the speed of light has decreased over time, proposed by creationists in order to support the belief that the universe is a few thousand years old even though there are objects visible today that are billions of light years away (whereas a constant speed of light would indicate that the universe is billions of years old and so contradict this belief).
Related terms: starlight problem
fruit juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit juices
form: fruit-juice
Senses: glosses: The juice of one or more fruits. (This entry is a translation hub.)
artefact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artefacts
Senses: examples: text: Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.
ref: 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:
glosses: British standard spelling of artifact.
Derived terms: artefactual
macroartefact
microartefact
Mercedes-Benz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: MB
Etymology: From German Mercedes-Benz.
Senses: glosses: An automotive brand or marque from Daimler-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mercedes-Benzes
form: MB
Etymology: From German Mercedes-Benz.
Senses: examples: text: He drove his Mercedes-Benz on that very street.
text: Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz / My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends / Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends / So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz
ref: 1971, “Mercedes Benz”, in Pearl, performed by Janis Joplin:
synonyms: Benz
Merc
Mercedes
glosses: A car of a particular brand manufactured by Daimler AG.
son-of-a-bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons-of-bitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of son of a bitch.
sonofabitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonofabitches
form: sonsofbitches
form: sonsabitches
Senses: examples: text: “You had screwn, huh? You didn’t get hurt too much, did you?” / “You make it sound like a traffic accident.” / “First time sonofabitch hurts like a bastard.” / “Yes.” / “Now you’re scared you’re gonna have a kid?”
ref: 1977 January, Joyce MacIver [pseudonym; Georgette Scott], “Part Three: 1929”, in Mercy, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 298:
text: The attacking arm held up the forearm of his starboard manipulator and waved it around in victory in front of the ceramic dome. In front of Chad. "I'm not done yet, you sonofabitch," Chad reached down, flipped two protective covers, and jettisoned both forward arms.
ref: 2006, Robert Wernli, Sunrise Cartel, page 116:
glosses: Alternative spelling of son of a bitch.
sons of bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonsabitches
Senses: glosses: plural of son of a bitch
farm the strike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: farms the strike
form: farming the strike
form: farmed the strike
form: farmed the strike
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To deliberately either score runs or decline to score runs so as to allow the best batsman to face the majority of the balls as the striker.
fast bowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fast bowlers
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: pace bowler
paceman
quick
glosses: A bowler who specialises in bowling the ball fast in cricket; as opposed to a spin bowler.
Related terms: fast bowling
Megan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡən/
ipa: /ˈmɛɡən/
ipa: /ˈmiːɡən/
ipa: /ˈmeɪɡən/
ipa: /ˈmiːɡən/
ipa: /ˈmiːɡɘn/
rhymes: -ɛɡən
rhymes: -iːɡən
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Megan, cognate with English Margaret, ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.
Senses: examples: text: Was it true that twenty-six years had passed, or had he dreamed and awakened to find Megan waiting for him by the big apple tree?
ref: 1916, John Galsworthy, chapter VIII, in The Apple Tree:
text: It ended in the most excruciating way for Megan Rapinoe: a penalty kick skied over the crossbar, shock, disappointment, a rueful smile to herself.
ref: 2023 August 6, Jeré Longman, “For Megan Rapinoe, an Ending Not Even She Could Have Imagined”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2023:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, from Welsh.
Related terms: word: Meaghan
word: Meghan
word: Meagan
blotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɑtoʊ/
ipa: /-ɾoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
ipa: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɑtoʊ/
ipa: /-ɾoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: Blotto
Etymology: Acronym of bovine lacto transfer technique optimizer.
Senses: examples: text: Secondary goat anti-rabbit antiserum coupled to horseradish peroxidase at a dilution of 1:500 in blotto was then incubated with the blot for 1 hour. Again the unbound antibodies were removed by three rinses in 10% blotto for 15 minutes.
ref: 2006, Kimberly Kay Kutz-Naber, Mass Spectral Characterization of Neuropeptides in Cancer Crabs: Method Development and Biological Application (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation), [Madison, Wis.]: University of Wisconsin–Madison, →OCLC, page 236:
text: Generalized background staining of colostral cell preparations was blocked most effectively with Blotto + 10% FBS.
ref: 2007, Anna Levitt Smith, Detection of Bovine Leukemia Virus in Density-separated Bovine Colostral Cells (unpublished M.S. dissertation), [Davis, Calif.]: University of California, Davis, →OCLC, page 40:
text: Following transfer, the PVDF membrane was removed from the transfer cassette and placed in a sandwich tray and incubated in 20ml blotto (1×tBST, 7% nonfat dry milk and 0.1% Tween-20 pH 7.4) for 1 h while rocking.
ref: 2007, Jeffery Ray Williams, Alternate Substrates and Phosphorylation in the Function and Regulation of the Neuronal K-C1 Cotransporter, KCC2 (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), [Davis, Calif.]: University of California, Davis, →OCLC, page 69:
text: Membranes were blocked at RT for 2 h with blotto [50 mM Tris pH 7.5, 0.185 mM NaCl, 0.05% Tween-20, 3% nonfat dry milk]. Ape1 monoclonal antibody developed in our laboratory (Novus Biologicals, Littleton, CO, USA) was diluted in blotto and incubated with the membrane overnight at 4°C (1:1000).
ref: 2009 April, Christopher N. Batuello, Mark R. Kelley, Joseph R. Dynlacht, “Role of Ape1 and Base Excision Repair in the Radiation Response and Heat-radiosensitization of HeLa Cells”, in Anticancer Research, volume 29, number 4, →ISSN, →PMID, page 1320, column 1:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
blotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɑtoʊ/
ipa: /-ɾoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
ipa: /b(ə)ˈləʊtəʊ/
ipa: /b(ə)ˈloʊtoʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɑtoʊ/
ipa: /-ɾoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: blottos
Etymology: Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: The canoes that are in common use on the lake are of the most primitive and unstable type. They simply consist of a semi-cylinder, hollowed out of a tree stem, with the ends filled up with mud and grass. These canoes are called blotto or ballotto by the natives. […] They are of every size, from the child's blotto of ten or fifteen feet in length to the fisherman's craft of fifty.
ref: 1889, Sydney J[ohn] Hickson, “Journey through Minahassa”, in A Naturalist in North Celebes: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 217:
text: The agent of the Packet Company is ready to give information about it, and to look after the hiring of horses and blottos.
ref: 1897, J[ohan] F[rans] van Bemmelen, G. B. Hooyer, translated by B. J. Berrington, Guide to the Dutch East Indies: Composed by Invitation of the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (Royal Steam Packet Company), Batavia: G. Kolff & Co.; London: Luzac & Company, →OCLC, page 153:
text: The Poso River flows out from the large lake of that name,[…]. The mouth is shallow, but inside the depths are 3 to 7 fathoms, and in the dry season Rumuru can be reached in “blottos” (hollowed-out tree trunks) in about two days. In the rainy season the current is strong. Rumuru is the junction of many paths from the interior, along which forest produce is conveyed and then shipped in "blottos."
ref: 1916, “South, East, and North Coasts of Celebes—Salayar and Buton Straits—Tukang, Besi, Banggai, and Sula Islands”, in East Indies Pilot: […] (H. O.; no. 163), volume I, number 163, Washington, D.C.: Published by the Hydrographic Office under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy; Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 425:
text: The Poso, entering the Gulf of Tomini, is wide and navigable by blottos up to Paluasi, but is full of rapids above.
ref: 1920, “Physical Geography and Geology”, in Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty, compiler, A Manual of Netherlands India (Dutch East Indies) (I.D.; 1209), London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 53:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.
filing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: filings
Senses: examples: text: The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.
glosses: Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
glosses: The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
examples: text: Mueller said in a court filing that Cohen had admitted he briefed Trump and unidentified Trump family members about the progress of the project more extensively than was previously known.
ref: 2018 November 30, Jon Swaine, The Guardian:
glosses: Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.
Derived terms: drawfiling
e-filing
filing cabinet
filing system
filing tray
prefiling
Related terms: fine
filing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of file
Related terms: filling
spose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəʊ̯z/
ipa: [spəʊ̯z]
ipa: /spoʊ̯z/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: sposes
form: sposing
form: sposed
form: sposed
form: s'pose
Senses: examples: text: I spose you're right.
text: “I spose my mumʼs always been at home.”
ref: 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 35:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of suppose.
s'pose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəʊ̯z/
ipa: [spəʊ̯z]
ipa: /spoʊ̯z/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: s'poses
form: s'posing
form: s'posed
form: s'posed
form: spose
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of suppose.
unfrozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹəʊ.zən/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɹoʊ.zən/
rhymes: -əʊzən
Etymology: From un- + frozen.
Senses: examples: text: In getting out of this I found it easier to wade down a shallow unfrozen stream than to wallow through deep snow.
ref: 1915 April 24, Enos A. Mills, “In the Winter Snows”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:
text: One would assume that here the chief problem would be to keep the conductor rails and point mechanisms unfrozen.
ref: 1962 March, “Lessons of the Freeze-up”, in Modern Railways, page 145:
glosses: Not frozen.
unfrozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹəʊ.zən/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɹoʊ.zən/
rhymes: -əʊzən
Etymology: From un- + frozen.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unfreeze
Peke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
homophone: peak
homophone: peek
homophone: pique
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: Pekes
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: A Pekingese dog.
Derived terms: Peke-faced
bimble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪmbl/
ipa: /ˈbɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: bimbles
Etymology: Probably an alteration or variant of bumble (verb), perhaps influenced semantically by association with amble (verb).
This term is originally nautical and military in usage, and is previously used outside the current meaning of traveling on foot.
Senses: glosses: A walk or journey with no particular haste.
Synonyms: amble
mooch
stroll
bimble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪmbl/
ipa: /ˈbɪmbəl/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: bimbles
form: bimbling
form: bimbled
form: bimbled
Etymology: Probably an alteration or variant of bumble (verb), perhaps influenced semantically by association with amble (verb).
This term is originally nautical and military in usage, and is previously used outside the current meaning of traveling on foot.
Senses: examples: text: Check-in ran like clockwork and after unpacking, we bimbled off to the cycle centre, hired two bikes and a kiddy trailer for the boys and set off to get our bearings.
ref: 2007 January 28, Paul Simon, “Surf, snow and city in one break”, in The Observer, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2009:
glosses: To walk or travel with no particular haste.
Synonyms: amble
dander
roam
saunter
stroll
wander
high tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌɪ ˈtiː/
Forms: form: high teas
Senses: examples: text: It was brawn and shape for high tea.
ref: 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 111:
glosses: A late afternoon or early evening meal, typically consisting of a cooked dish with bread and butter and tea.
glosses: Formal afternoon tea.
dander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: danders
Etymology: From a shortening of dandruff.
Senses: glosses: Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp.
glosses: Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals.
glosses: Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs.
dander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: danders
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A cinder; (in the plural) the refuse of a furnace
examples: text: He'll get his dander up if his team is criticized.
text: She has her dander up every day about discrimination against women.
text: Don’t talk to me about daring to do this thing or t’other, or when my dander is up it’s the very thing to urge me on.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Passion, temper, anger. Usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up".
Derived terms: get someone's dander up
Related terms: english: Passion, temper, anger
translation: Passion, temper, anger
word: knee-jerk
dander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: danders
form: dandering
form: dandered
form: dandered
form: daunder
form: dauner
Etymology: Alteration of dandle or daddle
Senses: examples: text: So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: "I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut of a fellow, and worse doin's behind that, if the truth is told."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:
glosses: To wander about.
glosses: To maunder, to talk incoherently.
Derived terms: danderer
dandersome
irrespective of
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Opposite of Medieval Latin respectivus, "having regard for", from Latin respectus.
Senses: synonyms: despite
in spite of
glosses: Regardless of; without regard for; without considering.
balsamico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian balsamico. Doublet of balsamic.
Senses: examples: text: Use fine, aged balsamico.
ref: 2009 February 13, Susan Sampson, “Heart-Shaped Filet Mignon with Chocolate Balsamic Reduction”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: balsamic vinegar
dungeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌn.d͡ʒən/
Forms: form: dungeons
Etymology: From Middle English dongeoun (“keep of a castle; dungeon; abyss, cave, den; whirlpool”), from Anglo-Norman donjun (“keep of a castle; keep used as a prison; dungeon”) and continental Old French donjon (“keep of a castle”), from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem, seemingly derived from Latin dominus (“master, lord”) perhaps via some figurative sense like “dominant building”. Doublet of donjon. The sense of “prison (associated with a castle)”, first attested in Anglo-Norman (13th c.) and apparently never in continental Old French, likely developed in combination with Old English dung (“underground prison cell”), whence Middle English donge (“pit, abyss”, senses that are also attested for Middle English dongeoun).
The game term has been popularized by Dungeons & Dragons.
Senses: examples: text: Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.
ref: 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
glosses: The low area between two drumlins.
glosses: The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
glosses: A shrewd person.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure, and bosses.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
Hyponyms: oubliette
Derived terms: dungeonable
dungeon crawl
dungeon crawler
dungeoneer
dungeoner
dungeonesque
dungeonish
dungeonlike
dungeon master
dungeon mastering
dungeon-mastering
dungeon monitor
dungeonous
dungeon rap
dungeon synth
dungeony
endungeon
indungeon
multi-user dungeon
sex dungeon
dungeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌn.d͡ʒən/
Forms: form: dungeons
form: dungeoning
form: dungeoned
form: dungeoned
Etymology: From Middle English dongeoun (“keep of a castle; dungeon; abyss, cave, den; whirlpool”), from Anglo-Norman donjun (“keep of a castle; keep used as a prison; dungeon”) and continental Old French donjon (“keep of a castle”), from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem, seemingly derived from Latin dominus (“master, lord”) perhaps via some figurative sense like “dominant building”. Doublet of donjon. The sense of “prison (associated with a castle)”, first attested in Anglo-Norman (13th c.) and apparently never in continental Old French, likely developed in combination with Old English dung (“underground prison cell”), whence Middle English donge (“pit, abyss”, senses that are also attested for Middle English dongeoun).
The game term has been popularized by Dungeons & Dragons.
Senses: examples: text: Of every act of severity, of every bold violation of the constitution, of every bill for dungeoning and gagging the people, of every tax, of every loan, of all that set frugality at defiance, and that mocked at mercy, these men had been either the authors or the most strenuous supporters […]
ref: 1830, William Cobbett, History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth:
glosses: To imprison in a dungeon.
instrumental case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrumental cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun case used to express means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective. Languages that use the instrumental case include Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Georgian, Latvian, Slovene, Polish, Ukrainian, Quechua, Russian, Assamese, Tamil, Turkish and Sanskrit. Extinct languages that used the instrumental case include Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German.
Related terms: instructive case
bambino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæmˈbinoʊ/
Forms: form: bambinos
form: bambini
Etymology: From Italian bambino.
Senses: examples: text: These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.
ref: 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
glosses: A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
vault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlt/
ipa: /vɔːlt/
ipa: /vɑlt/
ipa: /vɔlt/
ipa: /vɑlt/
ipa: /vɔlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
homophone: volt stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: vaults
form: vaulting
form: vaulted
form: vaulted
Etymology: From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). Doublet of volute.
Senses: examples: text: The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: To build as, or cover with a vault.
glosses: To store in a vault.
examples: text: In future updates, most likely in season six, more items will get vaulted.
ref: 2018 August 31, Steven Asarch, “'Fortnite' Developer Update 5.40: Storm Destruction, Revolver in Vault”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2018:
text: While vaulting some old content may turn off a few players, Bungie seems intent on bringing as many players under its tent as possible first.
ref: 2020 June 9, Gene Park, “Bungie is finally coming through with its old promise of a 10-year ’Destiny’ plan”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2020:
text: Blizzard will vault the gorgeous Hanamura and other Assault maps from Overwatch's competitive mode when 'Overwatch 2' arrives.
ref: 2021 February 19, Kris Holt, “Overwatch 2 Will Ditch The Widely Disliked Assault/2CP Maps”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:
text: While some mistakes have resulted in Riot pulling Agents in the past, those changes were always temporary. If Riot is set on having only seven maps in the "Valorant," that likely means Split isn't coming back and more maps will get vaulted in the future.
ref: 2022 June 17, James Carr, “The Real Reason Valorant Is Dropping Its Oldest Map”, in SVG.com, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022:
topics: video-games
glosses: To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
vault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlt/
ipa: /vɔːlt/
ipa: /vɑlt/
ipa: /vɔlt/
ipa: /vɑlt/
ipa: /vɔlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
homophone: volt stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: vaults
form: vaulting
form: vaulted
form: vaulted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
text: The fugitive vaulted the fence to escape.
glosses: To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
Derived terms: vaulter
vaulting
vault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlt/
ipa: /vɔːlt/
ipa: /vɑlt/
ipa: /vɔlt/
ipa: /vɑlt/
ipa: /vɔlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
homophone: volt stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: vaults
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
Senses: glosses: An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
examples: text: Each vault has three segments: “preflight” (the movement from the springboard onto the table), “block” (the moment the hands touch and leave the table) and “postflight” (the flips and twists before landing). […] Handspring and Tsukahara vaults are less common than Yurchenko-style vaults, but some gymnasts specialize in them.
ref: 2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
synonyms: word: volte
extra: a circular movement by the horse
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
Related terms: pole vault
banda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish banda. Doublet of band.
Senses: examples: text: With very little fanfare, WZAA had become the first FM station in New York offering a format known as Mexican Regiona, which includes genres like ranchera, banda and norteña music.
ref: 2007 January 13, Seth Kugel, “The Sounds of Mexico Hit New York Airwaves”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of Mexican brass band music, emerged in the 19th century.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ensemble playing such music.
barista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹiːs.tə/
ipa: /bəˈɹɪs.tə/
ipa: /bəˈɹis.tə/
ipa: /bəˈɹɪs.tə/
ipa: /bəˈɹɪs.tə/
note: unadapted Italian pronunciation
ipa: /baˈɹis.ta/
note: unadapted Italian pronunciation
ipa: /baˈɾis.ta/
rhymes: -iːstə
rhymes: -ɪstə
Forms: form: baristas
form: baristi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian barista (“bartender”, literally “barist”), from bar (from English bar) + -ista (“-ist”); compare barman.
Senses: examples: text: "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
ref: 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:
glosses: A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.
Derived terms: word: baristo
word: cannista
barra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barras
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: A barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.
Related terms: word: barra boy
barra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barras
Etymology: Clipping of barramundi
Senses: examples: text: ‘Nice fish,’ Norm said, looking at four charred-baked barra covered in fire ash stuffed into the bucket.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 281:
glosses: A barramundi.
knobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏ'bəl
ipa: /ˈnɒb.əl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
homophone: nobble
Forms: form: knobbles
Etymology: From Middle English knoble; equivalent to knob + -le.
Senses: examples: text: […] I stared down into the chasm of this baby’s mouth, where the little pink knobble at the back of his throat was wiggling with the wind of his howl.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 59, in Small Island, London: Review, page 524:
glosses: A small knob.
Derived terms: knobbly
knobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏ'bəl
ipa: /ˈnɒb.əl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
homophone: nobble
Forms: form: knobbles
form: knobbling
form: knobbled
form: knobbled
Etymology: From Middle English knoble; equivalent to knob + -le.
Senses: glosses: To give a knobbly surface to.
examples: knobbled charcoal iron
a knobbling furnace
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.
Derived terms: knobbler
squabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒbəl/
ipa: /ˈskwɑːbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: squabbles
Etymology: The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).
Senses: examples: text: The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.
text: It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
ref: 1957 November 24, J. Spencer Gilks, “Centenary of the Bridport Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:
text: "p your mess.
Also, as apologetic as you were for occupying my time, which I had hoped to spend with my daughter, you used about twice as many words as you needed to, and wasted an entire paragraph complaining about your colleagues. I went back to the SCP-079 file — Supervisor Valis would have had the thing decommissioned years ago if it weren't for your blatant technofetishism. Yet, you have the gall to characterize the Foundation's ongoing political interventions and military operations as squabbles."
ref: 2022 October 18, Placeholder McD, “SCP-7579 [offset 1]”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2024:
glosses: A minor fight or argument.
Derived terms: squabbly
squabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒbəl/
ipa: /ˈskwɑːbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: squabbles
form: squabbling
form: squabbled
form: squabbled
Etymology: The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).
Senses: examples: text: The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
text: The sense of these propositions is very plain and easy, though logicians might perhaps squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
glosses: To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
examples: text: to squabble type
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
Synonyms: word: squabble
word: barney
word: bicker
word: quarrel
word: wrangle
word: argue
word: tiff
word: tift
word: quibble
word: row
word: pettifog
Hyponyms: word: stickle
Derived terms: bum-squabble
squabbler
Related terms: word: dispute
stollen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒlən/
ipa: /ˈʃtoʊl.ən/
rhymes: -ɒlən
Forms: form: stollens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stollen. Doublet of stull.
Senses: glosses: A traditional German cake eaten at Christmas time, made with nuts, raisins and other dried fruits.
Related terms: word: Stoll
word: Stolle
word: stull
word: Stull
libbra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libbre
form: libra
Etymology: From Italian libbra. Doublet of arratel, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, livre, and rottol.
Senses: examples: text: We find that in modern times the funt of Russia, the libbra of Italy, the libra of Spain, Portugal and various South and Central American countries, the livre of France and Greece, the pfund of Germany, the pond of Java and the Netherlands, and the pund of Denmark and Sweden, correspond to the avoirdupois pound, as we know it, although the exact equivalents in terms of our pound vary from about ¾ to over 2 pounds.
ref: 1934 February, Ralph W. Smith, “What Is a Fifty-Pound Weight?”, in J[ames] McKeen Cattell, editor, The Scientific Monthly, volume XXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 114, column 2:
text: In the first two samples analysed (1743 and 1753), bread remained a grant for young children only, who were recipients of three to four libbre of bread per week.
ref: 1991, Sandra Cavallo, “Patterns of poverty and patterns of relief”, in Stuart Woolf, editor, Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600–1800, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Conceptions of poverty and poor-relief in Turin in the second half of the eighteenth century), page 174:
text: From this treasury, Julius Caesar, having broken down the doors, took 4,135 libbre of gold and nine hundred thousand libbre of silver, and in their place he put the same quantity of gilt bronze.
ref: 2006, Andrea Palladio, translated by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, “On the Treasury, That Is, the Chamber of the Commune, and the Money that People Used in Rome in Those Times”, in Palladio’s Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio’s Two Guidebooks to Rome, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, section I (The Antiquities of Rome […]), page 65:
glosses: A traditional Italian unit of mass now equated to the pound.
magnetite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɡnətʌɪt/
Forms: form: magnetites
Etymology: From magnet + -ite, after German Magnetit.
Senses: examples: text: Appropriately enough, the commonest of these, a simple iron oxide, is called magnetite.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 137:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: lodestone
hypernyms: iron ore
coordinate_terms: hematite
glosses: A magnetic mineral, Fe₃O₄, one of the primary ores of iron.
Derived terms: biomagnetite
magnetitic
titanomagnetite
Ignatius bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ignatius beans
Senses: examples: text: We procure strychnin most easily from the Ignatius beans […]
ref: 1853, Carl Jacob Löwig, Principles of organic and physiological chemistry, page 379:
glosses: Alternative form of St Ignatius' bean (Strychnos ignatii)
keeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep
Synonyms: kept
dilapidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlæp.ɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /dəˈlæp.ə.deɪt/
Forms: form: dilapidates
form: dilapidating
form: dilapidated
form: dilapidated
Etymology: From Latin dilapidō (“to scatter, consume, throw away”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dis- (“asunder”) + lapidō (“to stone”), from lapis (“stone”). Compare French dilapider.
Senses: examples: text: If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony[…]
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: In the last days of autumn he had whitewashed the chalet, painted the doors, windows, and veranda, repaired the roof and interior, and improved the place so much that the landlord had warned him that the rent would be raised at the expiration of his twelvemonth's tenancy, remarking that a tenant could not reasonably expect to have a pretty, rain-tight dwelling-house for the same money as a hardly habitable ruin. Smilash had immediately promised to dilapidate it to its former state at the end of the year.
ref: 1883, George Bernard Shaw, chapter VI, in An Unsocial Socialist:
glosses: To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
examples: text: The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated.
ref: 1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses:
glosses: To squander or waste.
glosses: To fall into ruin or disuse.
Related terms: lapidate
dilapidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlæp.ɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /dəˈlæp.ə.deɪt/
Forms: form: more dilapidate
form: most dilapidate
Etymology: From Learned borrowing from Latin dīlapidātus, perfect passive participle of dilapidō (“squander, consume, throw away”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: glosses: dilapidated
bracketry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæ.kə.tɹi/
Etymology: From bracket + -ry.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The mounting hardware used to hold one part to another, typically consisting of stamped metal pieces that make up the actual bracket, and any other bolts, nuts, rubber etc. needed to complete the mounting of the part.
governmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʌv(ə)nˈmɛnt(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌɡʌvɚnˈmɛnt(ə)l/
Forms: form: more governmental
form: most governmental
Etymology: From government + -al.
Senses: examples: text: governmental agency
text: governmental decision
text: governmental department
text: governmental error
text: governmental failure
text: governmental policy
text: governmental system
text: According to the lawmakers who introduced the bill, Lawler and Gottheimer, H.R. 867 "amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to include international governmental organizations (IGOs) in existing anti-boycott laws."
ref: 2025 May 4, Jason Lemon, “MAGA Leaders Defend Americans' Right to Boycott Israel”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Relating to a government.
glosses: Relating to governing.
Derived terms: antigovernmental
countergovernmental
extragovernmental
governmentalese
governmentalism
governmentalist
governmentality
governmentalization
governmentalize
governmentally
intergovernmental
intragovernmental
multigovernmental
nongovernmental
pseudogovernmental
quasigovernmental
semigovernmental
supergovernmental
Cymry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Cymry, q.v. Cognate with English Cambrian and Cymric.
Senses: examples: text: The natural conclusion is that the Silurians or Iberians, now represented by the little, dark Welshmen, are the oldest existing race in Wales, and, though now speaking Cymraeg, were long before the Cymry there.
ref: 1881, James Bonwick, Who Are the Welsh? (Our Nationalities; III), London: David Bogue, […], page 46:
text: “What brings you into our lands?” The strange looking barbarian asked again. / He was speaking Cymraeg, which means the language of the aborigines, or “the language of the first race.” It was the same language of the Cymry of which Cedric and his tribe was a people of.
ref: 2001, Jodie K. Scales, Of Kindred Celtic Origins, volumes 1 (Myths, Legends, Genealogy and History of an Ordinary American Family), Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 416:
glosses: Synonym of Welsh: the Welsh people collectively.
synonyms: word: Welsh
extra: the Welsh people collectively
faithful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/
Forms: form: more faithful
form: most faithful
form: faithfull
Etymology: From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.
glosses: Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
examples: text: The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.
ref: 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion, page 162:
glosses: Having faith.
examples: text: My servant is very faithful.
glosses: Reliable; worthy of trust.
examples: text: I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
glosses: Consistent with reality.
examples: text: They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
text: She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful.
ref: 1976, The Missouri Breaks:
glosses: Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: Whose annihilator is zero.
raw_tags: of a module
Derived terms: faithful as a dog
faithful functor
faithfully
faithfulness
fully faithful
nonfaithful
overfaithful
site-faithful
unfaithful
Related terms: go to the wall for someone
stand by
true