cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
greeking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Etymology: From greek + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.
ref: 2002, Deke McClelland, “The Interface”, in Real World Adobe Illustrator 10, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:
text: Designers have long worked with a concept known as greeking. Greeking is a method of drawing gray bars to represent blocks of text rather than taking the time to image them all on the screen. […] Unless you really want to see every character of every word at every size, there's hardly any reason to turn greeking off.
ref: 2007, David Blatner, Gene Gable, Real World QuarkXPress 7, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN:
text: The use of greeking (also called dummy text) allows page designers to place text on a page without the actual content acting as a distraction. The history of greeking is unclear, but it was first used in the middle of the 20th century. The text was based on the words of Cicero, a Roman leader whose writings are admired. The language he spoke and wrote was Latin rather than Greek, so the naming of this dummy text is misleading.
ref: 2007, Susan E. L. Lake, Karen Bean, “Using Other Design Tools”, in The Business of Technology: Digital Desktop Publishing, Mason, Oh.: Thompson/South-Western, →ISBN, page 109:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice of using such placeholder text or graphics.
Related terms: lorem ipsum
greeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Etymology: From greek + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greek.
omission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɪʃən/
ipa: /oʊˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: omissions
Etymology: From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.
Senses: examples: text: Scots was not ‘banned’ outright — impossible anyway with so many Scots-speaking teachers but, like Gaelic, marginalised by omission.
ref: 2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: The act of omitting.
examples: text: E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.
glosses: The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
examples: text: The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.
glosses: An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
examples: text: The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
glosses: Something not done or neglected.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hyponyms: contraction
glosses: The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
Derived terms: nonomission
Related terms: contraction
omit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈmɪt/
ipa: /əˈmɪt/
ipa: /oʊˈmɪt/
ipa: /əˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: omits
form: omitting
form: omitted
form: omitted
Etymology: At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.
Senses: glosses: To leave out or exclude.
examples: text: She climbed out of the car and carefully omitted to lock it. She never left anything of value in it, and she found that it was to her advantage if people didn’t have to break anything in order to find that out.
ref: 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 136:
glosses: To fail to perform.
examples: text: In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, omit sections 146(4) and 147(3) (homosexual acts as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant ships).
ref: 2017, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2017, section 1:
topics: law
glosses: To delete or remove; to strike.
raw_tags: of text
glosses: To neglect or take no notice of.
Synonyms: sense: leave out or exclude
word: leave off
word: miss out
sense: take no notice of
word: disregard
sense: take no notice of
word: ignore
sense: take no notice of
word: pass
sense: take no notice of
word: turn a blind eye
word: except
word: exclude
word: leave out
word: miss off
word: omit
word: skip
Hyponyms: word: bypass
word: pass over
Derived terms: omittability
omittable
omittance
omitter
unomitted
Related terms: omission
mission
elide
imbue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: imbues
form: imbuing
form: imbued
form: imbued
Etymology: From Latin imbuō (“wet, moisten”). Compare imbibe.
Senses: examples: text: The shirt was imbued with his scent.
glosses: To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
examples: text: The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.
glosses: In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
Derived terms: imbuement
imbuer
reimbue
unimbued
Ñuñoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilean Spanish Ñuñoa, from Mapudungun.
Senses: glosses: A commune in northeastern Santiago, Chile.
vampiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /væmˈpɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: more vampiric
form: most vampiric
Etymology: From vampire + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having the traits of a vampire.
Synonyms: vampirey
vampirical
vampirine
Derived terms: unvampiric
vampirically
vampiric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /væmˈpɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: vampirics
Etymology: From vampire + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Vampirics kill to eat, not to play. Mostly.
ref: 2015, D. C. McGannon, C. Michael McGannon, Charlie Sullivan and the Monster Hunters: Council of the Hunters, page 18:
text: You should know Jakob; you are one of the oldest Vampirics we have here besides Braedon and me.
ref: 2020, Katlyne Marie, Unnatural, volume 1:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A vampire or vampire-like creature.
swashbuckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swashbucklers
Etymology: From swash + buckler.
Senses: examples: text: Phillips, in his New World of Words defines, to swash, to make fly about; to clash, or make a noise with swords; and a swash-buckler, a vain glorious sword player or fencer, a meer braggadochoe, a vapouring fellow.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 80:
glosses: A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay.
glosses: A daring adventurer.
glosses: A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and a lighthearted tone.
Related terms: swashbuckle
Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹmən/
ipa: /ˈnɔːmən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: Normans
form: Normen
Etymology: From Middle English Norman, from Old English Norman (a variant of Norþman) and Old French Normant.
It is certain that the word is derived from the base of the Germanic words for north and the Germanic base of the words for man. However, given the frequent movement of Germanic groups especially into and out of Britain in the post-classical world, it is unclear in what tongue it came to be used first. In addition, the generally accepted meaning, a person from Normandy or one of the many French-speaking invaders to Britain, was used chiefly by Anglo-Norman and Old French, though it originally referred to any Scandinavian of the time. See also Northman.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Normandy, France.
glosses: A member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066.
glosses: A Northman.
Derived terms: Norman Conquest
Norman County
Norman Invasion
Norman Island
Norman no mates
Norman's Bay
Normans Bay
Norman window
Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹmən/
ipa: /ˈnɔːmən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
Etymology: From Middle English Norman, from Old English Norman (a variant of Norþman) and Old French Normant.
It is certain that the word is derived from the base of the Germanic words for north and the Germanic base of the words for man. However, given the frequent movement of Germanic groups especially into and out of Britain in the post-classical world, it is unclear in what tongue it came to be used first. In addition, the generally accepted meaning, a person from Normandy or one of the many French-speaking invaders to Britain, was used chiefly by Anglo-Norman and Old French, though it originally referred to any Scandinavian of the time. See also Northman.
Senses: glosses: The langue d'oïl variant, closely related to the French of Île-de-France (i.e. Paris), spoken in Normandy and the Channel Islands, and was for several centuries the ruling language of England (see Anglo-Norman).
glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname [in turn originating as an ethnonym], for someone from Normandy, or for a Viking (Northman).
examples: text: "Let him be named Norman", said the lady; "it was the name of him who last - it was the name of the youngest son of Macalbin."
ref: 1815, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Clan-Albin, The Novelist's Magazine, C. Alexander, published 1833, page 155:
text: "Yes," she said, "the husband is pretty ex." And then, for no reason at all, she added: "His name is Norman."
Bill nodded solemnly. "I see why you left him."
Rosie began to giggle and clapped her hands to her mouth.
ref: 1995, Stephen King, Rose Madder, Viking, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: A male given name from Old English used in the Middle Ages and revived in the 19th century.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Montgomery County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Grundy County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Owen Township, Jackson County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Manistee County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Minnesota, in Pine County and Yellow Medicine County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An inactive township in Dent County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Phelps County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Kearney County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Richmond County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Cleveland County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Carlton, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Italo-Norman
Kenora
Normanesque
Normanism
Normanize
Normanness
Norman-Roberts syndrome
Norville
Siculo-Norman
Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹmən/
ipa: /ˈnɔːmən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
Etymology: From Middle English Norman, from Old English Norman (a variant of Norþman) and Old French Normant.
It is certain that the word is derived from the base of the Germanic words for north and the Germanic base of the words for man. However, given the frequent movement of Germanic groups especially into and out of Britain in the post-classical world, it is unclear in what tongue it came to be used first. In addition, the generally accepted meaning, a person from Normandy or one of the many French-speaking invaders to Britain, was used chiefly by Anglo-Norman and Old French, though it originally referred to any Scandinavian of the time. See also Northman.
Senses: examples: text: The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.
ref: 1999, Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell, “1066[:] The Normans Begin to Erect Castles”, in dictionary of english down through the ages[:] words & phrases born out of historical events great & small, 2005 edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Normandy or its inhabitants (present or past).
examples: Norman vocabulary
glosses: Relating to the Norman language or the dialect of French spoken in Normandy.
glosses: Relating to the Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans after the Norman Conquest, characterized by large arches and heavy columns.
examples: text: Darn Norman door! I thought I had to push, but I actually had to pull.
topics: arts
design
glosses: Having a counterintuitive design that confuses users about proper operation; after Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things (1988).
Derived terms: Cymro-Norman
wrong side out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: the wrong side out
form: wrong side before
form: wrongside out
form: wrong-side out
form: wrong-side-out
Senses: examples: text: We all struggled frantically into our clothes, […] getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:
text: She began to remove her sweaty clothes, but noticed for the first time that she had her chambray shirt on wrongside out.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
examples: text: When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot, And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.
Synonyms: sense: having its inner side on the outside
word: inside out
Related terms: back to front
upside down
wrong way round
Anglo-Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈnɔː.mən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈnɔːɹ.mən/
Forms: form: more Anglo-Norman
form: most Anglo-Norman
Etymology: From Anglo- + Norman.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the period of Norman rule of England, 1066–1154.
glosses: Pertaining to Normans in England after the Norman Conquest.
glosses: Relating to their language.
Anglo-Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈnɔː.mən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈnɔːɹ.mən/
Forms: form: Anglo-Normans
Etymology: From Anglo- + Norman.
Senses: glosses: A Norman who settled in England after the Norman Conquest, or a descendant of one.
Anglo-Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈnɔː.mən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈnɔːɹ.mən/
Etymology: From Anglo- + Norman.
Senses: glosses: The Old French dialect spoken in England by the ruling classes after the Norman Conquest, or the form of this dialect used in English law until the 17th century.
sword-breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword-breakers
form: swordbreaker
form: sword breaker
Senses: examples: text: The deepest indentations are in the so-called Sword-breakers (brise-épées), mostly of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: A short sword or dagger with a deeply notched or toothed blade, or with secondary projections, designed to catch or grapple an opponent's weapon.
examples: text: The dagger has the triangular knuckle-guard peculiar to the period, also straight quillons, fluted pommel and similar grip; the blade is 18 in. long, 2 in. wide at the hilt, where it is furnished with two sword-breakers.
ref: 1904, Guy Francis Laking, The Armoury of Windsor Castle: European Section, page 32:
glosses: A notch or projection on a dagger, etc., designed to catch an opponent's weapon.
backsword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backswords
Etymology: From back + sword.
Senses: examples: text: It [the dáo of the Nágá tribe, south-east of Assam] is a thick, heavy backsword, eighteen inches long, with a bevel where the point should be, worn at the waist in a half-scabbard of wood, and used for digging as well as killing.
ref: 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: A sword with one sharp edge.
synonyms: singlestick
glosses: A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
examples: text: One afternoon, as the missionary and I were sitting outside our tents, my attention was attracted towards a group of sepahis engaged under a banyantree, playing the game of backsword […]
ref: 1842, The Asiatic Journal […] :
glosses: The game in which the stick is used.
Derived terms: backswordman
gloria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glorias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gloria. Doublet of glory.
Senses: glosses: A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses.
examples: text: The glorias, canticles, and some translations of popular hymns are admirably sung; I do not know that I ever heard congregational singing more effective.
ref: 1855, The Colonial Church chronicle, and missionary journal:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A doxology.
wootz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wuːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Forms: form: wootzes
Etymology: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, probably from a misreading of wook, an English transcription of (the root of) Kannada ಉಕ್ಕು (ukku),ಉರ್ಕು (urku, “steel”), Telugu ఉక్కు (ukku, “steel”); akin to Tamil உருகு (uruku, “to melt”) and உருக்கு (urukku, “melted thing, steel”).
Senses: examples: text: The celebrated wootz or steel of India, made in little cakes of only about two pounds weight, possesses qualities which no European steel can surpass.
ref: 1863, Samuel Smiles, Industrial Biography:
text: The ferrum Indicum of the Classics may still be represented by the famous Wootz or Wutz, the 'natural Indian steel,' still so much prized for Sword-blades in Persia and Afghanistan.
ref: 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Proto-Sideric or Early Iron Age of Weapons”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: A type of steel from India, much admired for making sword blades.
stapler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪplə/
ipa: /ˈsteɪplɚ/
Forms: form: staplers
Etymology: From staple (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device which binds together sheets of paper by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and simultaneously folding over the ends of the staple against the back surface of the paper.
glosses: Any device for stapling with (small or large) staples, including any office stapler, staple gun, or hammer tacker.
Derived terms: saddle stapler
wool stapler
Related terms: staple
staple gun
staple remover
stapler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪplə/
ipa: /ˈsteɪplɚ/
Forms: form: staplers
Etymology: From staple (noun) + -er.
Senses: hypernyms: dealer
supplier
vendor
coordinate_terms: grocer
victualler
provisioner
sutler
chandler
glosses: A dealer in staple goods.
hypernyms: woolsorter#Noun
<
worker#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: One employed to sort wool according to its staple.
Related terms: staple
insurgents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurgent
repute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: reputes
Etymology: From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).
Senses: examples: text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Reputation, especially a good reputation.
Derived terms: disrepute
habit and repute
ill repute
reputable
reputation
repute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: reputes
form: reputing
form: reputed
form: reputed
Etymology: From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).
Senses: glosses: To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
examples: text: Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 18:3:
text: The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:
glosses: To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
renown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: renowns
Etymology: From Old French renoun (compare with Modern French renom), equivalent to re- + noun.
Senses: examples: text: She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 16:2:
text: […] Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; […]
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
text: There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: […] one day local fame would become world renown […]
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 63:
glosses: Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
examples: text: […] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.
Related terms: renowned
renown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: renowns
form: renowning
form: renowned
form: renowned
Etymology: From Old French renoun (compare with Modern French renom), equivalent to re- + noun.
Senses: glosses: To make famous.
silver fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver foxes
Senses: glosses: A melanistic red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with silver to black fur.
glosses: A domestic rabbit of a rare breed with silvery-black fur.
examples: text: My surprise visitor was Marcus, arriving early for the party. In tow he had a mean silver fox, a curator who was programming an encyclopedic exhibition of the anti-epoch to which Marcus and I belonged at a major museum.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
text: It’s more useful as a gender neutral term, saving the hassle of constant translation – Milf to Dilf, cougar to silver fox, mutton dressed up as lamb to beef dressed up as veal.
ref: 2023 August 10, Zoe Williams, “Ripped, hot and in your 50s? You are now, officially, ‘beekeeping age’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
hypernyms: fox
<
person#Noun
glosses: An attractive person who has graying hair.
hypernyms: fox
<
person#Noun
fox
<
person#Noun
glosses: An attractive person who has graying hair.
An attractive man with graying hair.
coordinate_terms: silver vixen
hypernyms: fox
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glosses: An attractive person who has graying hair.
An attractive woman with graying hair.
synonyms: silver vixen
coordinate_terms: golden girl
platinum blonde
Derived terms: silver-foxy
Related terms: silverback
silver-haired
silvery-haired
silver surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver surfers
Etymology: A pun, combining an allusion to the typical silver color of an elderly person's hair, and the notion of surfing the Internet, with the name of a comic-book character, The Silver Surfer.
Senses: glosses: An elderly person who regularly uses the Internet.
rom com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rom coms
form: romcom
form: rom-com
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Alternative form of romcom.
muchness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muchnesses
Etymology: From Middle English muchelnesse, michelnesse (“greatness, magnitude”), from Old English miċelnes, myċelnes (“greatness, size, mass, quantity, multitude, abundance, magnificence, great deed”), equivalent to much + -ness. Cognate with Old High German michilnessi (“greatness, magnitude”). Compare also mickleness.
Senses: glosses: Large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small).
glosses: Greatness in quantity, number, amount, or degree.
Related terms: much of a muchness
too-muchness
much of a muchness
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: As to any existing dearth of materials for comedy, I hold it to be merely imaginary; for I believe that on a fair comparison, the manners and morals of the present age and those of the past, would prove much of a muchness.
ref: 1819, The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, page 683:
text: “He was not,” answered a juror. “Old Peter Goodwin could not have been more than five feet five, and Dorothy was all of that, I should think. When they came to meeting together, they looked much of a muchness.”
ref: 1850, James Fenimore Cooper, “The Ways of the Hour”, in Precaution / The Ways of the Hour, facsimile edition, published 2010, page 30:
text: In fact, he said, in spite of all efforts to lift the popular taste, things were much of a muchness with the old days when in popular novels the villain, had to be foiled, the hero had to triumph and the lovers had to be united.
ref: 1926 October 2, “Chats with Office Callers”, in Henry Ford, W. J. Cameron, editors, Dearborn Independent Magazine October 1925-December 1926, page 28:
text: Private houses in London are apt to be much of a muchness. The door opens on a dark hall; from the dark hall rises a narrow staircase; off the landing opens a double drawing-room, and in this double drawing-room are two sofas on each side of a blazing fire, six armchairs, and three long windows giving upon the street.
ref: c. 1931, Virginia Woolf, “Portrait of a Londoner”, in The London Scene, published 2004, page 75:
text: The songs are much of a muchness (or littleness), all sounding forgettably alike.
ref: 1987 March 30, John Simon, “Theater: Railway Disaster”, in New York, page 97:
text: There are small trees and large shrubs which are much of a muchness, and it may not be possible to say whether an individual plant is a tall member of the shrub layer or a short tree.
ref: 2000, Patrick Whitefield, How To Make A Forest Garden, Permanent Publications, UK, page 13
text: There were many legislative and political battles to be fought before the fundamental idea that all people were much of a muchness was translated into a culture of equal rights for all, but gradually rights were extended from landowners, to rich men, to not so rich men, to all men, and then to women.
ref: 2000, Steve Bruce, Sociology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 80:
text: The majority are much of a muchness so, unless you are desperately trying to find a way to waste money, I’d rarely venture into high double digits.
ref: 2019 October 6, Funmi Fetto, “Smoky eyes get a contemporary colour revamp”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of two or more things, having little difference of any significance between them.
Related terms: distinction without a difference
same difference
six of one, half a dozen of the other
kudos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈk(j)uːdɒs/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊz/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊs/
rhymes: -uːdɒs
rhymes: -uːdəʊz
rhymes: -uːdəʊs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).
Senses: examples: text: The talented, young playwright received much kudos for his new drama.
text: I gave Chelsea much kudos for the birth of her first daughter.
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)
text: And… and to that… to that Turkish horse, I say this, “You should not step on people’s balls, but, in this solitary instance, kudos, horse, kudos.”
ref: 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “The Lottery”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 24, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Praise; accolades.
examples: text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Credit for one's achievements.
kudos
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈk(j)uːdɒs/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊz/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊs/
rhymes: -uːdɒs
rhymes: -uːdəʊz
rhymes: -uːdəʊs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).
Senses: synonyms: word: bravissimo
word: bravo
word: bully
word: cock on
word: congrats
word: congratulations
word: encore
word: fair fucks
word: full marks
word: get you
word: good for someone
word: good for you
word: good going
word: good job
word: good on you
word: good show
word: good work
word: hats off
word: hon
word: hoorah
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: huzza
word: huzzah
word: jolly good show
word: keep it up
word: kudos
word: mazal tov
word: mazel tov
word: nice one
word: proper job
word: right on
word: shabash
word: there you go
word: way to go
word: well done
word: well said
glosses: An interjection indicating praise or approval or as an acknowledgement of a laudable achievement.
kudos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈk(j)uːdɒs/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊz/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊs/
rhymes: -uːdɒs
rhymes: -uːdəʊz
rhymes: -uːdəʊs
Forms: form: kudoses
form: kudosing
form: kudosed
form: kudosed
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).
Senses: examples: text: You know and I know that Dr. Tinsley likes a bit of kudosing every now and then. I think it would be well if we seriously considered some kind of honorable mention for him at the Conference.
ref: 2018, Margaret Edds, We Face the Dawn:
glosses: To give praise or accolades.
kudos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈk(j)uːdɒs/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊz/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊs/
rhymes: -uːdɒs
rhymes: -uːdəʊz
rhymes: -uːdəʊs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).
Senses: glosses: plural of kudo
kudos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈk(j)uːdɒs/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊz/
ipa: /ˈkudoʊs/
rhymes: -uːdɒs
rhymes: -uːdəʊz
rhymes: -uːdəʊs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “praise, renown”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kudo
interspersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interspersed
form: most interspersed
Senses: glosses: Placed at intervals amongst other things.
Derived terms: interspersedly
uninterspersed
interspersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intersperse
it'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪtl̩/
ipa: [ˈɪɾl̩]
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: it’ll
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it shall.
glosses: Contraction of it will.
Synonyms: sense: it shall
word: ‛tshall
sense: it will
word: ‛twill
who'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Aria also told me that a dead asari woman was found in one of the wealthy apartments -- that she was the one who'd killed my daughter.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Thank you from my daughter:
glosses: Who had.
glosses: Who would.
who'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Who shall.
glosses: Who will.
who've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Etymology: who + -'ve
Senses: glosses: Contraction of who have.
Related terms: whom've
funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭngk
ipa: /fʌŋk/
ipa: /fɐŋk/
ipa: /faŋk/
ipa: /fəŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: funks
Etymology: 1620, from French dialectal (Norman) funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Old Northern French fungier (“to smoke”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”). Related to French dialect funkière (“smoke”). More at fumigate.
Senses: examples: text: The foulest stench is in the air; the funk of 40,000 years and grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom.
ref: 1982, “Thriller”, in Rod Temperton (lyrics), Quincy Jones (music), Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson (featuring Vincent Price), Epic Records:
glosses: Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
Derived terms: avant-funk
blue funk
deep funk
disco funk
drumfunk
dundy-funk
dundy funk
electro-funk
electrofunk
fake the funk
funkabilly
funkadelia
funkadelic
funk art
funkateer
funkcore
funk hole
funkification
funk-like
funklike
funkmaster
funk metal
funk-metal
funk money
funk out
funk rock
funk-rock
funksome
funkster
funkstick
funktastic
funky
future funk
G-funk
gunk
jazz-funk
neurofunk
technofunk
funk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭngk
ipa: /fʌŋk/
ipa: /fɐŋk/
ipa: /faŋk/
ipa: /fəŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: funks
form: funking
form: funked
form: funked
Etymology: 1620, from French dialectal (Norman) funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Old Northern French fungier (“to smoke”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”). Related to French dialect funkière (“smoke”). More at fumigate.
Senses: glosses: To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
examples: text: He funks Basketia and her son to death
ref: c. 1709, William King, The Furmentary:
text: Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […]
ref: 2012, M. C. Beaton, Diana the Huntress:
glosses: To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
examples: text: From the earliest part of this decade when he funked in relative obscurity to his days as a superstar with the release of his Batman soundtrack last summer, I could almost always count on Prince.
ref: 1989 December 17, Christopher Wittke, “On The Edge In The '80s”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9:
glosses: To perform funk music.
examples: text: Funk this!
text: Snow bunny, I pledge to funk you baby / You sexy lady, my only temptation […] Oh, I just want to funk you
ref: 2017, Bootsy Collins, “Snow Bunny”, in World Wide Funk:
text: Look, glittery tacos have their place. A date, business lunch, night out with besties, etc. But otherwise, paying almost 20 bucks for pizzazz between a few tortillas in Huntsville, funk that.
ref: 2023 November 25, Matt Wake, “Five meals under $10 that I love from local Huntsville restaurants (and you will, too!)”, in The Huntsville Times, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Fuck (the taboo swear word)
Synonyms: eff
f-bomb
Derived terms: funk up
funk you
funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭngk
ipa: /fʌŋk/
ipa: /fɐŋk/
ipa: /faŋk/
ipa: /fəŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: funks
form: vaunk
Etymology: From Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”). Cognate with Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”). See also spunk.
Senses: glosses: Touchwood, punk, tinder.
Derived terms: word: spunk
funk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭngk
ipa: /fʌŋk/
ipa: /fɐŋk/
ipa: /faŋk/
ipa: /fəŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: funks
Etymology: 1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning “to panic, fail due to panic”. Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete Dutch fonck (“distress, agitation”), from Middle Dutch fonck (“perturbation, agitation”). More at flunk.
Senses: examples: text: I've been in a funk lately, I fell into a funk, I slipped into a funk, I was stuck in a funk
text: it helped me get out of a funk
glosses: Mental depression.
examples: text: [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk […]
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
text: —A woful lunatic, Mulligan said. Were you in a funk?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 4:
text: Holmes was coming upstairs. Holmes would burst open the door. Holmes would say, “In a funk, eh?” Holmes would get him.
ref: 1925 May 14, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, →OCLC:
text: 1944 (written, first published in 2015), Bob Cooney, Proud Journey
As I left the platform, the atmosphere was tense but there was no sign of uneasiness or funk […]
glosses: A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
examples: text: It is the long probation in the old way of teaching that fellows funk at or makes funks of them and their slow pace, almost up to the end of that probation, all who teach themselves are in a worse predicament as the hands with them are made the principle propellors instead of the feet.
ref: 1875, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style:
glosses: One who fears or panics; a coward.
Derived terms: funkhole
funk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭngk
ipa: /fʌŋk/
ipa: /fɐŋk/
ipa: /faŋk/
ipa: /fəŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: funks
form: funking
form: funked
form: funked
Etymology: 1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning “to panic, fail due to panic”. Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete Dutch fonck (“distress, agitation”), from Middle Dutch fonck (“perturbation, agitation”). More at flunk.
Senses: examples: text: He'll have funked it, when he comes to the edge, and sees nothing but mist below
ref: 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
text: It is the long probation in the old way of teaching that fellows funk at or makes funks of them and their slow pace, almost up to the end of that probation, all who teach themselves are in a worse predicament as the hands with them are made the principle propellors instead of the feet.
ref: 1875, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style, The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style:
text: "Always wanted a go at the figure. Funked it. Shows what a man can do, given the right model. Dam' good model."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
glosses: To frighten; to cause to flinch.
Derived terms: funker
odour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odours
Senses: examples: text: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: Alternative spelling of odor.
Derived terms: body odour
deodourise
malodour
odourless
odour of sanctity
odourprint
odourproof
odourscape
odoursome
fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fibres
form: fiber
Etymology: From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Senses: examples: text: The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
glosses: A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
examples: text: The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
glosses: Material in the form of fibres.
examples: text: Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
glosses: Dietary fibre.
examples: text: The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
text: He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:
glosses: Moral strength and resolve.
examples: text: Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
examples: text: It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
ref: 1892, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, edited by F. G. Heathcote, Elementary Text-book of Zoology:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Derived terms: biofibre
carbon fibre
chlorofibre
dark fibre
dietary fibre
fibreboard
fibre bundle
fibre cement
fibre clay
fibrecraft
fibred
fibre-faced
fibrefill
fibreglass
fibreise
fibreless
fibrelike
fibre optic
fibre-optic
fibre optics
fibre-optics
fibre-reinforced plastic
fibrescope
fibrewood
fibriform
fibrin
fibrise
fibrize
fibrisol
fibrous
fluorofibre
hollow-fibre
hollowfibre
interfibre
macrofibre
microfibre
milk fibre
moral fibre
multifibre
muscle fibre
myofibre
natural fibre
nerve fibre
optical fibre
Purkinje fibre
pycnofibre
Seifert fibre space
synthetic fibre
Tampico fibre
with every fibre of one's being
Related terms: fibril
fibro-
fibroid
fibrosis
fibrositis
demonstrative adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonstrative adjectives
Senses: synonyms: demonstrative
demonstrative determiner
hypernyms: adjective
glosses: An adjective that points out which person, object or concept is being referred to; whether it is singular or plural; and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer.
descriptive adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descriptive adjectives
Senses: glosses: An adjective that describes a noun.
indefinite adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indefinite adjectives
Senses: glosses: An indefinite pronoun used as a determiner.
interrogative adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrogative adjectives
Senses: glosses: an interrogative pronoun used as an adjective
limiting adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limiting adjectives
Senses: glosses: An adjective that limits a noun. They include definite articles, indefinite articles, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, indefinite adjectives, interrogative adjectives, cardinal adjectives, ordinal adjectives, proper adjectives and nouns used as adjectives.
numerical adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerical adjectives
Senses: glosses: A number used as an adjective: either a cardinal adjective (such as "one") or an ordinal adjective (such as "third").
participial adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: participial adjectives
Senses: glosses: A participle used as an adjective; it may be either a present participle or a past participle, and used either attributively or predicatively.
Coordinate terms: word: gerund
word: adverbial participle
english: the voyage of the damned; as in
translation: the voyage of the damned; as in
word: nominalized past participle
predicative adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predicative adjectives
form: predicate adjective
Senses: examples: text: ‘Complicated’ is a predicative adjective in the sentence ‘Grammar is complicated.’
text: In ‘This looks bad,’ the word ‘bad’ is the predicative adjective.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective that is not part of the noun clause it modifies, but is linked to it with a copula.
Hypernyms: postpositive adjective
relative adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative adjectives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A relative pronoun used in an adjectival clause.