cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
comport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: comports
form: comporting
form: comported
form: comported
Etymology: From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: to comport with an injury
text: The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: To tolerate, bear, put up (with).
examples: text: The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.
text: How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
ref: 1622 May 24 (licensing date), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:
text: How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.
ref: a. 1705 (date written), [John Locke], “[(please specify the title)]”, in A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 17, →OCLC:
glosses: To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord.
examples: text: She comported herself with grace.
text: Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: Though genial enough when she got her way, on the rare occasions when people attempted to thwart her she was apt to comport herself in a manner reminiscent of Cleopatra on one of the latter’s bad mornings.
ref: 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Leave It to Psmith:
glosses: To behave (in a given manner).
Synonyms: sense: be in agreement
word: cohere
sense: behave
word: carry oneself
sense: behave
word: bear oneself
Derived terms: comportable
comport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology: From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Personal virtues can be symbolic of capital—e.g., comport and charm as marks of “good” breeding—but to be a “celebrity” or “surgeon” or “professor” requires specific forms of capital.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: Manner of acting; conduct; comportment; deportment.
wobbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
ipa: /ˈwɑb(ə)li/
rhymes: -ɒbəli
Forms: form: wobblier
form: wobbliest
Etymology: From wobble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: wobbly bridge
text: wobbly chair
text: wobbly movement
text: wobbly table
synonyms: precarious
rickety
shaky
tottering
unsafe
unstable
unsteady
glosses: Unsteady and tending to wobble.
Derived terms: wobbly boots
wobbly cat syndrome
wobbly egg
wobbly hedgehog syndrome
wobbly pop
wobbly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
ipa: /ˈwɑb(ə)li/
rhymes: -ɒbəli
Forms: form: wobblies
Etymology: From wobble + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wobbly.
synonyms: word: tantrum
word: catfit
word: conniption
word: conniption fit
word: dummy spit
word: headfit
word: hissy
word: hissy fit
word: meltdown
word: paddy
word: shit fit
word: snit fit
word: wobbler
word: wobbly
glosses: A wobbler; a fit of rage; a tantrum.
Derived terms: chuck a wobbly
throw a wobbly
Wolf Cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wolf Cubs
Senses: glosses: A Cub Scout.
Cub Scout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cub Scouts
Senses: glosses: A member of the junior division of the Boy Scout movement.
Wolffian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlfiən/
homophone: Wolfean
homophone: Wolfian
homophone: Woolfian
Forms: form: more Wolffian
form: most Wolffian
form: wolffian
Etymology: From Wolff + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.
glosses: Relating to Christian Wolff (1679–1754), German philosopher.
Derived terms: Wolffian body
Wolffian duct
Wolffian ridge
Wolffian tubule
Strait of Messina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Strait of Messina
Senses: glosses: The narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of mainland Italy.
Coordinate terms: Strait of Sicily
photographic memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photographic memories
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: eidetic memory
glosses: The ability to recall images, sounds, smells, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume.
glosses: A photograph of a location, place or event that one may desire to remember or recall.
Synonyms: total recall
white smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the ancient practice of announcing the result of a papal election. If the election was successful, i.e. a candidate received two-thirds majority in the College of Cardinals, the inspected ballots were burned in the stove of the Sistine Chapel of Vatican, resulting in white smoke spewing out from the chimney. If the required majority was not reached, damp straw was added to the stove, resulting in black smoke. A similar effect is achieved in modern times with chemicals.
Senses: glosses: White-colored smoke serving as an announcement to the outside world that a conclave has chosen a new Pope.
examples: text: Sit yourselves down together until the white smoke comes out.
glosses: An event of reaching an agreement.
glosses: A shade of white.
glosses: The drug methamphetamine.
BSOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSODs
form: blue screen
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of blue screen of death.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of black screen of death.
BSOD
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: BSODs
form: BSODing
form: BSODed
form: BSODed
form: BSOD'd
form: BSOD'd
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fail critically and display a blue screen of death.
raw_tags: of a computer system
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.
administrivia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: administrivia
Etymology: Blend of administrative + trivia. First use appears c. 1937 in International Journal of Ethics.
Senses: examples: Administrivia take up two hours of every day.
Administrivia takes up two hours of every day.
glosses: Administrative details that which take a significant amount of time to complete.
wikipedia: Ethics (journal)
Synonyms: administrativia
paperwork
red tape
tube top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube tops
Senses: synonyms: word: boob tube
glosses: A one-piece strapless tube-shaped top worn by women, leaving shoulders and belly-button exposed.
Related terms: crop top
backslang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækslæŋ/
Forms: form: backslangs
form: back slang
form: back-slang
Etymology: From back + slang.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: centre slang
glosses: A form of slang composed of words whose spelling or sound is reversed.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: centre slang
glosses: A form of slang composed of words whose spelling or sound is reversed.
Pig Latin.
Related terms: Lunfardo
Polari
verlan
vesre
confabulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌfæbjʊˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: confabulations
Etymology: From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning.
ref: 1855 January 5, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: The schoolroom piano broke into all gruesome fancies; and when that failed there were confabulations in corners, with a sequel of one of them going out in the highest spirits in order to “come in” as something new.
ref: 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw:
text: The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat looking with new eyes at the library which, for over thirty years, had been the scene of his solitary musings and of all the family confabulations.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XXXIV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: confab
glosses: A casual conversation; a chat.
examples: text: For Örulv and Hydén, confabulation is ‘world-making’ (669). What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).
ref: 2021, Pramod K. Nayar, Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”
ref: 2025 August 3, Adam Gabbatt, quoting Harry Segal, “‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone suffering from dementia.
Derived terms: word: confab
Related terms: word: confable
word: confabular
word: confabulate
word: confabulative
word: confabulator
word: confabulatory
conurbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnəˈbeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɑnɚˈbeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: conurbations
Etymology: From Latin con- (“together”) + urbs (“city”) + -ation. Coined by Scottish biologist, sociologist, and geographer Patrick Geddes in 1915.
Senses: glosses: A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
Related terms: conurbia
suburban
suburbia
urban
urbane
urbanise
urbanite
urbanize
coruscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəskeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹəskeɪt/
enpr: kôrʹə-skāt
enpr: kŏrʹə-skāt
Forms: form: coruscates
form: coruscating
form: coruscated
form: coruscated
form: corruscate
Etymology: From Latin coruscātus, perfect passive participle of coruscō (“to flash, gleam”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: gleam
glimmer
glisten
glitter
radiate
scintillate
sheen
shine
sparkle
twinkle
glosses: To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.
examples: text: For truth and tenderness do more / Than coruscating metaphor.
ref: 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2021:
glosses: To exhibit brilliant technique or style.
Derived terms: coruscatingly
Related terms: coruscation
cosset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsɪt
Forms: form: cossets
form: cosseting
form: cossetting
form: cosseted
form: cosseted
form: cossetted
form: cossetted
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cottage”) (Modern English cot (“cottage”) (archaic)) + -sǣta (“-sitter”); compare coscet. Compare German Hauslamm (literally “house lamb”), Italian casiccio.
Senses: examples: text: The car cossets its occupants in comfort.
glosses: To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.
examples: text: The foam cossets your skin.
glosses: To fondle; to touch or stroke lovingly.
examples: text: An independent oversight body is just setting up, but at full strength it will have a core team of just five. This is a state of affairs that cossets and enriches bailiffs at the expense of families who’ve fallen into debt.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To benefit; to make life easy for.
Synonyms: sense: to treat like a pet
word: coddle
word: posset
word: pamper
sense: to fondle
word: caress
word: pet
word: fondle
Derived terms: cosseted
cosseter
cosseting
cosset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsɪt
Forms: form: cossets
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cottage”) (Modern English cot (“cottage”) (archaic)) + -sǣta (“-sitter”); compare coscet. Compare German Hauslamm (literally “house lamb”), Italian casiccio.
Senses: glosses: A pet, usually a pet lamb.
glosses: Someone indulged or cosseted.
Related terms: cub
kid
fawn
kitten
cosset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsɪt/
rhymes: -ɒsɪt
Forms: form: cossets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cossid (“courier or messenger”).
glance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑːns/
ipa: /ɡlæns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: glances
Etymology: From Late Middle English glaunce (compare glaunce-ore (“type of ore; lead ore used for glazing pottery (?)”)), borrowed from Middle High German glanz (“(adjective) gleaming, glittering, sparkling; (noun) a gleam, glitter, sparkle”), from Old High German glanz (“bright”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlend-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of glance coal (“any hard, lustrous coal such as anthracite”).
examples: text: copper glance    silver glance
text: The Oxides, Pyrites, Glances, and Blendes, might be so termed; thus we should have Tungstic Iron Oxide (usually called Tungstate of Iron), Arsenical Iron Pyrites (Mispickel), Tetrahedral Copper Glance (Fahlerz), Quicksilver Blende (Cinnabar), and the Metals might be termed native, as Native Copper, Native Silver.
ref: 1840, William Whewell, “Aphorisms Concerning Science. Aphorism XVII.”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, page cxix:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: obsolete except in the names of certain minerals
glosses: Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
Derived terms: antimony glance
bismuth glance
coal glance
cobalt glance
copper glance
iron glance
lead glance
molybdenum glance
nickel glance
silver glance
unshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshifts
form: unshifting
form: unshifted
form: unshifted
Etymology: From un- + shift.
Senses: glosses: To release the shift key on a computer or typewriter keyboard.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To add an item to the beginning of an array.
copier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpɪə/
ipa: /ˈkɑpiɚ/
Forms: form: copiers
Etymology: From copy + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
glosses: A person who copies documents.
examples: text: a file copier; a disk copier
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or process that copies.
Synonyms: sense: machine
word: duplicator
sense: machine
word: copy machine
sense: machine
word: xerox machine
sense: machine
word: xerox
sense: machine
word: xeroxer
english: writing by hand
translation: writing by hand
word: copyist
english: using a photocopier
translation: using a photocopier
word: xeroxer
Hyponyms: laser copier
photocopier
xerox machine
xerography machine
Derived terms: microcopier
telecopier
womanliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊmənlɪnəs/
Forms: form: womanlinesses
Etymology: From womanly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 21:
glosses: The condition of being a woman; femininity.
woodcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdˌkʌt/
Forms: form: woodcuts
Etymology: From wood + cut.
Senses: synonyms: woodblock
woodprint
xylograph
glosses: An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
synonyms: xylography
hypernyms: relief printing
coordinate_terms: linocut
metalcut
woodblock printing
wood engraving
glosses: A method of printmaking from such a block.
synonyms: woodblock
xylograph
glosses: A print produced with this method.
Related terms: pyrography
wood engraving
woodblock printing
xylography
wooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdɪd/
rhymes: -ʊdɪd
Forms: form: more wooded
form: most wooded
Etymology: From Middle English woded (“concealed by trees”), equivalent to wood + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
text: Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.
ref: 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
text: One of the loveliest rivers in Wales, the Teifi, loops and swirls down to Llanybyther through a lush valley hemmed in by range upon range of wooded hills.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 260:
synonyms: sylvan
woody
woodsy
glosses: Covered with trees.
glosses: Aged in wooden casks.
raw_tags: of wine
Derived terms: well-wooded
woodedly
woodedness
Related terms: wood
woodlike
woodsy
woody
wooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdɪd/
rhymes: -ʊdɪd
Etymology: See wood (verb)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wood
woodsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodsmen
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From woods + -man. Compare earlier woodman.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
head_nr: 2
hypernyms: outdoorsman
glosses: Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and firemaking.
Related terms: backwoodsman
woodmanship
woodsmanship
coxcomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒks.koʊm/
Forms: form: coxcombs
form: cockscomb
Etymology: From Middle English cokke’s comb.
Senses: glosses: The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
glosses: The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
examples: text: Thanks to my stars, I once can see / A window here from scribbling free! / Here no conceited coxcombs pass, / To scratch their paltry drabs on glass; / Nor party-fool is calling names, / Or dealing crowns to George and James.
ref: a. 1746, Jonathan Swift, “VII. Another, Written upon a Window where there was No Writing before.”, in Thomas Sheridan, compiler, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. […] In Nineteen Volumes, new corrected and revised edition, volume VII, London: Printed [by Nichols and Son] for J[oseph] Johnson [et al.], published 1801, →OCLC, page 361:
text: [F]or tho' I am afraid the Doctor was a little of a Coxcomb, he might be nevertheleſs very much of a Surgeon.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 112:
text: And she nearly started a fight between two young fops in plumed hats and flouncy collars: "Clay-brained coxcomb!" "Mewling milk-livered maggot!"
ref: 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like:
synonyms: fool
popinjay
glosses: A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
Derived terms: coxcomb chart
coxcombed
coxcombic
coxcombical
coxcombically
coxcombly
coxcombry
coxcomby
deign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪn/
homophone: Dane
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: deigns
form: deigning
form: deigned
form: deigned
Etymology: From Middle English deynen, from Old French deignier (“consider worthy”), from Latin dignāre (“consider worthy”), from dignus (“worthy”). Cognate to dignity and French daigner.
Senses: examples: text: He didn’t even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
text: My fathers Palace, Madam, vvill be proud / To entertaine your preſence, if youle daine / To make repoſe vvithin.
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, signature C2, verso:
text: THE MAJOR-DOMO. Caesar will deign to choose his wine? Sicilian, Lesbian, Chian——
ref: 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
text: "He will deign to finish this simple fare and wash it down with nothing more Lucullan than beer."
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 192:
text: Before I could knock, Bonnie opened the door. “Finally you deign to show up” were the first words said to me. It had been a year.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
examples: text: Nor would we deigne him buriall of his men, / Till he diſburſed, at Saint Colmes ynch, / Ten thouſand Dollars, to our generall vſe.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 131, column 2:
text: He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face; […]
ref: 1854, [Charlotte Mary Yonge], chapter IX, in Heartsease or The Brother’s Wife […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son […], →OCLC, page 224:
text: O LORD, Jesus Christ, who, before ascending into heaven, didst promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish thy work in the souls of thy Apostles and disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me […]
ref: 1941, “Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost”, in Novena to the Holy Ghost:
glosses: To condescend to give; to do something.
examples: text: Go, go, be gone, to ſaue your Ship from wrack, / Which cannot periſh hauing thee aboarde, / Being deſtin’d to a drier death on ſhore : / I muſt goe ſend ſome better Meſſenger, / I fear my Iulia would not daigne my lines, / Receiuing them from ſuch a worthleſſe poſt.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
Related terms: deem
dignity
condescend
spare
suffer
adiposity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiposities
Etymology: From adipose + -ity, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).
Senses: examples: text: "Why this sudden concern about adiposity?" asked Hardman.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 307:
glosses: Obesity; the state of being fat.
glosses: The condition of being adipose; adipose tissue.
Derived terms: central adiposity
Related terms: adipic
adiposeness
adiposis
hyperadiposity
hypoadiposity
B-unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-units
form: B unit
Senses: topics: railways
trains
transport
glosses: A locomotive with an engine, generator, and traction motors, but without a control cab.
Related terms: slug
parley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː(ɹ)li/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: parleys
Etymology: From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabolō, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παρά (pará, “beside”) with βολή (bolḗ, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver.
Senses: examples: text: We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it [...]
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart:
text: In the highest-level parley of leaders of the two countries since the accident, President Obama is to meet with Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, on Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, after a nuclear security conference there, to discuss Afghanistan and other security issues.
ref: 2012 March 24, Eric Schmitt, “U.S. Plans No Charges Over Deadly Strike in Pakistan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A conference, especially one between enemies.
parley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː(ɹ)li/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: parleys
form: parleying
form: parleyed
form: parleyed
form: parlay
Etymology: From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabolō, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παρά (pará, “beside”) with βολή (bolḗ, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver.
Senses: examples: text: [...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ſhot, fled amaine and left us [...]
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
text: "That is droll. Listen yet one time. You are very spiritual. Can you make a honorable lady of Her?" / "Don't be so malicious," says Mr. Bucket. / "Or a haughty gentleman of Him?" cries Madamoiselle, referring to Sir Leicester with ineffable disdain. "Eh! O then regard him! The poor infant! Ha! ha! ha!" / "Come, come, why this is worse Parlaying than the other," says Mr. Bucket. "Come along!"
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Springing a Mine”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 527:
text: Jack "parlayed" with them until he had completed his task, and then he closed the gate in their faces.
ref: 1865, “Tom the Giant—His Wife Jane, and Jack the Tinkeard, as Told by the ‘Drolls’”, in Robert Hunt, editor, Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall (First Series), London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: To have a discussion, especially one between enemies.
Derived terms: parleyer
Related terms: parley-vous
parle
truce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹuːs/
ipa: /tɹus/
ipa: /ˈtɹʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: truces
Etymology: From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Senses: examples: text: An uneasy truce
text: [I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.
ref: 1732 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous Dr. Cranstoun, in a Letter to the Author at His Desire, in Dr. Cranstoun’s Own Words.”, in George Cheyne, The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, […], London: […] G[eorge] Strahan […]; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published 1733, →OCLC, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure. […]), page 321:
glosses: A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
examples: text: He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.
text: They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: [T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 108:
glosses: An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
Synonyms: armistice
ceasefire
truce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹuːs/
ipa: /tɹus/
ipa: /ˈtɹʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: truces
form: trucing
form: truced
form: truced
Etymology: From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Senses: examples: text: Only undaunted Henry de Tracey […] held up the cause; trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.
ref: 1869, Thomas Cobbe, History of the Norman Kings of England, page 330:
glosses: To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
interlocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlocutions
Etymology: From inter- + locution.
Senses: examples: text: [T]wo actors were introduced to sustain fictitious characters and carry on a dialogue in such manner that the songs of the chorus and the interlocution of the actors formed a continuous piece.
ref: 1905, George Grote, “Solon's Early Greek Legislation”, in Rossiter Johnson, editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume 1, published 2008, →ISBN, page 304:
text: Contrary to Storra's hope, however, the conversation between Flinx and his new visitor was going very well indeed. ¶Experienced in the ways of political intrigue, if not interspecies interlocution, Treappyn had settled himself into a comfortable squat.
ref: 2006, Alan Dean Foster, Running from the Deity, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Discussion or conversation.
glosses: An intermediate decree before final decision.
Derived terms: interlocutional
Related terms: interlocutor
orgasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: more orgasmic
form: most orgasmic
form: orgastic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
The historically "correct" form is orgastic. Nouns from Ancient Greek that end in -sm regularly form adjectives ending in -stic: for example, enthusiasm / enthusiastic, sarcasm / sarcastic. By way of counterexample, the ahistorical -mic also appears in the terms protoplasmic and cataclysmic (instead of *protoplastic and *cataclystic).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to orgasms.
examples: text: Seemingly every year, another study announces that married women are more orgasmic than single women.
ref: 2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 171:
text: They've helped non-orgasmic women become orgasmic, they've helped orgasmic women become more orgasmic, and they've helped many women experience their first multiple orgasms (we'll talk about that later!).
ref: 2009, Barbara Keesling, The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Girl Sex, page 41:
text: The gentler the sensation or touch the more orgasmic I am.
ref: 2010, Anonymised diarist, in Bettina Arndt, What Men Want in Bed, 2012, page 266
glosses: Prone to or capable of having orgasms.
examples: text: It must be an orgasmic experience to be an astronaut and see the Earth as a little, colourful marble surrounded by blackness.
synonyms: word: ecstatic
word: thrilled
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: orgasmic
word: on cloud nine
word: over the moon
word: overjoyed
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
glosses: Very exciting or stimulating.
Derived terms: anorgasmic
eargasmic
multiorgasmic
multi-orgasmic
nonorgasmic
orgasmical
orgasmically
postorgasmic
preorgasmic
suborgasmic
unorgasmic
Related terms: orgasm
orgastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɡæstɪk/
ipa: /ˈoɹ.ɡæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more orgastic
form: most orgastic
Etymology: From orgas(m) + -ic (with t as in spastic) or -astic (as in e.g. sarcastic, pleonastic).
Senses: examples: text: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
ref: 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 171:
text: There is surely no more orgastic torture for children than the cries of another child being punished.
ref: 1954, Cornell University, Epoch, volume 6, page 27:
text: In the older half of our sample the nondevout women are somewhat more orgastic than the devout, but in the younger half of the sample it is the devout who are more orgastic.
ref: 1974, Morton M. Hunt, Sexual behavior in the 1970s, page 214:
text: However, Pomeroy's (1965) data are contradictory, in that he found prostitutes to be more orgastic than normal women.
ref: 1976, Benjamin J. Sadock, Harold I. Kaplan, Alfred M. Freedman, editors, The Sexual Experience, page 370:
glosses: Orgasmic (exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm).
Derived terms: antiorgastic
orgastically
orgastic potency
postorgastic
preorgastic
adipose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊs/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊz/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.poʊs/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: more adipose
form: most adipose
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.
Senses: examples: text: They will attack the problem specifically at key sites in the brain, digestive system, and adipose organs.
ref: 2003, Dr. Andrew Packard, The Packard Weight Health Plan:
glosses: Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
examples: text: This was a statue of a slightly adipose child in a bath hat with its nappy round its ankles.
ref: 2012, Ruth Petrie, “Not So Lovely in the Garden”, in Notes from the Garden:
glosses: Slightly overweight; chubby.
Synonyms: sense: composed of fat
word: fatty
sense: overweight
word: chubby
sense: overweight
word: chunky
sense: overweight
word: overweight
sense: overweight
word: plump
sense: overweight
word: podgy
sense: overweight
word: tubby
Derived terms: adipokinin
adipose fin
adiposeness
adipose tissue
adipositis
adiposity
adiposogenital
adiposome
adiposuria
adipous
antiadipose
fibroadipose
nonadipose
preadipose
adipose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊs/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊz/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.poʊs/
rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.
Senses: examples: text: As reviewed in this volume, adipose function is mechanistically linked to diseases such as arthritis, asthma, and inflammatory bowel disease.
ref: 2007, Giamila Fantuzzi, Theodore Mazzone, editors, Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease, page xii:
glosses: Animal fat stored in the tissue of the body.
Related terms: adipocyte
adipocere
adipokine
space docking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space dockings
Senses: glosses: The act of two spacecraft docking.
granulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.juːl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jul.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jəl.eɪt/
Forms: form: granulates
form: granulating
form: granulated
form: granulated
Etymology: Back-formation from granulation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, granule + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To segment into tiny grains or particles.
examples: text: Cane juice granulates into sugar.
glosses: To collect or be formed into grains.
Derived terms: degranulate
granulater
granulator
microgranulate
multigranulate
regranulate
Related terms: grain
granular
granularity
granulation
granule
granulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.juːl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jul.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jəl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.juːl.ət/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jul.ət/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jəl.ət/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.juːl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jul.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jəl.eɪt/
Forms: form: more granulate
form: most granulate
Etymology: From granule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular.
glosses: Having numerous small elevations, like shagreen.
albeit
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlˈbiː.ɪt/
ipa: /ɔlˈbi.ət/
ipa: /ɑlˈbi.ɪt/
Forms: form: albe
form: albethey
Etymology: From the Middle English expression al be it (that), itself shortened from althagh it be that (“although it be that”), and thus composed from al (“completely, entirely”) + be (3rd person singular present subjunctive of been (“to be”)) + it.
Senses: examples: text: VVho are you? tell me for more certainty, / Albeit Ile ſvveare that I do knovv your tongue.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 170:
text: The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men’s mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 92:
text: There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs.
ref: 2007 June 17, Ellen Marrus, Houston Chronicle:
text: Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67 – 3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: as much as
word: though
word: albeit
word: although
word: as
word: as much as
word: despite that
word: even though
word: howbeit
word: much as
word: though
word: thoughbeit
word: while
glosses: Although, despite (it) being.
Related terms: howbeit
sobeit
nonetheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/
Etymology: From Middle English *non-the-les, variant of no-the-les, noþeles, naþelees, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs. By surface analysis, none + the + less.
Senses: examples: text: And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless.
ref: 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News:
text: Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
glosses: Nevertheless.
Synonyms: sense: nevertheless
word: still
word: though
word: yet
word: nevertheless
notwithstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: noughtwithstanding
form: nonwithstanding
Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation.
Senses: examples: text: He, notwithstanding, persisted in his inquiries.
text: But notwithstanding, man,
I'll do you your master what good I can;
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
ref: 1789, United States Contitution, Supremacy Clause, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Nevertheless, all the same.
Synonyms: sense: nevertheless
word: all the same
word: nevertheless
word: nonetheless
word: still
word: anyway
word: after all
word: regardless
word: yet
notwithstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: noughtwithstanding
form: nonwithstanding
Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation.
Senses: examples: text: After this, Amy told her, That notvvithſtanding I vvas angry vvith her, and had uſed her ſo hardly, for ſaying ſomething about her of the ſame kind; yet there vvas an abſolute Neceſſity of ſecuring her, and removing her out of the VVay; […]
ref: 1724, [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunate Mistress; […] [Roxana], London: […] E. Applebee, […], published 1740, →OCLC, page 293:
english: Roxana
translation: Roxana
text: The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
glosses: Although; despite; even though.
notwithstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: noughtwithstanding
form: nonwithstanding
Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation.
Senses: examples: text: notwithstanding personal preferences, the school district's rules on the topic govern our decision
text: Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.
ref: 1675, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety:
text: Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur.
ref: 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 26, in The Last of the Mohicans:
synonyms: word: regardless of
word: maugre
alt: obsolete
word: see also Thesaurus:despite
glosses: In spite of, despite.
notwithstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: postp
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒtwɪðˈstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌnɑtwɪθˈstændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: noughtwithstanding
form: nonwithstanding
Etymology: From Middle English notwithstandinge, notwithstondyng, natwithstandyng, equivalent to not + withstanding. Compare Middle English notgainstonding, not aȝenstondynge, of similar meaning and formation.
Senses: examples: text: in accordance with school district rules on the topic, personal preferences notwithstanding
text: And be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that an Habeas Corpus, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, may be directed and seen in any county Palatine, the Cinque Ports, or other privileged places within the Kindgom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
ref: 1679, Habeas Corpus Act, section 11:
text: Van Gaal’s dismissal of his ability to play a central role notwithstanding, Shinji Kagawa began playing just behind the strikers Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernández.
ref: 2014 August 26, Richard Rae, “Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: despite
word: in spite of
word: maugre
alt: obsolete
glosses: In spite of, despite.
Derived terms: word: notwithstanding clause