cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪz/
Etymology: From Middle English -wis, from Old English -wīs (“-wise”), from Proto-West Germanic *-wīs, from Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise, skilled, knowledgeable”), related to Old English wīs, wīse (“manner, way, fashion”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian -wiese, Dutch -wijs, German -weise, Danish -vis, Swedish -vis, Norwegian Bokmål -vis, and Yiddish ־ווײַז (-vayz, “-wise”). More at wise (“way, manner”).
Senses: examples: text: The gaoler slowly turned the key clockwise.
glosses: In the direction or orientation of.
examples: text: You need to follow the instructions carefully; otherwise, the project may not turn out.
text: Contrariwise, it could be a good idea.
glosses: In the manner of.
examples: text: This morning looks promising, weather-wise.
text: They had parents in India—that much Octavian had learned in the neighbourhood; the children, beyond grouping themselves garment-wise into sexes, a girl and two boys, carried their life-story no further on his behoof.
ref: 1919, Saki, “The Penance”, in The Toys of Peace, page 423:
text: Weather-wise, it's such a lovely day
ref: 1958, “Come Fly With Me”, performed by Frank Sinatra:
text: Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
ref: 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
glosses: In the matter of; with regard to.
examples: text: Add the reagent dropwise to the solution.
glosses: One at a time, or one thing at a time.
Related terms: -way
-ways
piece of furniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of furniture
Senses: glosses: An item of furniture; any item, such as a table or cupboard, that constitutes furniture.
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From a letter written by Lord Acton in 1887.
Senses: glosses: The corrupting influence of power is total when one's power is total.
wikipedia: John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Shazia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic شَاذِيَّة (šāḏiyya, “rare, precious, unique”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
bummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.mɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bummers
Etymology: From German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”), from bummeln (“loaf, loiter, stroll, ramble”).
Senses: glosses: A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
examples: text: “If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bloodsucker
word: bummer
word: freeloader
word: free rider
word: gadfly
word: leech
word: mooch
word: moocher
word: parasite
word: scrounge
word: scrounger
word: scunge
word: smell-feast
word: sponge
word: sponger
word: sucker
word: trencher mate
glosses: An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
glosses: A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
Derived terms: word: bum
bummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.mɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bummers
Etymology: From bum (“make unhappy”) + -er (agent noun suffix), originally US drug slang.
Senses: examples: text: That's a total bummer.
text: Looks like I'm gonna be stuck here the whole summer / Well what a bummer / I can think of a lot worse places to be
ref: 1977, “Peaches”, in Rattus Norvegicus, performed by The Stranglers:
text: I came to realise that life on crutches is a bummer. It's just fair dinkum like a whole new lifestyle[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 54:
glosses: A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
examples: text: This young man never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips. Every one of the them was a delight—everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers, and down he came, anytime. But on Voyage 34, he finally met himself coming down an up staircase, and the encounter was crushing.
ref: 2000, “Phase I”, in Voyage 34: The Complete Trip, performed by Porcupine Tree:
qualifier: drug use
glosses: A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.
Derived terms: Obummer
Related terms: bum out
bad trip
psychedelic crisis
bummer
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.mɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Etymology: From bum (“make unhappy”) + -er (agent noun suffix), originally US drug slang.
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
bummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.mɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bummers
Etymology: From bum (“engage in anal sex”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: You know, the kind of guy who would, if he wasn't gay, probably be shouting ‘Oi, gay boy!’ or ‘You bummer!’ or even ‘Oi, paki!’ or what have you. They're not enlightened.
ref: Matt (interviewee) quoted in 2021, Laura Dixon, Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain (page 108)
glosses: A gay man.
Derived terms: bumder
bummer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.mɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Etymology: From bum + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bum: more bum
Arie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אַרְיֵה (aryé, “lion”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Ariah
FOK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FOKs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of fill or kill.
glosses: Initialism of feeling of knowing (“the sense that one has the answer to a question before one retrieves it from memory; described in the psychological experiments of Lynne M. Reder”).
perpetual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃuəl/
ipa: /pəˈpɛtʃʊəl/
ipa: /pəˈpɛtjʊəl/
Forms: form: perpetuall
Etymology: From Middle English perpetuel, from Old French perpetuel, from Latin perpetuālis (“universal”), from perpetuus, from petō.
Senses: synonyms: word: persistent
word: ageful
word: agelong
word: amaranthine
word: endless
word: enduring
word: eternal
word: eterne
word: everduring
word: evergreen
word: everlasting
word: eviternal
word: forever
word: imperishable
word: indesinent
word: lasting
word: neverending
word: perennial
word: permanent
word: perpetual
word: perpetuate
word: persistent
word: sempiternal
word: timeless
word: unending
word: undeadly
word: undying
glosses: Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.
examples: text: perpetual copyright
glosses: Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration.
examples: text: "And yet," returned Francesca, "the secret of Arden's sufferings seems to have been in himself. From earliest youth he indulged in vain contrasts and repinings, and even his very love was selfish and cruel. Think how much happiness he lost by his perpetual exaggerations!"
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 297:
text: There are perpetual requests for changes as new payloads and new demands and modifications are suggested by the users.
ref: 1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
synonyms: continuous
nonstop
glosses: Continuing; uninterrupted.
examples: text: By means of artificial hybridization, practised for a series of years, he has succeeded in producing a race of carnations which are perpetual bloomers.
text: The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Flowering throughout the growing season.
Derived terms: a contented mind is a perpetual feast
hybrid perpetual
nonperpetual
perpetual beta
perpetual bond
perpetual canon
perpetual curate
perpetual futures
perpetual inventory
perpetualism
perpetualist
perpetuality
perpetual license
perpetually
perpetual motion
perpetual motion machine
perpetual motion machine of the first kind
perpetual motion machine of the second kind
perpetualness
perpetual pill
perpetual revolution
semiperpetual
unperpetual
Related terms: perpetuate
perpetual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃuəl/
ipa: /pəˈpɛtʃʊəl/
ipa: /pəˈpɛtjʊəl/
Forms: form: perpetuals
form: perpetuall
Etymology: From Middle English perpetuel, from Old French perpetuel, from Latin perpetuālis (“universal”), from perpetuus, from petō.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of perpetual check.
illiterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪtəɹət/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪtɹət/
Forms: form: more illiterate
form: most illiterate
form: illitterate
Etymology: First attested in 1425–1475, in Middle English; from Middle English illiterat(e) (“uneducated, ignorant of Latin”), borrowed from Latin illīterātus, illitterātus (“unlearned, ignorant”), itself from in- (“un-”) + līterātus, litterātus (“furnished with letters”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from lītera, littera (“letter, character”). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: About half of the population in Ethiopia is illiterate.
text: If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 37:
text: Not always does this ruse succeed however. The railways have undertaken publicity warning passengers about it, and have made a big difference in the appearance of long distance and short distance tickets, so that the most illiterate person can see the distinction. Some of these swindlers have been caught.
ref: 1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 780:
coordinate_terms: semiliterate#Adjective
subliterate#Adjective
glosses: Unable to read and write.
examples: text: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated, page 81:
glosses: Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
examples: text: Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.
ref: 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
examples: economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate
glosses: Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
Synonyms: word: analphabetic
word: ignorant
word: uncharactered
word: unlettered
Derived terms: computer illiterate
e-illiterate
illiteracy
illiterately
illiterateness
nonilliterate
Related terms: word: innumerate
word: numerate
illiterate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪtəɹət/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪtɹət/
Forms: form: illiterates
form: illitterate
Etymology: First attested in 1425–1475, in Middle English; from Middle English illiterat(e) (“uneducated, ignorant of Latin”), borrowed from Latin illīterātus, illitterātus (“unlearned, ignorant”), itself from in- (“un-”) + līterātus, litterātus (“furnished with letters”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from lītera, littera (“letter, character”). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We might also provide education plus reading and writing services to adult illiterates.
ref: 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 210:
glosses: An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
examples: text: Their government is run by business illiterates.
text: Sometimes a mathematical illiterate is called an innumerate.
glosses: A person ignorant about a given subject. (The relevant subject is usually named as a noun adjunct.)
Synonyms: word: analphabet
word: analphabetic
Related terms: word: innumerate
word: numerate
preach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: preaches
form: preaching
form: preached
form: preached
form: praught
form: praught
Etymology: From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō (“to proclaim, announce”, literally “to fore-assign, pre-dedicate”). Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).
Senses: examples: text: The minister has just preached from the Book of Psalms.
text: One saint’s day in mid-term a certain newly-appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: To give a sermon.
examples: text: The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, therefore hathe the Lord anointed me: he hathe ſent me to preache good tidings vnto the poore,[…]
ref: 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Isaiah LXI:1, folio 304, recto, column 1:
glosses: To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
examples: text: My Mʳ preaches patience to him,[…]
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 98, column 1:
glosses: To advise or recommend earnestly.
examples: text: The Spirits of the Dead, / Quitting their mortal mansion, enter not, / As falsely ye are preached, their final seat / Of bliss, or bale;[…]
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Ninth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 149:
glosses: To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
glosses: To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.
Derived terms: practice what one preaches
practise what one preaches
preach down
preacher
preaching band
preaching cross
preaching friar
preach in the desert
preach to deaf ears
preach to the choir
preach to the congregation
preach to the converted
preach up
preach water and drink wine
preachy
Related terms: praught
preach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: preaches
Etymology: From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō (“to proclaim, announce”, literally “to fore-assign, pre-dedicate”). Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).
Senses: examples: text: he make peace in his preaches and play with esteem
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: A religious discourse.
preach
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Etymology: From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō (“to proclaim, announce”, literally “to fore-assign, pre-dedicate”). Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).
Senses: examples: text: – If you can't do the time, don't do the crime! – Preach!
synonyms: church
glosses: Used to express strong agreement (as if encouraging somebody to continue speaking).
postmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌmæstɚ/
Forms: form: postmasters
Etymology: From post + master.
Senses: examples: text: With that, Elvin Mercado became the postmaster of Manhattan, ruling the mails from the palatial James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue.
ref: 2014 May 14, Andy Newman, “New York Today: Meet Your Postmaster”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The head of a post office.
glosses: The administrator of an electronic mail system.
glosses: A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
glosses: One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.
Coordinate terms: postmistress
Derived terms: Postmaster General
postmastership
subpostmaster
colleague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kôl′ēg
ipa: /ˈkɒliːɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɑliɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɔliːɡ/
note: Indic, Malaysia, Singapore
enpr: kə-lēg′
ipa: /kəˈliɡ/
note: Indic, Malaysia, Singapore
enpr: kôlēg′
ipa: /kɔˈliːɡ/
Forms: form: colleagues
Etymology: From Middle French collegue, from Latin collēga (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + lēgō (“to send on an embassy”), from lēx (“law”).
Senses: examples: text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…]Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
glosses: A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
Synonyms: coworker
workmate
confrère
Derived terms: colleagueship
noncolleague
robocolleague
Related terms: collegial
collegiate
colleague
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kôl′ēg
ipa: /ˈkɒliːɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɑliɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɔliːɡ/
note: Indic, Malaysia, Singapore
enpr: kə-lēg′
ipa: /kəˈliɡ/
note: Indic, Malaysia, Singapore
enpr: kôlēg′
ipa: /kɔˈliːɡ/
Forms: form: colleagues
form: colleaguing
form: colleagued
form: colleagued
Etymology: From Middle French collegue, from Latin collēga (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + lēgō (“to send on an embassy”), from lēx (“law”).
Senses: examples: Young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth
...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
...hath not failed to pester us with message
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)
glosses: To unite or associate with another or with others.
is the Pope Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: is the Pope a Catholic?
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to go to the beach? ― Is the Pope Catholic?
glosses: A rhetorical question in response to a question to which the answer is an emphatic yes.
Synonyms: does a bear shit in the woods?
does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?
Related terms: fork found in kitchen
people sit on chairs
water is wet
poustinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poustinias
Etymology: From the Russian пусты́ня (pustýnja, “desert”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, that "doing something more" can be the poustinia: an entry into the desert, a lonely place, a silent place, where one can lift the two arms of prayer and penance to God in atonement, intercession, reparation for one's sins and those of one's brothers.... To go into the poustinia means to listen to God. It means entering into kenosis—the emptying of oneself.
ref: 1975, Catherine Doherty, Poustinia:
glosses: In Christian spirituality, a small sparsely furnished cabin or room where a person goes to fast and pray, but which is less austere than a hermitage.
Derived terms: poustinik
poustinik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: poustiniks
form: poustiniki
Etymology: From Russian пусты́нник (pustýnnik, “hermit, anchoret, anchorite”), from пусты́ня (pustýnja, “desert, wilderness”).
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to simply relate this man, and other poustiniki that I came to know through my lifetime, with what is called a "hermit." There was some kind of difference. The poustinik seemed to be more available. There was a gracious hospitality about him, as if he were never disturbed by anyone who came to visit him.
ref: 1975, Catherine Doherty, Poustinia:
glosses: A person dwelling in a poustinia.
A roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A rolls
form: A-roll
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The primary footage for non-narrative or interview-based film, usually involving talking heads or footage that directly relates to the moment.
Coordinate terms: B roll
enlightened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈlaɪtənd/
Forms: form: more enlightened
form: most enlightened
Senses: glosses: Educated or informed.
glosses: Made aware of something.
examples: text: Yet in the worst, there is still a divine spark of Universal consciousness buried deep within them, and in the best people, except for the enlightened ones, there is still the seed of selfishness.
ref: 1997, John Peniel, chapter 10, in The Children of the Law of One & the Lost Teachings of Atlantis, page 128:
glosses: Freed from illusion.
examples: text: An enlightened mind does not need external authority.
glosses: Exceedingly wise.
Derived terms: enlightened absolutism
enlightened despotism
enlightenedly
enlightenedness
enlightened self-interest
misenlightened
unenlightened
enlightened
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈlaɪtənd/
Forms: form: enlightened
Senses: glosses: Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism
enlightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈlaɪtənd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlighten
Adoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَدُو (ʕadū, “enemy; foe”).
Senses: glosses: A guerrilla movement in Oman, ca. 1970 C.E.
AFK
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ ɛf ˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: afk
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna go AFK in a few mins
topics: government
military
politics
video-games
war
glosses: Initialism of away from keyboard, i.e. away from one's computer; idle.
accounting profit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accounting profits
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The total revenue minus costs properly chargeable against goods sold.
acousto-optic effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A photoelastic effect produced by ultrasonic waves in a transparent material.
aestivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aestivates
form: aestivating
form: aestivated
form: aestivated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of estivate.
Related terms: aestival
aestivator
agree to disagree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agrees to disagree
form: agreeing to disagree
form: agreed to disagree
form: agreed to disagree
Senses: examples: text: I know we’re never going to agree on the merits of vegetarianism, so let’s agree to disagree, shall we?
text: By 1849, they agreed amicably to disagree, and McCormick bought the Ogden and Jones half of the business for $65,000.
ref: 1931, Cyrus Hall McCormick III, The Century of the Reaper, page 29:
text: We knew that no agreement concerning Taiwan could be reached at this time. While both sides could agree that Taiwan was a part of China — a position supported by both the Peking and Taiwan governments — we would have to oppose the use of military force by Peking to bring Taiwan under Communist rule.
Our lengthy discussions resulted as we expected: we could only agree to disagree and to reflect our differences in the communiqué. Thanks largely to Kissinger's negotiating skill and Chou's common sense, the Chinese finally agreed to sufficiently modified language.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 571:
glosses: To accept each other's opinions and cease arguing; to peacefully acknowledge that an agreement will not be reached.
raw_tags: of two persons or other parties
amelioration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌmiːliəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ameliorations
form: melioration
Etymology: From Middle English amelioracioun, from Middle French amelioracion and probably partly ameliorate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 262:
antonyms: deterioration
glosses: The act of making better.
synonyms: revamp
glosses: An improvement.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: pejoration
glosses: The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.
examples: text: pre-amelioration
text: post-amelioration
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.
ampelography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From French ampélographie, from ampelo- (“vine”) + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: She is the American apostle of Pierre Galet, a Frenchman whose internationally recognized contribution to ampelography, or the science of classifying grape vines, rests on identifying leaf design and the appearance of a vine's growing tips.
ref: 1986 August 6, Howard G. Goldberg, “Wine Talk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C18:
text: Scientists are just now devising a genetic test to distinguish one rootstock from another. Until they do, the only recourse is the arcane art of ampelography, in which the vines are identified by physical appearance. Like art authenticators, ampelographers practice a craft that they would have others think is a science.
ref: 1993 October 17, Arthur Lubow, “What's Killing the Grapevines of Napa?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The mainstay of grapevine identification is the science of ampelography, and manuals of ampelography (Galet 1971) are the major resource for grapevine identification.
ref: 1993, Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Volume 8, Australian Wine Research Institute, page 78:
topics: beverages
biology
botany
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
oenology
glosses: The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis.
Related terms: ampelographer
ampelographic
ampelology
analysand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analysands
Etymology: From analyse + -and.
Senses: glosses: A person who undergoes psychoanalysis; one who is analysed.
anaplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈplæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Etymology: From anaplasty + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to, a tumor that shows little histogenetic differentiation. It implies that a tumor is high grade and likely to behave in an aggressive fashion.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Of or relating to plastic surgery.
Derived terms: anaplastic astrocytoma
anaplastic carcinoma
antianaplastic
nonanaplastic
Related terms: anaplasia
anaplasma
anaplasmataceae
anaplastology
hamsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæm.sə/
/ˈhɑm.sə/
Forms: form: hamsas
form: khamsah
form: khamsa
form: chamsa
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חַמְסָה (khámsa), from Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa, “five”), used among Jews of Arabic origin for the fingers on the hand.
Senses: examples: text: Reverence for the amulets cuts across religious boundaries. Jews come for Kabbalistic bracelets, glass hamsas or strings of ceramic pomegranates.
ref: 2017 February 22, Sam Kestenbaum, “A Brooklyn Store That Specializes in the Evil Eye”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Variously associated with qualities ranging from warding off evil to promoting fertility, the open hand of the hamsa is thought to have originated in Mesopotamia and is recognized the world over.
ref: 2020 November 25, Tanya Dukes, “Gilt-y Pleasures: Holiday Gift Ideas for the Jewelry Lover”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The Hand of Fatima.
angulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋɡjʊlət/
ipa: /ˈæŋɡjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: more angulate
form: most angulate
Etymology: From Latin angulus (“angle”).
Senses: examples: text: angulate leaves
glosses: Shaped with corners or angles.
Derived terms: angulately
biangulate
subangulate
uniangulate
angulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋɡjʊlət/
ipa: /ˈæŋɡjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: angulates
form: angulating
form: angulated
form: angulated
Etymology: From Latin angulus (“angle”).
Senses: examples: text: The platinum shaft connecting the ribbon to the piston base is a rounded wire and can be easily angulated after placement of the prosthesis for optimal incus to fenestra reach.
ref: 2010, Aina J. Gulya, Lloyd B. Minor, Michael E. Glasscock, Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, page 536:
glosses: To make, or to become, angular.
Derived terms: angulation
anthroponosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthroponoses
Etymology: From anthropo- + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) (compare also nosology); the surface analysis is almost, although not quite, anthropo- + -osis; compare also zoonosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease that is spread from humans to animals.
Hyponyms: amphixenosis
Derived terms: zooanthroponosis
Related terms: anthropozoonosis
zoonosis
anthropophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropophilic
form: most anthropophilic
Etymology: From anthropo- + -philic.
Senses: synonyms: androphilous
glosses: Preferring human beings to other animals. It especially alludes to (i) bloodsucking arthropods such as mosquitos, denoting the preference of a parasite for the human host as a source of blood or tissues over an animal host; and (ii) dermatophytic fungi which grow preferentially on humans.
Archenemy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Archenemy
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Satan
apolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apolitical
form: most apolitical
Etymology: From a- + political.
Senses: examples: text: The Queen is an apolitical figure.
glosses: Having no interest or involvement in politics.
examples: text: The PM's visit to the school was entirely apolitical.
glosses: Having no political relevance or function.
examples: text: My colleagues and I come to this task with open minds, we are apolitical and independent of any political party.
text: What, exactly, the criteria for this designation will be remains unclear but the ultimate aim, some analysts suspect, is to purge officers deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump – a litmus test, they warn, that’s incompatible with an apolitical military.
ref: 2024 November 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “Worries rise over a Trump ‘warrior board’ to remove officers ‘unfit for leadership’”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: But like so much in the Trump administration, what was once considered apolitical is now labeled political.
ref: 2025 September 26, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, “Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to U.S.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Politically neutral, unbiased, non-aligned, free from party politics.
Derived terms: apoliticality
apolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoliticals
Etymology: From a- + political.
Senses: glosses: A person with no involvement or no interest in politics.
glosses: An unbiased candidate or voter, free of a party platform.
glosses: A neutral or uncommitted person.
armature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.mə.tjʊə/
ipa: /ˈɑː.mə.tjə/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mə.tjʊɚ/
Forms: form: armatures
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and armure.
Senses: glosses: A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
glosses: Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.
glosses: The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.
glosses: The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
glosses: The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
synonyms: keeper
glosses: A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: A supporting framework in a sculpture.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
glosses: A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
glosses: Any apparatus for defence.
examples: text: It can take pictures or video from a front-facing camera, controlled by a voice command or a swipe on the right-hand armature, and is designed to display at-a-glance information on its screen which is visible only to the user.
ref: 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The frame of a pair of glasses.
Derived terms: armatureless
disarmature
armature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.mə.tjʊə/
ipa: /ˈɑː.mə.tjə/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mə.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.mə.tjʊɚ/
Forms: form: armatures
form: armaturing
form: armatured
form: armatured
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and armure.
Senses: examples: text: T. S. Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.
ref: 1940, Waldo David Frank, Chart for Rough Water: Our Role in a New World, page 147:
text: "Armaturing to the larger size was just another challenge we had to face," comments Bruce.
ref: 1986 January, Janeen A. Olsen, “Will Vinton Productions provided character animation for Walt Disney's RETURN TO OZ that was groundbreaking”, in Cinefantastique, volume 15, number 5, Oak Park, IL: Frederick S. Clarke, →ISSN, page 48, column 3:
text: This essentially implies that a wide overhang and waterproof foundations are needed, and the material itself is treated by compaction, alloying or armaturing.
ref: 1996, Mrinalini Devi Sharma, Energy Conscious Earth Architecture for Sustainable Development:
text: Alonzo knew instantly how to armature his horse figures, by using some self-fashioned wires, to capture the real-life motion of his stallions. Armaturing is a skill that takes some artists years to master.
ref: 2011, Darold A. Treffert, Daniel Tammet, Islands of Genius:
text: Good telling of happenings—fact or fiction—has talents in the tale. Beginning and end must strive to armature these.
ref: 2012, Phil Wallace Payne, The Strivers, →ISBN:
glosses: To provide with an armature (any sense).
covert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvət/
ipa: /ˈkəʊvɜːt/
ipa: /ˈkoʊvɚt/
ipa: /ˈkʌvɚt/
ipa: /ˈkʌvɚ/
Forms: form: coverts
Etymology: From Middle English covert, from Old French covert, past participle of covrir (“to cover”) (corresponding to Latin coopertus); cognate to cover. Not closely related to overt, despite what the most common pronunciation would suggest.
Senses: glosses: A covering.
glosses: A disguise.
glosses: A hiding place.
glosses: Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
examples: text: When he felt the trappings being taken off him, so that he was in hunting order, Cully did make some movements as if to rouse. He raised his crest, his shoulder coverts and the soft feathers of his thighs.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
Derived terms: covert-coat
covert-coating
covert hound
covertless
undercovert
sermon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.mən/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: sermons
form: sarmon
Etymology: From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō.
Senses: examples: text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
glosses: A lengthy speech of reproval.
Derived terms: action sermon
hedge sermon
sermonette
sermonic
sermonical
sermonize
sermon-proof
sermon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.mən/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: sermons
form: sermoning
form: sermoned
form: sermoned
Etymology: From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).
Senses: examples: January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh
To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises
glosses: To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
examples: text: Come, sermon me no further.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 177:
glosses: To tutor; to lecture.
Derived terms: sermoner
sermoning
arm-twisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arm-twistings
form: arm twisting
Etymology: From arm + twisting.
Senses: glosses: The use of personal pressure to persuade
glosses: The use of political pressure to gain support
discretize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discretizes
form: discretizing
form: discretized
form: discretized
form: discretise
Etymology: From discrete + -ize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert (a continuous space) into an equivalent discrete space, often for the purposes of easier calculation.
examples: text: A rainbow truly contains thousands of color values but can usually be discretized by human sentience into bands of primary and secondary colors.
glosses: To represent (any spectrum of reality) as a set of discrete categories or classes; to categorize (a spectral aspect of reality) by lumping together some of its finer distinctions.
Hyponyms: binarize
dichotomize
parameterize
Derived terms: discretizable
discretization
discretizer
rediscretize
Related terms: cutoff
cutpoint
undergrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌɡɹoʊθ/
Forms: form: undergrowths
Etymology: From under- + growth. Cognate with West Frisian ûndergroei (“undergrowth”).
Senses: examples: text: tangled undergrowth
text: clear the undergrowth
text: The hikers pushed through thick undergrowth.
text: The forest floor was covered with dense undergrowth.
glosses: The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
Synonyms: underbrush
understory
art journal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art journals
Etymology: From art + journal.
Senses: glosses: A collection of words and images in a diary that chronicles the ideas, memories, and thoughts of an artist.
asteriscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asterisci
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin asteriscus. Doublet of asterisk.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the otoliths found in the lagena of many nonmammalian vertebrates.
Synonyms: asterisk
lagenolith
airy fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeəɹi feəɹi/
Forms: form: more airy fairy
form: most airy fairy
Etymology: Coined by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1830 in his poem Lilian.
Senses: glosses: Insubstantial.
glosses: Impractical.
gin up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gins up
form: ginning up
form: ginned up
form: ginned up
Etymology: From gin (short for engine or generate) + up.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: spin up
text: So as the six-year conceptual design phase ends next month, and the design teams face extinction, the partners […] have begun frantic efforts to keep ITER alive, ginning up concepts for an "ITER light" that promise to cut costs in half while providing most of the features of the full-fat version.
ref: 1998, Science & Government Report, volume 28, page 10:
text: There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical all-out assault on liberty, not because that’s true but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves.
ref: 2013 January 16, Barack Obama, The Most Vulnerable Among Us:
text: Her hope was that turning it into an NFT would be a bit of performance art and that the process would gin up conversation about the article but also about new ways for creators to make money and control the ownership of their work.
ref: 2021 March 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Then I'll send out some tweets to help gin up the heat.
ref: 2023 April 18, “CALLOUS MAN: A Parody of Piano Man by Don Caron and David Cohen”performed by Parody Project:
synonyms: word: bring forth
word: cause
word: contrive
word: create
word: engender
word: generate
word: gin up
word: innate
word: form
word: forthbring
word: make
word: produce
word: spawn
glosses: To generate, devise, or create.
glosses: To set up a snare.
synonyms: hyperbolize
overstate
glosses: To exaggerate.
synonyms: word: animate
word: bring about
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To stir up, stimulate, enliven, incite.
gin up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gins up
form: ginning up
form: ginned up
form: ginned up
Etymology: From gin (the drink) + up.
Senses: examples: text: Harrison was pretty well ginned-up when his guests arrived and he had proffered drinks freely and hospitably ever since.
ref: 1925, J. Allan Dunn, The Three Traders:
text: "You go slow on the gin, auntie," said Dr Grimsby. "If you hadn't been ginned up you wouldn't have fallen down those stairs."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35:
hypernyms: liquor up[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broadly]] synonymous>
glosses: To make drunk, especially on gin.
atheosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of athetosis.
backhander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backhanders
Etymology: From backhand + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
glosses: A blow with the back of the hand.
glosses: A bribe, a secret payment.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
racquet-sports
sports
glosses: A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
examples: text: She's a terrific backhander.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
racquet-sports
sports
glosses: A player who plays a backhand shot.
examples: text: The morning brought an increased swell; long, perfect, down-the-line, 6-8' freight trains — a forehander's dream and a backhander's nightmare
ref: 1990, Surfer - Volume 31, Issues 7-12:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").