cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fucked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌktˈʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Senses: examples: text: I fucked up my car last night.
text: Well, for me, personally, I think the first step is realizing where I fucked up, and then taking steps to apologize and make amends (where possible).
ref: 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: simple past and past participle of fuck up
fucked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌktˈʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: more fucked up
form: most fucked up
Senses: examples: text: I haven’t been able to get online ’cause my computer's fucked up.
text: My back’s all fucked up from football.
glosses: Damaged; poorly manufactured; injured.
examples: text: Dude, that’s fucked up; you shouldn’t steal from kids.
text: That new policy's fucked up, man; how many more freedoms can we lose?
text: [B]ut they were not gonna be the ones to lose their jobs ... for some abstraction like justice. (Beat.) That's fucked up.
ref: 2004, The Exonerated:
text: The race is on to find Aegon in increasingly unsavory corners of the city. Apparently, the prince’s tastes are too fucked-up for the mainstream brothels, but he is into watching 10-year-olds with filed-down teeth and sharpened nails fighting to the death for sport.
ref: 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:
glosses: Morally reprehensible; clearly and grossly objectionable.
examples: text: Ever since she left me, I’ve been all fucked up.
text: Yo that history test had me fucked up, bruh tell me why the hell did I have to write a whole essay 'bout the effects of the Bessemer process?
glosses: In disarray or dishevelment (emotionally or otherwise).
examples: text: Let’s go get fucked up after work.
glosses: Drunk; wasted; incredibly intoxicated (not necessarily with alcohol).
examples: text: Dude, I'm not like that! You got me all fucked up.
glosses: Misconstrued or misunderstood; taken the wrong way
examples: text: [Isabella Roland, ecstatic:] The prosciutto is fucked up.
[Brennan Lee Mulligan:] It is so good.
[Oscar Montoya:] In a good way. [Roland:] Fucked. [Jordan Myrick:] It's incredible.
ref: 2024, Gastronauts (Dropout), Can Chefs Make an Entire Meal Out of Butter?"
glosses: Unbelievably good; amazing.
Synonyms: sense: damaged
word: jacked up
word: screwed up
word: messed up
word: wrecked
word: deteriorated
word: broken
word: wounded
sense: morally reprehensible
word: jacked up
sense: morally reprehensible
word: messed up
sense: morally reprehensible
word: objectionable
sense: morally reprehensible
word: reprehensible
sense: morally reprehensible
word: twisted
sense: in disarray
word: screwed up
sense: in disarray
word: messed up
sense: in disarray
word: off-kilter
sense: in disarray
word: unbuttoned
sense: incredibly intoxicated
word: drunk
word: stoned
Derived terms: fubar
fuckedupness
snafu
fucked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌktˈʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: more fucked up
form: most fucked up
Senses: examples: text: He drove the car last night all fucked up and wrecked it.
glosses: In a screwed up or messed up manner; (by extension) under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
examples: text: You've got me fucked up. I'm gonna beat your ass.
glosses: All wrong; mistaken; taken the wrong way
inflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflexions
Etymology: From Middle French inflexion, itself from Latin īnflexiō.
Senses: examples: text: […] I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have.
ref: c. 1803–1805, Jane Austen, “The Watsons”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 338:
glosses: Alternative spelling of inflection.
Derived terms: inflexionless
psychedelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kəˌdɛl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kɪˌdɛl.ɪk/
enpr: sī'kĭ-děl'ĭk
rhymes: -ɛlɪk
Forms: form: more psychedelic
form: most psychedelic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + -ic. Coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956 in a letter to Aldous Huxley.
Senses: examples: text: With those drugs has come the psychedelic philosophy, an impassioned belief in the self-revealing, mind-expanding powers of potent weeds and seeds and chemical compounds known to man since prehistory but wholly alien to the rationale of Western society.
ref: 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 2:
synonyms: lysergic
trippy
glosses: Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness, etc.
examples: text: There was a woman sitting on the edge of his bed. She had coral-orange hair, beryl-blue eyes, arched brows, freckles, a coy smile, a psychedelic labcoat and she was, he suddenly realized, his best friend of over twenty years.
ref: 2022 September 24, HarryBlank, “Transition”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
synonyms: multi-coloured
glosses: Having bright colours, abstract shapes, etc. reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations or distortions of perception.
raw_tags: of graphics
Derived terms: antipsychedelic
cyberdelic
folkadelic
hypnodelic
neopsychedelic
nonpsychedelic
postpsychedelic
prepsychedelic
psychedelically
psychedelic circus
psychedelic crisis
psychedelic folk
psychedelic frogfish
psychedelicize
psychedelic mushroom
psychedelic rock
psychedelic soul
unpsychedelic
psychedelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kəˌdɛl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kɪˌdɛl.ɪk/
enpr: sī'kĭ-děl'ĭk
rhymes: -ɛlɪk
Forms: form: psychedelics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + -ic. Coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956 in a letter to Aldous Huxley.
Senses: examples: text: I was going to become a three-drug connection to all my friends, psychedelics, hash and pot.
ref: 2006, Dean McCormick, Dead End Street, page 62:
glosses: Any psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes (sometimes erratic and uncontrollable), visual hallucination, and altered awareness of the body and mind.
psychedelic
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kəˌdɛl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kɪˌdɛl.ɪk/
enpr: sī'kĭ-děl'ĭk
rhymes: -ɛlɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) + δῆλος (dêlos, “manifest, visible”) + -ic. Coined by English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1956 in a letter to Aldous Huxley.
Senses: qualifier: hippie slang
glosses: Awesome, cool, groovy.
Related terms: psychedelia
oy vey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪ̯ veɪ̯/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From Yiddish אוי וויי (oy vey, literally “oh woe”), from Middle High German ōwē, from ō + wē, the latter being from Old High German wē, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with German o weh, Dutch oh wee, Latin vae, and Esperanto ho ve.
Senses: qualifier: ascribed to Jewish people; potentially offensive; ascribed to Jewish people; potentially offensive
glosses: oh dear
Related terms: oy
practicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹæktɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: practiceable
form: practisable
form: practiseable
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prācticābilis, partly modelled on Middle French praticable. By surface analysis, practice (verb) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Those who have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this has rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a public opinion which they have done nothing to guide.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 433:
text: The law in most states says that cyclists must ride as far to the right as is practicable.
ref: 1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page 136:
text: This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region.
ref: 2010 September 13, Publishers Weekly, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians:
text: “The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.
ref: 2023 May 4, Jack Bantock, “Tee-k Tock: The ‘appalling’ slow play controversy riling golf’s biggest stars”, in CNN:
text: Monday’s executive order called on the secretary of state and director of the Office of Management and Budget to pause funding “with all practicable speed.”
ref: 2025 January 21, Christian Edwards, “What is the World Health Organization and why does Trump want to leave it?”, in CNN:
glosses: Capable of being accomplished; feasible.
glosses: Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.
examples: text: I glanced up, — there was no trap door which led to the roof. No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: Available for use; accessible or employable.
Synonyms: sense: capable of being accomplished
word: feasible
sense: capable of being accomplished
word: workable
word: usable
Derived terms: practicability
practicableness
practicably
unpracticable
Related terms: practical
rear admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear admirals
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A naval officer below the rank of vice admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation.
glosses: A proctologist.
Synonyms: topics: naval
navy
military
war
government
politics
word: RADM
topics: naval
navy
military
war
government
politics
word: RAdm
Derived terms: rear admiral junior grade
fool around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fools around
form: fooling around
form: fooled around
form: fooled around
Senses: glosses: To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around.
glosses: To waste time.
examples: text: Jake has been fooling around with a married woman.
text: Wanna get drunk and fool around?
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary):
glosses: To engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts.
glosses: To engage in adultery; to play around.
Sidon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.dən/
rhymes: -aɪdən
Etymology: From Latin Sidon and Ancient Greek Σιδών (Sidṓn), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Saïda: a city in Lebanon; a former city-state in Phoenicia.
Derived terms: Sidonia
Sidonian
post haste
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posthaste.
pussywhipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊsiˌ(h)wɪpt/
Forms: form: more pussywhipped
form: most pussywhipped
form: pussy-whipped
form: pussy whipped
Etymology: First attested 1956. From pussy and whipped.
Senses: examples: text: "Pussy-whip" is marriage in its ideal condition. I am pussy-whipped and I am proud! […] Any man with responsibilities, any man with a family is pussy-whipped.
ref: 1990, Jules Feiffer, Elliot Loves, page 32:
text: "You have bad taste in women if you picked one who doesn't trust you enough to let you keep your friends. Or you must be the most pussy-whipped man in New York."
ref: 1993, Deborah Smith, Blue Willow, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Our first impression of Norman is that he's a nice guy, a little pussywhipped with perhaps a few issues, but nobody dangerous.
ref: 2004 December 1, “Psycho vs. Psycho”, in filmthreat.com, retrieved 11 Nov 2010:
text: I hear your president and prime minister, and the chairmen from the Green League, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democrats are all women. Whopa! Pussy-whipped much, Sauna Boy?
ref: 2010 June 23, “Pussy Whipped”, in Scandinavia and the World (comic):
synonyms: cowed
henpecked
under the thumb
uxorious
whipped
glosses: Submissive to or dominated by one's wife or other female partner, frequently with the connotation that this submissive behavior is for the prospect of sex.
raw_tags: of a man
Related terms: cunt-struck
pussywhipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊsiˌ(h)wɪpt/
Forms: form: pussy-whipped
form: pussy whipped
Etymology: First attested 1956. From pussy and whipped.
Senses: examples: text: Much as it pains a feminist such as myself to say so, Beckham has been grotesquely, massively pussywhipped by his talentless, ambition-hound of a wife.
ref: 2003 June 14, Paul Daley, John Mangan, quoting Julie Burchill, “Can Becks really get the boot?”, in The Age:
glosses: past participle of pussywhip
city state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city states
form: city-state
Etymology: From city + state, a calque of German Stadtstaat.
Senses: examples: text: Singapore is the world's most populous city state and the only island city-state in the world.
text: The Vatican City State, a sovereign city-state, has a large number of embassies across the world.
glosses: A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.
Synonyms: english: Greek contexts
translation: Greek contexts
word: polis
word: civitas
intromission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn′trə-mĭsh′ən
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹəˈmɪʃ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: intromissions
Etymology: From Medieval Latin intrōmissiō, intrōmissiōn- (“introduction, admission; usurpation”), intro- (“into”) + missiō (“sending”), from Latin intrōmissus (“sent in, introduced, let in, admitted”), perfect passive participle of intrōmittō (“send in, let in”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being allowed to enter; admittance
glosses: The act of allowing to enter; admission
examples: text: "Your father has told me all about it. Did you ever hear of anything so ridiculous?"
"All about what?—all about what?" said Delia, whose attempt to represent happy ignorance seemed likely to be spoiled by an intromission of ferocity. She might succeed in appearing ignorant, but she could scarcely succeed in appearing happy.
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:
glosses: Putting one thing into another; introduction (into); insertion
glosses: Copulation: usually the first moment of initial entry of a penis into a vagina, mouth or anus.
topics: law
glosses: An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
Derived terms: interintromission
superintromission
vicious intromission
Related terms: intromit
intromittent
intromittent organ
intromissive
city-state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city-states
Senses: examples: text: For those of you looking to escape into international waters, there’s always seasteading to consider — modular, autonomous, voluntary city-states.
ref: 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
glosses: Alternative spelling of city state.
slated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: slāʹ-tĭd
ipa: /ˈsleɪ.tɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Etymology: From Middle English slattyd, equivalent to slate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The tractor plant is slated for the ax.
glosses: scheduled
glosses: reviewed unfavorably (Chambers dict.)
glosses: covered with slates (Chambers dict.)
slated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slāʹ-tĭd
ipa: /ˈsleɪ.tɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Etymology: From Middle English slattyd, equivalent to slate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slate
nostalgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nostalgically
form: most nostalgically
Etymology: From nostalgic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Nostalgically, Bill Feingold intones the excruciating litany. “Having your tongue torn out, and your throat cut across,” he rumbles, recalling words memorized on a New York City rooftop 38 years ago.
ref: 1998 May 25, David Van Biema, “Endangered Conspirators”, in Time, volume 151, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2025, page 64, column 1:
glosses: In a nostalgic manner.
back pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back pays
form: backpay
Etymology: From back + pay.
Senses: glosses: A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.
glosses: Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.
Related terms: back payment
Uathach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Uathach.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The daughter of Scáthach and later the lover of Cúchulainn (after a duel with Cochar Crufe).
Cethern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, an Ulster warrior (son of Fintan) who assists Cúchulainn in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Cú Roí
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkuː ˈɹɔɪ/
Etymology: The first element is apparently cú (“hound”); the second probably means "battlefield", making the whole term "hound of the battlefield".
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A king of Munster and sorcerer who was killed by Cúchulainn and avenged by his son, Lugaid mac Con Roí, who was subsequently killed by Conall the Victorious.
white horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white horses
Senses: glosses: Any of several horse-shaped chalk figures in England, such as the Uffington White Horse.
glosses: A wave that is blown by the wind such that its crest is broken up and appears white and foamy; a whitecap.
glosses: A recreational drug in the form of white powder: heroin or cocaine.
glosses: A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier who is the child of a minister, high-ranking civil servant or officer, or comes from a highly influential family; these soldiers are sometimes subject to preferential treatment in camp.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, horse.
Derived terms: Vale of White Horse
urination station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urination stations
Senses: glosses: A place to urinate: a urinal or toilet.
Synonyms: toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom
proctologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctologists
Etymology: From proctology + -ist or procto- + -logy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The referral was to a proctologist to treat the hemorrhoids.
glosses: A doctor specializing in the colon, rectum, and anus; an expert in proctology.
Synonyms: word: rear admiral
proctology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From procto- + -logy or proct- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of medicine dealing with the pathology of the colon, rectum, and anus.
glosses: The branch of medicine dealing with the surgery of the colon, rectum, and anus.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Colorectal surgery as a specialty inside proctology.
glosses: The department or the building of the hospital or clinic.
Synonyms: coloproctology
Related terms: coloproctologist
proctologist
topiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊpjəɹi/
ipa: /ˈtoʊpiˌɛəɹi/
Etymology: From Latin topiarius (“of or relating to ornamental gardening; an ornamental garden, an ornamental gardener”), from Latin topia (“ornamental gardening, landscape painting”), from Ancient Greek τόπια (tópia, “artistic representation in which natural or artificial features of a place are used as the medium”), plural of Ancient Greek τόπιον (tópion, “field, landscape”), from τόπος (tópos, “place”). The adjective use dates to 1592, the noun use dates to 1908.
Senses: examples: text: As the topiary art has been allowed to practically die out, it is difficult to secure the services of skilled clippers.
ref: 1910, American homes and gardens: Volume 7:
glosses: Of, or relating to art of topiaries.
glosses: Of a tree or shrub, trimmed in artistic shape.
topiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊpjəɹi/
ipa: /ˈtoʊpiˌɛəɹi/
Forms: form: topiaries
Etymology: From Latin topiarius (“of or relating to ornamental gardening; an ornamental garden, an ornamental gardener”), from Latin topia (“ornamental gardening, landscape painting”), from Ancient Greek τόπια (tópia, “artistic representation in which natural or artificial features of a place are used as the medium”), plural of Ancient Greek τόπιον (tópion, “field, landscape”), from τόπος (tópos, “place”). The adjective use dates to 1592, the noun use dates to 1908.
Senses: examples: text: The palace garden might have had a semblance of coolness had there been any trees, but the tallest things were fanciful topiary, tortured into the shapes of running horses or bears performing tumblers’ tricks or the like.
ref: 1994, Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos, prologue:
glosses: Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
glosses: A garden decorated with such art.
examples: text: We have topiaries for sale.
glosses: One such shrub or tree.
Related terms: arborsculpture
bonsai
espalier
top line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top lines
Etymology: From the usual presentation of this information as a line at the top of an income statement.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Total sales or revenue.
Related terms: bottom line
top line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top lines
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A flag on the edge of a minefield.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The line connecting individual letters in Devanagari.
examples: text: United are increasingly confident of signing Chelsea's England midfield man Mason Mount, while a top line striker is a pressing priority, with Tottenham's Harry Kane linked on a regular basis.
ref: 2023 June 3, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport, Wembley Stadium:
glosses: The best set of options.
Related terms: stemline
lode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊd/
ipa: /loʊd/
ipa: /ləʉd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: load
homophone: lowed
Forms: form: lodes
Etymology: Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Senses: glosses: A way or path; a road.
glosses: A watercourse.
examples: text: The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.
ref: 1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
examples: text: In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.
ref: 2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American:
glosses: A rich source of supply.
Derived terms: lodeship
lodesman
Related terms: lodestar
loadstone
mother lode
triggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trigger
triggering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triggerings
Senses: glosses: The initiation of an event or process.
triggering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.
ref: 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
text: Not so very long ago, the notion of saliva was considered so triggering that the chicken chain KFC dropped its “finger-lickin’ good” catchphrase, calling it “the most inappropriate slogan for 2020.”
ref: 2021 March 7, Tiffany Hsu, “Spit Swapping, Hard Pants and Hope: New Ads Envision Post-Pandemic Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: That triggers or initiates.
Derived terms: port triggering
triggering sequence
thicko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkəʊ
Forms: form: thickos
form: thickoes
Etymology: From thick + -o.
Senses: glosses: A dimwit or idiot.
toft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒft
Forms: form: tofts
Etymology: From Old Norse toft, from Proto-Germanic *tumþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).
Senses: glosses: A hillock.
examples: text: Rendering therefore annually to me and my heirs one halfpenny on the day of the nativity of St. John the Baptist for all suits services and demands and I the said Alice and my heirs the aforesaid toft and land with all their appurtenances as is before named to the said William and his heirs[…].
ref: 1840, George Poulson, The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, volume 1, page 479:
text: 2003, C. S. Knighton (editor), Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery): Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume VIII: 1422—1485, page 73,
Wynnemerus Preston lately held 2 cottages wasted of which the tofts are worth 2d. net yearly and another cottage wasted of which the toft is worth 6d. net yearly.
text: […]the lands of Peter de Sourdeuall in Esk, Brandesburton and Routh[…]namely, half the capital messuage with the enclosure (ofuenam) as it is bounded and fenced, and a bovate of land which belonged to John, son of Emmot, and a toft which Henry, son of Walter, held, and a toft which Roger the carpenter (le carpentre) held,[…].
ref: 2013, M. J. Hebditch, editor, Yorkshire Deeds, volume 9, page 34:
glosses: A homestead, especially one on a hill.
glosses: A messuage with right of common.
Derived terms: toft and croft
toftman
touristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʊəˈɹɪstɪk/
ipa: /tɔː-/
ipa: /tʊɹˈɪstɪk/
ipa: /tɝ-/
Forms: form: more touristic
form: most touristic
Etymology: From tourist + -ic, popularized by its similarity to Romance words like French touristique and Spanish turístico.
Senses: glosses: Catering to tourists; touristy.
raw_tags: in Mainland Europe
glosses: Typical of tourists.
raw_tags: in Mainland Europe
Derived terms: touristic guide
seductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈdʌktɪv/
Forms: form: more seductive
form: most seductive
form: seducive
Etymology: From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.
text: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Attractive, alluring, tempting.
Related terms: seductress
seducement
seduce
seduction
touristy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊəɹɪsti/
ipa: /ˈtɔːɹɪsti/
Forms: form: touristier
form: touristiest
Etymology: From tourist + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Windsor is very touristy.
text: These men would find a much bigger and touristier Carmel now. But the scenic oceanfront remains, and there are many intriguing ethnic eating places.
ref: 1978, Curtis W[erner] Casewit, “The Carmel Valley”, in Tennis Resorts: A Guide to Sporting Vacations in the West, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Pick one of the touristiest bars on Duval Street to get the idea that you have to hang out in such bars out of your system early on.
ref: 2007, Bruce Morris, “A Wonderful Week in Key West”, in Open Road’s Best of the Florida Keys, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Open Road Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Key West), page 96:
glosses: Catering to tourists; touristic.
glosses: Typical of tourists.
Synonyms: touristic
Derived terms: touristiness
weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛpənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of weapon
trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: trolleys
form: trollies
form: trolly
Etymology: Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).
Senses: glosses: A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
examples: text: Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107:
synonyms: word: tram
word: trolley car
glosses: A streetcar or light train.
glosses: A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
synonyms: crane trolley
traveling trolley
glosses: A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
glosses: A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
examples: text: About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.
ref: 2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh:
glosses: A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
glosses: Clipping of flatbed trolley.
glosses: A hand truck.
glosses: A soapbox car.
glosses: A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
glosses: A handcar.
Hyponyms: sense: streetcar
word: interurban
Derived terms: banquet trolley
catering trolley
crash trolley
drinks trolley
hand trolley
hostess trolley
luggage trolley
off one's trolley
pump-trolley
pump trolley
shopping trolley
tea trolley
trolley bus
trolleybus
trolley cloth
trolley dash
trolley dolly
trolley jack
trolley lace
trolley park
trolley problem
trolley trasher
trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: trolleys
form: trolleying
form: trolleyed
form: trolleyed
form: trollied
form: trollied
form: trolly
Etymology: Early 19th century (1823) meaning "cart", of dialectal origin (Suffolk), probably from troll (“to trundle, roll”) + -ey (diminutive ending).
Senses: glosses: To bring to by trolley.
glosses: To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.
glosses: To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train).
Derived terms: trolley off
weighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weigh
weighing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Forms: form: more weighing
form: most weighing
Senses: glosses: That weighs or burdens.
Derived terms: self-weighing
weighing boat
weighing bottle
weighing funnel
weighing-in
weighing machine
weighing scales
weighing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Forms: form: weighings
Senses: examples: text: She took her baby to the clinic for regular weighings.
glosses: The process by which something is weighed.
regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of region
regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənz/
Senses: examples: text: Tom Clancy of Elan Recruitment thinks that staff shortages in the regions could be as severe as in Dublin.
ref: 2000 November 7, Emer Hughes, “Fair city losing out to the regions”, in Sunday Business Post:
text: Three government departments may be named for a move from London to the regions.
ref: 2003 September 10, Peter Hetherington, “Study points civil servants towards the regions”, in The Guardian:
glosses: the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region
Synonyms: sense: rest of the country
word: the provinces
weighing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighing machines
Senses: glosses: a mechanical device, often coin-operated, for determining the weight of an object or person
Related terms: scales
CDISC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium.
yachting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yacht
yachting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪŋ
Forms: form: yachtings
Senses: examples: text: In those days, yachting on the east coast was a favourite relaxation, and it was proposed to extend the line for 1¾ miles to a pier on the River Blackwater, where yachts could be moored.
ref: 1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:
glosses: A physical activity involving yachts, such as racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast.
Derived terms: ice yachting
land yachting
sand yachting
phosph-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of phosphorus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of phospho-; used before a vowel.
phospho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: phosph-
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: phosphorus
Derived terms: borophosphosilicate
phospham
phosphenilic acid
phosphethyl
phosphide
phosphine
phosphocalcite
phosphocreatine
phosphodiester
phosphodiesterase
phosphoenolpyruvate
phosphoferrite
phosphofructokinase
phosphoglucomutase
phosphoglycerate
phosphoglyceric acid
phosphoglyceride
phosphoinositide
phosphokinase
phospholipid
phospholipin
phosphomolybdate
phosphomolybdic acid
phosphomonoesterase
phosphomycin
phosphonitrile
phosphonitrilic
phosphophyllite
phosphoprotein
phosphosiderite
phosphosilicate
phosphotungstic acid
phosphovinic acid
phospho-wolframic acid
phosphuranylite
phosphyl
Related terms: phospholipase
phosphoro-
phosphoro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: phosphorus
Derived terms: phosphorochalcite
phosphorogenic
phosphorograph
Related terms: phospho-
Kurd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːd/
ipa: /kɜɹd/
ipa: /kʌɹd/
ipa: /køːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /keːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /kɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: curd
homophone: cared (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: Kurds
Etymology: Attested in English since roughly 1600, from Kurdish کورد (kurd) and Classical Persian کُرْد (kurd), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gurd /⁠kurd⁠/), ultimately of unknown origin. More at Kurds.
Senses: examples: text: Curdi, B[arbarous]. a people which many think to be the Parthians, A[uncient]. But we cannot possiblie thinke them to be so. wherein we agree with Castaldo.
ref: 1595, Abraham Hartwell, The History of the Warres between the Turkes and the Persians, translation of Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiani by Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi:
text: Mehemet took her for a man and said, “Good father, I am a Kurd: my story is very curious”
ref: 1865, Charles Wells, Mehemet, the Kurd, and Other Tales, from Eastern Sources, page 16:
text: After defeating IS in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the group's members.
ref: 2018 May 8, Sarah El Deeb, “In a new justice system, Kurds put IS on trial eyeing reconciliation”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.
Derived terms: Kurdish
Related terms: Kurdistan
HCLSIG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group.
phosphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒsfə/
ipa: /ˈfɑsfɚ/
Forms: form: phosphors
form: phosphore
Etymology: From Medieval Latin phosphorus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds of transition metals or of rare earths that exhibit phosphorescence.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Phosphorus.
glosses: The planet Venus, when appearing as a morning star
Derived terms: hexamethylphosphoramide
nanophosphor
phosphoramidate
phosphoramide
phosphoramidite
phosphorana
phosphorane
phosphorate
phosphor bronze
phosphor copper
phosphoremia
phosphoresce
phosphorgummite
phosphorian
phosphorical
phosphoriferous
phosphorimager
phosphorimaging
phosphorimetry
phosphorine
phosphorise
phosphorism
Phosphorist
phosphorite
phosphorization
phosphorize
phosphorless
phosphorogenic
phosphorolysis
phosphorolytic
phosphoroscope
phosphorthioate
phosphor tin
phosphoruria
phosphoryl
phosphor zinc
Related terms: phosphoric
Winston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.stən/
rhymes: -ɪnstən
Etymology: From Old English personal name Wine, in the genitive singular case Wines + tūn (“farm, village”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name derived from the place name.
glosses: A male given name derived from the place name.
Winston Churchill, a famous British prime minister.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in County Durham (OS grid ref NZ1316).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1861).
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Florida.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Daviess County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Broadwater County, Montana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Sierra County, New Mexico.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Douglas County, Oregon.
glosses: A suburb of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Winston Hills
Winston-Salem
dalliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdalɪəns/
ipa: /ˈdæli.əns/
Forms: form: dalliances
Etymology: From Middle English daliaunce et al., from dalien (“to exchange pleasantries, to chat; to flirt”), from Old French dalier, dailer. By surface analysis, dally + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
synonyms: flirtation
glosses: Playful flirtation; amorous play.
glosses: An episode of dabbling.
examples: text: But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/4/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: Quite a few minutes would be spun out, for instance, at the smallish town of Chirk, but to me the dalliance was generally worthwhile, except in wet weather, because of the increasing beauty of the wooded hill scenery thereabouts.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
synonyms: dawdling
idling
trifling
glosses: A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
synonyms: affair
affairette
fling
liaison
glosses: A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
Related terms: dallier
dally
dallying
contained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈteɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
ipa: /kənˈtæɪnd/
rhymes: -æɪnd
Forms: form: more contained
form: most contained
Senses: examples: text: The brush fire is now contained: if it doesn't jump the lines, it will burn itself out.
glosses: Restricted in space.
Hyponyms: self-contained
Derived terms: uncontained
contained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈteɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
ipa: /kənˈtæɪnd/
rhymes: -æɪnd
Senses: examples: text: This box contained rat poison, now it contains a dead rat.
glosses: simple past and past participle of contain
satchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæt͡ʃəl/
rhymes: -ætʃəl
Forms: form: satchels
Etymology: First recorded circa 1340 as Middle English sachel, from Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum (“money bag, purse”), a diminutive of Latin sacculus, itself a diminutive of saccus (“bag”). See sack.
Senses: examples: text: "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel, which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.
ref: 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters” (chapter XV), in Uncle Tom's cabin^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin_(1852)), volume 1, Boston: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, page 239:
text: A young culprit has been caught in the fact of robbing an orchard, and brought back to his master, who stands over him with an iron face of angry authority;—the very apples, as if anxious to bear witness against him, are tumbling from his satchel.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:
glosses: A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
Derived terms: word: besatcheled
word: satchel bomb
word: satchel charge
Related terms: saccular
saccule
sachet
sack
cat flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat flaps
form: cat-flap
form: catflap
Senses: examples: text: Then, one Saturday when Martin was working but Yvonne wasn't, she brought a saw and other tools with which she constructed a hinged "cat flap" in a rear down-stairs door. It meant that the cats were free to come and go at any time, the effect being healthier for the pets and for the household.
ref: 1984, Arthur Hailey, Strong Medicine, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 340:
text: Jane had sealed up the cat flap, closed the ever-open window of the laundry, but there the cat somehow managed to be, staring up with a look of dependence.
ref: 1988, Fay Weldon, The Heart of the Country, Viking, →ISBN, page 142:
text: I let the cats out because they couldn't be arsed going through the cat flap. They were just sitting in front of the cat flap and yowling.
ref: 2006, Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: A small, hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just large enough for a cat to enter.
Related terms: doggie door
pet door
cumec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.mɛk/
ipa: /ˈkjuˌmɛk/
rhymes: -uːmɛk
Forms: form: cumecs
Etymology: Blend of cubic + metre + second.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic metre per second (m³/s).
Related terms: cusec
cusec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.sɛk/
ipa: /ˈkjuˌsɛk/
rhymes: -uːsɛk
Forms: form: cusecs
Etymology: Blend of cubic + second
Senses: examples: text: If the flow is between 70,000 cusecs - 75,000 cusecs (expected during the first ten days of March and the second ten days of May), Bangladesh receives 35,000 cusecs, and India the rest.
ref: 2004, M. Monirul Qader Mirza, The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications:
glosses: A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second.
Related terms: cumec
abrasively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹeɪ.sɪv.li/
Forms: form: more abrasively
form: most abrasively
Etymology: From abrasive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abrasive manner; in a rude and unkind manner; acting in a way that may hurt other people's feelings.
glosses: Hardly; roughly; in a rough manner.
empyreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈpɪɹɪəl/
ipa: /ɛmpɪˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɛmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/
Etymology: From Latin empyreus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύριος (empúrios, “fiery”), from ἐν (en, “en-”) + πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) (English pyre).
Senses: examples: text: The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, / That cauſd the eldeſt ſonne of heauenly Ops, / To thruſt his doting father from his chaire, / And place himſelfe in the Emperiall heauen, / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
text: They that held the Stars of heaven vvere but rayes and flaſhing glimpſes of the Empyreall light, through holes and perforations of the upper heaven, took of the natural ſhadovvs of ſtars, […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 181:
text: This downfall ; ſince by Fate the ſtrength of Gods / And this Empyreal ſubſtance cannot fail, / Since through experience of this great event / In Arms not worſe, in foreſight much advanc't, / We may with more ſucceſsſul hope reſolve / To wage by force or guile eternal Warr[…]
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 6:
synonyms: celestial
empyrean
sublime
exalted
glosses: Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean.
glosses: Of the sky or heavens.
glosses: Fiery, made of pure fire.
Derived terms: empyreal air
super-empyreal
Related terms: empyrical
tonotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From tono- + -topic.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of being spatially organized by tone or frequency.
glosses: Occupying a space dependent on frequency.
glosses: Having an orientation dependent on a frequency.
Derived terms: tonotopically
tonotopicity
tonotopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tonotopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Done with the quality of being tonotopic
glosses: With a spatial organization which is based upon frequency