cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cornish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornishes
Senses: glosses: One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.
examples: text: So the curve of Stonehenge, which is above 100 English feet, appears extraordinary large and well proportion'd, upon a height of 18 foot, which reaches to the top of the outer cornish; that of the inner cornishes is but 24 foot high, at a medium. For the cornishes of the inner part of Stonehenge, or that which Webb calls the cell, are not all of equal height, of which in proper place.
ref: 1730, William Stukeley, Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, page 11:
text: The four rooms in the length of this building have door places crown'd with double cornishes, as represented in the plate of that architecture, together with ornaments of the winged globe.
ref: 1743, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries, page 63:
text: And all the way along the edges here we'll be putting in cornishes. They're under the scaffolding there in the corner, you can take a look. These are six-inch cornishes.
ref: 2009, Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked, page 114:
topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of cornice.
cornish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: corn + -ish
Senses: glosses: cornlike; resembling corn
respectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more respectable
form: most respectable
Etymology: From respect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.
text: In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Deserving respect.
examples: text: Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable.  She plays a respectable game of chess.  He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.
glosses: Decent; satisfactory.
glosses: Moderately well-to-do.
Synonyms: word: savory
word: reputable
word: esteemed
word: dignified
word: lofty
word: supreme
word: appraised
word: praiseworthy
word: honourable
word: worthy
word: laudable
word: applauded
Related terms: respectability
respectabilize
respectably
respectable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]
Forms: form: respectables
Etymology: From respect + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.
ref: 1872, Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, page 221:
text: The tensions between the "respectables" and the "gay spoilers"
ref: 1978 February 11, Michael Bronski, “The Gayest Parade In Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 31, page 13:
text: The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.
ref: 2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, page 38:
glosses: A person who is respectable.
Related terms: respectful
respective
Kilimanjaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪləmənˈd͡ʒɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˌkɪlɪmənˈd͡ʒɑːɹəʊ/
Etymology: Unclear, but most likely from Swahili kilima (“hill”) + njaro.
Senses: meronyms: Kibo
Mawenzi
Shira
glosses: A volcano in Tanzania, the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters (19,321 feet).
Synonyms: Kili
Mount Kilimanjaro
explanatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsplæn.ə.t(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɛkˈsplæn.ə.t(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ɪkˈsplæn.ə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/
ipa: /ɛkˈsplæn.ə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛkspləˈneʈ(ɵ)ri/
Forms: form: more explanatory
form: most explanatory
Etymology: From Late Latin explānātōrius, from Latin explānāt-, past-participle stem of explānāre (“to explain”). Displaced Old English ġereclīċ.
Senses: examples: text: Below the diagram is an explanatory text.
glosses: Intended to serve as an explanation.
glosses: Disposed to explain.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: epexegetic
Derived terms: explanatorily
explanatoriness
explanatory dictionary
explanatory fiction
explanatory style
nonexplanatory
overexplanatory
self-explanatory
unexplanatory
exhibitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhibitionisms
Etymology: From exhibition + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice or character trait of deliberately drawing attention to oneself.
examples: text: The dance consisted of sexual exhibitionism, reeling and swaying as if in a state of intoxication, erotic bodily movements, and denudation.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 68:
text: Yes, really. Blanchard has expanded the DSM's "paraphilia" section (where crimes such as paedophilia and exhibitionism go) to include transvestic disorder.
ref: 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The practice or character trait of deliberately displaying one's genitals, nipples, or buttocks in public for sexual gratification.
Related terms: exhibit
exhibitionist
autagonistophilia
thor
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Senses: glosses: there
glosses: they're (they are)
thor
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: thors
Senses: glosses: their
forbidden fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbidden fruits
Etymology: With reference to Genesis 2:17: ‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’ (KJV)
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The fruit forbidden to Adam.
glosses: Illicit pleasure.
examples: text: She was forbidden fruit because she's his teacher. This taboo made him want her even more.
glosses: Something desired that cannot be had.
glosses: A small variety of shaddock (Citrus maxima), or sometimes other citrus fruits.
Derived terms: forbidden fruit is the sweetest
the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest
enclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enclose
enclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enclosings
Senses: examples: text: And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 39:10-13:
glosses: That which encloses.
examples: text: Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.
ref: 1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131:
glosses: The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
enclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.
Synonyms: bounding
inside joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsaɪd ˌd͡ʒəʊk/
ipa: /ˈɪnsaɪd ˌd͡ʒoʊk/
Forms: form: inside jokes
Senses: examples: text: After the incident with the potato peeler, references to potatoes became an inside joke among the witnesses.
synonyms: in-joke
private joke
glosses: A joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details (an ingroup).
Sharon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shă'rən
ipa: /ˈʃæɹən/
rhymes: -æɹən
Forms: form: Sharons
Etymology: Biblical place name, Hebrew שָׁרוֹן (šārōn, “the Sharon plain”).
Senses: examples: 2005, Birgitte Tufte, Jeanette Rasmussen, Lars Bech Christensen, Frontrunners Or Copycats? (page 83), quoting a 17-year-old girl
'Cos all the Sharons go with the Rocker type of skaters - because I've got friends who are really good friends with Sharons and they are skaters. And you don't hold it against them that they are Sharons and they are rockers.
glosses: A working-class female.
Coordinate terms: Kev
Related terms: Kevin
capitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpɪtət/
Etymology: From Latin capitātus (“having a head”), from caput (“head”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). The noun comes from the clipping of capitate bone.
Senses: examples: 1913 Henry Gray: Anatomy Descriptive and Applied
The capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the centre of the wrist. It presents, above, a rounded portion or head, which is received into the concavity formed by the navicular and lunate; a constricted portion or neck; and below this, the body. The superior surface is round, smooth, and articulates with the lunate.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a distinct globular tip.
examples: text: 1884 A. de Bary Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns. Oxford University Press
Capitate hairs occur on most leaf-forming plants, especially Dicotyledons and Ferns, as a rule in company with non-glandular hairs. It is true they are absent from many large groups... To this category belong in the first place the great majority of the universally distributed glandular hairs ... Meanwhile we need only remark here, that the glandular hairs are characterised by no special form, but rather by definite properties of the cell walls; therefore the terms capitate and glandular hair are not equivalent. In the case of many capitate hairs, it is as yet uncertain whether they possess the characteristic properties of glandular hairs...
text: Capitate antennae are thin through most of the structure, then abruptly widen, so it looks like the head of a pin sitting on the end of the antennae. This antennal shape is commonly found in butterflies.
ref: 2020 Jason H. Byrd, Jeffery K. Tomberlin (eds) Forensic Entomology ISBN: 978-0-815-35016-3
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Topped with a dense, head-like cluster, such as the inflorescences of composites or the antennae of some insects.
Derived terms: multicapitate
unicapitate
capitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpɪtət/
Forms: form: capitates
Etymology: From Latin capitātus (“having a head”), from caput (“head”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). The noun comes from the clipping of capitate bone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The capitate bone of the wrist.
Derived terms: radiocapitate
capitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpɪtət/
ipa: /ˈkæpɪteɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæpɪtət/
Forms: form: capitates
form: capitating
form: capitated
form: capitated
Etymology: Back-formation from capitation.
Senses: qualifier: health care
glosses: To pay health-care providers using a capitation system.
mohawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohawks
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mohawk.
Derived terms: deathhawk
rog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rogs
form: rogging
form: rogged
form: rogged
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English roggen, ruggen, variation of rokken (“to rock”), from Old English roccian.
Senses: glosses: To shake.
rog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Intoxication through freebasing.
rog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogs
Etymology: Clipping of interrogatory.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of interrogatory.
synonyms: word: interrogatory
rog
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒdʒ/
ipa: /ɹɑdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Etymology: Clipping of roger.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roger.
synonyms: word: roger
rog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒdʒ/
ipa: /ɹɑdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: rogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ROG (“receipt of goods”).
manchester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænt͡ʃɛstɚ/
ipa: /ˈmæntʃɪstə/
Forms: form: manchesters
Etymology: After the city of Manchester (England), once an important centre for the manufacture of cotton textile goods.
Senses: examples: text: Betsy, as Muslin, had a very showy striped pink and white Manchester, pink shoes, red Ribbons in abundance and a short Apron.
ref: 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 76:
glosses: A type of cotton fabric, or a piece of clothing made from such fabric.
examples: text: Target www.target.com.au has an extensive range of quality on-trend fashionable apparel and accessories, the latest designs in homewares, including manchester, bed linen and décor, cosmetics, fragrances, health and beauty products and a full range of toys, games and entertainment.
ref: 2003 September 24, Thomas 'bacco|007' Baxter, “lyrics in song in K-Mart^([sic]) ad”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
glosses: Household linen.
idiosyncracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiosyncracies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of idiosyncrasy.
daydream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪdɹiːm/
ipa: [ˈdeɪdɹiːm]
ipa: [ˈdeɪd͡ʒɹiːm]
enpr: dā'drēmˈ
Forms: form: daydreams
Etymology: From day + dream. Compare West Frisian deidream (“daydream”), Dutch dagdroom (“daydream”), German Tagtraum (“daydream”), Swedish dagdröm (“daydream”), Icelandic dagdraumur (“daydream”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: woolgathering
brown study
castles in Spain
glosses: A spontaneous series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
Derived terms: daydreamer
daydreamlike
daydreamy
daydream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪdɹiːm/
ipa: [ˈdeɪdɹiːm]
ipa: [ˈdeɪd͡ʒɹiːm]
enpr: dā'drēmˈ
Forms: form: daydreams
form: daydreaming
form: daydreamt
form: daydreamt
form: daydreamed
form: daydreamed
Etymology: From day + dream. Compare West Frisian deidream (“daydream”), Dutch dagdroom (“daydream”), German Tagtraum (“daydream”), Swedish dagdröm (“daydream”), Icelandic dagdraumur (“daydream”).
Senses: examples: text: Stop daydreaming and get back to work!
glosses: To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
Derived terms: daydreamingly
Related terms: daymare
dream
nightmare
REM
einstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: einsteins
Etymology: From German ein Stein, "one stone", coined by scientists in recent decades, but with tongue-in-cheek tacit acknowledgment of the homonymy with einstein and Einstein; "a pun playing with the famous scientist's name and the German term "ein Stein" for "one stone".
Senses: examples: text: In less poetic terms, an einstein is an “aperiodic monotile,” a shape that tiles a plane, or an infinite two-dimensional flat surface, but only in a nonrepeating pattern. (The term “einstein” comes from the German “ein stein,” or “one stone” — more loosely, “one tile” or “one shape.”)
ref: 2023 March 28, Siobhan Roberts, “Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem. And it all began with a hobbyist “messing about and experimenting with shapes””, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Mar 2023:
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A shape that can be repeated to cover a plane with a nonrepeating pattern.
Related terms: aperiodic
monotiling
tessellation
infarction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infarctions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infarctiō, equivalent to infarct + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The process which causes an infarct.
examples: text: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
ref: 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:
text: Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Comparison of Risk Factor between Lacunar Stroke and Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study in China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infarct (an area of ischemic necrosis).
Derived terms: cerebral infarction
cryoinfarction
infarctional
macroinfarction
microinfarction
myocardial infarction
periinfarction
postinfarction
preinfarction
pseudoinfarction
reinfarction
Related terms: infarctive
zygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzʌɪ.ɡə(ʊ)ˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌzɪɡ.ə(ʊ)ˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌzaɪ.ɡəˈmæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Etymology: From zygoma + -tic. Doublet of zygomaticus.
Senses: examples: text: They show (1) the left orbit and zygomatic arch of President Kennedy magnified from Zapruder frame 230
ref: 1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition, page 27:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygomatic bone or zygomatic arch.
Derived terms: bizygomatic
circumzygomatic
frontozygomatic
infrazygomatic
interzygomatic
oculozygomatic
postzygomatic
prezygomatic
retrozygomatic
sphenozygomatic
squamozygomatic
subzygomatic
suprazygomatic
temporozygomatic
zygomatically
zygomatic arch
zygomatic bone
zygomatic muscle
zygomatic nerve
zygomatic process
zygomatic suture
Related terms: english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: zygomatico-
word: zygomaxillary
zygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzʌɪ.ɡə(ʊ)ˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌzɪɡ.ə(ʊ)ˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌzaɪ.ɡəˈmæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: zygomatics
Etymology: From zygoma + -tic. Doublet of zygomaticus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of zygomatic bone.
ethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.mɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɛθmɔɪd
Forms: form: ethmoids
Etymology: Borrowing from French ethmoïde, from Ancient Greek ἠθμοειδής (ēthmoeidḗs, “like a strainer, perforated”), from ἠθμός (ēthmós, “strainer, sieve”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ethmoid bone
ethmoidal bone
glosses: A light spongy cubical bone at the root of the nose, forming much of the walls of the nasal cavity and part of those of the orbits and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose.
Derived terms: ethmoidal
ethmoidectomy
ethmoiditis
ethmoidofrontal
nasoethmoid
ethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.mɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɛθmɔɪd
Etymology: Borrowing from French ethmoïde, from Ancient Greek ἠθμοειδής (ēthmoeidḗs, “like a strainer, perforated”), from ἠθμός (ēthmós, “strainer, sieve”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ethmoidal
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ethmoid bone.
Derived terms: basiethmoid
cribroethmoid
dermethmoid
ectethmoid
ethmo-
ethmoido-
ethmoid bone
ethmoid sinus
mesethmoid
parethmoid
sphenoethmoid
sphenethmoid
supraethmoid
popsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.sɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˈpɒp.sɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˈpɑp.sɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˈpɑp.sɪ.kl̩]
Forms: form: popsicles
Etymology: From the trade name Popsicle, a blend of (soda) pop + Epsicle (original trade name), itself a blend of Epperson (surname of the inventor) + icicle.
Senses: examples: text: “I think this is the hottest day I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Ikumi Cooray, 25, said Friday, waiting for a tram in Melbourne as a popsicle melted in her hand.
ref: 2019 January 26, James Tarabay, “Across Australia, Yet Another Scorching Summer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2019:
glosses: Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.
examples: text: Turn up the thermostat! We're all turning into popsicles in here!
glosses: Something cold or frozen.
Synonyms: word: ice pop
word: ice lolly
word: iceblock
word: icy pole
word: paddle pop
Derived terms: bloodsicle
blow this popsicle stand
cakesicle
cocksicle
corpsicle
creamsicle
fudgsicle
Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick
poopsicle
poptail
waffsicle
june
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: junes
form: juning
form: juned
form: juned
Senses: glosses: To rush.
scapula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapulas
form: scapulae
Etymology: From Late Latin scapula (“shoulder”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.
Synonyms: shoulder blade
Derived terms: scapular
scapulary
snapping scapula syndrome
suprascapula
november
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of November from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
cabin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæbɪn/
rhymes: -æbɪn
Forms: form: cabins
form: cabining
form: cabined
form: cabined
Etymology: From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
Senses: glosses: To place in a cabin or other small space.
examples: text: There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
ref: 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11
glosses: To limit the scope of.
examples: text: I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
Related terms: cabana
cherry red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry reds
Senses: glosses: A deep bright red color, like that of a cherry.
cherry red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a deep bright red colour, like that of a cherry.
braille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
ipa: /ˈbɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: brailles
form: Braille
Etymology: Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.
Senses: examples: text: Another difficulty which causes literature in braille to remain scarce is the cumbersomeness of the process of producing braille books.
ref: 1963, S. C. Ashcroft, Freda Henderson, Programmed Instruction in Braille, Stanwix House, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
Derived terms: Bharati braille
braille block
brailler
braillewriter
braillist
nonbraille
braille
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
ipa: /ˈbɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: brailles
form: brailling
form: brailled
form: brailled
form: Braille
Etymology: Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.
Senses: examples: text: I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.
text: the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled
ref: 1967, Carlton Fredericks, Federal Trade Commission Decisions, volume 71, page 237:
glosses: To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.
glosses: to identify something by touch.
braille
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
ipa: /ˈbɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Braille
Etymology: Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to or written in braille.
Freecycle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of free + recycle
Senses: glosses: An Internet-based community where people can freely give unwanted items to others.
moksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒkʃə/
ipa: /ˈməʊkʃə/
ipa: /ˈmoʊkʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa, “liberation”).
Senses: examples: text: The more merit you earn, the more you are likely to abridge the number of reincarnations you have to go through to reach the kind of enlightened state which gets you to moksha.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 5:
text: It is one of the four key lessons of the Bhagavad-Gita: desire or lust; wealth; the desire for righteousness or dharma; and the final state of total liberation, or moksha.
ref: 2017 August 9, James Temperton, “'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'. The story of Oppenheimer's infamous quote”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:
synonyms: mukti
coordinate_terms: dharma
glosses: In Indian philosophy and theology, the final liberation of the soul or consciousness from samsara and the bringing to an end of all the suffering involved in being subject to the cycle of reincarnation.
pronunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pronunces
form: pronuncing
form: pronunced
form: pronunced
Senses: examples: text: That they pꝛonunce not rudely / haſtely / confuſely oꝛ coꝛruptely. but with cleyne / dyſtyncte / and playne tongue.
ref: 1520, Robertus Whitintonus, Vulgaria Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis / et de Institutione Grãmaticulorũ Opusculum: […], London: Wynkyn de Worde, →OCLC, signature I.ij., recto:
text: [T]hou womã / nat a Chꝛiſtiane / but the myniſter of the deuyll / yͤ fell thꝛetnỹg of our loꝛde diſpleaſed with yͤ / ſhalbe pꝛonunced vpon the / ſayeng by Eſaie yͤ pꝛophet: […]
ref: [1529?], Lewes Viues [i.e., Juan Luis Vives], translated by Rycharde Hyrd, A Very Frutefull and Pleasant Boke Called The Instructiõ of a Christen Womã […], London: […] Thomas Berthelet […], →OCLC, signature K.ij., recto:
text: To proceede, what higher Authoritye can there be in the world, thẽ by baptiſme to make a Chriſtian ſowle? thẽ by pronuncing the ſolempe wordes appointed by Chriſte to cauſe to be preſente the body and bloudde of Chriſte?
ref: 1567, Thomas Stapleton, A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blaste against M. Fekenham. […], Leuven: Apud Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, folio 410, recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of pronounce.
ischium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪskɪəm/
ipa: /ˈɪskiəm/
Forms: form: ischia
Etymology: 17th century, from Latin ischium, from Ancient Greek ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip joint”).
Senses: examples: text: And he still carried, after five or six years, and though he dressed it in a mirror night and morning, on his right ischium a running sore of traumatic origin.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lowest of the three bones that make up each side of the pelvis.
Coordinate terms: ilium
pubis
Derived terms: ischiadic
ischial
ischiatic
Related terms: bone
resilient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɪl.jənt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɪli.ənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾĕz.i.lɪ.ĕɳʈ/
Forms: form: more resilient
form: most resilient
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.
Proto-Italic *saljō
Latin saliō
Latin resiliō
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -ēns
Latin resiliēnsder.
English resilient
Borrowed from Latin resiliēns (“rebounding”, present active participle of resiliō).
Senses: glosses: Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)
glosses: Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)
Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
qualifier: materials science
examples: text: He’s resilient, and strong, but sometimes tonight, here, the weight of what he’s saying makes him stop, pause as if lost.
ref: 1994, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:
glosses: Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
topics: human-sciences
medicine
neuroscience
psychology
sciences
glosses: Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.
Synonyms: bendable
flexible
strong
Derived terms: resilience
Related terms: resile
resilience
result
Afghani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afghanis
Etymology: From Afghan + -i, or directly from Persian افغانی (“Afghan (nonstandard)”).
Senses: examples: text: A nan (bread) costs 25 Afghanis : a kilogram of beef 800 Afghanis and mutton of the same weight for 1200 Afghanis; […]
ref: 1990, Central Asia, numbers 26-27, page 137:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of afghani (“Afghanistan's unit of currency”).
examples: text: This is not the way Afghanis conduct business. For the Afghans, time is not of the essence.
ref: 2003, Jean-Michel Monod, quoted in Intercultural Management →ISBN, page 182
glosses: An Afghan; a native, inhabitant or national of Afghanistan.
Afghani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Afghan + -i, or directly from Persian افغانی (“Afghan (nonstandard)”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Afghanistan, its people, or its language.
martian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Martian (“of or pertaining to the planet Mars”).
martian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Martian packet.
marxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marxisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Marxism.
Derived terms: paleomarxism
Related terms: marxist
Morse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Morris, from the given name Maurice.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after inventor Samuel Morse.
glosses: A rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Hansford County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Morse code
Morse function
Morse key
Morse taper
Morse theory
Morse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
Senses: examples: text: We sent a message in Morse.
glosses: Clipping of Morse code.
Morse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: Morses
form: Morsing
form: Morsed
form: Morsed
Senses: examples: text: It was Gibson who was right. Code 78A was Morsed back to Grantham – 'bomb despatched and hit wall but no breach observed'. No doubt the wording of Operation Chastise's operation order now started to hit home […]
ref: 2014, W. B. Bartlett, The Night of the Dam Busters:
glosses: To transmit by Morse code.
platonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /pləˈtɔnɪk/
ipa: /pləˈtɑnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more platonic
form: most platonic
form: Platonic
form: Platonick
form: platonick
Etymology: Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.
Senses: examples: text: They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.
glosses: Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.
examples: text: Plato gave so brilliant and impressive a defense of this common human feeling, that the doctrine of the reality of abstract objects has been known as the platonic theory of ideas ever since.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
Derived terms: aplatonic
nonplatonic
platonically
platonic love
quasiplatonic
queerplatonic
semiplatonic
rota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊtə/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊtə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
rhymes: -əʊtə
homophone: rotor (non-rhotic)
homophone: Rhoda (flapping)
Forms: form: rotas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.
Senses: examples: text: [The manager] instituted a rota for having the players attend supporters’ club meetings throughout the season, telling them it was part of the job of being a footballer.
ref: 2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
Related terms: rotate
roster
rota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊtə/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊtə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
rhymes: -əʊtə
homophone: rotor (non-rhotic)
homophone: Rhoda (flapping)
Forms: form: rotas
form: rocta
form: rotta
Senses: examples: text: Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder.
ref: 2011, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.
Related terms: rota Fortunae
ellipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /iˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /iˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈləpsəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ellipse
ellipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /iˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /iˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈləpsəz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsiːz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /iˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /iˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪpsɪz/
ipa: /əˈləpsəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ellipsis
whippersnapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪpəˌsnæpə/
ipa: /ˈʍɪpəɹˌsnæpəɹ/
Forms: form: whippersnappers
form: whipper-snapper
form: whipper snapper
Etymology: Extension of *whip-snapper (“a cracker of whips”), or perhaps from snipper-snapper. Compare also whipperginnie (“term of abuse for a woman”), late 16th c.
Senses: examples: text: These whippersnappers have never had to walk far or carry water.
text: "Throw me a nine iron Fatman, I want to make sure of getting inside you young whippersnappers."
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 34:
text: Eisenhower thought that the President-elect, his junior by over 25 years, was merely a "young whippersnapper."
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
glosses: A young and cheeky or presumptuous person; often with a connotation of ignorance via inexperience.
Related terms: spring chicken
upstart
youngster
protégé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒtəʒeɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌʒeɪ/
Forms: form: protégés
form: protege
Etymology: Borrowed from French protégé, past participle of protéger (“to protect”).
Senses: examples: text: His status as a protégé of the great artist had many benefits, but was ultimately a burden.
text: While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protégé of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University.
ref: 2006 August 28, Sylvia Nasar, David Gruber, “Manifold Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: word: apprentice
word: mentee
english: more informal
translation: more informal
word: pupil
glosses: A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced person (a protector or mentor).
Derived terms: protégé effect
Related terms: word: protégée
word: ward
zinnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪni.ə/
ipa: /ˈziɲjə/
Forms: form: zinnias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Zinnia. Coined in 1767, after Johann Gottfried Zinn, German botanist (d. 1759).
Senses: examples: text: […]the Consul at this moment greeted Mr. Quincey's cat, momentarily forgetting its owner again as the grey, meditative animal, with a tail so long it trailed on the ground, came stalking through the zinnias: […]
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 134:
text: Santa sighed at the unfairness of it all and slammed the picture down on the mantelpiece among the bowl of wax fruit and the bouquet of paper zinnias and the statue of the Virgin Mary and the figurine of the Infant of Prague.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:
glosses: Any of several brightly coloured flowering plants, of the genus Zinnia, native to tropical America; old maid.
wikipedia: Johann Gottfried Zinn
Derived terms: creeping zinnia
computational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃənəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌkɑmpjʊˈteɪʃənəl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌkɔmpjʊˈtæɪʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌkɒmpjʊˈtæɪʃənəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəmpjʊˈʈeʃ(ə)nəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔmpjʊteʃ(ə)nəl/
Forms: form: more computational
form: most computational
Etymology: From computation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: computational limits
text: computational scores
glosses: Of or relating to computation.
Derived terms: biocomputational
computational chemistry
computational complexity theory
computational design
computational fluid dynamics
computational geometry
computational humor
computational intelligence
computationalism
computationalist
computationalistic
computational lexicology
computational linguistics
computationally
computational model
computational neuroscience
computational number theory
computational semantics
extracomputational
geocomputational
neurocomputational
noncomputational
precomputational
supercomputational
venus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviːnəs/
rhymes: -iːnəs
homophone: Venus
homophone: venous
Forms: form: venuses
Etymology: From translingual Venus (“a genus of clams”), from Latin.
Senses: glosses: Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.
Derived terms: alt: Chione cancellata
word: cross-barred venus
alt: Pitar dione
word: elegant venus clam
alt: Chione grus
word: grey pygmy venus
alt: Lirophora latilirata
word: imperial venus
alt: Chione intapurpurea
word: lady-in-waiting venus
taxonomic: Chamelea gallina
word: striped venus clam
alt: Macrocallista nimbosa
word: sunray venus
taxonomic: Venus verrucosa
word: warty venus
bilbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlbəʊ/
Forms: form: bilbos
form: bilboes
form: bilboe
Etymology: From Bilbao, a city in Spain.
Senses: glosses: A device for punishment. See bilboes.
examples: text: A boy bursts in to the tent, double-edged bilbo in hand.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 14:
glosses: A kind of sword with well-tempered and flexible blade, originally produced in Bilbao.
peter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə/
ipa: /ˈpitɚ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
homophone: Peter
homophone: pita (non-rhotic)
homophone: ptr
Forms: form: peters
Etymology: US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. Compare the use of other men’s names as slang terms for the penis, e.g., dick, willy, johnson, John Thomas, etc.
Senses: examples: text: You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.
ref: 1997, Shelby Scates, Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America, page 141:
text: ... and you were there, and they acted like you weren't even born yet?' "I'd say, 'Yes, their memories are as long as their peters.'"
ref: 1998, Michael Robert Gorman, The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria, page 199:
text: “It's to put on their peters when they don't want to make babies,” she said.
ref: 2002, Celia H Miles, Mattie's Girl: An Appalachian Childhood, page 64:
glosses: The penis.
Derived terms: peeder
peter pepper
peter puffer
peter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə/
ipa: /ˈpitɚ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
homophone: Peter
homophone: pita (non-rhotic)
homophone: ptr
Forms: form: peters
Etymology: Unknown. Attested from the 18th century. The Canting Academy defines peeter as “A portmantle”; Green’s Dictionary of Slang list a variety of uses for peter – including trunk or portmanteau – in thieves’ cant in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The OED suggests that it may be related to St. Peter being the holder of the keys to God's Kingdom.
Senses: examples: text: It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.
ref: 1963, Kenneth Ullyett, Crime out of Hand, page 109:
text: The forty quid! Gone! ’Ow could she ’ave gotten in there? The peter ain’t broke, no sign of it bein’ bettied, and I the only one w’ the key.
ref: 2013, Zack Wentz, “Simplicity itself”, in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, volume 10, page 161:
synonyms: pete
glosses: A safe.
examples: text: […] the ceremony of 'slopping out', breakfast, across to the main library from nine till half-past eleven, back to my peter for the mid-day meal and two hours' break, then the library again till five o'clock when tea was brought round and the cell door locked for the night.
ref: 1955, Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Verdict of You All, page 82:
glosses: A prison cell.
Derived terms: peterman
peter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə/
ipa: /ˈpitɚ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
homophone: Peter
homophone: pita (non-rhotic)
homophone: ptr
Forms: form: peters
form: petering
form: petered
form: petered
Etymology: Unknown; the following etymologies have been suggested:
* From peter (“to stop (doing or saying something)”) (slang, obsolete, rare).
* Since the word was first used in mining contexts, either:
** from French péter (“to explode; to break wind, fart”) (slang), from pet (“emission of digestive gases from the anus, flatus, fart”) (slang), from Latin pēditum (“flatus, fart”), from pēdō (“to break wind, fart”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to break wind softly”), probably imitative; or
** from (salt)peter, a variant of saltpetre (“potassium nitrate”) (the key ingredient in gunpowder), from Middle English salpeter, salpetre [and other forms] with the first element influenced by salt, from Old French salpetre (modern French salpêtre), from Medieval Latin salpetra, from Latin sāl petrae (literally “salt of stone”) (as potassium nitrate occurs encrusted on some stones), from sāl (“salt”) + petrae (the nominative or vocative plural of petra (“rock; stone”), from Ancient Greek πέτρᾱ (pétrā, “rock formation; stone”)).
Senses: examples: text: I found a veinlet about 15 in. wide and very rich in gold. Trenching along its outcrop showed that it extended about 100 ft. and then pinched out altogether. A winze sunk on the veinlet showed that it "petered out" entirely at 25 or 30 ft.
ref: 1910 T. Lane Carter: Mining in Nicaragua. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Vol. XLI. 1910. Canal Zone Meeting, October, 1910
text: Mersey Street is particularly attractive. Running up from the bay, it passes between terraced cottages before petering into a footpath that leads over the headland to a golf course and the dune-backed sands of Black Rock.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 73:
text: Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
ref: 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: ‘a necessary corrective’ [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, page R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 May 2022:
text: My words petered away.
ref: 2021, Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway, page 241:
glosses: Chiefly followed by out: originally (mining), of a vein of ore: to be depleted of ore; now (generally), to diminish to nothing; to dwindle, to trail off.
Derived terms: peter out
peter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə/
ipa: /ˈpitɚ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
homophone: Peter
homophone: pita (non-rhotic)
homophone: ptr
Forms: form: peters
form: petering
form: petered
form: petered
Etymology: Clipping of blue peter (“play a high card to call for trump”). See further etymology there.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Synonym of blue peter; to call for trump by throwing away a high card while holding a lower one.
synonyms: word: blue peter
extra: to call for trump by throwing away a high card while holding a lower one
glaucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɔː.kəs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɔ.kəs/
rhymes: -ɔːkəs
homophone: glaucus
Forms: form: more glaucous
form: most glaucous
Etymology: From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.
Senses: examples: text: I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
text: […] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
text: Traveling at sea for the first time is a chance to realize that the ocean is not one ocean. The water changes. The Atlantic that seethes off the eastern U.S. is glaucous and lightless and looks mean. Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
glosses: Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.
Derived terms: glaucous gull
glaucous honeysuckle
glaucously
glaucousness
glaucous pimplet
glaucous sedge
glaucous willow
glaucous-winged gull
nonglaucous
Related terms: glaucescent
glaucoma
glauconite
subglaucous