cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɜːnəl/
ipa: /daɪˈɝ.nəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.
Senses: examples: text: Most birds are diurnal.
text: However, in general, lizards are more diurnal than rattlers, which may be one of the reasons why young rattlers are more diurnal than adults.
ref: 1972, Laurence Monroe Klauber, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, Volume 1:
text: Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring / Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Said of a flower that is open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
glosses: Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
glosses: Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
glosses: Published daily.
Synonyms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
sense: having a daily cycle
word: circadian
word: daily
word: daytime
word: diurnal
Coordinate terms: sense: active or open during the day
english: active during twilight; dawn or dusk
translation: active during twilight; dawn or dusk
word: crepuscular
sense: active or open during the day
english: active during dawn
translation: active during dawn
word: matutinal
sense: active or open during the day
english: active during dusk
translation: active during dusk
word: vespertine
sense: active or open during the day
english: having a 24-hour period, regardless of day or night
translation: having a 24-hour period, regardless of day or night
word: diel
Derived terms: bidiurnal
diurnal aberration
diurnal active photolocation
diurnal arc
diurnalist
diurnality
diurnally
diurnal motion
diurnalness
equidiurnal
intradiurnal
nondiurnal
semidiurnal
sesquidiurnal
terdiurnal
tridiurnal
undiurnal
diurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɜːnəl/
ipa: /daɪˈɝ.nəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: diurnals
Etymology: From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.
Senses: glosses: A flower that opens only in the day.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
examples: text: He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
glosses: A diary or journal.
glosses: A daily news publication.
quickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkli/
rhymes: -ɪkli
Forms: form: quicklier
form: more quickly
form: quickliest
form: most quickly
Etymology: From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.
synonyms: at speed
glosses: Rapidly; with speed; fast.
examples: text: If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
text: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Very soon.
Synonyms: word: apace
word: expeditiously
word: fast
word: hastily
word: hurriedly
word: posthaste
word: quicksome
word: rapidly
word: speedily
word: soon
word: swiftly
word: with dispatch
word: at the high port
word: balls-out
word: balls to the wall
word: cranking
word: flat out
word: full throttle
word: hauling
word: hauling ass
word: hell-for-leather
word: hell-bent for leather
word: lickety-split
word: like a bat out of hell
word: like a blue-arsed fly
word: like a dose of salts
word: like a rat up a drainpipe
word: like gangbusters
word: like shit through a goose
word: like the clappers
word: like there is no tomorrow
word: like the wind
word: screaming
word: before you can say Jack Robinson
word: in a flash
word: in a jiffy
word: in no time
word: in the twinkling of an eye
word: in two shakes
word: on the double
word: PDQ
word: pronto
word: quick as a flash
word: quick as a wink
word: on the pdq
word: toot sweet
Derived terms: as quickly as possible
death-come-quickly
Related terms: word: quick
word: speedy
word: drink
word: immediately
word: rush
feces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːsiːz/
rhymes: -iːsiːz
Forms: form: faeces
form: fæces
Etymology: From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.
Senses: examples: text: We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.
ref: 2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
Synonyms: sense: discharged animal waste
word: dung
sense: discharged animal waste
word: excrement
sense: discharged animal waste
word: droppings
sense: discharged animal waste
word: faecal matter
sense: discharged animal waste
word: caca
sense: discharged animal waste
word: spoor
sense: discharged domestic animal waste
word: manure
sense: discharged bird or bat waste
word: guano
word: night soil
word: number two
word: doo
word: poo
word: poop
word: boo-boo
word: doo-doo
word: dookie and doody
word: crap
word: shit
word: turd
word: log
word: boom-boom
word: cack
word: chocolate
word: chocolate hot dog
word: crud
word: danna
word: dejection
word: dirt
word: do do
word: doody
word: dook
word: dookie
word: dooky
word: dump
word: dumplings
word: Eartha
word: Eartha Kitt
word: faeces
word: faex
word: fecal matter
word: feces
word: flop
word: fudge
word: gong
word: ish
word: jobby
word: merd
word: muck
word: nature
word: ordure
word: pooh
word: poopie
word: poo-poo
word: poopy
word: pure
word: purging
word: scat
word: sharn
word: shite
word: soil
word: stool
word: thost
word: tom tit
word: waste
Hyponyms: word: dingleberry
word: manure
word: spoor
word: trash
Derived terms: paleofeces
pseudofeces
Related terms: word: cecotrope
word: defecate
word: faecal
word: faex
word: fecal
word: feceate
word: feculence
word: feculent
word: anus
word: defecation
excrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/
Forms: form: excrements
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“I excrete”).
Senses: examples: text: The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 71:
glosses: Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
examples: text: A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97
synonyms: excretion
excretum
glosses: Any waste matter excreted from the human or non-human animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
Derived terms: excrementive
excrementize
Mexcrement
Related terms: excreta
excrete
excremental
excrementitious
excrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/
Forms: form: excrements
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscō (“I grow out”).
Senses: glosses: Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails, etc.
manure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnjʊə/
ipa: /məˈnjɔː/
ipa: /məˈn(j)ʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: manures
form: manuring
form: manured
form: manured
Etymology: From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).
Senses: examples: text: A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.
ref: 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:
text: Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
ref: 1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward:
glosses: To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
examples: text: The farmer manured his fallow field.
text: My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
Derived terms: manurable
manurer
overmanure
remanure
Related terms: to fertilize
wolverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlvəˌɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈwɒlvəˌɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌwʊlvəˈɹiːn/
Forms: form: wolverines
form: wolverene
form: wolvering
Etymology: 1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593), ultimately from wolf.
Senses: examples: text: “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
Synonyms: carcajou
skunk bear
glutton
quickhatch
beaver eater
Related terms: Gulo gulo
additive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæd.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈæɾ.ə.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈæɾ.ə.ɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈaɖɪʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖɪˈʈɪv/
Forms: form: more additive
form: most additive
Etymology: From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
examples: text: Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#92;vecv#43;M#92;vecw#61;M(#92;vecv#43;#92;vecw).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That is distributive over addition.
raw_tags: of a function
examples: text: It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose operator is identified as addition.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to chemical addition.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
Coordinate terms: multiplicative
subtractive
Derived terms: additive category
additive color
additive combinatorics
additive function
additive group
additive identity
additive inverse
additively
additive manufacturing
additiveness
additive number theory
additive operation
additive plural
additivism
adele
countably additive
cycloadditive
food additive
geoadditive
heteroadditive
hypoadditive
interadditive
nonadditive
overadditive
pre-additive category
protoadditive
subadditive
superadditive
underadditive
Related terms: additivity
additive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæd.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈæɾ.ə.tɪv]
ipa: [ˈæɾ.ə.ɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈaɖɪʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖɪˈʈɪv/
Forms: form: additives
Etymology: From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).
Senses: examples: text: Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.
synonyms: temper
glosses: A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
eclectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈlɛk.tɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛk.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more eclectic
form: most eclectic
form: eclectick
Etymology: From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ἐκλεκτικός (eklektikós, “selective”), from ἐκλέγω (eklégō, “I pick, choose”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, from”) + λέγω (légō, “I choose, count”).
Cognate to elect.
Senses: examples: text: Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. […] It is an eclectic religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.
ref: 1893, John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity, pages 211, 214:
text: Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic.
ref: 2017 August 2, Seth Rogovoy, Don Byron and Friends to Explore Early Soul Music at Helsinki Hudson, archived from the original on 18 May 2025:
glosses: Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
examples: text: All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
ref: 1983, Peter J. Wilson, Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution, page 140:
text: Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.
ref: 2006, W. Frederick Zimmerman, Should Barack Obama Be President?, page 153:
text: The Austrians concentrated their entire armored formation into the 1st Division; the 2nd Division consisted solely of the wooden ship of the line Kaiser, looking incredibly out of place in a battle of ironclads, along with five frigates; and the 3rd Division had an eclectic collection of smaller gunboats and armed merchantmen.
ref: 2018 September 26, Drachinifel, 2:30 from the start, in The Battle of Lissa - Special, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2023:
glosses: Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
Synonyms: sense: unrelated and unspecialized
word: heterogeneous
word: heterogeneous
Derived terms: eclectically
eclecticism
eclecticist
eclecticize
eclectic medicine
eclection
noneclectic
uneclectic
Related terms: cherry pick
heteroclite
holistic
eclectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈlɛk.tɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛk.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: eclectics
form: eclectick
Etymology: From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ἐκλεκτικός (eklektikós, “selective”), from ἐκλέγω (eklégō, “I pick, choose”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, from”) + λέγω (légō, “I choose, count”).
Cognate to elect.
Senses: examples: text: Neo-Pagans are eclectics, often borrowing from a variety of cultural traditions as they try to shape their religious organizations and practices to meet group and individual needs.
ref: 1986 December 14, Mary Morrisey, “Roll Over, Jehovah — And Tell St. Nick the News”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 5:
glosses: Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.
game
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gām
ipa: /ɡeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: gamer
form: gamest
Etymology: From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Yola gaame, gaaume, gaume (“game”), Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Dutch gemelijk (“cantankerous, crabbed”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Danish gammen (“merriment”), Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk gaman (“joy, fun”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”). Related to gammon, gamble.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?”
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 180:
text: One Friday when I jumped into my barber’s chair to get a trim, she suggested I try a jheri curl. I was game, despite the fact that most of the women I knew hated jheri curls on men and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country.
ref: 2003 August, E. Lynn Harris, chapter 9, in What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 126–127:
text: Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
synonyms: sporting
willing
daring
disposed
favorable
nervy
courageous
valiant
antonyms: cautious
disinclined
glosses: Willing and able to participate.
glosses: That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
raw_tags: of an animal
glosses: Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
Derived terms: sense: as
word: game as Ned Kelly
word: game is game
word: gameness
game
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gām
ipa: /ɡeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: more game
form: most game
Senses: examples: text: You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Lost on Dress Parade”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:
text: He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 29:
glosses: Injured, lame.
raw_tags: of a limb
stealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕlth
ipa: /stɛlθ/
rhymes: -ɛlθ
Forms: form: stealths
Etymology: From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).
Senses: glosses: The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
examples: text: Claudio.[...] But it chances
The stealth of our most mutuall entertainment
With Character too grosse, is writ on Iuliet.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: [The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).
ref: 1877, George Hill, An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, page 352:
glosses: An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
Derived terms: word: stealth camper
word: stealth camping
word: stealth game
english: secretive behaviour, to reduce the visibility (or ideally be invisible), or characteristic of being furtive or covert
translation: secretive behaviour, to reduce the visibility (or ideally be invisible), or characteristic of being furtive or covert
word: stealth mode
word: stealth nerf
word: stealth tax
word: stealth-tax
word: stealth taxation
word: stealth wealth
word: stealthy
Related terms: steal
stealth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕlth
ipa: /stɛlθ/
rhymes: -ɛlθ
Forms: form: stealths
form: stealthing
form: stealthed
form: stealthed
Etymology: From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
glosses: To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
examples: text: For her, there's a clear link between this behavior and that of avowed stealthers: : both stem from a place of sexism and misogyny, and to the extent that they differ, it's only by degree. Tellingly, Davis's work treats deception as merely one of several ways that men engage in the behavior she terms "condom use resistance." […] To the best of my knowledge, I've never been stealthed.
ref: 2018 November 6, Lux Alptraum, Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal, Seal Press, →ISBN:
text: [He] tried to stealth her but Nikki checked him quick. “Unh-unh. You better strap up.” “Word?” “Word nigga.” “A'ight, a'ight.” Justus slid a condom on and entered Nikki real slow.
ref: 2019 January 29, Shaun Sinclair, Blood Ties, Dafina, →ISBN:
text: […] condom. I'd seen him put it on and take it off afterward, so it wasn't like he'd tried to stealth me. Plus, my periods had always been irregular, so I could go six weeks before it appeared. When had I last gotten it, though? I couldn't[…]
ref: 2019 November 5, Iris Morland, Oopsie Daisy: A Steamy Romantic Comedy: Professor Student Accidental Pregnancy Romance, Blue Violet Press LLC:
text: In Australia, one in three women and one in five men [...] in 2018 said they had been stealthed. The occurrence of stealthing is not exclusive to heterosexual intercourse, and while the majority of[…]
ref: 2021 December 24, Brianna Chesser, Nadia David, April Zahra, Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: For example a sex worker complained about a client who 'stealthed' her by removing a condom and prosecuted him for rape. The court found him guilty (R v Campos).
ref: 2021 November 9, Rosie Campbell, Teela Sanders, Sex Work and Hate Crime: Innovating Policy, Practice and Theory, Springer Nature, →ISBN:
glosses: To subject (someone) to stealthing (sexual intercourse without a condom through deception, for example removing the condom mid-act).
bulletin board system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulletin board systems
form: bulletin-board system
Senses: examples: text: As companies increase their use of microcomputer-based bulletin board systems, microcomputer managers are finding themselves saddled with the responsibility of being system operators for the boards.
ref: 1986 April 21, Melissa Calvo, “Managers Say Bulletin Boards Part of Job”, in InfoWorld, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, page 18:
text: Hackers and hacker clubs primarily communicate by means of bulletin board systems. It is estimated that there are about 1,300 underground bulletin boards in the U.S.
ref: 2001, Sanjiv Purba, Architectures for E-Business Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 702:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: BBS
bulletin board
bulletin board service
CBBS
glosses: A type of computer system, now largely obsolete, used to exchange messages and data over a telecommunications network.
original
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəl/
ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒənəl/
ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒnəl/
ipa: /ɒˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵr(ɪ)ˈdʒɪnəl/
Forms: form: more original
form: most original
Etymology: From Middle English original, from Old French original, from Late Latin orīginālis (“primitive, original”), from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, origin”); see origin.
Senses: examples: text: the original state of mankind;  the original laws of a country;  the original inventor of a process
text: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
glosses: Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
examples: text: The original manuscript contained spelling errors which were fixed in later versions.
text: This recording is by the original broadway cast.
text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: initial
glosses: First in a series of copies or versions.
examples: text: Tonight we will hear an original work by one of our best composers.
glosses: Newly created.
examples: text: The paper contains a number of original ideas about color perception.
glosses: Fresh, different.
examples: text: Parker was one of the original bebop players.
glosses: Pioneering.
examples: text: This kind of barbecue is original to North Carolina.
glosses: Having a specified place or time as its origin.
glosses: Seasoned with salt but no other flavoring; ready salted
raw_tags: of a potato chip
Synonyms: autograph
prototype
Derived terms: book of original entry
co-original
in the original German
nonoriginal
original antigenic sin
original aspect ratio
original as sin
original character
original depravity
original fic
originalism
originalist
originalistic
original jurisdiction
originally
originalness
original package doctrine
Original Pilipino Music
original righteousness
original sin
series original
unoriginal
Related terms: aboriginal
origin
originality
originate
originative
original
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəl/
ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒənəl/
ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒnəl/
ipa: /ɒˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵr(ɪ)ˈdʒɪnəl/
Forms: form: originals
Etymology: From Middle English original, from Old French original, from Late Latin orīginālis (“primitive, original”), from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, origin”); see origin.
Senses: examples: text: This manuscript is the original.
synonyms: prototype
antonyms: copy
derivative
remake
reproduction
ultimate
hyponyms: autograph
glosses: An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
examples: text: I have a great mind to be in Print; but above all, I would fain be an Original, and that is a true Comical Thought: When all the Learned Men in the World are but Tranſlators, is it not a Pleaſant Jeſt, that you ſhould ſtrive to be an Original! You ſhould have obſerved your Time, and have come into the World with the Ancient Greeks for that purpoſe; for the Latines themſelves are but Copies.
ref: 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
text: Ahmad (1969) studied the personality differences among middle school girls identified as originals and unoriginals on the Minnesota's test of creative thinking.
ref: 1975, The Educational Trends, volumes 10-14, page 59:
text: The originals or the creatives were more dominant than the unoriginals or the low creatives.
ref: 2010, A. Kusuma, Creativity and Cognitive Styles in Children, page 73:
glosses: A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.
examples: text: ‘Are you an alienist?’ I interrupted. ‘Every doctor should be - a little,’ answered that original, imperturbably.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
glosses: An eccentric person.
examples: text: Fashion Fair will give every section first hand knowledge of the latest originals and 1962-63's exciting trends.
ref: 1962, “It's Fashion fair time again”, in Ebony, volume 17, number 11, page 126:
text: One such show was built around the Du Pont spring collection of Paris originals.
ref: 1963, National Retail Merchants Association. Sales Promotion Division, The NRMA Sales Promotion Encyclopedia, Vol. II., page 175:
glosses: A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.
glosses: A ridgeling.
unprecedented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈpɹiːsədɛntəd/
ipa: /-pɹɛs-/
ipa: /ʌnˈpɹesədentəd/
ipa: /-pɹiː-/
ipa: /-pɹɛs-/
ipa: /-tɘd/
Etymology: From un- + precedent + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
glosses: Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
precedent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕsʹĭ-dənt
ipa: /ˈpɹɛs.ɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː.sɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛs-/
ipa: /ˈpɹes.ɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː-/
ipa: /pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/
Forms: form: precedents
form: præcedent
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
Senses: examples: text: Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
topics: law
glosses: A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
glosses: An established habit or custom.
examples: text: A third argument may be derived from the precedent.
ref: , New York 2001, p.74
glosses: The aforementioned (thing).
glosses: The previous version.
examples: text: My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
I did suppose it should be on constraint ;
And keep it safe for our remembrance :
But , heaven be thank'd , it is but voluntary ,
Return the precedent to these lords again
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
Coordinate terms: case law
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: binding precedent
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: condition precedent
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: declaratory precedent
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: original precedent
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: persuasive precedent
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: precedented
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: precedential
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: precedent-setting
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: precedent sub silentio
sense: terms derived from precedent (noun)
word: unprecedented
precedent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕsʹĭ-dənt
ipa: /ˈpɹɛs.ɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː.sɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛs-/
ipa: /ˈpɹes.ɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː-/
ipa: /pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/
Forms: form: præcedent
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
Senses: synonyms: antecedent#Adjective
predecessive
glosses: Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
examples: text: In the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
glosses: Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing.
precedent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prĕsʹĭ-dənt
ipa: /ˈpɹɛs.ɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː.sɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛs-/
ipa: /ˈpɹes.ɪ.dənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː-/
ipa: /pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/
Forms: form: precedents
form: precedenting
form: precedented
form: precedented
form: præcedent
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To provide precedents for.
topics: law
glosses: To be a precedent for.
Related terms: stare decisis
avid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæv.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈæv.əd/
Forms: form: more avid
form: avider
form: most avid
form: avidest
Etymology: From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
Senses: examples: text: an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
text: an avid learner of history
text: I'm an avid reader.
text: A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.
ref: 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World:
text: We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, page 3:
synonyms: word: animated
word: ardent
word: avid
word: big [⇒ thesaurus] [on]
word: bubbly
word: eager
word: earnest
word: ebullient
word: energetic
word: enthusiastic
word: excited
word: exhilarated
word: fanatic
word: fanatical
word: fervent
word: fervid
word: feverish
word: gassed
word: geeked
word: gung ho
word: hearty
word: high-spirited
word: impassioned
word: juiced
word: keen
word: lit up
word: lively
word: mad
word: motivated
word: passionate
word: raring
word: rip-roaring
word: souped-up
word: stimulated
word: thrilled
word: torrid
word: vehement
word: vibrant
word: vivacious
word: wild
word: worked up
word: wrought-up
word: zealous
word: zestful
glosses: Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
Derived terms: avidly
avidity
avidness
obsessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more obsessive
form: most obsessive
Etymology: From obsess + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive.
glosses: Prone to cause obsession.
examples: text: Hardcore fans' obsessive behavior may take over their lives.
glosses: Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
examples: text: A workaholic's obsessive zeal may lead to success or burnout.
text: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
glosses: Excessive, as results from obsession.
Synonyms: sense: having one thought or pursuing one activity
word: unrelenting
sense: having one thought or pursuing one activity
word: unyielding
sense: having one thought or pursuing one activity
word: headstrong
Derived terms: antiobsessive
nonobsessive
obsessive-compulsive
obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsiveness
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
obsessive compulsive spartanism
obsessive-compulsivity
obsessive love disorder
obsessively
obsessiveness
schizo-obsessive disorder
unobsessive
Related terms: obsess
obsession
obsessional
obsessive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: obsessives
Etymology: From obsess + -ive.
Senses: glosses: A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession.
intuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/
ipa: [ɪnˈt͡ʃuːɪtɪv]
ipa: /ɪnˈt(j)uɪtɪv/
ipa: [ɪnˈt(j)uɪɾɪv]
ipa: [ɪnˈt͡ʃuɪɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳˈʈjuʈɪv/
Forms: form: more intuitive
form: most intuitive
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Senses: examples: text: The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
text: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref: 2012 January 23, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012, page 74:
text: These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.
ref: 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, in NYTimes.com:
glosses: Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
examples: text: Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
glosses: Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
examples: text: I'm real intuitive, everyone is, we're just conditioned not to trust it.
ref: 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 21:
glosses: Having a marked degree of intuition.
Derived terms: contraintuitive
intuitive eating
intuitively
intuitiveness
intuitivism
intuitivist
intuitivity
Related terms: intuition
intuit
intuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/
ipa: [ɪnˈt͡ʃuːɪtɪv]
ipa: /ɪnˈt(j)uɪtɪv/
ipa: [ɪnˈt(j)uɪɾɪv]
ipa: [ɪnˈt͡ʃuɪɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳˈʈjuʈɪv/
Forms: form: intuitives
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Senses: glosses: One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
context
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
ipa: /ˈkɔn.tekst/
Forms: form: contexts
Etymology: From Latin context(us).
Senses: examples: text: —In what context did your attack on him happen? —We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
text: The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: frame
framework
background
backdrop
setting
purlieus
milieu
glosses: The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
examples: text: Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: subtext
paratext
peritext
epitext
glosses: The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
Hyponyms: subcontext
Derived terms: context-based learning
context clue
context collapse
context-dependent
context-free
context-free grammar
context-free language
contextful
contextless
context menu
contextomy
context principle
context-sensitive
context-sensitive grammar
high context culture
high-context culture
KWIC
KWOC
licensing context
low context culture
low-context culture
macrocontext
metacontext
microcontext
out of context
out-of-context
put into context
supercontext
take out of context
Related terms: sense: surroundings in situ, in archaeology
word: provenance
sense: surroundings in situ, in archaeology
word: provenience
sense: surroundings in situ, in archaeology
word: unprovenanced
sense: surroundings in situ, in archaeology
word: unprovenienced
context
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
ipa: /ˈkɔn.tekst/
Forms: form: contexts
form: contexting
form: contexted
form: contexted
Etymology: From Latin context(us).
Senses: examples: text: The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts.
ref: 1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him:
text: If the Subiect bee Historie, or contexted Fable, then I hold it better put in Prose, or Blanks: for ordinarie discourse neuer shewes so well in Meeter
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
context
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
ipa: /ˈkɔn.tekst/
Forms: form: more context
form: most context
Etymology: From Latin context(us).
Senses: examples: text: 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers
The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.
text: And though he could describe how such a string may be context, yet our Explication will have this advantage in point of probability above his, ...
ref: 1662, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, page 73:
text: the coats, without, are context and callous, firm and strong.
ref: 1711-12, William Derham, Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation (3rd edition, corrected, 1714, page 110)
glosses: Knit or woven together; close; firm.
kernel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ˈkɝ.nəl/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /ˈkərnəl/
note: without the fern–fir–fur merger
ipa: /ˈkɛrnəl/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈkɜnəl/
homophone: colonel (most accents)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: kernels
form: kerneling
form: kernelling
form: kerneled
form: kerneled
form: kernelled
form: kernelled
Etymology: From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).
Senses: glosses: To enclose within a kernel
glosses: To crenellate
putter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: pŭt'ə
ipa: /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpʌtɚ/
ipa: /-ɾɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: putters
form: puttering
form: puttered
form: puttered
Etymology: Alteration of potter.
Senses: examples: text: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 304–305:
glosses: To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
Derived terms: pony putter
putter about
putter around
putter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: pŭt'ə
ipa: /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpʌtɚ/
ipa: /-ɾɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
note: r
enpr: po͝ot'ə
ipa: /ˈpʊtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpʊtɚ/
rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)
note: r
enpr: pŭt'ə
ipa: /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpʌtɚ/
ipa: /-ɾɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: putters
Etymology: From put + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
ref: 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:
text: […] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).
ref: 2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55:
coordinate_terms: puttee
glosses: One who puts or places.
glosses: A shot-putter.
topics: business
mining
glosses: One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
Derived terms: sense: one who puts or places
word: putter-on
sense: one who puts or places
word: putter up
sense: one who puts or places
word: shot-putter
Related terms: carter