cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
as well
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æzwɛl/
ipa: [æˑzˈwɛːɫ]
ipa: /æzˈwɛl/
ipa: /əzˈwɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: aswell
form: aswel
Senses: examples: text: Wearing his hat and coat, he looked outside and decided he should take an umbrella as well.
synonyms: additionally
too
in the bargain
glosses: In addition; also.
examples: text: They might as well walk as drive in this traffic.
text: There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of the female liver.
ref: 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics:
glosses: To the same effect.
glosses: Me too.
examples: text: ―Would you though? ―I would as well.
text: ―She looks so much like her mum, don't you think? ―Oh my god, she does as well!
text: ―Good morning Mr Brown! ―Good morning! I see you've got little Molly [pet dog] out for a stroll as well!
glosses: An intensifier. Actually; really.
Coordinate terms: sense: also or equally
word: no less
Derived terms: as well as
may as well
might as well
assess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛs/
ipa: /əˈses/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: assesses
form: assessing
form: assessed
form: assessed
Etymology: From Middle English assessen, from Old French assesser, from Medieval Latin assessare, originally the frequentative of Latin assessus, past participle of assidēre, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”). Cognate with Spanish asentar (“to settle”).
Senses: examples: text: He assessed the situation.
text: An insurance adjuster will assess the damage.
glosses: To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.
examples: text: The referee assessed a penalty for delaying the game.
text: A $10.00 late fee will be assessed on all overdue accounts.
text: Judge Cohen ruled that Blacklock, McKenzie and Benschop must make restitution for the $50.29 damage and that each must pay a mandatory $40.00 surcharge assessed to anybody who is found guilty of a misdemeanor in New York state.
ref: 1984 February 4, Christine Guilfoy, “Three Seneca Women Get 89 Days in Jail”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 1:
glosses: To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
examples: text: Once you've submitted a tax return, the Tax Department will assess the amount of tax you still owe.
glosses: To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.
Derived terms: assessability
assessable
assessably
assessee
assessible
assessingly
assessment
misassess
nonassessed
overassess
overassessment
preassess
reassess
risk-assess
risk-assessed
unassessability
unassessable
unassessably
unassessed
underassess
underassessment
Related terms: assessor
asseverational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asseverational
form: most asseverational
Etymology: From asseveration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to asseveration.
asseveration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɛv.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /æsˌɛv.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: asseverations
Etymology: From Latin assevērātiō, from assevērō.
Senses: examples: text: […] no man is believ’d a jot the more for all the Aſſeverations, Damnings and Swearings he makes: […]
ref: 1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697, →OCLC, page 240:
text: Custom-houſe oaths and political oaths are but little regarded even by ſome who pretend to principles of honeſty and religion: and a Quaker’s aſſeveration is with us juſtly put upon the ſame footing with the oath of any other perſon.
ref: a. 1777, David Hume, part XII, inDialogues Concerning Natural Religion, [London?], published 1779, page 146:
text: […] on all such occasions Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters with great ardour, doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner; but always maintaining, with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “And Last”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 310:
text: The true oath consists in the simple asseveration, uttered in perfect consciousness and under a sense of the presence of God, before Him, and in Him.
ref: 1861, J[ohann] P[eter] Lange, translated by Alfred Edersheim, Theological and Homiletical Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew. Specially Designed and Adapted for the Use of Ministers and Students., volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson, page 228:
text: After this homily which he delivered with much warmth of asseveration Mr Mulligan in a trice put off from his hat a kerchief with which he had shielded it.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 385:
synonyms: averment
avowal
glosses: An earnest affirmation; a declaration of support.
Derived terms: asseverational
Related terms: assever
asseverate
assignee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assignees
Etymology: From Middle English assigne, from Old French assigné, equivalent to assign + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One to whom a thing is assigned.
topics: law
synonyms: cessionary
glosses: One to whom a right or property is being transferred.
glosses: One who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent.
Derived terms: assigneeship
coassignee
astringent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: astringents
form: adstringent
Etymology: From Latin adstringere (“to bind fast”), from ad (“toward”) + stringere (“bind, pull tight”). Compare stringent.
Senses: glosses: A substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.
Derived terms: astringency
astringently
deastringent
nonastringent
subastringent
astringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more astringent
form: most astringent
form: adstringent
Etymology: From Latin adstringere (“to bind fast”), from ad (“toward”) + stringere (“bind, pull tight”). Compare stringent.
Senses: glosses: Extremely sour, bitter.
examples: text: Philip, who was made Duke of Edinburgh on the couple’s wedding, introduced a new, less stuffy, though as the years went on occasionally astringent, tone to the royal family.
ref: September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Sharp, caustic, severe.
glosses: Causing a dry or puckering mouthfeel; characteristic of foods with high tannin content, such as certain kinds of berries and citrus fruits.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
Synonyms: sense: caustic
word: smectic
extradition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraditions
Etymology: From French extradition, itself from Latin ex- + traditio.
Senses: glosses: A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.
Derived terms: nonextradition
Related terms: deportation
rendition
hand over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands over
form: handing over
form: handed over
form: handed over
Senses: examples: text: I handed over the controls to the copilot.
text: The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."
ref: 1951 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performsnce”, in Railway Magazine, page 554:
text: When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
ref: 2013 July 14, Joyce Lau, Calvin Yang, “University of Macau Moves Over the China Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2013, Asia Pacific:
text: Liverpool still have a game in hand but City have made up most of that lost ground and this was a resounding message that they will not be handing over the title.
ref: 2019 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
glosses: To deliver (someone to an enemy, police, etc.).
Synonyms: beteach
Coordinate terms: drop off
hand off
Arminianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arminianists
Etymology: From Arminian + -ist.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of the Protestant denomination founded by Jacobus Arminius.
topics: Christianity
glosses: One who subscribes to the beliefs of the Arminian Church.
Related terms: Calvinist
unaided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + aided.
Senses: examples: text: Fleas are difficult to see with the unaided eye.
text: So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 25:
text: Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:
glosses: Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.
Derived terms: unaided awareness
unambiguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪɡjuəs
Forms: form: more unambiguous
form: most unambiguous
Etymology: From un- + ambiguous.
Senses: examples: text: An LR(k) grammar is clearly unambiguous, since the definition implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induction there is only one possible tree. It is interesting to point out furthermore that nearly every grammar which is known to be unambiguous is either an LR(k) grammar, or (dually) is a right-to-left translatable grammar, or is some grammar which is translated using "both ends toward the middle." Thus, the LR(k) condition may be regarded as the most powerful general test for nonambiguity that is now available.
ref: 1965 July 24, Donald Knuth, “On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right”, in Information and Control, volume 8, pages 639–707:
text: At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the SAC general adds: "Leningrad." The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.
ref: 1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 575:
text: Other editors opposed to Atsme’s edits were just as unambiguous.
ref: 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
glosses: Clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.
Synonyms: explicit
monosemous
univocal
unequivocal
Related terms: unambiguity
unambitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more unambitious
form: most unambitious
Etymology: From un- + ambitious.
Senses: examples: text: The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
glosses: Having little ambition for success or achievement
at best
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at the best
Senses: examples: text: The signalman, as such, was unknown at first. At junctions, or for shunting, the pointsman was responsible both for setting the points and working the appropriate signals, the two being independent. As a result, accidents were comparatively frequent, and the pointsman's job was, at best, a hazardous one.
ref: 1955 April, R. H. Warring, “Some Early Railway Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 231:
text: Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: The power of federal officials to issue a national vaccine mandate is questionable at best.
ref: 2021 August 6, “Get Vaccinated. Get Masked. It’s the Only Way Out of This.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It recalls the business case for Scotland's reopening of the Borders Railway to Tweedbank, that British Rail closed in 1969. The review says the business case for this was at best borderline, but goes on to say that the case greatly underestimated passenger demand and that the railway Scotland built has capped its capacity.
ref: 2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 25:
glosses: In the most favorable of conditions, especially in a situation that is otherwise negative.
attitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌætɪˈt͡ʃuːdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌætɪˈtudɪnəl/
ipa: [ˌæɾɪˈtudɪnəl]
Etymology: From Italian attitudine + -al. By surface analysis, attitude + -in- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: While Noice is generally positive about the police department he thinks that there are attitudinal problems among some of the rank and file.
ref: 1984 February 11, Christine Guilfoy, “200 Meet With Providence Police”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 6:
glosses: Expressive of or pertaining to attitude.
attitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌætɪˈt͡ʃuːdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌætɪˈtudɪnəl/
ipa: [ˌæɾɪˈtudɪnəl]
Forms: form: attitudinals
Etymology: From Italian attitudine + -al. By surface analysis, attitude + -in- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The simplest way to use attitudinals is to place them at the beginning of a text. In that case, they express the speaker's prevailing attitude.
ref: 1997, John Woldemar Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language, →ISBN, page 285:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: specifically conlanging
glosses: A particle that conveys the emotion, tone, mood, or feeling of the speaker.
Derived terms: attitudinalism
attitudinally
counterattitudinal
nonattitudinal
unanimous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈnanɪməs/
ipa: /juˈnænəməs/
ipa: /juˈnænɪməs/
ipa: /əˈnænɪməs/
rhymes: -ænɪməs
Etymology: From Latin ūnanimus (“of one mind”), from ūnus (“one”) + animus (“mind”). Displaced native Old English ānmōd (literally “one-minded”).
Senses: examples: text: The debate went on for hours, but in the end the decision was unanimous.
text: That of their small force, some of the soldiers were superannuated, others invalid; therefore, since the course to be pursued was left discretional, their unanimous advice was, to remain where they were, and fortify themselves as strongly as possible.
ref: 1873, Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, Wau-bun:
text: Under court tradition, a new justice is usually assigned a relatively uncontroversial opinion that is often, although not always, unanimous.
ref: 2021 March 8, Ariane de Vogue, “Stephen Breyer adds ‘respect’ to his dissent of Amy Coney Barrett’s first opinion”, in CNN:
text: That was followed by a Florida Supreme Court ruling that found the jury must be unanimous to impose the death penalty, and Florida lawmakers adopted the unanimity requirement soon after.
ref: 2023 April 20, Sydney Kashiwagi, “DeSantis signs bill eliminating unanimous jury decisions for death sentences”, in CNN:
glosses: Based on unanimity, assent or agreement.
examples: text: We were unanimous: the President had to go.
glosses: Sharing the same views or opinions, and being in harmony or accord.
Derived terms: unanimously
Related terms: unanimity
animus
autochthonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɒkθənəs/
ipa: /ɔˈtɑkθənəs/
ipa: /ɑˈtɑkθənəs/
Etymology: Literally, “native to the soil”; from autochthon + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Two of the most celebrated of the evolutionists reject the autochthonous view, for Darwin's Descent of Man and Haeckel's Hist. of Creation consider the American man an emigrant from the old world, whatever way the race may have developed
ref: 1889, Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, volume I, page 375:
text: "Forms or images of a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time as autochthonous, individual products of unconscious origin" (C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion [Collected Works, vol. 11; New York and London, 1958], par. 88.)
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 16:
text: Only human beings could live on this world and know that they were not autochthonous but had stemmed from Earthmen—and yet did the Spacers really know it or did they simply put it out of their mind?
ref: 1983, Isaac Asimov, chapter 22, in The Robots of Dawn, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 116:
text: It analyzes exceptionalism in terms of institutional authority, adjudicative method, and substantive doctrine, and it shows how exceptionalism derives from the idea of autochthonous Native sovereignty.
ref: 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School, volume 20, number 2, page 270:
glosses: Native to the place where found; indigenous.
examples: text: When, in 1858, Joseph Lister amputated the right leg of a six-year-old girl suffering from gangrene, he noted that the autochthonous blood clot extended down the anterior tibial artery as far as the commencement of the gangrene.
ref: 1983, Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, volume 80, page 538:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Originating where found; found where it originates.
examples: text: Death and burial may be simultaneous, resulting in a preserved snapshot of an autochthonous assemblage that may be compared directly with present day ecosystems.
ref: 1992, Anna K. Behrensmeyer et al., Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time, page 83:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation.
Synonyms: sense: native to the place where found
word: aboriginal
sense: native to the place where found
word: autochthonic
sense: native to the place where found
word: indigenous
sense: native to the place where found
word: native
Derived terms: autochthonist
autochthonously
autochthonous micrite
autochthonousness
parautochthonous
semiautochthonous
Related terms: autochthon
autochthonal
autochthonic
autochthonism
autochthony
Avestan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛst(ə)n/
Forms: form: Av.
form: Avest.
Etymology: From Avesta + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Avestic
Zend
glosses: An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
synonyms: Avestic
glosses: An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
Derived terms: Gathic Avestan
Old Avestan
Young Avestan
Younger Avestan
Avestan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛst(ə)n/
Forms: form: Av.
form: Avest.
Etymology: From Avesta + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Avestan geography
text: We find, fortunately preserved in the extant Avestan texts, some material that gives us a vivid idea of the importance which the ancient Iranians attached to the fulfilment of contracts.
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 113:
synonyms: Avestic
glosses: Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan.
avowal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: avowals
Etymology: From avow + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent. This he considered sufficient encouragement, and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her, immediately followed.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: It was only that afternoon that May Welland had let him guess that she “cared” (New York’s consecrated phrase of maiden avowal), and already his imagination, leaping ahead of the engagement ring, the betrothal kiss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old European witchery.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter I, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: “That's because I love you,” said Nick, singsong with the truth. Leo took in this chance for an echoing avowal; it was a brief deep silence, as tactical as it was undiscussable.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.
Synonyms: averral
acknowledgement
testimony
Derived terms: reavowal
Related terms: avow
avowed
avowable
avowry
vow
choosy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: choosier
form: choosiest
form: choosey
Etymology: From choose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Since sexual relationships are more costly for female primates – they bear the kids – females are the choosier sex.
ref: 2012 March 2, Elizabeth Landau, “Beholding beauty: How it’s been studied”, in CNN:
text: Weiss told CNNMoney that Glossier is choosy when it launches a new product.
ref: 2017 November 27, Ahiza Garcia, “How these Millennials are fighting for your holiday dollars”, in CNN:
text: With more than 800 choices on the wine list, there’s guaranteed to be a bottle for even the choosiest of palates.
ref: 2020 February 3, Chris Dwyer, “20 of the world’s best new restaurants for 2020”, in CNN:
glosses: Taking care when choosing that what is chosen best suits one's tastes, desires or requirements.
Synonyms: discriminating
fussy
particular
picky
selective
Derived terms: choosily
choosiness
corporal punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔː.pəɹ.əl ˈpʌn.ɪʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: corporal punishments
Senses: glosses: A form of punishment achieved by inflicting physical pain on the offender's body.
Derived terms: corporally punish
Related terms: capital punishment
CP
spank
capital punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital punishments
Etymology: From the original meaning of capital (“relating to the head”); originally referring to executions by beheading or decapitating.
Senses: synonyms: death penalty
glosses: The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
Related terms: execute
execution
decapitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkap.ɪt.eɪt/
ipa: /diˈkæp.ə.teɪt/
ipa: /diˈkæp.ɪ.teɪt/
ipa: /dɪ-/
ipa: /də-/
Forms: form: decapitates
form: decapitating
form: decapitated
form: decapitated
Etymology: From French décapiter, from Late Latin decapitare, from de- + caput.
Senses: examples: text: One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […]
ref: 1937, Technology Review, volume 40, page 100:
text: The hippie wasn't wearing any shoes. January in Boston and he's in sandals, standing there screaming, “Look what she did! Look what the crazy fucking bitch did!” --like it was my pleasure to risk decapitating myself by slamming through the hippiemobile.
ref: 1993, William S. Burroughs, Esquire, volume 120, page 78:
text: Employee #1 was in the center of the runway, working alone approximately 300 feet from the end that led to the plane loading area and hangars. A pilot flying an airplane, Schweizer Aircraft Corporation Model G-164 B, approached the airstrip from the opposite end and landed. As the pilot taxied the plane toward the hangar, the plane's propeller struck Employee #1 in the head and decapitated him.
ref: 2013, “Accident: 202674701 - Worker Paving Airstrip Is Struck By Airplane And Decapitated”, in Occupational Safety and Health Administration, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2022:
qualifier: literal
glosses: To remove the head of.
examples: text: The Russian goal at the start of the invasion had been to kill or capture Zelensky and decapitate his government.
ref: December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time:
glosses: To oust or destroy the leadership or ruling body of (a government etc.).
Synonyms: behead
decollate
Hyponyms: guillotine
Derived terms: decapicone
decapitable
decapitatee
decapitation
decapitator
mañana
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnjɑːnə/
ipa: /mɑːˈnjɑːnə/
ipa: /məˈnjænə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: manana
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mañana.
Senses: glosses: Tomorrow.
raw_tags: in Spanish-speaking contexts
examples: text: The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana.
text: The answer was always a harassed smile and a promise that there should be machine-gun instruction mañana. Needless to say mañana never came.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: He swore he was coming to New York to join me. I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till manana.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
text: Oh, my sweet Diana, I can't wait for the manana / There's a hotel down in Mexico just made for two
ref: 1978, “Dirty Weekend”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:
text: When doing business, they [linear-actives] are keen on punctual performance, quality, and reliable delivery dates. Mañana behavior and overloquacity are frowned upon.
ref: 2003, Richard D[onald] Lewis, “The Categorization of Cultures”, in The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21ˢᵗ Century, Yarmouth, Me.: Intercultural Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Cross-Century Worldviews), page 71:
text: “[With]^([sic]) the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics. “It can always be ‘mañana’ every day.”
ref: 2015 July 7, Ian Traynor, Larry Elliott, quoting Dalia Grybauskaitė, “Greece given days to agree bailout deal or face banking collapse and euro exit”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Some unspecified time in the future.
Derived terms: mañana habit
finned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Etymology: From fin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having fins, or a particular type of fins.
Derived terms: finned fish
green-finned
high-finned dragonet
nonfinned
ray-finned
red-finned shark
shark-finned
short-finned eel
unfinned
finned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Etymology: From fin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fin
curva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian curva (“curve”).
Senses: examples: text: The mutual influences (or 'interference') between fans in the curva and political extremism has several dimensions.
ref: 1996, Vic Duke, Liz Crolley, Football, Nationality and the State, Taylor & Francis:
text: Legacies of political commitment have influenced the ultras associations in the curvas.
ref: 1997, Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Entering the field: new perspectives on world football, Berg Publishers:
text: Even arriving two hours before the game was not enough to guarantee a seat in the curva.
ref: 2006, Peter Bourne, Passion in the Piazza, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: The bank of seats behind the goal, especially in continental European stadia, where the most dedicated fans sit.
shemale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃi.meɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: shemales
form: she-male
Etymology: From she + male.
Senses: glosses: A male-to-female transsexual or transgender person; a trans woman.
raw_tags: in pornography
examples: text: She-male garter snakes exploit the amorous attentions of other males to warm up.
ref: 2001, R. Shine, B. Phillips, H. Waye, M. LeMaster, R. T. Mason, Benefits of female mimicry in snakes, in Nature (414, 267)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A male animal which displays female traits or behaviors; for example, a male reptile which gives off female pheromones.
Related terms: chick with a dick
ladyboy
newhalf
male-to-female
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Transitioning or having transitioned (in gender identity or presentation, physically, etc) from being male to being female.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That changes a male end (with pins, usually a plug) of a connection into a female one (usually a socket).
raw_tags: of an adapter
examples: text: The male-to-female ratio is 5-to-3.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see male, to, female.
Synonyms: MtF
M2F
MTF
plug
male-to-female
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: male-to-females
Senses: glosses: A male-to-female transsexual or transgender person; a trans woman.
female-to-male
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Transitioning or having transitioned (in gender identity or presentation, physically, etc) from being female to being male.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That changes a female end (usually a socket) of a connection into a male one (with pins, usually a plug).
raw_tags: of an adapter
examples: text: the female-to-male ratio is 3-to-5
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female, to, male.
Synonyms: FtM
FTM
F2M
female-to-male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: female-to-males
Senses: examples: text: The lack of a crossgender peer group is a gaping reality for most female-to-males. While all transvestites/transsexuals are a hidden minority, the female-to-males are an even more hidden minority within that minority.
ref: 1980, Louis Sullivan, Information for the Female-to-male:
glosses: A female-to-male transsexual or transgender person; a trans man.
animatronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænɪməˈtɹɒnɪks/
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: Blend of animation + electronics, from the Disney trademark "Audio-Animatronics".
Senses: examples: text: Claim that Armitage was not a real rat but an animatronics one that she had made in Science class.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A form of robotics used to create robots that produce preset moves and prerecorded sounds.
wikipedia: ShowBiz Pizza Place
the Rock-afire Explosion
Related terms: animatronic
animatronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of animate + electronic
Senses: glosses: Of a robot, etc, that works by animatronics.
Derived terms: animatronically
animatronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animatronics
Etymology: Blend of animate + electronic
Senses: glosses: A robot that works by animatronics.
provision
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/
Forms: form: provisions
form: provisioning
form: provisioned
form: provisioned
Etymology: From Middle English provisioun, from Old French provisïon, from Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).
Senses: examples: text: to provision an army
text: We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: An emancipated slave must be provisioned by the master.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 85:
glosses: To supply with provisions.
examples: text: A solution is to provision new systems on a private network where they can receive updates, patches, and secure configurations from an internal repository before being placed into a production network.
ref: 2023, Kenneth Hess, Practical Linux System Administration, O'Reilly, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: deprovision
glosses: To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system so it can be used for a specific purpose.
Synonyms: supply
victual
Related terms: deprovision
direct provision
ground provisions
provide
provisional
provisionings
gaydar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪdɑː/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪˌdɑɹ/
Forms: form: gaydars
form: gay-dar
Etymology: Blend of gay + radar, equivalent to gay + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: This is not your Hallmark in Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there … no radar like gaydar, I always say.
ref: 1982 July 15, Gloria Goodqueen, “What’s in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume XII, number 28, San Francisco, Calif.: Benro Enterprises, →OCLC, page 7, column 1:
text: When you first come out, you might have an overactive gaydar. When I realized I was gay, I wanted everyone to be gay too, which led to a lot of wishful thinking. "Helen Hunt is gay!" Dream on, girl!
ref: 1996, Judy Carter, “Step 3: Find Another Homo”, in The Homo Handbook: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homo, New York, N.Y.: Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 51:
text: "I dunno. He's carried this one on since Halloween. I'm starting to think the lie was actually the 'straight guy role'. I may have a crappy gaydar, but having faked heterosexuality before, I feel like I should be able to recognize it."
ref: 2013 May 12, Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick, “Comic 368 – January Girls”, in Rain (webcomic), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
text: The research, which went viral this week, used a sample of online dating photos, limited only to white users, to demonstrate that an algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time and 74% for women, suggesting machines can potentially have much better "gaydar" than humans.
ref: 2017 September 9, Sam Levin, “LGBT groups denounce ‘dangerous’ AI that uses your face to guess sexuality”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2023:
text: Dr. Lillihammer started to walk past her, but stopped directly in front of her. Inches apart, they stared at each other. Sizing the other woman up, doing a little consulting of their gaydars. Heather felt Lillian's breath on her cheek and tried not to visibly let the shiver go down her spine.
ref: 2024 February 25, Queerious, “The Deadname Meme”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person's appearance, mannerisms, etc.
Hypernyms: queerdar
Hyponyms: bidar
BiFi
dykedar
lesdar
transdar
Coordinate terms: straightdar
Derived terms: -dar
goodness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʊdnəs/
ipa: /ˈɡʊ(d)nɪs/
Forms: form: goodnesses
Etymology: From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English gōdnes (“goodness; virtue; kindness”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdnassī (“goodness”), equivalent to good + -ness. Cognate with Scots guidness (“goodness”), West Frisian goedens (“goodness”), Old High German guotnessī (“goodness”), Middle High German guotnisse (“goodness”), Russian годность (godnostʹ, “suitability, fitness”).
Senses: examples: text: There is ſome ſoule of goodneſſe in things euill, / VVould men obſeruingly 'diſtill it out.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 83, column 2:
text: Rich, raisiny, smoky, coffee goodness: that is the flavor of urfa biber.
ref: 2014 October 7, Amanda Bevill, Julie Kramis Hearne, World Spice at Home: New Flavors for 75 Favorite Dishes, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being good.
glosses: The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
examples: text: Thank goodness that the war is over!
glosses: God.
examples: text: But the fruit of the ſpirit is loue, ioy, peace, long ſuffering, gentleneſſe, goodneſſe, faith, / Meekeneſſe, temperance: againſt ſuch there is no law.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 5:22–23, column 2:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.
Synonyms: word: beneficence
word: dogoodery
word: good
word: heroism
word: virtue
word: virtuousness
Derived terms: goodness gracious
goodness gracious me
goodness knows
goodness me
honest to goodness
honest-to-goodness
my goodness
nongoodness
oh my goodness
oh my goodness gracious
out of the goodness of one's heart
thank goodness
goodness
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʊdnəs/
ipa: /ˈɡʊ(d)nɪs/
Etymology: From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English gōdnes (“goodness; virtue; kindness”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdnassī (“goodness”), equivalent to good + -ness. Cognate with Scots guidness (“goodness”), West Frisian goedens (“goodness”), Old High German guotnessī (“goodness”), Middle High German guotnisse (“goodness”), Russian годность (godnostʹ, “suitability, fitness”).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of goodness me or various similar exclamations such as goodness gracious.
vomitorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɒmɪˈtɔːɹɪəm/
Forms: form: vomitoria
form: vomitoriums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vomitōrium (“entrance to an amphitheatre”), substantive of vomitōrius (“emetic, provoking vomiting”), from vomō (“vomit”).
Senses: examples: text: 1822, John Taaffe, A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, John Murray, page 161,
[…] the way that the greatest width of the interior of the Flavian amphitheatre would be ascertained, if a line were drawn from one of the vomitoria of the west side, in the uppermost story, to the eastern vomitorium, precisely facing it.
text: 1844, F. Buxton Whalley, "Excursions from Rome in June 1843", in Leonhard Schmitz (Ed.), The Classical Museum, page 330,
In the tunnel to the right and left as one enters there is a passage which contains a flight of steps conducting to a "vomitorium," situated in the second "præcinctio;" […]
text: 1906, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Carthage and Tunis: The Old and New Gates of the Orient, Hutchinson, page 52,
At each of the extremities under the grand vomitorium was a gate, one called Sanivivaria and the other Mortualis.
text: Miles turned to him beaming, his nostrils taking in the ambiguous smell of molten glass rising from the vomitoria beneath them, which only he among the crew found at all pleasant.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 174:
glosses: A passage located behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre used as an exit for the crowds
examples: 1944, Lewis Mumford, The Condition of Man, Harcourt, Brace & World (1944), p. 467,
In the rich man's house the vomitorium became an essential chamber: the place where the guzzler of rich food emptied his stomach, so that he might come back to the feast for more.
1994, LeeAnn Alexander-Mott and D. Barry Lumsden, Understanding Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Obesity, Taylor & Francis (1994), →ISBN, p. 23,
The Romans frowned on obesity, and they were accredited for inventing the vomitorium, which allowed them to binge and relieve themselves of the feeling of fullness.
1997, Mervat Nasser, Culture and Weight Consciousness, Routledge (1997), →ISBN, p. 17,
As for the Romans, they are famously known for their invention of the vomitorium which allowed them to indulge in excessive eating and relieve themselves by vomiting.
2004, Dean R. Koontz, The Face, Bantam Books (2004), →ISBN, p. 326,
The slight tremor in his voice dismayed him, but he persevered: "Vinnie's Soda Parlor and Vomitorium, home of the nine-pound ice-cream sundae, where you splurge and then purge."
qualifier: see Usage notes
glosses: An area in which vomiting takes place, in particular a chamber supposedly used by ancient Romans to vomit during a feast so they could continue eating.
Synonyms: sense: passage
word: vomitory
Related terms: vomit
vomitorial
vom
day before yesterday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
day before yesterday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Synonyms: word: ereyesterday
word: yesterday but one
Related terms: word: day before the day before yesterday
word: nudiustertian
day after tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Synonyms: word: next tomorrow
word: overmorrow
day after tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Synonyms: word: overmorrow
Related terms: word: day after day after tomorrow
word: in two days
word: nudiustertian
word: perendinate
business intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of techniques and tools for the acquisition and transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes.
glosses: Information derived from such techniques and tools.
blemish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛmɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɛmɪʃ
Forms: form: blemishes
Etymology: From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmijan, *blasmijan (“to make pale”), from Old Frankish *blasmī (“pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“white, pale”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bles (“white spot”), German blass (“pale”), Old English āblered (“bare, uncovered, bald, shaven”).
Senses: examples: text: Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
ref: 1769, Oxford Standard Text, “King James Bible”, in Leviticus, 22, xix:
text: Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.
ref: 1997, Jean Soler, “5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible”, in Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, editors, Food and Culture: A Reader, page 61:
text: There are a very large number of types of blemish and the smallest blemish visible to a human can be surprisingly small, for example less than 10μm deep, which may be on the surface of a heavily embossed tile.
ref: 2003, A. K. Forrest, “Chapter 6: Surface Defect Detection on Ceramics”, in Mark Graves, Bruce Batchelor, editors, Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products, page 193:
text: It comes as a surprise to some people, but blemishes can strike at any age. To minimize the appearance of facial blemishes or pimples, use a concealer with a dry texture; it will cling to the blemish better, last throughout the day, and not irritate the skin or initiate more breakouts.
ref: 2011, Robert Jones, Makeup Makeovers Beauty Bible: Expert Secrets for Stunning Transformations, page 119:
glosses: A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
examples: text: As piety is the peculiar ornament of old people, so the want of it is a peculiar blemish in their character.
ref: 1825, A Sermon, The Christian Magazine, volume 2, page 298:
text: The processes of categorization, stereotyping, discrimination, and self-fulfilling prophecy can also apply to stigmas based on blemishes of individual character.
ref: 2003, Todd F. Heatherton, The Social Psychology of Stigma, page 103:
text: There is no reason to think that the enlivening possible blemish was his hypocritical show of repentance, since there are so many other candidate blemishes to choose among.
ref: 2008, Annette Baier, Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume, page 46:
glosses: A moral defect; a character flaw.
Related terms: word: blemished
word: blemishless
word: blemishment
word: emblemishment
blemish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛmɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɛmɪʃ
Forms: form: blemishes
form: blemishing
form: blemished
form: blemished
Etymology: From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmijan, *blasmijan (“to make pale”), from Old Frankish *blasmī (“pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“white, pale”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bles (“white spot”), German blass (“pale”), Old English āblered (“bare, uncovered, bald, shaven”).
Senses: examples: text: we see ordinarie examples by this licence which wonderfully blemisheth the authoritie and lustre of our law, never to stay upon one sentence, but to run from one to another judge, to decide one same case.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Generally, varieties in current use for processing are resilient, if not wholly resistant to blemishing diseases and disorders.
ref: 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, “Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products”, in Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur, editors, Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40:
text: I mean it reaches a point of ridiculousness in some regards, and one′s seen actually many good schemes here in San Francisco, for example, that have been blemished by an overly strict adherence to codes.
ref: 2011, Rob Imrie, Emma Street, Architectural Design and Regulation, unnumbered page:
glosses: To spoil the appearance of.
examples: text: There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.
ref: 1600, Francis Vere, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service:
glosses: To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
Derived terms: blemishable
blemisher
unblemishing
clon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clons
Senses: examples: text: The entire development of a clon is dependent on runners which develop from the buds in leaf axils.
ref: 1930, Technical Bulletin:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Dated form of clone.
meconophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meconophagists
Etymology: From mecon + -o- + -phagist.
Senses: glosses: One who uses or consumes opiates including heroin.
beanpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbinˌpoʊl/
Forms: form: beanpoles
Etymology: From bean + pole.
Senses: glosses: A thin pole for supporting bean vines.
glosses: A tall, thin person.
Derived terms: beanpole family