cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
covering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: coverings
Etymology: From Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Face covering is also mentioned: "There are some circumstances when wearing a face covering may be marginally beneficial as a precautionary measure. The evidence suggests that wearing a face covering does not protect you, but it may protect others if you are infected but have not yet developed symptoms. [...] If you can, wear a face covering if you need to use public transport."
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, page 6:
glosses: That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
glosses: Action of the verb to cover.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is contained in U.
raw_tags: of a given open set U
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space D_x and an open neighborhood U of x such that π⁻¹(U)= displaystyle ⨆_(d∈D_x)V_d and π|_(V_d):V_d→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈D_x. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived terms: bedcovering
covering horse
covering index
face covering
floorcovering
head covering
precovering
semicovering
subcovering
undercovering
wall covering
wallcovering
window covering
arachnid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹæknɪd/
Forms: form: arachnids
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) with the suffix -id. By surface analysis, arachn- + -id.
Senses: glosses: Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.
wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: word: arachnid
word: arachno-
Hypernyms: word: arthropod
Hyponyms: word: mite
word: spider
word: scorpion
word: for others
word: tarantula
word: tick
word: harvestman
word: pseudoscorpion
word: camel spider
word: sun spider
word: vinegaroon
word: whip scorpion
Derived terms: arachnerd
arachnidial
arachnidism
arachnidity
Related terms: word: arachnicide
word: arachnophobia
word: :Category:Arachnids
differential medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differential media
Etymology: differential + medium
Senses: glosses: growth medium that allows two or more organisms to be distinguished from one another by some parameter, such as growth vs. no-growth, distinguishing colors, distinguishing morphologies, etc.
Kevin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kĕ'vĭn
ipa: /ˈkɛvɪn/
enpr: kĕ'vən
ipa: /ˈkɛvən/
rhymes: -ɛvɪn
rhymes: -ɛvən
Forms: form: Kevins
Etymology: Name of a seventh-century Irish saint, from Irish Caoimhghin or Caoimhín, from Old Irish Cóemgen (literally “dear birth/person”). It first became popular outside Ireland in the mid-twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: “My message to Kevin McCarthy is, take all of her committee assignments away … also, don’t support her when she runs for re-election again and try to get her primaried. If you say this is not your party, actually call it out and hold her accountable,” Hogg told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.”
ref: 2021 January 28, Chandelis Duster, quoting David Hogg, “Parkland shooting survivor calls for House GOP leader to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
synonyms: Kev
glosses: A working-class male.
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Kev
word: Kevo
word: Kevinito
word: Kevvy
word: Kevy
word: Sharon
televize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: televizes
form: televizing
form: televized
form: televized
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of televise.
personally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/
ipa: /ˈpɜːs.nə.li/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/
ipa: /ˈpɝs.nə.li/
Forms: form: more personally
form: most personally
form: personly
Etymology: From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a personal manner.
examples: text: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: 'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:
glosses: In person.
examples: text: I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
text: Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Concerning oneself.
examples: text: I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.
glosses: As a person.
Derived terms: fursonally
nonpersonally
personally attack
take personally
heavily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛvɪli/
Forms: form: more heavily
form: most heavily
form: heauily
Etymology: From Middle English hevely, hevyliche, from Old English hefiġlīċe (“heavily; grievously”), equivalent to heavy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: heavily burdened
text: She fell heavily into bed.
text: He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
text: The great clod trod heavily on my toes!
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets;[…]; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: With a great weight.
examples: text: He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
text: He drank heavily.
text: heavily in debt; heavily tattooed
text: heavily pregnant
text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.
ref: 2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2020:
glosses: To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
examples: text: heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls
text: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: In a manner designed for heavy duty.
examples: text: heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms
glosses: So as to be thick or heavy.
examples: text: he breathed heavily
glosses: In a laboured manner.
Derived terms: time hangs heavily
unheavily
essentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Forms: form: more essentially
form: most essentially
Etymology: From essential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
ref: 2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
glosses: in essence
Synonyms: actually
at bottom
at heart
basically
centrally
characteristically
factually
fundamentally
in essence
in the main
inherently
intrinsically
naturally
substantially
Francisco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹænˈsɪskəʊ/
ipa: /fɹænˈsɪskoʊ/
Forms: form: Franciscos
Etymology: From Latin Franciscus. Doublet of Francis.
* (given name): From Romance Francisco (Portuguese Francisco, Spanish Francisco)
* (moon of Uranus): From the naming pattern established for moons of Uranus, being references to the works of William Shakespeare. From being a character in the play The Tempest
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon in Uranus, Solar System.
examples: text: Julian Zatarian, 21, and Francisco Medina, 29, were appointed to advisory commissions this week even though they are undocumented immigrants, becoming what the sponsoring councilman calls among the first for local governments nationwide.
ref: 2015 August 8, Michael Martinez and Jaqueline Hurtado, “Undocumented immigrants picked for city posts say U.S. ‘progressing’”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Francis.
glosses: A surname from Spanish or from Portuguese [in turn transferred from the given name].
Related terms: Bay of San Francisco
Frisco
San Francisco
San Francisco Chinameca
San Francisco Gotera
San Francisco Javier
San Francisco Lempa
San Francisco Morazán
San Francisco Peaks
São Francisco
captured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˈkæp.t͡ʃɚd/
Forms: form: more captured
form: most captured
Senses: glosses: That has been captured.
Derived terms: immunocaptured
uncaptured
captured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæp.ʃɚd/
ipa: /ˈkæp.t͡ʃɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capture
capturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of capture
honkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒŋki
Forms: form: honkeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of honky.
VIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VINs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Acronym of vehicle identification number.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia.
Related terms: vin
SAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.
ref: 2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant):
text: He was the last original member of the SAS, whose exploits were dramatised in the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ben Macintyre.
ref: 2024 January 14, Michael Smith, “Mike Sadler obituary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Special Air Service.
glosses: Initialism of Scandinavian Airlines System; a joint Swedish, Norwegian and Danish airline company.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus standard for mainly connecting hard drives, but also used for other devices, derived from the SCSI and SATA standards.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of San Antonio Spurs, American basketball club.
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: SBS
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: SCSI
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: iSCSI
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: SATA
SAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of stability augmentation system.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of special assistance school.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of secure attention sequence.
glosses: Initialism of space adaptation syndrome.
SBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sick building syndrome, health effects experienced by building occupants that appear to be linked to time spent in a building.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of shaken baby syndrome.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of short bowel syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of styrene-butadiene-styrene.
glosses: Initialism of Sack-Barabas syndrome.
SBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Singapore Bus Service.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Special Broadcasting Service.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Seoul Broadcasting System.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Special Boat Service, an elite unit of the British Royal Marines, similar to the SAS but operating in a naval environment.
cockatiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒk.əˈtil/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: cockatiels
Etymology: From Dutch kaketielje, possibly a diminutive of kaketoe (“cockatoo”) or derived in Dutch from a diminutive of Portuguese cacatua (“cockatoo”) such as cacatilho or cacatelho. Attested in English since the mid nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.
ref: 1871, Norfolk (pseudonym), “Cockatiels”, in The Exchange and Mart, volume 4, number 139, page 481:
glosses: Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest, native to Australia. Avicultural forms come in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied.
Synonyms: quarrion
weero
Related terms: Cacatuidae
Nymphicanae
parrot
aviculture
cabaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæbəˈɹeɪ/
Forms: form: cabarets
Etymology: Borrowed from French cabaret.
Senses: glosses: Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.
glosses: The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held.
glosses: A strip club.
Derived terms: cabaretist
cabaretistic
dark cabaret
cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæktəs/
ipa: /ˈkæktʌs/
ipa: /ˈkæktəs/
Etymology: From taxonomic name Cactus, a name given in 1752 by Linnaeus for a genus of cacti (now superseded by the genus name Mammillaria), from Latin cactus, from Ancient Greek κάκτος (káktos, “cardoon”), possibly of Pre-Greek origin.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't mind throwing it away if it's cactus except for the VCR part which works fine, so then I'd be up for a new VCR as well.
ref: 2001 July 8, Dave, “TV Problems”, in aus.electronics (Usenet):
text: I would say it's cactus. Water conducts & destroys components & PCBs very easily. Hence the water-resistant phones.
ref: 2004 August 25, AC, “water damage ???”, in alt.cellular.nokia (Usenet):
text: ‘It′s cactus,’ Rod, the helicopter pilot, said at the sound of the piston ring shattering.
ref: 2009, Will Chaffey, Swimming with Crocodiles: An Australian Adventure, page 108:
text: Michael Armstrong: "Michael Armstrong, I represent Sonia Stevens."
Sue "Boomer" Jenkins: "Oh, haven't you heard? She cactus."
Armstrong "Yes, I realize that, and that's a terrible business.
ref: 2018, “Fractured”, in Wentworth:
synonyms: kaput
glosses: Non-functional, broken, exhausted, dead.
Related terms: cactused
in the cactus
succulent
cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæktaɪ/
Senses: synonyms: cactuses
cactusses
glosses: plural of cactus
oware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈwɑːri/
Forms: form: awari
form: owari
form: wari
form: warri
Etymology: Borrowed from Akan ɔware.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.
shredder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɛdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shredders
Etymology: From shred + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who shreds or tears something.
glosses: A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
glosses: Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.
Derived terms: file shredder
nerve-shredder
off the hook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An allusion to a fish caught on the hook of a fishing line.
Senses: examples: text: When the boss assigned the project to Tom, the rest of us were relieved to be off the hook.
text: Without any evidence, the police had to let the suspect off the hook.
text: Dom (David Jonsson): Tempting, but I think it's actually something I need to do. Like, I get what they did was peak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know?
Yas (Vivian Oparah): Like, not at all. You're gonna let them off the hook after how they treated you?
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:
antonyms: on the hook
glosses: Relieved of a duty, burden, responsibility, or pressure.
Derived terms: off the heezy
off the hook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Referring to the candlestick phone, which in order to hang up, the receiver must be hung on a hook. Leaving the receiver off the hook would prevent it from being able to receive calls.
Senses: examples: text: I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him.
glosses: Of a telephone, having an open connection; not hung up.
examples: text: The phone was ringing off the hook all night.
glosses: Of a telephone, ringing frequently.
off the hook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: That's five three-pointers in a row! Smith is off the hook!
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Performing extraordinarily well.
examples: text: That party was off the hook!
glosses: Fresh, cool, trendy, excellent, incredible.
Derived terms: off the hizzle
Related terms: off the chain
off the hooks
ring off the hook
spoiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɪ.lə/
ipa: /ˈspɔɪ.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spoilers
Etymology: From spoil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
glosses: One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
examples: text: Good netiquette dictates that one warn of spoilers before discussing them, so that readers who wish to do so may experience the surprises for themselves.
text: Devotees of ‘expanded universe’ books say they will publish spoilers of latest film online unless Disney studio agrees to film their favourite stories
ref: 2015 December 16, Ben Child, “Rogue Star Wars fans threaten to ruin The Force Awakens via 'spoiler jihad'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2021:
text: TV shows and movies are a rare form of atemporality, and in an ever-changing, always-on world, spoilers feel irrefutable — sheer access to them gives the illusion of control.
ref: 2018 February 14, Jenna Wortham, “Letter of Recommendation: Spoilers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2020:
glosses: A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device to reduce lift and increase drag.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A device to reduce lift and increase downforce.
examples: text: The optimism at the opening of the talks could not be dampened even by a few spoilers.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 713:
text: Several experts do not believe Jorgensen was a Trump “spoiler” in 2020.
ref: 2020 November 8, Victoria Bekiempis, “Was Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen a 'spoiler' for Trump?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2021:
text: Shortly thereafter, came a torrent of nearly identical political fliers seemingly intended to siphon away support from Democratic candidates by tricking voters into casting their ballots for purported spoiler candidates who demonstrated no real interest in getting elected. […] Candidates for a state senate seat race in South Florida in which a spoiler appeared to help Republican challenger Ileana Garcia unseat incumbent Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez.
ref: 2020 November 23, Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein, “A dark money mystery in Florida centers on the campaign of a spoiler candidate who appeared to help a Republican win by 32 votes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
sports
glosses: A competitor, unable to win themselves, who spoils the chances of another’s victory.
Derived terms: Q spoiler
spoiler ahead
spoiler alert
spoiler effect
spoilerific
spoileron
spoiler space
spoilery
spoiler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɪ.lə/
ipa: /ˈspɔɪ.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spoilers
form: spoilering
form: spoilered
form: spoilered
Etymology: From spoil + -er.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To mark (a document or message) with a spoiler warning, to prevent readers from accidentally learning details they would prefer not to know.
examples: text: I've been spoilered, so I doubt I'll be able to enjoy the final episode.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To tell (a person) details of how a story ends etc.
reverse domestic violence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Violence committed by one member of a family or household against another where the abuser is considered weaker than the victim.
domestic violence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Violence between members of a household, such as spouses.
Synonyms: DV
family violence
intimate partner violence
Derived terms: reverse domestic violence
dum dum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dum dums
form: dum-dum
form: dumdum
Etymology: Named after the Dum Dum arsenal in Calcutta, India.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: dum dum bullet
glosses: A soft point or hollow point bullet, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more serious damage.
dum dum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dum dums
form: dum-dum
form: dumdum
Etymology: A reduplication of dumb, spelled dumbly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumdum.
inductee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inductees
Etymology: From induct + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations.
ref: 1956, Charles Odier, Anxiety and Magic Thinking, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 281:
text: The vertices of the induced graph (called inductees) are a subset of the vertices of the original graph. The induction can be limited to common neighbors in a certain subset of vertices of the original graph, called the subset of inductors. Each inductor induces edges between the inductees.
ref: 1977, Frans N. Stokman, Roll Calls and Sponsorship, Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, →ISBN, pages 141–142:
text: Amrolia had inducted his son Jamshed together with that person’s wife and two children to stay with him in the flat afore-mentioned. Later on, relations between the inductor and inductees deteriorated.
ref: 1986, The Bombay Law Reporter, volume 88, page 628:
antonyms: inductor
glosses: One who, or that which, is inducted.
antonyms: inductor
glosses: One who, or that which, is inducted.
A person who is inducted into an organization.
antonyms: inductor
glosses: One who, or that which, is inducted.
A person who is drafted or a volunteer that is activated into military service.
soft point
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: soft-point
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: softnose
glosses: Of a bullet: having an exposed lead point, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.
soft point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft points
form: soft-point
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: softnose
SP
coordinate_terms: hollow point
glosses: A bullet with such a tip.
Coordinate terms: dum-dum
full metal jacket
hollow point
jacketed hollow point
jacketed soft point
hollow point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollow points
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
coordinate_terms: softnose
soft point
glosses: A bullet with a small hole drilled or molded in the tip (nose), designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.
superphylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superphyla
Etymology: From super- + phylum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category above phylum and below subkingdom
subkingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subkingdoms
Etymology: From sub- + kingdom.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category below kingdom and above superphylum.
glosses: A kingdom that is part of another kingdom, ruled by a subking.
Synonyms: topics: taxonomy
biology
natural-sciences
word: subregnum
suborder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suborders
Etymology: From sub- + order.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: subordo
glosses: A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
topics: business
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary order (purchase request).
glosses: Synonym of subordering.
synonyms: word: subordering
suborder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suborders
form: subordering
form: subordered
form: subordered
Etymology: From sub- + order.
Senses: examples: text: The customers were sorted by name and then subordered by number of purchases.
glosses: To arrange in a secondary order.
infra-order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infra-orders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of infraorder.
beadle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbiːdəɫ]
rhymes: -iːdəl
Forms: form: beadles
form: bedel
form: bedell
form: bedral
form: bethral
form: betherel
Etymology: From Middle English bedel, bidel, from Old English bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-West Germanic *budil, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid + -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.
Senses: examples: text: Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
ref: 1789, William Blake, “Holy Thursday”, in Songs of Innocence:
text: The beadle […] generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution […] The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 101:
text: Yes, yes, begad—of course you go out with him—it’s like the country, you know; everybody goes out with everybody in the Gardens, and there are beadles, you know, and that sort of thing—everybody walks in the Temple Gardens.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 142:
text: His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.
ref: 1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An attendant to the minister.
glosses: A warrant officer.
Derived terms: word: beadledom
word: beadlehood
word: beadleism
word: beadlery
word: beadleship
word: beagle
word: subbeadle
word: underbeadle
Mbabaram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mbara
form: Barbaram
form: Barbarem
form: Bar-barum
form: Balbarum
form: Boobu-ram
form: Mogmbabarum
form: Umbarbarem
form: Oombarbarum
form: Wumbabaram
form: Woombarbarram
form: Woombarrmbarra
Senses: examples: text: Four years later, when I was spending a year at Harvard and first met Ken Hale, he pointed out that the e and o had developed in Mbabaram in the same sort of way as in some languages he had worked on from further up the Cape York Peninsula.
ref: 2006 January 12, “DIXON: THE WORD FOR DOG.”, in Languagehat:
glosses: An extinct ergative Australian aboriginal language of the Southern Pama branch of the large Pama-Nyungan family of languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mbabaram terms
taboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈbuː/
ipa: /tæˈbuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: taboos
form: tabu
form: tapu
Etymology: Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.
The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.
Senses: examples: text: It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 194:
text: So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.
ref: 1922, James Frazer, The Golden Bough:
text: The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 213:
text: For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
text: American society has a double standard when it comes to sexuality. We have a puritanical taboo against talking about sexuality directly, yet we are fine with the sexual images that pervade television and glossy magazines.
ref: 2014 May 21, Rey Junco, “What’s the big deal about sexting?”, in CNN:
text: Now, we assume that people who check their watches at dinner are probably trying to avoid pulling out their phones, which would be ruder and more disruptive. In other words, mass adoption killed the taboo.
ref: 2023 June 6, Kevin Roose, “Why I Can’t Bet Against Apple’s Mixed-Reality Prowess”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023:
glosses: An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
glosses: Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
raw_tags: in Polynesia
Derived terms: taboo avoidance
taboo deformation
tabooer
tabooness
taboo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈbuː/
ipa: /tæˈbuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more taboo
form: most taboo
form: tabu
form: tapu
Etymology: Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.
The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.
Senses: examples: text: Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
text: Sweets and fats are strictly taboo in my home.
glosses: Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
glosses: Culturally forbidden.
Derived terms: tabooification
tabooize
taboo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈbuː/
ipa: /tæˈbuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: taboos
form: tabooing
form: tabooed
form: tabooed
form: tabu
form: tapu
Etymology: Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.
The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.
Senses: synonyms: tabooize
glosses: To mark as taboo.
glosses: To ban.
glosses: To avoid.
tabu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of taboo.
Derived terms: tabu search
tabu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tabus
form: tabuing
form: tabued
form: tabued
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of taboo.
Tatar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtætɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ætɑː(ɹ)
Etymology: From a Turkic language. More at Tatars.
Senses: glosses: An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
examples: text: Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
glosses: Tartary.
Derived terms: Crimean Tatar
Dobrujan Tatar
Kazanian Tatar
Kazan Tatar
Siberian Tatar
Tatarophone
Tatar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtætɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ætɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: Tatars
Etymology: From a Turkic language. More at Tatars.
Senses: synonyms: Tartar
glosses: A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
synonyms: Tartar
glosses: A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
The Volga Tatars of Tatarstan, usually referred to as simply Tatar in modern usage.
Derived terms: Tatarstan
Tatary
Tatar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtætɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ætɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: more Tatar
form: most Tatar
Etymology: From a Turkic language. More at Tatars.
Senses: examples: text: Tatar customs
glosses: Of or relating to the people or culture of Tatars.
Tatar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtætɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ætɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: Tatars
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech, Slovak, Polish Tatar and Hungarian Tatár, an ethnic surname for a Tatar person.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sheesh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Etymology: A euphemism for Jesus.
Senses: glosses: An expression of disbelief or exasperation.
Derived terms: furrfu
Related terms: word: jeez
word: geez
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: sheesh kebab
copper-bottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more copper-bottomed
form: most copper-bottomed
Etymology: From the copper sheathing applied to the bottom of a wooden ship to prevent damage from marine organisms. In literal sense 18th century, in figurative sense attested since at least 1807. The British idiomatic use comes from the fact that with Britain being a major naval power, there was always a ready market for copper in ship construction, making it a reliable commodity to invest in.
Senses: examples: text: According to Robert Hulse, 'It's half worm, half mollusc, and there are more dead men at the bottom of the sea as a result of those things [shipworms] than all the naval battles put together. They're the reason you had copper-bottomed ships'.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 88:
qualifier: literal
glosses: Having lower parts made of or covered by copper.
raw_tags: of a ship or cookware
examples: text: The copper-bottomed angel at Messrs. Paff’s in Broadway.
ref: 1807, Washington Irving, Salmagundi
glosses: Thoroughly reliable; secure.
Related terms: copperfasten
coppered
gilt-edged
faff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: faffs
Etymology: From a dialect word meaning "blow in gusts".
Senses: examples: text: Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.
text: God it must be a faff having to get nigh-on naked every time your bladder runneth over, and imagine how much worse it must be if you only have a 20-second break to run off stage to the loo.
ref: 2007 November 27, Hadley Freeman, “Miaow!”, in The Guardian:
text: Breakfast in bed at the royal household is a massive faff. A page boy must carry the tray upstairs, but he's banned from actually serving it. So he leaves it on the floor by the bedroom door, whereupon a housemaid picks it up and knocks on said portal.
ref: 2011, Patrick Kingsley, “Life with the Queen Mum revealed”, in The Guardian:
text: The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.
ref: 2017, Andi Watson, Glister, →ISBN:
text: The show is a carefully curated manifesto of “social success without faff”.
ref: 2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
synonyms: word: annoyance
word: bother
word: faff
word: grievance
word: hassle
word: inconvenience
word: irritation
word: nuisance
word: palaver
word: peeve
word: plague
word: trouble
word: vexation
glosses: An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
examples: text: She's in a total faff about tonight's dinner party.
synonyms: flap
qualifier: typically in the phrase 'in a faff'
glosses: A state of confused or frantic activity.
faff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: faffs
form: faffing
form: faffed
form: faffed
Etymology: From a dialect word meaning "blow in gusts".
Senses: examples: text: Stop Faffing And Just Do It
ref: 2009, Steven Aitchison, 100 Ways to Develop Your Mind, page 131:
synonyms: word: arse around
word: dick around
english: American
translation: American
glosses: To waste time on an unproductive activity.
Derived terms: faff about
faffage
faff around
faffer
faffery
faff on
obituary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /əˈbɪt͡ʃɹi/
ipa: /əˈbɪtjʊ(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /əʊ-/
ipa: /əˈbɪt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/
ipa: /əˈbɪt͡ʃuˌɜɹi/
ipa: /əˈbɪt͡ʃəɹi/
ipa: /oʊ-/
Forms: form: more obituary
form: most obituary
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius (“obituary”) + English -ary (suffix denoting something relating to another thing or used in a place). Obituārius is derived from Latin obitus (“act of approaching or going toward, an approach; act of going down, setting; of the sun: sunset; death; destruction, downfall, ruin”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); while obitus is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of obeō (“to go to meet, go towards; (figurative) to die, pass away, perish; (astronomy) to set”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘toward’) + eō (“to go, move”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: He is the paper's obituary editor.
glosses: Relating to obituaries.
Derived terms: postobituary
objectionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectionable
form: most objectionable
Etymology: From objection + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Before removing objectionable material, you'll have to decide what will offend people.
text: The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]
ref: 1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
text: We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.
ref: 2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU:
glosses: Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.
Synonyms: exceptionable
Derived terms: objectionability
objectionableness
objectionably
arousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arouse
arousing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: more arousing
form: most arousing
Senses: examples: text: I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts.
glosses: Causing arousal.
Derived terms: arousingly
arousingness
nonarousing
unarousing
arousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: arousings
Senses: examples: text: There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings, mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy.
ref: 1912, Will Levington Comfort, Fate Knocks at the Door:
text: These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity.
ref: 1913, Anna Bishop Scofield, Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, 2nd edition:
glosses: An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
objectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/
ipa: /ˌɑbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪti/
ipa: [ˌɑbd͡ʒɛkˈtɪvɪɾi]
Forms: form: objectivities
Etymology: From objective + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: maintain objectivity
text: sense of objectivity
text: The scientist’s objectivity was questioned after the funding controversy.
text: Good journalism requires strict objectivity.
glosses: The state of being objective, just, unbiased, and not influenced by irrational emotions or personal prejudices.
glosses: The world as it really is; reality.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: objectiveness
word: objectivity
Derived terms: multiobjectivity
nonobjectivity
Related terms: word: neutrality
word: independence
word: measurement
word: testability
word: reproducibility
word: determinism
word: consistency
word: fairness
word: justice
word: fact
word: truth
word: reality
word: standard
word: rule
word: algorithm
word: criterion
word: evidence
word: proof
word: photograph
word: photography
word: objective
word: impersonal
word: neutral
word: factual
word: independent
word: testable
word: verifiable
word: falsifiable
word: fair
word: just
word: science
word: mathematics
word: journalism
word: scientist
word: mathematician
word: judge
word: journalist
word: impartial
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 6. Extrinsicality
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 467. Evidence
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 316. Materiality
objector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectors
Etymology: Partly from Latin obiector and partly from object + -or.
Senses: examples: text: "It would be amusing, sir, to shut these various objectors up in a room and let them settle it among themselves."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
text: But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 112:
synonyms: objectant
glosses: A person who objects to something.
Derived terms: conscientious objector
objectress
Related terms: objection