cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gunfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnfʌɪə/
Forms: form: gunfires
Etymology: From gun + fire.
Senses: examples: text: Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
text: Sergeant, direct your gunfire toward that copse of trees.
text: When sensors record a gunlike noise in, say, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen to those audio files and look at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.
ref: 2019 June 8, Malia Wollan, “How to Tell Gunfire From Fireworks”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
examples: text: Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.
examples: text: Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim and a padlock, the key of which is to be kept by the Porter on duty or by the Police Guard who is to release them at gunfire in the morning.
ref: 1851, W. Draper Bolton, Bolton's Mauritius almanac, and official directory:
text: The grand event on the 14th was the shooting for the second stage for the Queen's prize. This commenced punctually at gunfire in the morning : the men being divided into four squads at the long ranges on the north side of the common.
ref: 1864, Edmund Burke, editor, The Annual Register; A review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1863:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.
examples: text: They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.
ref: 1937, David Jones, In Parenthesis, I
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
Related terms: gunnery
gunpowder
gunshot
gunshy
Antonov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antonovs
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian Антонов (Antonov).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Антонов (Antonov).
Antonov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antonovs
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Анто́нов (Antónov).
Senses: glosses: Any of the Russian or Ukrainian aircraft designed by the Antonov bureau, typically large cargo planes.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Анто́нов (Antónov).
glosses: A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Antonova.
fagot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɡ.ət/
rhymes: -æɡət
homophone: faggot
Forms: form: fagots
form: faggot
Etymology: Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
Senses: examples: text: What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: "Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."
ref: 1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”).
glosses: Alternative form of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fagotto, or bassoon.
glosses: A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
Derived terms: fagoter
fagot iron
fagot vote
fagot voter
sap fagot
fagot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɡ.ət/
rhymes: -æɡət
homophone: faggot
Forms: form: fagots
form: fagoting
form: fagoted
form: fagoted
form: faggot
Etymology: Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
Senses: examples: text: He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell
ref: 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
Foxbat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-25 aircraft.
foxhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxhounds
Etymology: From fox + hound.
Senses: glosses: Any of several medium-sized breeds of dog developed for hunting.
Hyponyms: American Foxhound
American foxhound
Dumfriesshire Black and Tan Foxhound
English Foxhound
Welsh Foxhound
grá
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish grá.
Senses: examples: text: He admits that, as a project, “it's a bit niche, but I think anybody who's been here develops a massive grá for Achill. […]”
ref: 2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Graham Sweeney, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11:
glosses: Love, affection.
ideomotor effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideomotor effects
Senses: glosses: The influence of suggestion on unconscious or subconscious behavior, frequently used to explain dowsing and other seemingly supernatural claims.
Related terms: Ouija
balla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballas
Senses: examples: text: "Holla, balla," she calls when she sees me approaching. "What's crappenin'?" "You old polecat sonuvabitch,” I crow, tackling her. "You planned a 4H meeting without me."
ref: 2011 July 12, Laura Goode, Sister Mischief, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: Alternative form of baller (all senses except "person who divides molten metal")
pillar box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillar boxes
Senses: examples: text: We were over the border here, into Northern Ireland, and the post office had a very English atmosphere. It was pleasant, too, much as we enjoyed the hospitality of the Republic, to be buying stamps with the Queen's head on them, and to be posting our cards in a red pillar-box, instead of a green one.
ref: 1955 June, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 393:
glosses: A free-standing item of street furniture in the form of a short, red pillar (green in the Irish Republic) with a slot for posting letters.
Synonyms: word: letter box
word: letterbox
word: letter-box
word: mailbox
word: mail box
word: mail-box
word: post box
word: postbox
word: post-box
periodical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩/
ipa: /ˌpɪəɹiˈɒdɪkl̩/
Forms: form: periodicals
Etymology: From period + -ical.
Senses: glosses: A publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily.
glosses: A regularly issued thematic publication that contains the most current information in its field, often the primary means for communication of original scholarship or creative work at the cutting edge of research in its field.
Synonyms: sense: a publication that appears at fixed intervals
word: serial
Derived terms: e-periodical
periodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪkl̩/
ipa: /ˌpɪəɹiˈɒdɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more periodical
form: most periodical
Etymology: From period + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The periodical times of all the satellites.
ref: 1838, Thomas Dick, Celestial Scenery:
text: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref: 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 172:
synonyms: word: cyclic
word: cyclic
word: cyclical
word: periodic
word: periodical
word: regular
glosses: Periodic.
examples: text: influence opinion through the periodical press.
ref: 1882, William John Courthope, “Addison”, in Men of Letters:
glosses: Published at regular intervals of more than one day, especially weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
glosses: Of, or relating to such a publication.
Derived terms: nanoperiodical
nonperiodical
periodical cicada
periodical comet
periodicalist
periodicalize
periodicalness
photoperiodical
unperiodical
shrewd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shro͞od
ipa: /ʃɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: shrewder
form: shrewdest
form: shrewde
Etymology: From Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English sċrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew + -ed. More at shrew.
The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16ᵗʰ c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17ᵗʰ c.
Senses: glosses: Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
glosses: Artful, tricky or cunning.
examples: text: Willie is very aware of this fact and lets Johnny Attell know that there is a fly in the ointment, and Johnny, who is a very shrewd article, has his chauffeur drive him to Bradford Street so he can change the kid's mind.
ref: 2003, Ron Ross, Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc, page 287:
glosses: streetwise, street-smart.
examples: text: The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
glosses: Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
examples: text: a shrewd guess
glosses: Nigh accurate.
examples: text: a shrewd blow, or assault
glosses: Severe, intense, hard.
examples: text: a shrewd wind
glosses: Sharp, snithy, piercing.
examples: text: Portia:
There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,
That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek:
Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Bad, evil, threatening.
glosses: Portending, boding.
examples: text: They were wont to please the Fairies, that they might doe them no shrewd turnes, by sweeping clean the Hearth and setting by it […]
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 29:
glosses: Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
glosses: Abusive, shrewish.
examples: text: Leonato: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: Scolding, satirical, sharp.
Derived terms: shrewdie
shrewdly
shrewdness
brewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞od
ipa: /bɹuːd/
ipa: /bɹʉːd/
ipa: /bɹɪʊ̯d/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: brood (except Scotland, Wales)
Etymology: From brew + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brew
flying gurnard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying gurnards
Senses: glosses: Any tropical marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, having immense wing-like pectoral fins used to glide through the water.
crewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kro͞od
ipa: /kɹuːd/
ipa: /kɹʉːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: crude (except Scotland)
Senses: glosses: Having a crew; manned; piloted.
Derived terms: overcrewed
uncrewed
undercrewed
crewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kro͞od
ipa: /kɹuːd/
ipa: /kɹʉːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: crude (except Scotland)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crew
GFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GFEs
Etymology: (Google): Introduced by sex columnist Dan Savage.
Senses: examples: text: She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek.
ref: 2001, (unknown), “ASP: "Julie" of Oral-Land-Oh”, in alt.sex.prostitution (Usenet):
text: For many johns, the most popular feature of being with a prostitute is the so-called Girlfriend Experience, or GFE, where a client pays a prostitute to pretend to be his girlfriend during the session, making it seem more real than simply a business arrangement.
ref: 2011, R. Barri Flowers, Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Thus, while these sex tourists are looking for the GFE, they are crucially not looking for a girlfriend.
ref: 2016, Megan Rivers-Moore, Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 58:
coordinate_terms: BFE
PSE
glosses: Initialism of girlfriend experience.
examples: text: As usual, that broker's GFE was off by more than 30% from the final cost.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: Initialism of good-faith estimate.
topics: government
military
politics
war
hyponyms: GFP
glosses: Initialism of government-furnished equipment: equipment in the possession of or acquired directly by the government, and subsequently delivered to or otherwise made available to the contractor.
glosses: Initialism of global financial elite.
GFE
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: (Google): Introduced by sex columnist Dan Savage.
Senses: examples: text: GFE, idiot: look it up yourself and stop bothering me.
glosses: Initialism of Google fucking exists.
pistoleer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pistoleers
form: pistolier
Etymology: From Middle French pistolier.
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a soldier, armed with a pistol
piscine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪskaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpaɪsaɪn/
enpr: pīʹsēn
ipa: /ˈpaɪsin/
ipa: /ˈpɪsin/
ipa: /ˈpɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪsɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: In the ancient Middle East certain cults had piscine deities, or deities with fish attributes of various kinds.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 96:
text: 2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 40,
At age four he caught his first fish and was evermore fascinated by things piscine; […]
synonyms: fishlike
fishly
fishy
ichthyic
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
Derived terms: intrapiscine
semipiscine
piscine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪskaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpaɪsaɪn/
enpr: pīʹsēn
ipa: /ˈpaɪsin/
ipa: /ˈpɪsin/
ipa: /ˈpɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪsɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
ipa: /piːˈsiːn/
ipa: /pɪˈsiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪskaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpaɪsaɪn/
enpr: pīʹsēn
ipa: /ˈpaɪsin/
ipa: /ˈpɪsin/
ipa: /ˈpɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪsɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: piscines
Etymology: From French piscine.
Senses: glosses: A public bath or swimming pool in France.
piping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pipe
piping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: pipings
Senses: glosses: The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
examples: text: The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
ref: a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:
glosses: The sound of musical pipes.
glosses: An act of making music or noise with pipes.
examples: the piping of a house
glosses: A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Icing extruded from a piping bag.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: propagation by cuttings
Derived terms: pied-piping
piping bellbird
piping plover
piping shrike
piping times
piping times of peace
Related terms: pipelaying
pipetting
piping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.
text: The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, but it was at the time of her 21st birthday in 1947 that she made perhaps the most significant radio address of her career, at the end of a royal tour of South Africa, laying out the guidelines that would govern her throughout her reign:
ref: September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: High-pitched.
Derived terms: hot piping
piping hot
pipingly
cisco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪskəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
Forms: form: ciscos
form: ciscoes
Etymology: From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).
Senses: glosses: Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Coregonus autumnalis
word: Arctic cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus laurettae
word: Bering cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus nigripinnis
word: blackfin cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus johannae
word: deepwater cisco
english: Coregonus vandesius
translation: Coregonus vandesius
taxonomic: Coregonus lucinensis
word: European cisco
word: lake cisco
word: northern cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus artedi
word: lake herring
taxonomic: Coregonus sardinella
word: least cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus alpenae
word: longjaw cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus sardinella
word: sardine cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus zenithicus
word: shortjaw cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus reighardi
word: shortnose cisco
taxonomic: Coregonus fontanae
word: Stechlin cisco
severe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈvɪə/
ipa: /sɪˈvɪɹ/
ipa: /sɪˈviːɹ/
ipa: /-vɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: severer
form: more severe
form: severest
form: most severe
Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).
Senses: examples: text: In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
ref: 1934, Your Germs and Mine, page 295:
text: Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
ref: 2012 January 24, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70:
synonyms: extreme
intense
antonyms: mild
minor
glosses: Very bad or intense.
examples: text: a severe taskmaster
synonyms: word: brutal
word: hard
word: heartless
word: heavy
word: rigorous
word: serious
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
antonyms: lenient
glosses: Strict or harsh.
examples: text: a severe old maiden aunt
text: severe clothing
synonyms: word: modest
word: simple
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
glosses: Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
Derived terms: word: severe acute respiratory syndrome
word: severe clear
word: severe combined immunodeficiency
word: severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
word: severe gale
word: severely
word: severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
word: severeness
word: severe tea
word: severity
brutal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuː.təl/
ipa: /ˈbɹu.təl/
ipa: [ˈbɹu.ɾəl]
ipa: /ˈbɹʉː.təl/
ipa: [ˈbɹʉː.ɾəl]
rhymes: -uːtəl
Forms: form: more brutal
form: most brutal
Etymology: From Medieval Latin brutalis (“savage, stupid”), from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid”).
Senses: examples: text: The game was brutal, but after a bloodbath he finally won.
text: What began as a zeitgeisty outlaw romp in the Uncool Britannia of the 1990s is now reborn as a scabrous and brutal black comedy about middle-aged male disappointment and fear of death.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
glosses: Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
glosses: Harsh; unrelenting.
glosses: Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
examples: text: brutal honesty
glosses: Direct and without attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
Synonyms: barbaric
cold-blooded
savage
vicious
Derived terms: brutalisation
brutalise
brutalism
Brutalism
Brutalist
brutalist
brutalitarian
brutalize
brutalness
nonbrutal
overbrutal
Related terms: brutality
brutally
brute
brutish
carried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.id/
Forms: form: carryed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry
Derived terms: carried interest
uncarried
carries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry
carries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carry
slightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: more slightly
form: most slightly
Etymology: From slight + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was slightly built, but tall.
glosses: Slenderly; delicately.
examples: text: He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.
text: And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.
ref: 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:
synonyms: a little
marginally
somewhat
not much
antonyms: quite
very
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a small extent or degree.
Synonyms: word: a bit
word: a little
word: barely
word: closely
word: faintly
word: hardly
word: imperceptibly
word: just
word: marginally
word: nearly
word: only just
word: scarcely
word: slightly
word: somewhat
Hypernyms: word: partially
word: successfully
Hyponyms: word: only
Derived terms: slightly-enriched uranium
Related terms: word: miserably
word: wretchedly
word: degree
word: extent
word: modicum
trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of train
trains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of train
mordent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/
ipa: /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/
homophone: mordant
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dənt
Forms: form: mordents
Etymology: From Italian mordente. Doublet of mordant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.
Derived terms: inverted mordent
lower mordent
upper mordent
Related terms: mordant
pralltriller
protegee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protegees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of protégée.
oriel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɹiəl/
Forms: form: oriels
Etymology: From Middle English oriel, from Old French oriol (“gallery, corridor”), Late Latin oriolum (“portico, hall”), probably from Latin aureolus (“gilded”), applied to an apartment decorated with gilding. See oriole. Or a diminutive of Latin os (“mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: The middle window of the oriel before her, just caught and reflected back the crimson light and colour. The ground below looked bright and warm compared with the shade around.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 202:
text: The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151:
topics: architecture
glosses: A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.
glosses: A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining.
Derived terms: orielled
lactate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæk.teɪt/
ipa: /lækˈteɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈlæk.teɪt/
Forms: form: lactates
form: lactating
form: lactated
form: lactated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lactātus, perfect passive participle of lactō (“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lac (“milk”), cognate to Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Senses: glosses: To secrete or produce milk.
Derived terms: lactator
nonlactating
postlactating
relactate
lactate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæk.teɪt/
ipa: /lækˈteɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈlæk.teɪt/
Forms: form: lactates
Etymology: From lactic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of lactic acid.
glosses: Ellipsis of lactate ion.
Derived terms: calcium lactate
dilactate
ethacridine lactate
homolactate
lactate dehydrogenase
lactatemia
magnesium lactate
phospholactate
potassium lactate
Ringer's lactate
Ringer's lactate solution
sodium lactate
Related terms: lactation
lactic
lactose
lactic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæktɪk ˈæsɪd/
Forms: form: lactic acids
Senses: examples: text: It was [Roger] Federer's ability to pull him around the court that put the lactic acid and debilitating weight in those legs and he should not have been allowed the luxury of his trainer's help.
ref: 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-Hydroxypropanoic acid (CH₃CHOHCO₂H), a syrupy liquid, soluble in water; found in milk, wine and many fruits; used as a food additive and in many industrial applications.
Synonyms: E270 when used as a preservative
lactonic acid
milk acid
2-hydroxypropanoic acid
Derived terms: acetolactic acid
polylactic acid
Related terms: lactate
lactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæktɪk/
rhymes: -æktɪk
Etymology: From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from milk.
examples: text: lactic fermentation
text: In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.
Derived terms: acetolactic
alactic
heterolactic
homolactic
lactic acid
lactic acidosis
lacticaemia
lactimide
lactyl
lactylate
lactylic
paralactic acid
polylactic
sarcolactic acid
Related terms: lactate
lactation
soluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒljʊbəl/
ipa: /ˈsɑljəbəl/
Forms: form: more soluble
form: most soluble
Etymology: From Middle English soluble, from Old French soluble, from Late Latin solūbilis, from Latin solvere (“to loosen”) + -bilis. Piecewise doublet of solvable.
Senses: examples: text: Sugar is soluble in water.
text: The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
ref: 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: dissolvable
dissoluble
antonyms: insoluble
glosses: Able to be dissolved.
examples: text: That mystery should be easily soluble.
synonyms: solvable
antonyms: insoluble
glosses: Able to be solved or explained.
Derived terms: acetosoluble
fat-soluble
gastrosoluble
hydrosoluble
intersoluble
liposoluble
nonsoluble
solubility
solubilize
soluble glass
soluble insulin
solubleness
solubles
solubly
water-soluble
Related terms: insoluble
solute
syrupy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪr.ə.pi/
enpr: sĭrʹə-pē
rhymes: -ɪrəpi
Forms: form: syrupier
form: syrupiest
form: sirupy
Etymology: From syrup + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having the taste or consistency of syrup.
examples: text: Who doesn’t like crisp, hot, buttery-and-syrupy waffles?
ref: 1919 December, The Griswold Mfg. Co., “Winter days arouse the waffle appetite!”, in Edward W[illiam] Bok, editor, The Ladies’ Home Journal, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 174:
text: Cherry dropped into a chair and stared with lip-curling distate at the platter of sausages and their syrupy pancakes on the plates about her.
ref: 1926 December 21, Anne Austin, “Saint and Sinner”, in Appleton Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis., page eight, column 4:
text: Beth stabs her fork into a mound of syrupy waffles.
ref: 2008, Siobhan Vivian, A Little Friendly Advice, New York, N.Y.: PUSH/Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 209:
synonyms: syruped
glosses: With syrup.
glosses: Overly sweet.
glosses: Overly sentimental.
Related terms: cough-syrupy
maple-syrupy
overly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overly
form: most overly
Etymology: From over + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The curteous Citizen bad me to his feast,
With hollow words, and ouerly request:
Come, will ye dine with me this Holy day?
I yeelded, tho he hop’d I would say Nay:
ref: 1602, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarium Sixe Bookes, London: Robert Dexter, Satire 3, page 52:
text: Hee prayeth but with an ouerly desire, and not from the deepe of his heart, that will not bend his endeauours withall to obtaine what he desireth:
ref: 1627, Robert Sanderson, Ten Sermons, London: R. Dawlman, Sermon 3, p. 120:
text: Concerning the passions in particular, however irregular, headstrong, and perverse, in an overly view, they may appear, I propose to show, that they are by nature adjusted and tempered with admirable wisdom, for the good of society as well as for private good.
ref: 1762, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Elements of Criticism, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Volume 1, Chapter 2, Part 7, p. 222:
glosses: Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive.
examples: text: Those that know no better, may rejoyce and exult in these worldly contentments; but those, who have had but a blink of the beauty of heaven, can look upon them no otherwise, than with an overly contemptuousnesse.
ref: 1637, Joseph Hall, The Remedy of Prophanenesse, London: Nathanael Butter, Book 1, Section 8, p. 66:
glosses: Having a sense of superiority, haughty.
examples: text: […] there appears a very chilling want of open-heartedness on the part of Owen, produced perhaps by the somewhat overly and certainly most ungracious resentments of Baxter.
ref: 1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on Baxter’s Life of Himself”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 4, London: W. Pickering, page 140:
glosses: Excessive; too great.
Derived terms: overliness
naturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/
Forms: form: more naturally
form: most naturally
Etymology: From Middle English naturally, naturaly, naturely, naturaliche, natureliche, equivalent to natural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although he was unused to the situation, he tried to act naturally.
text: Ying Ying, a panda at a Hong Kong theme park, has given birth to twins that were conceived naturally, a cause for celebration for conservationists rooting for the survival of this vulnerable and low-libido species.
ref: 2024 August 16, Tiffany May, “At 19, a Hong Kong Panda Is Finally a Mother”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a natural manner.
examples: text: Boys are naturally aggressive.
glosses: Inherently or by nature.
examples: text: I shall naturally protest at that decision.
text: Would you like a glass of champagne, sir? - Naturally!
glosses: Surely or without any doubt.
Synonyms: sense: in a natural manner
word: genuinely
sense: in a natural manner
word: normally
sense: in a natural manner
word: unaffectedly
sense: inherently or by nature
word: essentially
word: innately
word: intrinsically
sense: surely
word: absolutely
sense: surely
word: certainly
sense: surely
word: undoubtedly
sense: surely
word: wis
sense: surely
word: without a doubt
Derived terms: natch
nonnaturally
unnaturally
Related terms: of course
oxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒksɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /ˌɑksɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /ɔksɪˈdæɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: oxidations
Etymology: From French oxydation, equivalent to oxide + -ation. See oxidate.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
ref: 2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..
ref: 2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv:
glosses: The combination of a substance with oxygen.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the oxidation state of the element increases.
Synonyms: oxidisation
oxidization
Derived terms: ammoxidation
antioxidation
autooxidation
autoxidation
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
beta-oxidation
bio-oxidation
biooxidation
cooxidation
disoxidation
electrooxidation
glycoxidation
hyperoxidation
Lindgren oxidation
Moffatt oxidation
Oppenauer oxidation
overoxidation
oxidational
oxidation number
oxidation-reduction
Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
photooxidation
Pinnick oxidation
preoxidation
pre-oxidation
reoxidation
sesquioxidation
superoxidation
Swern oxidation
Related terms: oxidate
oxidative
oxide
oxidise
crackpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæk.pɒt/
rhymes: -ækpɒt
Forms: form: crackpots
Etymology: Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate.
Senses: examples: text: Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
text: The Police Commissioner sat studying Frank the Flower for several minutes. Then he called the policeman who had arrested Frank. “You will have to lock this man up,” he said. “But treat him gently. He is a harmless crackpot.”
ref: 1964, Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War:
text: No one plots like Gaston / Takes cheap shots like Gaston / Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston
ref: 1991, “Gaston (Reprise)”, in Howard Ashman (lyrics), Beauty and the Beast:
text: In the early 1990s, Ms. Feilding realized that the only way to overcome the taboo of these drugs — and her reputation as a crackpot — was to start a scientific foundation to fund research projects that governments and universities would never consider.
ref: 2025 June 12, Michael S. Rosenwald, “Amanda Feilding, Eccentric Countess Who Backed Psychedelic Meds, Dies at 82”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025:
synonyms: word: crank
word: crazy
word: kook
word: live one
word: nut ball
word: nutbag
word: nutbar
word: nutcase
word: nutter
word: bizarro
word: coot
word: crackpot
word: crank
raw_tags: in US
word: eccentric
word: freak
word: glaik
word: hard case
word: kook
word: live one
word: nutbag
word: nutbar
word: nutcase
word: nutter
word: oddball
word: oddity
word: odd bod
word: odd duck
word: odd fish
word: queerdo
word: queer fish
word: rum
word: strange bird
word: strange fish
word: strangeling
word: wack
word: wacko
word: weirdie
word: weirdling
word: weirdo
word: wild man
word: wingnut
word: basket case
word: basket weaver
word: crack
word: crackpot
word: crazy
word: crazyhead
word: dingbat
word: eccentric
word: fruit and nut case
word: fruit cake
word: fruit loop
word: fruitloop
word: head case
word: kook
word: loony
word: loony tune
word: lunatic
word: madcap
word: madhead
word: mental case
word: nut
word: nut ball
word: nutbar
word: nutburger
word: nutcase
word: nutjob
word: nutter
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: schizo
word: screwball
word: space cadet
word: space pilot
word: unconventional
word: wackadoo
word: wackadoodle
word: wacko
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: weirdo
word: wingnut
word: space case
glosses: An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
synonyms: word: crackhead
word: crack whore
word: addict
word: abuser
word: fiend
word: slave
word: wastoid
glosses: Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
Derived terms: crackpot index
crackpotitude
crackpotology
crackpottery
crackpotty
crackpot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæk.pɒt/
rhymes: -ækpɒt
Forms: form: more crackpot
form: most crackpot
Etymology: Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate.
Senses: examples: text: a crackpot idea
text: While all this was happening Mr. Dies on February 1, 1943, in a long speech on the floor of the House attacked thirty-nine named Government employees as 'irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats' and affiliates of 'communist front organizations.'
ref: 1946, Hugo Black, United States v. Lovett/Opinion of the Court:
synonyms: eccentric
impractical
glosses: Eccentric or impractical.
baluba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəluːbə/
Forms: form: balubas
Etymology: Named after a tribe in Katanga, involved in a fatal attack on Irish United Nations peacekeepers in 1961.
Senses: glosses: A wild or unruly person.
Black and Tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black and Tans
Senses: glosses: A member of the RIC British paramilitary force, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.
ingratiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪ.ʃi.eɪt/
rhymes: -eɪʃieɪt
Forms: form: ingratiates
form: ingratiating
form: ingratiated
form: ingratiated
Etymology: First attested in 1622. From Italian ingraziare or Medieval Latin *ingratiatus, from Latin in grātiam (“for the favor of”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Donne’s Exodus”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 108:
text: [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 58, in The Way of All Flesh:
text: Her name was Michaela, but the men called her filthy things in dulcet, ingratiating voices, and she giggled with childish joy because she understood no English and thought they were flattering her and making harmless jokes.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433:
text: And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is trying to crawl out from under its rock and ingratiate itself as an "equal opportunity employer" and a friend of progressive movements.
ref: 1991 August 17, Roanne Hindin, “FBI: Not A Fashion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 5, page 4:
text: He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
ref: 2007 July 9, Brian T. Bennett, “Why Maliki Is Still Around”, in Time, retrieved 26 May 2014:
text: Like many other executives in Silicon Valley, [Meta CEO Mark] Zuckerberg has recently been ingratiating himself with the Trump administration.
ref: 2025 April 13, Bobby Allyn, “The biggest trial in Meta's history starts today. Here's what to know”, in NPR:
glosses: To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them; to insinuate oneself; to worm one's way in.
examples: text: What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?
ref: c. 1650, Henry Hammond, "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition), p. 283 (Google preview)
text: the Sense of this will mightily indear and ingratiate them to us
ref: 1686, John Scott, The Christian Life […] :
glosses: To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
Derived terms: ingratiator
ingratiatory
reingratiate
Related terms: word: ingratiating
word: ingratiation
flying column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying columns
Senses: glosses: A small, independent, military land unit capable of rapid mobility, often using guerrilla tactics against a larger force.
chuck wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuck wagons
form: chuckwagon
form: chuckwaggon
Etymology: From chuck + wagon; chuck was cowboy slang for food.
Senses: glosses: A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, and used to prepare meals, as on a ranch, in a lumber camp, or during a cattle drive in the latter part of the 19th century.
glosses: A sandwich composed of a piece of chicken-fried steak or a breaded beef patty, with typical toppings being lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
robotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈbɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ɹəˈbɒt.ɪk/
enpr: rō-bŏ′tik
ipa: /ɹoʊˈbɑtɪk/
ipa: [ɹoʊˈbɑ.ɾɪk]
ipa: /ɹəʉˈbɔt.ɪk/
ipa: [ɹəʉˈbɔɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: more robotic
form: most robotic
Etymology: From robot + -ic. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 in his short story Liar!.
Senses: examples: text: You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.
ref: 1941 May, Isaac Asimov, “Liar!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 3, page 50:
text: In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch.
ref: 2000 August 20, Caryn James, “The Nation; When a Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2014:
text: President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.
ref: 2025 June 7, Paul Rosenzweig, “The Biden Investigation Is a Path to Even Greater Lawlessness”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.
wikipedia: en:Liar! (short story)
Related terms: antirobotic
biorobotic
chemorobotic
microrobotic
nanorobotic
neurorobotic
nonrobotic
robopsychologist
robot
robotically
roboticisation
roboticise
roboticism
roboticist
roboticization
roboticize
robotic lawn mower
roboticness
robotics
sociorobotic
telerobotic
unrobotic
robotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rō-bŏt′iks
ipa: /ɹəʊˈbɒt.ɪks/
enpr: rō-bŏ′tiks
ipa: /ɹoʊˈbɑ.tɪks/
ipa: [ɹoʊˈbɑ.ɾɪks]
enpr: rō-bŏt′iks
ipa: /ɹəʉˈbɔt.ɪks/
ipa: [ɹəʉˈbɔɾ.ɪks]
Etymology: Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 from robot + -ics by comparison to "physics ... hydraulics, celestial mechanics, and so on" in his short story Liar!.
Senses: examples: text: There's irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn't there?
ref: 1941 May, Isaac Asimov, “Liar!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 3, page 53:
text: While it may take another five to 10 years for humanoid robots to make a real societal impact, they could eventually become the next widely adopted consumer electronics, according to Xi Ning, chair professor of robotics and automation at the University of Hong Kong.
ref: 2025 March 25, John Liu, “Elon Musk thinks robots are a $10 trillion business. He’s got some competition from China”, in CNN:
glosses: The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application
wikipedia: en:Liar! (short story)
Hypernyms: mechatronics
Coordinate terms: artificial intelligence
Derived terms: First Law of Robotics
Second Law of Robotics
soft robotics
Third Law of Robotics
Three Laws of Robotics
Related terms: robopsychologist
robot
robotic
roboticist