cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
piles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Senses: examples: text: He must earn piles of money.
qualifier: piles of
glosses: A large amount of.
Synonyms: sense: informal: a large amount of
word: heaps of
word: load of
word: mountain of
word: shedload of
word: ton of
piles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pile
piles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Etymology: From Latin pila (“ball”).
Senses: examples: text: Many women get piles when pregnant.
text: Who with thy leaves shall wipe (at need)
The place where swelling Piles do breed ...
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Another”, in Hesperides:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Haemorrhoids.
Derived terms: blind piles
pilewort
haemorrhoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛməɹɔɪdz/
ipa: /ˈhɛmɹɔɪdz/
Forms: form: hæmorrhoids
form: hemorrhoids
Senses: examples: "I hope the worst is behind me". - France's midfielder Florent Malouds reveals he had an operation for haemorrhoids shortly after arriving in Germany for the World Cup" Argus 17 June 2006 p.14
glosses: A pathological condition caused by painful masses of dilated veins in swollen anal tissue.
Synonyms: piles
haemorrhoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛməɹɔɪdz/
ipa: /ˈhɛmɹɔɪdz/
Forms: form: hæmorrhoids
form: hemorrhoids
Senses: glosses: plural of haemorrhoid
spotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑtlɪs/
rhymes: -ɒtləs
Forms: form: more spotless
form: most spotless
Etymology: From Middle English spotles, equivalent to spot + -less.
Senses: glosses: Exceptionally clean.
glosses: Impeccable and free from blemish.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Lacking spots; unspotted.
Synonyms: immaculate
unsullied
spick-and-span
Derived terms: spotless crake
spotless grass yellow
spotlessly
spotlessness
spotless starling
waking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: more waking
form: most waking
Senses: examples: text: A waking nightmare
text: The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
ref: 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 230:
text: Counting occupied my every waking thought.
ref: a. 2000, “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well, Oxford University Press (2000), page page 263
text: It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”
ref: 2003, Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief, Mesorah Publications, page 80
glosses: Occurring during wakefulness.
Derived terms: half-waking
waking dream
waking life
wakingly
waking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wake
waking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: wakings
Senses: examples: text: […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
ref: 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144:
glosses: The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
bathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪˌðɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -eɪðɪŋ
Forms: form: bathings
Etymology: From Middle English bathynge; equivalent to bathe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of taking a bath.
examples: text: There is no bathing at this beach.
glosses: The act of swimming.
Derived terms: antibathing
nonbathing
bathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪˌðɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -eɪðɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English bathynge; equivalent to bathe + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Bathing in the sea is considered healthy.
glosses: present participle and gerund of bathe
Derived terms: sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing beauty
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing box
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing cap
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing costume
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing hut
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing machine
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing suit
sense: all parts of speech
word: bathing trunks
bathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪˌðɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -eɪðɪŋ
ipa: /ˈbæθ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbeɪˌðɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -eɪðɪŋ
Etymology: From bath.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bath
previous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹi.vi.əs/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː.vɪəs/
Forms: form: more previous
form: most previous
form: prævious
Etymology: From Latin praevius.
Senses: examples: text: He is no better than the previous Prime Minister.
text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Putin’s answered by simply stating he did not believe Ukraine had honored the previous ceasefires Moscow had unilaterally called, and that Kyiv has said Moscow never respected either.
ref: 2025 May 10, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ukraine ceasefire call is aimed at forcing Putin to reveal his war goals to Trump”, in CNN:
glosses: Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
examples: text: I was a bit previous it turned out, as I worked short-handed for ten days before I could find another hand.
ref: 2010, Gerald Lynch, Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers:
glosses: Premature; acting or occurring too soon.
Synonyms: foregoing
former
late
old
Derived terms: ignore all previous instructions
previous examination
previous question
previous to
previously disadvantaged
previously
previousness
previous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹi.vi.əs/
ipa: /ˈpɹiː.vɪəs/
Forms: form: previouses
form: prævious
Etymology: From Latin praevius.
Senses: examples: text: It turned out the shoplifter had a lot of previous.
text: Simmons had eight previouses: robberies, burglaries, a couple of felonious assaults.
ref: 1994, William J. Caunitz, Three complete novels: Black Sand; Suspects; One Police Plaza:
synonyms: form
glosses: An existing criminal record (short for "previous convictions")
examples: text: For that Smalling will have to do his time grazing in the scapegoat’s paddock because his contribution here supplied hard evidence of a player lacking the football intelligence that is needed at the highest level. He has previous on that front and it is difficult to find any mitigation for the way he scythed down James Milner when the first rule for a defender on a yellow card is not to dive in unless it is absolutely necessary.
ref: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in guardian.co.uk:
text: Mitigation will be limited given his previous and as he has already attended tackle school he cannot return.
ref: 2023-08-13, Gerard Meagher, “Owen Farrell’s red card likely to put England’s World Cup plans in disarray”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A track record of similar behaviour, especially bad behaviour.
examples: text: The two players refused to shake hands — there's a bit of previous there.
glosses: A record of previous hostility or conflict (between people).
Wintel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪn.tɛl/
Etymology: Blend of Windows + Intel
Senses: examples: text: “We used to produce our publication on the Mac, but the Wintel platform is cheaper and there are just as many applications available. So it just seemed to make sense to give up the religious war and get on with the business of doing our job,” said the information systems manager at a New York-based magazine, who asked not to be named.
ref: 1996 September 23, “Intel attacks Mac publishing niche”, in Computerworld, volume 30, number 39, →ISSN, page 56:
glosses: The popular computing environment of the Microsoft Windows operating system running on an Intel CPU.
Coordinate terms: Mactel
lintel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪn.təl/
rhymes: -ɪntəl
Forms: form: lintels
Etymology: From Middle English lyntel, from Old French lintel, from Vulgar Latin *līntellus, for *līmitellus, diminutive noun from līmes. Equivalent to limit + -el.
Senses: examples: text: Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel.
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
topics: architecture
glosses: A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
Synonyms: overslay
superliminary
header
Coordinate terms: jamb
sill
Derived terms: lintelled
wimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: wimps
form: whimp
Etymology: Possibly a clipping of whimper. The term was understood in the United States by the 1930s, as it was incorporated into the names of two famous media characters known for living up to that name: The devious but cowardly Popeye supporting-character called "J. Wellington Wimpy", and the soft-spoken character "Wallace Wimple" from the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly.
Senses: examples: text: (see title)
ref: 1980 March 15, “MUSH FROM THE WIMP”, in The Boston Globe:
synonyms: word: sissy
word: softy
word: weenie
word: wuss
word: big girl's blouse
word: candy-arse
word: candy-ass
word: milksop
word: milquetoast
word: namby
word: namby-pamby
word: nestle-cock
word: pansy
word: pantywaist
word: poon
word: pushover
word: pussy
word: sissy
word: softy
word: tenderling
word: weakling
word: weenie
word: wimp
word: wuss
word: wussy
word: bottler
word: caitiff
word: candy-ass
word: candy-arse
word: coistril
word: coward
word: chicken
word: chicken liver
word: chickenshit
word: cocktail
word: cowardy custard
word: craven
word: dog
word: fraidy cat
word: funker
word: gutless wonder
word: invertebrate
word: jessie
word: lizard
word: milquetoast
word: nancy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: nidget
word: niding
word: nithing
word: piece of crap
word: piece of shit
word: pisspants
word: pullet
word: punk
word: pussy
word: pussyhole
word: quiche-eater
word: quakebreech
word: quakebuttock
word: recreant
word: scaredy cat
word: scaredy pants
word: shithouse
word: sissy
word: slag
word: sluggard
word: snool
word: sook
word: weak sister
word: wheyface
word: yellow belly
word: yellow back
glosses: Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
Derived terms: wimpish
wimply
wimp out
wimpy
wimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: wimps
form: wimping
form: wimped
form: wimped
Etymology: Possibly a clipping of whimper. The term was understood in the United States by the 1930s, as it was incorporated into the names of two famous media characters known for living up to that name: The devious but cowardly Popeye supporting-character called "J. Wellington Wimpy", and the soft-spoken character "Wallace Wimple" from the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly.
Senses: examples: text: "They were wimping along and I was accomplished," she asserts with some pride and a touch of arrogance.
ref: 1994, Paul Lyons, Class of '66: Living in Suburban Middle America, page 156:
glosses: To behave submissively.
examples: text: If you're particularly fond of Foster's, Heineken or Moosehead at home, you will be disappointed to find that it's been wimped down for the American market.
ref: 2003, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, California, page 69:
glosses: To make (something) weak or wimpy.
wimp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: more wimp
form: most wimp
Etymology: Possibly a clipping of whimper. The term was understood in the United States by the 1930s, as it was incorporated into the names of two famous media characters known for living up to that name: The devious but cowardly Popeye supporting-character called "J. Wellington Wimpy", and the soft-spoken character "Wallace Wimple" from the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly.
Senses: glosses: Weak, wimpy.
wimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: wimps
Etymology: See WIMP.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of WIMP.
acrostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹɒstɪk/
ipa: /əˈkɹɔstɪk/
ipa: /əˈkɹɑstɪk/
rhymes: -ɒstɪk
rhymes: -ɔːstɪk
Forms: form: more acrostic
form: most acrostic
form: acrostick
form: acrosticke
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche), and its etymon Late Latin acrostichis, from Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς (akrostikhís), from ἄκρο- (ákro-, prefix indicating, among other things, the extremity or tip of something) + στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos, “row or file of soldiers; line of poetry, verse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to climb, go”)).
Senses: examples: text: Other ancients have suggested that the original verses were written in hieroglyphs and also mentioned the acrostic code.
ref: 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 42:
glosses: Of or pertaining to acrostics.
Related terms: acronym
acrophony
suitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːtəbl/
ipa: /ˈsjuːtəbl/
Forms: form: more suitable
form: most suitable
Etymology: From suit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Doctors told Matthew Parker’s family there was only a 1% chance of finding a suitable donor for Matthew because his body had rejected a previous transplant.
ref: 2015 February 23, Rachel Janik, “Texas Teacher Will Donate a Kidney to 6-Year-Old Student”, in Time:
glosses: Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
Synonyms: word: fit for purpose
word: up to standard
word: appropriate
word: apropos
word: apposite
word: apt
word: comely
word: commensurate
word: correct
word: decorous
word: expedient
word: felicitous
word: fit
word: fitting
word: gainand
word: idoneous
word: in line
word: likely
word: meet
word: opportune
word: proper
word: right
word: seemly
word: sensible
word: sortable
word: suitable
word: tidy
Hyponyms: word: timely
Derived terms: insuitable
nonsuitable
serosuitable
suitability
suitableness
unsuitable
Related terms: word: appropriate
word: apt
word: congruous
word: consonant
word: corresponding
word: eligible
word: fit
word: meet
word: pertinent
word: seemly
word: according to Hoyle
word: according to Cocker
word: according to Gunter
word: conformant
catastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtæstɹəfi/
rhymes: -æstɹəfi
Forms: form: catastrophes
form: catastrophë
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καταστροφή (katastrophḗ), from καταστρέφω (katastréphō, “I overturn”), from κατά (katá, “down, against”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “I turn”).
Senses: examples: text: The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophe.
text: Last night, after the brief sitting of the House of Lords, and before catastrophe befell the Government in the Commons, I had a long chat with the Premier, in which he discussed the Home Rule question and his relations with it in perfectly frank manner.
ref: 1896, Henry W[illiam] Lucy, “[Session 1894.] A Bad Beginning.”, in A Diary of the Home Rule Parliament, 1892-1895, London; Paris; Melbourne, Vic.: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 320:
text: Between these high lights accumulated disaster, social catastrophe.
ref: 1913, H. G. Wells, “The New Source of Energy”, in The World Set Free, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, pages 54–55:
text: Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.
ref: 1964, Nikos Kazantzakis, Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek, spoken by Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn):
text: For years, Mao Da, an environmental researcher, has studied the plastic industry in Wen’an County, near Beijing. Workers there used to sort through food and medical waste by hand, he said. Nonrecyclable material was buried in pits near farmland.
“It was an environmental and public health catastrophe,” Mr. Mao said.
ref: 2019 May 28, Raymond Zhong, Carolyn Zhang, “Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2019, Technology:
glosses: Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: A disaster beyond expectations.
examples: text: Pat : he comes like the Cataſtrophe of the old Comedie : my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a ſighe like Tom o’ Bedlam.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 286, column 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
Derived terms: Carter catastrophe
castrophony
catastrophal
catastrophe bond
catastrophe theory
catastrophin
catastrophize
cat bond
climatastrophe
climate catastrophe
cosy catastrophe
cowtastrophe
cozy catastrophe
disastrophe
ecocatastrophe
error catastrophe
eucatastrophe
oxygenation catastrophe
oxygen catastrophe
supercatastrophe
ultraviolet catastrophe
vacuum catastrophe
Related terms: anastrophe
apostrophe
cataclysm
catastrophic
catastrophism
catastrophist
metastrophe
illegitimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmət/
ipa: [ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmɨt]
ipa: /ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmɘt/
ipa: /ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmeɪt/
ipa: [ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmeɪt]
ipa: /ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmeɪt/
Forms: form: illegitimates
Etymology: First attested in 1536, from Latin illēgitimus, most likely an adapted borrowing of Middle French illegitime, equivalent to il- + legitimate, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Senses: examples: text: Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his illegitimates I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken.
ref: 1966, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, New York: Norton, Part 2, p. 96:
synonyms: natural child
lovechild
bastard
glosses: A person born to unmarried parents.
illegitimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmət/
ipa: [ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmɨt]
ipa: /ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmɘt/
ipa: /ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmeɪt/
ipa: [ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmeɪt]
ipa: /ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmeɪt/
Forms: form: illegitimates
form: illegitimating
form: illegitimated
form: illegitimated
Etymology: First attested in 1536, from Latin illēgitimus, most likely an adapted borrowing of Middle French illegitime, equivalent to il- + legitimate, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Senses: glosses: To make illegitimate.
regolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɡəlɪθ/
Forms: form: regoliths
Etymology: Irregular formation from Ancient Greek ῥῆγος (rhêgos, “rug, blanket”) + -lith (from λίθος (líthos, “stone”)).
Senses: examples: text: The soil sample, called LZS-1, is the latest in a list of lunar regolith simulants of varying quality that have been developed to help Nasa and other space agencies around the world prepare for missions to the Moon.
ref: 2023 April 25, Dhananjay Khadilkar, “Why scientists are making fake Moon dust”, in BBC:
text: What Interlune is trying to do [the startup aims to develop robotic lunar mining camps] is far from child’s play. Helium-3, an industrially prized cousin of the isotope of the gas we use to fill party balloons, is rare on Earth. […] Even if Interlune can find lunar regions with higher concentrations, collecting a commercially viable amount of helium-3 means developing and transporting to the moon machines that can chew through millions of tons of regolith, the loose debris that covers the lunar surface from billions of years of micrometeorite impacts. Autonomously. With no boots on the ground to repair them as they kick up dust more abrasive than anything on Earth. […] Interlune expects less than 1% of the gas they’ll get when they crush lunar regolith will be helium-3 – it’s estimated to exist only in the single- to double-digit parts per billion. To separate it from balloon helium and hydrogen, they’re cooling it all beyond negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit, at which point the other gases will liquefy and the helium-3 can be siphoned off.
ref: 2025 September 2, Jeremy Bogaisky, “This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon”, in Forbes:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. Submarine regolith also exists.
Derived terms: megaregolith
palaeoregolith
regolithic
pissant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsænt/
Forms: form: pissants
form: piss-ant
Etymology: From piss + ant, because of the urine-like smell of anthills. Compare pismire.
Senses: qualifier: dated outside dialects
glosses: An ant.
examples: text: It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.
ref: 1993, PJ O'Rourke, “Democracy in its diapers”, in Give War a Chance, Picador:
text: “Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants.’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.”
ref: 2005 January 24, Seymour M. Hersh, “The Coming Wars”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2015, page 24:
synonyms: nobody
glosses: An insignificant person.
examples: text: Their manager is a real pissant about break times.
glosses: A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
glosses: A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.
pissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsænt/
Forms: form: more pissant
form: most pissant
form: piss-ant
Etymology: From piss + ant, because of the urine-like smell of anthills. Compare pismire.
Senses: examples: text: This is our chance to make a name for ourselves; to show that we're not just some piss-ant white-bread mountain town.
ref: 1997 August 20, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, “Weight Gain 4000”, in South Park, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mayor McDaniels:
text: A homosexual is somebody who, in 15 years of trying cannot get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through the city council.
ref: 2003, Tony Kushner, Angels in America, spoken by Roy Cohn (Al Pacino):
text: ‘He was just this little pissant kid, Wallace.’
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 222:
synonyms: word: base
word: contemptible
word: foolish
word: for the birds
word: futile
word: frivolous
word: idle
word: ignorable
word: immaterial
word: inconsequential
word: inconsiderable
word: indifferent
word: insignificant
word: like a fart in a windstorm
word: meager
word: mean
word: minor
word: negligible
word: nothingburger
word: nondescript
word: paltry
word: petty
word: picayune
word: picayunish
word: piddling
word: piddly
word: pissant
word: pitiful
word: pointless
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: tin-pot
word: trifling
word: trivial
word: two-bit
word: unimportant
word: unweighty
word: vain
word: worthless
word: wretched
glosses: Insignificant or unimportant.
submersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From submerse + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Able to be submerged.
Derived terms: semi-submersible
semisubmersible
submersible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submersibles
Etymology: From submerse + -ible.
Senses: glosses: A small nonmilitary, non-nuclear submarine for exploration.
glosses: A retroactive term used for non-nuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed "true submarines".
glosses: A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed "true submersibles", because they cannot retroactively declare that their non-nuclear submarines should be called by a different name.
glosses: A very small "baby" submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications. Slang synonyms: midget-submarine, anchor.
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: diving sphere
diving bell
bathyscaphe
submarine
glosses: An underwater vehicle with limited mobility, similar to a submarine, but less mobile.
Coordinate terms: bathyscaphe
semisub
semi-sub
semisubmarine
semi-submarine
sub
submarine
Derived terms: semisubmersible
semi-submersible
sub
fairie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fairy.
Cyril
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭr-əl
ipa: /ˈsɪɹəl/
enpr: sīr-əl
ipa: /ˈsaɪɹəl/
rhymes: -ɪɹəl
rhymes: (Philippines) -aɪɹəl
Etymology: Via Late Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos), from κύριος (kúrios, “lord, master”).
Senses: examples: text: Boxers, too, not so long ago a somewhat uncouth section of the community who were seldom if ever mistaken for members of the Vere de Vere family, have taken on a polish which makes their society a pleasure. They have names like Cyril and Percy and Clarence and live up to them.
ref: 1954, P. G. Wodehouse, Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions, Herbert Jenkins, published 1957, page 35:
text: Zuma – a fierce critic of current ANC leader and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – was forced to resign as president in 2018 and has been looking for political revenge ever since.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek; best known for a ninth century missionary to the Slavs.
Derived terms: Cyrillic
JCB
Related terms: Cyrillus
Cyryl
Kiril
Kirill
Kiryl
Kyril
Kyrill
Kyrylo
derived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹaɪvd/
rhymes: -aɪvd
Senses: qualifier: systematics
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.
examples: text: The French language is derived from Latin.
glosses: A product of derivation
Derived terms: bioderived
derived class
derived function
derived group
derivedness
derived subgroup
derived term
derived unit
food-derived illness
haemoderived
nonderived
trackside-derived
underived
Related terms: apomorphy
derived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹaɪvd/
rhymes: -aɪvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derive
religionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religionists
Etymology: From religion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: How could Christians and other kinds of religionists justify being ruled by laws and rules, written and unwritten, that go against their faith?
text: With what astoundment would ye, if ye were alive with your merely human perfections, listen to the creed of our, so called, rational religionists!
ref: 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana:
synonyms: word: believer
word: devotee
word: devotionalist
word: pietist
word: religioner
word: religionist
word: religtard
antonyms: irreligionist
;
secularist
;
atheist
;
antitheist
coordinate_terms: agnostic#Noun
glosses: An adherent of a religion.
synonyms: word: believer
word: devotee
word: devotionalist
word: pietist
word: religioner
word: religionist
word: religtard
word: religtard
antonyms: irreligionist
;
secularist
;
atheist
;
antitheist
coordinate_terms: agnostic#Noun
glosses: An adherent of a religion.
Especially, a religious zealot.
Related terms: religionism
religionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more religionist
form: most religionist
Etymology: From religion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to religious people
glosses: Motivated by religious beliefs
moonglade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonglades
Etymology: From moon + glade.
Senses: examples: text: Moonglade and sunglade on ocean or lake have a haunting and suggestive beauty. The reflected lane of light supplies what the mind craves in a picture—a path that seems to lead to some place of unknown and longed-for happiness […]
ref: 1913, Advance, volume 98, page 232:
text: Heaven was full of silent stars, and there was a moonglade on the water that stretched almost from him to Rose.
ref: 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert:
text: The sea shimmered there, and turned, at last, into a moonglade, through which she glided handsomely.
ref: 1945, Edmund Gilligan, Voyage of the Golden Hind:
text: a double moonglade on the Auroral Ocean
ref: 1977, Poul Anderson, Mirkheim:
glosses: The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
Synonyms: moonwake
Related terms: sunglade
spaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: spazzes
form: spazz
Etymology: From spastic.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, it was the view of the scientists now in charge […] that the freakier they were, the better; if a mental spaz could go through and come out all right […] then the process was probably safe for the executives, politicians, and fashion models of the world.
ref: 1981, Stephen King, The Jaunt:
text: “I was so in control from tee to green, the best I’ve played for years… But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz.”
ref: 2006, Tiger Woods, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo.
glosses: A hyperactive, erratically behaving person.
glosses: A tantrum or fit.
glosses: A person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy
Derived terms: chuck a spaz
spaz attack
Related terms: spack
spacky
spazmo
spastic
retard
tard
spaz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: spazzes
form: spazzing
form: spazzed
form: spazzed
form: spazz
Etymology: From spastic.
Senses: glosses: To have a tantrum or fit.
glosses: To malfunction, go on the fritz.
Synonyms: sense: have a tantrum
word: freak out
Derived terms: spaz out
cyclopropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopropanes
Etymology: From cyclo- + propane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₃H₆, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic.
Derived terms: cyclopropanation
cyclopropanetrione
cyclopropannulated
cyclopropannulation
cyclopropyl
dibromocyclopropane
methylenecyclopropane
milnacipran
spirocyclopropane
tetramethylcyclopropane
titanacyclopropane
tranylcypromine
cyclobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclobutanes
Etymology: From cyclo- + butane from being a circular structure, a butane chain as a closed ring.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₄H₈; a light inflammable gas.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of this compound.
Derived terms: bicyclobutane
cyclobutannulated
cyclobutannulation
cyclobutanol
cyclobutyl
metallacyclobutane
octafluorocyclobutane
Related terms: butane
isobutane
n-butane
cyclopentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopentanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₅H₁₀; a volatile inflammable liquid, sometimes used as a solvent.
Derived terms: cyclopentannulated
cyclopentannulation
cyclopentanoic
cyclopentanoid
cyclopentanone
cyclopentyl
metallacyclopentane
penbutolol
spirocyclopentane
householder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊshoʊldə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: householders
Etymology: From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).
Senses: synonyms: homeowner
glosses: The owner of a house.
examples: text: towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: The head of a household.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A layperson, lay devotee, gahapati, grihastha.
Derived terms: compound householder
householdership
nonhouseholder
created
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiˈeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of create
Derived terms: createdness
forecreated
jointly-created
noncreated
GFDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
synonyms: FDL
GNU FDL
glosses: Initialism of GNU Free Documentation License.
theophobist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theophobists
Etymology: From theo- + -phobe + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who hates religion.
glosses: A person who has a fear of god, or a hatred of god. Affected with Theophobia.
times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tīmz
ipa: /taɪmz/
ipa: /tɑemz/
ipa: /tɜːmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Etymology: Multiplication sense from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.
Senses: examples: It's been ten times more difficult than expected.
head_nr: 1
glosses: plural of time
examples: text: Modern times are so very different from the past.
text: The city called Fan-yang in Eastern Han times can be identified with the present village of Ch’u-wang (Nei-huang County, Honan Province).
ref: 1976, Jan Fontein, Wu Tang, “Eastern Han Tomb near Holingol, Inner Mongolia”, in Han and T’ang Murals discovered in tombs in the People's Republic of China and copied by contemporary Chinese painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:
text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
head_nr: 2
glosses: The circumstances of a certain time.
examples: text: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A person's experiences or biography.
Derived terms: at the best of times
fast times
good times
keep up with the times
sign of the times
straitened times
Times
times fixed charges
times-interest-earned ratio
times
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: tīmz
ipa: /taɪmz/
ipa: /tɑemz/
ipa: /tɜːmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Etymology: Multiplication sense from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.
Senses: examples: text: Four times five is/are twenty
text: One times one is one.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Multiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time').
Coordinate terms: word: multiply
english: the multiplication sign
translation: the multiplication sign
word: ×
Derived terms: times-or-divided-by
times sign
times table
times
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīmz
ipa: /taɪmz/
ipa: /tɑemz/
ipa: /tɜːmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Etymology: Multiplication sense from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of time
times
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīmz
ipa: /taɪmz/
ipa: /tɑemz/
ipa: /tɜːmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Forms: form: timeses
form: timesing
form: timesed
form: timesed
Etymology: Multiplication sense from the idea that something is repeated or added together a given number of times.
Senses: examples: text: I've taken the calories and the amount of food . . . and it's 410 calories per portion timesed by 6 portions which ^([sic]) the answer was 2460 calories...
ref: 1994, Harvey Mellar, Learning with artificial worlds: computer-based modelling in the curriculum:
text: A student as junior as Year 4 informed me that he made a forward estimate of cheeses in 100 trials by 'timesing both numbers by 10' […]
ref: 1995, Mathematical Association, The Australian mathematics teacher, Volumes 51-53:
text: Alex: Yeah - if you're timesing that distance there by this height, it will disappear.
ref: 1998, Psychology of mathematics education, Volume 2:
text: […] when the denominator was timesed by three, the same had to be done to the numerator; and so on.
ref: 1998, W. M. Roth, Designing Communities, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 31:
text: Well, take that feeling, and times it by a thousand and you can probably understand the sheer disgust aimed at me by my fellow diners at Palm Vaults.
ref: 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE:
topics: arithmetic
glosses: To multiply.
newcomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nyo͞oʹkŭmər
ipa: /ˈnjuːkʌmə/
enpr: n(y)o͞oʹkŭ'mər
ipa: /ˈn(j)uˌkʌmɚ/
ipa: [ˈn(j)uˌkʰʌmɚ]
rhymes: -uːkʌmə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: newcomers
form: new-comer
form: new comer
Etymology: From Middle English newe-comere, equivalent to new- + comer. Compare Old English nīwcumen (“new comer, neophyte, novice”).
Senses: examples: text: Welcome, we²l'ku²m. a.
 Received with gladneſs, admitted willingly, grateful[…]
Welcome, we²l'ku²m. interj.
 A form of ſalutation uſed to a new comer.
ref: 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 550:
text: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
ref: 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
glosses: A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.
Synonyms: sense: recent arrival
word: comeling
word: newling
word: offcomer
sense: a new participant
word: newbie
word: noob
word: n00b
word: beginner
word: blow-in
word: come-here
word: entrant
word: FOB
word: fresh meat
word: freshie
word: greener
word: incomer
word: Johnny-come-lately
word: Johnny Raw
word: new chum
word: newcomer
word: outcomeling
word: stranger
Hypernyms: word: foreigner
Derived terms: oldcomer
Related terms: word: newcoming
word: fresh off the boat
word: beginner
sloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊθ/
ipa: /slɒθ/
ipa: /slɔθ/
ipa: /slɑθ/
ipa: /slɒθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: sloths
form: sleuth
form: sloath
form: slowth
Etymology: From Middle English slouthe, slewthe (“laziness”), from Old English slǣwþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiwiþu, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Senses: examples: text: Who having ſpilt much blood, and don much waſte / Subduing Nations, and achievd thereby / Fame in the World, high titles, and rich prey, / Shall change thir courſe to pleaſure, eaſe, and ſloth, / Surfet, and luſt, till wantonneſs and pride / Raiſe out of friendſhip hoſtil deeds in Peace.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 787–792:
text: Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.
ref: 1758, Benjamin Franklin, Preliminary Address to the Pennsylvania Almanac:
text: Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour.
ref: 1953 April, “Arrears of Station Maintenance”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
glosses: Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
glosses: Any animal in the suborder Folivora.
Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any animal in the suborder Folivora.
Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
glosses: A group of bears.
Synonyms: sense: animal
word: tardigrade
Hyponyms: sense: animal
word: two-toed sloth
sense: animal
word: three-toed sloth
sense: animal
word: Australian sloth
sense: animal
word: ground sloth
sense: animal
word: pale-throated sloth
Derived terms: forsloth
ground sloth
native sloth
sloth animalcule
sloth bear
slothen
slothful
sloth monkey
tree sloth
Related terms: slowth
sloth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊθ/
ipa: /slɒθ/
ipa: /slɔθ/
ipa: /slɑθ/
ipa: /slɒθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: sloths
form: slothing
form: slothed
form: slothed
form: sleuth
form: sloath
form: slowth
Etymology: From Middle English slouthe, slewthe (“laziness”), from Old English slǣwþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiwiþu, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the most of professors are for imbezzeling, mispending and slothing away their time, their talents, their opportunities to do good in […]
ref: 1676, John Bunyan, The Strait Gate, or, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven, London: Francis Smith, page 69:
text: That you endeavour carefully to please your Lady, Master or Mistress, be faithful, diligent and submissive to them, encline not to sloth or laze in bed, but rise early in a morning.
ref: 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 2:
glosses: To be idle; to idle (away time).
editorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛdɪˈtɔːɹɪəl/
ipa: /ˌɛdɪˈtɔɹiəl/
ipa: /ˌed.ɪˈtoː.ɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From editor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: editorial labours; editorial remarks
text: In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.
ref: 2024 October 9, Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, “Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or relating to an editor, editing or an editorial.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Appropriate for high fashion magazines.
editorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛdɪˈtɔːɹɪəl/
ipa: /ˌɛdɪˈtɔɹiəl/
ipa: /ˌed.ɪˈtoː.ɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: editorials
Etymology: From editor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Gratifying as it is to read such editorials even in the press which supports Mr. Marples' party—and to learn that the G.N. Line's London suburban electrification is at last being given a cost-benefit analysis of the kind which overwhelmingly justified the L.T. Victoria Line [...] but years later than need have been—[...].
ref: 1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 361:
glosses: An article in a publication giving the opinion of its editors on a given topic or current event.
glosses: A similar commentary on radio or television.
Derived terms: advertorial
editorial cartoon
editorial cartoonist
editorialise
editorialist
editorialization
editorialize
editorially
editorial we
idiotorial
noneditorial
subeditorial
wikitorial
sitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: sitars
form: setar
Etymology: From Hindi सितार (sitār) / Urdu ستار (sitār), from Classical Persian سهتار (si-tār, literally “three strings”). Doublet of setar.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Hindustani/Indian classical stringed instrument, typically having a gourd as its resonating chamber.
Derived terms: electric sitar
sitarist
Sitarmaker
Related terms: guitar
raga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːɡə
Forms: form: ragas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit राग (rāga, “dye, colour”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘The song is composed in a raga appropriate to the present hour, which is the evening.’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 72:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: ragini
glosses: Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
examples: text: The conditions of asmita, raga, dvesha, and abhinivesha have a physical basis: they function to inhibit the normal pulsatory rhythms of the physical body.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Schwamm Willis, The Joy of Yoga, →ISBN:
text: We get tired of the slipping and sliding between raga and dvesha and we seek something more permanent - so instead of looking outward we begin to look inward. This is Yoga - the heart of Yoga.
ref: 2009, Swami Ambikananda Saraswati, Healing Yoga, →ISBN, page 18:
text: In order to increase security, desire (raga, trishna, lobha) appears in all its forms, and one accumulates more and more of that which establishes one's position in samsara.
ref: 2010, Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, →ISBN:
text: Raga and dvesha, attachment and hatred, are two sides of the same coin.
ref: 2012, Swami Rama, Sadhana: The Path to Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Passion, love, lust.
Derived terms: raga rock
maga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maga.
Senses: glosses: Thespesia grandiflora, a tree native to Puerto Rico also planted elsewhere for its fairness and the working properties of its wood.
maga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magas
Etymology: See the corresponding entry.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mugu.
Dobro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dobros
Etymology: Originally a trademark; a contraction of Dopyera brothers, the inventors.
Senses: glosses: A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.
Synonyms: Hawaiian guitar
resonator guitar
resophonic guitar