cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gesticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɛsˈtɪkjʊleɪt/
ipa: /dʒɛsˈtɪkjəleɪt/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛsˈtɪkjəleɪt/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt
Forms: form: gesticulates
form: gesticulating
form: gesticulated
form: gesticulated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gesticulātus, perfect active participle of gesticulor (“to gesticulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from gesticulus (“a mimic gesture”), diminutive of gestus (“gesture”), from gerō (“to bear, carry, perform”).
Senses: examples: text: A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the corroboree of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. […] Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I expected. The performers, all male, stood in a row, one, slightly advanced, acting as fugleman. They shouted and gesticulated with the most hideous and revolting gestures, grimaces, and yells.
ref: 1876 January 24, “A Week among the Maoris of Lake Taupo”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 193, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 65:
text: ... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength ...
ref: 1954, Kingsley Amis, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim:
text: He's delusional, and obsessed with a girl named Claire, and he says such things as: "I know she loves me, she just doesn't know it yet." And he gesticulates wildly, as though he were a fop in the court of Louis XIV.
ref: 2005 January 30, Ariel Love, “Half empty”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
examples: text: […]the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate. Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards."
ref: 2004 December 6, Irish Times:
glosses: To say or express through gestures.
Derived terms: gesticulatingly
gesticulatory
Related terms: gesticulation
gesticulative
gesture
gestural
emote
Albert chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Albert chains
Etymology: Named for Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria.
Senses: glosses: A chain used to give easier access to a pocket watch in the watchpocket of a waistcoat. The Albert style went to a T-bar finding that tucked into a buttoned buttonhole of the waistcoat. From there a further small length of chain hung, to which the wearer attached decorative charms such as fraternity or lodge symbols. The double Albert was a chain draped between both watchpockets, with the T-bar and pendant chain in the middle.
cuticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːtɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: cuticles
Etymology: From Middle French cuticule, from Latin cuticula (“cuticle, skin”).
Senses: glosses: The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
examples: text: By that time she has pushed back his cuticles, cleaned his nails and painted them with clear polish.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 38:
glosses: The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
glosses: Dead or cornified epidermis.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
glosses: A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
glosses: A protective layer on the shell of a bird's egg.
Synonyms: topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
botany
biology
natural-sciences
sense: outer protective covering
word: cuticula
Derived terms: cuticleless
cuticular
endocuticle
epicuticle
exocuticle
mesocuticle
procuticle
subcuticle
Related terms: nail
thumbnail
toenail
quick
instant coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭʹnstənt kŏʹfē
ipa: /ˌɪnstənt ˈkɒfi/
Forms: form: instant coffees
Senses: glosses: A beverage in the form of a powder, granules, or concentrated liquid, made from coffee and able to be quickly reconstituted by adding water.
Aldershot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːldə(ɹ)ˌʃɒt/
/ˈɒldə(ɹ)ˌʃɒt/
Etymology: From Old English alor (“alder”) + sceat (“corner”).
Senses: examples: text: In Manchester and in Aldershot in Hampshire, asylum seeker accommodation was targeted by demonstrators carrying placards that read “deport them, don’t support them” and “no apartments for illegals”.
ref: 2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A town in Rushmoor borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8650).
monk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌŋk/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /mɔŋk/
Forms: form: monks
form: moncke
Etymology: From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).
Senses: examples: text: This is believed to be the completeſt liſt of this voluminous, proſaick, and driveling monk, that can be formed, without acceſs, at leaſt, to every manuſcript library in the kingdom, which would be very difficult, if not imposſible, to obtain.
ref: 1802, Joseph Ritson, “Poets of the Fifteenth Century”, in Bibliographia Poetica:
text: In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
ref: 1982, Michael Bishop, No enemy but time:
coordinate_terms: friar
priest
nun
glosses: A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
examples: text: Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
glosses: Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
glosses: An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
glosses: A judge.
topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: friar
glosses: An inkblot.
glosses: A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
glosses: The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
glosses: The monkfish.
glosses: A fuse for firing mines.
Derived terms: have a monk on
monk bat
Monk Bretton
monk chair
monkdom
monkery
monkess
monkette
monkfruit
monk fruit
Monk Fryston
Monk Hesleden
monkish
monkism
monkless
monklet
monklike
monkly
monk parakeet
monk parrot
monk saki
monkscloth
monk seal
monkshood
Monks Horton
Monks Risborough
monk vulture
priest-monk
sea monk
the cowl does not make the monk
Related terms: monastery
monastic
monasticism
monk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌŋk/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /mɔŋk/
Forms: form: monks
Etymology: By shortening.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 64:
text: It seems that the big monk up on the roof is nobody but Bongo, who is a gorilla belonging to the circus, and one of the very few gorillas of any account in this country, or anywhere else, as far as this goes, because good gorillas are very scarce, indeed.
glosses: A monkey.
nun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭn
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nʊn/
homophone: none
rhymes: -ʌn
enpr: nŏŏn
ipa: /nʊn/
enpr: no͞on
ipa: /nuːn/
rhymes: -ʊn
rhymes: -uːn
enpr: nŭn
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nʊn/
homophone: none
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: nuns
form: noon
form: nūn
Etymology: Borrowed from the letter’s name in the respective language. Doublet of nu.
Senses: glosses: The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
nun
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭn
ipa: /nʌn/
ipa: /nʊn/
homophone: none
rhymes: -ʌn
enpr: nŏŏn
ipa: /nʊn/
enpr: no͞on
ipa: /nuːn/
rhymes: -ʊn
rhymes: -uːn
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
nunnery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌn(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: nunneries
Etymology: From Middle English nonnery, nonnerie, equivalent to nun + -ery.
(brothel): Compare typologically Czech nevěstinec (< nevěstka < nevěsta).
Senses: glosses: a convent.
examples: text: Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The residence of a female religious community, a monastery for nuns.
examples: text: [To] some one Gentleman generally acquainted, they giue... free priuiledge thenceforward in theyr Nunnery, to procure them frequentance...
ref: 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares ouer Ierusalem, page 79:
text: To the antipapist Tudors nunnery was a slang term for a brothel.
ref: 1977, J.T. Shipley, In Praise of England, page 194:
glosses: Synonym of brothel.
synonyms: word: brothel
Synonyms: sense: residence of nuns
word: convent
sense: residence of nuns
english: Islamic
translation: Islamic
word: ribat
Hypernyms: monastery
Related terms: abbess
cloister
convent
nun
monasticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monasticisms
Etymology: From monastic (“relating to monks”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The practice of renouncing all worldly pursuits in order to fully devote one's life to spiritual work.
Synonyms: monachism
Related terms: monastic
monk
nun
draught on the pump at Aldgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughts on the pump at Aldgate
Senses: synonyms: draught on Aldgate pump
glosses: A bad bill of exchange, drawn on persons who have no effects of the drawer.
bumblebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmbəlˌbiː/
Forms: form: bumblebees
form: bumble-bee
form: bumble bee
Etymology: 1520s from bumble + bee, replacing Middle English humbul-be. Merged with Middle English bombeln (“to boom, buzz”), in the late 14th century. The name of the drink is a semantic loan from Ukrainian джміль (džmilʹ).
Senses: synonyms: word: humblebee#English
word: dumbledore#English
glosses: Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.
glosses: A mid yellow, sometimes slightly orange.
glosses: A layered drink with ice whose main ingredients are orange juice and espresso coffee.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Bombus pensylvanicus
word: American bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus terrestris
word: buff-tailed bumblebee
word: bumblebee bat
word: bumblebee model
word: bumblebee moth
taxonomic: Bombus impatiens
word: common eastern bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus (Psithyrus)
word: cuckoo-bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus cullumanus
word: Cullum's bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus pratorum
word: early bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus sylvicola
word: forest bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus franklini
word: Franklin's bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus hortorum
word: garden bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus distinguendus
word: great yellow bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus jonellus
word: heath bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus terrestris
word: large earth bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus ruderatus
word: large garden bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus lapidarius
word: red-tailed bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus subterraneus
word: short-haired bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus hortorum
word: small garden bumblebee
taxonomic: Bombus sonorus
word: Sonoran bumble bee
taxonomic: Bombus lucorum
word: white-tailed bumblebee
ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: ales
form: eale
Etymology: From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Swedish öl), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōġi); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
Senses: glosses: A beer made without hops.
glosses: A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
glosses: A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
Synonyms: sense: liquor
word: beer
sense: liquor
word: yill
Derived terms: Adam's ale
alebench
ale-bench
ale bench
ale-blown
ale-bush
ale-conner
aleconner
ale conner
alecy
ale-draper
ale-drapery
ale gallon
ale-hoof
ale-house
alekeep
alekeeper
ale-knight
alelike
alemonger
ale pole
ale-pole
alepole
ale post
alepot
aleshop
ale silver
ale stake
ale-stake
alestake
ale-taster
aletaster
ale-washed
ale-wife
alewife
aley
alish
audit ale
bride-ale
brown ale
cakes and ale
church-ale
clerk-ale
cockale
cream ale
double India pale ale
English strong ale
four-ale
gill-ale
ginger ale
give ale
heather ale
imperial India pale ale
India pale ale
lamb-ale
mild ale
old ale
pale ale
pot ale
potale
real ale
red ale
scotale
session ale
small ale
soul-ale
Welsh ale
yard of ale
Related terms: alehouse
bridal
alertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɝt.nəs/
Forms: form: alertnesses
Etymology: From alert + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: THE human body was meant to have a midafternoon nap, according to a new consensus among sleep researchers who are studying the biological rhythms of sleep and alertness.
ref: 1989 September 12, Daniel Goleman, “Feeling Sleepy? An Urge to Nap Is Built In”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being alert or on the alert.
alewife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪlwʌɪf/
ipa: /ˈeɪlˌwaɪf/
rhymes: -eɪlwʌɪf
rhymes: -eɪlwaɪf
Forms: form: alewives
Etymology: From ale + wife.
Senses: glosses: A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Synonyms: brewess
alewife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪlwʌɪf/
ipa: /ˈeɪlˌwaɪf/
rhymes: -eɪlwʌɪf
rhymes: -eɪlwaɪf
Forms: form: alewives
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from aloof, the Narragansett name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii. p. 131.
Possibly from allowes (“a type of shad”), from French alose (“shad”), from Old French [Term?], from Late Latin alausa, influenced by Etymology 1 due to large belly of the fish.
Senses: examples: text: In his System of Nature, A. D. 1776, Linnæus declares, “I hereby separate the whales from the fish.” But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnæus’s express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Cetology”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 147:
text: I saw in Cohasset, separated from the sea only by a narrow beach, a handsome but shallow lake of some four hundred acres, […] and, after the alewives had passed into it, it had stopped up its outlet, and now the alewives were dying by thousands, and the inhabitants were apprehending a pestilence as the water evaporated.
ref: 1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau; William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn. Until colonial-era dams cut off their migration, hundreds of thousands of alewives would have come pouring into Rogers Lake [Connecticut, USA] every spring — and into other lakes like it along much of the Eastern Seaboard. Farmers used to apply them to their fields as fertilizer, and all along the coast, river herring festivals celebrated their arrival.
ref: 2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An Evolutionary Family Drama”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2014:
glosses: A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
glosses: Any of several species similar in appearance.
Synonyms: sense: Alosa pseudoharengus
word: branch herring
sense: Alosa pseudoharengus
word: ellwhop
sense: Alosa pseudoharengus
word: ellwife
sense: Alosa pseudoharengus
word: gaspereau
sense: Alosa pseudoharengus
word: sawbelly
Derived terms: Alewife Brook
Alexandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl.ɛɡˈzæn.dɹiː.ən/
ipa: /æ.lɛksˈzæn.dɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Alexandrian
form: most Alexandrian
Etymology: From Alexandria + -n.
Senses: examples: text: the Alexandrian library
synonyms: Alexandrine
glosses: Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt.
Derived terms: Alexandrianism
Alexandrian laurel
Alexandrian Orthodox Church
Alexandrian Wicca
Alexandrian Wiccan
Alexandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl.ɛɡˈzæn.dɹiː.ən/
ipa: /æ.lɛksˈzæn.dɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Alexandrians
Etymology: From Alexandria + -n.
Senses: synonyms: Alexandrine
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Alexandria.
glosses: A practitioner of Alexandrian Wicca.
Alexandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl.ɛɡˈzæn.dɹiː.ən/
ipa: /æ.lɛksˈzæn.dɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Alexandrian
form: most Alexandrian
Etymology: From Alexander + -ian. The noun and sense 1 of the adjective are a variant or alteration of alexandrine, from Middle French alexandrin.
Senses: glosses: Applied to a kind of heroic verse; synonym of alexandrine.
synonyms: Alexandrine
glosses: Of or pertaining to Alexander the Great, or his reign, era etc.
Alexandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl.ɛɡˈzæn.dɹiː.ən/
ipa: /æ.lɛksˈzæn.dɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Alexandrians
Etymology: From Alexander + -ian. The noun and sense 1 of the adjective are a variant or alteration of alexandrine, from Middle French alexandrin.
Senses: examples: text: Theſe Triplets and Alexandrians were brought in by Dryden, and other Poets in the Reign of Charles II. They were the mere Effect of Haſte, Idleneſs, and want of Money; and have been wholly avoided by the beſt Poets, ſince theſe Verſes were written.
ref: 1735, J[onathan] S[wift], Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: […] George Faulkner, […], page 32:
text: The Fall of Troy is in blank verse, and may pass muster; but the Dido is in Alexandrians, a most monotonous measure, quite unsuited to a long piece in English.
ref: 1909 March, “Two Dramatizations from Virgil: 1. Dido. 2. The Fall of Troy. Arranged and translated into English verse by F. J. Miller. […]”, in The Classical Review, volume XXIII, number CC, page 58, columns 1–2:
text: It follows the pompous versification (the elegant, rhyming Alexandrians), the proverb-like diction, the courteous form of address, and the antithetical reasoning in the portrayal of the struggle in the soul of the hero.
ref: 2009, Tonny Aagaard Olesen, “Johan Herman Wessel: Kierkegaard’s Use of Wessel, or The Crazier the Better”, in Jon Stewart, editor, Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources; 5), tome III (Literature, Drama and Music), Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: Usually the Alexandrian breaks into two phrases of three iambic feet each.
ref: 2016, Mary Braaten, Shakespeare: Helping an Actor Prepare, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Synonym of alexandrine.
synonyms: word: alexandrine
Alexandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl.ɛɡˈzæn.dɹiː.ən/
ipa: /æ.lɛksˈzæn.dɹi.ən/
Etymology: From Alexandra + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Only used in Alexandrian limp.
alias
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.li.əs/
rhymes: -eɪliəs
Etymology: From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Senses: examples: text: Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 168:
text: When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
ref: 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:
glosses: Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
examples: text: Smith, alias Simpson.
topics: law
glosses: Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful
Synonyms: AKA
Coordinate terms: FKA
PKA
alias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.li.əs/
rhymes: -eɪliəs
Forms: form: aliases
Etymology: From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Senses: synonyms: word: synonym
word: poecilonym
word: pseudonym
english: assumed name
translation: assumed name
glosses: Another name; especially, an assumed name.
topics: law
glosses: A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
Synonyms: sense: another name
word: pseudonym
Derived terms: aliasable
alias summons
antialias
unalias
alias
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.li.əs/
rhymes: -eɪliəs
Forms: form: aliases
form: aliasing
form: aliased
form: aliased
Etymology: From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
examples: text: When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.
ref: 1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:
text: Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias
ref: 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:
text: This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband
ref: 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: To make or become indistinguishable.
raw_tags: of two signals
alibi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/
Forms: form: alibis
Etymology: From the 18th century, from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”, adverb). Probably after French alibi, which has this use since the late 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: to set up an alibi
text: to prove an alibi
text: The judge said, “Son, what is your alibi? If you were somewhere else, then you won’t have to die.”
ref: 1959, Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin, “Long Black Veil”:
text: Alibi is different from all of the other defenses . . . it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent.
ref: 1988, Criminal Law Deskbook, →ISBN:
topics: law
glosses: The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
examples: text: That day in September, I'm sure you can remember / That's when all the stuff hit the fan (the stuff hit the fan) / You told me a lie, and you didn't have an alibi / But baby, yet I still cared
ref: 1984, Jocelyn Brown, “Somebody Else's Guy”, in Somebody Else's Guy:
glosses: An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
Derived terms: alibi copy
Alibi Ike
alibiless
nonalibi
unalibied
alibi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/
Forms: form: alibis
form: alibies
form: alibiing
form: alibied
form: alibied
Etymology: From the 18th century, from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”, adverb). Probably after French alibi, which has this use since the late 14th century.
Senses: glosses: To provide an alibi for.
glosses: To provide an excuse for.
alight
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-līt'
ipa: /əˈlaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology: The verb is probably derived partly:
* from Middle English alighten (“to kindle, light, set on fire; to begin burning; to become bright, shine; to arouse, rouse, stir; (figuratively) to enlighten spiritually, illuminate”) [and other forms], from Old English ālīhtan, ālȳhtan (“to light up; enlighten”) (perhaps modelled after Latin illūmināre, the present active infinitive of illūminō (“to brighten, illuminate, light up”)), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + līhtan, līehtan (“to glow, to shine; to illuminate, to light”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to see; to shine; bright”)); and
* from Middle English onlighten (“to cause (something) to shine; to clarify; (figuratively) to enlighten spiritually”) [and other forms], from Old English onlīhtan, a variant of inlīhtan (“to give light to, brighten, illuminate; to cause to shine; to shine; (figuratively) to give clear sight; to clear a mental fog, enlighten”), from Proto-Germanic *inliuhtijaną (“to enlighten, illumine”), from *in (“in; into”) + *liuhtijaną (“to give light, shine”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-; see above); and
* from later uses of alight (adjective).
The English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘away, from, off, out’) + light (“to start (a fire); to burn, set fire to; to become ignited, take fire; to provide light, illuminate; to show the way by means of a light”).
The adjective and adverb are derived from Late Middle English alight (adjective) [and other forms], from Old English ālīht, ālȳht, a past participle form of Old English ālīhtan, ālȳhtan (verb) (see above); but have also been subsequently interpreted as a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’, used to show a condition, manner, or state) + light (“not dark or obscure, bright, clear; highly luminous”).
Cognates
* German erleuchten (“to light up, illuminate”)
Senses: examples: text: Each chapel had its saintly shrine, hung around with offerings; its picture above the altar, although closely veiled, if by any painter of renown; and its hallowed tapers, burning continually, to set alight the devotion of the worshippers.
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Burial Chant”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 227:
glosses: Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame.
Derived terms: set alight
set the world alight
alike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: more alike
form: most alike
Etymology: The adjective comes from a conflation of several different terms:
* Middle English alich, alych, alyke, a Late Middle English development from earlier Middle English anlich, anlyke, from Old English onlīċ, anlīċ. Compare German ähnlich.
* The borrowed Old Norse cognate of the same word, álíkr, ultimately yielding similar Late Middle English forms.
* Middle English ylich, ylych, ilich, ylik, ylike, ȝelic, from Old English ġelīċ (“like; alike; similar; equal”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīk, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“alike, similar”). Cognate with Scots elyke, alyke (“like, alike”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like, alike”), West Frisian lyk, gelyk (“like, alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German Low German liek, gliek (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Swedish lik (“like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”). Equivalent to a- (Etymology 3) + like. Compare also West Frisian allyk (“all the same, alike”).
Similarly, the adverb also comes from a conflation of several different terms:
* Middle English aliche, alyche, alyke, a Late Middle English development from earlier Middle English anliche, anlyke, from Old English onlīċe, anlīċe.
* Additionally Middle English oliche, olike, ultimately from the Old Norse cognate of the same word, álíka.
* Middle English yliche, ylyche, iliche, ylike, ȝelice, from Old English ġelīċe (“alike, similarly”).
Senses: examples: text: Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.
text: The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
glosses: Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
Derived terms: a-alike
alike-minded
alikeness
book-alike
cigalike
great minds think alike
key alike
look alike
lookalike
look-alike
smell-alike
sound-alike
soundalike
unalike
workalike
alkali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kəˌlaɪ/
enpr: ălʹkə-lī'
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈalkəli/
note: Indic
ipa: /əlkəˈli/
note: Indic
ipa: /-laj/
Forms: form: alkalis
form: alkalies
Etymology: From French alcali, from Medieval Latin alcali, ultimately from Arabic اَلْقِلْي (al-qily, “alkali, ashes of the saltwort”), related to قَلَى (qalā, “to roast in a pan, fry”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
glosses: Soluble mineral matter, other than common salt, contained in soils of natural waters.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base
Derived terms: alkalaemia
alkalamide
alkalemia
alkalescent
alkali basalt
alkali bee
alkalibiont
alkalibiontic
alkalic
alkali cellulose
alkali feldspar
alkaliferous
alkali flat
alkali fly
alkalify
alkaligen
alkaligenous
alkali grass
alkaligrass
alkali green
alkali metal
alkalimeter
alkalimetric
alkalimetry
alkaline
alkalinogenic
alkalious
alkaliphile
alkaliproof
alkalization
alkalize
alkalosis
antalkali
bialkali
caustic alkali
chloralkali
haloalkaliphilic
milk-alkali syndrome
superalkali
Related terms: alkalied
alkaloid
caustic
pH
alkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪd/
Forms: form: alkaloids
Etymology: From alkali + -oid. Compare French alcaloïde.
Senses: examples: text: The Aspidosperma alkaloids are the largest group of indole alkaloids.
ref: 1990, Song Liu, Syntheses of Aspidosperma Alkaloids, page 2:
text: Xanthosine, the initial substrate of purine alkaloid synthesis, is supplied by at least four different pathways […]
ref: 2010, Bertil B. Fredholm, Methylxanthines:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many organic (often heterocyclic) bases that occur in nature and often have medicinal properties.
Synonyms: word: alkaloid
Hypernyms: word: organic compound
word: chemical compound
Hyponyms: word: atropine
word: caffeine
word: capsaicin
word: codeine
word: coniine
word: emetine
word: ergotamine
word: lysergic acid
word: meperidine
word: morphine
word: nicotine
word: papaverine
word: pethidine
word: piperidine
word: quinine
word: reserpine
word: scopine
word: strychnine
word: thebaine
word: yohimbine
Derived terms: alkaloidic
cadaveric alkaloid
glycoalkaloid
harmala alkaloid
indole alkaloid
morphine alkaloid
nicotine alkaloid
nonalkaloid
opium alkaloid
protoalkaloid
pseudoalkaloid
pyrrolizidine alkaloidosis
thioalkaloid
Related terms: alkaloidal
alkaloidiferous
atropine
codeine
Demerol
emetine
ergotamine
lysergic acid
meperidine
morphine
nicotine
papaverine
pethidine
piperidine
reserpine
scopine
strychnine
thebaine
yohimbine
alkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪd/
Forms: form: more alkaloid
form: most alkaloid
Etymology: From alkali + -oid. Compare French alcaloïde.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, resembling, or containing alkali.
allay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: allays
form: alay
Etymology: From Middle English alayen, aleyen, aleggen, from Old English āleċġan (“to put, place, lay down, lay aside, throw down, give up, cease from, abandon; put down, allay, suppress, abolish, conquer, destroy, overcome, refute; lay upon, inflict, impose upon; diminish, take away, refuse, lessen, withhold”), from Proto-Germanic *uzlagjaną (“to lay down”), equivalent to a- + lay. Cognate with German erlegen (“to impose, cause to succumb, kill”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (uslagjan, “to lay down”). In Middle English the word was identical to forms of allege and alloy, leading to much overlapping of senses.
Senses: glosses: Alleviation; abatement; check.
glosses: An alloy.
alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪ.əns/
rhymes: -aɪəns
Forms: form: alliances
form: alliaunce
Etymology: From Middle English alliaunce, from Old French aliance (French alliance). Equivalent to ally + -ance. Compare with Doric Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being allied.
glosses: The act of allying or uniting.
examples: text: matrimonial alliances
text: an alliance between church and state, or between two countries
glosses: A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
glosses: A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
Marriage.
examples: text: And as for kindred , there is no Alliance neerer vnto any one, than their Countrey , that is to be vnto vs another God, and our prime and deareſt Parent.
ref: 1624, William Udall, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland:
text: the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
ref: 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:
text: the alliance […] between logic and metaphysics
ref: 1860, Henry Longueville Mansel, Prolegomena Logica: An Inquiry Into the Psychological Character of Logical Processes:
glosses: Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
glosses: The persons or parties allied.
raw_tags: with the definite article
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).
synonyms: word: cohort
extra: group of orders of organisms
Synonyms: sense: union by relationship in qualities
word: connection
sense: union by relationship in qualities
word: affinity
sense: union by relationship in qualities
word: union
sense: union by relationship in qualities
word: allyship
sense: act of allying
word: union
sense: persons or parties allied
word: coalition
sense: persons or parties allied
word: league
sense: persons or parties allied
word: confederation
sense: persons or parties allied
word: team
Derived terms: airline alliance
alliancer
antialliance
Blue-Green alliance
counteralliance
gay-straight alliance
Grand Alliance
misalliance
offensive and defensive alliance
quasi-alliance
realliance
red-green alliance
red-green-brown alliance
suballiance
unholy alliance
Related terms: ally
alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪ.əns/
rhymes: -aɪəns
Forms: form: alliances
form: alliancing
form: allianced
form: allianced
form: alliaunce
Etymology: From Middle English alliaunce, from Old French aliance (French alliance). Equivalent to ally + -ance. Compare with Doric Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”).
Senses: glosses: To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
allied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪd
enpr: ə-līd'
ipa: /əˈlaɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ally
allied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪd
enpr: ă'līd
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪd/
Forms: form: more allied
form: most allied
Senses: examples: text: The two countries became allied during the war.
text: Their companies are allied in a joint venture.
text: He felt allied with her in the fight for justice.
glosses: Joined as allies.
examples: text: bacteriology and allied subjects
glosses: Related.
Derived terms: allied arts
allied health
interallied
misallied
nonallied
unallied
ally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'ī
enpr: əlī'
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪ/
ipa: /əˈlaɪ/
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪ/
ipa: /əˈlaɪ/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -aɪ
Etymology: From Middle English allie, alie [and other forms], probably partly:
* from allien (verb): see etymology 1; and
* from Anglo-Norman allié, alié, alyé, allyé, Middle French allié, alié, allyé (“associate, supporter; friend; relative; person, state, etc., associated or united with another by alliance or treaty”), and Old French alliiet (“military or political ally”) (modern French allié), a noun use of the past participle of Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allier, and Old French alier (verb): see etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: The ſpider: as of vſe in talke new entrid, / (Frendes axe of frends: the ſtate of their frends frendly,) / Axte how his coſins (thants father and mother) did. / His brothers ſiſters with all kyn and aly, / Thant ſaid thei did well.
ref: 1556, John Heywood, chapter 29, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: One's relatives; kin, kindred, relations; also, relationship through descent or marriage; kinship.
glosses: People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.
ally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'ī
enpr: əlī'
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪ/
ipa: /əˈlaɪ/
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪ/
ipa: /əˈlaɪ/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -aɪ
ipa: /ˈæli/
enpr: ăl'ī
enpr: əlī'
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪ/
ipa: /əˈlaɪ/
ipa: /ˈæl.aɪ/
ipa: /əˈlaɪ/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -aɪ
Forms: form: allies
Etymology: See alley.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alley (“a glass marble or taw”).
allotment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɔt.mɛnt/
Forms: form: allotments
Etymology: From Old French alotement (modern French allotement).
Senses: examples: text: You will achieve more in designated sessions of quiet uninterrupted periods than in a longer allotment of time broken up by various activities.
ref: 2007, Ruth Chambers, Kay Mohanna, David Wall, How to Succeed as a Leader:
text: The allotment of particular names to special ideas which gradually disengage themselves from a general idea is apparently determined by accident.
ref: 1873, Henry Sumner Maine, The early history of the property of married women:
glosses: The act of allotting.
examples: text: The history attached to it could not but recur to Emily as she passed, and her heart sank within her—not with fear, but at the thought, how much of misery there was in the world; and why should she be spared amid such general allotment?
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: Similar customs prevailed in a part of Friesland, the most notable of which was the ‘Jus Theelacticum,’ or custom of the Theel lands, doles, or allottable lands in East Friesland, not far from the mouth of the Ems. There an inherited allotment was indivisible; on the death of the father it passed intact to the youngest son, and on his death without issue it fell into the possession of the whole community
ref: 1906, Thomas William Shore, chapter 9, in Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race:
text: Though most interviews are aired in ten-minute segments, very often they are longer than that specific time allotment.
ref: 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Something allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed
examples: text: Maynard used to help before he got sick, but there was no income except what I brought in my allotment.
ref: 2013, Maxine Holsinger, The Life of Maxine Holsinger:
topics: law
glosses: The allowance of a specific amount of money or other credit of a particular thing to a particular person.
examples: text: The fallout of this unexpected turn of events was that it was Saturday morning, the first day of the Easter holidays, before the thought of my allotment even entered my head. Goodness only knew how big my carrots were going to be by the time I got round there!
ref: 2015, Cathy Bramley, Ivy Lane:
glosses: A plot of land rented from the council for growing fruit and vegetables.
Derived terms: allotmenteer
misallotment
nonallotment
overallotment
underallotment
allot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒt/
ipa: /əˈlɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: a lot
Forms: form: allots
form: allotting
form: allotted
form: allotted
Etymology: From Middle English allotten, from Old French aloter (Modern French allotir). à + lot.
Senses: glosses: To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
examples: text: Each candidate was allotted five minutes to make a presentation in front of the judges.
synonyms: earmark
glosses: To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.
Derived terms: allottable
allottee
allotter
allottery
allot upon
misallot
misallotted
nonallotted
preallot
preallotted
reallot
unallot
unallotted
Related terms: allotment
allot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒt/
ipa: /əˈlɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: a lot
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a lot.
allot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒt/
ipa: /əˈlɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: a lot
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a lot.
allowance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaʊəns/
Forms: form: allowances
form: allowancing
form: allowanced
form: allowanced
form: allowaunce
Etymology: From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
glosses: To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
examples: text: Our provisions were allowanced.
glosses: To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
allude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈljuːd/
ipa: /əˈluːd/
ipa: /əˈlud/
ipa: /əˈlʉːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: elude
homophone: illude (weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: alludes
form: alluding
form: alluded
form: alluded
Etymology: From Middle French alluder, from Latin alludere (“to play with or allude”), from ad + ludere (“to play”).
Senses: examples: text: These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.
ref: 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523
text: It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
ref: 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:
text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
glosses: To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.
Synonyms: word: advert
word: allude
word: hint
word: imply
word: indicate
word: inkle
word: insinuate
word: intimate
word: refer
word: signify
word: suggest
Hyponyms: word: adumbrate
word: innuendo
Derived terms: allusion
allusive
reallude
Related terms: word: collude
word: delude
word: elude
word: illude
word: hark back
word: hearken back
word: inkling
alluring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlʊɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlɝɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more alluring
form: most alluring
Etymology: By surface analysis, allure + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Having the power to allure.
alluring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlʊɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlɝɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: allurings
Etymology: By surface analysis, allure + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?
ref: 1615, George Wither, Fidelia:
text: For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
text: Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.
ref: 1952, Daughters of the American Revolution, volume 86, page 250:
glosses: The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.
alluring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlʊɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlɝɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈlɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, allure + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allure
Derived terms: alluringly
alluringness
unalluring
allure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlʊɚ/
ipa: /əˈlɚ/
ipa: /əˈlʊə/
ipa: /əˈljʊə/
ipa: /əˈlɔː/
ipa: /əˈlʉːɹ/
ipa: /əˈluːɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: allures
Etymology: From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Senses: glosses: The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.