cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
simian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.i.ən/
Forms: form: simians
Etymology: From Latin sīmia (“ape, monkey”), from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”).
Senses: examples: text: The simians would require no special orientation courses to teach them the reasons for fighting, such as, “To make the world safe for Demagocracy,” or whatnot.
ref: 1959, H. G. Coulter, Time for Rebellion: A Play and Preface, page 14:
glosses: An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid (infraorder Simiiformes).
Synonyms: sense: ape or monkey
word: anthropoid
sense: ape or monkey
word: ape
sense: ape or monkey
word: monkey
sense: ape or monkey
word: primate
shrewdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrewdnesses
Etymology: From shrewd + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 245:
glosses: The quality of being shrewd.
glosses: An invented collective name for a group of apes.
bear cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear cubs
form: bearcub
Senses: glosses: A young bear.
Synonyms: bearlet
bearling
bear-whelp
she-bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-bears
Etymology: From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear.
Senses: examples: text: Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:
text: two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
ref: 2001, Bible Old Testament 2 Kings 2:24 (English Standard Version)
glosses: A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).
Synonyms: bearess
Reykjavik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkjəvɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪkjəvɪk/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Reykjavík.
Reykjavík
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛk.jə.vɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪk.jə.vɪk/
Forms: form: Reykjavik
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Icelandic Reykjavík (literally “bay of smokes”). Literally translated as Reekwich.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Iceland.
aimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪmə/
ipa: /ˈeɪmɚ/
Forms: form: aimers
Etymology: From aim + -er.
Senses: examples: text: After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.
ref: 2009 April 4, Steve Holland, “Ron 'Nobby' Clark”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
Skopje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒp.jeɪ/
ipa: /ˈskɒp.jə/
ipa: /ˈskoʊp.jeɪ/
Etymology: Transliteration of Macedonian Скопје (Skopje).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of North Macedonia.
glosses: North Macedonia, especially in the Greek media.
Derived terms: Skopjan
Vaduz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈduːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Etymology: Via Rhaeto-Romance auadutg, from Latin aquaeductus.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality, the capital of Liechtenstein.
immature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪməˈt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more immature
form: most immature
Etymology: From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).
Senses: examples: text: And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDLXXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death).
glosses: Not fully formed or developed; not grown.
examples: text: You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
text: The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
text: Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
synonyms: word: infantile
word: milky
word: babish
word: babyish
word: bairnish
word: childish
word: dootsie
word: hissy
word: lactifluous
word: infantile
word: infantine
word: immature
word: kiddish
word: juvenile
word: milky
word: puerile
glosses: Childish in behavior; juvenile.
Derived terms: immature dependent
immaturely
immatureness
immature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪməˈt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: immatures
Etymology: From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).
Senses: examples: text: There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes.
ref: 2001, DE Walter, H Proctor, RA Norton, Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, →ISBN, page 51:
text: While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 240:
glosses: An immature member of a species.
Related terms: mature
immaturity
Malta Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Malta + island
Senses: glosses: The largest island of Malta.
Synonyms: Malta
Comino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Republic of Malta.
Gozo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊzəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊzoʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊzəʊ
rhymes: (US) -oʊzoʊ
Etymology: Ultimately from Maltese Għawdex.
Senses: glosses: The second-largest island of the Republic of Malta.
Derived terms: Gozo Region
Maltese Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea making up the Republic of Malta.
Valletta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈlɛtə/
Forms: form: Valetta
Etymology: Named after Jean de Valette, a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Malta.
Derived terms: Vallettan
Chisinau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, in the case of Moldova, Chisinau has been the sole engine of growth (in 1997, Chisinau grew by around 10 percent, fueled by a construction boom, while Moldova overall had just a 1.3 percent growth).
ref: 1999, Moldova--poverty Assessment, World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 12:
text: In addition, a consensus has not been reached over the legal status of Transnistria, and the authority of the Moldovan government in Chisinau has not yet been extended over the Transnistrian territory.
ref: 2005, Takako Ueta, Eric Remacle, Japan and Enlarged Europe: Partners in Global Governance, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 79:
text: In August, strikes broke out in the large factories of Chisinau and Transnistria, most of whose workforce was Russian, in protest at the language law.
ref: 2005, Paul Hare, Judy Batt, Reconstituting the Market, Routledge, →ISBN, page 359:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Chișinău.
Monte Carlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Monte (“mountain”) + Carlo (“Charles/Carl”). Named after Charles III of Monaco.
Senses: glosses: A part of Monaco famous for its casinos.
examples: text: The probability density of the Bayesian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.
ref: 2004 July 27, F. Keith Barker et al., “Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation”, in PNAS, page 11040, column 2:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Ellipsis of Monte Carlo method.
Derived terms: MCTS
Monte Carlo algorithm
Monte Carlo fallacy
Monte Carlo integration
Monte Carlo method
Monte Carlo option model
Monte Carlo tree search
Monte Carlo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monte Carlos
Etymology: Monte (“mountain”) + Carlo (“Charles/Carl”). Named after Charles III of Monaco.
Senses: glosses: A commonly served drink consisting of beer and grenadine.
glosses: An informal dance competition, where contestants in one quarter of the floor are eliminated by a randomly drawn card representing the corner.
Barents Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Svalbard.
Edge Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Svalbard.
North East Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Norwegian Nordaustlandet, from the definite singular of nord + aust + land.
Senses: glosses: An island of Svalbard, Norway.
wikipedia: Nordaustlandet
King Charles Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of islands east of Svalbard.
Prince Charles Foreland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of Svalbard.
Spitsbergen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪtsˌbɛə(ɹ)ɡən/
/ˈspɪtsˌbɜː(ɹ)ɡən/
Forms: form: Spitzbergen
Etymology: From Dutch Spitsbergen, from spits (“pointed, pointy”) + bergen (“mountains”), see there.
Senses: glosses: Svalbard: An archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean.
glosses: The largest island of this archipelago.
Synonyms: sense: archipelago
word: Svalbard
sense: island
word: West Spitsbergen
White Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: # Calque of Norwegian Nynorsk Kvitøya (literally “White Island”).
# Named by James Cook on 1 November 1769 in reference to its white appearance, either due to the presence of volcanic steam or guano deposits.
Senses: glosses: An island of Svalbard, Norway
glosses: An uninhabitable volcanic island in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Longyearbyen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A port town, the capital of Svalbard, Norway; the largest settlement in Svalbard.
ursine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝsɪn/
Forms: form: more ursine
form: most ursine
Etymology: Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
ref: 1832, Godfrey Mundy, chapter VI, in Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, volume 1, London: John Murray, page 320:
text: […] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: […] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
ref: 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA77
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
examples: 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered in stiff bristles.
raw_tags: of caterpillars
Synonyms: bearlike
bearly
Derived terms: brankursine
subursine
ursine baboon
ursine dasyure
ursine howler
ursine seal
ursine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝsɪn/
Forms: form: ursines
Etymology: Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bear.
pentagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕn'təgän
ipa: /ˈpɛn.təˌɡɑn/
enpr: pĕn'təgən
enpr: pĕn'təgŏn
ipa: /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡən/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.tə.ɡɒn/
Forms: form: pentagons
Etymology: From Middle French pentagone, from Late Latin pentagōnum, from Ancient Greek πεντάγωνον (pentágōnon), noun use of the neuter of the adjective πεντάγωνος (pentágōnos, “five-angled”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + -γωνος (-gōnos, “angled”). Equivalent to penta- + -gon.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, […]
ref: 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 1.— Of the Nature of Flatland, page 3:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with five sides and five angles.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fort with five bastions.
Synonyms: word: 5-gon
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: quinquangle
Derived terms: pentagonal
pentagonoid
pentagonous
Related terms: pentagram
quinquangle
glad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæd/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ˈɡlɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: GLAAD
Forms: form: glads
form: gladding
form: gladded
form: gladded
Etymology: From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.
Senses: examples: text: that which gladded all the warrior train
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book VII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
text: God that glads the lover's heart
ref: 1922, A. E. Housman, Epithalamium, line 3:
synonyms: cheer up
gladden
exhilarate
glosses: To make glad.
glad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæd/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ˈɡlɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: GLAAD
Forms: form: glads
Etymology: Abbreviation of gladiolus
Senses: examples: text: Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.
ref: 2008, Lynn Byczynski, The Flower Farmer, page 217:
glosses: A gladiolus (plant).
pineapple
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: pīʹnăpəl
ipa: /ˈpaɪnæpəl/
ipa: /ˈpaɪnəpəl/
ipa: /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/
Forms: form: pine-apple
Etymology: From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German pīnaphel, and early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine + apple.
Sense "An Australian fifty dollar note": From the yellow colour of a $50 banknote in the first, second, and third series of Australian dollar notes. Compare with lobster for a $20 Australian banknote, and watermelon for a $100 Australian banknote.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A common safeword.
yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yăm
ipa: /jæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: yams
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, likely from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”) or a related word. The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.
Senses: glosses: Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
examples: text: Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 4, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, part 1, page 34:
glosses: The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
glosses: A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
glosses: A potato.
glosses: An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
glosses: Taro.
glosses: An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
Derived terms: word: aerial yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea bulbifera
word: air yam
word: afoo yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea oppositifolia
word: betel yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea dumetorum
word: bitter yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea bulbifera
word: cheeky yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea oppositifolia
word: Chinese yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea batatas
word: common yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea trifida
word: cush-cush yam
word: elephant foot yam
taxonomic: Amorphophallus konjac
word: elephant yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea pentaphylla
word: fiveleaf yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea septemloba
word: Foochow yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea villosa
word: fourleaf yam
word: garnet yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea alata
word: greater yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea hispida
word: Indian three-leaf yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea trifida
word: Indian yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea hispida
word: intoxicating yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea japonica
word: Japanese mountain yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea japonica
word: Japanese yam
word: jewel yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea esculenta
word: lesser yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea mexicana
word: Mexican yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea tokoro
word: mountain yam
word: negro yam
taxonomic: Oxalis tuberosa
word: New Zealand yam
word: Okinawan yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea bulbifera
word: parsnip yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea bulbifera
word: potato yam
word: pounded yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea alata
word: purple yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea septemloba
word: seven-lobed yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea tomentosa
word: thorny yam
word: toco for yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea alata
word: tropical yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea spp.
word: true yam
english: Aponogeton spp.; Dioscorea alata
translation: Aponogeton spp.; Dioscorea alata
word: water yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea alata
word: white yam
word: wild yam
taxonomic: Dioscorea alata
word: winged yam
word: yam bean
word: yamberry
word: yam cake
word: yam daisy
word: yamless
word: yamlike
taxonomic: Dioscorea trifida
word: yampee
word: yam stick
alt: Dioscorea cayenensis. Dioscorea panthaica
word: yellow yam
yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yăm
ipa: /jæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: yams
Etymology: Alternative form of hjem. Likely caused by influence from Old Norse heim (“home, homewards”), the accusative form of heimr (“abode, world, land”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. More at home.
Senses: qualifier: Cumberland
glosses: Home.
yam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yăm
ipa: /jæm/
rhymes: -æm
Senses: examples: text: “Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe,” repeating again and again, very softly, the line at the end of each stanza, “I am not mad, I am not mad.”
 Except she sang it:
 “I yam not mad, I yam not mad.”
ref: 1904, Carrie Hunt Latta, “The Last Day of Schol”, in The Reader Magazine, volume IV, Indianopolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 291:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of am.
yam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yăm
ipa: /jæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: yams
form: yamming
form: yammed
form: yammed
Etymology: Ultimately from Fula nyaamude (“to eat”) or a cognate Fula-Wolof term.
Senses: examples: text: “If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: To eat.
yam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yăm
ipa: /jæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: yams
form: yamming
form: yammed
form: yammed
Etymology: Apparently a variation of jam (“dunk”, verb).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yam"
word: danger yam
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yam"
word: tom yam
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yam"
word: yam plan
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yam"
word: yam slam
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "yam"
word: yam yam
maize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: māz
ipa: /meɪz/
ipa: [meːz]
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: maze
Forms: form: maizes
form: maiz
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.
Senses: examples: text: But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne.
ref: 1623, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation:
text: A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.
ref: 1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 5, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 106:
glosses: Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
Synonyms: sense: Zea mays
word: corn
sense: Zea mays
word: green corn
sense: Zea mays
word: Indian corn
sense: Zea mays
word: sugar corn
sense: Zea mays
word: sweet corn
Derived terms: Hopi maize
maize dance
maizefield
maizeless
maizelike
maizemeal
maize mushroom
maize on the cob
maize syrup
maize weevil
maizy
nonmaize
Related terms: 🌽
tobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈbæk.əʊ/
ipa: /təˈbæk.oʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
Forms: form: tobaccos
form: tobaccoes
form: tabacco
Etymology: Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
examples: text: Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11:
text: Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.
ref: 2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:
text: City councilors in Newton have approved a generational ban on tobacco and e-cigarette sales in the city that will prohibit purchases by anyone born after March 1, 2004, joining a growing number of Massachusetts communities that have passed measures to curb tobacco use among young people.
ref: 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025:
glosses: Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
examples: text: Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
glosses: A variety of tobacco.
Derived terms: word: antitobacco
word: antitobaccoite
word: Aztec tobacco
word: big tobacco
word: California rabbit tobacco
word: chewing tobacco
word: coyote tobacco
word: green tobacco sickness
word: heated tobacco
word: ladies' tobacco
word: mountain tobacco
word: native tobacco
word: nigger tobacco
word: nontobacco
word: occabot
word: Oriental tobacco
word: protobacco
word: Queen's tobacco-pipe
word: rabbit tobacco
word: sailor's tobacco
word: teabacco
word: tobaccanalian
word: tobacciana
word: tobacco beetle
word: tobacco budworm
word: Tobacco Caye
word: tobacco dove
word: tobacco dust juice
word: tobaccoey
word: tobaccofied
word: tobacco heart
word: tobacco hornworm
word: tobaccoish
word: tobaccoism
word: tobaccoite
word: tobacco juice
word: tobaccoless
word: tobaccolike
word: tobacco lime
word: tobaccoman
word: tobacco mosaic
word: tobacco moth
word: tobacconalian
word: tobacconist
word: tobaccophile
word: tobaccophobe
word: tobacco pipe
word: tobacco rattle
word: Tobacco Road
word: tobacco-roader
word: tobacco-sick
word: tobacco splitworm
word: Tobacco State
word: tobacco-stopper
word: tobacco thrips
word: tobacco water
word: tobacco wireworm
word: tomacco
taxonomic: Nicotiana glauca
word: tree tobacco
word: Turkish tobacco
word: wild tobacco
tobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈbæk.əʊ/
ipa: /təˈbæk.oʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
Forms: form: tobaccos
form: tobaccoing
form: tobaccoed
form: tobaccoed
form: tabacco
Etymology: Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).
Senses: glosses: To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
examples: text: The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.
ref: 1918, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, volume 12, page 412:
glosses: To treat with tobacco.
Related terms: baccy
backy
chop chop
smoke
wayleave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayleaves
form: way leave
Etymology: From way + leave (“permission”).
Senses: examples: text: Our first precise information is contained in a Deed of Mutual Covenants dated October 1, 1863, and made between the Rhosydd Slate Co. Ltd. and H. B. Roberts, whereby the latter granted the company a wayleave under which it constructed a railway and incline from its property to the Croesor Tramway. The original wayleave was 2d. a ton, [...].
ref: 1941 June, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 250:
glosses: A right of way granted by a landowner.
glosses: A right to cross land.
Related terms: easement
BBS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: bbs
form: b.b.s.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of be back soon.
BBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BBSes
form: BBSs
form: B.B.S.
form: B. B. S.
Senses: examples: text: Parallel to the emergence of text-based multiplayer games, though, was another kind of virtual community: Bulletin Boards (BBSs). BBSs were modems people could dial up to, connect with, and exchange software and messages with other members of the community. […] These BBSs, early frontier outposts of our virtual worlds, were John Lester’s first experience of a community outside the physical.
ref: 2007, Tim Guest, “Lester Prototype: The Beginning of Virtual Worlds”, in Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 60:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of bulletin board system or bulletin board service.
topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Business Studies.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of BIOS boot sequence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of BIOS boot specification.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of baby brine shrimp.
glosses: Initialism of Bogart-Bacall syndrome
Derived terms: sense: Bardet-Biedl syndrome
word: BBSome
caucus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.kəs/
rhymes: -ɔːkəs
ipa: /ˈkɔ(ː).kəs/
ipa: /ˈkɒ(ː).kəs/
ipa: /ˈkɑ(ː).kəs/
Forms: form: caucuses
form: caucusses
Etymology: Unknown. Often claimed to be from an Algonquian language; transcribed words such as cawaassough and caucauasu meaning "counselor, elder, adviser" appear in early texts. A popular folk etymology attested in Great Leaders and National Issues of 1896 stated: "In the early part of the eighteenth century a number of caulkers connected with the shipping business in the North End of Boston held a meeting for consultation. That meeting was the germ of the political caucuses which have formed so prominent a feature of our government ever since its organization." American Heritage Dictionary states the term is taken from the Caucus Club of Boston in the 1760s, possibly from Medieval Latin caucus (“drinking vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: He conferred with Mr. Warren of Plymouth upon the necessity of giving into spirited measures, and then said, "Do you keep the committee in play, and I will go and make a caucus against the evening; and do you meet me."
ref: 1788, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America:
glosses: A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.
raw_tags: in UK
not used in the European Union
synonyms: parliamentary group
glosses: A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.
raw_tags: in UK
not used in the European Union
glosses: A political interest group by members of a legislative body.
raw_tags: in UK
not used in the European Union
Derived terms: caucusdom
caucus-goer
caucusgoer
caucus race
firehouse caucus
postcaucus
precaucus
caucus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.kəs/
rhymes: -ɔːkəs
ipa: /ˈkɔ(ː).kəs/
ipa: /ˈkɒ(ː).kəs/
ipa: /ˈkɑ(ː).kəs/
Forms: form: caucuses
form: caucusses
form: caucusing
form: caucussing
form: caucused
form: caucused
form: caucussed
form: caucussed
Etymology: Unknown. Often claimed to be from an Algonquian language; transcribed words such as cawaassough and caucauasu meaning "counselor, elder, adviser" appear in early texts. A popular folk etymology attested in Great Leaders and National Issues of 1896 stated: "In the early part of the eighteenth century a number of caulkers connected with the shipping business in the North End of Boston held a meeting for consultation. That meeting was the germ of the political caucuses which have formed so prominent a feature of our government ever since its organization." American Heritage Dictionary states the term is taken from the Caucus Club of Boston in the 1760s, possibly from Medieval Latin caucus (“drinking vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday that he will caucus with Senate Democrats in the new Congress, but he would not rule out switching to the Republican caucus if he starts to feel uncomfortable among Democrats.
ref: 2006 November 13, “Lieberman won't rule out GOP caucusing”, in Boston Globe, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2006:
text: The diehard Republicans of Kansas caucused today and delivered a big victory for Mike Huckabee, McCain's remaining serious challenger.
ref: 2008 February 9, Richard Adams, “Huckabee wins Kansas!”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted with Republicans against the measure, as did Sen. Angus King of Maine, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
ref: 2019 March 26, Rebecca Shabad, Dartunorro Clark, “Senate fails to advance Green New Deal as Democrats protest McConnell 'sham vote'”, in NBC news:
text: Guardian Australia understands the Liberal states have caucused, and they want the newly elected Morrison government to reboot the Neg, or something very like it.
ref: 2019 June 21, Katharine Murphy, “Australia's energy future: the real power is not where you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To meet and participate in a caucus.
raw_tags: in UK
not used in the European Union
examples: text: The protesters caucused nearby to discuss demands.
ref: 1980 December 27, John Zeh, “Cincy Activists Protest Store's Violent Sex Wares”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 6:
glosses: To confer.
raw_tags: in UK
not used in the European Union
examples: text: Although journalists from the private media were barred from entering the hall, different districts caucused the meeting, discussing the voting centres and other logistics.
ref: 2017 May 6, Tatenda Chitagu, “Zanu PF to stage one-man chairmanship polls”, in NewsDay Zimbabwe:
glosses: To bring into or treat in a caucus.
raw_tags: in UK
not used in the European Union
heptagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕp'təgŏn
ipa: /ˈhɛp.tə.ɡɒn/
enpr: hĕp'təgən
ipa: /ˈhɛp.tə.ɡən/
Forms: form: heptagons
Etymology: Since 16th century, from Ancient Greek ἑπτάγωνον (heptágōnon), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). By surface analysis, hepta- + -gon.
Senses: glosses: A polygon with seven sides and seven angles.
Synonyms: word: 7-gon
english: proscribe
translation: proscribe
word: septagon
Derived terms: heptagonal
heptagonally
nonagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑn.ə.ɡɑn/
ipa: /ˈnɒn.ə.ɡən/
Forms: form: nonagons
Etymology: From nona- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with nine sides and nine angles; an enneagon.
Synonyms: 9-gon
enneagon
Related terms: nonagonal
enneagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.niː.ə.ɡən/
Forms: form: enneagons
Etymology: From ennea- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with nine sides; a nonagon.
Synonyms: 9-gon
nonagon
nonangle
Related terms: enneagonal
decagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛ.kə.ɡɑn/
ipa: /ˈdɛ.kə.ɡən/
Forms: form: decagons
Etymology: From deca- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
Synonyms: 10-gon
Related terms: word: decagonal
sense: star shape
word: pentagram (5-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: hexagram (6-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: heptagram (7-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: octagram (8-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: nonagram (9-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: decagram (10-pointed)
word: decagram
word: decangle
undecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecagons
Etymology: From undeca- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with eleven sides and eleven angles.
Synonyms: 11-gon
hendecagon
Related terms: undecagonal
dodecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecagons
Etymology: From dodeca- + -gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with twelve edges and twelve angles.
Synonyms: 12-gon
duodecagon
Related terms: dodecagonal
quindecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quindecagons
Etymology: From quindec- + gon.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: pentadecagon
quindecangle
glosses: A polygon with fifteen sides and fifteen angles.
Related terms: quindecagonal
porcine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊɹ.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈpoʊɹ.sin/
ipa: /ˈpoʊɹ.sɪn/
rhymes: -oʊɹsaɪn
rhymes: -oʊɹsin
rhymes: -oʊɹsɪn
Forms: form: more porcine
form: most porcine
Etymology: From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”).
Senses: examples: text: Alas, your delicious sandwich has been slain. Gaius’ blow sent it sprawling from your hand and onto the dusty grass where its saucy, porcine contents splattered forth from its freshly-baked body.
ref: 2013, Kazerad, Katia: Follow captain, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), May 08 2013
synonyms: suilline
glosses: Of or pertaining to pigs.
synonyms: piglike
glosses: Similar to a pig
glosses: Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
Derived terms: antiporcine
nonporcine
porcinely
porcine measles
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
porcine stress syndrome
unporcine
Related terms: pork
hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔːk/
enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔk/
enpr: häk
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: [hɔ(ː)k]
rhymes: -ɔːk
homophone: hock (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hawks
form: hawking
form: hawked
form: hawked
Etymology: From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p- (“seize”).
See also West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
Senses: examples: text: To hawke, or els to hunt
From the auter to the funt
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 9–10:
text: He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.
ref: 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:
glosses: To hunt with a hawk.
examples: text: to hawk at flies
text: A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: But whether upward to the moon they go, Or dream the winter out in caves below, Or hawk at flies elsewhere
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: Dollarbirds hawk from high bare branches.
ref: 1999, Simpson and Day, The Birds of Australia, page 366:
glosses: To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
Derived terms: hawk after
hawk at
hawk for
hawker
hawking
hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔːk/
enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔk/
enpr: häk
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: [hɔ(ː)k]
rhymes: -ɔːk
homophone: hock (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hawks
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Middle English hache (“battle-axe”), or from a variant use of the above, for this compare with Russian со́кол (sókol, “falcon, but also a hawk (plaster's tool), mortarboard”).
Senses: synonyms: mortarboard
glosses: A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
Derived terms: hawk boy
hawk-boy
hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔːk/
enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔk/
enpr: häk
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: [hɔ(ː)k]
rhymes: -ɔːk
homophone: hock (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hawks
form: hawking
form: hawked
form: hawked
Etymology: Back-formation from hawker.
Senses: examples: text: The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
text: His works were hawked in every street.
ref: 1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII:
glosses: To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
Synonyms: tout
Derived terms: hawked
hawkery
hawking
hawky
Related terms: hawker
hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔːk/
enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔk/
enpr: häk
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: [hɔ(ː)k]
rhymes: -ɔːk
homophone: hock (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hawks
Etymology: Probably imitative, like hock (“cough”), hack (“cough”), although see the latter entry for more.
Senses: synonyms: hawking
glosses: A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔːk/
enpr: hôk
ipa: /hɔk/
enpr: häk
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: [hɔ(ː)k]
rhymes: -ɔːk
homophone: hock (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hawks
form: hawking
form: hawked
form: hawked
Etymology: Probably imitative, like hock (“cough”), hack (“cough”), although see the latter entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: to hawk a loogie
text: [I]s a trobled with the cough a the Lunges ſtill? does he hawke anights ſtill?
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
text: He hawked up, with incredible straining, the interjection ah!
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 117, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter III, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
examples: text: Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
glosses: To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
Derived terms: word: hawk tuah
word: hawking
Related terms: Hawkshaw
hawkshaw
Hawkubite
winkle-hawk
autour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autours
Senses: examples: text: For truely men be to theym ſelues the autours of ſyn and damnation. God is neyther autour of ſynne, nor the cauſe of damnation.
ref: 1534, A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Chrysten man, Set Furth by the Kynges Maiestye of Englande. ⁊c.:
text: Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.
ref: 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell:
text: For the ſtyle is wont to be a certaine taken of the right autour (chiefly in ſome mens writings,) whereby we vſe often to try and diſcerne a true booke from a forged: as learned men haue done in Auſtin, Ierom, Ambroſe, Cyprian, Tertullian, and others. But herein the triall is the vnlikeneſſe of the ſtyle, betweene an autours owne worke and a baſtard fathered on him.
ref: 1588, The Summe of the Conference betweene Iohn Rainoldes and Iohn Hart: Touching the Head and the Faith of the Church, London: […] George Bishop, page 438:
glosses: Obsolete form of author.
dans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dan
ad banner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad banners
Senses: glosses: An advertisement that stretches across (most often the top of) a web site.
ADC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADCs
Senses: examples: text: Then ‘the ADC in Waiting was commanded by Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Lytton, to invite Mr and Mrs Cusack-Bremmil to Peterhoff on July 26 at 9.30 p.p.’
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Three and—an Extra”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 13:
glosses: Initialism of aide-de-camp and postnominal.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of analog-to-digital converter.
glosses: Initialism of aid to dependent children.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of air defense command or aerospace defense command.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of air defense center or aerospace defense center.
examples: text: Catalent’s SMARTag® technology platform offers ADC and biologics developers a one-step toolkit to develop optimized ADCs and bioconjugates.
ref: 2020, Catalent, Life Science Leader, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2021:
glosses: Initialism of antibody-drug conjugate.
glosses: Initialism of automatic distance control.
glosses: Initialism of after-death communication.
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
alt: digital-to-analog converter
word: DAC
topics: aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
english: air defense or aerospace defense
translation: air defense or aerospace defense
word: AD
ADC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Exposing companies to such extreme civil penalties would likely force the overpolicing of lawful expression, chill free speech, and distort the online environment in ways that harms all users,” said ADC National Executive Director, Abed Ayoub. “Beyond moral and political concerns, SB 771 also raises serious constitutional issues.”
ref: 2025 July 17, “ADC Warns: California’s SB 771 is Censorship Disguised as Civil Rights”, in American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee:
glosses: Initialism of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
ADN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ammonium dinitramide.
glosses: Initialism of application delivery network.
glosses: Initialism of auditory disability with normal hearing.
ADN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Advanced Digital Network.
glosses: Initialism of Alliance Defense Network.
ADO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.
Derived terms: ADO.NET
ADSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADSLs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
hypernyms: DSL
glosses: Initialism of asymmetric digital subscriber line.