cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
concise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: more concise
form: most concise
Etymology: From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Senses: synonyms: succinct
terse
antonyms: verbose
glosses: Brief, yet including all important information.
examples: text: This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
ref: 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:
glosses: Physically short or truncated.
Synonyms: word: brief
word: concise
word: crisp
word: laconic
word: lapidary
word: short-winded
word: succinct
word: tight
word: to the point
word: taut
word: terse
Derived terms: concisely
conciseness
concision
unconcise
Related terms: word: taciturn
word: succinctness
concise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: concises
form: concising
form: concised
form: concised
Etymology: From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Senses: glosses: To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
torsk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɹsk/
Forms: form: torsks
Etymology: From Swedish torsk.
Senses: synonyms: cusk
glosses: An edible fish, Brosme brosme.
yea
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
Etymology: From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular development of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language, probably from association with the antonym nay.
Senses: examples: text: 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]
text: Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Yes, indeed.
examples: text: "The pony was about yea high," he explained, holding out his hand, palm down, roughly level with his chin.
qualifier: Midwestern American English
glosses: Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture by way of measurement).
Synonyms: sense: yes
word: aye
sense: yes
word: yep
sense: yes
word: yes
sense: yes
word: yup
sense: yes
word: yeah
sense: yes
english: when contradicting
translation: when contradicting
word: yigh
yea
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
Etymology: From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular development of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language, probably from association with the antonym nay.
Senses: examples: text: [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
(with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
ref: 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40
text: O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
ref: c. 1633, John Donne, The Flea:
glosses: Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
yea
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
Etymology: From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular development of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language, probably from association with the antonym nay.
Senses: qualifier: and African American Vernacular
glosses: Yeah, right, yes.
raw_tags: of American English
yea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
Forms: form: yeas
Etymology: From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular development of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language, probably from association with the antonym nay.
Senses: examples: text: Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman.
ref: 2009 January 6, “Still Broken After All These Years”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2018:
antonyms: nay
glosses: An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
yea
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /ˈjæ(ə)/
rhymes: -ɛə
enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
Etymology: From yeah.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yeah.
yea
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: yā
ipa: /jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: yay
homophone: Ye
enpr: yī
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jiː/
ipa: /jɛː/
ipa: /ˈjɛ(ə)/
ipa: /ˈjæ(ə)/
rhymes: -ɛə
Etymology: See yay.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of yay.
carder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
homophone: carter (t-flapping)
homophone: Carter (t-flapping)
Forms: form: carders
Etymology: From card + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to card wool.
glosses: A carding machine.
glosses: A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
glosses: A person who distributes tart cards.
Derived terms: carder bee
common carder bee
hwy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hwys
form: hwy.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of highway.
Related terms: english: expressway
translation: expressway
word: ewy
english: freeway
translation: freeway
word: fwy
yarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: yarders
Etymology: From yard (verb) + -er.
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: A motor-driven logging machine which transports logs by means of a system of cables and winches.
Derived terms: grapple yarder
mobile yarder
yarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: yarders
Etymology: From yard (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His 25-yarder was sandwiched by classy finishes from Hull’s debutants Abel Hernández and Mohamed Diamé before a howler from the goalkeeper Allan McGregor resulted in a Curtis Davies own goal.
ref: 2014 September 15, Richard Gibson, “West Ham’s Enner Valencia makes mark as points are shared with Hull”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something that is a stated number of yards in some dimension.
Related terms: footer
Cunarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: Cunarders
Etymology: From Cunard + -er. The company was founded by Sir Samuel Cunard (1787-1865).
Senses: examples: text: Our Norseman found himself standing on the deck of a huge black-hulled Cunarder.
ref: 1877, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen, Tales From Two Hemispheres:
text: a gasping August, whose hot breath thickened round the Cunarder before she got half-way up the harbor.
ref: 1896, William Dean Howells, The Landlord At Lions Head:
text: Wireless despatches up to noon Monday showed that the passengers of the Titanic were being transferred aboard the steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder, which left New York, April 13th, for Naples.
ref: 1912, Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters:
glosses: A steamship operated by the Cunard Line.
placarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: placarders
Etymology: From placard + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who posts bills or puts up placards or posters
suddenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌdn̩li/
Forms: form: more suddenly
form: most suddenly
form: sodeinly
Etymology: From Middle English sodenly, sodeynly, sodeinliche, sodaynlyche; equivalent to sudden + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, the heavens opened and we all got drenched.
text: They've suddenly decided to sell the house.
text: The king before he would take his voyage, sent the Erle of Huntyngdon to ſerche and ſcowre the Seas, leaſt any Frenchmen lyeng in wayte for him might attrap him sodeinly, or he had any knowledge of their ſetting forward.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Fift”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 464:
text: But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
synonyms: all of a sudden
antonyms: unsuddenly
glosses: Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.
Derived terms: suddenliness
regarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: regarders
Etymology: From regard + -er.
Senses: glosses: An official responsible for monitoring woodlands and forest areas and reporting to the court of regard.
glosses: A person who regards something or someone.
Derived terms: sneaking regarder
TIM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭm
ipa: /tɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: The service was originally reached in major cities by dialling the letters TIM (846) on a dial telephone.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for the speaking clock.
TIM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭm
ipa: /tɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: TIMs
form: TiM
Etymology: Abbreviation.
* (trans-identified male): when applied to trans women by a person who holds gender-critical beliefs.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trans-identified male.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of time interval meter.
glosses: Initialism of triosephosphateisomerase.
synonyms: TiM
T-I-M
T-i-M
T.I.M.
glosses: Abbreviation of time-in-minutes.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Translocon on Inner cellular Membrane
Coordinate terms: sense: trans-identified male
word: TIF
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: TDC
topics: cytology
biology
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
word: TOC
topics: cytology
biology
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
word: TIC
topics: cytology
biology
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
word: TOM
carper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
Forms: form: carpers
Etymology: From carp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Come, let my carper to his life now look,
And find there darker lines than in my book
He findeth any […]
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
text: He censures everything, this zealous carper.
ref: 1908, Molière, translated by Curtis Hidden Page, Act I, and Scene I, Tartuffe, published 1664:
text: What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?
ref: 1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21:
text: […] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
visarga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visargas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit विसर्ग (visarga).
Senses: examples: text: XXV of Centamil published by the Tamil Sangam at Madura that in ancient times āytam was represented by visarga.
ref: 1934, P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, History of Grammatical Theories in Tamil and Their Relation to the Grammatical Literature in Sanskrit:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: the voiceless terminal h in Sanskrit
Related terms: word: anusvara
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ः
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ঃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ਃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ઃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ଃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ஃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ః
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ಃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ഃ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ཿ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: း
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: ះ
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
word: 𑄂
sense: Symbols for visarga in various scripts
roman: Sinhala
word: ඃ
partaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partagas
Senses: examples: text: He accepted a partaga with a very good grace.
ref: 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire:
glosses: A cigar of the Partagás brand, from Havana.
calver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːvə/
ipa: /ˈkævɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)
homophone: carver stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: calvers
Etymology: From calve + -er.
Senses: glosses: A cow that produces young.
Related terms: down-calver
first calver
second calver
calver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːvə/
ipa: /ˈkævɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)
homophone: carver stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: As the adjective predates the verb, possibly from Middle English calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from Old English calwer. Cognate with Scots caller.
Senses: examples: calver salmon
glosses: Of salmon: freshly caught.
calver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːvə/
ipa: /ˈkævɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)
homophone: carver stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: calvers
form: calvering
form: calvered
form: calvered
Etymology: As the adjective predates the verb, possibly from Middle English calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from Old English calwer. Cognate with Scots caller.
Senses: examples: text: My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Great lords sometimes / For change leave calver'd salmon and eat sprats.
ref: 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 4, scene 2, page 429:
glosses: To cut into slices and pickle.
examples: text: [A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […][it] is very good meat at all times.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler:
glosses: To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
halver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːvə(ɹ)
-ævə(ɹ)
Forms: form: halvers
Senses: glosses: a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
examples: text: Let's go halvers on the tab tonight.
text: like a Scotch schoolboy when he finds anything, "Nae halvers and quarters--hale o' mine ain and 'nane o' my neighbour's.
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: sharing in halves
palaver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɑː.və(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: palavers
form: palavering
form: palavered
form: palavered
Etymology: Originally nautical slang, from Portuguese palavra (“word”), from Late Latin parabola (“parable, speech”). The term's use (especially in Africa) mimics the evolution of the word moot. As such, for sense development, see moot. Doublet of parable, parole, and parabola.
Senses: examples: text: “Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,—away!” and with that, Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 21:
text: “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”
ref: 1860 April, Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, number 30:
synonyms: word: jabber
word: rabbit
word: yak
word: babble
word: bat the breeze
word: blab
word: blabber
word: blather
word: carp
word: chat
word: chatter
word: chew the fat
word: chew the rag
word: chinwag
word: chit-chat
word: chunner
word: clack
word: claver
word: clepe
word: drivel
word: jabber
word: gabble
word: gibber
word: go on
word: maunder
word: natter
word: palaver
word: piffle
word: prate
word: prattle
word: rabbit
word: rabbit on
word: ramble
word: shoot the breeze
word: shoot the bull
word: shoot the shit
word: smatter
word: tattle
word: twaddle
word: waffle
word: wibble
word: witter
word: yabber
word: yack
word: yatter
word: yap
glosses: To discuss with much talk.
examples: text: Dodd never spoke to his officers like a ruffian, nor yet palavered them.
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
glosses: To flatter.
Labrador
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹəˌdɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹəˌdɔɹ/
Etymology: Eponym of Portuguese explorer João Fernandes Lavrador, from Portuguese lavrador (“landholder, farmer”), ultimately from Latin labor (“work”).
Senses: glosses: A geographic region, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in eastern Canada.
glosses: A geographic region, including the mainland portion of Newfoundland and Labrador and neighbouring regions of what is now the province of Quebec.
glosses: A peninsula including the province of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as the northern three-fourths of Quebec; in full, the Labrador Peninsula.
glosses: The Labrador Sea: An arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Labrador.
glosses: A municipality and town in Pangasinan, Philippines.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: word: Lab
word: Lab.
word: Labrador City
word: Labrador Current
word: Labrador duck
word: Labrador feldspar
word: Labradorian
word: labradorite
word: Labrador jay
word: Labrador lung
word: Labrador Sea
word: Labrador stone
word: Labrador tea
word: Newfoundland and Labrador
Related terms: Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹəˌdɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹəˌdɔɹ/
Forms: form: Labradors
Etymology: Eponym of Portuguese explorer João Fernandes Lavrador, from Portuguese lavrador (“landholder, farmer”), ultimately from Latin labor (“work”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Labrador retriever.
hinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The "not unhinged" sense was created as a back-formation from unhinged.
Senses: examples: text: There are hinged side buffers, and the centre coupler also is hinged to enable the vehicles to work with ordinary stock.
ref: 1946 November and December, “New L.M.S.R. Royal Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
glosses: Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
glosses: Extremely high on drugs.
glosses: Affixed with a stamp hinge
raw_tags: of a postage stamp
glosses: Sane; not unhinged.
Derived terms: hinged-back tortoise
hingedly
hinged tortoise
nonhinged
unhinged
hinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: The "not unhinged" sense was created as a back-formation from unhinged.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hinge
ens reale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: real being
Newfoundland and Labrador
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Newfoundland and Labrador which constitute this province.
Senses: glosses: A province in eastern Canada; abbreviation Nfld., Nfld, NL, N.L., N. L., or NF; formerly, Newfoundland (1949–2001). Capital: St. John's.
Derived terms: Newfoundland and Labradorian
Related terms: Labrador
Newfoundland
studium generale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cambridge was confirmed as a studium generale by Papal Bull in 1318.
glosses: a school in which pedagogues with academic titles (doctores, magistri, professores, etc.) could teach students from other countries, and could offer licenses in multiple disciplines (compare to studium particulare). Historians often designate a school's recognition as a studium generale as one of the key characteristics of it being a university.
hadji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːdʒi
Forms: form: hadjis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajji.
hajji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ædʒi
Forms: form: hajjis
form: hadji
form: haji
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French hagi, from Ottoman Turkish حاجی (hacı), from Classical Persian حَاجِی (hājī).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a honorific given to Muslim who has participated in a hajj.
glosses: A Muslim or Arab.
Alps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælps/
rhymes: -ælps
homophone: alps
Forms: form: the Alps
Etymology: From Middle English Alpes, from Old English Alpis, ultimately from Latin Alpēs; in later use partly via French. Compare German Alpen (“alps”, plurale tantum), German Alp (“mountainous pasture”).
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.
Derived terms: Albanian Alps
Allgäu Alps
Australian Alps
Berchtesgaden Alps
Bergamo Alps
Bernese Alps
Carnic Alps
Cottian Alps
Dinaric Alps
French Alps
Fynske Alps
Graian Alps
Japanese Alps
Jewish Alps
Julian Alps
Kamnik Alps
Kitzbühel Alps
Lechtal Alps
Lyngen Alps
Maritime Alps
Norlund Alps
Northern Limestone Alps
Ortler Alps
Ötztal Alps
Pennine Alps
Prealps
Princess Caroline Mathilde Alps
Princess Elizabeth Alps
Rhaetian Alps
Samnaun Alps
Southern Alps
Southern Limestone Alps
Stauning Alps
Stubai Alps
Swiss Alps
Transylvanian Alps
Trinity Alps
Tux Alps
Verwall Alps
Victorian Alps
Western Alps
Yiddish Alps
Zillertal Alps
Related terms: Alpine
Romaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek ρωμαίικος (romaíikos), from ρωμαϊκός (romaïkós), from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαϊκός (Rhōmaïkós). Cf. Koine Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), meaning "Roman".
Senses: glosses: The modern Greek language, deriving from terminology designating speakers of Greek from the former Byzantine Empire.
Romaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romaic
form: most Romaic
Etymology: From Greek ρωμαίικος (romaíikos), from ρωμαϊκός (romaïkós), from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαϊκός (Rhōmaïkós). Cf. Koine Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), meaning "Roman".
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Byzantine Empire, its inhabitants, or its language.
glosses: Of or pertaining to modern Greece, its inhabitants, or its language.
Related terms: Rhomaian
-kin
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -kin, -kinne, -kunne, from Old English cynna, the genitive plural of cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), used in compounds.
Senses: examples: alkin
Dutchkin
ilkin
weirdkin
whatkin
glosses: Used to form adjectives expressing resemblance or likeness to, similar to -like.
examples: otakukin
otherkin
qualifier: plural -kin
glosses: Used to form nouns having qualities of or belonging to a particular kind, class, or sort.
-kin
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -kin, -ken (also as -ke, -k), perhaps from Old English -ca, but more likely from Middle Dutch -ken (compare cognate Middle English -chen, -chin, from Old English -ċen), apparently representing Proto-West Germanic *-ikīn, *-ukīn, a double diminutive, from *-ik, *-uk (> Old English -oc) + *-īn (compare Old English -en). Cognate with Dutch -ken, Low German -ken, German -chen, Old English -ċen. More at -ock, -en.
Senses: glosses: Forming diminutives of nouns.
Synonyms: -ie
-let
-ling
-ock
Related terms: english: from Middle English Jankin
translation: from Middle English Jankin
word: Jack
word: mannikin
word: mannequin
word: ramekin
word: ramequin
word: -kins
word: -chan
color charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color charges
form: colour charge
Etymology: From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).
Related terms: word: color force
word: colour force
word: nuclear force
word: residual strong force
word: strong force
word: strong interaction
word: strong nuclear force
word: strong nuclear interaction
quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwäk
ipa: /kwɑːk/
enpr: kwärk
ipa: /kwɑɹk/
enpr: kwôrk
ipa: /kwɔɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
note: reproducing the German pronunciation
enpr: kväk
ipa: /kvɑːk/
note: reproducing the German pronunciation
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
enpr: kwäk
ipa: /kwɑːk/
enpr: kwärk
ipa: /kwɑɹk/
enpr: kwôrk
ipa: /kwɔɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Etymology: [Alt: A spoonful of quark cheese served with tomato slices on a plate]
Borrowed from German Quark (“cottage cheese; curds; curd cheese”), from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language, possibly Lower Sorbian twarog (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ (“quark”), probably related to *tvorìti (“to make”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to enclose, fence in; to grab, seize”). Doublet of tvorog.
Senses: coordinate_terms: tvorog
glosses: A soft, creamy, unripened cheese made from cow's milk, originating from and eaten throughout central, northern, eastern, and southeastern Europe, as well as the Low Countries.
Synonyms: word: quark
Hypernyms: word: fermion
word: elementary particle
word: subatomic particle
Hyponyms: word: beauty quark
word: bottom quark
word: charm quark
word: down quark
word: strange quark
word: top quark
word: truth quark
word: up quark
quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwäk
ipa: /kwɑːk/
enpr: kwärk
ipa: /kwɑɹk/
enpr: kwôrk
ipa: /kwɔɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
note: reproducing the German pronunciation
enpr: kväk
ipa: /kvɑːk/
note: reproducing the German pronunciation
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
enpr: kwäk
ipa: /kwɑːk/
enpr: kwärk
ipa: /kwɑɹk/
enpr: kwôrk
ipa: /kwɔɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
note: reproducing the German pronunciation
enpr: kväk
ipa: /kvɑːk/
note: reproducing the German pronunciation
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: quarks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the squawk.
Senses: synonyms: quawk
qualifier: Falkland Islands
glosses: The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax).
Synonyms: word: quark
Hypernyms: word: fermion
word: elementary particle
word: subatomic particle
Hyponyms: word: beauty quark
word: bottom quark
word: charm quark
word: down quark
word: strange quark
word: top quark
word: truth quark
word: up quark
flavour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavours
form: flavor
Senses: examples: text: The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
text: Flavour was added to the pudding.
text: What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
text: The flavour of an experience.
text: Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
text: Ciaotou Sugar Factory
(橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour.
ref: 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 256:
text: The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, pages 56–57:
glosses: British standard spelling of flavor.
Synonyms: word: flavour
word: sapor
word: smack
word: smake
word: smatch
word: taste
Hypernyms: word: sensation
Hyponyms: word: relish
word: zest
word: zing
word: tang
word: twang
word: bitterness
word: saltiness
word: savoriness
word: sourness
word: spiciness
word: sweetness
Meronyms: word: bitter
word: meaty
word: salty
word: sour
word: sweet
Related terms: word: race
flavour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flavours
form: flavouring
form: flavoured
form: flavoured
form: flavor
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of flavor.
Derived terms: disflavour
flavon
flavourer
flavourist
flavoursome
flavourwise
flavoury
misflavour
subflavour
underflavour
flavor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪvə/
ipa: /ˈfleɪvɚ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
homophone: flava (non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: flavors
form: flavour
Etymology: From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
Senses: examples: text: The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
glosses: The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
examples: text: Flavor was added to the pudding.
glosses: Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
examples: text: What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?
text: My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.
glosses: A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
examples: text: the flavor of an experience
text: I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.
ref: 1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5:
glosses: The characteristic quality of something.
examples: text: Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
glosses: A kind or type.
examples: text: Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it
ref: 1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Style.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
examples: text: the flavor of a rose
text: It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account.
ref: 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
Derived terms: disflavor
fat is flavor
flavor burst
flavordynamics
flavored
flavor enhancer
flavorer
flavor fatigue
flavorful
flavoring
flavorist
flavorize
flavorless
flavor of the month
flavor of the road
flavor of the week
flavorsome
flavor text
flavorwise
flavorwood
flavory
off-flavor
today's flavor
flavor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪvə/
ipa: /ˈfleɪvɚ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
homophone: flava (non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: flavors
form: flavoring
form: flavored
form: flavored
form: flavour
Etymology: From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
Senses: glosses: To add flavoring to something.
Derived terms: flavor up
overflavor
Related terms: gustatory
gustation
scatback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatbacks
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small lightweight running back valued for speed rather than power.
kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĕt'(ə)l
ipa: /ˈkɛ.təl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛtᵊɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɛ.təl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛɾɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɪtəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɛʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
Forms: form: kettles
Etymology: From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron”), Swedish kittel (“kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).
(watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).
Senses: examples: text: To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.
text: There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
glosses: The quantity held by a kettle.
examples: text: Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
synonyms: teakettle
glosses: A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
examples: text: a kettle of hawks
text: Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.
ref: 2010, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A steam locomotive
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kettledrum.
glosses: An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
glosses: A watch (timepiece).
glosses: A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
Derived terms: a watched kettle never boils
cat calling the kettle black
cheese kettle
coffee-kettle
fish kettle
giant kettle
giant's kettle
kettlebell
kettlebelly
kettle bottom
kettle cable
kettle chip
kettle corn
kettle drum
kettle-drum
kettleful
kettle fur collector
kettle hat
kettle helmet
kettle hole
kettle lake
kettle lead
kettlelike
kettle logic
kettle of fish
kettle-pin
kettler
kettle stitch
kettle trap
lunch kettle
potash kettle
pot calling the kettle black
storm in a tea-kettle
tea-kettle
teakettle
tea kettle
tempest in a tea-kettle
kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĕt'(ə)l
ipa: /ˈkɛ.təl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛtᵊɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɛ.təl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛɾɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɪtəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɛʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
Forms: form: kettles
form: kettling
form: kettled
form: kettled
Etymology: From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (“kettle, cauldron”) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (“kettle, bucket, vessel”), of uncertain origin and formation. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron”), Swedish kittel (“kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).
(watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).
Senses: examples: text: Life for senior officers has been made much easier by the use of counter-terrorism powers, which enable them to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling, is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.
ref: 2009 April 2, John O'Connor, “G20: The upside of kettling: The Guardian”, in The Guardian:
text: A couple of the initial pepper spray incidents went viral on YouTube, one showing very young women screaming hysterically while penned—or is the term for this ‘kettled’?—by bright orange police mesh.
ref: 2011 October 12, Gregory Djerejian, “This Ain't No Tea Party: A Conservative Defense of Occupy Wall Street”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
raw_tags: of the police
glosses: Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĕt'(ə)l
ipa: /ˈkɛ.təl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛtᵊɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɛ.təl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛɾɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɪtəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɛʈɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /-əl/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
Forms: form: kettles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
teakettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiˌkɛtəl/
Forms: form: teakettles
form: tea kettle
form: tea-kettle
Etymology: From tea + kettle.
Senses: examples: text: Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: “Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”
ref: 1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter VIII, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:
text: Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 358:
qualifier: dated outside US
glosses: A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
Derived terms: ass over teakettle
teakettle groom
teakettler
Related terms: tea
teapot
teakettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiˌkɛtəl/
Forms: form: teakettles
form: teakettling
form: teakettled
form: teakettled
form: tea kettle
form: tea-kettle
Etymology: From tea + kettle.
Senses: examples: text: The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.
ref: 2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, page 46:
text: They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.
ref: 2011, Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause:
glosses: To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
ass over teakettle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: arse over teakettle
form: ass over teacups
form: ass over tin cups
Senses: examples: text: When the top step gave way, he went ass over teakettle back down to the bottom.
glosses: Tumbling upside down.
examples: text: We've been scrambling ass over teakettle to get this thing done on time.
glosses: Frantically.
Synonyms: sense: tumbling upside down
word: arse over tip
sense: tumbling upside down
word: arse over tit
sense: tumbling upside down
word: head over heels
sense: frantically
word: like crazy
sense: frantically
word: like mad
ass over teakettle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: arse over teakettle
form: ass over teacups
form: ass over tin cups
Senses: examples: text: After all that hard work cleaning up, along comes one big storm and we're ass over teakettle again.
glosses: In complete disarray.
tea kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea kettles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teakettle.
hawberk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawberks
Senses: examples: text: The hawberk and haubergeon long continued almost the sole defensive armour of this country...
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of hauberk.
plate armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate armours
form: plate armor
Senses: examples: text: Plate armour was, however, completely introduced both here and in France about the middle of the fourteenth century.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 74:
glosses: Metallic armour made of large pieces or plates.
Hyponyms: breastplate
legplate
platelegs
plateskirt
Related terms: bodyplate
limit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪm.ɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɪm(ɪ)ʈ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪt
Etymology: From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Being a fixed limit game.
Related terms: bound
function
limit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪm.ɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɪm(ɪ)ʈ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪt
Forms: form: limits
form: limiting
form: limited
form: limited
Etymology: From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
Senses: examples: text: We need to limit the power of the executive.
text: I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
text: [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: Beeching is more disparaging about suburban services beyond the capital, and I think here lies one of the most critical shortcomings in his analysis. By not considering the potential for these cities to grow, both on their own merits and in response to London's limitations, he failed to future-proof these types of service, limiting them in favour of long-distance services.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
synonyms: word: check
word: straiten
word: behedge
word: blunt
word: delay
word: difficult
word: diminish
word: forestay
word: interfere
word: intervene
word: forslow
word: frustrate
word: get in the way
word: hamper
word: handicap
word: hinder
word: hold up
word: hurt
word: impair
word: impede
word: incommode
word: lessen
word: let
word: mar
word: obstruct
word: overslaugh
word: preclude
word: prevene
word: prevent
word: prohibit
word: reduce
word: restrict
word: retard
word: slow down
word: stay
word: stymie
word: thwart
word: thwarten
word: umbeset
word: undermine
word: weaken
word: worsen
word: behedge
word: guard
word: bind
word: chasten
word: check
word: contain
word: vanquish
word: cork
word: curb
word: bury
word: curtail
word: dampen
word: hamshackle
word: hold back
word: hold down
word: limit
word: repress
word: restrain
word: restrict
word: shackle
word: stay
word: stifle
word: stop
word: straiten
word: subdue
word: suppress
word: throttle
word: underbring
word: withhold
word: withstrain
antonyms: expand
release
glosses: To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
examples: text: The sequence limits on the point a.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To have a limit in a particular set.
examples: text: a limiting friar
glosses: To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Derived terms: limitable
limit out
prelimit
self-limiting
quisset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quissets
Etymology: From Old French quisse (“thigh”), perhaps via Middle English quishete; compare cuisset (extnded form of cuisse), and quish (variant form of cuisse).
Senses: examples: text: Quissets for the thighs.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 82:
glosses: Synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
synonyms: word: cuisse
word: cuissette
lituus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtju.əs/
Forms: form: litui
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin lituus.
Senses: examples: 1786: Fig. 3. A Roman Lituus, or military trumpet, such as is mentioned by Horace in his first ode. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page vi.
glosses: A military trumpet.
glosses: An augur's staff with a recurved top.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve with polar equation r²θ=a², where a is a constant.
Related terms: lituate
lituiform
big figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big figures
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: In a money market, the part of a monetary value before the decimal point.
champfrein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champfreins
Senses: examples: text: Consists of chanfrons, champfrein, or shaffrons for barded horses.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page viii:
glosses: Alternative form of chamfron (“protective armor for a horse's head”).