cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anti-gay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-gays
form: antigay
Etymology: From anti- + gay (“homosexual”).
Senses: examples: text: Even now gay rights ordinances are in danger of being repealed by local and statewide initiatives. Indeed, San Francisco, the self proclaimed gay capital, is in the danger of falling prey to the anti-gays.
ref: 1974 February 2, Edward Sebesta, “Launching the Gay '80s: Gay Rights Under Siege In Santa Clara County”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 5:
text: Antigays trash Latvia’s first pride parade
ref: 2005 July 27, Rex Wockner, “World Round Up”, in Windy City Times:
glosses: One who is against or opposed to gay people, or to rights for gay people.
Related terms: homophobe
calm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːm/
ipa: [kʰɑːm]
ipa: /kaːm/
ipa: [kʰɐːm]
ipa: /kɑm/
ipa: /kɑlm/
ipa: /kɔlm/
ipa: /kæm/
ipa: [kʰäː(ɫ)m]
ipa: [kʰɒː(ɫ)m]
ipa: [kʰa(ː)m]
ipa: /kam/
ipa: /kaɹm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɑːlm
rhymes: -ɔːlm
rhymes: -ɔːm
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: calmer
form: more calm
form: calmest
form: most calm
form: calme
Etymology: From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).
Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).
Senses: antonyms: stressed
nervous
anxious
glosses: Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Calm is the morn without a sound,
⁠Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
⁠And only thro’ the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: disturbed
glosses: Free of noise and disturbance.
raw_tags: of a place or situation
glosses: with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
raw_tags: of water
antonyms: windy
stormy
glosses: Without wind or storm.
raw_tags: of weather
Synonyms: word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
Hypernyms: word: inactive
Hyponyms: word: carefree
Derived terms: becalm
calm and collected
calm as a cucumber
calm as a millpond
calm blue ocean
calmen
calmish
calmly
calmness
calmth
calm wind
cool, calm and collected
encalm
ice-calm
uncalm
uncalmable
Related terms: word: calmness
word: pacify
word: temperate
calm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːm/
ipa: [kʰɑːm]
ipa: /kaːm/
ipa: [kʰɐːm]
ipa: /kɑm/
ipa: /kɑlm/
ipa: /kɔlm/
ipa: /kæm/
ipa: [kʰäː(ɫ)m]
ipa: [kʰɒː(ɫ)m]
ipa: [kʰa(ː)m]
ipa: /kam/
ipa: /kaɹm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɑːlm
rhymes: -ɔːlm
rhymes: -ɔːm
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: calms
form: calme
Etymology: From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).
Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).
Senses: examples: text: Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,
⁠And waves that sway themselves in rest,
⁠And dead calm in that noble breast
Which heaves but with the heaving deep.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
raw_tags: in a person
glosses: The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
raw_tags: in a place or situation
examples: text: The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 4:39:
text: It was a calm ; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 64, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 324:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The absense of wind; a period of time without wind.
Derived terms: calm before the storm
calmful
calmy
clock calm
dead calm
ice-calm
calm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːm/
ipa: [kʰɑːm]
ipa: /kaːm/
ipa: [kʰɐːm]
ipa: /kɑm/
ipa: /kɑlm/
ipa: /kɔlm/
ipa: /kæm/
ipa: [kʰäː(ɫ)m]
ipa: [kʰɒː(ɫ)m]
ipa: [kʰa(ː)m]
ipa: /kam/
ipa: /kaɹm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
rhymes: -ɑːlm
rhymes: -ɔːlm
rhymes: -ɔːm
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: calms
form: calming
form: calmed
form: calmed
form: calme
Etymology: From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).
Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).
Senses: examples: text: to calm a crying baby
text: to calm the passions
text: to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make calm.
glosses: To become calm.
Synonyms: allay
appease
calm down
cool off
ease
pacify
quieten
soothe
subdue
Derived terms: calm down
calm your tits
calm your titties
agonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɡɘ.nɪst/
Forms: form: agonists
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin agōnista, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “combatant, champion”). By surface analysis, agon or agony + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist.
examples: text: When bending the elbow, the biceps is the agonist.
glosses: The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
examples: text: Acetylcholine is an agonist at the cholinergic receptor.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: antagonist
blocker
glosses: A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
Derived terms: agonistical
agonistics
antagonist
co-agonist
coagonist
deuteragonist
inverse agonist
protagonist
superagonist
tritagonist
campfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kămpʹfīr'
enpr: kămpʹfīər'
ipa: /ˈkæmpˌfaɪ̯ɚ/
ipa: [ˈkʰɛə̯mpˌfaɪ̯ɚ]
Forms: form: campfires
Etymology: From camp + fire.
Senses: examples: text: Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true. The “Blue-Light Elder” knows ’em well; says he, “That’s Banks — he’s fond of shell; Lord save his soul! We’ll give him” — well, that’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps off! Old Blue Light’s going to pray. Strangle the fool that dares to scoff: Attention! 'Tis his way. Appealing from his native sod in forma pauperis to God: “Lay bare thine arm, stretch forth thy rod! Amen!” That’s “Stonewall’s Way.”
He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Ah! Maiden, wait and watch and yearn for news of Stonewall’s band! Ah! Widow read with eyes that burn that ring upon thy hand. Ah! Wife, sew on, pray on, hope on! Thy life shall not be all forlorn. The foe had better ne’er been born that gets in “Stonewall’s Way.”
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
text: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
Derived terms: campfire beans
campfire cookie
Campfire Girl
campfire song
campfire story
piss on someone's campfire
Related terms: bonfire
campground
camping
cease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: ceases
form: ceasing
form: ceased
form: ceased
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: cease
form: cease
form: ceased
form: cease
form: ceasest
form: ceased
form: ceasedst
form: ceases
form: ceaseth
form: ceased
form: cease
form: ceased
form: cease
form: ceased
form: cease
form: -
form: ceasing
form: ceased
Etymology: From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.
Senses: examples: text: And with that, his twitching ceased.
synonyms: word: discontinue
word: hold
word: terminate
word: complete
word: conclude
word: consummate
word: discontinue
word: do
word: end
word: finalize
word: finish
word: fullcome
word: get through
word: round off
word: stay
word: stop
word: terminate
word: wind up
word: anchor
word: astand
word: blin
word: brake
word: cease
word: desist
word: draw up
word: grind to a halt
word: halt
word: hold
word: immobilize
word: leave off
word: rest
word: stall
word: stay
word: stint
word: stop
word: swike
glosses: To stop.
examples: text: And with that, he ceased twitching.
synonyms: word: arrest
word: discontinue
word: absist
word: belay
word: blin
word: break off
word: cease
word: cess
word: cheese it
word: come to an end
word: desist
word: discontinue
word: forbear
word: give up
word: halt
word: have done with
word: hold
word: leave off
word: let up
word: rest
word: stanch
word: staunch
word: stay
word: stop
word: surcease
word: terminate
glosses: To stop doing (something).
examples: text: The poor shall never cease out of the land.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 15:11:
text: [...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 159-161:
text: ’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws,
⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 53:
synonyms: desert
lack
glosses: To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.
Derived terms: cease and desist
ceasefire
ceaseless
ceaser
unceasable
unceased
unceasing
without cease
wonders never cease
Related terms: cede
cessation
secede
cease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Etymology: From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.
Senses: examples: text: the cease of majesty
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Cessation; extinction (see without cease).
dell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕl
ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: dells
Etymology: From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.
Senses: examples: text: To this day they dwell
In a lonely dell.
ref: 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50
text: In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.
ref: 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:
glosses: A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
Synonyms: dale
dingle
vale
valley
Derived terms: farmer in the dell
Hazel Dell
up hill and down dell
dell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕl
ipa: /dɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: dells
Etymology: Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).
Senses: examples: text: Sweet doxies and dells
ref: 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: A young woman; a wench.
glosses: 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
glosses: 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11:
A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
Derived terms: arch dell
wapping dell
efficacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌɛf.əˈkeɪ.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌef.əˈkæɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more efficacious
form: most efficacious
Etymology: From Old French efficacieux, from Latin efficāx (“efficacious”) + -ous, from efficere (“to effect, to accomplish”); see effect.
Senses: examples: text: This medicine is efficacious.
text: For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.
ref: 1669 August 26, “[An Accompt of Some Books.] III. Ottonis Tachenii Hippocrates Chymicus. Venetiis in 12º.”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume IV, number 50, London: Printed by T. N. for John Martyn […] , printer to the Royal Society, published 1670, →OCLC, pages 1019–1020:
text: "I see," said he, with a smile, "that you, like myself, are trying the effect of this sweet evening for the headach. I have already found it very efficacious, and so, I think, have you,"—again smiling, as he noticed the deep blush which his sudden appearance had produced.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 292:
text: He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 218:
text: The unquenchable American moralism and the American faith in violence are not just twin symptoms of some character neurosis taking the form of a protracted adolescence, which presages an eventual maturity. They constitute a full-grown, firmly installed national psychosis, founded, as are all psychoses, on the efficacious denial of reality.
ref: 1969, Susan Sontag, “What’s Happening in America”, in Styles of Radical Will, Kindle edition, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN, page 195:
synonyms: effective
antonyms: inefficacious
glosses: Effective; possessing efficacy.
Derived terms: efficaciously
efficaciousness
nonefficacious
subefficacious
unefficacious
Related terms: effect
effective
effectivity
effectual
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
public library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public libraries
Senses: glosses: A library provided essentially as a public service rather than as a commercial venture.
mummy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: mummies
form: mummying
form: mummied
form: mummied
Etymology: From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.
Senses: glosses: To mummify.
Derived terms: unmummied
mummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: mummies
form: mommy
form: mummie
Etymology: From mum + -y (diminutive suffix), related to mom and mommy, from mother.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, mummy, would you like the loveliest daughter-in-law in the world? Oh, mummy, I must marry Flora Dewsley. But I know I am not nearly good enough, mummy. She knows nothing of the world and its wickedness, and I — Well, mummy, at school, a fellow learns everything. And no man is perfect, is he, mummy?[…]”
ref: 1926, John Steinbeck, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 198, page 9:
text: Meeting mummy after this visit was not exactly easy.
ref: 1927, Harper's Magazine, volume 155, page 188:
text: “[…]What′s your problem, you little shit? Proud of yourself, for ruining Mummy′s life?” I was careful to use the insipid falsetto the experts commend. “You′ve got Daddy snowed, but Mummy′s got your number. You're a little shit, aren′t you?″
ref: 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: 2004, Dennis Child, Psychology and the Teacher, Continuum International Publishing, page 91,
‘ […] We have to ask mummy if we can go to Rajah′s mummy′s house (Rajah′s mummy is the owner of the dog). We can if mummy says “yes”. […] ’
text: Darla stared at her father and said, Mummy, Mummy, Mummy!
Marjorie wheezed and said, Father. You. Are. Filthy!
Joe said Daddy′s muddy! Daddy′s muddy!
Darla stared at the darkened doorway where Howard stood, saying, Mummy, Mummy, Mummy, each time a little louder, each time a bit more shrilly,[…].
ref: 2009, Paul Harding, Tinkers, published 2010, unnumbered page:
glosses: mother.
Derived terms: grandmummy
mummy daddy
mummydom
mummyhood
mummyji
mummykins
mummy makeover
mummy porn
mummy's boy
mummy track
mummy wars
stepmummy
sugar mummy
yummy mummy
elixir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪksə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /-ɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪksə(ɹ)
Forms: form: elixirs
Etymology: From Medieval Latin elixir (“philosopher's stone”), from Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr, “philosopher's stone”), from Ancient Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “powder for drying wounds”), from ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).
Senses: examples: text: For Chinese alchemists, gold held the key to the Elixir, the Eastern equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 59:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: A liquid which converts lead to gold.
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.
examples: text: The silver-bullet cancer cures of yesterday’s newsmagazine covers, like interferon and angiogenesis inhibitors, disappointed the breathless expectations, as have elixirs such as antioxidants, Vioxx, and hormone replacement therapy.
ref: 2015, The Boston Globe, Steven Pinker, The moral imperative for bioethics:
glosses: The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea.
examples: text: The subcommittee's report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry shows that the action of somnos is practically identical with that of a 5 per cent elixir of hydrated chloral.
ref: 1906, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 47, pages 872–875:
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
Derived terms: elixiric
elixirist
elixirlike
elixir of life
elixir of vitriol
elixir proprietatis
elixir vitae
amulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.jə.lɪt/
Forms: form: amulets
form: amulette
Etymology: From Middle French amulette, from Latin amuletum.
Senses: examples: text: The soldier wore an amulet for protection.
text: An ancient amulet was discovered in the ruins.
glosses: A religious article, protective charm, or ornament, usually bearing cultural or magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.
Synonyms: word: amulet
word: charm
word: fetish
word: juju
word: lucky charm
word: madstone
word: mascot
word: mojo
word: periapt
word: phylactery
word: protection
word: talisman
word: telesm
word: token
Hypernyms: word: ornament
Derived terms: amuleted
amuletic
amuletlike
Related terms: word: medallion
word: rosary
word: talisman
word: apotropaism
spawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːn/
ipa: /spɔn/
ipa: /spɑn/
ipa: /spɑɒn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
rhymes: Rhymes: -ɑn
Forms: form: spawn
form: spawns
Etymology: From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).
Senses: glosses: The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
glosses: Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
examples: text: This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
glosses: Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
examples: text: Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
Children; offspring.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of spawn point.
synonyms: word: spawn point
Derived terms: frogspawn
hellspawn
mushroom spawn
respawn
spawn camp
spawn camper
spawn eater
spawnkill
vampire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vampires
form: vampiring
form: vampired
form: vampired
form: vampyre
form: wampyr
Etymology: From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr /ва̀мпӣр, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь. Doublet of oupire.
Senses: glosses: To drain of energy or resources.
Related terms: word: werewolf
word: bloodsucker
word: hemovore
word: Desmodus rotundus
english: vampire
translation: vampire
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pariah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: pariahs
Etymology: From Tamil பறையர் (paṟaiyar), from பறையன் (paṟaiyaṉ, “drummer”), from பறை (paṟai, “drum”) or from Malayalam പറയർ (paṟayaṟ), from പറയൻ (paṟayaṉ, “drummer”), from പറ (paṟa, “drum”). Parai in Tamil or Para in Malayalam refers to a type of large drum designed to announce the king’s notices to the public. The people who made a living using the parai were called paraiyar; in the caste-based society they were in the lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah.
Alternatively, derived from Sanskrit पर (para, “distant; outsider”).
Senses: examples: text: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a Pariah from genteel society.
ref: 1857, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “The Fitz-Boodle Papers”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume IV, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 4:
text: I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.
ref: 1985, Robert Holmes, “The Two Doctors”, in Doctor Who, season 22, episode 4:
text: […] I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah, since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.
ref: 2014, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, “Prologue”, in Executive Presence, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
synonyms: word: outcast
extra: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society
examples: text: As ecological conditions became unfavorable for pig raising, there was no alternative function which could redeem its existence. The creature became not only useless, but worse than useless—harmful, a curse to touch or merely to see—a pariah animal.
ref: 2013, Marvin Harris, “The Abominable Pig”, in Food and Culture: A Reader, 3rd edition, New York City, →ISBN, pages 64–65:
text: This scenario could lead to war crimes the scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that would make Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all global pariahs.
ref: 2022 March 2, Thomas L. Friedman, “I See Three Scenarios for How This War Ends”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).
Derived terms: nonpariah
pariah arrack
pariah dog
pariahdom
pariahism
pariah kite
pariahlike
pariahship
ellen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ən/
rhymes: -ɛlən
Forms: form: elne
Etymology: From Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“zeal, strength, power, vigor, valor, courage, fortitude, strife, contention”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljan, from Proto-Germanic *aljaną (“zeal, power, courage”). Cognate with Middle High German ellen (“strength, manhood”), Middle Low German ellen (“strength, power, courage, vigor, bravery”), Icelandic elja (“endurance, energy”).
Senses: glosses: Zeal.
glosses: Strength; courage.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Strength vouchsafed; comfort; grace.
williwaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: williwaws
form: willawa
form: williwau
form: wulliwa
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: The breeze in this case was the infamous north-Chicago williwaw that sometimes blows outward and bleacherward at Wrigley Field.
ref: 1982, Roger Angell, Late innings, Simon and Schuster, page 196:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strong gust of cold wind.
Related terms: whillywha
Claudia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɔː.di.ə/
ipa: /ˈklaʊ.di.ə/
homophone: cloudier stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: examples: text: Make ſpede to come befoꝛe winter. Eubolus gretith the / and Pudes / and Linus / and Claudia / and all the bꝛethꝛen.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 2 Timothy iiij:[21], folio cclxxxij, verso:
text: Claudia is really Mummy, but she does not like being Mummy so you have to say Claudia. […] Lisa is a better name. Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh. Bang – whoom! Lisa makes a nice silky noise, like streams or rain.
ref: 1987, Penelope Lively, chapter 4, in Moon Tiger, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president.
ref: 2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2024:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Claudius.
woofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝ofʹər
ipa: /ˈwʊfɚ/
rhymes: -ʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: woofers
Etymology: From woof + -er.
Senses: glosses: A loudspeaker that produces low-frequency sound.
glosses: A dog.
Synonyms: sense: dog
word: dog
Coordinate terms: sense: low-frequency audio speaker
word: midrange
sense: low-frequency audio speaker
word: squawker
sense: low-frequency audio speaker
word: subwoofer
sense: low-frequency audio speaker
word: tweeter
woofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝ofʹər
ipa: /ˈwʊfɚ/
rhymes: -ʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: woofers
Etymology: From WWOOF.
Senses: examples: text: On the Big Island, for example, many samll. farming operations depend on unpaid labor such as 'woofers', to fulfill their labour needs cheaply. Woofers are those who labour on organic farms within the World Organization of Organic Farms (WOOF) Network.
ref: 2016, Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma, Suren Erkman, Food Consumption in the City, page 118:
glosses: Synonym of wwoofer.
synonyms: word: wwoofer
delete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈliːt/
ipa: /diˈliːt/
ipa: /dəˈliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: deletes
Etymology: From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. The computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.
Senses: examples: text: Cascading updates and cascading deletes are useful features of the SQL Server database engine.
ref: 2003, Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein, Kevin T. Price, Database Access with Visual Basic .NET, page 30:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A deletion.
examples: text: One CRIA official pegs the total record sales of deletes and imports as high as 30 percent for 1976
ref: 1977 October 29, Billboard, volume 89, number 43, page 57:
text: The industry also continues to discuss how the new GATT will serve to prevent a flood of deletes into the market
ref: 1984 December 1, Billboard, volume 96, number 48, page 68:
text: Brian Robertson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Assn. (CRIA), says the flood of deletes could be more harmful than the last wave […]
ref: 1985 February 9, Billboard, volume 97, number 6, page 38:
qualifier: recorded entertainment industry
glosses: A remainder of a music or video release.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Delete.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The delete character (U+007F or %7F).
dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: dimes
form: diming
form: dimed
form: dimed
Etymology: From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10¢ in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
synonyms: word: drop a dime on someone
word: dime out
word: bewray
word: blow the whistle
word: clepe
word: denounce
word: dime
word: dob
word: drop a dime
word: drop a dime on someone
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: inform
word: inform on
word: grass on
word: grass up
word: lolly up
word: name names
word: nark
word: peach
word: rat on
word: rat out
word: roll on
word: sing
word: snitch
word: snitch up
word: squeak
word: squeal
word: tattle
word: tell
word: tell all
word: tell on
word: tell tales
word: tip off
word: turn in
glosses: To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
raw_tags: with "on"
examples: text: I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.
glosses: To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
Jersey girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jersey girls
Senses: glosses: A woman, usually from New Jersey, characterized as loud and wearing bright clothing, excessive make-up, big hair and oversized gaudy earrings.
Related terms: Essex girl
origami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒɹɪˈɡɑːmɪ/
ipa: /ˌɔɹəˈɡɑmi/
ipa: [ˌɔɹɪ̈ˈɡɑmi]
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Forms: form: origamis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 折(お)り紙(がみ) (origami), from 折(お)り (ori, “to fold”) + 紙(かみ) (kami, “paper”).
Senses: examples: text: JongRak was a 10-year-old boy whose hands, eyes, and questions were all about origami: “Teacher, do you know how to fold a jumping frog?” With his deft little hands, he would teach me and the class how to fold a sunflower and a cicada. At some point, every kid’s little hands and pockets were filled with tiny origami models.
ref: 2022, “Peace Spheres: Ecological Relationship of Self, Others, and the World”, in Building Positive Peace, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2025, page 1:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The Japanese art of paper folding.
examples: text: The production notes are folded like the funny origamis that I made in grammar school (only I used to write boy's names inside each section).
ref: 1993, Communication arts:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A piece of art made by folding paper.
glosses: The materials science technology that applies the art of origami to products.
glosses: The materials science that studies origami applications in various material.
glosses: The mathematics field that studies folding two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures, using folds and creases akin to those in the art of origami.
Coordinate terms: cootie catcher
paperfolding
teabag folding
Derived terms: aerogami
cablegami
microorigami
origamic
origamically
origami crane
origamilike
origamist
scorigami
thick origami
toilegami
weathergami
Related terms: chiyogami
kirigami
origami
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒɹɪˈɡɑːmɪ/
ipa: /ˌɔɹəˈɡɑmi/
ipa: [ˌɔɹɪ̈ˈɡɑmi]
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Forms: form: origamis
form: origamiing
form: origamied
form: origamied
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 折(お)り紙(がみ) (origami), from 折(お)り (ori, “to fold”) + 紙(かみ) (kami, “paper”).
Senses: examples: text: He snatched my serviette and swiftly origamied a swan.
glosses: To construct by means of decorative paper folding.
immiserate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɪzəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: immiserates
form: immiserating
form: immiserated
form: immiserated
Etymology: Back-formation from immiseration.
Senses: examples: text: By far the most powerful dynamic conception of capitalism as a system wracked by unavoidable change is the classic Marxian view in which a working class is first immiserated, then disciplined, finally goaded beyond endurance by a system that systematically exploits and deceives it.
ref: 1971 November 28, Robert L. Heilbroner, “Phase II of the Capitalist System”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The fun, pleasurable aspect of playbor troubles scholars because it seems to suggest that playborers are not exploited; exploitation is supposed to be immiserating, not fun.
ref: 2018 January 16, Greg Goldberg, Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Higher inequality, in part the result of a real estate boom that immiserated some and enriched others, meant more wealth in the hands of the high-saving rich.
ref: 2020, Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble that Never Pops, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 76:
text: These regimes will favor older people and contain and immiserate the young.
ref: 2021, Michael Harris, Stay Alive: Surviving Capitalism’s Coming Hunger Games, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery.
Related terms: commiserate
commiseration
immiseration
impoverish
beanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: beanies
form: beenie
Etymology: From bean (“the head”) + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Enrique Iglesias is often seen wearing a beanie.
text: The sensation was curious. The bullet passed through her thigh, cleanly, severing the dust-bones and making the second self stumble for a moment before knitting the injury back together. It didn't hurt — she'd have needed an entire quarry's worth of sand for nociception — but she still felt the hole appear, still felt the tiny slug passing through, still felt the quivering impact and the explosive exit. She felt the next three as well, and then she was standing over a cowering woman in a black leather jacket and beanie with a look of complete and total bafflement on her face.
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A cap that fits the head closely, usually knitted from wool.
raw_tags: in Canada
glosses: A head-hugging brimless cap, with or without a visor, made from triangular sections of cloth, leather, or silk joined by a button at the crown and seamed together around the sides.
raw_tags: in Canada
glosses: A Beanie Baby, a small soft toy filled with beans or similar stuffing.
raw_tags: in Canada
Synonyms: sense: cap
word: knit cap
sense: cap
word: knit hat
sense: cap
word: skull cap
sense: cap
word: skullie
sense: cap
word: skully
sense: cap
word: snow cap
sense: cap
word: snow hat
sense: cap
word: ski cap
sense: cap
word: ski hat
sense: cap
word: sock cap
sense: cap
word: stocking cap
sense: cap
word: toque
sense: cap
word: watch cap
sense: cap
word: woolly hat
sense: cap
word: wooly hat
Derived terms: beanied
propeller beanie
Related terms: beanie-weenies
propeller head
zed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: zeds
Etymology: From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from beta, eta and theta. Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê.
Senses: examples: text: Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
ref: 2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 298:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
examples: text: zed-bar
glosses: Something Z-shaped.
examples: text: I'm going to go get some zeds.
glosses: Sleep.
examples: text: A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
glosses: A zombie.
Synonyms: sense: all
word: zee
word: izzard
sense: sleep
word: zee
Derived terms: A to Zed
Generation Zed
Gen Zed
Gen Zedder
Gen-Zedder
Zed
zed-bed
Zed-car
zedsexual
zed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: zeds
form: zedding
form: zedded
form: zedded
Etymology: From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from beta, eta and theta. Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê.
Senses: examples: text: Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
ref: 1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed:
text: I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
ref: 1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:
text: "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
ref: 2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy:
glosses: To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
examples: text: We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
ref: 1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin:
text: Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
ref: 1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang:
glosses: To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
Related terms: zeta
virama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viramas
form: virama
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit विराम (virāma, “stop”).
Senses: examples: a Devanagari example: क (ka) + ् = क् (k)
glosses: A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
glosses: A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
Synonyms: halant
killer
vowel killer
Related terms: anusvara
candrabindu
sukun
sukuun
visarga
candrabindu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌndɹəbɪnduː/
/t͡ʃɔndɹəbɪnduː/
Forms: form: candrabindus
form: chandrabindu
form: chandravindu
form: candravindu
form: chandrobindu
form: chondrobindu
Etymology: From Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).
Senses: examples: Devanagari: कँ
Bengali: কঁ
Gurmukhi: ਕਁ
Gujarati: કઁ
Odia: କଁ
Telugu: కఁ
glosses: A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka")
Related terms: anusvara
halant
killer
sukun
visarga
vowel killer
solitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒlɪˌtjuːd/
ipa: /ˈsɑlɪˌtud/
Forms: form: solitudes
Etymology: From Middle English solitude, from Old French solitude. By surface analysis, sole + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:
text: Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.
ref: 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: As much as I definitely enjoy solitude / I wouldn't mind perhaps / Spending little time with you
ref: 1995, “Possibly Maybe”, in Post, performed by Björk:
synonyms: aloneness
seclusion
antonyms: intimacy
glosses: Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.
examples: text: Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
 He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.
ref: 1813, Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, stanza 20:
text: [S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness.
ref: 1874, Georg August Schweinfurth, chapter I, in Ellen E. Frewer, transl., The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa, from 1868 to 1871, second edition, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, And Searle, translation of Im Herzen von Afrika, Botanical Ardour:
synonyms: word: back of beyond
word: bumfuck
word: corner
word: hermitage
word: hermitry
word: hidey-hole
word: seclusion
glosses: A lonely or deserted place.
Synonyms: word: aloneness
word: isolation
word: loneliness
word: loneness
word: onehead
word: oneship
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: seclusion
word: solitariness
word: solitude
Hyponyms: word: companionlessness
word: friendlessness
Derived terms: two solitudes
Related terms: word: sole
word: soliloquy
word: solitary
word: solitudinous
word: solitudinously
word: solo
word: loneliness
word: solitarily
word: by oneself
word: uniqueness
NOFORN
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of not for release to foreign nationals: used as a page header and footer in classified U.S. federal government documents, especially those from the Pentagon.
Higgs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Forms: form: Higgses
form: Hicks
Etymology: From Hick + -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms: Hick
Hicks
Hickson
Higgs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Forms: form: Hicks
Etymology: From Hick + -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force
Synonyms: Higgsian
Derived terms: Anderson-Higgs mechanism
Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
Higgs bison
Higgs boson
Higgs factory
Higgs field
Higgs force
Higgsian
Higgsino
Higgsless
Higgs mechanism
Higgs particle
Higgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Forms: form: Higgses
form: Hicks
Etymology: From Hick + -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: examples: text: The Higgs is the cornerstone of the Standard Model - the most successful theory to explain the workings of the Universe - and explains why all other particles have mass.
ref: 2012 July 2, Paul Rincon, “US sees stronger hints of Higgs”, in bbc.co.uk, retrieved 02 Jul 2012:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ellipsis of Higgs boson, named for Peter Higgs.
Higgs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Forms: form: Higgses
form: Higgsing
form: Higgsed
form: Higgsed
form: Hicks
Etymology: From Hick + -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: examples: text: When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to #92;mathbbZ#95;n.
ref: 2015 February 26, Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, “Generalized global symmetries”, in SpringerLink^(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)172):
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: to make subject to the Higgs mechanism