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riddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdl̩/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: riddles
Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”). Cognate with Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel.
Senses: examples: text: Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?
text: 12 ¶ And Samson said vnto them, I will now put foorth a riddle vnto you: if you can certeinly declare it me, within the seuen dayes of the feast, and finde it out, then I will giue you thirtie sheetes, and thirtie change of garments:
13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall yee giue me thirtie sheetes, and thirtie change of garments. And they said vnto him, Put foorth thy riddle, that we may heare it.
14 And hee said vnto them, Out of the eater came foorth meate, aud out of the strong came foorth sweetnesse. And they could not in three dayes expound the riddle.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 14:12–14:
text: To wring from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the riddle which I had propos'd.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 72:
text: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: I'm a riddle so strong, you can't break me
ref: 1992, “Rain When I Die”, performed by Alice in Chains:
synonyms: enigma
conundrum
brain-teaser
glosses: A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
glosses: An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
Derived terms: riddle canon
riddle me ree
riddle me this
riddler
riddle stick
riddle wrapped in an enigma
world riddle
riddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdl̩/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: riddles
form: riddling
form: riddled
form: riddled
Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”). Cognate with Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel.
Senses: glosses: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
examples: text: Riddle me this.
glosses: To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
riddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdl̩/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: riddles
Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.
Senses: glosses: A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
glosses: A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
riddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdl̩/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: riddles
form: riddling
form: riddled
form: riddled
Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.
Senses: examples: text: You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
text: In its finest form – two years old or more – leaf mould can be riddled (sieved) and used, mixed 50/50 with sand, to make fine potting compost for seeds and cuttings.
ref: 2014 April 8, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I revive a forsythia hedge? [print version 5 April 2014, p. G9]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), London:
glosses: To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
examples: text: The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.
text: New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144:
text: Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: To fill with holes like a riddle.
examples: text: Your argument is riddled with errors.
text: O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “1. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 8:
synonyms: litter
glosses: To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
riddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdl̩/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: riddles
Etymology: From Middle English riddel, ridel, redel, rudel, from Old French ridel ("a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”). More at writhe. Doublet of rideau.
Senses: glosses: A curtain; bedcurtain.
qualifier: religious
glosses: One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
riddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdl̩/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: riddles
form: riddling
form: riddled
form: riddled
Etymology: From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: To plait.
judicial activism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of replacing an impartial interpretation of existing law with the judge's personal feelings about what the law should be.
Related terms: activist judge
legislate from the bench
explicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/
Forms: form: explicates
form: explicating
form: explicated
form: explicated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).
Senses: examples: text: My homework is to explicate a poem.
text: It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate our ſcruples, to beg remedy & eaſe, ſupport and counſel, health and ſafety, deliverance & ſalvation: […]
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Religion”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section VII (Of Prayer), page 284:
text: Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place.
ref: 1969, Susan Sontag, “Persona”, in Styles of Radical Will, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN:
text: Isou himself, enemy of all conventional discourse, wrote hundreds, then thousands of pages explicating his theories; […]
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Crash of Yesterday's Art”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
text: In laying out these archetypes, Mr. Booker […] does a nimble job of collating dozens of stories, using the 34 years he says it took him to write this volume to identify and explicate all sorts of parallels and analogies that might not occur to the casual reader.
ref: 2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: analyze
elucidate
explicitate
glosses: To explain meticulously or in great detail.
Derived terms: explicatable
explicature
misexplicate
reexplicate
unexplicated
Related terms: complicate
explication
explicative
explicator
explicit
overelaborate
explicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/
Forms: form: more explicate
form: most explicate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).
Senses: glosses: Evolved; unfolded.
cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.dn̩s/
Forms: form: cadences
form: cadencing
form: cadenced
form: cadenced
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.
Senses: examples: text: there was besides, in an already dominating and growing element, a motive that was stronger and more enduring than enthusiasm —an implacable antagonism which acted side by side with the cause of the Union as a perpetual impelling force against the social conditions of the South, controlling the counsels of the government, and cadencing the march of its armies to the chorus:
 John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave,
 But his soul is marching on!
ref: 1897, Don Carlos Buell, “Why the Confederacy Failed”, in The Century, volume 53:
text: In this march to the City of the Dead," scores upon scores of the best musical organizations of the nation were in line, whose funeral dirges cadenced' the great wail of a bereft people.
ref: 1910, Publication: Illinois State Historical Society, Illinois State Historical Library, number 14, page 182:
text: Example 10a gives a melody for one endecasyllabic line of verse; there are various ways of utilizing it, including Rore's choice of cadencing the first line on the third scale degree, for a two-line segment of an ottava stanza.
ref: 1990, Lewis Lockwood with Edward H. Roesner, Essays in musicology: a tribute to Alvin Johnson, page 120:
glosses: To give a cadence to.
examples: text: It was the Exile, however, which cadenced the rhythm of Jewish existence
ref: 1966, Joseph Leon Blau, Modern varieties of Judaism, page 158:
text: They are neither mentioned specifically in the Constitution, nor in the Federalist Papers that cadenced the nationalist debates.
ref: 2000, David C. Hammack, Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States, page 256:
text: ... an idea taken up by Percier and Fontaine, who also supplied the Corinthian order and transverse arcades cadencing the gallery's length today
ref: 2004, Andrew Ayers, The architecture of Paris: an architectural guide, page 38:
glosses: To give structure to.
expository
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspɑzəˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɒzɪtəɹi/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɒzɪtɹi/
ipa: /ɪkˈ-/
Forms: form: more expository
form: most expository
Etymology: From exposit(ion) + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Practicing expository writing will teach you to explain complex concepts clearly.
text: The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
ref: 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: The expository, nonmetaphorical lyrics to “Cop Killer” were dedicated to the Los Angeles Police Department: The narrator puts on black gloves and a ski mask, turns off the headlights of his car, and prepares to shoot himself some cops.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: expositorial
glosses: Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
Derived terms: expositorily
expositoriness
expository lump
nonexpository
crotchety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑ.t͡ʃɪ.ti/
Forms: form: crotchetier
form: more crotchety
form: crotchetiest
form: most crotchety
form: crochety
Etymology: From crotchet + -y, using crotchet in the 16th-century sense of a whim or fancy.
Senses: examples: text: He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, page 184:
text: He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing. So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?
ref: 2019 November 3, Andrew Anthony, “David Mitchell: ‘I have no reason to have these apocalyptic musings’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.
Derived terms: crotchetily
crotchetiness
uncrotchety
Related terms: old man yells at cloud
NFS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A man from California […] seemed to want that picture very badly, and would not take no for an answer in spite of the NFS card tucked into the bottom left-hand corner of the spare wooden frame. He began at six hundred dollars and worked his way up to four thousand.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: Initialism of not for sale.
NFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of nonfatal strangulation.
NFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Network File System.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Need for Speed.
ivan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ivans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iwan.
growled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊld/
rhymes: -aʊld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of growl
Jovan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јован (Jovan), equivalent to John
instinctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɪŋktɪv/
Forms: form: more instinctive
form: most instinctive
Etymology: From instinct + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Related to or prompted by instinct.
examples: text: When approached by a stranger, Jared clenched his fists in an instinctive manner.
glosses: Driven by impulse, spontaneous and without thinking.
Derived terms: instinctive drift
instinctively
instinctiveness
instinctivity
noninstinctive
uninstinctive
monologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmoːno(ː)ˌlɒɡ/
Forms: form: monologues
form: monolog
Etymology: First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”). By surface analysis, mono- + -logue.
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
television
theater
writing
glosses: A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
glosses: A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.
Synonyms: topics: drama
dramaturgy
film
theater
entertainment
lifestyle
television
broadcasting
media
word: soliloquy
Derived terms: internal monologue
interior monologue
monologual
monologuize
pianologue
travelogue
Related terms: soliloquy
monologue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmoːno(ː)ˌlɒɡ/
Forms: form: monologues
form: monologuing
form: monologued
form: monologued
form: monolog
Etymology: First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”). By surface analysis, mono- + -logue.
Senses: examples: text: Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.
ref: 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices:
glosses: To deliver a monologue.
Synonyms: monologize
Derived terms: monologic
monological
monologically
monologuist
root beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːt ˌbɪə/
ipa: /ˈɹut ˌbɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: root beers
form: rootbeer
Etymology: The term is attested since before the lifetime of Charles Elmer Hires, but he is widely credited with popularizing it much further than it had previously been; his proprietary beverage was inspired by an earlier root tea, and he planned to sell it under that name, but he changed its name to broaden the sales appeal. For more, see Wikipedia at root beer § History.
Senses: examples: text: In 1919, when Roy Allen and Frank Wright started selling their new root beer beverage to a thirsty America, national Prohibition was taking its grip on the country. Their timing couldn't have been better. No longer able to legally drink real beer, thirsty patriots had to settle for this sweet, foamy concoction derived from roots, herbs, and berries.
ref: 2002, Todd Wilbur, Top Secret Recipes, Penguin, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: birch beer
ginger beer
root tea
sarsaparilla
glosses: A beverage, most often a carbonated soft drink made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, and molasses, among other things.
examples: text: I just keep staring at all the ink we have, that wild variety of color, everything from rootbeer, midnight blue and cochineal to mauve, light doe, lilac, south sea green, maize, even pelican black, all line up in these plastic caps[…]
ref: 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 26:
text: […]most of our bucks have antlers that are varying degrees of brown, from a deep rich root beer shade to walnut to even light amber.
ref: 2006, Tim Lewis, Bows, Swamps, Whitetails, page 28:
glosses: A dark reddish-brown color, like the drink.
root beer float
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root beer floats
Senses: glosses: A dessert consisting of root beer poured over vanilla ice cream, so that the ice cream floats.
Synonyms: word: black cow
word: brown cow
Hypernyms: ice cream float
ice cream soda
posthaste
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/
ipa: /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/
Forms: form: post-haste
form: post haste
form: postehaste
form: poste-haste
Etymology: From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Senses: examples: text: It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
text: "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.
ref: 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “Chapter 17”, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
glosses: Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.
Synonyms: sense: quickly
word: ASAP
sense: quickly
word: quickly
posthaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/
ipa: /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/
Forms: form: post-haste
form: post haste
form: postehaste
form: poste-haste
Etymology: From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Senses: examples: text: "And this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations
The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 1, lines 103-106:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post-haste.
posthumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒs.t͡ʃə.məs/
ipa: /ˈpɒs.t͡ʃʊ.məs/
Forms: form: post-humous
form: postumous
Etymology: From Latin posthumus, a variant spelling of postumus, superlative form of posterus (“coming after”), the ⟨h⟩ added by association with humus (“ground, earth”) referring to burial.
Senses: examples: text: The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is—oblivion.
ref: 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, “Chapter IV”, in The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, New York, United States: Charles L. Webster & Co., page 68:
glosses: After the death of someone.
examples: text: Artists obscure during their life often receive posthumous recognition, too late for them to enjoy.
glosses: Taking place after one's own death.
examples: text: His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive.
text: Eight posthumous albums have been released to date – two more than the man managed in his lifetime – often with conspiracy-baiting titles such as Still I Rise and Tupac Resurrection.
ref: 2012 April 17, Alex Macpherson, “Tupac's hologram reflects another milestone in his mythology”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
glosses: In reference to a musical opus, published or initially performed after the composer's death.
examples: text: Posthumous orphans never even knew their fathers.
qualifier: originally
glosses: Born after the death of one's father.
Synonyms: post mortem
post obitum
Derived terms: nonposthumous
posthumous execution
posthumously
posthumous name
posthumousness
posthumous work
dastardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːstədli/
ipa: /ˈdæstədli/
ipa: /ˈdæstɚdli/
Forms: form: dastardlier
form: dastardliest
Etymology: From dastard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I ask that the Congress declare, that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
ref: 1941 December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 6:42 from the start, in Day of Infamy Speech, Washington, D.C.:
glosses: In the manner of a dastard; marked by cowardice; pusillanimous.
glosses: Treacherous; given to backstabbing.
Derived terms: dastardliness
dastardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːstədli/
ipa: /ˈdæstədli/
ipa: /ˈdæstɚdli/
Etymology: From dastard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cowardly or treacherous fashion.
asymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪsɪˈmɛtɹɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: more asymmetrical
form: most asymmetrical
Etymology: From a- + symmetrical.
Senses: glosses: Not symmetrical.
examples: text: Question six is asymmetrical: "Are things going in the right direction or on the wrong track?"
ref: 2000 May 10, Aaron Sorkin, “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”, in The West Wing, season 1, episode 21, spoken by Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff):
glosses: Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites.
raw_tags: of a question
Synonyms: asymmetric
lopsided
unsymmetrical
Derived terms: asymmetrical meter
asymmetricalness
asymmetrical spinnaker
asymmetrical warfare
inextricable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪkəbl/
ipa: /ˌɪnɛkˈstrɪkəbl/
ipa: /ɪnˈɛkstrɪkəbl/
Etymology: From Middle French inextricable, from Latin inextricabilis.
Senses: examples: text: And when it comes to far-right anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews is inextricable from opposition to socialism.
ref: 2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:
glosses: Impossible to untie or disentangle.
raw_tags: of a knot etc
glosses: Impossible to solve.
raw_tags: of a problem
antonyms: extricable
glosses: Impossible from which to escape.
raw_tags: of a maze etc
Derived terms: inextricableness
inextricably
satiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪʃɪeɪt/
Forms: form: satiates
form: satiating
form: satiated
form: satiated
Etymology: First attested in the 1440–1450s, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin satiātus, perfect passive participle of satiō (“to fill full, satiate, satisfy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from satis (“sufficient”).
Senses: examples: text: Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
glosses: To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
glosses: To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
Synonyms: sate
Derived terms: satiated
satiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪʃɪeɪt/
Forms: form: more satiate
form: most satiate
Etymology: First attested in the 1440–1450s, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin satiātus, perfect passive participle of satiō (“to fill full, satiate, satisfy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from satis (“sufficient”).
Senses: examples: text: A ſnowy Feather ſpangled white he beares,
To ſignifie the mildneſſe of his minde,
That ſatiate with ſpoile refuſeth blood:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
text: Our generals now, retir'd to their estates,
Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates;
In life's cool evening satiate of applause
ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
glosses: Filled to satisfaction or to excess; satiated, satisfied.
Related terms: sate
satiation
satiety
satisfaction
satisfactory
satisfy
Severn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛv.ə(ɹ)n/
ipa: /ˈsev.ən/
ipa: /ˈsɛv.ɚn/
homophone: seven (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English Severne, from Old English Sæfern, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā (compare Welsh Hafren), perhaps from *samaros (“summer fallow”). Doublet of Sabrina.
Senses: examples: text: There twice a day the Severn fills,
⁠The salt sea-water passes by,
⁠And hushes half the babbling Wye,
And makes a silence in the hills.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: A river in England and Wales that flows into the Bristol Channel.
glosses: A long river in northern Ontario which flows into Hudson Bay.
glosses: A short river in central Ontario which flows into Lake Huron.
glosses: A number of other rivers in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
glosses: A township in Ontario, Canada, created in 1994 on the amalgamation of several smaller communities.
glosses: A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A small town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Frampton on Severn
Severn Beach
Severnside
Severnsider
Severn Stoke
Severn Tunnel Junction
Stourport-on-Severn
Upton-on-Severn
Westbury-on-Severn
seventh heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The empyrean, the outermost of the heavenly spheres; a dwelling of the angels.
synonyms: cloud nine
glosses: A state of great joy and satisfaction.
Shannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃænən/
rhymes: -ænən
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Sionainn.
Senses: glosses: The longest river in the British Isles, which flows through Ireland into the Atlantic Ocean.
glosses: A town in County Clare, Ireland, at the mouth of that river, and its nearby international airport.
glosses: A sea area, to the west of Ireland, centred on the estuary of this river.
glosses: A small town in Horowhenua district, Manawatū-Whanganui, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A surname from Irish of Irish origin, variant of Shanahan, anglicised from Ó Seanaigh (“descendant of a person named Old”).
examples: text: Captain Samuel Shannon is frequently mentioned in the public records, and he had something more than a local reputation. He must have been very popular, as the name "Shannon" as a Christian name is so common throughout the valley as to be noticeable.
ref: 1896, Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, C.M.Busch, state printer, page 283:
text: Everything in my life is okay except I have this terrible problem with my sister Shannon. I'm spelling her name the way most people would. She spells it Sionna ever since the priest told us that's the real Irish way to spell it. It's the name of a river and a goddess. Shanny doesn't think she's a river. She's really Shannon Marie.
ref: 2005, Andrew M. Greeley, Mary G. Durkin, The Book of Love, Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 193–194:
text: Shannon Downey goes for the unfinished stitching projects.
ref: 2019 October 25, Konstantin Toropin, “A woman found an unfinished, 20-year-old quilt and complete strangers are helping piece it together”, in CNN:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname or place name (from the river); first used in the USA in early 20th century, and only recently in Ireland.
Derived terms: Carrick-on-Shannon
Shannon capacity
Shannon coding
Shannon County
Shannon encoding
Shannon entropy
Shannon information
Shannon limit
Shannon stopover
acquiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquiries
Etymology: From acquire + -y.
Senses: examples: ca.1670,No art requireth more hard study and pain toward the acquiry of it than contentment. Isaac Barrow, Sermons, III, 62.
glosses: acquirement
unsuitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsuːtəbəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈsjuːtəbəl/
Forms: form: more unsuitable
form: most unsuitable
Etymology: From un- + suitable.
Senses: examples: text: The great so-called seaport of T‘ien-ching (Tientsin), some 75 miles to the southeast, actually lies 40 miles from the sea on the Hai Ho, which is unsuitable for any but light navigation.
ref: 1944, John A. Pope, “Geography”, in China (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies), number 20, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 7:
text: It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^([sic]) into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.
ref: 1957 December 24, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
text: Numerous excursions into the field proved to the author that stone axes were unsuitable for gathering shaftings of the proper diameter for arrows. Chopping resulted in long tapering ends […]
ref: 1968, Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, volumes 38-40, page 232:
synonyms: unfit
inappropriate
inadequate
antonyms: suitable
appropriate
glosses: Not suitable.
Synonyms: word: bad
word: discommensurate
word: improper
word: inappropriate
word: inapt
word: incommensurate
word: inept
word: inopportune
word: out of line
word: out of order
word: out of place
word: unapt
word: unfit
word: unhappy
word: unseemly
word: unsuitable
Hyponyms: word: indelicate
word: impolite
word: tactless
word: untimely
Derived terms: unsuitability
unsuitably
naps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: knaps
Senses: glosses: plural of nap
naps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: knaps
Senses: examples: text: The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.
ref: 2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: kinky or curly hair
naps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: knaps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nap
bothered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bothered
form: most bothered
Senses: synonyms: word: annoyed
word: angry
word: aggravated
word: agitated
word: bothered
word: exasperated
word: frustrated
word: irritable
word: irritated
word: irked
word: peeved
word: pestered
word: pissy
word: ratty
word: shitty
word: sore
word: tired
word: vexed
word: bee in one's bonnet
word: have it in for
word: hot and bothered
word: hold a grudge
word: brassed off
word: browned off
word: cheesed off
word: peed off
word: pissed off
word: PO'd
word: teed off
word: ticked off
glosses: Annoyed; irritated.
examples: text: I'm not bothered if he chooses to ignore our anniversary. It's his problem.
synonyms: arsed#Adjective
fucked
glosses: Caring about something; discomposed.
Derived terms: hot and bothered
unbothered
bothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bother
Related terms: bother
be bothered
disturbed
Volga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvoʊlɡə/
ipa: /ˈvɒlɡə/
ipa: /ˈvɑːlɡə/
Forms: form: the Volga
Etymology: From Russian Во́лга (Vólga).
Senses: glosses: A river in Russia, the longest river in Europe, flowing 2,325 miles through western Russia to the Caspian Sea.
Derived terms: Povolgia
Volga Federal District
Volga pikeperch
Volga zander
Volga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvoʊlɡə/
ipa: /ˈvɒlɡə/
ipa: /ˈvɑːlɡə/
Forms: form: Volgas
Etymology: From Russian Во́лга (Vólga).
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any of several automobiles of the same brand manufactured by GAZ in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Chevrel phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chevrel phases
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Chevrel cluster
glosses: A series of molybdenum chalcogenide compounds, of general formula MₓMo₆X₈ (where M = a metal and X = a chalcogen), that have superconducting properties.
chalco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈkælkoʊ/
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós, “copper”). Despite the appearance in English of a possible relation of chalco- to chalk, and any plausible semantic and cognate connections between limestones and ores in ancient times, the terms are not related by any known cognation. Note also the hard ch sound (/k/) in chalco- and words generated therefrom, which differs from the soft ch sound in chalk.
Senses: synonyms: cupr-
cupro-
glosses: Copper; relatedly, also bronze or brass.
glosses: Ore.
Related terms: chalcid
chalcidoid
chalcogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælkəd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: chalcogens
Etymology: From chalco- (“ore”) + -gen (“forming”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: nonmetal#Noun
<
element
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: halogen
pnictogen
metalloid#Noun
metal#Noun
glosses: Any element of group 16 of the periodic table: oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium or polonium.
Derived terms: chalcogenide
chalcogenol
chalkophore
halochalcogenate
interchalcogen
organochalcogen
chalcogenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalcogenides
Etymology: From chalcogen + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of a chalcogen with a more electropositive element.
Derived terms: chalcogenide glass
dichalcogenide
monochalcogenide
oxychalcogenide
polychalcogenide
trichalcogenide
Related terms: oxide
sulphide
sulfide
selenide
telluride
electropositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + positive.
Senses: glosses: having a positive electric charge
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tending to release electrons to form a chemical bond
Derived terms: electropositively
Related terms: electropositivity
electropositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electropositives
Etymology: From electro- + positive.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
electronegative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + negative.
Senses: glosses: having a negative electric charge
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tending to attract electrons to form a chemical bond
Derived terms: electronegatively
electronegativity
gaja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.d͡ʒə/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -ɑːdʒə
Forms: form: gajas
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant; gaja”).
Senses: glosses: The sacred name for the elephant
synonyms: elephant
hastin
glosses: A chaturanga piece ancestral to the medieval fil and modern bishop; literally, “elephant”
topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: elephant
hastin
glosses: A chaturanga piece ancestral to the medieval fil and modern bishop; literally, “elephant”
A fairy piece based on the gaja as used in chaturanga
avionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ.viˈɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, or relating to avionics (aviation electronics)
Unabomber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnəbɒmər/
Forms: form: the Unabomber
Etymology: From University and Airline Bomber, a name assigned by the FBI.
Senses: examples: text: Based on the Unabomber’s manifesto, the smash movie of twenty thirty-four will be Barbarians in the Gates, the autobiographical return-to-nature philosophy of Bill Gates, Jr. Starring Oscar-winner, actor Cody Gifford.
ref: 2000 January 1, Roxanne Roberts, “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
text: As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.
ref: 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2023:
text: First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.
ref: 2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN:
glosses: Ted Kaczynski, the perpetrator of mail bomb attacks in America between 1978 and 1994, so named by the media.
UNPROFOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A UN peacekeeping force, UNPROFOR, now protects and feeds the besieged population.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 113:
glosses: Acronym of United Nations Protection Force, a multinational peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia in 1992 to 1995; superseded by IFOR.
upgradability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upgrade + -ability.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capability of being improved in functionality by the addition or replacement of components.
raw_tags: of electronic equipment
Related terms: upgrade
upload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əpˈləʊd/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌloʊd/
ipa: /əpˈloʊd/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌləʊd/
Forms: form: uploads
form: uploading
form: uploaded
form: uploaded
Etymology: From up- + load.
Senses: examples: text: You will have to convert your photograph to a jpg format if you wish to upload it.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: download
glosses: To transfer data to a computer on a network, especially to a server on the Internet.
examples: text: Our government will not be uploading the DVP or Gardiner Expressway and will not be imposing any new tolls on any roads in Ontario.
ref: CBC News (9 January 2023 (last accessed)), “Dakota Brasier”, in CBC, CBC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023
glosses: To transfer jurisdiction and responsibility of a government asset or service to a higher level of government.
Derived terms: word: reupload
word: uploadability
word: uploadable
word: uploader
word: UL
word: ul
word: u/l
word: U/L
upload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əpˈləʊd/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌloʊd/
ipa: /əpˈloʊd/
ipa: /ˈʌpˌləʊd/
Forms: form: uploads
Etymology: From up- + load.
Senses: glosses: Such a file transfer.
Derived terms: word: UL
word: ul
word: u/l
word: U/L
word: reupload
usability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːzəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: usabilities
form: useability
Etymology: From usable + -ity or use + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being usable.
examples: text: The template was repiloted by the same four surgeons and recovery ward nurses to see if opinions and the usability of the template had improved, with the eventual aim of computerising the template.
ref: 2015 August 6, M. Sayma et al., “From Inpatient Notes to Outpatient Followup: Enhancing the Rhinology Service in a Tertiary Centre through Student Led Projects”, in International Journal of Otolaryngology, volume 2015, →DOI:
text: The ability to learn how to use a system (learnability) is also a major subcharacteristic of usability.
ref: 2022, UGC NET Computer Science Paper II Chapter Wise Notebook, page 1346:
glosses: The degree to which an object, device, software application, etc. is easy to use with no specific training.
Derived terms: reusability
Related terms: usable
hearsay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪəseɪ/
ipa: /ˈhɪɹˌseɪ/
ipa: /ˈhɪəsæɪ/
Forms: form: hearsays
Etymology: From Middle English hyere-zigginge (1340), here sey (ca. 1438), from the phrase heren seien (“to hear [people] say”). Compare equally old Middle High German hœrsagen (14th c.), whence modern Hörensagen.
Senses: examples: text: based on hearsay
text: The story turned out to be nothing but hearsay.
glosses: Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
examples: text: dismiss hearsay
text: The judge ruled the testimony as mere hearsay.
topics: law
glosses: Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
topics: law
glosses: An out-of-court statement offered in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted (or the in-court testimony which recites such a statement), which is normally inadmissible (because it is not subject to cross-examination) unless it falls under one of a number of exceptions.
Synonyms: gossip
report
rumor
Derived terms: hearsay evidence
double hearsay
Related terms: as they say
hear
hear tell
so they say
you know what they say
veal crate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veal crates
Senses: glosses: a partitioned area with restricted light and space in which a calf is reared for slaughter
veejay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veejays
form: VJ
Etymology: From video + deejay; from vee and jay for V and J in video and jockey.
Senses: glosses: Someone who presents a television programme of videos; a video jockey.
veejay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: veejays
form: veejaying
form: veejayed
form: veejayed
Etymology: From video + deejay; from vee and jay for V and J in video and jockey.
Senses: glosses: To work as a video jockey; to present videos.
veejay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veejays
Etymology: Compare vajay, va-jay-jay.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:veejay.
glosses: Vagina, vulva.
VJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VJs
form: V.J.
form: V. J.
Senses: synonyms: veejay
coordinate_terms: DJ
glosses: Initialism of video jockey.
glosses: Initialism of video journalist.
VJ
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: VJs
form: VJing
form: VJed
form: VJed
form: V.J.
form: V. J.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veejay.
VJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: V.J.
form: V. J.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vijay.
Related terms: Vijay
deejay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːdʒeɪ/
rhymes: -iːdʒeɪ
Forms: form: deejays
form: DJ
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of the abbreviation DJ.
Senses: examples: text: Sasa, a deejay who owned a mobile disco, took him on for lifting and handling.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 256:
glosses: A disc jockey.
Derived terms: singjay
veejay
deejay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːdʒeɪ/
rhymes: -iːdʒeɪ
Forms: form: deejays
form: deejaying
form: deejayed
form: deejayed
form: DJ
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of the abbreviation DJ.
Senses: examples: text: Isaac soon found out that deejaying was a trade that attracted transient, laid-back but arrogant people.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 256:
glosses: To perform as a disc jockey.
glosses: To play music as a disc jockey.
velvet divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet divorces
Etymology: Originally with reference to the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, by analogy with the Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce) of 1989.
Senses: glosses: A non-violent separation of formerly united nations, especially the one which occurred when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
wikipedia: Velvet Revolution
Velvet Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Velvet Revolutions
Senses: glosses: Any non-violent political revolution, especially the events in Czechoslovakia that led to the velvet divorce.
Pericles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pērīklĕs
ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪkliːz/
Forms: form: Perikles
form: Periklis
Etymology: From Latin Periclēs, from Ancient Greek Περικλῆς (Periklês, “far-famed”), from περί (perí, “around”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek politician.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical usage
Related terms: Periclean
sharpshooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharpshooters
Etymology: sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.
Senses: coordinate_terms: rifleman
sniper
glosses: A person trained to shoot precisely with a rifle; a marksman.
glosses: A proconiine (type of leafhopper).
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.
Derived terms: glassy-winged sharpshooter
orange sharpshooter
Texas sharpshooter fallacy