cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
copse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒps/
homophone: cops
rhymes: -ɒps
Forms: form: copses
form: copsing
form: copsed
form: copsed
Etymology: 1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To trim or cut.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To plant and preserve.
consignee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/
Forms: form: consignees
Etymology: From consign + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
examples: text: The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
glosses: One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted.
Derived terms: consigneeship
Related terms: consignment
consignor
drifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪftə/
ipa: /ˈdɹɪftɚ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drifters
Etymology: From drift (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There are drifters painting beside you / They don't see the future that I do
ref: 2009, Aleisha Eagle, “The Quittin' Kind”, in Neither Here Nor There:
glosses: A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
examples: text: In winds above 10 knots we usually run wing-and-wing with our 100 percent lapper set on a whisker pole opposite the mainsail. As the wind drops, we get out the drifter and set it flying to leeward (Fig. 1).
ref: 1995, Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim, page 85:
text: After trying a variety of light-wind sails, we've found the most versatile and simple one to be a nylon drifter.
ref: 1999, Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey, Cost Conscious Cruiser: Champagne Cruising on a Beer Budget:
text: Some people recommend a medium- to lightweight 140- or 150-percent headsail, and others go for a drifter/reacher.
ref: 2000, Jim Howard, Charles J. Doane, Handbook of Offshore Cruising, page 178:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
examples: text: However, sensing the available traction may actually be more important to a drifter.
ref: 2006, Paul Morton, How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer, page 32:
text: For professional drifters looking for even more fine-tuning of their suspension setups, some companies offer more advanced two-way adjustable shocks […]
ref: 2007, Calvin Wan, Calvin Wan's Drifting Performance Handbook, page 132:
text: While this method is used by a few drifters in rear-wheel drive cars, this technique is really the only way one can drift in a front-wheel drive car.
ref: 2009, Michael Bender, The Fast, the Fraudulent and the Fatal, page 50:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
examples: text: As we circled the area, the Dakota appeared and dropped a drifter.
ref: 1948, Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News, volume 75, page 557:
text: […] a circling Beverley dropped parachutists in small groups — a few hard words were said about R.A.F. organisation. The time came at last for the first four to get into the balloon car. First out was a drifter — an experienced parachutist who jumps first to assess conditions by allowing himself to drift at random.
ref: 1962, Queen's Medical Magazine, volumes 54-55, page 31:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
Related terms: plankter
plankton
drifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪftə/
ipa: /ˈdɹɪftɚ/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drifters
Etymology: From drift (noun) + -er.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: One who takes part in drift fishing.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A boat used for drift fishing.
Related terms: drift fishing
drift net
Mehran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian مهران (mehrân), from Middle Persian mtrʾn (mihrān). Related to Persian مهر (mehr) and Mithra.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name مهران (mehrân).
glosses: A town in Ilam Province, Iran.
glosses: A river in southern Hormozgan Province, Iran.
Related terms: Mihran
Mirranes
Mirrane
Mihranid
Mehranid
Merena
pmpm
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of per member per month.
Related terms: pepm
shoobie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːbi
Forms: form: shoobies
Etymology: Likely from shoe in some way, if not a clipping of shoebox, with diminutive -ie. Other hypotheses appear unconvincing. Compare Benny (“northern or out-of-state tourist to the Jersey Shore”), or terms like touron and yuppie.
The popular legend states that the term is attested from circa late 1800s, where new railroads to the Jersey Shore brought in floods of tourists to the beaches, who often carried their own lunches (rather than dined at seaside restaurants), packed by the trains in a shoebox. These tourists were then stereotyped for their habits, and the sense widened.
Senses: examples: text: For Brigantine residents, the sight of an out-of-towner, or "shoobie" as locals refer to tourists, maniacally jumping about and swatting at his legs, is as common on the beach as lifeguards and bikinis.
ref: 2005. Patrick Costello. Greenhead Politics: The Story Brigantine Taxpayers Were Never Told, Page 9
glosses: A visitor to a coastal area who looks or acts out of place; especially an awkward or annoying tourist.
wikipedia: Jersey Shore
thread necromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Comes from the word thread, the flow of a discussion in a forum, and the word necromancy, the raising of the dead.
Senses: glosses: On an Internet forum, the act of posting in a thread that is already considered dead or out of discussion.
Eurocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurocrats
Etymology: Blend of Euro- + bureaucrat, by surface analysis, Euro- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: An employee or minister of the European Union, typically working in Brussels or Strasbourg.
Neoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 2800 to 2500 million years ago.
Neoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The era from 2,800 Ma to 2,500 Ma.
Hypernyms: sense: era 2, 800-2, 500 Ma
word: Precambrian - eon
sense: era 2, 800-2, 500 Ma
word: supereon
sense: era 2, 800-2, 500 Ma
word: Archaean - eon
Coordinate terms: sense: era 2, 800-2, 500 Ma
word: Eoarchean
sense: era 2, 800-2, 500 Ma
word: Paleoarchean
sense: era 2, 800-2, 500 Ma
english: era
translation: era
word: Mesoarchean
Mesoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + Archean.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 3200 to 2800 million years ago; stromatolites have existed from this time.
Mesoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From meso- + Archean.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The era from 3,200 Ma to 2,800 Ma.
Hypernyms: sense: era 3, 200-2, 800 Ma
word: Precambrian - eon
sense: era 3, 200-2, 800 Ma
word: supereon
sense: era 3, 200-2, 800 Ma
word: Archaean - eon
Coordinate terms: sense: era 3, 200-2, 800 Ma
word: Eoarchean
sense: era 3, 200-2, 800 Ma
word: Paleoarchean
sense: era 3, 200-2, 800 Ma
english: era
translation: era
word: Neoarchean
Paleoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Palaeoarchaean
Etymology: From paleo- + Archaean.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 3600 to 3200 million years ago; the first aerobic bacteria appeared at this time.
Paleoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Palaeoarchaean
Etymology: From paleo- + Archaean.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The era from 3,600 Ma to 3,200 Ma.
Hypernyms: sense: era 3, 600-3, 200 Ma
word: Precambrian - eon
sense: era 3, 600-3, 200 Ma
word: supereon
sense: era 3, 600-3, 200 Ma
word: Archaean - eon
Coordinate terms: sense: era 3, 600-3, 200 Ma
word: Eoarchean
sense: era 3, 600-3, 200 Ma
word: Mesoarchean
sense: era 3, 600-3, 200 Ma
english: era
translation: era
word: Neoarchean
Eoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːəʊ.ɑːˈkiːən/
ipa: /ˌiːoʊ.ɑɹˈkiːən/
Forms: form: Eoarchaean
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 4600 to 3600 million years ago; the first single-celled life began at this time.
Eoarchean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːəʊ.ɑːˈkiːən/
ipa: /ˌiːoʊ.ɑɹˈkiːən/
Forms: form: Eoarchaean
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The era from 4,000 Ma to 3,600 Ma.
Hypernyms: sense: era 4, 000-3, 600 Ma
word: Precambrian - eon
sense: era 4, 000-3, 600 Ma
word: supereon
sense: era 4, 000-3, 600 Ma
word: Archaean - eon
Coordinate terms: sense: era 4, 000-3, 600 Ma
word: Paleoarchean
sense: era 4, 000-3, 600 Ma
word: Mesoarchean
sense: era 4, 000-3, 600 Ma
english: era
translation: era
word: Neoarchean
polling station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polling stations
Senses: examples: text: Dastis defended the Spanish police’s actions as they tried to halt the referendum, even though other members of the government have apologised for the violent scenes when officers raided polling stations, charged the crowds with batons and fired rubber bullets.
ref: 2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian:
glosses: a place where voters go to cast their ballot in an election or referendum; a voting station
Related terms: voting booth
polling booth
mortise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: môrtĭs
enpr: môrtəs
ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ).tɪs/
ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ).təs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təs
Forms: form: mortises
form: mortice
Etymology: From Middle English morteys, from Old French mortaise, from Arabic مُرْتَزّ (murtazz), from اِرْتَزَّ (irtazza).
Senses: examples: text: If there is much gauging for the same size mortise and tenon to be done, and if a mortise gauge is not handy, a simple improvised gauge for the purpose can easily be made with two pieces of wood and four or five steel sprigs…
ref: 2016 September 6, A Little Book of Woodworking Joints - Including Dovetailing, Mortise-and-Tenon and Mitred Joints, 2nd edition (paperback), Read Books Limited, →ISBN:
text: A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.
ref: 1918, Herman Frederick Rusch, Shop Work, Joinery-cabinet-making-carpentry, Chicago, Illinois, United States: University of Chicago Press, page 56:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
coordinate_terms: rabbet
rebate
tenon
glosses: A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint.
glosses: Stability; power of adhesion.
Derived terms: mortise-and-tenon joint
mortise gear
mortise lock
mortiser
mortise wheel
stub mortise
mortise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: môrtĭs
enpr: môrtəs
ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ).tɪs/
ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ).təs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təs
Forms: form: mortises
form: mortising
form: mortised
form: mortised
form: mortice
Etymology: From Middle English morteys, from Old French mortaise, from Arabic مُرْتَزّ (murtazz), from اِرْتَزَّ (irtazza).
Senses: examples: text: A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.
ref: 1918, Herman Frederick Rusch, Shop Work, Joinery-cabinet-making-carpentry, Chicago, Illinois, United States: University of Chicago Press, page 56:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: To cut a mortise in.
examples: text: Sculptures from Mohenjodaro and Tell Asmar in 2400 B.C. show wheels consisting of three pieces of wood mortised together, and bound with leather tyres which were attached with copper nails. These wheels turned in one piece with the axle, which was secured to the body of the sledge with leather thongs.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 79:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: To join by a mortise and tenon.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.
sanctum sanctorum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin sānctum sānctōrum (“holy of holies”), from Latin sānctum, neuter of sānctus (“holy”), and its genitive plural form sanctōrum (“of holies”); a translation of Biblical Hebrew קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים (Qṓḏeš HaqQŏḏāšîm).
Senses: glosses: The Holy of Holies in the Jewish temple.
sanctum sanctorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sancta sanctorum
form: sanctum sanctorums
Etymology: From Latin sānctum sānctōrum (“holy of holies”), from Latin sānctum, neuter of sānctus (“holy”), and its genitive plural form sanctōrum (“of holies”); a translation of Biblical Hebrew קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים (Qṓḏeš HaqQŏḏāšîm).
Senses: examples: text: Mdlle Reuter turned her eye laterally on me, to ascertain, probably, whether I was collected enough to be ushered into her sanctum sanctorum.
ref: 1864, Charlotte Bronte, The Professor:
glosses: A person's most private retreat or sanctuary.
every so often
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Check on the houseplants every so often to see if they need watering.
text: But Raven knows where he's going. Occasionally, he reaches out, grabs her hand, but he doesn't yank her around even though she's going a lot slower than he is. Every so often, he looks back at her with a grin, like, I could hurt you, but I won't.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 321:
glosses: Occasionally; intermittently; irregularly; now and then; once in a while.
Related terms: every now and again
every now and then
every once in a while
lightning conductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning conductors
Senses: glosses: A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground and protects the building from damage by lightning.
Synonyms: lightning rod
expostulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈpɒstjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ɛksˈpɑstjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: expostulates
form: expostulating
form: expostulated
form: expostulated
Etymology: From Latin expostulō (“demand, claim”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + postulate.
Senses: examples: text: The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: […] he affectionately loved many persons to whom he never or hardly ever shewed a countenance of love. Once on my venturing to expostulate with him on the subject, he reminded me of Solomon: “Many sons I have; it is not fit that I should smile on them.”
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “XI, "The Abbot’s Ways"”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
ref: 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides:
glosses: To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with].
Synonyms: challenge
demur
except
inveigh
kick
object
protest
remonstrate
squawk
Derived terms: expostulatingly
expostulative
expostulatory
unexpostulating
anti-climb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anticlimb
Etymology: From anti- + climb.
Senses: examples: anti-climb paint
glosses: Of a substance or device, intended to prevent a person from climbing the object to which the substance or device is applied.
anticlimb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-climb.
outbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌbɪl.dɪŋ/
Forms: form: outbuildings
Etymology: From out + building.
Senses: examples: text: Once they reach the remote farm, Jake insists on giving Lucy a tour of the outbuildings before they go into the house, a tour that includes some lambs that have frozen to death in a barn, and the spot where a pig was eaten alive by maggots.
ref: 2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC:
glosses: A building, such as a barn, shed, or garage, that is separate from, but associated with some main building.
Related terms: outhouse
outbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌbɪl.dɪŋ/
Etymology: From out + building.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbuild
bloated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊtɪd/
rhymes: (US) -oʊtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bloat
bloated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊtɪd/
rhymes: (US) -oʊtɪd
Forms: form: more bloated
form: most bloated
Senses: glosses: Swollen with fluid or gas.
glosses: Excessively or extremely large or wealthy.
examples: text: For large firms, the SketchUp Workflow for Architecture will fit in where a bloated, overfeatured software suite is not necessary.
ref: 2018, Michael Brightman, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture, page 5:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Excessively overloaded with features, like bloatware.
raw_tags: of software
examples: text: a bloated herring
glosses: Slightly salted and lightly smoked.
raw_tags: of food
Derived terms: bloatedly
bloatedness
unbloated
Related terms: overfeatured
Neogene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + -gene. From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + γενεά (geneá, “generation”). Compare Ancient Greek νεογενής (neogenḗs).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Cenozoic era; comprises the Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene epochs from about 26 million years ago to the present.
Derived terms: neogenic
Neogene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From neo- + -gene. From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + γενεά (geneá, “generation”). Compare Ancient Greek νεογενής (neogenḗs).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Neogene period.
acoustic guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic guitars
Etymology: Retronym for guitar, coined after the invention of the electric guitar to refer to the older type of guitar and avoid confusion with the electric guitar.
Senses: examples: text: He was playing the acoustic guitar while his girlfriend was on the drums.
glosses: A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar.
Related terms: acoustic guitarist
Paleogene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪl.iəˌd͡ʒin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Palæogene
form: Palaeogene
Etymology: From paleo- + -gene. From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) + γενεά (geneá, “generation”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Cenozoic era; comprises the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene epochs from about 65 to 23 million years ago.
Synonyms: Eogene
Paleogene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪl.iəˌd͡ʒin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Palæogene
form: Palaeogene
Etymology: From paleo- + -gene. From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) + γενεά (geneá, “generation”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Paleogene period.
Synonyms: Eogene
Derived terms: Paleogenic
Cretaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈteɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Etymology: Specific use of cretaceous.
Senses: examples: text: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3–4:
text: Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago.
Derived terms: end-Cretaceous
Triassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈæs.ɪk/
rhymes: -æsɪk
Etymology: From Trias (“three-layered geologic strata between the Permian and Jurassic”) < German Trias < Ancient Greek τριάς (triás, “triad”), + -ic. Coined in 1841 by geologist Friedrich August von Alberti (1795–1878).
Senses: examples: text: “Well,” Ellie said. “We know animals have survived. Crocodiles are basically Triassic animals living in the present. Sharks are Triassic. So we know it has happened before.”
ref: 1990, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, Alfred A. Knopf, page 45:
glosses: Of or from the geologic strata above the Permian and below the Jurassic; of or belonging to the period 250 to 200 million years ago when these strata were laid down.
Triassic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈæs.ɪk/
rhymes: -æsɪk
Etymology: From Trias (“three-layered geologic strata between the Permian and Jurassic”) < German Trias < Ancient Greek τριάς (triás, “triad”), + -ic. Coined in 1841 by geologist Friedrich August von Alberti (1795–1878).
Senses: examples: text: Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic period within the Mesozoic era, comprising lower, middle and upper epochs from about 250 to 200 million years ago.
Related terms: Trias
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black-and-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more black-and-white
form: most black-and-white
form: black and white
form: black-or-white
form: black/white
Senses: glosses: Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
glosses: Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
examples: text: The pseudo-community of enemies in The Day the Earth Stood Still consists of politicians, the military, and businessmen, whereas the pseudo-community of friends, the element that complements the enemies and reinforces the black-and-white morality of paranoia (Cameron, "Revisited" 56), is composed of scientists, women, and children.
ref: 1999, Cynthia Hendershot, Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films, Popular Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: 2008, Linus Torvalds, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140805134937/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10], LKML; quoted in: Bezpieczeństwo, Jacek Popławski, pl.comp.os.advocacy, Usenet
Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand.
text: “It's complicated. Not everything is black-and-white, Ginny. Sometimes, it's just gray.” The disillusionment in Ginny's eyes hurt bone-deep. She was a black-and-white kind of person. Actions were either right or wrong. No room for in-betweens.
ref: 2011, Sandra Orchard, Deep Cover, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 144:
text: You could say that inflexible thinking is black-and-white thinking and flexible thinking is rainbow thinking. Black-and-white thinkers have difficulty being flexible in their mind and seeing different possibilities and perspectives.
ref: 2011, Aileen Zeitz Collucci, Big Picture Thinking: Using Central Coherence Theory to Support Social Skills : a Book for Students, AAPC Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.
glosses: Alternative form of black and white (easily divided into diametrically opposing camps).
Synonyms: sense: art/photograph/photography
alt: compare grayscale, greyscale
word: monochrome
Derived terms: black-and-white ruffed lemur
black-and-white television
in black and white
Related terms: in black and white
salt and pepper
salt-and-pepper
black-and-white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-and-whites
form: black and white
form: black-or-white
form: black/white
Senses: examples: text: [T]he news bunny ran up to him, saying, "Officer, did you have trouble catching up with Batman? Was it an exciting chase?" The surfer cop struck a semi-heroic pose for the camera and said, "Weak sauce." Then he quickly walked Batman to the black-and-white, where he was put into the backseat.
ref: 2006, Joseph Wambaugh, Hollywood Station […], New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of black and white.
Permian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmɪən/
ipa: /ˈpɝmɪən/
Forms: form: Permians
Etymology: From Perm + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Russian region of Perm; specifically, one belonging to a branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples, including Komis and Udmurts, who speak Permic languages.
glosses: The language of such people; Permic.
Synonyms: Bjarmian
Permian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmɪən/
ipa: /ˈpɝmɪən/
Forms: form: more Permian
form: most Permian
Etymology: From Perm + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Perm region of Russia, or its inhabitants.
glosses: Pertaining to their language; Permic.
examples: text: ‘In many ways modern art was a culture of the beach. They say it's the light, the special quality of quartz in the Permian rock.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 103:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the last geologic period of the Paleozoic era; comprising the Cisuralian, Guadalupian and Lopingian epochs from about 280 to 248 million years ago.
Permian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmɪən/
ipa: /ˈpɝmɪən/
Etymology: From Perm + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Permian period.
Related terms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Perm
raw_tags: in Russia
forward slash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forward slashes
Etymology: A retronym coined to distinguish the slash from the backslash, particularly in computing contexts.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩
synonyms: word: slash
extra: /
scattershot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scattershot
form: most scattershot
Etymology: From scatter + shot.
Senses: examples: text: They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men.
ref: 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page 4:
text: The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
ref: 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times:
text: Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.
ref: 2021, Critics Consensus, Don't Look Up:
text: Oh, and then there’s the hardest challenge of all: Google, famously scattershot in its product launches and quick to abandon things, has to stay focused on a new product and actually develop a meaningful replacement to search without killing it in a year and starting over.
ref: 2023 May 8, Nilay Patel, “What happens when Google Search doesn’t have the answers?”, in The Verge, Vox Media:
synonyms: scattergun#Adjective
glosses: Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way.
Related terms: shotgun approach
Carboniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/
homophone: carboniferous
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From carboniferous (“producing carbon”), from carbon + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down.
Carboniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/
homophone: carboniferous
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From carboniferous (“producing carbon”), from carbon + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest ink sacs appear in the fossil record in the Carboniferous period around 330 million years ago in cephalopods such as Donovaniconus, Gordoniconus and Saundersites which show a mix of features from older and more modern groups and are placed in their own order, Donovaniconida (Doguzhaeva 2012).
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the Carboniferous period
Derived terms: Permo-Carboniferous
Devonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈvəʊ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /dɪˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /dəˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Devōnia (“Devon”) + -an. By surface analysis, Devon + -ian. Doublet of Dumnonian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 415 to 360 million years ago.
examples: text: This relic may, perhaps, serve, as a reminder of busier and more prosperous days on this Devonian railway byway.
ref: 1950 October, G. L. Huxley, “The Westleigh Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 735:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the English region of Devon.
Devonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈvəʊ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /dɪˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /dəˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Devonians
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Devōnia (“Devon”) + -an. By surface analysis, Devon + -ian. Doublet of Dumnonian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the English region of Devon.
Devonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈvəʊ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /dɪˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /dəˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: the Devonian
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Devōnia (“Devon”) + -an. By surface analysis, Devon + -ian. Doublet of Dumnonian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Devonian period.
Silurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈlʊə.ɹiː.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈlʊɚ.i.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈlɝ.iː.ən/
ipa: /saɪ-/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈlʊɚ.i.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈlɝ.iː.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /saɪ-/
Forms: form: more Silurian
form: most Silurian
Etymology: From Latin Silurēs + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
ref: 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the Llandovery, Wenlock, Ludlow and Pridoli epochs from about 439 to 409 million years ago.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or related to the Silures, a pre-Roman British tribe.
Silurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈlʊə.ɹiː.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈlʊɚ.i.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈlɝ.iː.ən/
ipa: /saɪ-/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈlʊɚ.i.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈlɝ.iː.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /saɪ-/
Forms: form: Silurians
Etymology: From Latin Silurēs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Silures, an ancient tribe of Britannia.
Silurian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈlʊə.ɹiː.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈlʊɚ.i.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈlɝ.iː.ən/
ipa: /saɪ-/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈlʊɚ.i.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈlɝ.iː.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /saɪ-/
Etymology: From Latin Silurēs + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Silurian period.
Ordovician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ordovician
form: most Ordovician
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erg-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.?
Proto-Celtic *ordosder.
Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der.
Proto-Celtic *wiketider.
Latin Ordovīcēslbor.
English Ordovices
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Ordovician
From Ordovices + -ian. Coined by English geologist Charles Lapworth in 1879 after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices.
Senses: examples: text: Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 488 to 443 million years ago.
Ordovician
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erg-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.?
Proto-Celtic *ordosder.
Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der.
Proto-Celtic *wiketider.
Latin Ordovīcēslbor.
English Ordovices
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Ordovician
From Ordovices + -ian. Coined by English geologist Charles Lapworth in 1879 after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Ordovician period.
Cambrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkam.bɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeɪm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Cambrian
form: most Cambrian
Etymology: From Cambria + -an.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and Furongian epochs from about 542 to 490 million years ago.
glosses: Of or relating to Wales.
Derived terms: Cambrian explosion
Cambrian Mountains
Precambrian
Cambrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkam.bɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeɪm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Cambrians
Etymology: From Cambria + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Walian
hyponyms: Welshman
Welshwoman
glosses: A Welsh person.
Cambrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkam.bɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeɪm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
Forms: form: the Cambrian
Etymology: From Cambria + -an.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Cambrian period.
Derived terms: Middle Cambrian
Precambrian
Ediacaran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛdiˈakəɹən/
Etymology: From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: The widespread discoveries of fossil remains of Ediacaran aspect have generated continued excitement in respect of their possible evolutionary significance, and in terms of recent surrealistic interpretations of their morphology and inferred interrelationships (Pflug, 1970a,b, 1972a,b; Fedonkin, 1985 a,b; Gould, 1984, 1985; Seilacher, 1984, 1985, 1989; McMenamin, 1986; and Bergstrom, 1989, 1990), a reexamination of the actual fossil material is timely.
ref: 1992, Richard J. F. Jenkinsm, “Chapter 5: Functional and Ecological Aspects of Ediacaran Assemblages”, in Jere H. Lipps, Philip W. Signor, editors, Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa, page 133:
text: Swartpuntia (frondlike metazoans) and Ernietta (ribbed saclike metazoans) are part of the Ediacaran fauna.
ref: 2007, Clarence A. Hall, Jr., Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants, page 83:
text: Then in 1946, fossils of multicellular organisms were recovered from Vendian deposits around 570My old at the Ediacara copper mine in South Australia. Since then, geologists have found similar Ediacaran faunas in Precambrian rocks from other parts of the world as well.
ref: 2011, Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith, The Human Lineage, page 18:
text: The creature, Yilingia spiciformis — named after the Yiling district in which it was discovered — was a complicated one by the standards of the Ediacaran Period: mobile, segmented, trilobate (each body segment composed of three lobes) and bilaterally symmetrical.
ref: 2019 September 4, Helen Sullivan, “Behold Mortichnia, the Death Trail of an Ancient Worm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2019, Science:
text: Scientists who have analysed ancient fossils of Ediacaran biota – life forms that existed between 538.8m and 635m years ago – say they represent the earliest evidence of food consumed by animals.
ref: 2022 November 22, Donna Lu, “The real paleo diet: researchers find traces of world’s oldest meal in 550m-year-old fossil”, in The Guardian:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Neoproterozoic era from about 620 to 542 million years ago.
Ediacaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛdiˈakəɹən/
Etymology: From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: Recently, in 2004, a new geological period, the Ediacaran, was formally added to the time scale. It immediately precedes the Cambrian period, and therefore lies within the Proterozoic.
ref: 2008, Doug Macdougall, Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything, page 145:
text: They became prevalent during the Ediacaran, 635 to 542 million years ago.
ref: 2011, Guido O. Perez, Methodological Naturalism and Planetary Humanism, page 18:
text: Metazoan life was in full swing by the early phases of the Ediacaran, approximately 650 million years ago, but these first steps were small aggregations of cells with little more than eyespots or early cups of pigment lined with photoreceptive cells.
ref: 2012, Ivan R. Schwab, Richard R. Dubielzig, Charles Schobert, Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved, page 25:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Ediacaran period.
Ediacaran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛdiˈakəɹən/
Forms: form: Ediacarans
Etymology: From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: Many Ediacarans seem to have lived quiet lives of very limited mobility on the bottom of the sea.
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 30:
glosses: An organism that lived in the Ediacaran period.
Cryogenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cryogenian
form: most Cryogenian
Etymology: From cryogenic (“of low temperature”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Neoproterozoic era from about 850 to 600 million years ago.
Cryogenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From cryogenic (“of low temperature”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Cryogenian period.
Tonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “stretch”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Neoproterozoic era from about 1000 to 850 million years ago.
Tonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “stretch”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Tonian period.
boil down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boils down
form: boiling down
form: boiled down
form: boiled down
Etymology: As an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
Senses: examples: text: He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
glosses: To reduce in volume by boiling.
examples: text: So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
text: For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
ref: 2013 October 11, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
examples: text: My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
glosses: To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
Synonyms: sense: become reduced
word: come down to
Related terms: boil off
Stennian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Mesoproterozoic era from about 1200 to 1000 million years ago.
Stennian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Stennian period.
Ectasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ectasian
form: most Ectasian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Mesoproterozoic era from about 1400 to 1200 million years ago.
Ectasian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Ectasian period.
Calymmian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλυμμα (kálumma, “covering”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Denoting a geologic period within the Mesoproterozoic era from about 1600 to 1400 million years ago.
Calymmian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Calymmian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλυμμα (kálumma, “covering”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Calymmian period.
shilling sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shilling signs
Senses: glosses: The symbol '/' used in the United Kingdom before decimalisation to separate shillings from pence when writing out sums of money. (Examples: 7/6 = seven shillings and six pence; 7/- = seven shillings exactly.)
Synonyms: shilling mark
solidus
Related terms: slash
Statherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 1800 to 1600 million years ago.
Statherian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Statherian period.
Orosirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 2050 to 1800 million years ago.
Orosirian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Orosirian period.
Rhyacian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 2300 to 2050 million years ago.
Rhyacian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Rhyacian period.
Siderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Siderian
form: most Siderian
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic period within the Paleoproterozoic era from about 2500 to 2300 million years ago.
Siderian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Siderian period.
involvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: involvements
form: envolvement
Etymology: From involve + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: His colorful life span might be regarded as the story of an adventurer rather than that of an artist; despite his lengthy involvements in many of the arts--painting, fiction, theater, and film--one often feels from his autobiography that it was the adventures that counted most for him.
ref: 1988 July 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Portfolio Without Artist”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
Derived terms: disinvolvement
noninvolvement
overinvolvement
reinvolvement
self-involvement
old franc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old francs
Etymology: Retronym for franc, to avoid confusion with the new franc.
Senses: glosses: One French franc before January 1960, when it was devalued to 1/100 of its original value and replaced by the new franc, worth 100 old francs.
astounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of astound