cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
never
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnɛv.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: neuer
form: ne'er
form: neva
form: nev'r
form: nevah
form: nevuh
Etymology: From Middle English nevere, navere, nævere, from Old English nǣfre (“never”), equivalent to ne + ever.
Senses: examples: text: I told him to go to Woodlands to buy durian for me. He came back and said no durian. But he some more said-ah, he got see people selling durian in Bukit Timah. I ask him-ah. Why you never buy from Bukit Timah.
ref: 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: That's what he said. But I never see anything. Maybe it's an invisible dog. Or very good at hiding.
ref: 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 12, page 73:
antonyms: word: got
word: ever
glosses: Did not; didn't.
never
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛv.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈnɛv.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: neuer
form: ne'er
form: neva
form: nev'r
form: nevah
form: nevuh
Etymology: From Middle English nevere, navere, nævere, from Old English nǣfre (“never”), equivalent to ne + ever.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Guess what, I've won the pools!’ ‘Never!’
glosses: A statement of defiance
Derived terms: never ever
never evers
nevers
abbé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈbeɪ/
ipa: /ˈæb.eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: abbés
form: abbe
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French abbé (“abbot”), from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbot.
Senses: examples: text: At graduation [Pierre Simon] Laplace faced an anguishing dilemma. His master’s degree permitted him to take either the priestly vows of celibacy or the title of abbé, signifying a low-ranking clergyman who could marry and inherit property. Abbés did not have good reputations; Voltaire called them “that indefinable being which is neither ecclesiastic nor secular . . . young men, who are known for their debauchery.” An engraving of the period, “What Does the Abbé Think of It?” shows the clergyman peering appreciatively down a lady’s bosom as she dresses. Still, the elder Laplace wanted his son to become a clergyman. If Laplace had been willing to become an abbé, his father might have helped him financially, and Laplace could have combined church and science. A number of abbés supported themselves in science, the most famous being Jean Antoine Nollet, who demonstrated spectacular physics experiments to the paying public.
ref: 2011, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 15:
coordinate_terms: canon#Etymology_2
curate
deacon
vicar
;
abbot
priest
rector
glosses: A low-ranking member of the Roman Catholic clergy in France who is not a member of a religious order, is not a priest, and can marry and inherit property; an honorific title for such a clergymember.
glosses: A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey.
Related terms: abbacy
more at abbot § Related terms
accentually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌækˈsɛn.t͡ʃu.əl.i/
Etymology: From accentual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
accentuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accentual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being accentual.
accentual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛn.t͡ʃu.əl/
ipa: /ækˈsɛnt͡ʃ.ə.wəl/
ipa: /ækˈsɛnt͡ʃ.wəl/
Etymology: From accent + -ual.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
glosses: Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.
Derived terms: accentuality
accentually
accentual-syllabic
nonaccentual
accentuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From accentuate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being accentuated
accentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛntə/
ipa: /əkˈsɛn.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: accentors
Etymology: From Latin accentor (“one who sings with another”), from ad + cantor (“singer”), from canō (“sing”). Superficially accent + -or.
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.
glosses: The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
Derived terms: alpine accentor
black-throated accentor
Siberian accentor
Related terms: hedge sparrow
accentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.sɛnt.ləs/
Forms: form: more accentless
form: most accentless
Etymology: From accent + -less.
Senses: glosses: Speaking without an accent.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: “You were looking up my skirt,” she said flatly, in accentless English.
ref: 2009, Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal, Picador (2015), page 126:
glosses: Spoken without an accent.
raw_tags: of speech
glosses: Not having any stress (accent).
raw_tags: of a word's sound or of a language
synonyms: unaccented
glosses: Having no accent marks.
raw_tags: of a written word
synonyms: diacriticless
undiacritized
unaccented
glosses: Having no diacritical marks of any kind.
raw_tags: of a written word
Derived terms: accentlessly
accentlessness
acaulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: acaulous
accede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsiːd/
ipa: /ækˈsiːd/
ipa: /əˈsiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: accedes
form: acceding
form: acceded
form: acceded
Etymology: First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English acceden, from Latin accēdō (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.
Senses: glosses: To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
glosses: To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
examples: text: But in 1874 the editors of Scribner’s Monthly requested me to publish a popular account of the Colorado exploration in that journal. To this I acceded and prepared four short articles, which were elaborately illustrated from photographs in my possession.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page iii:
text: Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.
ref: 2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World:
glosses: To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
examples: text: Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 32:
glosses: To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
glosses: To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
Synonyms: sense: to join a group
word: band together
sense: to join a group
word: enroll
sense: agree to a proposal or a view
word: come around
word: concede
word: agree
word: acquiesce
word: assent
word: comply
word: concur
word: consent
word: comprobate
word: astipulate
word: accede
word: allow
word: cave in
word: come round
word: give way
word: grant
word: soothe
word: yield
Hypernyms: word: assent
word: surrender
Coordinate terms: word: acquiesce
Derived terms: accedence
acceder
nonacceding
reaccede
Related terms: accession
accedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsid.əns/
Forms: form: accedences
Etymology: From accede + -ence.
Senses: glosses: The act of acceding
acceder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acceders
Etymology: From accede + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] lawful covenants, made by the greater part of a society bind the whole, and every future acceder to it,—at least, unless the minority o[f] acceders have, by a proper dissent, diverted the obligation from themselves […]
ref: 1780, John Brown, The Absurdity and Perfidy of All Authoritative Toleration of Gross Heresy, Glasgow, Letter 2, p. 128:
text: He mentions this, not, of course, for readers in general, but for the sake of those daily acceders to the list of the reading public, whose knowledge of books is not yet equal to their love of them.
ref: 1835, Leigh Hunt, Captain Sword and Captain Pen, London: Charles Knight, Advertisement, page 8:
glosses: One who accedes.
accelerando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˌkʃɛl.əˈɹɑn.doʊ/
ipa: /æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/
Forms: form: accelerandos
form: accelerandoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
examples: text: The accelerando of the sciences and of technology, their mathematization have beggared both the reach and the veracity of natural language.
ref: 2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195:
glosses: Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
accelerando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˌkʃɛl.əˈɹɑn.doʊ/
ipa: /æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: With a gradual increase in speed.
white guilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?
ref: 1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Max Cherry (Robert Forster):
glosses: The individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for harm resulting from past or current racist treatment of other ethnicities by white people.
Related terms: liberal guilt
bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌs/
enpr: bŭs
ipa: /bʊs/
ipa: /bʌs/
ipa: /bɐs/
note: Northern Cities Vowel Shift, Ireland
ipa: /bɔs/
note: Birmingham, Black Country
ipa: /bʊz/
homophone: Buss
homophone: buss
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: buss
form: busses
form: busing
form: bussing
form: bused
form: bused
form: bussed
form: bussed
Etymology: Clipping of omnibus. Superseded earlier 'bus, where the apostrophe indicated a clipping. The shift in spelling likely reflects the fact that modern speakers no longer perceive this term as a clipping. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.
Senses: examples: text: Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also be bussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.
ref: 2024 March 13, Halya Coynash, “Russians with machine guns ensure occupied Ukraine ‘votes’ for Putin”, in Human Rights in Ukraine. The Information Portal of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group:
text: The ANC has accused the IFP of bussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.
ref: 2024 March 14, Clive Ndou, “ANC set to open case against ‘ghost IFP voters’”, in The Witness:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To transport via a motor bus.
examples: text: But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
ref: 1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:
text: ...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.
ref: 2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To travel by bus.
bus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌs/
enpr: bŭs
ipa: /bʊs/
ipa: /bʌs/
ipa: /bɐs/
note: Northern Cities Vowel Shift, Ireland
ipa: /bɔs/
note: Birmingham, Black Country
ipa: /bʊz/
homophone: Buss
homophone: buss
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: buss
form: busses
form: busing
form: bussing
form: bused
form: bused
form: bussed
form: bussed
Etymology: Back-formation from busboy.
Senses: examples: text: He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
text: He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 13:
qualifier: food service
glosses: To clear meal remains from.
examples: text: He’s been bussing for minimum wage.
qualifier: food service
glosses: To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
Derived terms: busser
bus kanaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus kanakas
form: bush kanaka
form: bush-Kanaka
Etymology: From Tok Pisin bus kanaka.
Senses: examples: text: […] for some more sophisticated coastal people there was merely the shame at being led by a bush kanaka, […]
ref: 1965, The Papua-New Guinea Elections 1964:
text: Fuyuge men recount with humor their initial encounters with life in Port Moresby during the 1950s. They speak of travelling to the coast in their bark-cloths and realising upon their arrival that they were inappropriately dressed: “We immediately felt bus kanaka [wild, uncivilized].”
ref: 1999, Eric Hirsh, “Colonial Units and Ritual Units: Historical Transformations of Persons and Horizons in Highland Papua”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, volume 41, number 4:
text: Sam’s blues and boots disappeared into his small backpack, his beret was pushed back onto the head at a very jaunty angle and the .303 was slung carelessly over the shoulder. A torn pair of shorts completed the ensemble. In the twinkling of an eye, the immaculate policeman was transformed into a ragged bush kanaka […]
ref: 2002, Terry O'Farrell, Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian SAS Solider in Vietnam:
text: Manam islanders knew Mambu: but they could not admit to being led or influenced by a mere bush-Kanaka.
ref: 2004, K. O. L. Burridge, Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium:
text: Do you see development here? Are you living like white men? No! We’re still living like bus kanaka.
ref: 2005 November 5, Nancy Sullivan, “My Weblog: Stories about living in Papua New Guinea”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: An uncivilized person; a person who follows a traditional rather than a modern lifestyle.
Related terms: bushman
plinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɪnθ/
rhymes: -ɪnθ
Forms: form: plinths
Etymology: From French plinthe, from Latin plinthus, from Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos, “brick”).
Senses: examples: text: The queen placed the vase on the plinth so the cupbearer could fill it with flowers.
text: There appears to be no definite information about the origin of the two large boulders, mounted on plinths, on the platforms of St. Anne's Park Station, Bristol.
ref: 1948 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Boulders at St Anne's Park Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
text: The station building forms a street-level portal and ticket hall, connected by staircases and escalators to the sub-surface platforms. The whole structure is designed as a plinth for a future block of buildings above.
ref: 1951 September, “Reconstruction of Sloane Square Station, London”, in Railway Magazine, page 634:
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
glosses: The bottom course of a wall.
glosses: A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.
Derived terms: word: plinthed
word: plinther
word: plinthiform
word: plinthing
word: plinthless
word: plinthlike
paddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddlers
Etymology: From paddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who paddles; especially, a person who propels a canoe or kayak by the action of paddling.
daffynition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: definition
Forms: form: daffynitions
Etymology: Blend of daffy (“mad; eccentric”) + definition
Senses: examples: text: Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe.
ref: 1980, Gyles Daubeney Brandreth, The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun with 860,341,500 Words, New York: Morrow, →ISBN, page 269:
glosses: A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
Related terms: mondegreen
canoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-no͞o'
ipa: /kəˈnuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: canoes
Etymology: Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.
Senses: examples: text: The canoe is of pure black oak, and is in excellent preservation.
ref: 1886 January 23, The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, volume XIII, number 73, page 135:
text: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; […]
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: His program also included a survey of the new course of the lower Tarim river in Eastern Turkistan and its terminal lake Lop-nor. This part of the expedition started in April 1934, from Könche or Yü-li-hsien, a small village about 45 km. SSE of Korla, whence Dr. Hedin followed the river Könche-darya and its continuation Qum-darya, travelling in native canoes.
ref: 1939, Folke Bergman, “Ancient Remains Along "The Small River"”, in Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang Especially the Lop-Nor Region, number 7, Stockholm: Bokförlags Aktiebolaget Thule, →OCLC, page 51:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
glosses: An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.
canoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-no͞o'
ipa: /kəˈnuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: canoes
form: canoeing
form: canoed
form: canoed
Etymology: Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.
Senses: examples: text: Car drivers were helicoptered to safety from nearby roads. There were photographs of people canoeing down streets.
ref: 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40:
glosses: To ride or paddle a canoe.
Derived terms: Canadian canoe
canoeable
canoe birch
canoe camper
canoe camping
canoeing
canoeist
canoelike
canoeload
canoeman
canoe pack
canoe plant
canoe polo
canoer
canoe slalom
canoe sprint
canoewood
douche canoe
douche-canoe
dugout canoe
outrigger canoe
paddle one's own canoe
paracanoe
pink canoe
skanoe
skinoe
Related terms: kayak
kayak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪˌæk/
rhymes: -aɪæk
Forms: form: kayaks
form: kaiak
form: kiack
form: kyack
form: kyak
form: qayaq
form: kayack
form: qajaq
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
Senses: examples: text: It’s just offshore from private property inaccessible to the general public, so a good way to approach the rock is by kayak, which can be rented in the small village of Port Austin.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck.
Derived terms: kayak cross
kayak polo
kayak roll
kayak slalom
kayak sprint
kayaktivism
kayaktivist
Related terms: canoe
umiak
kayak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪˌæk/
rhymes: -aɪæk
Forms: form: kayaks
form: kayaking
form: kayaked
form: kayaked
form: kaiak
form: kiack
form: kyack
form: kyak
form: qayaq
form: kayack
form: qajaq
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
Senses: examples: text: Kayaking is an Olympic sport.
glosses: To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
examples: text: On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.
glosses: To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.
Derived terms: kayakable
kayaker
kayaking
kayakist
influence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.flu.əns/
ipa: /ɪnˈflu.əns/
Forms: form: influences
form: influencing
form: influenced
form: influenced
Etymology: From Middle English influence, from Old French influence (“emanation from the stars affecting one's fate”), from Medieval Latin īnfluentia, from Latin īnfluēns (“flowing in”), present active participle of īnfluō (“flow into”), from in- (“in-”) + fluō (“flow”). Doublet of influenza and inflood.
Senses: examples: text: The politician wants to influence the public.
text: I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life.
glosses: To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
glosses: To exert, make use of one's influence.
glosses: To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.
Derived terms: coinfluence
counterinfluence
influenceability
influenceable
influencee
influencer
influencive
interinfluence
misinfluence
noninfluencing
outinfluence
overinfluence
reinfluence
thinkfluence
uninfluencing
Related terms: influent
influential
influenza
flu
bleeding edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliː.dɪŋ ɛd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈbliː.dɪŋ ed͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈblɪi.dɪŋ ed͡ʒ]
Forms: form: bleeding edges
form: bleeding-edge
Etymology: Blend of bleed + leading edge, and metaphorically alluding to the cutting edge (“forefront or position of greatest advancement in some field”) as a double-edged sword.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
media
natural-sciences
printing
publishing
glosses: The situation produced when the image extends beyond the nominal margin.
examples: text: on the bleeding edge (of something)
text: They would be the creators of strategy, generators of action and the bleeding edge of the church, ever pushing toward the front lines of conflict.
ref: 1968, Scott Francis Brenner, Ways of Worship for New Forms of Mission, page 79:
text: A few leading edge (some say "bleeding" edge) users have stepped into the arena and their experiences have helped sharpen our perception of what the electronic office can be.
ref: 1977, Infosystems, volume 24, page 64:
text: The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The Ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes Ends Up Surrendering to Formula”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2017:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Something too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; the figurative place where such things exist.
Coordinate terms: cutting edge
leading edge
Derived terms: word: bleeding-edge
Related terms: state of the art
esteem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈstiːm/
ipa: /əˈstiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: esteems
form: æsteem
form: esteeme
Etymology: First at end of 16th century; borrowed from Middle French estimer, borrowed from Latin aestimō.
See estimate and aim, an older word, partly a doublet.
Senses: examples: text: We hold her in high esteem.
glosses: Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.
esteem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈstiːm/
ipa: /əˈstiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: esteems
form: esteeming
form: esteemed
form: esteemed
form: æsteem
form: esteeme
Etymology: First at end of 16th century; borrowed from Middle French estimer, borrowed from Latin aestimō.
See estimate and aim, an older word, partly a doublet.
Senses: examples: text: Will he esteem thy riches?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 36:19:
text: You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
glosses: To regard something as valuable; to prize.
examples: text: Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:15:
text: Thou shouldest (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
ref: 1535, Edmund Bonner, De vera obedientia by Stephen Gardiner (Preface)
text: Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 9, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well-conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. V, The English”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
glosses: To look upon something in a particular way.
examples: text: The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.
glosses: To judge; to estimate; to appraise
Synonyms: sense: to regard with respect
word: respect
sense: to regard with respect
word: revere
sense: to regard as valuable
word: cherish
Derived terms: disesteem
esteemable
esteemer
estimable
misesteem
overesteem
self-esteem
petting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: I am petting my rabbit.
glosses: present participle and gerund of pet
Derived terms: pettingly
petting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: pettings
Senses: glosses: The act of stroking or gently patting an animal.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.
examples: text: 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'
ref: 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives:
glosses: The act of indulging or treating as a favourite.
Derived terms: heavy petting
petting party
petting zoo
Related terms: foreplay
sexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.sju.əl/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
ipa: /ˈsɛk.ʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
rhymes: -ɛksjuːəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃəl
Forms: form: sexuals
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sexus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
From Latin sexuālis, from sexus (“sex”), equivalent to sex + -ual.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: eusexual
antonyms: asexual
glosses: A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
examples: text: The findings suggest that asexuality is best conceptualized as a lack of sexual attraction; however, asexuals varied greatly in their experience of sexual response and behavior. Asexuals partnered with sexuals acknowledged having to 'negotiate' sexual activity.
ref: 2012, Issues in Sexuality and Sexual Behavior Research: 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN:
text: In this article we use absence of sexual attraction to others as a definition but recognise that this definition is contested. […] [A survey] was also advertised online (without explicitly mentioning asexuality in the advert), thus aiming to reach a mixture of asexuals and sexuals.
ref: 2015, Mark Carrigan, Kristina Gupta, Todd G. Morrison, Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:
synonyms: allosexual
antonyms: asexual
glosses: A person who experiences sexual attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
foreplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)pleɪ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pleɪ
Etymology: From fore- + play.
Senses: examples: text: Actually in quick undressing or actual lovemaking modern nylons usually get ruined, but if you keep your nails and fingers smooth taking them off gently makes good foreplay, along with mutual undressing generally.
ref: 1972, Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex, Crown, pages 215–216:
text: Root (Amy Acker): Hey, sweetie, you busy? / Sameen Shaw (Sarah Shahi): A little. Skip the verbal foreplay, Root. Why you calling? / Root: Can't a couple of gals take a little break from work to catch up?
ref: 2015 January 6, Denise Thé, “If-Then-Else”, in Chris Fisher, director, Person of Interest, season 4, episode 11:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: The acts at the beginning of a (usually human) sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal.
Synonyms: contrectation
foresex
Related terms: afterplay
foreplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)pleɪ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pleɪ
Forms: form: foreplays
form: foreplaying
form: foreplayed
form: foreplayed
Etymology: From fore- + play.
Senses: examples: text: I decided, while we were foreplaying, that I must get a supply, just in case.
ref: 2002, M. D. Bifford Debs, The Writer - Page 102:
text: We grabbed each other, roughly kissing and tossing covers and pillows about in our frantic lovemaking. We foreplayed and foreplayed, teased and teased again.
ref: 2005, Charles E. Schwarz, The Lonely Detective Gets Nasty and Other Murder Mysteries - Page 65:
text: While they were making love? It was true they weren't actually engaged in intercourse, but this certainly counted as foreplay. Iakovos stared down at her in complete disbelief. He'd never, ever had a woman fall asleep while he was foreplaying.
ref: 2011, Katie MacAlister, It's All Greek to Me:
glosses: To engage in foreplay.
school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sko͞ol
ipa: /skuːl/
ipa: /skuːɫ/
note: Scotland, Northern Ireland, pull-pool
ipa: /skʉl/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /skɪʉːl/
note: Indic
ipa: /(ɪ)ˈsk(ʰ)ul/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: schools
form: schooling
form: schooled
form: schooled
form: schole
Etymology: From Middle English scole, from Old English scōl (“place of education”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōlu, from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul.
Compare Old Frisian skūle, schūle (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), German Schule (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).
Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school (“group”). Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English siġe, sigor (“victory”).
Senses: examples: text: Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
text: I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]
ref: 1620, Tho[mas] Dekker, “The Worme of Conscience”, in Dekker His Dreame. In Which, Beeing Rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the Great Volumes of Heauen and Hell to Him Were Opened, in Which He Read Many Wonderfull Things., London: Nicholas Okes, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
examples: text: A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
ref: 1998 April 13, Leigh Jones, “National Bar Exam Methods Win in ADA Regulation Test”, in The Journal Record:
text: Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]
ref: 2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan, page 67:
text: "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
"This time I'm gonna school you."
ref: 2007, Peter David, Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 216:
text: Mr. Harris said he was confident he could go toe to toe with any skeptic; he bragged that he’d recently schooled some crypto haters from Vice News.
ref: 2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
examples: text: She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
glosses: To control, or compose, one’s expression.
Derived terms: schooling
school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sko͞ol
ipa: /skuːl/
ipa: /skuːɫ/
note: Scotland, Northern Ireland, pull-pool
ipa: /skʉl/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /skɪʉːl/
note: Indic
ipa: /(ɪ)ˈsk(ʰ)ul/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: schools
form: skull
Etymology: From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.
Senses: examples: text: The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
synonyms: shoal
glosses: A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
glosses: A multitude.
Synonyms: word: school
Hypernyms: word: institution
word: organization
Hyponyms: word: nursery school
word: preschool
word: kindergarten
word: elementary school
word: grade school
word: primary school
word: middle school
word: junior college
word: junior high
word: junior high school
word: grammar school
word: secondary modern school
word: comprehensive school
word: high school
word: secondary school
word: college
word: university
word: graduate school
word: polytechnic
word: boarding school
Meronyms: word: classroom
Related terms: word: education
word: :Category:Schools
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 542. School
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/36 § graduate school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § high school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/46 § junior high school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/52 § middle school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/57 § normal school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § open classroom school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/65 § preparatory school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/67 § public school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/75 § secondary school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/80 § special school
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/83 § summer school
school
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sko͞ol
ipa: /skuːl/
ipa: /skuːɫ/
note: Scotland, Northern Ireland, pull-pool
ipa: /skʉl/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /skɪʉːl/
note: Indic
ipa: /(ɪ)ˈsk(ʰ)ul/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: schools
form: schooling
form: schooled
form: schooled
form: skull
Etymology: From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Frankish *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷel- (“crowd, people”).
Cognate with Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal.
Senses: glosses: To form into, or travel in, a school.
raw_tags: of fish
sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕks
ipa: /sɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: secs
homophone: sects (some accents)
Forms: form: sexes
form: sexe
form: s*x
Etymology: From sect.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sect.
intercourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚˌkɔɹs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚˌkoɹs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təˌkɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: intercourses
Etymology: From Old French entrecours, from Late Latin intercursus.
Senses: examples: text: Yet do I vnderſtand your darkeſt language, / Your treads ath'toe, your ſecret iogges and vvringes: / Your entercourſe of glaunces: euery tittle / Of your cloſe Amorous rites I vnderſtand, / They ſpeake as loud to mee, as if you ſaid, / My deareſt Dariotto, I am thine.
ref: 1604 (first performance), George Chapman, Al Fooles: A Comedy, […], London: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act II, signature [D4], verso:
text: this sweet intercourse of looks and smiles
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: And indeed, what more reliable authority could Berlioz have found than Cavaillé-Coll, with whom he had frequent intercourse, and who would have been better qualified than any one else to give him correct information?
ref: 1906, Edward Suddard, chapter 4, in The Technique of the Modern Orchestra^(https://imslp.org/wiki/Technique_de_l%27orchestre_moderne_(Widor%2C_Charles-Marie)), translation of Technique de l'orchestre moderne by Charles-Marie Widor, page 139:
text: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: It might seem that with age places gained upon persons in interest to my mind; and that my pleasure grew in intercourse with things rather than with ideas.
ref: 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Communication, conversation.
glosses: Dealings between countries.
glosses: Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
glosses: Sexual intercourse usually involving humans.
Derived terms: anal intercourse
intercoursal
intercourser
nonintercourse
preintercourse
Related terms: outercourse
intercourse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚˌkɔɹs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚˌkoɹs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təˌkɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: intercourses
form: intercoursing
form: intercoursed
form: intercoursed
Etymology: From Old French entrecours, from Late Latin intercursus.
Senses: glosses: To have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: fornicate
have sex
make love
copulate
bellboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: bellboys
Etymology: From bell + boy.
Senses: glosses: A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.
Synonyms: bellhop
bellman
Related terms: bell captain
bellgirl
buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌ.ɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: buggies
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A small horse-drawn cart.
examples: text: I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.
ref: 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
examples: 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
glosses: A hearse.
examples: text: The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.
ref: 2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12:
synonyms: stroller
glosses: A pushchair; a stroller.
glosses: A shopping cart or trolley.
Derived terms: baby buggy
beach buggy
blitzbuggy
buggyman
buggy whip
bundle buggy
Concord buggy
golf buggy
horse and buggy
Irish buggy
moon buggy
Moon buggy
punch buggy
rubber baby buggy bumper
sand buggy
struggle-buggy
truggy
unbuggy
buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌ.ɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: buggier
form: buggiest
Etymology: From bug + -y.
Senses: glosses: Infested with insects.
examples: text: This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Containing programming errors.
glosses: Resembling an insect.
examples: text: You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.
ref: 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106:
glosses: Crazy; bughouse.
Derived terms: bugginess
buggy eyes
shopping cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑpɪŋ kɑɹt/
Forms: form: shopping carts
Senses: glosses: A conveyance used to carry groceries and other items while shopping in a store.
glosses: The stored list of items that a person has chosen to purchase during an online shopping session but has not yet confirmed.
Synonyms: word: shopping trolley
word: trolley
word: grocery cart
word: buggy
word: carriage
word: trundler
heatwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhitˌweɪv/
Forms: form: heatwaves
Etymology: From heat + wave.
Senses: examples: text: Various parts of the world have been experiencing heatwaves and on Thursday the EU’s climate monitoring service said the world had experienced its hottest June on record last month. […] In parts of China, an enduring heatwave has continued, with temperatures reaching above 35C.
ref: 2023 July 7, “UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Both weather agencies forecast temperatures above 40C over the coming days and called for vigilance amid forecasts of “a very intense, even exceptional” heatwave in parts of the continent.
ref: 2025 August 11, Ajit Niranjan, “Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: cold spell
cold wave
glosses: Alternative spelling of heat wave (“period of exceptionally hot weather”)
examples: text: On a hot summer's day, one can literally see heatwaves shimmering off the surfaces of inanimate objects.
ref: 2021, Murray du Plessis, Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit:
glosses: A heat haze.
modest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑdəst/
rhymes: -ɒdəst
Forms: form: more modest
form: modester
form: most modest
form: modestest
Etymology: From Middle French modeste, from Latin modestus.
Senses: synonyms: word: demure
word: meek
word: abased
word: demure
word: diffident
word: humble
word: humble-hearted
word: low
word: meek
word: mild
word: modest
word: resigned
word: self-effacing
word: unpretentious
word: verecund
antonyms: word: arrogant
word: immodest
word: humble
word: modest
word: servile
word: sycophantic
glosses: Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
examples: text: He earns a modest amount of money.
text: Her latest novel was a modest success.
synonyms: word: moderate
word: tiny
word: average
word: intermediate
word: middle
word: middling
word: mild
word: medium
word: moderate
word: compact
word: fun size
word: fun-sized
word: ickle
word: insignificant
word: lit'l
word: little
word: low
word: modest
word: mini
word: petty
word: pint-sized
word: pocket-size
word: slim
word: slight
word: small
word: small-scale
word: undersized
word: wee
word: wurly
antonyms: word: immodest
word: obscene
word: small
word: tiny
word: deficient
word: insufficient
word: moderate
glosses: Small, moderate in size.
examples: text: modest thoughts or language
synonyms: chaste
demure
prudish
virginal
antonyms: word: immodest
word: obscene
word: chaste
word: decent
word: moral
glosses: Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety.
synonyms: word: austere
word: chaste
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
antonyms: word: provocative
word: sexy
word: sensual
word: flamboyant
word: nonsexy
word: repellent
word: unalluring
word: unattractive
word: unsexy
word: unadorned
glosses: Intending to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
raw_tags: of behavior or clothing
Derived terms: hypermodest
modest cadlina
modestly
modestness
modest proposal
of modest means
overmodest
pseudomodest
supermodest
ultramodest
unmodest
Related terms: modesty
Pb
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Pbit.
au
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: au
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of atomic unit.
glosses: Abbreviation of arbitrary unit.
glosses: Abbreviation of astronomical unit.
glosses: Abbreviation of Absorbance Units.
au
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: letter au
glosses: A vowel found in Indic abugidas.