cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coryza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɑɪ̯.zə/
Forms: form: coryzas
form: coryzae
form: coryzæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin corȳza, from Ancient Greek κόρυζα (kóruza, “nasal mucus”).
Senses: examples: text: In his writing on coryza, Celsus repeats the belief of Hippocrates that some cases of phthisis owe their origin to catarrh of the nasal passages; so far as coryza is concerned, he says, there is nothing pestiferous about it unless it ulcerates […]
ref: 1949, Robert Scott Stevenson, Douglas Guthrie, A History of Oto-laryngology:
text: Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza, during the day (second day),⁴.^([sic])—Obstruction of left nostril, in evening […] After pain in the head, which continued ten days, coryza, sore throat, and extension to bronchial mucous membranes[…]
ref: 1964, Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism:
text: Sore throat and coryza (cold) in the very aged do not exhibit the phenomena associated with pepsis (apparently, the changes normally occurring in the younger population).
ref: 1971, Edwin Burton Levine, Hippocrates:
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: catarrh
glosses: Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, usually causing a running nose, nasal congestion and loss of smell.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: catarrh
glosses: Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
Derived terms: coryzal
charnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [tʃɑːɹnəl]
ipa: [tʃɑːnəl]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: charnels
Etymology: From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.
Senses: glosses: A chapel attached to a mortuary.
examples: text: When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d,
⁠Was this demanded—if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: A repository for dead bodies.
Derived terms: charnel house
uncharnel
charnel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [tʃɑːɹnəl]
ipa: [tʃɑːnəl]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: more charnel
form: most charnel
Etymology: From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.
Senses: examples: text: He murmured to himself with dull despair,
Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
glosses: Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
charnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [tʃɑːɹnəl]
ipa: [tʃɑːnəl]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: charnels
Etymology: From Old French charnel, from Latin cardinālis (“relating to a hinge”); related to French charnière.
Senses: examples: text: The knight did as he was desired, and broke his spear twice on the very charnel of his helmet. It being now Sir William Cecil's turn, each knight charged his spear directly towards the other's head, and galloping on, both lances[…]
ref: 1836, George Payne Rainsford James, Darnley, Or the Field of the Cloth of Gold, page 134:
text: 1 Are these the charnels, or pinnacles of helmets? See Meyrick, […]
ref: 1836, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 401:
text: [page 78:] […] knight being struck on the charnel, a device for attaching the helm to the breastplate […] [page 497:] Most of the knights at this passage of arms were wearing sallets with bevors or armets with wrappers. Here we have a rare exception, since reference to the charnel indicates that Joan de Camós is wearing a helm. Given the effect of this particular spear stroke, it can be inferred that he was struck high on the charnel, near the neck, which would have made him choke or gag.
ref: 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Part of a helm, now usually identified as the hinge (near the neck) by which the helm was secured to the breastplate.
Related terms: flaon
enchanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/
ipa: /ənˈtʃɑːntə/
ipa: /ɛnˈtʃɑːntə/
ipa: /ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/
ipa: /ɛnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/
Forms: form: enchanters
form: enchantor
form: inchantor
form: enchantour
form: enchauntour
form: inchanter
form: enchauntor
Etymology: From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]
ref: 1991 February 11, “Critics' Voices”, in Time:
glosses: One who enchants or delights.
examples: text: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:
text: He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI:
text: [I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
ref: 1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105:
text: Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, lines 2–3:
text: […] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:
glosses: A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
Derived terms: enchanter's nightshade
repression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repressions
Etymology: From repress + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.
glosses: The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
Derived terms: antirepression
autorepression
corepression
derepression
financial repression
repressionary
repressionism
transnational repression
transrepression
Related terms: repress
suppression
repressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repress
repressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repressings
Senses: examples: repressings of a vinyl record
glosses: A second or subsequent pressing.
resale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈriːseɪl/
ipa: /ˈriˌseɪl/
Forms: form: resales
Etymology: From re- + sale.
Senses: examples: text: They bought the contents of the locker for resale.
text: The resale value was high as the items were quite rare.
glosses: Sale of something previously bought.
topics: law
glosses: The sale by the original seller to another purchaser of goods due to non-payment by original purchaser, often with the original purchaser liable for any shortfall between the original sale price and the price realized by the original seller.
selling on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She did not buy them for her own use but always intended to make a profit by selling on.
glosses: The act of selling something previously purchased.
sour cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sour creams
form: soured cream
Senses: glosses: Cream which has been treated with a benign bacterium to turn it slightly sour, often used as a condiment, or a topping for baked potatoes.
Hyponyms: crema
crème fraîche
carrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrot
carrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrots
Senses: glosses: A redhead.
lobscouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobscouses
form: lobscouce
form: lobscourse
form: lob's course
form: lobscows
Etymology: Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of unknown origin.
Compare lapskaus, Dutch lapskous, Norwegian Bokmål lapskaus, German Labskaus, Danish skipperlabskovs/labskovs; also English loblolly.
Senses: examples: text: [A] dish of hard fish swimming in oil appeared at each end, the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of lob's course […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
Derived terms: lobscouser
scouse
unbeliever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbelievers
Etymology: From un- + believer, perhaps a corruption of earlier wanbeliever (“unbeliever”).
Senses: examples: text: `Well, I suppose that we must try it,' I said; and the others assented in their various ways - Leo, as though it were the best joke in the world; Job, in respectful disgust; and Mahomed, with an invocation to the Prophet, and a comprehensive curse upon all unbelievers and their ways of thought and travel.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: I tried to persuade some of the men to come and save you, but they would not do it, saying: ‘Let the unbelievers kill one another if they wish. It is none of our affair, and if we go and interfere with Ali-ben-Ahmed’s plans we shall only stir up a fight with our own people.’
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 86:
text: One of the emcees, going for a cheap laugh had said "classical musicians, we all know what they're like," and I heard several voices from the audience reply, "Oh yeah, what are they like?" But the classical concert certainly convinced the unbelievers.
ref: 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:
glosses: One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe people who do not believe in the same deity or deities as themselves).
Synonyms: infidel
non-believer
nonbeliever
nullifidian
lobscouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobscousers
Etymology: From lobscouse + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor.
Related terms: Scouser
brise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: brises
Senses: examples: text: Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.
ref: 1616: Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme, page 92
glosses: A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
Related terms: brise-bise
brise soleil
untilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tilled.
Senses: examples: text: Spring was upon us and the ground remained untilled.
text: The Emerald City was soon left far behind. As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Of land, having not been tilled.
ship's biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship's biscuits
Senses: examples: text: I found nothing else to do but to offer him one of my good Swede’s ship’s biscuits I had in my pocket.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206:
text: I found a ship's biscuit and a wizened apple in my sketch sack. They smelled of turpentine and revolted my appetite. At dusk I ate them greedily.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: hardtack
outcrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊt.kɹɒp/
ipa: /ˈaʊt.kɹɑp/
ipa: /ˈæɔt.kɹɔp/
Forms: form: outcrops
Etymology: From out- + crop.
Senses: glosses: A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
glosses: A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
glosses: The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.
Synonyms: outcropping
Derived terms: outcropper
sub-outcrop
outcrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊt.kɹɒp/
ipa: /ˈaʊt.kɹɑp/
ipa: /ˈæɔt.kɹɔp/
Forms: form: outcrops
form: outcropping
form: outcropped
form: outcropped
Etymology: From out- + crop.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To come out to the surface of the ground.
raw_tags: of a stratum
lobscousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobscouser
reciprocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reciprocally
form: most reciprocally
Etymology: From reciprocal + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: irreciprocally
glosses: In a reciprocal manner; by way of returning (e.g. a favour, insult, etc).
Synonyms: word: gainwise
word: in kind
word: mutually
word: reciprocally
hardtack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardtacks
form: hard tack
Etymology: From hard + tack.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: reefer's nut
text: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Bread and fodder had to be brought up over longer and longer distances, it was more difficult all the time, transport was lacking, the army had already eaten two-thirds of its hardtack, exhausted men were marching in baking heat along sandy roads into emptiness!
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 71:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: word: pilot biscuit
word: pilot bread
word: sea biscuit
word: sea bread
word: ship's biscuit
word: ship biscuit
word: ship bread
word: ;
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: Anzac wafer
word: sheet iron
word: tooth duller
word: worm castle
hypernyms: tack
;
biscuit
;
bread
coordinate_terms: soft tack
glosses: A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
mannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mannered
form: most mannered
Etymology: From Middle English manered; equivalent to manner + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way.
text: ill-mannered.
text: I doubt in general whether highly mannered societies are necessarily more peaceful societies as assumed by Norbert Elias. Romeo and Juliet lived in a highly mannered, highly violent society; […]
ref: 2000, Richard W. Kaeuper, Violence in Medieval Society, page 34:
glosses: Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.
Derived terms: bad-mannered
fair-mannered
ill-mannered
mild-mannered
mismannered
overmannered
unmannered
well-mannered
Related terms: well mannered
bad mannered
ill mannered
well mannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of well-mannered.
ill-mannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-mannered
form: most ill-mannered
Etymology: Compare Middle English ille-ymanerite.
Senses: examples: text: He was extremely ill-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.
glosses: Having bad manners; impolite.
Synonyms: bad-mannered
mannerless
boorish
Related terms: ill-natured
bad-mannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bad-mannered
form: most bad-mannered
Senses: examples: text: He was extremely bad-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.
glosses: Having bad manners; impolite.
Synonyms: ill-mannered
imbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbalances
form: inbalance
Etymology: From im- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: The growing imbalances between the rich and poor first lead to more crime.
text: Ross Barkley, a second-half substitute, almost marked his debut with a goal but by that stage England were playing at half-pace. A team can do that when the imbalance of talent is this considerable.
ref: 6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:
text: There are some stations which have literally 1,000-1,500 passengers a year, whereas Whitby has over 140,000, so there's a huge imbalance between the usage of some stations and others.
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 60:
glosses: The property of not being in balance.
Derived terms: chemical imbalance
energy imbalance
linguistic imbalance
think the world of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks the world of
form: thinking the world of
form: thought the world of
form: thought the world of
Senses: examples: text: "I was so pleased I wanted to cry, for the children do love me, and run to me for everything now, and think the world of Sister."
ref: 1888, Louisa May Alcott, “May Flowers”, in A Garland for Girls:
text: Those little souvenir spoons she sent up with the chocolate yesterday are perfect darlings. I think the world of mine.
ref: 1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, “‘Found Out’”, in The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, published February 1923, →OCLC, page 158:
text: I used to think the world of you, but I hate you for what you said," declared Lilian Bono, 76.
ref: 1984 April 9, “Medicine: Question: Who Will Play God?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2009:
text: When I was young, I thought the world of you / You were all that I wanted then
ref: 2019, “Don’t Let Me Go”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:
synonyms: admire
esteem
think a lot of
glosses: To have a very high opinion of; to have a strong attachment to or affection for; to think highly / a lot of.
Related terms: mean the world to
barnyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹnˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: barnyards
Etymology: From barn + yard.
Senses: examples: text: She always felt that eggs tasted better from barnyard chickens.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The yard associated with or surrounding a barn.
Synonyms: farmyard
Derived terms: barnyard golf
barnyard grass
barnyardy
Related terms: dooryard
rickyard
stackyard
barnyard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹnˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: more barnyard
form: most barnyard
Etymology: From barn + yard.
Senses: examples: text: Henderson too barnyard for Casa Loma, so they are rejecting further arrangements by him.
ref: 1973, Walter C. Allen, Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians, page 509:
text: The bad part was that Thor and Chief, with their vivid and clever imaginations, had made up a whole cast of characters, some of them with very barnyard names, and soap-opera lives.
ref: 1999, D. K. Barber, Baldy and the Mohawks, page 12:
text: They’ve come to be called "snout" houses, a label that sounds more barnyard than city street and, in any event, certainly doesn’t sound pretty.
ref: 2011 August 8, Rick Smith, “Cedar Rapids, Marion take aim at 'snout' houses”, in The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
glosses: Vulgar; scatological.
examples: text: Mr. Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, has a quirky way of describing his creations. He refers to the more complex ones as “a little bit barnyard,” “having a funky nose” or “like a good sourdough bread.”
ref: 2013 February 13, Linda Hervieux, “Brooklynite Hits France, With Plans to Seduce”, in New York Times:
text: Cheeses made from goat’s milk tend to have a more barnyard and tangy taste than cow’s milk.
ref: 2016 July 20, “How To Add a Cheese Board to Your Summer Menu”, in Modern Restaurant Management:
glosses: having an earthy flavor.
raw_tags: of food or drink
Synonyms: farmyardy
insurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊ.ɹə/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊɹ.ɚ/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɝ.ɚ/
Forms: form: insurers
form: ensurer
Etymology: From insure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: After the accident I contacted the insurer who paid for the repairs.
text: Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.
ref: 2009 March 7, Walecia Konrad, “Hanging On to Health Coverage, if the Job Goes Away”, in The New York Times:
text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: One who insures.
Derived terms: coinsurer
general insurer
interinsurer
life insurer
microinsurer
noninsurer
insures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insure
pronouncement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronouncements
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French prononcement. By surface analysis, pronounce + -ment. Doublet of pronunciamento.
Senses: examples: text: The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.
glosses: An official public announcement.
examples: text: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
text: His pronouncements carried great authority, but his physical difficulties often caused them to be enigmatic in their brevity.
ref: 2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: This grinchy pronouncement by the president had the value of being truthful.
ref: 2025 April 30, Shawn McCreesh, “Trump, on Tariffs, Says ‘Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30’”, in The New York Times, New York City, retrieved 30 Apr 2025:
glosses: An utterance.
apportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apportion
apportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Here indeed was the witch wife's chance; and she was the more keen, for her master had warned her that this was her last chance. Either Ailie's soul would be his, or her auld wrunkled body and black heart would be flung from this pleasant world to their apportioned place.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Assigned as somebody's portion; allotted.
Derived terms: malapportioned
unapportioned
apologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apologize
circulatory system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜːk(j)uːlətəɹi ˈsɪstəm/
ipa: /-tɹi-/
ipa: /ˌsɝkjələˌtɔɹi ˈsɪstəm/
Forms: form: circulatory systems
Etymology: From circulatory + system.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: cardiovascular system
english: by some writers
translation: by some writers
word: vascular system
english: by some writers
translation: by some writers
word: circulation
glosses: The parts of an animal body comprising the heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries), and blood, which circulate the blood around the body.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.
Synonyms: word: circulatory system
Hypernyms: word: organ system
Coordinate terms: lymphatic system
nervous system
respiratory system
Meronyms: word: heart
word: blood vessel
word: vein
word: artery
word: capillary
Derived terms: closed circulatory system
open circulatory system
Related terms: collateral circulation
pulmonary circulation
systemic circulation
devotional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvəʊʃənəl/
ipa: /dɪˈvoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: devotionals
Etymology: From devotion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: To prepare for leading a devotional, select a theme appropriate to the occasion.
glosses: A brief religious service.
examples: text: Each page of the book offers a short devotional that inspires thought and self-reflection.
glosses: A text or piece of music or writing to be used for devotion.
Derived terms: daily devotional
devotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvəʊʃənəl/
ipa: /dɪˈvoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: more devotional
form: most devotional
Etymology: From devotion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: She spent much time playing devotional music.
text: Because of her love for Robert […] the Resistance leader, Willie undertakes dangerous missions for the anti-fascist groups. She doesn't seem however to have the slightest idea why she is doing it, it is a devotional, not a political action.
ref: 1981 August 29, Michael Bronski, “Hot and Cold Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 7, page 11:
text: The latter [mule] had what Muldoon referred to as 'devotional habits' — which is to say that, occasionally, she would go down on her knees and refuse to budge.
ref: 2023, Robin Lloyd-Jones, Gods of the Lost Crossroads, page 161:
qualifier: usually religious
glosses: Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
Derived terms: devotionalism
devotionalist
devotionality
devotionally
indevotional
nondevotional
pornographico-devotional
undevotional
monarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɑːkɪk(ə)l/
Etymology: From monarch + -ical, perhaps after Middle French monarchique.
Senses: examples: text: Although a socialist he did have monarchical leanings
glosses: Of or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
examples: text: But in this contest of martyrs, it was Ignatius's passionate account of a monarchical episcopal ministry which set the pattern for the future.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 133–4:
glosses: Having sole or undivided authority.
Synonyms: monarchal
monarchial
monarchic
Derived terms: antimonarchical
monarchical hero
monarchically
nonmonarchical
unmonarchical
ship biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship biscuits
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: hardtack
unanswered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unansuered, unanswerd, equivalent to un- + answered.
Senses: examples: text: The flashing light on the answering machine bore testimony to the unanswered call.
text: The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.
ref: 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:
text: The Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his 26-year-old daughter and another man aged 67 were killed Saturday. It said in a statement that police from the provincial to the local levels were investigating.[…]
Calls to Helong city and Yanbian prefecture government spokesmen rang unanswered on Thursday.
ref: 2015 April 30, Christopher Bodeen, “3 killed in Chinese town where North Koreans blamed in past”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 May 2022:
glosses: That has not been answered or addressed.
sprightliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprightlinesses
Etymology: From sprightly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Nothing’s the matter, bless you, Master Davy dear!’ she answered, assuming an air of sprightliness.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: The property of being sprightly.
forfeiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːfɪtʃə/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹfɪt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: forfeitures
Etymology: From Middle English forfeture, from Old French forfaiture.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
topics: law
glosses: The loss of forfeit property.
topics: law
glosses: The property lost as a forfeit.
examples: text: We conclude that the government has forfeited any claim of forfeiture, so we proceed to consider the merits.
ref: 2020 November 20, Eric D. Miller writing for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Ngumezi, case 19-10243
glosses: Any loss occasioned by one's own actions.
Derived terms: forfeiture fund
nonforfeiture
relinquishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relinquish
fidgety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪd͡ʒɪti/
Forms: form: fidgetier
form: fidgetiest
form: fidgetty
Etymology: From fidget + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I did not feel sea-sick at all. But as the days passed, I became fidgety. I felt shy even in speaking to the steward. […]
ref: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiii
text: A fidgety child can easily knock over the drink and burn the two of you.
ref: 1999, Laurie Waldstein, Leslie Zinberg, The Pink and Blue Toddler and Preschooler Pages:
glosses: Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
Synonyms: antsy
fretful
itchy
Derived terms: fidgetily
fidgetiness
procurator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒkjʊˌɹeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑkjəˌɹeɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒkjʊˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: procurators
form: procuratour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English procuratour, from Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (“to procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure + -ator and a doublet of proctor.
Senses: glosses: A tax collector.
glosses: An agent or attorney.
glosses: A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
glosses: The governor of a small imperial province.
Derived terms: procurator fiscal
procurator-general
Related terms: word: curator
word: proctor
word: procuracy
word: procuratorate
word: procure
topics: legal
law
word: inquisitor
head man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head men
form: headman
Etymology: From Middle English heed man, from Old English hēafodmann (“leader; captain, head of a group”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann, equivalent to head + man. Cognate with Dutch hoofdman (“chief; chieftain”), German Hauptmann (“captain”), Swedish huvudman (“chief; principal; leader”). Compare also English headsman. Doublet of hetman.
Senses: glosses: The person in charge of an organization, clan, tribe, or other group.
glosses: The leader of a village.
Synonyms: boss
chief
Related terms: hetman
revocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛvəˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: revocations
Etymology: From Middle English revocacioun, revocation, from Old French revocacion, from Latin revocationem (accusative of revocatio); equivalent to revoke + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: […] Due to the safety issues identified, ORR has revoked WCRCL's Exemption Certificate.[…] WCR-operated charter trains are unaffected by the revocation, which RAIL understands nominally runs until November, immediately after the 'Jacobite' season is due to end on October 27. The 'Jacobite' is treated separately because it is a timetabled service rather than a charter.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nick Brodrick, “'Jacobite' services halted over "safety failures"”, in RAIL, number 989, page 14:
glosses: An act or instance of revoking.
Related terms: revoke
revoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revoke
revoking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revokings
Senses: examples: text: […] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […]
ref: 1854, Henry Manship (the Younger), The History of Great Yarmouth (page 138)
glosses: A revocation.
one legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of one-legged.
habituate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈbɪtju.eɪt/
ipa: /həˈbɪt͡ʃu.eɪt/
Forms: form: habituates
form: habituating
form: habituated
form: habituated
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311,
[…] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]
text: 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35,
Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […]
text: It seems so very important to ground young persons in the belief that they will not inevitably meet in this world with reward and success according to their merit, but to habituate them to expect even the most virtuous attempts to be often, though not always disappointed, that I am in danger of tautology on this point.
ref: 1799, Hannah More, “On the Prevailing System of Education, Manners, and Habits of Women of Rank and Fortune”, in Strictures of the Modern System of Female Education, volume 1, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, page 185:
text: My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 7, in Jane Eyre:
text: […] quarrels in discotheques were settled by the final curse-word of guns. State violence under the old, past regime had habituated its victims to it. People had forgotten there was any other way.
ref: 1998, Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 50:
synonyms: accustom
inure
glosses: To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
examples: text: After the Conquests made by Caesar upon Gaul, and the nearer Parts of Germany […] great Numbers of Germans and Gauls resorted to the Roman Armies and to the City it self, and habituated themselves there, as many Spaniards, Syrians, Graecians had done before upon the Conquest of those Countries.
ref: 1690, William Temple, “Of Poetry”, in Miscellanea. The Second Part in Four Essays, London: Ri. and Ra. Simpson, page 312:
glosses: To settle as an inhabitant.
Derived terms: dishabituate
habituative
habituator
nonhabituated
unhabituate
unhabituated
Related terms: habit
habitual
habituation
habituates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of habituate
habituating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of habituate
habituating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: habit-forming
Derived terms: nonhabituating
habituated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of habituate
unfruitful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfruitful
form: most unfruitful
Etymology: From Middle English unfruytful; equivalent to un- + fruitful.
Senses: examples: text: Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.
glosses: Not bearing fruit.
bear fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears fruit
form: bearing fruit
form: bore fruit
form: borne fruit
Senses: examples: text: After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit.
examples: text: Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.
text: Although the trains are still far from becoming overcrowded, it is understood that the efforts to make the services more widely known have borne fruit.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:
text: Maguire, outstanding once more, broke the deadlock on the half-hour when another England set-piece bore fruit - Leicester City's powerful defender flashing a header past Sweden keeper Robin Olsen from Ashley Young's corner.
ref: 2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
qualifier: endeavour
glosses: To produce good results; to yield benefits; to succeed.
raw_tags: of an effort
flatly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætli/
rhymes: -ætli
Forms: form: more flatly
form: most flatly
Etymology: From flat + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He bent over the old woman again, with his ear turned flatly to her lips and then to the region of her heart.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 214:
text: Rabbit country, the working man's uncultivable terrain. Half a mile away, square open patches of yellow sand flatly glittered, and far on the horizon cranes and vast silver cylinders stood about, ghostly shining inhabitants of the marsh.
ref: 1980, Margaret Drabble, The Middle Ground:
glosses: In a physically flat or level manner.
examples: text: It was an accusation that he flatly denied.
text: In 2017 in Zimbabwe, a military takeover brought Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule to and end. But one of the leaders, Maj Gen Sibusiso Moyo, appeared on television at the time, flatly denying it was a military takeover.
ref: 2023 August 30, “Gabon coup: The latest in a serious of military takeovers on the continent”, in BBC:
glosses: In a definite manner; in a manner showing complete certainty.
examples: text: He replied flatly to the policeman's questions.
text: "Sure you never heard of him?" he asked incredulously. "Never," I said flatly.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 119:
text: "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 65:
glosses: In a manner that shows no emotion.
homewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homeward
Etymology: From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home + -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.
glosses: Leading toward home.
homewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: homeward
Etymology: From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home + -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).
Senses: examples: text: We're now heading homewards.
glosses: towards home
complice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complices
Etymology: From Old French.
Senses: examples: text: The lives of all your loving complices / Lean on your health; the which, if you give o’er / To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: VVell, the VVeſt-Saxon King vvas quickly overcome, and all his Complices either killed, or conquered, and yet King Edvvine demurred to embrace Chriſtianity.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, book II, subsection 40 (His Condition Performed, and yet He Demurres), page 72:
text: Our Saviour was accused that he would Destroy the Temple. The first Martyr Steven was stoned as a Complice.
ref: 1676, Andreas Rivetus, Junior [pseudonym; Andrew Marvell], Mr. Smirke. Or, The Divine in Mode. […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:
text: [A] bill confirming the attainder of Somerset and his complices was also rejected by the commons, tho’ it had passed the upper house.
ref: 1762, David Hume, “[Richard I.] Chapter II.”, in The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Accession of Henry VII, volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 340:
glosses: An accomplice; a supporter.
derangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒmənt/
ipa: /-mɪnt/
Forms: form: derangements
Etymology: Borrowed from French dérangement, equivalent to derange + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: His [James Stewart's] postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: The property of being deranged.
examples: text: Young as he was at the time, he had seen the imprudence of Mr. Granard's way of living; he had often remonstrated, and the death of his father, with the subsequent derangement of his affairs, had alone prevented his following up his advice with such assistance as would have made it effectual.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 93:
text: 8-1. On 21 April 1943, while operating off the Malay Peninsula during her sixth war patrol, GRENADIER sustained heavy damage to the after portion of the ship as the result of a Japanese aircraft depth bomb attack. The most serious casualty which occurred, and which directly caused GRENADIER'S loss, was the complete immobilization of her propulsion plant due to derangement of the main control cubicle and severe misalignment of the propeller shafting. All efforts by ship's force to effect emergency repairs were unsuccessful. Early the next morning, GRENADIER was abandoned and scuttled by her own crew to prevent imminent capture by an approaching Japanese merchant ship.
ref: 1949 January 1, Bureau of Ships, “U.S.S. GRENADIER (SS210), Loss in Action, Off Malaya, 22 April 1943”, in Submarine Report: Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine, Torpedo and Gunfire Damage, Including Losses in Action, 7 December 1941 to 15 August 1945, volume 1, United States Hydrographic Office, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022, page 83:
glosses: An act or instance of deranging.
topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A permutation of a set such that no element is in its previous position.
Derived terms: derangement syndrome
Derangement Syndrome
bazar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bazars
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bazaar.
perfidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈfɪdi.əs/
ipa: /pəˈfɪdi.əs/
rhymes: -ɪdiəs
Forms: form: more perfidious
form: most perfidious
Etymology: From Latin perfidiōsus (“treacherous”), from perfidia.
Senses: examples: text: TRINCULO (speaking about Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
ref: 1851, Oliver Goldsmith, “ch. 26”, in William C. Taylor, editor, Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome:
text: [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
ref: 1905, Andrew Lang, “ch. 14”, in John Knox and the Reformation:
text: When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.
ref: 2005 June 21, “Art: The Velocipede of Modernism”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2011:
text: Enraged, the 2010 Nobel literature laureate thundered that he was “flabbergasted to learn that this kind of gossip can find its way into a respectable publication such as the Book Review” - a “slanderous and perfidious” instance of the convergence of posh and pop that his book inveighs against.
ref: 2015 August 28, John Dugdale, “Mario Vargas Llosa, Hola! and the shallow reading of a review”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
Synonyms: sense: disloyal
word: disloyal
sense: disloyal
word: traitorous
sense: disloyal
word: treacherous
sense: disloyal
word: unfaithful
Derived terms: Perfidious Albion
perfidiously
perfidiousness
unperfidious
Related terms: perfidy
Platonism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn, “Plato”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The philosophy of Plato.
Derived terms: Neoplatonism
New Platonism
desludging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desludge
desludging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the process of removing sediments by draining and cleaning a tank.