cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
difficult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/
Forms: form: more difficult
form: most difficult
Etymology: From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”).
The verb is from the adjective, partly after Middle French difficulter and its etymon Latin difficultō. Compare difficilitate, difficultate, and Italian difficoltare.
Senses: examples: text: However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
text: There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 17, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.
ref: 2008, Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, →ISBN, page 199:
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
examples: text: Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli—you know it's good for you.
qualifier: or a horse; etc; or a horse; etc
glosses: Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: “I hope, madam,” said Jones, “my charming Lady Bellaston will be as difficult to believe anything against one who is so sensible of the many obligations she hath conferred upon him.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Unable or unwilling.
Synonyms: word: burdensome
word: cumbersome
word: hard
word: arduous
word: challenging
word: nasty
word: difficult
word: effortful
word: rocky
word: thistly
word: tough
word: uneath
word: unsimple
Hyponyms: word: burdensome
word: complex
word: incomprehensible
word: killing
word: murderous
word: subtle
Derived terms: difficultate
difficultly
difficultness
difficult nut to crack
difficult pill to swallow
superdifficult
trifficult
undifficult
Related terms: word: awkward
word: backbreaking
word: cumbersome
word: get blood from a stone
word: get blood out of a stone
word: heavy
word: nail Jell-O to a tree
word: problematic
word: pull teeth
word: difficult situation
word: test
difficult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/
Forms: form: difficults
form: difficulting
form: difficulted
form: difficulted
Etymology: From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficulte (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”).
The verb is from the adjective, partly after Middle French difficulter and its etymon Latin difficultō. Compare difficilitate, difficultate, and Italian difficoltare.
Senses: examples: August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson
their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace
glosses: To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
circular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sûr′kyələr
ipa: /ˈsɜː.kjə.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.kjə.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.kjə.lɚ/
Forms: form: circulars
Etymology: From Middle English circuler, circuleer, circulere, from Old French circulier (French circulaire), from Late Latin circularis, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus (“ring”). By surface analysis, circle + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The pigeon-hole was also stuffed with circulars and hand-bills.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 40:
synonyms: flyer
glosses: An advertisement, directive or notice intended for mass circulation.
glosses: Ellipsis of circular letter.
glosses: Ellipsis of circular file.
glosses: A sleeveless cloak cut from a circular pattern.
glosses: A shuttle bus with a circular route.
Related terms: advertisement
booklet
brochure
catalogue
catalog
flier
flyer
handbill
hand bill
junk mail
leaflet
pamphlet
circular
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sûr′kyələr
ipa: /ˈsɜː.kjə.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.kjə.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.kjə.lɚ/
Forms: form: circulars
form: circularing
form: circulared
form: circulared
Etymology: From Middle English circuler, circuleer, circulere, from Old French circulier (French circulaire), from Late Latin circularis, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus (“ring”). By surface analysis, circle + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The result of the sending of these notices confirms me in the opinion, that it will be necessary to adopt legal means with the great majority of these parties. The circulars have had little effect. In fact, the parties have been “circulared" into the notion that nothing more formidable will ever be sent to them.
ref: 1851, G. W. Muir, Report on the State of Engine and Other Furnaces, page 19:
text: It is true, that, to obtain these, some six hundred or more institutions were circulared, and a good many of these a second time.
ref: 1873, Old and new - Volume 8, page 101:
text: I do not mean to say we have never employed some of them who come to us—but we have never circulared agents or gone after them.
ref: 1909, American Life Convention, Report of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Life Convention, page 42:
text: If you've ever been circulared by drug repackaging houses, you know they usually offer to trade a selection of office supplies for your unused drug samples.
ref: 1962, Harrie Sheridan Baketel, Medical Economics - Volume 39, page 141:
glosses: To distribute circulars to or at.
examples: text: The theme can be expressed in an architectural analogy. For, of all contriving to encover space, the arch — alone or 'circulared' into the dome — is the most ingenious.
ref: 2008, Donald E. Wagner, Kenneth Cragg, Dying in the Land of Promise, page 116:
glosses: To extend in a circular direction.
excellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksələnt/
ipa: /ˈɛksɪlənt/
ipa: /ˈɛkslənt/
ipa: /ˈɛksələnt/
Forms: form: more excellent
form: most excellent
Etymology: From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
ref: , New York Review Books 2001, p.287
glosses: Excellently.
swift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪft/
homophone: Swift
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: swifter
form: swiftest
Etymology: From Middle English swift, from Old English swift (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Germanic *swiftaz (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weyp- (“to twist; wind around”). Cognate with Icelandic svipta (“to pull quickly”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”). More at swivel.
Senses: examples: text: Spain were provoked into a response and Villa almost provided a swift equaliser when he rounded Hart but found the angle too acute and could only hit the side-netting.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Fast; quick; rapid.
glosses: Capable of moving at high speeds.
Derived terms: word: overswift
word: over-swift
word: swiftboating
word: swift-boating
word: swift boating
word: swiftboat
word: swift-boat
word: swift boat
word: Swift Boat
word: Swift Current
word: swift-flowing
word: swift-flying
word: swiftfooted
word: swift-footed
taxonomic: Vulpes velox
word: swift fox
taxonomic: Thoopterus nigrescens
word: swift fruit bat
word: swift half
word: swifthanded
word: swift-handed
word: swiftie
word: swiftly
word: swiftness
taxonomic: Lathamus discolor
word: swift parrot
word: swift tern
word: swift-thinking
word: swiftwater
word: swiftwing
Related terms: swiftfootedness
swift-footedness
swifthandedness
swift-handedness
swift
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪft/
homophone: Swift
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: more swift
form: most swift
Etymology: From Middle English swift, from Old English swift (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Germanic *swiftaz (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weyp- (“to twist; wind around”). Cognate with Icelandic svipta (“to pull quickly”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”). More at swivel.
Senses: examples: text: Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Ply swift and strong the oar.
ref: 1793, Robert Southey, Lord William:
glosses: Swiftly.
Synonyms: swith
lateral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæt.ə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈlæt.ɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: laterals
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: approximant
fricative
nasal
trill
plosive
glosses: A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lateral pass.
topics: business
glosses: An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
examples: text: […] Canal and laterals, section 4, and the first part of section 5; and Miller Canal and laterals.
ref: 1956, United States House Appropriations Committee, Public Works Appropriations for 1957, page 703
text: Two-thirds of the drownings, or 103, occurred along the back of the canal or lateral. […] 4 drownings per year occurred in reaches of canals or laterals protected by fencing.
ref: 1971, Howard S. Latham, James M. Verzuh, Reducing Hazards to People and Animals on Reclamation ..., page 7:
glosses: A lateral canal, a canal built alongside an existing stream.
lateral
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæt.ə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈlæt.ɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: laterals
form: lateraling
form: lateralling
form: lateraled
form: lateraled
form: lateralled
form: lateralled
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To execute a lateral pass.
Derived terms: lateraling
examination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˌzæmɪˈneɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪɡˌzæməˈneɪʃən/
ipa: [ɪɡˌzɛəm.əˈneɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ɪɡˌzæməˈnæɪʃən/
ipa: /əɡˌzɛməˈnæɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: examinations
Etymology: From Middle English examinacioun, from Old French examinacion, from Latin exāminātiō. Morphologically examine + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In a child with infant dyschezia, physical examination and stool examination are normal.
ref: 2002, Paul Hyman, “Infant Dyschezia: Looking out for Number Two”, in International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders, number 823:
text: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:
text: The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
ref: 2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: The act of examining.
glosses: Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
topics: education
glosses: A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.
glosses: Interrogation, particularly by a lawyer in court or during discovery.
Derived terms: word: 11-plus examination
word: bar examination
word: blue book examination
word: clinical examination
word: cross-examination
word: cross examination
word: direct examination
word: entrance examination
word: exam
word: examinational
word: examination-in-chief
word: examinationless
word: examination of conscience
word: examination paper
word: examination table
word: eye examination
word: final examination
word: imperial examination
word: matriculation examination
word: microexamination
word: midterm examination
word: mock examination
word: neuroexamination
word: nonexamination
word: oral examination
word: physical examination
word: preexamination
word: preliminary examination
word: previous examination
word: recross examination
word: recross-examination
word: re-cross-examination
word: re-examination
word: self-examination
word: state examination
word: teleexamination
Related terms: examine
marijuana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/
ipa: /ˌmæɹ-/
ipa: /-ˈhwɑ-/
ipa: /ˌmæɹɪˈwɑː.nə/
Forms: form: marijuanas
form: marihuana
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish marihuana, from mariguana. First attested in 1874 in the publications of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Altered by influence of a folk etymology involving the proper name María Juana (“Mary Jane”).
Senses: examples: text: After smoking a bowl of that fine marijuana, they ate some brownies.
text: You could smell tea, weed, I mean marijuana, floating in the air, together with the chili beans and beer.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
text: Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.”
ref: 2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
text: Sunday is 420 day, when lovers of marijuana get together to celebrate their fondness for weed.
ref: 2025 April 20, Sandee LaMotte, “Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
glosses: The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa.
Synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
Hypernyms: word: recreational drug
Hyponyms: word: chronic
word: dagga
word: Indian hemp
word: kind bud
word: kush
word: purple haze
word: schwag
word: Thai stick
Meronyms: word: tetrahydrocannabinol
word: THC
Derived terms: antimarijuana
marijuanalike
medible
medical marijuana
nonmarijuana
promarijuana
Related terms: word: Appendix:Cannabis slang
rural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʊə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɔː.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹʊ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɝl/
ipa: /ˈɹʉːɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹuːɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾuːɾal/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾuːa̯l/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: more rural
form: most rural
Etymology: From Old French rural, from Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
text: The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.
ref: 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN:
synonyms: campestral
landly
antonyms: urban
suburban
glosses: Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
Derived terms: Ashchurch Rural
Audley Rural
Belmont Rural
Ellesmere Rural
Kempston Rural
Kington Rural
Llanelli Rural
Llangollen Rural
Oswestry Rural
perirural
rural coach
rural dean
rural district
ruralistic
rurally
Rural Retreat
rural sanitary district
semirural
semi-rural
Shap Rural
St Stephens by Launceston Rural
Tring Rural
urban-rural commune
urban-rural gmina
Uttoxeter Rural
Watford Rural
Wem Rural
Whitchurch Rural
rural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʊə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɔː.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹʊ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɝl/
ipa: /ˈɹʉːɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɹuːɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾuːɾal/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾuːa̯l/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: rurals
Etymology: From Old French rural, from Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.
Senses: glosses: A person from the countryside; a rustic.
Related terms: country
reverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Etymology: From Middle English revers, from Anglo-Norman revers, Middle French revers, and their source, Latin reversus, perfect passive participle of reversō, from re- + versō. Doublet of revers.
Senses: examples: text: We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.
text: The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.
glosses: Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
examples: text: He selected reverse gear.
glosses: Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
raw_tags: of points
glosses: Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
examples: text: a reverse shell
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Reversed.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
Derived terms: reverse 911 call
reverse Advent calendar
reverse anorexia nervosa
reverse arms
reverse bigotry
reverse boustrophedon
reverse brain drain
reverse bunny suit
reverse cascade
reverse causation
reverse charge
reverse-charge
reverse chops
reverse cleavage
reverse commute
reverse-commute
reverse commuter
reverse confusion
reverse contrast
reverse course
reverse cowgirl
reverse cowgirl position
reverse culture shock
reverse curve
reverse cycler
reverse dictionary
reverse discrimination
reverse domestic violence
reverse-dowry
reverse dowry
reverse dunk
reverse electrodialysis
reverse engineer
reverse engineering
reverse fault
reverse ferret
reverse fly
reverse forecast
reverse gangbang
reverse gear
reverse genetic
reverse genetics
reverse graffiti
reverse harem
reverse hyper
reverse hyperextension
reverse image search
reverse implied odds
reverse import
reverse infringement
reverse intaglio
reverse integration
reverse isekai
reverse jinx
reverse komi
reverse layup
reverse line feed
reverse link
reverse logistics
reversely
reverse Magnus effect
reverse mathematics
reverse merger
reverse mermaid
reverse Midas touch
reverse mortgage
reverse one-drop rule
reverse osmosis
reverse painting
reverse palming off
reverse panda
reverse pass
reverse pedo
reverse pedophile
reverse pickpocket
reverse-pickpocket
reverse Polish notation
reverse proxy
reverse psychology
reverse question
reverse racism
reverse racist
reverse rape
reverse rapist
reverse ratio spread
reverse repo
reverse-sear
reverse sexism
reverse sexist
reverse shell
reverse shot
reverse spelling
reverse split
reverse sweep
reverse swing
reverse takeover
reverse thrust
reverse transcriptase
reverse transcription
reverse-transmigratory neutrophil
reverse trap
reverse trial
reverse Turing test
reverse vending machine
reverse video
Uno reverse card
reverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Etymology: From Middle English revers, from Anglo-Norman revers, Middle French revers, and their source, Latin reversus, perfect passive participle of reversō, from re- + versō. Doublet of revers.
Senses: examples: text: The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse, / Where miracles alone were ever plain.
ref: 1963, Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact:
glosses: In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.
Synonyms: upside down
reverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːs/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: reverses
Etymology: From Middle English revers, from Anglo-Norman revers, Middle French revers, and their source, Latin reversus, perfect passive participle of reversō, from re- + versō. Doublet of revers.
Senses: examples: text: Division is the reverse of multiplication.
text: The Sun doesn't orbit the Earth—quite the reverse, in fact.
glosses: The opposite of something.
examples: text: By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.
ref: 1808, Charles Lamb, Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare:
glosses: The act of going backwards; a reversal.
examples: text: And the cold truth such sad reverse did seem
As to awake in grief from some delightful dream.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 192:
text: Simon Forman was notorious in his day, and was a many of many reverses.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 156:
text: In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 309:
glosses: A piece of misfortune; a setback.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
glosses: The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
examples: text: I shifted into reverse and was just about to back up when our silly cat walked behind the car! Honk honk, kitty! Get out of there!
synonyms: reverse gear
hypernyms: gear
glosses: The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
examples: text: but first , master see thee pass thy punto , thy stock , thy reverse , thy guest
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of transpose.
synonyms: word: transpose
Derived terms: autoreverse
bootlegger reverse
in reverse
reverseless
reverse of trade
topic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒpɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: topick
Etymology: From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”), of Pre-Greek origin.
Senses: glosses: topical
topic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒpɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: topics
form: topick
Etymology: From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”), of Pre-Greek origin.
Senses: examples: text: A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.
text: stick to the topic
text: an interesting topic of conversation
text: romance is a topic that frequently comes up in conversation
text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
synonyms: ground
glosses: Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
glosses: Discussion thread.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
examples: text: In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
ref: 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics, page 9:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
examples: text: contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
ref: 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion:
glosses: An argument or reason.
examples: text: Amongst topics or outward medicines none are more precious than baths.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
Synonyms: sense: area of interest
word: subject
sense: area of interest
word: subject area
Derived terms: drop the topic
off topic
off-topic
on topic
on-topic
subtopic
supertopic
-topic
topical
topic map
topic of conversation
topic sentence
disk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭsk
ipa: /dɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: disks
form: disking
form: disked
form: disked
form: disc
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
Senses: examples: text: That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring.
ref: 1916, Various, Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916:
text: The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes.
ref: 1948, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report:
text: The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants.
ref: 1991 September 6, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To harrow.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
raw_tags: of an aircraft's propeller
easy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːzɪ/
ipa: /ˈiːziː/
ipa: /ˈizi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: easier
form: easiest
form: aisy
form: easie
form: eazy
form: EZ
Etymology: From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus (“empty, lonely”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-. Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, all meaning "easy, vacant, empty." More at ease, eath.
Senses: examples: text: After his illness, John decided to take it easy.
text: Everything comes easy to her.
text: We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.
ref: 1786, John Jeffries, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks., page 45:
glosses: In a relaxed or casual manner.
examples: text: Jane went easier on him after he broke his arm.
glosses: In a manner without strictness or harshness; gently; softly.
examples: text: This project will cost 15 million dollars, easy.
glosses: Handily; at the very least.
Derived terms: breathe easy
sleep easy
easy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːzɪ/
ipa: /ˈiːziː/
ipa: /ˈizi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: easies
form: aisy
form: easie
form: eazy
form: EZ
Etymology: From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus (“empty, lonely”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-. Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, all meaning "easy, vacant, empty." More at ease, eath.
Senses: examples: text: Cooking the sushi was very easy for her.
glosses: Something that is easy.
easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːzɪ/
ipa: /ˈiːziː/
ipa: /ˈizi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: easies
form: easying
form: easied
form: easied
form: aisy
form: easie
form: eazy
form: EZ
Etymology: From Middle English esy, eesy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Anglo-Norman eisé from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), past participle of aisier (“to put at ease”), from aise (“empty space, elbow room, opportunity”), of uncertain origin. See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus (“empty, lonely”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-. Compare also Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi, Old Norse auðr, all meaning "easy, vacant, empty." More at ease, eath.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: Synonym of easy-oar.
synonyms: word: easy-oar
usual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːʒʊəl/
ipa: /ˈjuːʒuəl/
ipa: /ˈjuːʒəl/
Forms: form: more usual
form: most usual
form: uzhe
form: uzh
form: yoozh
Etymology: From Middle English usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ūsuālis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from ūsus (“use, habit, custom”), from the past participle stem of ūtī (“to use”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt- (“to take along, fetch”). Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċ.
Senses: examples: text: The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
text: It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
glosses: Most commonly occurring; typical.
Synonyms: wonted
normal
common
standard
regular
ordinary
plain
simple
typical
Derived terms: as per the usual
as per usual
as usual
business-as-usual
business as usual
unusual
usual channels
usually
usualness
usual office
usual offices
usual suspects
uzhe
yewzh
Related terms: usuality
usual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːʒʊəl/
ipa: /ˈjuːʒuəl/
ipa: /ˈjuːʒəl/
Forms: form: usuals
form: uzhe
form: uzh
form: yoozh
Etymology: From Middle English usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ūsuālis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from ūsus (“use, habit, custom”), from the past participle stem of ūtī (“to use”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt- (“to take along, fetch”). Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċ.
Senses: glosses: The typical state of something, or something that is typical.
examples: text: I'll just have the usual.
text: Two usuals, please.
glosses: A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.
opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɒp.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɑp.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɑ.pɚ.ə/
ipa: /ˈɑ.pɹə/
ipa: /ˈɔp.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɔp.ɹə/
Forms: form: operas
form: opere
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre, opus, and ure.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The score for such a work.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.
examples: text: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
glosses: A company dedicated to performing such works.
glosses: Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.
Derived terms: antiopera
ballad opera
Beijing opera
Cantonese opera
chamber opera
Chinese opera
comic opera
fairy opera
grand opera
hip hopera
horse opera
hoss opera
light opera
lyric opera
nonopera
oat opera
oil opera
opera bouffe
opera buffa
opera cake
opera cloak
opéra comique
operafication
operafy
opera glass
opera glasses
opera glove
operagoer
opera-goer
operagoing
opera hat
opera house
opera house trap
operalike
operameter
operaphile
operaphobe
opera seria
opera singer
opera slipper
opera window
operetta
Peking opera
popera
poperetta
rap opera
rock opera
Savoy opera
soap opera
space opera
time opera
Related terms: sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operable
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operand
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operant
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operate
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operatic
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operation
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operational
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operatist
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operative
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operatize
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: operator
sense: Terms etymologically related to "opera"
word: opus
word: aria
word: ballet
word: masque
word: melodrama
word: musical comedy
word: oratorio
word: recitative
word: singspiel
opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɒp.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɑp.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɑ.pɚ.ə/
ipa: /ˈɑ.pɹə/
ipa: /ˈɔp.ə.ɹə/
ipa: /ˈɔp.ɹə/
Etymology: From Latin opera, plural of opus.
Senses: glosses: plural of opus; a collection of work.
team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːm/
homophone: teem
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: teams
form: teaming
form: teamed
form: teamed
Etymology: From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.
Senses: examples: text: They teamed to complete the project.
synonyms: team up
glosses: To form a group, as for sports or work.
examples: text: Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.
ref: 2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics, page 32:
glosses: To go together well; to harmonize.
examples: text: to team lumber
text: the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river
ref: 1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857
glosses: To convey or haul with a team.
examples: text: to team oxen
glosses: To form together into a team.
glosses: To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.
Derived terms: double-team
team up
team up with
team
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːm/
homophone: teem
rhymes: -iːm
Etymology: From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.
team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːm/
homophone: teem
rhymes: -iːm
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of teem.
imitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: imitations
Etymology: From Middle English imitacioun, from Middle French imitacion, from Old French imitacion, from Latin imitatio.
Senses: examples: text: a pale imitation
text: a realistic imitation
text: in imitation of
glosses: The act of imitating.
examples: text: imitation leather
glosses: A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
Synonyms: word: copying
word: imitation
word: replication
Hyponyms: word: transcription
word: mimeography
word: impersonation
word: impersonification
word: personation
word: simulation
word: forgery
word: plagiarism
Derived terms: autoimitation
counterimitation
imitational
imitation game
imitationism
imitationist
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
imitation lace
imitation vanilla
non-imitation
overimitation
self-imitation
tiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪni/
rhymes: -aɪni
Forms: form: tinier
form: tiniest
form: tyny
Etymology: From Middle English tine, tyne (“very small”) + -y. Perhaps from tine.
Senses: examples: text: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
ref: 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Very small.
Synonyms: small
Hypernyms: small
Derived terms: teeny-tiny
tinily
tininess
tiny home
tiny house
Tiny Tim
tiny wonder
tiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪni/
rhymes: -aɪni
Forms: form: tinies
form: tyny
Etymology: From Middle English tine, tyne (“very small”) + -y. Perhaps from tine.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny.’
ref: 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 28:
text: The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).
ref: 1982, Young children in China, page 84:
glosses: A small child; an infant.
examples: text: Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.
ref: 1956, Victoria Sackville-West, Even More For Your Garden, page 102:
glosses: Anything very small.
logical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Forms: form: more logical
form: most logical
Etymology: From logic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: To provide convincing arguments, we need to first address the issues of concern, list the facts, and then use logical reasoning to help people have a better understanding of the issue.
ref: 2020 April 6, Shanguo, “Avoiding Assertive Statements and Extreme Ways of Thinking”, in Minghui:
glosses: In agreement with the principles of logic; sequacious.
examples: text: I won't lie about what I did
I cut her head off and threw it in a ditch
Why I only kept the body was a logical choice
I threw away the head because I hated the sound of her voice
ref: 2014, “Let Me Burn”, performed by Whitechapel:
glosses: Reasonable.
examples: text: It's not logical, it's God!
glosses: Of or pertaining to logic.
examples: text: Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.
text: It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program[…]
ref: 1986, Noel Malcolm Morris, Computer graphics and CAD fundamentals: BBC Micro version:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression
Derived terms: alogical
antilogical
equilogical
extralogical
horological
logical address
logical analysis
logical atomism
logical calculus
logical clock
logical complement
logical connective
logical constant
logical empiricism
logical fallacy
logicality
logicalize
logical language
logically
logical mechanical element
logicalness
logical objectivism
logical positivism
logical positivist
logical punctuation
logical quotation
logical realism
logical system
loglang
menological
metalogical
nonlogical
non-logical
overlogical
panlogical
paralogical
prelogical
semilogical
ultralogical
unlogical
Related terms: rational
biological
neurological
physiological
flounder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊndɚ/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flounders
form: floundering
form: floundered
form: floundered
Etymology: Possibly from the noun. Probably a blend of flounce + founder or a blend of founder + blunder or from Dutch flodderen (“wade”). See other terms beginning with fl, such as flutter, flitter, float, flap, flub, flip.
Senses: examples: text: He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
text: They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: He is assessing directions, but he is not lost, not floundering.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 136:
text: an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity
ref: 1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:
text: […] I'm floundering at sloppy deliberation in the choice of every new word, and thus damned up in my soul is left to rot. The limit of my foremind to tap and drain onto paper any flow from my residue of self-saturated thoughts is usually half a page at any one sitting.
ref: 2007, Neal Cassady, “Letter to Allen Ginsberg, May 15, 1951”, in Anne Waldman, editor, The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation:
glosses: To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
glosses: To flop around as a fish out of water.
examples: text: Robert yanked Connie's leg vigorously, causing her to flounder and eventually fall.
glosses: To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
examples: text: Meanwhile bus and tram competition was causing the Central London Railway to flounder after its early success, and as for the City & South London ... that had always floundered.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: To be in serious difficulty.
Synonyms: faulter
Derived terms: flounderer
flounderingly
flounderish
Related terms: flail