cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dwindle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɪn.dəl/
rhymes: -ɪndəl
Forms: form: dwindles
form: dwindling
form: dwindled
form: dwindled
Etymology: Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwinen, from Old English dwīnan (“to waste away”), from Proto-West Germanic *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine + -le, akin to Old Norse dvena, dvína, Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”).
Senses: examples: 1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace
[E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […]
synonyms: word: fade away
word: peter out
word: spin down
word: trail off
word: wane
word: wanse
glosses: To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
examples: text: VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 132, column 1:
text: Religious Societies, though begun with excellent Intention, and by Perſons of true Piety, have dwindled into factious Clubs; […]
ref: 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter III, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
text: The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
text: [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place. Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets.
ref: 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
glosses: To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
examples: text: Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To lessen; to bring low.
examples: text: there were only five hundred foot and three hundred horse left with him, for the blocking of Plymouth; the rest were dwindled away
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: To break up or disperse.
Derived terms: dwindlement
dwindles
dwindling
fall dwindle disease
osteopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteopathies
Etymology: From osteo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: alternative medicine
complementary medicine
coordinate_terms: osteopathic medicine
glosses: The branch of therapy based on manipulation of bones and muscles.
synonyms: osteopathology
glosses: Any disease of the bones.
Related terms: osteopath
reprisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪzəl/
rhymes: -aɪzəl
Forms: form: reprisals
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman reprisaille (French représaille), from Old Italian ripresaglia (Italian rappresaglia), from ripreso, past participle of riprendere (“to take back”), from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend).
Senses: glosses: An act of retaliation.
glosses: Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
examples: text: debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
Derived terms: letter of marque and reprisal
sopranista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sopranistas
Senses: glosses: An adult male singer who sings music written in soprano range without the use of falsetto.
resignation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌɹez.ɪɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹez.əɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: resignations
Etymology: From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Jane tendered her resignation to the board of directors, but they refused.
text: I knew my Cabinet well, and despite Haig's reports that they were all holding firm I knew that there would be great pressure on them all, and great temptations, to make public demands for my resignation. That was something I had to prevent if I possibly could. I was determined not to appear to have resigned the presidency because of a consensus of staff or Cabinet opinion or because of public pressure from the people around me. For me and no less for the country, I believed that my resignation had to be seen as something that I had decided upon completely on my own.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1064:
glosses: The act of resigning.
examples: text: hand in one's resignation
glosses: A written or oral declaration that one resigns.
examples: text: With resignation I acknowledged that after the accident I would not be able to ski again.
glosses: An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.
Synonyms: resignment
Derived terms: resignation syndrome
partial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹʃəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːʃəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
Forms: form: partials
Etymology: From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
qualifier: forensics
glosses: An incomplete fingerprint
examples: text: In fact, as seen in Chapters 5 and 6, the resulting document is usually the product of rendering a layout, which yields the rendering of the template at hand, which in turn can invoke the rendering of other templates and/or one or more partials.
ref: 2009, Antonio Cangiano, Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers, page 356:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A fragment of a template containing markup.
examples: text: Research tells us that eccentrics, heavy partials, and static exercise may require several days or weeks of recovery time.
ref: 2021, Edward L. Wallace, Omniflex: A Unified System of Strength Training:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: half rep
glosses: The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
topics: lifestyle
coordinate_terms: fullsuit
glosses: A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
partial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹʃəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːʃəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
Forms: form: partials
form: participle (US) partialing
form: partialling
form: participle (US) partialed
form: partialled
Etymology: From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To take the partial regression coefficient.
sagittal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: săʹjĭtəl
enpr: səjĭʹtəl
ipa: /ˈsad͡ʒ.ɪ.təl/
ipa: /səˈd͡ʒɪt.əl/
ipa: /ˈsæd͡ʒ.ə.təl/
ipa: /ˈsæd͡ʒ.ɪ.təl/
rhymes: -ædʒɪtəl
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin sagittālis, from sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.
Of or in a plane parallel to the median plane, especially that dividing the body into left and right halves.
glosses: Of or relating to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.
Derived terms: dorsosagittal
ectosagittal
mediosagittal
midsagittal
nonsagittal
parasagittal
pseudosagittal
sagittal crest
sagittally
sagittal plane
sagittal sinus
sagittal suture
subsagittal
Related terms: coronal
while away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whiles away
form: whiling away
form: whiled away
form: whiled away
form: wile away
Senses: examples: text: We whiled away the hours playing cards.
text: Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experiences he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter II, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 294:
glosses: To spend (time) idly but pleasantly.
examples: text: The rest of the night hours whiled away for the prisoners as few slept.
ref: 2010, Lori Davis, Second Wind, page 65:
text: The hours whiled away and I steadily kept drinking, even though it had been years since I'd done any serious imbibing.
ref: 2015, Hank Carver, House of Cards: Five Full Contact Years as a Las Vegas Nightclub Bouncer:
text: As the hours whiled away, they discussed everything magical they had learned and how Odele had managed to become a Keeper and survive a full year without help or interference.
ref: 2018, Kester James Finley, Twisted Reunions (The Keeper Chronicles, Book 2):
glosses: To elapse, to pass.
Synonyms: kill
allocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'ə-kāt
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/
ipa: /ˈæl.əˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.kæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.kæɪt/
enpr: ə-lə-kāt'
note: Indic
ipa: /əlɵˈkeʈ/
Forms: form: allocates
form: allocating
form: allocated
form: allocated
Etymology: From Latin allocātus, perfect passive participle of Latin allocō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + locō. Doublet of allow.
Senses: examples: text: Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
text: By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
synonyms: word: appropriate
word: earmark
word: allocate
word: appropriate
word: assign
word: dedicate
word: detach
word: designate
word: earmark
word: preselect
word: put aside
word: secern
word: secernate
word: separate
word: sepose
word: sequester
word: set apart
word: set aside
glosses: To set aside for a purpose.
examples: text: The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
glosses: To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
examples: text: The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory.
ref: 2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger, Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 264:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: free
deallocate
glosses: To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
Derived terms: allocable
allocatable
allocatee
allocative
allocator
misallocate
overallocate
preallocate
reallocate
suballocate
underallocate
Related terms: allocable
allocation
lieu
locate
allocate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'ə-kāt
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/
ipa: /ˈæl.əˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.kæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.kæɪt/
enpr: ə-lə-kāt'
note: Indic
ipa: /əlɵˈkeʈ/
Etymology: From Middle English allocat(e) (“allocated”), originally used as the past participle of allocate, from Latin allocātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: glosses: allocated
raw_tags: of a pension or allowance
allocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'ə-kāt
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/
ipa: /ˈæl.əˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.kæɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.kæɪt/
enpr: ə-lə-kāt'
note: Indic
ipa: /əlɵˈkeʈ/
Forms: form: allocates
Etymology: From Middle English allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), from Medieval Latin allocātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of allocātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Alternatively, from allocāte, the second-person plural imperative of allocō, compare English liberate (“a warrant for the payment of a pension, allowance, debt, etc.”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ authorizing payment, allowance, grant.
Philip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭlʹĭp
ipa: /ˈfɪlɪp/
ipa: /ˈfɪləp/
homophone: fillip
Forms: form: Philips
form: Phillip
Etymology: From Middle English Philip, ultimately from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos), name of ancient kings of Macedonia, from φίλιππος (phílippos, “fond of horses”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
Senses: glosses: One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the Bible; one of the seven deacons.
examples: text: Philip Berold, conceiting this his name, very Clerkly proves that Philip is an Apostolical name by Saint Philip the Apostle, a Royal name by King Philip King of Macedonia, and an Imperial name by Philip the first Christian Emperour.
ref: 1605, William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith, published 1870, page 93:
text: I used to envy my brother his name, and recall once accusing my mother of having favored him, else why did she name me Nathan and him Philip, tell me that, ma, tell me that. He had king Philip and if day-dreaming that association wasn't pleasure enough, there was the then movie star, Phillips Holmes. All I had was Nathan Hale.
ref: 1972, Nate Perlmutter, A Bias of Reflections: Confessions of an Incipient Old Jew, Arlington House, →ISBN, page 27:
text: "Philip," Luke repeated slowly, and a brightness came into his eyes. "She decided to name him Philip, after all." "A family name?" Cody asked him. Luke shrugged. "Actually, it's mine. I never much cared for it as a kid and dropped it when I started school. I insisted everyone call me by my middle name." "Ellie says your son looks like a Philip," Sherry put in. A wide grin split Luke's face. ""I think she's right―he does."
ref: 2010, Debbie Macomber, Orchard Valley Brides, MIRA, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
qualifier: rare compared to given name
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Haakon County, South Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
Norton St Philip
Philippan
Philipstown
Philmont
Saint Philip
St Philip's Marsh
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Phil
word: Pip
sense: feminine forms
word: Philippa
word: Filkin
word: Filkins
word: Fill
word: Filson
word: Killip
word: MacKillop
word: McGilp
word: McKillop
word: McPhillips
word: Phalp
word: Phelp
word: Phelps
word: Philbin
word: Philcox
word: Philipps
word: Philips
word: Philipson
word: Phillip
word: Phillips
word: Phillipson
word: Phillis
word: Phillott
word: Phillpot
word: Phillpots
word: Phillpott
word: Phillpotts
word: Philp
word: Philpin
word: Philpot
word: Philpots
word: Philpott
word: Philpotts
word: Philps
word: Philson
word: Phipp
word: Phippard
word: Phippen
word: Phipps
word: Phips
word: Phipson
word: Potkin
word: Potkins
word: Pott
word: Pottle
word: Potts
gutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɡʌt.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡʌɾ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡat.ə/
ipa: /ˈɡaɾ.ə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gutters
form: guttering
form: guttered
form: guttered
Etymology: From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).
Senses: glosses: To flow or stream; to form gutters.
synonyms: cloam
glosses: To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
raw_tags: of a candle
examples: text: The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]
ref: 2020 November 16, Emma Castle, Devastate Me: A Next-door Neighbor Romance, Lauren Smith, →ISBN:
text: Alex's eyes gutter, and his face goes cold. He stands there mutely through my apology, stiff and frozen. I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away.
ref: 2023 October 10, Clare Gilmore, Love Interest: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
qualifier: or poetically
glosses: To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
raw_tags: of a small flame
of eyes
glosses: To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
examples: text: A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To supply with a gutter or gutters.
examples: text: The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
examples: text: The students' performance guttered after the school event.
text: The patient's state would soon gutter.
glosses: To make worse; to show emphasis that something has gotten worse.
Derived terms: gutter out
gutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌt.ə/
ipa: /ˈɡʌt.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡʌɾ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡat.ə/
ipa: /ˈɡaɾ.ə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gutters
Etymology: From gut + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
ref: 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King, page 151:
text: An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.
ref: 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story, page 34:
glosses: One who or that which guts.
fondness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑndnəs/
ipa: /ˈfɒndnəs/
Forms: form: fondnesses
form: fondnesse
Etymology: From Middle English fondnes, fondnesse, fonnednesse, equivalent to fond + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, “Part I, Chapter xvii”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai:
text: Britain's contribution to railway film history has been very great and can be almost entirely laid at the door of that very fine producer Sir Michael Balcon, who I suspect has a secret fondness for trains himself, so many railway pictures has he caused to be made.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia.
ref: 2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
glosses: The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
Derived terms: overfondness
endearment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endearments
form: indearment
Etymology: From endear + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Every step of that walk led Jeff deeper into an excursion of endearment. It was amazingly true that he trod beside her an acknowledged friend, a secret lover.
ref: 1913, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 20, in The Vision Splendid:
glosses: The act or process of endearing, of causing (something or someone) to be loved or to be the object of affection.
examples: text: He could not forget the fond and earnest look that had passed between her and some other man—the attitude of familiar confidence, if not of positive endearment.
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 38, in North and South:
synonyms: belovedness
glosses: The state or characteristic of being endeared.
examples: text: When they were alone he called him "my boy," an endearment he never gave another.
ref: 1902, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 18, in The Conqueror:
synonyms: term of endearment
glosses: An expression of affection.
Related terms: dear
endear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛnˈdɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɪɚ/
ipa: /ɛnˈdɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: endears
form: endearing
form: endeared
form: endeared
form: indear
Etymology: From en- + dear.
Senses: glosses: To make (something) more precious or valuable.
glosses: To make (something) more expensive; to increase the cost of.
examples: text: Salvianus Massiliensis[…]saith, that amongst French-men, to lie and forsweare is no vice but a manner of speach. He that would endeare [translating encherir] this Testimonie, might say, it is now rather deemed a vertue among them.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To stress (something) as important; to exaggerate.
examples: text: By giving candy to the children the man tried to endear himself to them.
glosses: To make (someone) dear or precious.
Synonyms: bedear
Derived terms: endearer
endearing
endearment
unendearing
campestral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kæmˈpɛstɹəl/
Forms: form: campestrial
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin campester (“of a field”), from campus (“field”), with the suffix -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to open fields or uncultivated land.
Related terms: pastoral
rural
rustic
chino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinos
Etymology: A term used by American veterans of the Spanish-American war. It is theorized that the cloth or the trousers were made in China.
The American Heritage Dictionary says that the word is from American Spanish chino, literally "toasted", in reference to its usual color. But this is not a usual meaning of the Spanish word.
Senses: glosses: A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
Derived terms: chinoed
Related terms: camisa de chino
campus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmpəs/
ipa: /ˈkæmpʊs/
ipa: /ˈkæmpəs/
Forms: form: campuses
form: campusses
form: campi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.
First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.
Senses: examples: text: The campus is sixty hectares in size.
text: From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street[…]tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital.
ref: 2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
text: In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
glosses: The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
examples: text: During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.
glosses: An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
Derived terms: big man on campus
campus carry
campuslike
campuswide
closed campus
intercampus
intracampus
multicampus
noncampus
off-campus
on-campus
satellite campus
Related terms: word: camp
word: campi
word: champerty
campus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmpəs/
ipa: /ˈkæmpʊs/
ipa: /ˈkæmpəs/
Forms: form: campuses
form: campusses
form: campusing
form: campussing
form: campused
form: campused
form: campussed
form: campussed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.
First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.
Senses: examples: text: They hold sessions regularly and “campus” women for staying out late—and they do their best campussing at those times when they are sleepiest and meanest from being out until three and four themselves the night before.
ref: 1932, The Syllabus, volume 48, page 444:
text: A secondary punishment was ‘campussing’, or confinement to a campus; and for the most trivial offences the treatment was a withering harangue from Mrs Wilmington, sometimes lasting for over an hour.
ref: 1955, The Twentieth Century, volume 157, page 278:
text: SM has been very patient but just last Friday one of them was campussed for two weeks with an automatic two day suspension if he didn't heed the campussing because of repeated contempt for fairly easy to fulfill sentences.
ref: 1996 January 30, Maggie Smith, Evergreen School, quotee, “Attendance Issues”, in The 1996 Collection: Prepared for Sudbury Schools and Planning Groups, Framingham, Massachusetts: Sudbury Valley School Press, published August 1996, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
examples: text: It is climbed or "campused" with only your arms and hands.
ref: 2010, Stewart M. Green, Ian Spencer-Green, Knack Rock Climbing: A Beginner’s Guide, page 30:
text: Boulder campusing is a popular indoor training exercise among advanced climbers—it's also a heck of a lot of fun if you're strong enough to do it right!
ref: 2016, Eric Horst, The Rock Climber's Exercise Guide, page 159:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
yelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛlp/
rhymes: -ɛlp
Forms: form: yelps
Etymology: From Middle English ȝelp, yelp, from Old English ġielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelp, from Proto-Germanic *gelpą (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout”).
Senses: examples: text: The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
glosses: An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
glosses: A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.
yelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛlp/
rhymes: -ɛlp
Forms: form: yelps
form: yelping
form: yelped
form: yelped
Etymology: From Middle English ȝelpen, yelpen, from Old English ġielpan (“to boast”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelpan, from Proto-Germanic *gelpaną (“to sound off, boast”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel‑ (“to call, shout, scream”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian jalpe, galpe (“to bleep; cheep”), German Low German galpen (“to scream, shriek, howl”), Middle High German gelpfen, gelpfen (“to roar, howl, bark, boast, sing loudly”).
Senses: examples: text: The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.
text: I followed it as well as I could, I who have so often boasted of my memory now sniffing along for what seemed a league at least like a brachet and ready almost to yelp for joy at the thought of a place I knew, after so much emptiness, silence, and blackness.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
twigloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtwɪɡluː/
Forms: form: twigloos
Etymology: Blend of twig + igloo.
Senses: glosses: A temporary circular shelter or structure built from thin branches.
pick someone's brain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks someone's brain
form: picking someone's brain
form: picked someone's brain
form: picked someone's brain
Senses: examples: text: After I spent a couple of hours picking his brain, his scheme started to make sense.
glosses: To seek information from someone knowledgeable; to ask questions of someone.
Related terms: compare notes
pain in the butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the butt
Senses: examples: text: The customers love it, but the employees think the new system is a pain in the butt.
glosses: A nuisance; a source of trouble or annoyance.
Synonyms: sense: source of trouble or annoyance
word: pain in the neck
sense: source of trouble or annoyance
word: pain in the rear
sense: source of trouble or annoyance
word: pain in the ass
sense: source of trouble or annoyance
word: pain in the arse
sense: source of trouble or annoyance
word: pain in the bum
sense: source of trouble or annoyance
word: pain in the back
Related terms: proctalgia
headache
pack away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packs away
form: packing away
form: packed away
form: packed away
Senses: examples: text: She packed away her warm sweaters for the summer.
glosses: To store away, place out of the way, or stash, especially for the longer term.
examples: text: Have you ever seen someone pack away five hot dogs in one sitting?
glosses: To eat (a great deal of food).
Related terms: put away
boob tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boob tubes
Etymology: * (television): An allusion to the idiocy of television programming and the supposed audience for such (boobs) and that the televisions of that era used cathode ray tube (CRT) vacuum tube displays. First use appears c. 1959, in the The Herald Journal.
* (clothing): Due to the clothing being a tube-like garment that covers the breasts (boobs) of a woman. First use appears c. 1977, in the Daily Mail.
Senses: examples: text: Pictured on boob-tubes innumerable, babbled on travelling transistors Australia-wide.
ref: 1970, Barry Oakley, chapter XLI, in A Salute to the Great McCarthy, Penguin Books Australia, published 1971, page 187:
synonyms: idiot box
zombie box
glosses: A television.
examples: text: A midget prostitute in heels and a boob tube was walking on the bar.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, chapter VII, in Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 92:
text: At the same time, Tara puts her arms into her boob tube.
ref: 2015, Oscar Phoenix, This Hostage to Fortune:
synonyms: word: tube top
glosses: A type of woman's upper body garment consisting of a taut band of cloth around the breasts and back.
head over heels
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕd ō'vər hēlz
ipa: /ˌhɛd oʊ.vɚ ˈhilz/
ipa: /ˌhɛd oʊ.vɚ ˈhi.əlz/
ipa: /ˌhɛd əʊ.və ˈhiːlz/
Etymology: Attested from the 14ᵗʰ century onwards, originally as heels over head, which better rendered the notion of things being upside down (head over heels is the standard state of being).
Senses: examples: text: She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.
text: I was knocked head over heels about 20' from where I was before.
ref: 2011, Wes Harvey, A Most Unusual Life, page 83:
synonyms: arse over tit
ass over teakettle
base over apex
glosses: Tumbling upside down; somersaulting.
examples: text: Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home.
text: It told its readers that people all over the country were "rushing head over heels toward the El Dorado on the Pacific— that wonderful California, which sets the public mind almost on the highway to insanity."
ref: 1968, Vardis Fisher, Opal Laurel Holmes, Opal Laurel Fisher, Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West, page 46:
synonyms: full tilt
full throttle
like mad
glosses: At top speed; frantically.
examples: text: I am head over heels in trouble.
ref: 1904, Henry Huttleston Rogers, “Letter from Rogers to Clemens (Mark Twain) dated 8 February 1904”, in Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909, University of California Press, published 1969, page 555:
text: Some of them lose and wind up head over heels in debt. Some of them win and wind up head over heels in debt.
ref: 1967, Russell B. Long, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 90th Congress - First Session, United States Congress, page 16122:
text: There over, hereunder / You got me head over heels / There's nothing left to fear / If you really feel the way I feel
ref: 2001 August 30, Shakira, “Whenever, Wherever”, in Laundry Service:
text: I mean, do I just fall head over heels for the last girl I've kissed?
ref: 2002, Francine Pascal, Liar, page 184:
text: For research we went to Africa, and found ourselves head over heels into ritual (chapter 4).
ref: 2005, Ronald Frankenberg, Edith L. B. Turner, Heart of Lightness: The Life Story of an Anthropologist, page 2:
text: She told me that her mom and Joey's dad aren't just in love, they are head-over-heels in love.
ref: 2013, Laurie Friedman, Heart to Heart with Mallory, page 59:
synonyms: head over ears
glosses: Hopelessly; madly; to distraction; deeply; utterly.
raw_tags: with in love
Derived terms: headless over heels
head over heels
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕd ō'vər hēlz
ipa: /ˌhɛd oʊ.vɚ ˈhilz/
ipa: /ˌhɛd oʊ.vɚ ˈhi.əlz/
ipa: /ˌhɛd əʊ.və ˈhiːlz/
Etymology: Attested from the 14ᵗʰ century onwards, originally as heels over head, which better rendered the notion of things being upside down (head over heels is the standard state of being).
Senses: examples: text: Something happens and I'm head over heels / Ah, don't take my heart, don't break my heart / Don't, don't, don't throw it away
ref: 1985, Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith, “Head Over Heels”, performed by Tears for Fears:
text: Steve is the hottest, smartest, funniest, and most athletic boy in all of Edison High. Who knew a jock could be captain of the math team? He is also the guy that every girl is head over heels for.
ref: 2011, Martina Manicastri, Climb into My Mind: A Book of Poems, Essays, and Short Stories, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Not to mention the young man that I was head over heels with was the jock at the school he attended. He played football and was damned good at it!
ref: 2012, Dressed up Garbage Can, →ISBN, page 9:
text: From what it appeared to most everyone on the set, including Presley right down to the lowly stagehands, Ireland was head over heels with the impish young actress Weld from the start.
ref: 2012, James Prickette, Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns, →ISBN, page 237:
text: Obviously at my age my interest was purely paternal but my younger self was head over heels.
ref: 2013, Dennis Coughlin, Passport to Life, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Hopelessly smitten; madly in love.
EPIRB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPIRBs
Senses: topics: communication
communications
nautical
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of emergency position indicating radio beacon.
Related terms: ELT
PLB
E911
monochromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + chromatic, mono- from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”), chromatic from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
glosses: Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
examples: text: Let's not […] lose our sense of boyish fun and daring, but let's at least begin to assert ourselves in the world, to impose our vision of sex and affection and spirit more and more upon the monochromatic Fatherland.
ref: 1982 April 24, Michael Rumaker, “Zephyrs”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Plain, dull, lifeless.
Synonyms: sense: having only one color
word: monochrome
sense: having only one color
word: monocolor
sense: having only one color
word: monocoloured
sense: having only one color
word: unicolor
sense: having only one color
word: unicolored
sense: lifeless
word: boring
Derived terms: monochromatically
monochromaticity
nonmonochromatic
pseudomonochromatic
quasimonochromatic
Related terms: monochromacy
monochromat
asthmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æsˈθmætɪk/
ipa: /æsˈmætɪk/
ipa: /æzˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more asthmatic
form: most asthmatic
form: asthmatical
form: asthmatick
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
ref: 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
Derived terms: antasthmatic
antiasthmatic
asthmatically
asthmatic attack
nonasthmatic
postasthmatic
preasthmatic
proasthmatic
asthmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æsˈθmætɪk/
ipa: /æsˈmætɪk/
ipa: /æzˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: asthmatics
form: asthmatical
form: asthmatick
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who suffers from asthma.
recurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɝɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪˈkɜrɪŋ(ɡ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛkərɪŋ(ɡ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪkəˈrɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recur
recurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɝɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪˈkɜrɪŋ(ɡ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛkərɪŋ(ɡ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪkəˈrɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: more recurring
form: most recurring
Senses: examples: text: He has recurring asthma attacks.
text: Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
glosses: Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
examples: text: Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
Synonyms: sense: happening or occurring frequently
word: recurrent
word: repetitive
recurring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɝɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪˈkɜrɪŋ(ɡ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛkərɪŋ(ɡ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪkəˈrɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: recurrings
Senses: examples: text: Winter, here, is a dimension of all reality, not one-fourth of the spiritual year's endless recurrings.
ref: 2009, Martin E. Marty, A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart, page 21:
glosses: A recurrence; a coming round again.
Synonyms: reiteration
repeat
reoccurrence
respiratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹə.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pə.ɹət.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pə.ɹə.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pɹə.tɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspʌɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspʌɪ.ɹə.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pəɹ.əˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pɹəˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspaɪ.ɹəˌtɔɹ.i/
note: with rhotic dissimilation
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pəˌtɔɹ.i/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrespireːt(o)ri/
rhymes: -ɪɹətəɹi
rhymes: -ɛspəɹətəɹi
rhymes: -aɪɹətəɹi
rhymes: -ɛspəɹətɔːɹi
rhymes: -aɪɹətɔːɹi
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin respīrātōrius, equal to respire + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May–June, J. Z. Salvail, G. A. Wright, M. Kleinewietfeld, C. Wu, N. Yosef, J. L. Hood, A. P. Jallouk, N. Campbell, L. Ratner, S. A. Wickline, A. D. Luis, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
text: The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children’s hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 May 2023:
glosses: Relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.
Derived terms: acute respiratory distress syndrome
adult respiratory distress syndrome
bronchiorespiratory
cardiorespiratory
chlororespiratory
extrarespiratory
infant respiratory distress syndrome
intrarespiratory
Middle East respiratory syndrome
nasorespiratory
neurorespiratory
nonrespiratory
oculorespiratory
osmorespiratory
photorespiratory
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
respiratorily
respiratory bronchiole
respiratory distress
respiratory pigment
respiratory practitioner
respiratory rate
respiratory syncytial virus
respiratory system
respiratory therapist
respiratory tract
severe acute respiratory syndrome
sinorespiratory
transrespiratory
Related terms: irrespirable
respiration
respirator
respire
respirologist
respirology
pneumonologic
pneumologic
pulmonic
pulmonologic
fat farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat farms
Senses: glosses: A health club or resort running weight loss programs.
ludicrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/
ipa: /ˈljuː.dɪ.kɹəs/
ipa: /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/
Forms: form: more ludicrous
form: most ludicrous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lūdicrus. First attested in 1619.
Senses: examples: text: He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.
text: Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: […] That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:
text: The government responds to such news with its usual ludicrous evasions: “I don’t deny there are costs to a decision like Brexit,” said Jeremy Hunt in November, “but there are also opportunities, and you have to see it in the round.”
ref: 2023 January 1, John Harris, quoting Jeremy Hunt, “The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: laughable
ridiculous
risible
glosses: Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.
Derived terms: cockaludicrous
ludicrity
ludicrosity
unludicrous
Related terms: sense: idiotic or unthinkable
word: ludicrously
sense: idiotic or unthinkable
word: ludicrousness