cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
writ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: writs
Etymology: From Middle English writ, from Old English writ and ġewrit (“writing”), from Proto-Germanic *writą (“fissure, writing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey-, *wrī- (“to scratch, carve, ingrave”). Cognate with Scots writ (“writ, writing, handwriting”), Icelandic rit (“writing, writ, literary work, publication”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
glosses: A document ordering that an election be conducted.
glosses: An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
examples: text: We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
ref: 2009, Stephen Gale et al., The War on Terrorism: 21st-Century Perspectives, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
glosses: Authority, power to enforce compliance.
examples: text: Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:
text: Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is written; writing.
Synonyms: topics: law
word: claim form
Derived terms: drop the writ
handwrit
Holy Writ
prerogative writ
proverbs should be writ in pairs
writ of assistance
writ of attachment
writ of execution
writ of habeas corpus
writ of inquiry
writ of mandamus
writ of privilege
writ of prohibition
writ of right
writ of summons
writ-room
writ
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From Middle English writ, write, from Old English write.
Senses: examples: text: I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand,
And whiter then the paper it writ on,
Is the faire hand that writ.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks
VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come,
Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature H, recto:
glosses: past of write
examples: text: I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand,
And whiter then the paper it writ on,
Is the faire hand that writ.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Let Virtuoſo’s in five years be Writ; / Yet not one Thought accuſe thy toil of Wit.
ref: c. 1678 (date written; published 1682), J[ohn] Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 7:
text: For as this is the Liquor of modern Hiſtorians, nay, perhaps their Muſe, if we may believe the Opinion of Butler, who attributes Inſpiration to Ale, it ought likewiſe to be the Potation of their Readers; ſince every Book ought to be read with the ſame Spirit, and in the ſame Manner, as it is writ.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing five Pages of Paper”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 2:
text: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,[…]
ref: 1859, Omar Khayyam, “Quatrain LI”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. […], facsimile edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, page 11:
text: But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
ref: 1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:
glosses: past participle of write
Derived terms: underwrit
writ large
writ small
Marsha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹʃə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃə
Senses: examples: text: "I hate my name, too," offered four-year-old Marsha, who until that moment had never thought about her name.
"No, you don't." Mom. "It's a lovely name."
"Is not." But in fact, like most people, she had no particular feelings about her name - her first name, anyhow - but simply accepted it as hers.
ref: 2005, John Barth, Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Marcia.
rictus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪk.təs/
ipa: /ˈɹɪk.tʊs/
rhymes: -ɪktəs
Forms: form: rictus
form: rictuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rictus.
Senses: glosses: A bird’s gaping mouth.
glosses: The throat of a calyx.
examples: text: His face was a rictus of sheer delight.
text: Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible.
ref: 1899, Victor Hugo, translated by Paul Maurice, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:
text: A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: Sword and shield, bone and steel / Rictus grin / Deaf forever to the battle's din
ref: 1986, “Deaf Forever”, performed by Motörhead:
text: Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.
ref: 1990, “Nothingface”, performed by Voivod:
text: The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.
ref: 1993, Wolfenstein 3D, scene: after defeating Hitler (episode 3), level/area: 9:
text: It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 56:
text: The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.
ref: 2008, Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, page 81:
glosses: Any open-mouthed expression.
Derived terms: rictal
Holy Writ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holy Writs
form: holy writ
form: Holy Writs
Etymology: From Middle English Holi Writ, hali writ, from Old English hāliġ ġewrit (“scripture”, literally “holy writing”), equivalent to holy + writ (“scripture, writing”).
Senses: glosses: The Bible.
glosses: The sacred writings of the Christian religion.
glosses: The sacred writings of any religion.
examples: text: to accept something as Holy Writ; to take something as Holy Writ
synonyms: gospel truth
glosses: Unquestionable truth.
Synonyms: Holy Bible
Holy Book
Holy Scripture
Sacred Scripture
write-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: write-downs
Etymology: Deverbal from write down.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of writedown.
Related terms: markdown
writeoff
write-off
write down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: writes down
form: writing down
form: wrote down
form: written down
Senses: examples: text: I can't write down in the basement; it's cold there and my fingers cramp and get stiff.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, down.
synonyms: write up
record
transcribe
document
log
inscripturate
glosses: To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
examples: text: Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!
ref: 2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group:
coordinate_terms: dumb down
talk down
talk down to
glosses: To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: devalue
antonyms: write up
glosses: To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
examples: text: By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.
ref: 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
text: See also: cite
synonyms: write up
glosses: To condemn in writing; to document the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
Derived terms: word: write-down
word: writedown
emblazon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbleɪzən/
ipa: /ɛmˈbleɪzən/
rhymes: -eɪzən
Forms: form: emblazons
form: emblazoning
form: emblazoned
form: emblazoned
Etymology: From en- + blazon, from Old French blason (“shield”).
Senses: examples: text: The route passes over low-lying land, the only item of note being the Cerebos salt works at Greatham, where one may catch a glimpse of the smart black diesel locomotive emblazoned with the firm's name writ large.
ref: 1959 August, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough — Newcastle route of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 359:
glosses: To adorn with prominent markings.
examples: text: The benefactor's image is emblazoned on our memory.
text: Welcome to QAnon, sometimes referred to as “the Storm.” It’s a conspiracy theory that’s swept social media and is starting to break into the mainstream, with Trump rally attendees in Florida on July 31 holding signs and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “We are Q” and the conspiracy theory’s main catchphrase, “Where we go one, we go all.”
ref: 2018 August 2, Jane Coaston, “#QAnon, the scarily popular pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained”, in Vox:
glosses: To inscribe upon.
examples: text: The ordered system of symbols which we know as heraldry came into being in the twelfth century to meet a military need. These symbols were emblazoned on shields, surcoats and fighting flags, and served as an invaluable means of identification when the features were obscured by the great helm.
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 476:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To draw (a coat of arms); depict a heraldic device on something.
glosses: To celebrate or extol as with deeds or merit.
Derived terms: emblazoner
emblazonment
emblazonry
write-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: write-offs
form: writeoff
Etymology: Deverbal from write off.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: writedown
write-down
glosses: The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost.
synonyms: total loss
glosses: Something that is now worthless (such as a car after an accident).
write-off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: writes-off
form: writing-off
form: wrote-off
form: written-off
form: writeoff
Etymology: Deverbal from write off.
Senses: examples: text: If you are eager to manufacture the recharging unit, the analyst will be tempted to write-off the equipment over its physical life and provide you with a lower breakeven volume. If you prefer to outsource, the analyst will be tempted to write-off the equipment over its tax life and provide you with a higher breakeven volume.
ref: 2000, Roy L. Nersesian, Trends and Tools for Operations Management, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 80:
text: This has spurred major efforts to write-off loans by the two pilot banks and considerable progress at the largest of the SOCBs (the ICBC).
ref: 2005, OECD Economic Surveys, Volume 2005/13 (September 2005): China, OECD Publishing, page 146
text: Provided that where the Collector or any of his subordinates is responsible for the collection of any tax, […] the power to write-off such tax, […] on the ground of its being irrecoverable, shall be exercised by the Commissioner of Land Administration […]
ref: 2007, Ganapathy Palanithurai et al., A Handbook for Panchayati Raj Administration (Tamil Nadu), Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Nonstandard form of write off.
ridotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ɹəˈdoʊtoʊ/
Forms: form: ridottos
form: ridottoes
form: ridotti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ridotto (“foyer”). Doublet of redoubt.
Senses: examples: text: May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
text: Night came, with that increase of gaiety which has always been night's peculiar privilege—perhaps on the principle of contrast. Monday, it was the ridotto; Tuesday, the opera; Wednesday, Ranelagh; Thursday, the play; Friday, a ball; Saturday, a rout, or else a little of all these blended together.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 172:
glosses: A public ball, typically a masquerade, popular in the 18th century.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: reduction
glosses: An arrangement or abridgment of a piece from the full score.
writing desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writing desks
form: writing-desk
Senses: glosses: A desk at which someone may write.
Related terms: bureau
davenport
escritoire
framework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/
ipa: /ˈfɹeɪm.wɝk/
ipa: /ˈfɹæɪm.wɜːk/
Forms: form: frameworks
Etymology: From frame + work.
Senses: glosses: A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
glosses: The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
glosses: The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
examples: text: These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
glosses: A basic conceptual structure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
Derived terms: extraframework
framework agreement
framework directive
framework knitter
framework law
framework silicate
institutional framework
interframework
intraframework
metaframework
metal-organic framework
microframework
multiframework
reference framework
regulatory framework
underframework
viewpoints framework
writing pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writing pads
Senses: synonyms: pad paper
notepad
notebook
glosses: A collection of blank pages of writing paper, bound together, often with a cardboard cover
erect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: more erect
form: most erect
Etymology: From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).
Senses: examples: text: Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
examples: text: The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.
text: erect nipples
synonyms: hard
stiff
glosses: Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.
raw_tags: of body parts
examples: text: OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!
synonyms: hard
stiff
glosses: Having an erect penis or clitoris.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
ref: 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
examples: text: His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
ref: 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
examples: text: vigilant and erect attention of mind
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Watchful; alert.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Derived terms: erectly
erectness
erectogenic
erectopatent
erectophile
inerect
nonerect
semierect
suberect
unerect
Related terms: erect-crested penguin
erectile
erection
erigible
writing paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writing papers
form: writing-paper
Senses: glosses: Paper designed to be written on with ink; it may be ruled or unruled.
Related terms: notepaper
printing paper
dramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more dramatic
form: most dramatic
form: dramatick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), from δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), from δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”). By surface analysis, drama + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord.
ref: 1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: Of or relating to the drama.
examples: text: Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family.
ref: 1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430:
text: Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.
ref: 2013 August 17, “Best and brightest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849:
text: Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding […] Daniels warned in the message that the dramatic cut in USAID funding will result in “impacts to budgets, personnel, and programs.”
ref: 2025 March 13, Kaanita Iyer, “Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding”, in edition.cnn.com:
glosses: Striking in appearance or effect.
glosses: Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
examples: text: You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!
glosses: Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
Derived terms: antidramatic
cyberdramatic
dramastic
dramatically
dramatic beat
dramatic irony
dramaticism
dramaticity
dramatic license
dramaticness
Dramatic Prakrit
dramatic present
dramatic structure
dramaticule
dramatic unity
dramatism
hyperdramatic
metadramatic
microdramatic
monodramatic
musicodramatic
nondramatic
overdramatic
photodramatic
postdramatic
protodramatic
pseudodramatic
psychodramatic
semidramatic
sociodramatic
superdramatic
teledramatic
theodramatic
underdramatic
undramatic
wrongdoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrongdoers
Etymology: From wrong + doer.
Senses: examples: text: Get and keep wrongdoers out of your thorp (village).
text: Where the owner of the property and several insurers have rights of action for different portions of the value, all arising out of the same wrongful act, they may join in a single action against the wrongdoër.
ref: 1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 748:
text: With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge.
ref: 2009 July 31, William C. Rhoden, “Baseball Players’ Silence Led to Loud Drip of Names”, in The New York Times:
text: Usually it takes him too long going down the stairs from the roof to catch any misdeeder or wrongdoer, but tonight will be different.
ref: 2012, Wred Fright, Blog Love Omega Glee, page 275:
text: From Tadros’s perspective — the perspective of classical utilitarianism — there is nothing objectionable about this moral lobotomy whereby a wrongdoer pops a moral anesthetic pill immediately after committing whatever atrocity one could imagine in order to avoid suffering — provided, that is, that she would “understand” the wrongness of her actions.
ref: 2018 March 24, Leo Zaibert, Rethinking Punishment, Cambridge University Press, page 74:
glosses: Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
wrongful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋfəl/
Forms: form: more wrongful
form: most wrongful
Etymology: From Middle English wrongful, equivalent to wrong + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: And now, with the tyranny of wrongful power, "The loathsome mark has fallen, the mall remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise."
ref: 1913, Sydney Waterlow, Shelley:
glosses: wrong or unjust
glosses: unlawful or illegal
Derived terms: wrongful birth
wrongful death
wrongful death statute
wrongful dismissal
gifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪftɪd/
rhymes: -ɪftɪd
Forms: form: more gifted
form: most gifted
Senses: examples: text: a gifted artist
text: a school for gifted children
glosses: Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.
examples: text: For argument’s sake, though, being “gifted” in a general sense can be described as possessing an intellect that processes information faster, learns concepts quicker and retains knowledge more readily than most, allowing it to exponentially explore ever more complex ideas and to make increasingly insightful connections. “They learn rapidly, they have an excellent memory and they reason well. These are the sorts of characteristics I’d note,” says Judy Parker, who has spent much of her career testing for giftedness.
ref: 2023 November 3, Angus Holland, “‘I don’t think of it at all as a gift’: Why it’s complicated being a gifted child”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Endowed with the psychological characteristics of giftedness.
Synonyms: talented
Derived terms: gifted education
giftedly
giftedness
nongifted
ungifted
gifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪftɪd/
rhymes: -ɪftɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gift
wrongheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrongheaded
form: most wrongheaded
form: wrong-headed
Etymology: From wrong + headed.
Senses: examples: text: He's not just wrong, but wrongheaded, about raising the kids.
text: Reputation—a mere barren reputation, that brings nothing with it, save a post obit bond on posterity—has lost its ancient value: and the panters after posthumous reputation are now closely confined to a few wrongheaded enthusiasts, […]
ref: 1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume 60, page 492:
text: Our view is that discussions about whether the c#95;i should be treated as random variables or as parameters to be estimated are wrongheaded for microeconometric panel data applications.
ref: 2010, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross-Section and Panel Data, 2nd edition, page 286:
glosses: Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.
Derived terms: wrongheadedly
wrongheadedness
compromise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
ipa: /ˈkɔmpɹəˌmɑez/
ipa: [ˈkɔmpɹəˌmɑe̯z]
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
ipa: [ˈkɔ̟mpɹəˌmɑe̯z]
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: compromises
Etymology: From Middle French compromis, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin compromissum (“a compromise, originally a mutual promise to refer to arbitration”), prop. neuter of Latin compromissus, past participle of compromittere (“to make a mutual promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter”), from com- (“together”) + promittere (“to promise”); see promise.
Senses: examples: text: But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
ref: 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America:
text: An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: That's the nature of compromises. They truly satisfy no one.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
glosses: The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
examples: text: a compromise of character or right
text: I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
ref: 1823, Charles Lamb, Modern Gallantry:
glosses: A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
Derived terms: compromiseless
immunocompromise
procompromise
Related terms: promise
compromise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
ipa: /ˈkɔmpɹəˌmɑez/
ipa: [ˈkɔmpɹəˌmɑe̯z]
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪz/
ipa: [ˈkɔ̟mpɹəˌmɑe̯z]
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: compromises
form: compromising
form: compromised
form: compromised
Etymology: From Middle French compromis, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin compromissum (“a compromise, originally a mutual promise to refer to arbitration”), prop. neuter of Latin compromissus, past participle of compromittere (“to make a mutual promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter”), from com- (“together”) + promittere (“to promise”); see promise.
Senses: examples: text: Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To bind by mutual agreement.
examples: text: The controversy may easily be compromised.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
synonyms: split the difference
glosses: To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
glosses: To find a way between extremes.
examples: text: to pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
glosses: To cause impairment of.
examples: text: They tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
glosses: To breach (a security system).
Derived terms: word: anticompromise
word: compromisable
word: compromisation
word: compromiser
word: compromise rules
word: compromising
talented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæləntɪd/
Forms: form: more talented
form: most talented
Etymology: From talent + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: talented child
text: talented pianist
text: multi-talented student
glosses: Endowed with one or more talents.
Synonyms: gifted
Derived terms: multitalented
colonel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜː.nl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɝ.nl̩/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /ˈkər(ɵ)nəl/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈkɜ(rɵ)nəl/
homophone: kernel (most accents)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: colonels
form: coloneling
form: colonelling
form: coloneled
form: coloneled
form: colonelled
form: colonelled
form: coronel
form: col.
form: Col.
Etymology: First attested in the 1540s, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent”). See hill, holm.
The French spelling was reformed late 16th century. The English spelling was modified in 1580s in learned writing to conform to the Italian form (via translations of Italian military manuals), and differing pronunciations (either with "r" or "l") coexisted until around 1650, where it came to be pronounced with "r" only. Spanish and Portuguese coronel, also from Italian, shows similar evolution by dissimilation and perhaps by influence of corona.
Senses: glosses: To act as or like a colonel.
usable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.zə.bəl/
Forms: form: more usable
form: most usable
form: useable
Etymology: From Old French usable, from the verb user (“to use”).
Senses: examples: text: The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
antonyms: unusable
glosses: Capable of being used.
synonyms: user-friendly
glosses: Easy to use; exhibiting good usability.
examples: 2019 episode 1 A Very English Scandal
Are you telling me that you were useable?
glosses: homosexual
Derived terms: maximum usable frequency
usability
unusable
Related terms: utilizable
equipoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/
Forms: form: equipoises
form: æquipoise
Etymology: From equi- + poise.
Senses: examples: text: Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
text: “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise.
ref: 1869, T. S. Arthur, chapter IV, in After the Storm:
text: The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, “The Figure against the Sky”, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 135:
text: And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise.
ref: 1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “Raychandbhai”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
text: To my mind, the textual arguments in this case are close to equipoise.
ref: 2021, Ronald Mann, Justices to consider awards of costs of appellate litigation, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 20, 2021)
glosses: A state of balance; equilibrium.
examples: text: Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.
ref: 1895 September 18, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Cone”, in The Plattner Story and Others, London: Methuen & Co. […], published March 1897, →OCLC, page 188:
text: Her smiling equipoise is a statement of self-confident power against his sour fuming.
ref: 2024 September 12, David Brooks, “How a Cultural Shift Favors Harris”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A counterbalance.
Derived terms: clinical equipoise
equipoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/
Forms: form: equipoises
form: equipoising
form: equipoised
form: equipoised
form: æquipoise
Etymology: From equi- + poise.
Senses: glosses: To act or make to act as an equipoise.
glosses: To cause to be or stay in equipoise.
bridle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪdəl/
homophone: bridal
rhymes: -aɪdəl
Forms: form: bridles
Etymology: From Middle English bridel, from Old English brīdel, from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil, from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz (“strap, rein”), equivalent to braid + -le.
Senses: examples: text: […] the horseman, who is the user of bridles and knows their use
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês”, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association, 92, p. 457:
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
examples: text: Let wisdom put a bridle on them before they are grown head-strong and unruly
ref: 1729, Isaac Watts, The Doctrine of the Passions explain'd and improv'd:
glosses: A restraint; a curb; a check.
glosses: A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line.
glosses: A mooring hawser.
glosses: A piece in the interior of a gunlock which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
glosses: A gesture expressing pride or vanity.
Derived terms: bridle iron
bridleless
bridlelike
bridle path
bridle-path
bridlepath
bridler
bridle trail
bridleway
bridlewise
bridle wrist
double bridle
draw bridle
scold's bridle
whim-wham for a goose's bridle
wigwam for a goose's bridle
witch's bridle
bridle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪdəl/
homophone: bridal
rhymes: -aɪdəl
Forms: form: bridles
form: bridling
form: bridled
form: bridled
Etymology: From Middle English bridel, from Old English brīdel, from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil, from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz (“strap, rein”), equivalent to braid + -le.
Senses: examples: text: He bridled her mouth with a silkweed twist.
ref: 1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
glosses: To put a bridle on.
examples: text: Savoy and Nice, the keys of Italy, and the citadel in her hands to bridle Switzerland, are in that consolidation.
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
glosses: To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue.
examples: Immigrant-rights and religious organizations bridled at the plan to favor highly skilled workers over relatives. (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
glosses: To show hostility or resentment.
glosses: To hold up one's head proudly or affectedly.
Synonyms: restrain
Derived terms: bridle up
unbridle
dissipate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/
Forms: form: dissipates
form: dissipating
form: dissipated
form: dissipated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the adjective from 1606 to 1765; from Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, perfect passive participle of dissipō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), also written dissupō (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supō (“to throw”). Doublet of dissipe (“to dissipate”), now obsolete.
Senses: examples: text: August 1773, James Cook, journal entry
I soon dissipated his fears.
text: The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
ref: 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table:
glosses: To drive away, disperse.
examples: text: The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
text: So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
ref: 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited:
text: If he prefers the bar he can exchange views with a Major de Wildman of Lord knew whose army, who calls himself King Farouk's equerry and claims to have a private telephone link to Cairo so that he can report the winning numbers and take royal orders inspired by soothsayers on how to dissipate the wealth of Egypt.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: To use up or waste; squander.
glosses: To vanish by dispersion.
examples: text: The traction motors serve as generators when dynamic braking is used, the generated output being dissipated in fan-cooled resistance banks mounted in a removable roof section.
ref: 1960 April, “English Electric diesels for the Sudan Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 218:
text: Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.
ref: 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
glosses: To be dissolute in conduct.
Derived terms: dissipater
dissipator
dissipatory
Related terms: dissipation
dissipate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪpeɪt/
Forms: form: more dissipate
form: most dissipate
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the adjective from 1606 to 1765; from Middle English dissipaten, from Latin dissipātus, perfect passive participle of dissipō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), also written dissupō (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supō (“to throw”). Doublet of dissipe (“to dissipate”), now obsolete.
Senses: glosses: dissipated
dispersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɜːʒən/
ipa: /dɪˈspɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Forms: form: dispersions
Etymology: From Middle English dispersioun, from Old French dispersion, from Latin dispersiō.
Senses: synonyms: dispersedness
coordinate_terms: dispersivity
glosses: The state of being dispersed.
synonyms: dispersal
glosses: A process of dispersing.
glosses: The degree of scatter of data.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of inflammation.
Derived terms: antidispersion
biodispersion
dedispersion
dispersionless
electrodispersion
equidispersion
hyperdispersion
hypodispersion
isodispersion
London dispersion force
macrodispersion
magnetodispersion
microdispersion
nanodispersion
nondispersion
optical rotatory dispersion
overdispersion
pigment dispersion syndrome
polydispersion
redispersion
thermodispersion
underdispersion
velocity dispersion
Related terms: interspersion
refraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈfɹækʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: refractions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin refrāctiō.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree to which a metal or compound can withstand heat
Derived terms: angle of refraction
astronomical refraction
astronomic refraction
atmospheric refraction
autorefraction
double refraction
photorefraction
Related terms: refractive
refractory
erectile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɛktaɪl/
Etymology: From French érectile, from Latin erectus, past participle of erigere, equivalent to erect + -ile.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being raised to an upright position.
examples: text: The penis and clitoris contain erectile tissue which responds to sexual stimulation.
text: The observation that topical application of nitroglycerin to the penis may lead to erection adequate for sexual intercourse (Talley and Crawley 1985) has stimulated several investigations on the efficacy of this potential mode of treatment of erectile dysfunction.
ref: 1998, Alvaro Morales, editor, Erectile Dysfunction: Issues in Current Pharmacotherapy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid.
raw_tags: of tissue
Derived terms: antierectile
erectile dysfunction
erectility
nonerectile
scapegrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪpɡɹeɪs/
Forms: form: scapegraces
Etymology: From scape (“(archaic) escape”) + grace (“grace of god”).
Senses: examples: text: He is now laden with that superabundant energy which makes a fool of a man, and a scapegrace of a boy, and he wants to work it off.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 4, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: An infantry officer in the trenches, Graves wrote of his rocky and scapegrace return to civilian life: "I still had the Army Habit of commandeering anything of uncertain ownership that I found lying about; also a difficulty in telling the truth--it was always easier for me now, when charged with any fault, to lie my way out in Army style."
ref: 2002, Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming:
glosses: A wild and reckless person (especially a boy); a scoundrel.
Synonyms: black sheep
rascal
rogue
villain
heraldry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.əl.dɹi/
Forms: form: heraldries
form: heraldy
Etymology: From herald + -ry. First attested in 1572. Displaced earlier heraldy, equivalent to herald + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Rouge Dragon Pursuivant is a specialist in heraldry at the College of Arms.
text: The ordered system of symbols which we know as heraldry came into being in the twelfth century to meet a military need. These symbols were emblazoned on shields, surcoats and fighting flags, and served as an invaluable means of identification when the features were obscured by the great helm.
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 476:
glosses: The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.
glosses: An armorial ensign along with its history and description.
examples: text: Onlookers were impressed by the rich and colorful heraldry.
glosses: Pageantry.
Related terms: herald
heraldic
heraldric