cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
geniculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵónu
Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
glosses: Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a geniculate nucleus.
Derived terms: colliculogeniculate
colliculosuprageniculate
corticogeniculate
extrageniculate
geniculate ganglion
geniculately
geniculate nucleus
geniculo-
infrageniculate
intergeniculate
intrageniculate
parabigeminogeniculate
perigeniculate
postgeniculate
pregeniculate
reticulogeniculate
retinogeniculate
retrogeniculate
spleniogeniculate
subgeniculate
suprageniculate
tectogeniculate
thalamogeniculate
transgeniculate
geniculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊl.ɪt/
ipa: /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəl.ɪt/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlɪt
rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt
Forms: form: geniculates
form: geniculating
form: geniculated
form: geniculated
Etymology: From Latin geniculātus (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: a ferulaceous caul, of two Cubits heighth, geniculated, and hard
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
glosses: To form joints or knots on.
Derived terms: geniculated
geniculation
Related terms: lateral geniculate nucleus
medial geniculate nucleus
genuflect
Bluey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From blue + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.
ref: 1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never, page 228:
text: Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.
ref: 2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24:
text: A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush.
ref: 2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page:
glosses: A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.
Related terms: friend of Bluey
bloodnut
ranga
bloodnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodnuts
form: blood nut
form: blood-nut
Etymology: From blood (“red”) + nut (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: He was a pugnacious bloodnut with a droll wit and a rollup fag on his lip.
ref: 2001, Tim Winton, Dirt Music, page 185:
text: “Red” his mates called him: a wild bloodnut like his father, and like his late uncles before Tobruk sands claimed them.
ref: 2006, Bill Collopy, House of Given, page 13:
text: He looked younger, thinner, was pale and unshaven, the image of a man on a bender, complete with a red-haired partner in crime.
‘I say, Howard, your chief chemist would look ree-mahr-kable on a polo pony, don′t think?’ said the bloodnut, who reeked of alcohol and stale tobacco.
ref: 2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page:
glosses: A person with red hair, a redhead.
Related terms: Bluey
ranga
plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of play
plays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play
nought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: noughts
form: naught
form: nowt
Etymology: From Middle English nought, noght, noȝt, from Old English nōwiht, nāwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ā-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not anything". Equivalent to ne + ought or ne + a + wight. Doublet of naught and not.
Senses: examples: text: "It is the truth; naught have I hidden from thee, Kallikrates."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Nothing; something which does not exist.
glosses: A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
examples: text: 0.335 cm is nought/zero point three three five of a centimeter.
glosses: Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
glosses: The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
Derived terms: all for nought
bring to nought
come to nought
dreadnought
more often than nought
noughth
noughties
noughty
set at nought
nought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: naught
form: nowt
Etymology: From Middle English nought, noght, noȝt, from Old English nōwiht, nāwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ā-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not anything". Equivalent to ne + ought or ne + a + wight. Doublet of naught and not.
Senses: examples: text: It is nought, it is nought, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
ref: 1611, Authorized King James translation of Proverbs 20:14
glosses: Good for nothing; worthless.
glosses: Wicked, immoral.
nought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: noughts
form: noughting
form: noughted
form: noughted
form: naught
form: nowt
Etymology: From Middle English nought, noght, noȝt, from Old English nōwiht, nāwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ā-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not anything". Equivalent to ne + ought or ne + a + wight. Doublet of naught and not.
Senses: examples: text: In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)
ref: 1393, Julian of Norwich, translated by Grace Warrack, Revelations of Divine Love, published 1901:
text: The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.
ref: 1983, Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, page 25:
text: Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.
ref: 2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 507:
text: What is the use of noughting yourself? Who is noughting who? What is the use of searching for yourself? Who is searching for who? There are not two of you ! You cannot find yourself, or the absence of yourself.
ref: 2003, Wu Wei Wei, The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (which Made Lazarus Laugh), →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: To abase, to set at nought.
nought
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: naught
form: nowt
Etymology: From Middle English nought, noght, noȝt, from Old English nōwiht, nāwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ā-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not anything". Equivalent to ne + ought or ne + a + wight. Doublet of naught and not.
Senses: glosses: To no extent; in no way; not at all.
glosses: Not.
nought
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: naught
form: nowt
Etymology: From Middle English nought, noght, noȝt, from Old English nōwiht, nāwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ā-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not anything". Equivalent to ne + ought or ne + a + wight. Doublet of naught and not.
Senses: glosses: Nothing; zero.
Related terms: naught
ought
sodium lauryl sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium lauryl sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ionic detergent, sodium dodecyl sulfate, used in many household products.
Synonyms: sodium dodecyl sulfate
lauryl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laur(ic) + -yl.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”
ref: 2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dodecyl
Derived terms: dilauryl
lauryl alcohol
sodium lauryl sulfate
sodium lauryl sulphate
dodecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the aliphatic univalent radical C₁₂H₂₅-; lauryl
dodecyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, or derived from the dodecyl radical
Derived terms: didodecyl
dodecylamine
dodecylcyclohexane
dodecylsulphate
monododecyl
sodium dodecyl sulfate
lipophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipo- (“lipid”) + -philic (“loving”).
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of dissolving in lipids; typically composed of mostly nonpolar bonds.
Derived terms: lipophilicity
nonlipophilic
southerly buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southerly busters
Senses: examples: text: 1850, B. C. Peck, Recollections of Sydney, quoted in 1978, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, →ISBN,
It is almost a corollary, that the evening of a hot-wind day brings up a ‘southerly buster’, as we have heard the vulgar call it, very chill indeed ... as this wind comes from the southerly region of the Australian Alps.
text: We sighted land with a strong gale blowing, and on reaching Fremantle found no less than six ships hard and fast ashore; the harbour, unfortunately, is exposed to the full force of what is known in those parts as a "Southerly Buster," and huge green rollers were tumbling and tossing in all directions.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 197:
text: It was a brilliant day; a southerly buster was raging[.]
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xiii. 106:
text: 1995, Journal of Meteorology, Volume 20, Issues 200-204, page 213,
Some southerly busters have roll-clouds or lines of cumulus congestus, but these are uncommon.
text: 1997, Peter Baines, Kathy McInnes, 24. The southerly buster, Eric Kenneth Webb (editor), Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective, unnumbered page,
The southerly buster is a particularly abrupt form of cold front which affects the New South Wales south coastal region, ranging from about Gabo Island to Port Macquarie.
glosses: A summer cold front which works its way up the coast, bringing strong cool southerly winds that replaces and relieves hot conditions.
grey ghost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey ghosts
Etymology: * (parking inspector): Reputedly a reference to the grey uniforms once worn, the term remaining even though the uniforms have changed.
Senses: examples: 1998 July 18, Sydney Morning Herald, Grey ghosts turn a blind eye.
The council's chairman, Mr Harold Scruby, is demanding an inquiry into the grey ghost "culture" after a survey raised concerns about the threat to pedestrians of vehicles which stop illegally on crossings and no-standing or no-stopping zones.
qualifier: Melbourne; Sydney; Melbourne; Sydney
glosses: A parking inspector, a person issuing tickets fining vehicles parked illegally or for too long.
glosses: The bonefish species (Albula argentea, syn. Albula neoguinaica).
Synonyms: sense: parking inspector
word: brown bomber
JJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JJs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Josephson junction.
JJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
related: word: JJ.
glosses: plural of J: abbreviation of judges or justices.
JJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, often short for Jacob or Joshua.
stir-fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stir-fries
form: stir-frying
form: stir-fried
form: stir-fried
Etymology: From stir + fry. Coined by American physician Buwei Yang Chao in 1945, in How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.
Senses: examples: text: If you try to knock me, you'll get mocked / I'll stir-fry you in my wok
ref: 1998, “Intergalactic”, performed by Beastie Boys:
glosses: To fry quickly in hot oil whilst constantly stirring, especially in a wok or similar pan.
stir-fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stir-fries
form: stir-frys
Etymology: From stir + fry. Coined by American physician Buwei Yang Chao in 1945, in How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.
Senses: glosses: Food cooked in this manner.
Nazareth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnæzəɹəθ/
Etymology: Via Latin Nāzareth and Koine Greek Νᾱζᾰρέθ (Nāzăréth) from Hebrew נָצְרַת (nāṣraṯ), of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Israel.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Buruanga, Aklan, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Sibalom, Antique, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Sergio Osmeña Sr., Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
glosses: Former name of Adama, Ethiopia, alternatively Nazreth.
Derived terms: New Nazareth
Related terms: Nazarene
bunyip aristocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of bunyip (“mythical Australian monster; impostor”) + aristocracy.
Coined by Australian journalist and politician Daniel Deniehy in 1853 satirising a proposal of William Wentworth for a hereditary peerage in the then colony of New South Wales. At the time, bunyip was Sydney underworld slang for an impostor or con-man, a sense Deniehy may have been aware of, but which was “obviously” unknown to Wentworth.
Senses: examples: text: 1853, Daniel Deniehy, A heritage befitting the dignity of free men, speech at the Victoria Theatre in Pitt St, Sydney, 15 August 1853, reported in the Sydney Morning Herald the following day, reprinted 2009, Pamela Robson, Great Australian Speeches, unnumbered page,
Here we all know the common water mole was transferred into the duck-billed platypus, and in some distant emulation of this degeneration, I suppose we are to be favoured with a bunyip aristocracy.
text: In any case, no one held exclusive rights on ambition or greed. It was William Charles Wentworth, the Emancipists′ trumpet, who in 1852, came round to lobby with James Macarthur for the creation of a hereditary colonial noblesse, the "bunyip aristocracy," which, fortunately, the Crown saw no reason to create.
ref: 1987, Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, published 2010, page 331:
glosses: A peerage (hypothetical or proposed) in Australia; the new (in the colonial era) landed rich aspiring to aristocracy; snobbish Australian conservatives.
wikipedia: William Wentworth
Related terms: squattocracy
blooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bluːθ/
Forms: form: blooths
Senses: examples: text: All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. If no blight happens before the setting the apple yield will be such as we have not had for years.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 'Are you afraid?'
'Oh no, sir ... not of outdoor things; especially just now when the apple-blooth is falling, and everything is so green.'
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of blowth (“blossom; bloom”).
canticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntɪkəl/
Forms: form: canticles
Etymology: From Latin canticulum, diminutive of cantus (“song”).
Senses: glosses: A chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.
baldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more baldly
form: most baldly
Etymology: From bald + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For they who ſuppoſe that Hades, that is to ſay, Pluto, is ſaid to be the body and as it were the ſepulcher of the ſoule, as if it ſeemed to be fooliſh and drunken all the while ſhe is within it, me thinkes they doe allegorize but very baldly.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Of Isis and Osiris”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1298, lines 48–51:
text: The record of the third stage in Amos’ illumination is all too scanty. The seeër describes it so bluntly, so baldly, that one cannot help feeling disappointed. Evidently he felt that what he then saw was far beyond words; and so, with his wonted veracity, he made no attempt at description. He simply wrote, “I saw the Lord standing upon the altar and He said, ‘Smite the chapiters, that the thresholds may shake: and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, etc.” (ix. 1-10).
ref: 1923, W[illiam] Winslow Hall, “Amos”, in Hebrew Illumination: A Study in Essential Religion, London: The C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel Co. […], →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: In a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
reais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real (Brazilian currency)
fisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃɚmən/
ipa: /ˈfɪʃəmən/
Forms: form: fishermen
Etymology: From fisher + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The fisherman casts her line.
text: Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
Any person who attempts to catch fish.
examples: text: He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.
text: I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:
text: Alienated from the clique society, / A lonely boy finds peace in fishing. / His mother says John this is not the way life's supposed to be. / Don't you see the life that you are missing? / And he says / When I grow up I want to be, / One of the harvesters of the sea. / I think before my days are done, / I want to be a fisherman.
ref: 1989, “John the Fisherman”, performed by Primus:
glosses: A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
A person whose profession is catching fish.
examples: text: They tortured and put to death English factors in the Spice Islands; they descended upon the fisheries of the North Sea in huge fleets escorted by men-of-war that attacked and sank the fishermen of other nations
ref: 1938, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, Cromwell's Captains, page 196:
text: Such boats should not have been fast, but the better fishermen — particularly John Alden's designs - […] won a big share of the offshore and coastwise races
ref: 1987, John Rousmaniere, Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee, Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts, page 26:
glosses: A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.
Synonyms: fisher
Derived terms: word: catfisherman
word: codfisherman
taxonomic: Noctilio leporinus
word: fisherman bat
word: fisherman buster
word: fishermanship
word: fisherman's loop
word: flyfisherman
word: nonfisherman
word: phisherman
word: ring of the fisherman
word: shellfisherman
word: spearfisherman
word: sportfisherman
Related terms: english: fisher (female), fisherman (generic sense) (female)
translation: fisher (female), fisherman (generic sense) (female)
word: fisherwoman
word: fisher
lobster pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster pots
form: lobsterpot
Senses: synonyms: lobster trap
glosses: A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.
examples: text: As pikemen were required to engage the enemy closely, they frequently wore steel helmets and a cuirass that is both armored breast and back plates. The helmets, or pots or lobster pots, were slightly angular round helmet[s] with […]
ref: 2004, Stephen C. Manganiello, The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Craftsmen churned out cheap helmets – lobster pots with hammered steel neckguards rather than the fancy segmented type the Roundheads wore. Plain morions with riveted rims, none of your apprentice piece Spanish combs.
ref: 2018, Nicholas Carter, Black Tom's Red Army, Canelo, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”).
synonyms: word: lobster-tailed pot
extra: kind of helmet
examples: text: ... should have been tucked behind his driver's license—and Larry saw the photograph—Marie and Sean in the kitchen wearing lobster pots for helmets and wielding frying pans for rapiers—but his driver's license appeared to be missing.
ref: 2015, Joshua Corin, Cost of Life: A Xanadu Marx Thriller, Alibi, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lobster, pot: a pot for cooking a lobster in.
reins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: rains
homophone: reigns
Etymology: See rein
Senses: glosses: plural of rein
reins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: rains
homophone: reigns
Etymology: See rein
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rein
reins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: rains
homophone: reigns
Etymology: From Old French reins, see also rein in French.
Senses: glosses: The kidneys.
glosses: The lower part of the back.
glosses: The loins.
topics: architecture
glosses: The parts of a vault between the crown and the spring or abutment, including, and having especial reference to, the loading or filling behind the shell of the vault.
sediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/
rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt
Forms: form: sediments
Etymology: From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.
Senses: examples: text: The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
glosses: A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
Hyponyms: dregs
grounds
grout
settlings
Derived terms: biosediment
cosediment
hemipelagic sediment
metasediment
palaeosediment
paleosediment
pedosediment
resediment
sedimentable
sedimental
sedimentize
sedimentology
sedimentous
subsediment
Related terms: sedimentary
sedimentation
sedimentaceous
sedimentitious
sedimentoclastic
sediment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/
rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt
Forms: form: sediments
form: sedimenting
form: sedimented
form: sedimented
Etymology: From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.
Senses: glosses: To deposit material as a sediment.
glosses: To be deposited as a sediment.
Derived terms: resediment
unbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈbɹoʊkn̩/
ipa: /ʌnˈbɹəʊkn̩/
Etymology: From Middle English unbroken, from Old English unġebrocen (“unbroken”), equivalent to un- + broken. Cognate with Dutch ongebroken (“unbroken”), German Low German unbroken (“unbroken”), German ungebrochen (“unbroken”).
Senses: examples: text: After the vase had fallen down the flight of stairs we were amazed to find it still unbroken.
text: A considerable amount of unbroken stone is brought down to Ravenglass and used locally.
ref: 1951 June, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:
glosses: Whole, not divided into parts.
examples: text: There is something majestic about the spirit of an unbroken mustang as it runs wild across the prairie.
glosses: Of a horse, not tamed.
examples: text: The team's unbroken winning streak was a record.
text: The climb out of Aberdeen is a most forbidding proposition to an engine starting cold; it is quite unbroken for 7 miles up the cliffs to milepost 234.
ref: 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
glosses: Continuous, without interruption.
Synonyms: sense: whole, not divided into parts
word: complete
sense: whole, not divided into parts
word: entire
sense: whole, not divided into parts
word: in one piece
sense: whole, not divided into parts
word: undivided
sense: whole, not divided into parts
word: whole
sense: describing a horse
word: untamed
sense: describing a horse
word: wild
word: continuous
word: uninterrupted
Related terms: unbreakable
unbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈbɹoʊkn̩/
ipa: /ʌnˈbɹəʊkn̩/
Etymology: From unbreak.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unbreak
provinces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑvɪnsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒvɪnsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of province
glosses: The part of a country outside of the capital, major cities, etc., and regarded as being rustic or parochial; a hinterland. See provincial.
chiffres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiffre
selvage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlvɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: selvages
form: selvedge
Etymology: From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self + edge.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
examples: text: Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.
ref: 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
glosses: Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
glosses: The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes
topics: business
mining
glosses: That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.
selvage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlvɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: selvages
form: selvaging
form: selvaged
form: selvaged
form: selvedge
Etymology: From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self + edge.
Senses: glosses: To give a selvage to (fabric).
yar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː/
ipa: /jɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: yars
form: yarring
form: yarred
form: yarred
form: yarr
Etymology: From Middle English ȝaren, ȝurren, ȝeorren, from Old English ġeorran, ġirran, gyrran (“to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate”), from Proto-Germanic *gerraną (“to creak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble”). Cognate with Scots yarr, yirr (“to snarl, growl, quarrel, cause trouble”), Middle High German girren (“to roar, cry, rattle, chatter”).
Senses: glosses: To snarl; to gnar.
glosses: To growl, especially like a dog; quarrel; to be captious or troublesome.
yar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː/
ipa: /jɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: more yar
form: most yar
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: Sour; brackish.
Derived terms: yarrish
yar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː/
ipa: /jɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: yarer
form: yarest
form: yare
Etymology: From Middle English yar, ȝar, variants of yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“ready”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.
Senses: examples: text: The wynd was good, the Schip was yare.
ref: 1390, J. Gower, Confessio Amantis, II. 237:
text: 1939, The Philadelphia Story written by Philip Barry
My, she was yar...It means, uh...easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right. Everything a boat should be, until she develops dry rot.
text: ...to make a ship best weighed, or yarest in her going.
ref: 1958, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library:
text: Arr, here be a fine vessel: the yarest river-going boat there be.
ref: 1993 Captain McAllister, The Simpsons ep. 1F06
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: especially sailboat
glosses: Quick and agile; easy to hand, reef and steer.
raw_tags: of a vessel
Synonyms: yare
haberdasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæb.ə(ɹ)ˌdæʃ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: haberdashers
Etymology: From Middle English, 13th century. Uncertain but may derive from Anglo-Norman habertas (“small goods”).
Senses: glosses: A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
glosses: A men's outfitter.
glosses: A member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a livery company.
Derived terms: haberdasher of pronouns
haberdashery
Related terms: haberdash
haberdashed
hatmaker
mercer
milliner
working sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working sails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the sails which are used in most kinds of weather: mainsail, foresail, jib and/or mizzen. Sometimes referred to as the lowers.
livery company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livery companies
Senses: glosses: A guild of the City of London, some now incorporated and taking part in local government.
gun cotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the appearance of the material, resembling cotton wool, and its use in firearms.
Senses: glosses: nitrocellulose.
okra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒkɹə/
ipa: /ˈəʊkɹə/
ipa: /ˈoʊkɹə/
rhymes: -əʊkɹə
rhymes: -ɒkɹə
Forms: form: okras
form: okry
form: ochro
form: ochroe
form: okro
form: ochre
form: ockro
form: ocra
form: ocro
form: occra
form: occro
form: ochra
form: ocre
form: okero
form: okree
form: okwa
form: ookroo
Etymology: From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀ but cf. Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).
Senses: examples: text: ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...
ref: 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pages 59–60:
text: Select young okra, wash thoroughly, remove the stems, and wipe the okra dry.
ref: 1940, Farmers' Bulletin, number 232, page 7:
text: Wash and dry okra, remove stems, and slice in one-inch rounds. (If using frozen okra, do not wash.) Heat two tablespoons oil in a heavy saucepan other than black iron. Saute okra in oil and vinegar, stirring often until ropiness is gone.
ref: 1997, Lisette Verlander et al., The Cookin' Cajun Cooking School Cookbook, page 25:
text: I hated cooking okra because it was so slimy when you first start.
ref: 2006, Francis N. Wiltz, In the Kitchen with Papa Wiltz, page 1:
glosses: The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
examples: text: Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.
ref: 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., volume I, page 222:
text: Okra does not do well in tight, waterlogged soils, but will tolerate a soil pH range of from 6.0 to 7.5.
ref: 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, page 610:
text: We planted some truck crops like watermelons and okra, which was risky.
ref: 2011, Leon Neel et al., The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, page 36:
glosses: The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
Synonyms: word: bandikai
english: Indian contexts
translation: Indian contexts
word: bhindi
word: gumbo
raw_tags: in stews
word: ladyfinger
sense: edible capsules
word: ladies' fingers
Hypernyms: sense: edible capsules
word: pod vegetable
sense: plant
word: abelmosk
sense: plant
word: mallow
Derived terms: word: African okra
word: autumnal okra
taxonomic: Urena lobata
word: bun okra
taxonomic: Corchorus olitorius
word: bush okra
taxonomic: Luffa acutangula
word: Chinese okra
word: Indian okra
taxonomic: Abelmoschus moschatus
word: musk okra
word: Okra mosaic virus
word: okratini
taxonomic: Abelmoschus moschatus
word: ornamental okra
taxonomic: Abelmoschus caillei
word: West African okra
word: wild okra
taxonomic: Abelmoschus moschatus
word: Yorka okra
ladies' fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a supposed resemblance to women's fingers.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of okra: the edible capsules of the okra plant.
synonyms: word: okra
extra: the edible capsules of the okra plant
Related terms: ladyfinger
rashie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃi
Forms: form: rashies
form: rashy
Etymology: From rash + -ie.
Senses: glosses: rash vest, rashguard
rash vest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rash vests
Senses: glosses: A close-fitting garment often worn while surfing or during other water sports under a wetsuit to prevent chafing and provide UV protection and in some cases extra warmth.
Synonyms: rashguard
rashie
rash shirt
rashguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rashguards
form: rash guard
Etymology: From rash + guard.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rash vest (“a close-fitting garment often worn while surfing or during other water sports under a wetsuit to prevent chafing and provide UV protection or extra warmth”).
synonyms: word: rash vest
extra: a close-fitting garment often worn while surfing or during other water sports under a wetsuit to prevent chafing and provide UV protection or extra warmth
workaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːk.əɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: workarounds
form: work-around
Etymology: From work + around.
Senses: examples: text: More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
glosses: A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: kludge
kluge
glosses: A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
qualifier: project management
glosses: An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
Synonyms: word: band-aid
word: band-aid solution
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: fiddle
word: hack
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: hack job
word: jugaad
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: lash-up
word: make-do
word: makeshift
word: patch
word: patch-up
word: put-together
word: quick-and-dirty
word: quick fix
word: stopgap
word: workaround
Hypernyms: word: improvisation
word: repair
dizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: dizzier
form: dizziest
form: dizzie
Etymology: From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
Senses: examples: text: I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
text: Alas! his brain was dizzy.
ref: 1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
examples: text: We climbed to a dizzy height.
text: To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
ref: 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
text: ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
synonyms: dizzying
glosses: Producing giddiness.
examples: text: My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
text: the dizzy multitude
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
examples: text: Them as diz ’at is dizzy.
ref: 1952, Albert Lyon Hoy, An Etymologal Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect:
english: Those who do that are half-witted.
translation: Those who do that are half-witted.
bold_translation_offsets: 22
33
glosses: simple, half-witted.
Derived terms: word: dizzard
word: dizzies
word: dizzily
word: dizziness
word: dizzy bat
word: dizzying
word: dizzyingly
word: dizzyish
word: dizzy izzy
word: dizzy limit
word: spindizzy
Related terms: dizz
dizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: dizzies
form: dizzying
form: dizzied
form: dizzied
Etymology: From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”), likely from the root of Proto-Germanic *dwēsaz (“foolish, stupid”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
Senses: examples: text: Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.
dizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: dizzies
Senses: examples: text: A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit.
ref: 2005, Roger Williams, How to Give Your MGB V8 Power, page 201:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).
cordwain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordwains
Etymology: From cordovan, from Córdova (“a Spanish town”), borrowed from Spanish Córdoba.
Senses: synonyms: cordovan
glosses: A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
Derived terms: cordwainer
cordovan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.də.vən/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹ.də.vən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dəvən
Etymology: From Cordova (“Córdoba, a city in Spain”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Originating in or pertaining to Córdoba.
cordovan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.də.vən/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹ.də.vən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dəvən
Forms: form: cordovans
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cordován (now cordobán). Doublet of cordwain.
Senses: synonyms: cordwain
glosses: A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
glosses: A shoe made from such leather.
cordovan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.də.vən/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹ.də.vən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dəvən
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cordován (now cordobán). Doublet of cordwain.
Senses: glosses: Made out of such leather.
synonyms: oxblood
glosses: A dark brownish-red colour, resembling the leather.
Córdoba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːɹdəbə/
ipa: /ˈkɔːdəbə/
Forms: form: Cordoba
form: Cordova
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Córdoba, from Arabic قُرْطُبَة (Qurṭuba), from Latin Corduba, from Phoenician 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤉𐤅𐤁𐤏𐤉 (qrtywbʿy or Qartuba). As South American locations, named after the Spanish city.
Senses: glosses: The capital of the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: A province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city.
glosses: The capital of the province of Córdoba, in central Argentina.
glosses: A province in central Argentina.
glosses: A department of Colombia.
glosses: A city and municipality of Veracruz, Mexico.
glosses: A town and municipality of Bolivar department, Colombia.
glosses: A town and municipality of Nariño department, Colombia.
glosses: A town and municipality of Quindío department, Colombia.
Derived terms: Cordoban
Related terms: Cordobes
Cordovan
cordovan
cordwain
cordwainer
Juba
Cordova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and island of the province of Cebu, Philippines, connected by bridge with Mactan.
glosses: Alternative form of Córdoba:
The capital of the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: Alternative form of Córdoba:
A province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: cordovan
cordwain
cordwainer
cordwainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordwainers
Etymology: From Middle English cordewainer, cordewaner, from Anglo-Norman cordewaner, from Old French cordoan (“(leather) of Cordova”). See also cordovan, itself borrowed from Spanish Córdoba.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cobbler
glosses: A shoemaker.
glosses: A worker in cordwain leather.
glosses: A leather from Córdoba.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cordwainer.
glosses: A member of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, a livery company.
City of London
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the City of London
Senses: synonyms: the City
Square Mile
glosses: The area in central London, England containing the financial district, usually abbreviated to the City.
synonyms: City of London Corporation
Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
glosses: The local authority and city which is part of Greater London.
glosses: The site of the original Roman Londinium.
glosses: British financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) British big-business interests.
Synonyms: London City
Related terms: livery company
Lord Mayor of London
compression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /kəmˈpɹeʃ.ən/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
Forms: form: compressions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō.
Senses: glosses: An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
examples: text: Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods).
ref: 2011, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE, retrieved 26 Sep 2012:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process by which data is compressed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
Derived terms: age compression
aortocaval compression syndrome
companding
compansion
compressional
compression fracture
compressionless
compression pump
compression ratio
compression release
compression set
compression shorts
compression sock
compression wave
compression wood
cryocompression
data compression
effective compression
electrocompression
globe of compression
microcompression
New York compression
noncompression
overcompression
parallel compression
precompression
recompression
selective compression
supercompression
thermocompression
time compression
time-space compression
uncompression
vasocompression
canticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canticle
Canticles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A clipping of Canticle of Canticles, a calque of Latin Canticum Canticorum (“Song of Songs”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of Song of Songs, a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
synonyms: word: Song of Songs
extra: a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament
entier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French entier. Doublet of entire and integer.
Senses: examples: text: Let the state of the system vary according to
x_n=2x_n-1-[2x_n-1],
where [z] is the entier of z.
ref: 1992, Stochastic and Chaotic Oscillations (translation of a 1987 work by Yu. I. Neimark), Kluwer, page 70 http://books.google.com/books?id=nDXojK82iHwC&pg=PA70&dq=entier
glosses: The greatest integer not exceeding the specified number.
Synonyms: word: floor
word: integral part