cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌlsə/
ipa: /ˈʌlsɚ/
rhymes: -ʌlsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ulcers
form: ulcera
Etymology: From Old French ulcere, from Latin ulcus. Doublet of ulcus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
examples: text: "Worry never solved any problems. Only gives you ulcers."
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 35:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Peptic ulcer.
glosses: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
Derived terms: Aden ulcer
aphthous ulcer
Buruli ulcer
cold ulcer
Cushing ulcer
decubitus ulcer
duodenal ulcer
esophageal ulcer
gastric ulcer
mouth ulcer
peptic ulcer
pressure ulcer
stomach ulcer
tropical ulcer
ulcerate
ulceration
ulcerative
ulcerous
Vincent's ulcer
Related terms: ulcerously
ulcerousness
ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌlsə/
ipa: /ˈʌlsɚ/
rhymes: -ʌlsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ulcers
form: ulcering
form: ulcered
form: ulcered
Etymology: From Old French ulcere, from Latin ulcus. Doublet of ulcus.
Senses: glosses: To ulcerate.
ulcerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ulcerate
form: most ulcerate
Etymology: From Latin ulcerātus.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
raw_tags: of a pollen grain
Derived terms: monoulcerate
ulcerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ulcerates
form: ulcerating
form: ulcerated
form: ulcerated
Etymology: From Latin ulcerō.
Senses: examples: text: The surface was ulcerated by trauma.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To cause an ulcer to develop.
examples: text: The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To become ulcerous.
Derived terms: ulceration
ulcerative
ulcerative colitis
ulcerative gingivitis
ulcerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌl.sɚ.əs/
Forms: form: more ulcerous
form: most ulcerous
Etymology: From ulcer + -ous (compare Latin ulcerōsus).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an ulcer
glosses: Having an ulcer
Derived terms: ulcerously
ulcerousness
Related terms: ulcer
ulcerate
ulceration
ulcerative
ulceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌlsəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: ulcerations
Etymology: From ulcer + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
ref: 2008, Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery, page 327:
glosses: The development of an ulcer.
glosses: An ulcerous condition.
Derived terms: lupoid form of groin ulceration
serpiginous ulceration of the groin
ultra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌltɹə/
Forms: form: more ultra
form: most ultra
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Latin ūls
Proto-Indo-European *-teros?
Latin -ter
Old Latin -ād
Latin -ā
Latin ultrābor.
English ultra
From Latin ultra.
Senses: examples: an ultra reformer; ultra measures
glosses: Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Etymology: First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: insert tab A into slot B
text: "His name was written upon a tab within it - Maple White, Lake Avenue, Detroit, Michigan."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: He pulls off his belt, cursing as the studs catch in the tabs of his jeans.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Station to Station”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 333:
text: We lifted the tabs on the cans and poured the brew carefully into glasses.
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 18:
antonyms: slot#Noun
coordinate_terms: tang#Noun
glosses: A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
glosses: An ear.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
examples: text: How many tabs are open in your Web browser?
text: That’s the relief I feel when clearing all the tabs in my internet browser. Clicking the crosses like a long line of kisses finally indulged.
ref: 2020 December 11, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Is your browser window full of open tabs? Time for a digital declutter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fast march or run with full kit.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
form: tabbing
form: tabbed
form: tabbed
Etymology: First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: To affix with tabs; to label.
Derived terms: bread tab
collar tab
cross-tab
cross tab
hand-tab
keep tabs on
laundry tab
peel tab
pull-tab
square tab shingle
swipe-tab
tabbed
tab control
tab explosion
tab index
tab leader
tabnabbing
tab order
tab out
tab page
tab stop
trim tab
washing tab
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Etymology: Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.
Senses: examples: text: to pick up the tab
glosses: A restaurant bill.
examples: text: to start a tab
text: Put this round on my tab, please, barman.
text: As he fished a Visa credit card out of his green leather wallet, the bartender yelled out a question over the music: “Do you want to start a tab?” Mr. Korinke shook his head no and swiftly closed out. The pair might order more drinks later on, but the prospect of opening a tab was verboten. […] His ethos reflects a growing phenomenon among Gen Z bargoers: an aversion to opening bar tabs.
ref: 2025 May 31, Paula Mejía, “Gen Z Doesn’t Want to Start a Bar Tab”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate.
examples: text: Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the system's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant […]
ref: 1984, Time, volume 123, number 1:
glosses: The cost or bill for anything.
examples: text: No no no no I don't, it's not hate, hate is a strong word, truth be told I do have a slight preference for tabs but that's only because I'm anal and because I prefer precision.
ref: 2016 May 29, Carson Mell, “Bachmanity Insanity”, in Silicon Valley, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: tabulator
mul:\t
glosses: A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
form: tabbing
form: tabbed
form: tabbed
Etymology: Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.
Senses: examples: text: You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.
ref: 2010, Chris Anderson, Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4, page 210:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.
Derived terms: Alt-Tab
alt-tab
pick up the tab
tabability
tabable
tabbed
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Etymology: Likely to have been formed by clipping the Geordie pronunciation of the word tobacco or alternatively from the brand name Ogden's Tabs.
Senses: examples: text: Lend us a tab!
glosses: A cigarette.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Etymology: Clipping of tablature
Senses: glosses: A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
form: Tab
Etymology: Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”).
Senses: examples: text: You should have been there---it was a good race. Just to clarify matters for the hard of understanding, the tabs led for about 1500m before turning to shrapnel, and Oxford eventually won by 3/4 length.
ref: 1995 January 20, Paul Thomas, “Re: >Re: Those 'orrible Tabs”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):
text: Before Rachel gets in with a stab at the Tabs' coxing efforts, may I say that my experience of coxes on the Isis is somewhat similar.
ref: 1995 February 7, "Laser Cartridge" [username], “Re: Cambridge News, again.”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):
text: Plus, there's always been a healthy rivalry between the tabs and us, but I'm sure this has nothing to do with it ;-)
ref: 1998 January 17, whitey [username], “Re: Tab bashing (was University Challenge - Its pish)”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.misc (Usenet):
text: I hope the Tabs get beaten! :-) I support Oxford for no real reason but they have a bad habit of losing to Cambridge recently.
ref: 2002 March 27, The Guv'nor [username], “Re: My target this week was...”, in uk.rec.bodybuilding (Usenet):
text: I have nothing against the girl (other than the fact she's a tab!), but it does strike me as a little daft!!
ref: 2002 March 29, Caroline Smith, “Re: Lifejackets thread returns... [was Re: Boat Race]”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):
text: Anybody know who won? ¶ Or should that be, how much did the Tabs win by? ;-)
ref: 2006 March 30, JY [username], “Veterans Boat Race (that's Oxford, England vs Cambridge, England)”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: A student of Cambridge University.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Etymology: Clipping of tabloid.
Senses: examples: text: By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.
ref: 1999, George H. Douglas, The Golden Age of the Newspaper, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 229:
text: The tabloids were able to spend much of the week confronting their demons. Maxine Carr's request to be released from prison early prompted the tabs to let her know what they thought of her suggestion.
ref: 2004 January 16, Michael Hann, “The tabloid week”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: That is the attitude of the tabs: they cover the world's most important city.
ref: 2010, Robert Lusetich, Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: If ministers disappoint—they usually do—the tabloids can cry "betrayal". They never lose. But just because the tabs are often flagrantly dishonest (in more expensive papers you get a better class of dishonesty) doesn't mean they're always wrong.
ref: 2010 November 8, Michael White, “It is silly for liberals to pretend that no one plays the benefit system”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A tabloid newspaper.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Etymology: Clipping of tablet.
Senses: examples: text: Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
ref: 2008, Stephen King, Graduation Weekend:
glosses: A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæb/
ipa: [tʰæb̥]
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: tabs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A tableau curtain.
Derived terms: tabless
Related terms: tin tab
ultrasound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrasounds
Etymology: From ultra- + sound.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: infrasound
hypernyms: sound
glosses: Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.
glosses: Ultrasonography.
glosses: Ultrasonography.
Medical ultrasonography.
examples: text: Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy. It might eventually turn out to be as effective as the Salk vaccine, or as bogus as the science of phrenology.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
text: But after a few visits to share details about ultrasounds and such, Juno and Mark find they have similar interests in music and movies - and Juno does have extraordinary tastes for someone her age, from the songs of Iggy and the Stooges to the horror flicks of Dario Argento.
ref: 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News:
text: It’s estimated only 0.1% of antibodies circulating in the bloodstream enter the brain – this also includes the therapeutic antibodies currently used in clinical trials. An approach my team is taking is to use ultrasound to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier, which increases the uptake of Alzheimer’s drugs or antibody fragments.
ref: 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:
glosses: Therapeutically applied ultrasonic energy.
Derived terms: 3D ultrasound
4D ultrasound
Related terms: ultrasonic
ultrasonics
ultrasound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ultrasounds
form: ultrasounding
form: ultrasounded
form: ultrasounded
Etymology: From ultra- + sound.
Senses: glosses: To treat with ultrasound.
Hyponyms: ultrasonicate
tabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæbjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈtæbjuːˌleɪt/
ipa: /-jə-/
Forms: form: tabulates
Etymology: From Late Latin tabulāta (“thin board, plank, flooring”), or more likely a relatinized version of tablet through tabula.
Senses: examples: text: ℞. the three kindes of ſaunders, and Diarrhodon Abbatis, ana. ℈. j. the bone of the Hartes heart one in number, ſugar roſate tabulate, or white ſugar diſſolued in roſe water as much as ſufficeth, make an Electuarie, gild it with leaues of pure golde in weight ℥. ß.
ref: 1596, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Electuaries, and Conserues: of Lozenges, and Manus Christi”, in The Method of Phisick, Containing the Cavses, Signes, and Cvres of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, from the Head to the Foote. Whereunto is Added, The Forme and Rule of Making Remedies and Medicines, which Our Physitions Commonly Vse at this Day, with the Proportion, Quantitie, and Names of Each Medicine, 3rd corrected and augmented edition, book VII, Imprinted at London: By Richard Field, and are to be sold in Paules Church yard at the signe of the brasen Serpent, →OCLC, pages 404–405:
text: A Bad ſtomacke is otherwhiles no ſmall cauſe of this ſwouning, for it procureth before the ſwouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie. As ſoone as this ſhall be perceiued, it is not amiſſe to vſe for it confected Balſam wood, but in the ſtead thereof take Tabulates of Xyloaloe, which are very requiſite for it.
ref: 1605, Christopher Wirtzung [i.e. Christof Wirsung], “Of the Hart, the Most Precious Part of Mans Body”, in Jacob Mosan, transl., The General Practise of Physicke: Conteyning All Inward and Outward Parts of the Body, with All the Accidents and Infirmities that are Incident vnto Them, euen from the Crowne of the Head to the Sole of the Foote: … in the Germane Tongue, and now Translated into English, in Diuerse Places Corrected, and with Many Additions Illustrated and Augmented, …, London: [Printed by Richard Field] Impensis [at the expense of] Georg[e] Bishop, →OCLC, § 1 (Of the Fainting of the Hart in Generall. [The Order of Life or Diet for This Faintnes of the Hart.]), page 259:
text: For all faintness, hot agues, heavy fantasies and imaginations, a cordial was prepared in tabulates, which was called Manus Christi: the true receipt required one ounce of prepared pearls to twelve of fine sugar, boiled with rose water, violet water, cinnamon water, "or howsoever one would have them."
ref: 1834, [Robert Southey], “Quack and No Quack, being an Account of Dr. Green and His Man Kemp. Popular Medicine, Herbary, Theory of Signatures, William Dove, John Wesley, and Baxter.”, in The Doctor, &c., volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, →OCLC, page 236:
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A pill, a tablet.
tabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæbjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈtæbjuːˌleɪt/
ipa: /-jə-/
ipa: /ˈtæbjʊlət/
ipa: /ˈtæbjuːlət/
ipa: /ˈtæbjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈtæbjuːˌleɪt/
ipa: /-jə-/
Etymology: Back-formation from translingual Tabulata (“an extinct order of corals”) on the basis
of -ate (adjective-forming suffix, corresponding to Latin -ātus (forming participles), itself seen in Tabulata), from Latin tabulāta, the nominative neuter plural of tabulātus (“floored”). See further at etymology 1. The order is so named because the corals are characterized by their well-developed horizontal internal partitions (tabulae). Equivalent to tabula + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [W]e find the Zoantharia, in section (1), divided into tabulate and non-tabulate corals. The specimen before us is evidently tabulate, and we therefore follow the reference to section (2), where we find the tabulate corals divided into those with and those without cœnenchyma.
ref: 1865, Samuel Haughton, “Lecture VIII”, in Manual of Geology (Galbraith and Haughton’s Scientific Manuals, Experimental and Natural Science Series), London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, page 192:
text: On the Zoological Affinities of the Tabulate Corals; by Prof. A. E. Verrill.—The questions discussed in this paper were the position of the tabulate corals among Polyps, and the true value of the tabulate structure in classification. […] Prof. [Addison Emery] Verrill, therefore, concludes that the tabulate structure is of secondary importance as a character, in fixing their affinities, and that the Tabulata must be dismembered,—Halisites, Millepora, and their allies, being classed as Hydroids; and Pocillopora and Favosites with other extinct tabulated genera, as true Polyps.
ref: 1868 January, “American Association for the Advancement of Science”, in David A. P. Watt, editor, The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist: A Bi-monthly Journal of Natural Science, Conducted by a Committee of the Natural History Society of Montreal (Second Series), volume III, number 4, Montreal, Que.: Dawson Brothers, Great St. James Street, →OCLC, pages 294–295:
text: The large corallites are tabulate, with indistinctly differentiated walls, provided with obtusely triangular and irregular septa, and having their visceral cavities more or less freely connected with one another by lateral horizontal channels, which penetrate the interstitial tubular tissue.
ref: 1879, H[enry] Alleyne Nicholson, “Thecidæ and Helioporidæ”, in On the Structure and Affinities of the “Tabulate Corals” of the Palæozoic Period: With Critical Descriptions of Illustrative Species, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 236:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Describing a member of an extinct order of corals, the Tabulata: having tabulae (well-developed horizontal internal partitions within each cell).
Derived terms: holotabulate
tabulate coral
tabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæbjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈtæbjuːˌleɪt/
ipa: /-jə-/
ipa: /ˈtæbjʊlət/
ipa: /ˈtæbjuːlət/
Forms: form: tabulates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the former adjective through the associated taxon's name (Tabulata). Equivalent to tabula + -ate (forms nouns meaning "specimen of a corresponding taxon ending in -ata")
Senses: examples: text: Both tabulates and rugosans evolved independently as part of the Ordovician Radiation; the tabulates appeared first in the Early Ordovician (~488 Mya), followed by rugosans about 20 My later.
ref: 2013, Walter M. Goldberg, “A Brief History of Reefs and Corals”, in The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, section 13-2 (An Introduction to Paleozoic Corals), page 272, column 2:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the order Tabulata.
ultra vires
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ultra vires (“beyond the power”).
Senses: examples: text: Acts of the Scottish Parliament, unlike Westminster, can be challenged in court on the basis that they relate to reserved matters and are, therefore, ultra vires.
ref: 2004 September 5, Scotland on Sunday:
text: Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants’ actions were ultra vires and violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
ref: 2025 June 19, “Gavin Newsom v. Donald J. Trump”, in United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, page 2:
topics: law
glosses: beyond the legal power or authority of a person or body
Synonyms: extra vires
Related terms: intra vires
tablature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæblət͡ʃɜ/
Forms: form: tablatures
form: tabulature
Etymology: From French, from Italian tavolatura, from Latin tabulatura, from tabula.
Senses: glosses: A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
glosses: An engraved tablet, or a painting on a wall or ceiling, or sometimes a picture in general.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A division of the skull into two tables.
Synonyms: sense: musical notation
word: tab
Derived terms: organ tablature
umbellet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbellets
Etymology: From umbel + -let or umbel + -et.
Senses: examples: text: Inflorescence a large terminal, leafy, cross-armed panicle, composed of small, 5-flowered, terminal umbellets.
ref: 1838, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 64:
glosses: A secondary umbel in a compound umbel such as the carrot; an umbellule.
umbelliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From umbel + -iferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing umbels.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a member of the family Umbelliferae.
inflorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnfləˈɹɛsəns/
/ˌɪnflɔːˈɹɛsəns/
Forms: form: inflorescences
Etymology: From Latin inflōrēscentia, from inflōrēscō (“I begin to flower”), inchoative verb of flōreō (“I flower”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: flower cluster
glosses: A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.
glosses: An instance of a plant beginning to flower.
Hyponyms: sense: flower cluster
word: raceme
sense: flower cluster
word: panicle
sense: flower cluster
word: tassel
sense: flower cluster
word: catkin
Related terms: infructescence
umbilical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌmˈbɪl.ɪkəl/
ipa: /ʌmbɪlˈaɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ʌmˈbɪl.ɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪlɪkəl or Rhymes: -aɪkəl
Etymology: Formed from Latin umbilicus (“navel”) + the suffix -al. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: One womb, one shame, one resolve
Liberate this will to release us all
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue
Keeping me from killing you
ref: 2000, “Orestes”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: Of, or relating to, the navel (umbilicus) or the umbilical cord.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that the curvatures of normal sections are all equal to each other.
Derived terms: paraumbilical
postumbilical
pseudoumbilical
subumbilical
umbilical artery
umbilical cord
umbilical hernia
umbilical notch
umbilical vein
umbilical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌmˈbɪl.ɪkəl/
ipa: /ʌmbɪlˈaɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ʌmˈbɪl.ɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɪlɪkəl or Rhymes: -aɪkəl
Forms: form: umbilicals
Etymology: Formed from Latin umbilicus (“navel”) + the suffix -al. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -al.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cord connecting an astronaut to a spacecraft, or a craft to ground control prior to launch, etc.
periodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹiˈɒdɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɪə-/
ipa: /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdɪk
enpr: "pûrīŏd'ĭk
ipa: /ˌpɜːɹaɪˈɒdɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɪɹiˈɒdɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɪə-/
ipa: /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdɪk
Etymology: From per- + iodic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the highest oxidation state of iodine; of or derived from a periodic acid.
Synonyms: word: cyclic
word: cyclical
word: periodic
word: periodical
word: regular
Hypernyms: word: discontinuous
word: orderly
word: repetitive
Hyponyms: word: In terms of hours:
word: bihourly
word: circhoral
word: half-hourly
word: horary
word: hourly
word: hourwise
word: quarter-hourly
word: semihourly
word: subhourly
word: two-hourly
word: In terms of days:
word: bidaily
word: circadian
word: daily
word: diurnal
word: per diem
word: quotidian
word: semi-daily
word: semidiurnal
word: tertian
word: tridaily
word: In terms of weeks:
word: biweekly
word: circaseptan
word: fortnightly
word: hebdomadal
word: hebdomadary
word: semi-weekly
word: twi-weekly
word: twice-weekly
word: weekly
word: weeklyish
word: In terms of months:
word: bimensal
word: bimestrial
word: bimonthly
word: half-monthly
word: mensal
word: menstrual
word: menstruous
word: monthly
word: monthlyish
word: quarterly
word: semimenstrual
word: semimonthly
word: submonthly
word: thrice-monthly
word: trimestral
word: trimonthly
word: In terms of years:
word: annual
word: biannual
word: biennary
word: biennial
word: half-yearly
word: pentennial
word: quadrennial
word: quinquennial
word: quintennial
word: semestral
word: semiannual
word: triennial
word: trieterical
word: twice-yearly
word: yearly
word: In terms of centuries:
word: bicentennial
word: centennial
word: multicentennial
word: semicentennial
word: sesquicentennial
word: tricentennial
word: Other:
word: seasonal
word: secular
Derived terms: metaperiodic
orthoperiodic
periodate
periodic acid
Related terms: word: catamenial
umbilical cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbilical cords
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of funiculus.
synonyms: word: funiculus
examples: text: Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.
ref: 2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47:
glosses: An overdependence on, or overattachment to, one's parents or guardians.
Synonyms: sense: anatomical structure
word: navel-string
sense: anatomical structure
word: navel string
Derived terms: cut the umbilical cord
umbilical cord cutting
umpteen
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌmp.tiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From ump (“colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code”) + -teen. Unrelated to ump as in "umpire", simply a mnemonic rhyming aid.
Senses: examples: text: She's taking umpteen friends with her to the party.
text: We still claim a population of over 300,000 based on the new city directory, and that chief of the census who threw out umpteen thousand names on us this spring can’t put his name on our slipboard any more.
ref: 1911, O.E. Shannon, edited by J.W. Hays, The Typographical Journal, volume XXXVVIII, number 4, page 439:
text: Does it continue to make sense to have umpteen definitions of the practice of law, umpteen UPL prohibitions, umpteen UPL investigation and prosecution procedures, and umpteen UPL sanctions? The current crazy quilt of regulation in this area makes it difficult for anyone to know (including lawyers) what is and is not permitted in a particular jurisdiction.
ref: 2001, American Bar Association, Symposium Issue of The Professional Lawyer:
text: He tries, "The few, the proud, the umpteen," and Shane says, "Umpteen? Pray tell me, good sir, who is this umpteen of which you speak?" and Joseph says, "Umpteen Dumpteen sat on a wall," and they both break up laughing.
 "It's like a bunch, isn't it? 'Umpteen'?" This from Sean Lanham, whose small round skull has inspired Coach Dale to name him Peahead.
ref: 2014, Kevin Brockmeier, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade:
synonyms: umpty-ump
qualifier: often slightly derogatory
glosses: Relatively large but unspecified in number.
Derived terms: umpteenth
Johnny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒn.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑn.i/
rhymes: -ɒni
Etymology: From John + -y. In the sense of an Englishman, compare John Bull.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name John.
Derived terms: backstage Johnny
jingling Johnny
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Canuck
Johnny-come-lately
Johnny Crapaud
Johnny Grindle
Johnny Hop
Johnny Marzetti
Johnny on a pony
Johnny on the pony
Johnny Reb
little Johnny
Rum-Johnny
stage-door Johnny
stage Johnny
Related terms: word: Jenny
word: Jeanie
english: similar diminutives that derive from Jane, which derives from John
translation: similar diminutives that derive from Jane, which derives from John
word: Janie
Johnny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒn.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑn.i/
rhymes: -ɒni
Forms: form: Johnnys
form: Johnnies
Etymology: From John + -y. In the sense of an Englishman, compare John Bull.
Senses: glosses: A jack (playing card).
glosses: Ellipsis of Johnny Reb (“Confederate soldier in the American Civil War”).
glosses: An Englishman.
Pete
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: peat
Forms: form: Petes
Senses: examples: text: “Where’s Pete?” Pearce asked him. / “Pete?” Shortarse’s mouth stretched and slackened and stretched again. You couldn’t tell if he’d just stubbed his toe, or if he was about to burst into hysterical laughter. / “How many Petes you got working here?” / Shortarse shrugged. […] “Thompson,” Pearce said with his eyes closed. “Thompson,” he said again. He opened his eyes and stared. “I’d like to see Pete Thompson.”
ref: 2004, Allan Guthrie, “11:15 am”, in Two-Way Split, Holicong, Pa.: PointBlank, →ISBN, part 1, page 28:
text: According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.
ref: 2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Peter.
examples: text: Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs.
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A Peterbilt truck.
Derived terms: black Pete
for Pete's sake
Pete Tong
Petey
seven-toed Pete
sneaky Pete
Ted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: Shortened form of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus or Edmund.
Senses: examples: text: Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”
ref: 2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN:
glosses: A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund.
Synonyms: sense: male given name
word: Eddie
sense: male given name
word: Eddy
sense: male given name
word: Tedd
sense: male given name
word: Teddie
sense: male given name
word: Teddy
Ted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: Teds
Etymology: Shortened form of Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus or Edmund.
Senses: glosses: A Teddy boy.
potion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: potions
Etymology: From Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Doublet of poison.
Senses: examples: text: He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.
glosses: A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
Synonyms: word: lib
Derived terms: love potion
magic potion
passion potion
potional
potioner
potionmaker
potion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.ʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: potions
form: potioning
form: potioned
form: potioned
Etymology: From Middle English pocioun, borrowed from Old French pocion, from Latin pōtiō (“a drinking”), pōtiōnis, from pōtāre (“to drink”). Doublet of poison.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 49, page 561, column 1:
glosses: To drug (someone).
Microsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɔft/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɑft/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɑft/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
ipa: /ˈmɑekɹəˌsɔft/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
Etymology: A blend of microcomputer + software. See -soft.
Senses: synonyms: MS
MSFT
qualifier: trademark
glosses: Microsoft Corporation.
Derived terms: anti-Microsofter
GAFAM
M$
M$FT
MCP
MCSD
MCSE
MDAC
MDI
MFC
MIC
Mickeysoft
Micro$oft
Microhoo
Microshaft
Microsofter
Microsoftian
Microsoftie
Microsoftify
Microsoft minute
Microsoft tax
Microspeak
Microsuck
Micros~1
MOSS
MS
MSDN
MS-DOS
MSF
MSFT
MSI
MSIE
MSIL
MSN
MSNBC
MSRPC
MSS
MSU
Softie
Microsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɔft/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɑft/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɑft/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
ipa: /ˈmɑekɹəˌsɔft/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
Forms: form: Microsofts
Etymology: A blend of microcomputer + software. See -soft.
Senses: examples: text: After its phenomenal stock offering two weeks ago, Netscape Communications Corp. is well on its way to becoming the Microsoft of the Internet.
ref: 1995 August 21, Robert Metcalfe, “Microsoft and Netscape open some new fronts in escalating Web Wars”, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 34, page 35:
text: Similarly, said Fraley, farmers were going to demand Bt cotton or Roundup-resistant soybean plants no matter where they went shopping for seeds. Monsanto would be the Microsoft of agriculture.
ref: 2001, Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, →ISBN, page 110:
text: The company wanted to turn Celera into the Microsoft of the gene-hunting world, selling its version of the human genome to private or public gene hunters through a proprietary computer program.
ref: 2005, Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Shepherding is more or less gone (though there’s an interesting move back toward discipleship in today’s church especially among those influenced by Rick Warren’s blockbuster book The Purpose-Driven Life), but Integrity remains as sort of the Microsoft of worship music.
ref: 2006, Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: A company whose products are widespread.
Microsoft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɔft/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɔft/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɑft/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌsɑft/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
ipa: /ˈmɑekɹəˌsɔft/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌsɒft/
Forms: form: Microsofts
form: Microsofting
form: Microsofted
form: Microsofted
Etymology: A blend of microcomputer + software. See -soft.
Senses: glosses: To Microsoftify.
examples: text: You could call it the Microsofting of the wine industry. Of course, wine is unlikely to be dominated by one producer or one distributor.
ref: 2003, Wine Enthusiast, volume 16, numbers 2-8, page 122:
glosses: To render more like Microsoft with regards to business practices and tactics.
freaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: You're getting on my freaking nerves!
synonyms: effing
flaming
flipping
fricking
frigging
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Fucking.
examples: text: Thence home and visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better, there he told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad.
ref: 1665 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 4, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 318:
glosses: Freakish.
Derived terms: absofreakinglutely
fanfreakingtastic
freaking gosh
motherfreaking
freaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: You think you're so freaking smart, don't you?
text: He was so scared he freaking ran into a police station.
text: Suddenly his eyeballs are glazed with tears. “Mom, can you come get me,” he pleads. “Yeah, ’cause I freaking hate it here.[…]”
ref: 2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Fucking.
freaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freak
freaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːkɪŋ
Forms: form: freakings
Senses: examples: text: For the greater part of the time we were considerably above the sea, that took on a more vivid hue, more peacock freakings, for every yard we hung above it. Once in a way we got down to sea level, but only to mount again.
ref: 1926, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island, page 216:
text: […] so through every conceivable shade of red, lilac and purple to a vinous maroon of the deepest dye, with freakings and freckles and all manner of fantastic adornments.
ref: 1937, My Garden, volume 10, page 234:
glosses: A streak or variegation in a pattern.
glosses: A sexual style of dance similar to daggering.
magical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: more magical
form: most magical
form: magicall
form: magyckal
Etymology: From magic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: But the vulva is the magical wound that bleeds and heals itself every month, and because it bleeds in sympathy with the dark of the moon, the vulva is an expression not of physiology but of cosmology.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:
glosses: Of, relating to, or by means of magic.
examples: text: The fireworks created a magical atmosphere in that beautiful summer night.
text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: This latest album, Too Hot To Sleep, concentrates more on his "natural" voice, which is baritone. But on those tunes where he exercises that magical falsetto, I just found myself shaking my head and saying "My, my, my!"
ref: 1981 December 5, Julie Coles, “Sylvester: Too Hot”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 12:
glosses: Enchanting.
Derived terms: automagical
black magical
cacomagical
countermagical
hypermagical
magical feminism
magical girl
magicalize
magical Negro
magicalness
magical realism
magical realist
magical thinking
mathemagical
nonmagical
pyromagical
quasi-magical
semimagical
unmagical
magic § Derived terms
disturb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɜːb/
ipa: /dɪˈstɝb/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: disturbs
form: disturbing
form: disturbed
form: disturbed
Etymology: From Middle English destourben, from Anglo-Norman distourber and Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-, *(s)turH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).
Senses: examples: text: The noisy ventilation disturbed me during the exam.
text: The performance was disturbed twice by a ringing mobile phone.
text: A school of fish disturbed the water.
synonyms: word: perturb
english: thoughts
translation: thoughts
word: unsettle
word: agitate
word: freak
word: bother
word: bring down
word: discompose
word: disconcert
word: enturbulate
word: disturb
word: mortify
word: perturb
word: put out
word: ruffle
word: throw off balance
word: unsettle
word: upset
word: agitate
english: liquids
translation: liquids
word: muddle
word: roil
word: trouble
glosses: to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
examples: text: A mudslide disturbed the course of the river.
text: The trauma disturbed his mind.
text: disturb his inmost counsels from their destined aim
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
glosses: to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
Synonyms: upset
Derived terms: disturbability
disturbable
disturbance
disturbative
disturbed
disturber
disturbing
disturb the peace
do not disturb
redisturb
disturb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɜːb/
ipa: /dɪˈstɝb/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Etymology: From Middle English destourben, from Anglo-Norman distourber and Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-, *(s)turH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).
Senses: examples: text: Instant without disturb they took alarm
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: disturbance
puissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpwɪs(ə)nt/
ipa: /ˈpjuːɪs(ə)nt/
ipa: /ˈpjuəsənt/
ipa: /ˈpwɪsənt/
Forms: form: more puissant
form: most puissant
Etymology: From Middle English puissaunt, from Middle French puissant, poissant, Anglo-Norman puissant, Old French pussant, et al., present participle of pooir (“to be able”), ultimately from Latin posse (“be able”).
Senses: examples: text: Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, / And with your puissant arm renew their feats.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: For who can yet believe, though after loss,
That all these puissant legions, whose exile
Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I cried in a loud voice, "Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!"
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
text: How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 24, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: ‘O noble breast and all-puissant arms,
Am I the cause, I the poor cause that men
Reproach you, saying all your force is gone?
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: In fact the titles could be anything-or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all...
ref: 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC:
glosses: Powerful, mighty, having authority.
Related terms: puissance
honorificabilitudinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒnɒˌɹɪfɪkəˌbɪlɪtjuːˈdɪnɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˌɒnəˌɹɪfɪkəˌbɪlɪtjuːˈdɪnɪtɪ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin honōrificābilitūdinitās.
Senses: synonyms: word: honorificabilitudinitatibus
glosses: The quality of being honourable; honourableness.
Related terms: honorificabilitudinitatibus
pyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin pyreticus, from Ancient Greek πυρετικός (puretikós, “febrile”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: Caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever.
Related terms: antipyretic
alexipyretic
pyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: pyretics
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin pyreticus, from Ancient Greek πυρετικός (puretikós, “febrile”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: A remedy for fever.