cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
demure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dəˈmjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmjɵː(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmjʊɹ/
ipa: /dɪˈmjɔɹ/
ipa: /dəˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dəˈmjʉə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: demurer
form: demurest
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English demure, demwre, an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman de mure port (“with a mature demeanor”) (compare Old French meur from Latin mātūrus):
*si il seyt coy e de mure port (Amur curteiz) (“he sits quietly and with a mature appearance”)
* Documents illustrating the history of Scotland, CLV, 1306, Orders for the custody of Scottish prisoners, CLV: …et que eles soient de bon et meur port (“…with a good and mature demeanor”)
* mss. Arundel, 220: ke cely qe vus amerez soyt de gentil manere, coy, de meure porture (“with a mature demeanor”)
* (Monastic rule): de aunciene dame de meure porture ke pusse les plus ieuenes rieueler e endoctriner (“an old lady with a mature demeanor able to rule and educate the young girls”).
Senses: examples: text: She is a demure young lady.
text: Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
ref: 1881, William Black, The Beautiful Wretch:
text: I was coming back from the ladies' room when I saw her. She looked demure. Oval wire-rimmed glasses. A sky blue jacket buttoned over a long black-and-white flowered shirt.
ref: 2005, Maureen Dowd, Are Men Necessary?, →ISBN, page 311:
text: [H]owever hard she pushed the tough-talkin' shtick, she remained doe-eyed, glowing and somehow unassailably demure.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this …'”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: And in their daily lives, girls and women are pushed to conform to fairly narrow templates of behavior as demure or delicate.
ref: 2021 June 30, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “Expected to Be Demure, Japan’s Girls Face Steep Hurdles to Athletic Dreams”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: retiring
word: shy
word: sober
word: austere
word: frightful
word: demure
word: serious
word: grave
word: earnest
word: grievous
word: lack-laughter
word: thoughtful
word: sad
word: sage
word: saturnine
word: sedate
word: solemn
word: solemncholy
word: sober
word: somber
word: sombre
word: staid
word: stern
word: sweer
word: weightsome
word: weighty
glosses: Modest, quiet, reserved, or serious.
raw_tags: of a woman
examples: text: Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.
ref: c. 1824, Mary Russell Mitford, Walks in the Country:
synonyms: coy
glosses: Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
Derived terms: as demure as a whore at a christening
demurely
demureness
demurity
undemure
demure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dəˈmjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmjɵː(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈmjʊɹ/
ipa: /dɪˈmjɔɹ/
ipa: /dəˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dəˈmjʉə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: demures
form: demuring
form: demured
form: demured
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English demure, demwre, an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman de mure port (“with a mature demeanor”) (compare Old French meur from Latin mātūrus):
*si il seyt coy e de mure port (Amur curteiz) (“he sits quietly and with a mature appearance”)
* Documents illustrating the history of Scotland, CLV, 1306, Orders for the custody of Scottish prisoners, CLV: …et que eles soient de bon et meur port (“…with a good and mature demeanor”)
* mss. Arundel, 220: ke cely qe vus amerez soyt de gentil manere, coy, de meure porture (“with a mature demeanor”)
* (Monastic rule): de aunciene dame de meure porture ke pusse les plus ieuenes rieueler e endoctriner (“an old lady with a mature demeanor able to rule and educate the young girls”).
Senses: examples: text: Your Wife Octavia, with her modeſt eyes, / […] ſhall acquire no Honour / Demuring vpon me:
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xvi], page 363, column 2, line 30:
glosses: To look demurely.
encompass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/
ipa: /ən-/
ipa: /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/
ipa: /-ˈkɑmpəs/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɐmpəs/
ipa: /ənˈkɐmpəs/
Forms: form: encompasses
form: encompassing
form: encompassed
form: encompassed
form: incompass
Etymology: From Middle English encompassen. By surface analysis, en- + compass.
Senses: glosses: To form a circle around; to encircle.
examples: text: his piercing inſtruments of ſight:
Whose fiery circles beare encompaſſed
A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
text: Those trajectories encompassed absolute social extremes: the kings of France making their solemn entries into Paris through the Ludovician Arch of the Porte [...]
ref: 1994, Richard Mowery Andrews, Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, page 551:
text: In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent but encompassing structures of social activity.
ref: 2017, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael J. Lynch, Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime:
text: Beauty is complicated; it’s an individual response to how we live our lives – but it can also encompass kindness and compassion.
ref: 2020 March 6, Catherine Opie, “Catherine Opie: ‘Beauty has to encompass more about the human condition’”, in CNN:
text: In developing a new theme for this year’s rounds of Spooktober posts, we decided to look beyond the realm of strictly horror games to cover a topic that we hadn’t touched on before, one that encompasses games generally and allows for a little “outside the box” thinking. Our Spooktober theme this year is “The Horror that Surrounds.”
ref: 2024 October 3, CARY, “Spooktober: The Horror that Surrounds”, in VIRTUAL BASTION:
synonyms: embrace
glosses: To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
examples: text: This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs.
synonyms: word: comprehend
glosses: To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
examples: text: Drake encompassed the globe.
glosses: To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
Derived terms: all-encompassing
encompassable
encompasser
encompassingly
unencompassed
Related terms: encompassment
incite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn.sīt'
rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪnsajʈ/
homophone: insight
Forms: form: incites
form: inciting
form: incited
form: incited
Etymology: From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”).
Senses: examples: text: The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
text: incite people to violence
text: Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.
ref: 2018 October 15, Paul Mozur, “A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military”, in The New York Times:
text: Who and what exactly incited Amir?
ref: 2019 April 12, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times:
text: President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.
ref: 2020 January 9, Peter Baker, “Trump has a long history of language that incites and demonizes.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
Synonyms: word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
Hypernyms: word: enliven
Hyponyms: word: allure
word: enrage
word: thrill
Derived terms: incitee
incitingly
reincite
unincited
Related terms: excite
inciteful
incitement
incitive
ignite
instigate
lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæntən/
ipa: /ˈlɛən(t)ɚn/
Forms: form: lanterns
form: lanterning
form: lanterned
form: lanterned
form: lanthorn
Etymology: From Middle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-container”).
Senses: examples: to lantern a lighthouse
glosses: To furnish with a lantern.
lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæntən/
ipa: /ˈlɛən(t)ɚn/
Forms: form: lanthorn
Etymology: From Middle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-container”).
Senses: examples: text: A youngish looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 113:
glosses: Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.
Related terms: lamp
torch
minge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒ
Forms: form: minges
Etymology: From Angloromani mintš, from Romani minʒ (“female genitals”), probably from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior; the middle part of the body; loins, reins; waist; belly, abdomen; back”). Doublet of medius.
Alternative etymology: from the Latin mingere (“to urinate”), synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically).
Senses: examples: text: Last week, she ended up on a binge / She got off her tits and showed the bouncers her minge
ref: 2005, “Your Missus Is A Nutter”, performed by Goldie Lookin Chain:
text: Big Bird / Sesame / Big minge energy
ref: 2024, “Mugshot Freestyle”, performed by Pete & Bas:
synonyms: word: axe wound
word: badly packed kebab
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: burger
word: chocha
word: clam
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: coochy
word: cookie
word: coot
word: cooter
word: crack
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: gash
word: gee
word: girl penis
word: hair pie
word: ham sandwich
word: honey hole
word: it
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: ladybits
word: minge
word: minnie
word: moocha
word: mooshoo
word: mott
word: muff
word: muffin
word: na-na
word: nonny
word: nooky
word: noonie
word: old hat
word: pee flap
word: pee-pee
word: pink
word: poontang
word: prat
word: pudendum muliebre
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quaint
word: quiff
word: quim
word: roast beef
word: scut
word: slit
word: slot
word: snatch
word: treasures
word: tuppence
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vagina
word: vajay
word: va-jay-jay
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
word: bush
word: carpet
word: floss
word: fluff
word: forest
word: fur
word: fuzz
word: grass
word: growth
word: grove
word: lettuce
word: maidenhair
word: mound
word: muffin
word: nest
word: netherhair
word: pubes
word: rug
word: short and curlies
word: short hairs
word: shrubs
word: snatch
word: stuff
word: thatch
glosses: The pubic hair and vulva.
Derived terms: mingebag
minge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒ
Forms: form: minges
Etymology: Probably corrupted from midge.
Senses: examples: text: If troubled by black flies, mosquitoes, minges, or other insects, build a smudge in this way[…]
ref: 1883, Charles Alden John Farrar, Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes:
text: The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks. She waved at them but didn't slap. Slap at mosquitoes, but it's better just to wave at the little ones, her Mom had told her ...
ref: 1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:
glosses: Synonym of midge (“small biting fly”).
synonyms: word: midge
extra: small biting fly
minge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒ
Forms: form: minges
form: minging
form: minged
form: minged
Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix; mingle”). More at ming.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ming (“to mix”).
synonyms: word: ming
extra: to mix
TVE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TVEs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Township and Village Enterprises (鄉鎮企業 /乡镇企业).
-all
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: line + -all → lineall
text: base + -all → basall
text: cranium + -all → craniall
glosses: Obsolete spelling of -al.
McGuffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McGuffins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of MacGuffin.
Aldebaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /alˈdɛbəɹən/
Etymology: From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان (ad-dabarān, “the follower”), named so because it follows the Pleiades.
Senses: examples: text: The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.
ref: 2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, The Guardian:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth.
Derived terms: Aldebaranian
aldebaranium
spoof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: spo͞of
ipa: /spuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Etymology: Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.
Senses: examples: text: His most recent art project, 'Consuming Desire', explored men's relationship with pornography, using invisible art strategies (a spoof sex shop and a spoof porn CD-ROM), media interventions (TV/radio and press exposure), and therapeutic work with men addicted to pornography.
ref: 1998, “Notes on Contributors”, in George McKay, editor, DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 300:
text: Despite appearances, Hajime Furukawa's wacky I Don't Like Friday was never aimed at children, but ran as a spoof sex-education English course in Business Jump.
ref: 2004, Paul Gravett, “The All-encompassing: A Medium for Every Taste, Interest and Stage of Life”, in Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics, London: Laurence King Publishing; New York, N.Y.: Harper Design International, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Fake, hoax.
spoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spo͞of
ipa: /spuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
enpr: spo͝of
ipa: /spʊf/
rhymes: -ʊf
enpr: spo͞of
ipa: /spuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Holy-Jesus-fuckin’-Christ! I’m comin’! I’m shootin’ me bolt! I’m gonna fill ya twat with spoof!’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 141:
glosses: Semen.
Synonyms: sense: semen
word: spunk
sense: semen
word: spooge
sense: semen
word: cum
sense: semen
word: jizz
sense: semen
word: jizzum
sense: semen
word: jism
sense: semen
word: gism
sense: semen
word: nut
sense: semen
word: junk
word: semen
spoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spo͞of
ipa: /spuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
enpr: spo͝of
ipa: /spʊf/
rhymes: -ʊf
enpr: spo͞of
ipa: /spuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: spoofs
form: spoofing
form: spoofed
form: spoofed
Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.
ref: 2002, Annie Potts, “Innerspace”, in The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabulares of Heterosex, Hove, East Sussex; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (The Vocabularies of Heterosex), page 180:
glosses: To ejaculate, to come.
Synonyms: ejaculate
Derived terms: spoofy
sear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
ipa: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Forms: form: searer
form: more sear
form: searest
form: most sear
form: sere
form: sare
Etymology: From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h₂sews-).
Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian saũsas (“dry”), Ukrainian сухий (suxyj, “dry”), Polish suchy (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.
Senses: examples: text: There are in all but three vvayes of going thither [to the moon]. […] [The] third, Old Empedocles vvay; vvho vvhen he leaped into Ætna, having a drie ſeare bodie, and light, the ſmoake took him and vvhift him up into the Moone, vvhere he lives yet vvaving up and dovvne like a feather, all foot and embers comming out of that cole-pit; our Poet met him, and talkt vvith him.
ref: 1620 January 17 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Newes from the New World Discover’d in the Moon. A Masque, […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, →OCLC, page 42:
text: The autumn winds rushing / Waft the leaves that are searest, / But our flower was in flushing, / When blighting was nearest.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XVI, page 118:
glosses: Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
sear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
ipa: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Forms: form: sears
form: searing
form: seared
form: seared
form: sere
form: sare
Etymology: From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).
Senses: examples: text: He likes to sear his steaks while maintaining rareness at the center.
text: I will sear the skin from your flesh. You will die a thousand deaths!
ref: 2001, Ben Stivers, Wrath of Magic, page 123:
text: When you drop the tuna onto the pan, the outside will sear and cook quickly while leaving as much of the center as possible in its raw state.
ref: 2010, Jeff Potter, Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, page 180:
text: I often will sear steaks, move them to a cooler side, then use the hot side to grill or sauté vegetables, make a sauce in a cast-iron skillet, or grill some fruit for dessert while the steak finishes.
ref: 2016, Melissa Cookston, Smokin' Hot in the South, page 12:
glosses: To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
examples: text: The drought was so severe as to sear the grass and the leaves of maple trees which had grown well for two years, standing in sward land by the roadside, and yet the corn, within ten feet, on the subsoiled land, did not roll once in the whole season, even at mid-day, and there was scarcely another piece in the neighborhood which escaped serious injury.
ref: 1852 May, Henry F. French, “Some Remarks on Subsoil Plowing”, in The New England Farmer, volume 4, number 5, page 231:
text: The spring and summer of 1936 brought to the Great Plains one of those terrible periodic droughts that sear the crops and convert the “short-grass country” into a desert.
ref: 1971, Chapters From the American Experience, page 277:
text: The early morning sun had begun to sear the grass.
ref: 2014, Bernard N. Lee, Jr.; Michele Barand, A Look Back in Time, page 50:
text: She might just as easily have been a goddess of the harvest, since the ancient Greeks sowed in the fall and reaped in the spring before the dry heat of summer could sear the crops in the fields.
ref: 2018, Michael Furie, Peg Aloi, JD Hortwort, Llewellyn's 2019 Sabbats Almanac:
glosses: To wither; to dry up.
glosses: To make callous or insensible.
examples: text: The events of that day were seared into her memory.
glosses: To mark permanently, as if by burning.
Derived terms: reverse-sear
sear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
ipa: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Forms: form: sears
form: sere
form: sare
Etymology: From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).
Senses: glosses: A scar produced by searing
glosses: Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
Derived terms: auto sear
sear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
ipa: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Forms: form: sears
form: sere
form: sare
Etymology: Possibly from Old French serre (“claw, talon, grasp”)
Senses: glosses: Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
kiss-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from kiss up.
Senses: examples: text: Joe got that promotion because he was a kiss-up, not because he knew the job.
glosses: One who flatters a supervisor, or superior, in order to get special attention
Related terms: kiss up to
finching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its characteristic finching—the white streak that runs along the spine from neck to tail—that is so noticeable in cave paintings at Lascaux, is also still to be found occasionally, notably in the last surviving handful of Gloucestershire cattle on some farms on[...].
ref: 1967, Robert Trow-Smith, Life from the Land: The Growth of Farming in Western Europe, page 20:
text: The white face and finching which are the visual hallmarks of the modern Hereford were becoming established by the end of the eighteenth[...].
ref: 1983, Ralph Whitlock, English Farm, page 167:
glosses: A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings
examples: text: The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite.
ref: 2004, The Dutch Historical-Geographical Journal, magazine issue 22 https://web.archive.org/web/20050318204543/http://users.bart.nl/~leenders/hgt/22-1a.html
glosses: The sport of hunting of finches
glosses: the sport of competitive finch display
fat-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfætæs/
ipa: [ˈfæɾæs]
Forms: form: fat-asses
form: fatass
form: fatarse
form: fat-arse
Etymology: From fat + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: He is such a fat-ass he can barely put his feet together.
glosses: A rotund, overweight, or obese person.
examples: text: My boss is a fat-ass who doesn't know his job as well as I do.
text: Yes, your whole department is full of fat-asses.
glosses: A jibe used on someone disliked, frequently someone regarded as lazy.
pleb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: plebs
Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
Senses: glosses: A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
examples: text: You're under my roof, you pleb.
ref: 1795, John O'Keeffe, Life's Vagaries, act V, scene ii, line 85:
glosses: A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
examples: text: I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.
ref: 1838, Caroline H. Gilman, The Poetry of Travelling in the United States..., page 76:
text: At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.
ref: 1922, Dialect Notes, number 5, American Dialect Society, page 189:
glosses: A freshman cadet at a military academy.
Synonyms: prole
plebe
plebeian
Derived terms: Plebbit
plebby
Plebgate
Related terms: plebe
plebeian
plebs
pleb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
Senses: glosses: Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
glosses: Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
Jacky Howe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacky Howes
form: Jackie Howe
Etymology: After the gun shearer John Robert (“Jacky” or “Jackie”) Howe, who in 1890 set a long-standing world record by shearing 321 sheep in 7 hours 40 minutes. He is said to have worn a shirt with the sleeves cut off.
Senses: examples: text: Still, no one has ever thought before of associating a papaw with a “Jacky Howe,” or, say, fruit salad with a flannel shirt.
ref: 1941, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 56, page 171:
text: 1949, Ruth Park, Poor Man's Orange, in 2010, The Harp in the South Trilogy, Penguin, unnumbered page,
He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.
text: As the Jacky Howe was identified with the canecutter so too were the canvas sandshoes which were worn till the canvas rotted.
ref: 1990, Bianka Vidonya Balanzategui, Gentlemen of the Flashing Blade, page 28:
text: The coppers tell me that whenever they pull the old curmudgeon over — and he′s still driving a B-Model Mack well into his eighties — all he would ever be wearing was a Jacky Howe singlet* and a pair of jocks.
ref: 1996, David Foster, The Glade within the Grove, page 58:
text: Men in shorts and navy Jacky Howe singlets were building a causeway across the spill of swift, shallow water.
ref: 2002, Kerry McGinnis, Heart Country, unnumbered page:
text: Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked^([sic]) the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.
ref: 2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s, page 194:
glosses: A type of blue sleeveless shirt worn by sheep shearers and labourers.
Synonyms: singlet
wifebeater
transpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: transposes
form: transposing
form: transposed
form: transposed
Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).
Senses: glosses: To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: reduce
cancel
glosses: To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
topics: law
glosses: To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
raw_tags: of the European Union
examples: text: After e6, the opening transposed to a Sicilian.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
Synonyms: sense: reverse or change the order of
word: exchange
word: interchange
word: swap
word: swap over
word: swap round
word: switch
transpose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Created by transposing a specified matrix.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Created by transposing a specified graph.
Derived terms: transpose conjugate
transpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: transposes
Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: converse
reverse
glosses: A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
Derived terms: conjugate transpose
transposable
transposal
transposase
transposer
transposing
transposition
transposon
transpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
enpr: trănz'pōz
ipa: /ˈtɹænzpoʊz/
enpr: träns'pōz
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːnspəʊz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: transposes
Etymology: From the verb.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
juxtapose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌkstəpəʊz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌkstəpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: juxtaposes
form: juxtaposing
form: juxtaposed
form: juxtaposed
Etymology: Borrowed from French juxtaposer, corresponding to juxta- + pose, derived from Latin iuxtā (“near, next to”) + pōnō (“place”).
Senses: examples: text: The artist used contrasting colors to juxtapose light and dark.
text: The documentary effectively juxtaposes the lives of two rival politicians.
text: In the study, they juxtaposed economic growth with social welfare indicators.
glosses: To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
Derived terms: juxtaposable
Related terms: juxtaposition
elated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more elated
form: most elated
Etymology: Latin elatus (“raised”).
Senses: examples: text: She was elated with her new car.
glosses: Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.
Synonyms: ecstatic
euphoric
exultant
joyful
jubilant
overjoyed
giddy
Derived terms: word: elatedly
word: elatedness
word: unelated
Related terms: word: elation
elated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Etymology: Latin elatus (“raised”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elate
torment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mɛnt/
ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mənt/
ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: torments
Etymology: From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Senses: glosses: A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
glosses: Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
examples: text: He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
text: They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:24:
synonyms: word: misery
word: pain
word: wark
word: anguish
word: rend
word: difficulty
word: distress
word: grief
word: hardship
word: pain
word: smart
word: torment
word: torture
word: trouble
glosses: Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
Derived terms: tormentous
torment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mɛnt/
ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mənt/
ipa: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: torments
form: tormenting
form: tormented
form: tormented
Etymology: From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Senses: examples: text: The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
text: Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
ref: 2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: But the divine children were both noisy and mischievous. They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour.
ref: 1913, Lewis Spence, chapter V, in The Myths of Mexico and Peru:
synonyms: word: afflict
word: torture
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: plague
word: atray
word: cag
word: distress
word: engrieve
word: grame
word: harass
word: harrow
word: harry
word: torment
word: trouble
word: vex
word: rend
word: wring
glosses: To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
Derived terms: tormentor
brio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːoʊ/
rhymes: -iːoʊ
Etymology: From Italian brio (“finesse, talent”), from Spanish brío, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brīgos.
Senses: examples: text: He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio.
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Part II Chapter I:
text: And as if to undermine their authority still further, Welsh Philpott in his innocence has made the error of placing Rick beside the pulpit in the very spot from which in the past he has read us the day's lesson with such brio and persuasion.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Vigour or vivacity.
vivacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈvæsɪti/
Forms: form: vivacities
Etymology: From vivac(ious) + -ity, borrowed from Latin vīvācitās.
Senses: examples: text: But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business.
ref: 1612, Francis Bacon, “Of Youth and Age”, in Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral:
text: 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination,
We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea.
text: The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense when I was serious.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 1, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another? or, in other words, that she has a sound constitution; and why to damp innocent vivacity, is she darkly to be told, that men will draw conclusions which she little thinks of?
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 54:
text: Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth in a countenance singularly fitted to display both […]
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, chapter 5, in The Bride of Lammermoor:
text: […] an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child […]
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables:
glosses: The quality or state of being vivacious.
Synonyms: liveliness
vivaciousness
vex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĕks
ipa: /vɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: vexes
Etymology: From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Doublet of quake. Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman.
Senses: glosses: A trouble.
torturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torturers
Etymology: From torture + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature F3, recto:
text: My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 102:
text: The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
ref: 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
glosses: Someone who tortures.
viva
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: vē'və
ipa: /ˈviː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə
enpr: vē'və
ipa: /ˈviː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə
Forms: form: viva!
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva.
Senses: examples: text: The message has been mostly perverted from the moment of his death, but it hasn't been invalidated. So, viva Jesus of Nazareth and joy to the world!
ref: 1986 February 8, Emma Whitby, “Old Testament Claptrap?”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 5:
glosses: Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).
viva
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vivas
form: vivaing
form: vivaed
form: vivaed
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva.
Senses: examples: text: ...the people clapped and vivaed, groaned and hooted, as they were pleased or disappointed, until at length the intense excitement began to subside...
ref: 1841, Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas:
text: The next evening Paine went to the theatre. The state-box had been prepared for him. The house rose and vivaed as he entered.
ref: 1859, The Atlantic Monthly:
text: ...did you not hear how the beasts last night were cheering and vivaing those French heretics?
ref: 1857, George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco:
glosses: To cheer, applaud
viva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vī'və
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
enpr: vī'və
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
Forms: form: vivas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva.
Senses: examples: text: When the cibolero returned to the plain, he was received with a fresh burst of vivas, and kerchiefs were waved to greet him.
ref: 1855, Mayne Reid, The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico, page 89:
glosses: A shout of applause.
viva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vī'və
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
enpr: vī'və
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
enpr: vī'və
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
Forms: form: vivas
Etymology: Shortened from viva voce, Latin for “live voice”
Senses: glosses: An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.
viva
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vī'və
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
Forms: form: vivas
form: vivaing
form: vivaed
form: vivaed
Etymology: Shortened from viva voce, Latin for “live voice”
Senses: examples: text: I was vivaed by Charles Cannan, who was then a Fellow of Trinity...
ref: 1931, Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years:
text: Throughout his life, he took college responsibilities seriously, he came to All Souls whenever possible on weekends, he vivaed or interviewed candidates...
ref: 1972, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History:
text: My doctoral thesis was vivaed three years before the publication of the revised and expanded edition of Richard H. Popkin's work...
ref: 2009, Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms:
glosses: To subject to an examination of this kind.
Related terms: vis viva
dissolve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɒlv/
ipa: /dɪˈzɑlv/
ipa: /dɪˈzɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: dissolves
Etymology: Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve.
Senses: examples: text: While most of the film is done in medium and long shots (connected with dissolves and wipes which lend a lovely period effect)
ref: 1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
synonyms: fade out
glosses: a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next
Derived terms: lap dissolve
match dissolve
codec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codecs
Etymology: Blend of coder + decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.
Senses: examples: text: Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
examples: text: H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A media coding format.
introduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈdjuːs/
ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈdus/
Forms: form: introduces
form: introducing
form: introduced
form: introduced
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: introduce
form: introduce
form: introduced
form: introduce
form: introducest
form: introduced
form: introducedst
form: introduces
form: introduceth
form: introduced
form: introduce
form: introduced
form: introduce
form: introduced
form: introduce
form: -
form: introducing
form: introduced
form: interduce
Etymology: From Middle English introducen, from Old French introduire, from Latin intrōdūcō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and *dewk-.
Senses: examples: text: Let me introduce you to my friends.
text: His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
raw_tags: of people
examples: text: The senator plans to introduce the bill in the next session.
text: Let me introduce our guest speaker.
synonyms: give
glosses: To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
examples: text: Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.
glosses: To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
examples: text: Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.
text: First introduced in Letchworth Garden City in 1909, the roundabout[…]proved so popular in Britain that in the 1960s the Transport Research Laboratory developed a miniature version.
ref: 2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856:
glosses: To bring (something) into practice.
Synonyms: sense: make something or someone known
word: announce
Derived terms: cointroduce
e-troduce
introducee
introducement
introducible
misintroduce
reintroduce
re-introduce
shrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shrōv
ipa: /ʃɹəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: simple past of shrive
Derived terms: Shrove Monday
Shrove Sunday
Shrovetide
Shrove Tuesday