cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
twitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: twĭt'ər
ipa: /ˈtwɪtə/
other: [ˈtʰwɪtʰ.ə]
enpr: twĭt'ər
ipa: /ˈtwɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈtwɪt̬əɹ/
ipa: [ˈtʰwɪɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twitters
Etymology: From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).
Senses: examples: text: I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
glosses: The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
examples: text: Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
ref: 1986, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986, IEEE, page 145:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
glosses: A tremulous broken sound.
glosses: A slight trembling of the nerves.
glosses: Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
Derived terms: twitter-bone
twitter-boned
twitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: twĭt'ər
ipa: /ˈtwɪtə/
other: [ˈtʰwɪtʰ.ə]
enpr: twĭt'ər
ipa: /ˈtwɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈtwɪt̬əɹ/
ipa: [ˈtʰwɪɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twitters
form: twittering
form: twittered
form: twittered
Etymology: From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).
Senses: examples: text: The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, / The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
ref: 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
text: The swallows, which had been tempted here in great numbers on account of the quantity of insects to be found in proximity to the wood, and had established themselves in the barn and under the eaves, were gambolling, circling, and twittering fearlessly about in the sunshine.
ref: 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], translated by H. L. Brækstad, Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 278:
glosses: To utter a succession of chirps.
glosses: (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
examples: text: Oh, the young handsom wenches, how they twitter'd, / When they but saw me shake my ware, and sing too!
ref: c. 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subiect”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
glosses: To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
examples: text: I have repented of it many’s the good time and oft. And if he was so good to forgive me a word spoken in haste or so, it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me. He was a husband to me, he was; and if ever I did make use of an ill word or so in a passion, I never called him rascal […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To twit; to reproach or upbraid.
examples: text: In addition to listing specific earmarks he finds the most reprehensible, McCain said he has been twittering the “top ten” most egregious
ref: 2009 March 2, Michelle Levi, “McCain Criticizes Obama On The Senate Floor”, in CBS News, retrieved 02 Mar 2009:
synonyms: tweet
glosses: Alternative form of Twitter.
Derived terms: atwitter
twitterpated
twitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: twĭt'ər
ipa: /ˈtwɪtə/
other: [ˈtʰwɪtʰ.ə]
enpr: twĭt'ər
ipa: /ˈtwɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈtwɪt̬əɹ/
ipa: [ˈtʰwɪɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twitters
Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly related to twine, twist, and twirl.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.
attacca
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈtɑːkə/
/əˈtækə/
Etymology: From Italian attaccare (“to attach”).
Senses: examples: text: They played the remaining sections attacca.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Without any break between the current movement and the next movement of the work.
Derived terms: attacca subito
imminent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪnənt/
ipa: /ˈɪmənənt/
homophone: eminent
homophone: immanent (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: more imminent
form: most imminent
Etymology: From the present participle of Latin imminēre (“to overhang”), from mineō ("to project, overhang"), related to minae (English menace) and mons (English mount). Compare with eminent.
Senses: examples: text: To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion.
ref: 1927, Whitney v. California:
text: The Second World War was reaching fever pitch, with the entire Allied effort in top gear for the imminent invasion of Europe, while later that month buzz bombs would start falling on London.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
Synonyms: inevitable
immediate
impending
Derived terms: imminence
imminent abortion
imminently
imminentness
Related terms: eminent
prominent
Bronze Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bronze Age
form: bronze age
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the classical Ages of Man, associated with warfare.
Coordinate terms: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
word: Copper Age
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
word: Iron Age
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
word: Stone Age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Golden Age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: silver age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Heroic Age
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Iron Age
Derived terms: Bronze Age collapse
Late Bronze Age
Freiburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaɪ.bɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
Etymology: From German frei (“free”) + Burg (“fortification”).
Senses: synonyms: word: canton of Freiburg
word: Fribourg
english: the French name
translation: the French name
word: canton of Fribourg
glosses: A canton of Switzerland. (the German name)
synonyms: word: Fribourg
english: the French name
translation: the French name
glosses: The capital city of Fribourg canton, Switzerland. (the German name)
synonyms: word: Freiburg im Breisgau
english: the full name
translation: the full name
glosses: A German city in Baden-Württemberg located in the Black Forest. The population is around 200,000.
fæces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of faeces.
stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːl/
ipa: /stʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: stools
Etymology: From Latin stolo. See stolon.
Senses: examples: text: The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot becomes a perfect plant. The root which produces the young shoots for layering is called the stool. Stools are planted about six feet apart every way in a deep fresh soil. […] Stool. – The root of a tree which has been left in the ground, the produce of another tree, or shoot for saplings, underwood, &c.
ref: 1832, George Sinclair, Useful and Ornamental Planting: With an Index, London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, pages 27 and 91:
text: Soon after harvest, new shoots emerge from axillary buds on the stubble and give rise to the ratoon crop. Initially the young shoots are dependent upon the roots of the previous crop (stool roots) but these are replaced by new shoot roots […].
ref: 2005, Patrice Cadet with Vaughan W. Spaull, “Nematode Parasites of Sugarcane”, in Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, editors, Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxon.; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, →ISBN, page 646:
glosses: Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
stool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːl/
ipa: /stʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: stools
form: stooling
form: stooled
form: stooled
Etymology: From Latin stolo. See stolon.
Senses: examples: text: I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
ref: 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38:
text: The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.
ref: 1904, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, Annual Report, →OCLC, page 80:
text: In a field experiment planted in spring 1969, the red raspberry 'Glen Clova' was grown both in hedgerows and in stooled rows. Although spur blight (Didymella applanata) and cane botrytis (Botrytis cinerea) were more frequent on canes removed as thinnings from the hedgerows than on those removed from stooled plots, the differences were trivial.
ref: 1981, Horticultural Research, volume 21, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, →OCLC, page 149:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
armrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹmˌɹɛst/
Forms: form: armrests
form: arm rest
Etymology: From arm + rest.
Senses: examples: text: Each comes in a carrying case that keeps the devices together with their accessories: the miniplug cable for your music or DVD player, for example, and the adapters for quarter-inch phono jacks and dual-pronged airplane armrest jacks.
ref: 2007 June 14, David Pogue, “Headphones to Shut Out the World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Part of the seat of a chair that is designed to support the arm.
Related terms: backrest
bookrest
footrest
handrest
headrest
palmrest
armchair
footstool
headrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌɹɛst/
Forms: form: headrests
Etymology: From head + rest.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
ref: 2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in The New York Times:
text: He rose up to sit on Jared's headrest, facing the back of the van and me. Once he was balanced, his cuticles became the focus of his attention. “Where is everybody?” “Peeing. Getting snackage.” “What kind of snackage?” “Nougat, […]”
ref: 2015, Elle Casey, War of the Fae: Book 8 (Time Slipping), Elle Casey, →ISBN:
glosses: The part of a seat designed to support the sitter's head.
Hyponyms: head restraint
concertina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/
ipa: /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/
Forms: form: concertinas
Etymology: From concert + -ina.
Senses: examples: text: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
ref: 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
hypernyms: squeezebox
coordinate_terms: accordion
glosses: A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
glosses: Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
glosses: Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
glosses: A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
Derived terms: anglo concertina
concertina book
concertina frame
concertina wire
concertinist
concertina
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/
ipa: /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/
Forms: form: concertinas
form: concertinaing
form: concertinaed
form: concertinaed
Etymology: From concert + -ina.
Senses: examples: text: The car concertinaed into the wall.
text: Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
ref: 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii:
glosses: To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina.
examples: text: This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other.
ref: 2007, David W Cameron, 25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born, page 36:
glosses: To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds.
Related terms: accordion
bandoneon
KVCD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of K Video Compression Dynamics, a video codec.
allargando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more allargando
form: most allargando
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allargando, present participle of allargare (“to broaden”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Decreasing in tempo; getting slower.
tenuto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenutos
form: tenuti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tenuto.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a note or passage is to be held for the full time
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark
tenuto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tenuto
form: most tenuto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tenuto.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a sustained manner
tenuto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tenuto.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having this tempo mark.
raw_tags: of a passage
tremolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtrɛmələʊ/
ipa: /ˈtrɛməloʊ/
Forms: form: tremolos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tremolo, first-person present indicative of tremolare (“to shake, to tremble”). Origin: 1715-25.
Senses: examples: text: It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives.
ref: 1880, Felix Leopold Oswald, Summerland Sketches, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes. It can also be intended to mean a rapid and repetitive variation in pitch for the duration of a note. It is notated by a strong diagonal bar across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless notes).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A variation in the volume of a note or a chord, evoking a tremor or quiver.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The device in an organ that produces a tremolo effect.
Derived terms: tremolist
tremolo picking
remedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛmədi/
Forms: form: remedies
Etymology: From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
Senses: glosses: Something that corrects or counteracts.
topics: law
glosses: The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
examples: text: Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
text: 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
glosses: A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
glosses: The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Synonyms: sense: Scottish contexts
word: remeid
Derived terms: Bach flower remedy
builder's remedy
home remedy
judicial remedy
legal remedy
remediless
remedy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛmədi/
Forms: form: remedies
form: remedying
form: remedied
form: remedied
Etymology: From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
Senses: examples: text: Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 27:
glosses: To provide or serve as a remedy for.
Synonyms: redress
help
correct
cure
Related terms: remediable
remedial
somewhat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwɒt/
ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌt/
Forms: form: summat
Etymology: From some + what.
Senses: examples: text: The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
text: The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
text: The searing heat cooled somewhat as the sun set in the evening.
text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […] and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough
ref: 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC:
glosses: To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
examples: text: Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […]
ref: 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 309:
glosses: Very.
Related terms: slightly
somewhat
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwɒt/
ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌt/
Forms: form: summat
Etymology: From some + what.
Senses: examples: text: Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand,
 As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer
But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
text: Mr Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth certainly inhabit some human breasts […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Something.
somewhat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwɒt/
ipa: /ˈsʌmwʌt/
Forms: form: somewhats
form: summat
Etymology: From some + what.
Senses: examples: text: its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough
ref: 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC:
text: Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: To these ladies a man often recommends himself while he is commending another woman; and, while he is expressing ardour and generous sentiments for his mistress, they are considering what a charming lover this man would make to them, who can feel all this tenderness for an inferior degree of merit. Of this, strange as it may seem, I have seen many instances besides Mrs Fitzpatrick, to whom all this really happened, and who now began to feel a somewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 558”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
examples: text: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida
Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.
text: Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?
ref: 1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
resemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈzɛmbl̩]
ipa: /ɹɪˈzembəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈzembl̩]
ipa: /ɹəˈzembəl/
ipa: [ɹəˈzembl̩]
Forms: form: resembles
form: resembling
form: resembled
form: resembled
Etymology: From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble.
Senses: examples: text: The twins resemble each other.
text: We will resemble you in that.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b:
glosses: To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
examples: text: And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
examples: text: They can so well resemble mans speech.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To counterfeit; to imitate.
examples: text: And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,
And with the ſame proportion of Elements,
Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled,
Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]
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 vi:
text: they resemble themselves to the swans
ref: 1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion:
glosses: To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
Synonyms: word: mirror
word: duplicate
word: look like
word: resemble
word: smack of
Related terms: I resemble that remark
residence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/
Forms: form: residences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to reside + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: Johnson took up his residence in London.
ref: 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
glosses: A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
glosses: The place where a corporation is established.
examples: text: The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
ref: 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87
glosses: The state of living in a particular place or environment.
glosses: Accommodation for students at a university or college.
examples: text: But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then […] fights against his own majesty and kingship.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The place where anything rests permanently.
examples: text: Separation[…]is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Subsidence, as of a sediment
examples: text: waters of a muddy residence
ref: 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason:
glosses: That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of rezidentura.
synonyms: word: rezidentura
Derived terms: hall of residence
primary residence
residence hall
residence permit
residence time
take up residence
Related terms: reside
residency
resident
residential
homestead
messuage
mease
subordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-bôʹdĭ-nət
ipa: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/
enpr: sə-bôrʹdĭ-nət
ipa: /səˈbɔɹdɪnət/
ipa: /səˈboːdɪnət/
Forms: form: more subordinate
form: most subordinate
Etymology: From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).
Senses: examples: text: The several kinds […] and subordinate species of each are easily known.
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
synonyms: lesser
subaltern
petty
antonyms: superior
superordinate
glosses: Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
examples: November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.
antonyms: insubordinate
glosses: Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
examples: text: In the sentence “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: dependent
antonyms: independent
main
glosses: dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
raw_tags: of a clause
glosses: Descending in a regular series.
Derived terms: subordinate clause
subordinate court
subordinate legislation
subordinate trait
subordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-bôʹdĭ-nət
ipa: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/
enpr: sə-bôrʹdĭ-nət
ipa: /səˈbɔɹdɪnət/
ipa: /səˈboːdɪnət/
Forms: form: subordinates
Etymology: From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).
Senses: synonyms: inferior
junior
report
subaltern#Noun
underling
understrapper
antonyms: boss
commander
leader
manager
superior#Noun
superordinate#Noun
supervisor
glosses: One who is subordinate.
antonyms: hypernym
hyperonym
superordinate#Noun
glosses: A hyponym.
subordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-bôʹdĭ-nət
ipa: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/
enpr: sə-bôrʹdĭ-nət
ipa: /səˈbɔɹdɪnət/
ipa: /səˈboːdɪnət/
enpr: sə-bôʹdĭ-nāt
ipa: /səˈbɔːdɪneɪt/
enpr: sə-bôrʹdĭ-nāt
ipa: /səˈbɔɹdɪneɪt/
ipa: /səˈboːdɪnæɪt/
Forms: form: subordinates
form: subordinating
form: subordinated
form: subordinated
Etymology: From Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, from sub- + ōrdināre (“to order”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make subservient or secondary.
To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one.
hypernyms: complementize
coordinate_terms: coordinate#Verb
topics: business
finance
glosses: To make subservient or secondary.
To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
synonyms: belittle
denigrate
glosses: To treat (someone) as of less value or importance.
Related terms: inferior
subservient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subservient
form: most subservient
Etymology: From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“I serve under”).
Senses: glosses: Useful in an inferior capacity.
examples: text: Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
glosses: Obsequiously submissive.
Related terms: obedient
subordinate
duplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate.
Senses: examples: text: This is a duplicate entry.
glosses: Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.
examples: text: duplicate whist
text: duplicate Scrabble
topics: games
glosses: In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.
duplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: duplicates
form: duplicating
form: duplicated
form: duplicated
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate.
Senses: examples: text: If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
text: Can you duplicate this kind of key?
glosses: To make a copy of.
examples: text: You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
glosses: To do repeatedly; to do again.
examples: text: He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.
glosses: To produce something equal to.
Synonyms: sense: to make a copy of
word: double
word: dupe
word: duplicate
word: facsimilize
Hypernyms: word: copy
Related terms: repeat
duplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/
Forms: form: duplicates
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō, see -ate.
Senses: examples: text: This is a duplicate, but a very good replica.
text: July 20, 1678, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer
I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
glosses: One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
topics: law
glosses: An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
examples: text: "Sir, I hope you will excuse what I am going to say; but having observed that you frequently pledge similar goods to these at our shop, which are afterwards taken out by other persons, I take for granted you are in the habit of selling the duplicates;[…]"
ref: 1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Vol. II, Chapter VI, p. 207:
synonyms: word: tombstone
glosses: A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
examples: text: The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships[…]
ref: 1999, Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table, page 6:
glosses: The game of duplicate bridge.
glosses: The game of duplicate Scrabble.
examples: text: Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.
ref: 2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer, An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status, Koninklijke Brill, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
Synonyms: reproduction
Derived terms: sense: all parts of speech
word: conduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: deduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: duplicatable
sense: all parts of speech
word: duplication
sense: all parts of speech
word: duplicative
sense: all parts of speech
word: duplicator
sense: all parts of speech
word: duplitecture
sense: all parts of speech
word: endoduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: in duplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: microduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: misduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: nonduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: nonduplicated
sense: all parts of speech
word: nonduplicating
sense: all parts of speech
word: overduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: overduplicated
sense: all parts of speech
word: photoduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: photoduplicated
sense: all parts of speech
word: preduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: retroduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: sesquiduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: subduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: unduplicate
sense: all parts of speech
word: unduplicated
toponymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈpɒ.nɪˌmi/
Forms: form: toponymies
form: toponomy
Etymology: From topo- + -onymy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
synonyms: toponomastics
hypernyms: onomastics
coordinate_terms: anthroponymy
glosses: Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The nomenclature of anatomical regions.
Derived terms: microtoponymy
neotoponymy
toponym
toponymic
toponymist
head butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head butts
form: head-butt
form: headbutt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of headbutt.
head butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: head butts
form: head butting
form: head butted
form: head butted
form: head-butt
form: headbutt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of headbutt.
two-stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This motorbike has a two-stroke engine.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: two-cycle
glosses: Of or relating to a design of internal combustion engine, the working cycle of which is completed during two strokes of the piston.
Derived terms: two-stroke engine
Related terms: four-stroke
two-stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-strokes
Senses: glosses: A two-stroke engine.
glosses: A vehicle or machine powered by a two-stroke engine.
glosses: The fuel used in a two-stroke engine.
glosses: Coca-Cola.
onomastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪks/
ipa: /ˌɑː.noʊˈmæs.tɪks/
ipa: /ˌɑː.nəˈmæs.tɪks/
Etymology: 1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name).
Senses: examples: text: Her father had long been a student of onomastics, and loved to unpack the names of people they encountered as children.
ref: 2024, Susie Dent, Guilty By Definition, Zaffre, page 65:
text: From the point of view of onomastics, proper names fulfill many functions (individualizing, localizing, differentiating etc.).
ref: (Can we date this quote?), David Vaculík, “Parts of the city of Ostrava – The past and current state of urbanonymy”, in Masaryk University Brno, page 405:
synonyms: onomatology
hypernyms: word: lexicology
word: etymology
english: in sense of “origins”
translation: in sense of “origins”
glosses: The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.
Derived terms: anthroponomastics
coronomastics
psychoonomastics
socio-onomastics
toponomastics
Related terms: onomastic
onomastically
onomastician
onomasticon
etymology
nomenclature
nomenclaturist
butterface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.təˌfeɪs/
ipa: /ˈbʌ.təɹˌfeɪs/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)feɪs
Forms: form: butterfaces
form: butter face
Etymology: Ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her face, great body but her face, among other phrases, under the influence of butter (perhaps also with connotation of “plainness”, grease, etc.) and buttface. Compare summerteeth.
Senses: examples: text: I can’t even look at her, she’s such a butterface.
text: Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...
ref: 2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 76:
synonyms: word: biffer
word: boner-shrinker
word: bonerkiller
word: buttface
word: choad
word: frump
word: minger
word: monkey
word: monkeyface
word: munter
word: pukeface
word: schlub
word: stinka
word: troll
word: trollface
word: uggo
word: ugly duckling
word: toad
word: battle-ax
word: beldame
word: boot
word: brown-bagger
word: cunt
word: dog
word: gorgon
word: hag
word: harridan
word: moose
word: munter
word: skag
word: skank
word: Sybil
word: two-bagger
word: whore
antonyms: butterbody
coordinate_terms: brown bag
paper bag
mugly
glosses: A person who has an attractive body but an unattractive face.
examples: text: I can’t even look at her, she’s got such a butterface.
text: Her friend had a hot figure and a butterface — great body, but her face — and they were talking about Greyhound's most recent dating fiasco.
ref: 2004, Amy Sohn, “The need to know and the fear of knowing”, in My Old Man, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: An unattractive face.
Derived terms: butterfaced
butters
Related terms: you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
doctoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɒktɹəl/
ipa: /ˌdɒkˈtɔɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɑktəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɑktɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɔktəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɔktɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɒktəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈdɒktɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔɹəl
Etymology: From doctor + -al, probably modelled on Latin doctorālis.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a doctorate.
examples: text: We have no need of doctorall consultations or collegian interpretations. Our senses tell us where it is and what it is.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician.
Hyponyms: postdoctoral
Derived terms: doctoral advisor
doctorally
doctoral thesis
nondoctoral
predoctoral
Related terms: doctor
Doctor
doctorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏkʹtər-ĭt
ipa: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/
enpr: dŏkʹtər-ət
ipa: /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/
ipa: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/
Forms: form: doctorates
Etymology: From Latin doctōrātus.
Senses: glosses: The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
Derived terms: honorary doctorate
postdoctorate
predoctorate
Related terms: doctor
Doctor
doctoral
doctorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏkʹtər-ĭt
ipa: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹɪt/
enpr: dŏkʹtər-ət
ipa: /ˈdɑk.tɚ.ət/
ipa: /ˈdɒk.tə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɑk.tɚ.eɪt/
Forms: form: doctorates
form: doctorating
form: doctorated
form: doctorated
Etymology: From Latin doctōrātus.
Senses: examples: text: He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
text: Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.
ref: 1886, Simon Somerville Laurie, Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities:
glosses: To make (someone) into a doctor.
colonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵˈlon(ɪ)jəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔlɵnɪjəl/
rhymes: -əʊniəl
Forms: form: more colonial
form: most colonial
Etymology: From colony + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a colony.
examples: text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 52:
text: India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
ref: 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
glosses: Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
glosses: Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
Derived terms: allocolonial
anticolonial
autocolonial
biocolonial
colonial bent
colonial blue
colonial empire
colonial goose
colonialise
colonialism
colonialist
colonialistic
colonialistically
coloniality
colonialization
colonialize
colonial lag
colonially
colonialness
colonial salmon
concolonial
countercolonial
cybercolonial
decolonial
Eurocolonial
French colonial empire
heterocolonial
homocolonial
intercolonial
intracolonial
microcolonial
multicolonial
neocolonial
noncolonial
paracolonial
postcolonial
precolonial
pseudocolonial
retro-colonial
semicolonial
subcolonial
supercolonial
transcolonial
uncolonial
unicolonial