cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
preterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛtəɹɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈpɹɛtəɹət/
Forms: form: preterites
form: preterit
form: praeterite
form: præterite
form: pret.
Etymology: From Middle English preterit, from Old French preterit (13th century), from Latin praeteritum (as in tempus praeteritum (“time past”)), the past participle of praetereō (“I go by, go past”), itself from praeter (“beyond, before, above, more than”) (comparative of prae (“before”)) + itum (the past participle of eō (“I go”)).
Senses: examples: text: When simple verbs redouble the preterite, the compounds drop the first syllable, as: Pello, pĕpŭli, to drive away, to beat back; Repello, rĕpŭli, and not rĕpĕpŭli, to drive back, to repel.
ref: 1772, John Mair, A Radical Vocabulary, Latin and English, Edinburgh: A. Murray, and J. Cochran, for A. Kincaid & W. Creech, and J. Bell, →OCLC, page 101:
text: Nevertheless, a small amount of variation still exists in one area of standard English verbal morphology: the preterite and past participle forms of certain irregular verbs.
ref: 1994, Dieter Stein, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Towards a Standard English: 1600-1800, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.
Related terms: preterition
preteritive
preterite tense
G-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-men
Etymology: Probably abbreviated from government man.
Senses: glosses: A US government agent fighting organized crime in the interwar years.
glosses: Any person working for the US government, especially in undercover work.
traditional art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditional arts
Senses: glosses: Art that is a part of the culture of a group of people, skills and knowledge of which are passed down through generations from master craftsmen to apprentices.
coordinate_terms: digital art
glosses: Art produced with real physical media, as opposed to digital art.
Gila monster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːlə ˈmɒnstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhilə ˈmɑnstɚ/
rhymes: -ɒnstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Gila monsters
Etymology: From the Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico, whose name may ultimately derive from
a Yuma word meaning "running water which is salty".
Senses: glosses: A venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, that lives in the deserts of the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico.
chaotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪˈɒtɪk/
ipa: /keɪˈɑtɪk/
ipa: [keɪˈɑɾɪk]
ipa: /kæɪˈɔtɪk/
ipa: [kæɪˈɔɾɪk]
ipa: /kæɪˈɒtək/
ipa: [kæɪˈɔ̟ɾək]
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: chaotics
Etymology: From Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as chaos + -otic. Doublet of gassy.
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A character having a chaotic alignment.
dumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖəm(b)/
Forms: form: dumbs
form: dumbing
form: dumbed
form: dumbed
Etymology: From Middle English dumben, from Old English *dumbian (found in the compound ādumbian (“to become mute or dumb; keep silence; hold one’s peace”)), from Proto-Germanic *dumbijaną, *dumbōną (“to be silent, become dumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with German verdummen (“to become dumb”).
Senses: examples: text: […] what I would have spoke
Was beastly dumbed by him.
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 I, scene v]:
text: The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.
ref: 1911, Lindsay Swift, William Lloyd Garrison, page 272:
glosses: To silence.
examples: text: I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.
ref: 2003, Angela Calabrese Barton, Teaching Science for Social Justice, page 124:
glosses: To make stupid.
examples: text: Bad-mouthing Neanderthals […] is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize. […] I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception.
ref: 2004, Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa, page 107:
glosses: To represent as stupid.
examples: text: The ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar—amid protests that this was dumbing the test down—so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail.
ref: 2002, Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing, page 126:
glosses: To reduce the intellectual demands of.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: bedumb
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dumb blonde
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dumb down
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dumbness
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dumbocracy
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dumb-show
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dumb terminal
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: dummy
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or verb "dumb"
word: play dumb
dumb
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖəm(b)/
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: "What, you don't like your food?" Russo asks. ¶ "Are you kidding? It's dumb good."
ref: 2017, Don Winslow, The Force, London: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Yo this shit is crazy how these females are making these doctors rich. My baby moms Miracle is getting surgery in a week or so. She's flying out to Colombia. That shit really baffles me as far as she's concerned, because Miracle is already dumb thick. I'm like damn ma, how big do you want your ass to be?
ref: 2019, Natisha Raynor, She Made a Savage Change His Ways 2, Atlanta, G.A.: Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 4:
synonyms: word: type
word: mad
word: hella
word: wicked
word: odee
word: bare
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Very, extremely.
Derived terms: dumb hard
dummy
dumb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖəm(b)/
Forms: form: more dumb
form: most dumb
Etymology: A minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: Pap came to stand beside her and watched the two play. "That pup has just plum' fell in love with our Sammy, an' Sam's real took by him," Pap said. "It's a dumb shame, too. I talked to Jim, but he's not of a mind to sell."
ref: 2002, Glenna Whiteaker Wilding, Tales of a Ridgerunner: The Adventures of a Young Family Growing Up in the East Tennessee Mountains, 1890s - 1920s, Prospect, K.Y.: Harmony House Publishers, →ISBN, page 95:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: An intensifier expressing contempt; damn, damned.
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
Etymology: Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”).
Senses: examples: text: the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
text: The ship was driving rapidly towards the rocky coast, against which she must have been dashed to pieces had she kept afloat a few minutes longer, but she gave a lurch and went down, rose again for an instant, and with another lurch sank, and all was over,—and there were nearly two hundred and fifty human beings struggling with the waves.
ref: 1850, William O. S. Gilly, “The Tribune”, in Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy […] , London: John W. Parker:
text: Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: A sudden or unsteady movement.
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
form: lurching
form: lurched
form: lurched
Etymology: Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”).
Senses: examples: text: It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Strike the Jolly Roger”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: The incident made it think, apparently, that the neighborhood was dangerous, for it slowly lurched off through the wood, followed by its mate and its three enormous infants.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Number One lurched forward, his arms outstretched toward the horror stricken girl.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in The Monster Men, published 1929:
text: He was looking for trouble. He lurched against a table at which three soldiers were sitting and knocked over a glass of beer.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Derived terms: lurcher
lurchingly
lurchy
Related terms: leave someone in the lurch
left in the lurch
Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
form: lurching
form: lurched
form: lurched
Etymology: From Middle English *lurchen (recorded only in Middle English lurcare, lurcard (“glutton”)), from Old French *lurcher, from Latin lurcō (“eat greedily, guzzle”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle High German slurken (“to slurp”) (whence German schlurken).
Senses: examples: text: Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
form: lurching
form: lurched
form: lurched
form: lorch
Etymology: From Middle English lorchen, variant of Middle English lurken (“to lurk”). More at lurk.
Senses: glosses: To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
glosses: To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
examples: text: And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To rob.
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
form: lorch
Etymology: From Middle English lorchen, variant of Middle English lurken (“to lurk”). More at lurk.
Senses: glosses: A lift or heave.
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
Etymology: From Middle English *lurche (implied in derivative lurching), from Old French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.
Senses: examples: text: to leave someone in the lurch
glosses: A predicament or difficult situation.
glosses: An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
examples: August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
glosses: A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
lurch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜːt͡ʃ/
enpr: lûrch
ipa: /lɜɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: lurches
form: lurching
form: lurched
form: lurched
Etymology: From Middle English *lurche (implied in derivative lurching), from Old French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.
Senses: glosses: To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
examples: text: Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
minimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ə.məl/
Forms: form: more minimal
form: most minimal
form: min.
Etymology: From minimum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: With minimal effort, you won't be able to achieve all your dreams.
synonyms: minimum
antonyms: maximal
glosses: The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
examples: text: With respect to the ordering induced by set-theoretic inclusion, the power set of the set of natural numbers has a unique minimal element: the empty set.
topics: engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technical
synonyms: minimum
antonyms: maximal
glosses: The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
Among elements of some collection, such that no other element is greater (with respect to some given partial order).
topics: art
arts
glosses: Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
Derived terms: minimal brain dysfunction
minimal change disease
minimal ideal
minimalisation
minimalism
minimalist
minimality
minimalization
minimalize
minimally
minimal medium
minimalness
minimal pair
minimal polynomial
minimal prime
minimal recursion semantics
minimal state
minimal surface
minimal viable product
minimal wave
near-minimal pair
nonminimal
non-minimal
postminimal
quasiminimal
subminimal
ultraminimal
minimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ə.məl/
Forms: form: minimals
form: min.
Etymology: From minimum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] we seek in explaining mental phenomena and behavior always the "minimals," the little fragments of association, on which the mind is (passively) supposed to be based.
ref: 1994, David Holbrook, Creativity and Popular Culture, page 37:
text: […] identifications with birds, fish, trees, and flowers (and occasionally as relief, with the stillness of rocks, clam shells, driftwood, and nature's minimals); […]
ref: 1987, J. Golden Taylor, Western Literature Association (U.S.), A Literary History of the American West (page 451)
glosses: Something very small; a tiny part or fragment.
emotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/
ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/
ipa: /iˈmoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: more emotional
form: most emotional
Etymology: From emotion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: emotional crisis
text: emotional lift
text: One of the biggest shifts is that much of the conversation about emotional labor has left its original sphere of the workplace and moved to the home.
ref: 2018 November 26, Julie Beck, “The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2019:
synonyms: temperamental
glosses: Of or relating to the emotions.
synonyms: sentimental
glosses: Characterized by emotion.
examples: text: emotional decision
text: The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
synonyms: sentimental
glosses: Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.
examples: text: emotional speech
synonyms: word: poignant
word: touching
word: affecting
word: striking
word: eloquent
word: emotional
word: persuasive
word: poignant
word: stunning
word: touching
word: expressive
word: heartbreaking
word: meaningful
word: heartrending
word: significant
word: emotive
word: gripping
word: disturbing
word: upsetting
word: dramatic
word: arousing
word: soul stirring
glosses: Appealing to or arousing emotion.
examples: text: She’s an emotional person.
synonyms: passionate
perfervid
glosses: Easily affected by emotion.
examples: text: emotional greeting
synonyms: demonstrative
effusive
glosses: Readily displaying emotion.
examples: text: She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother.
text: I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.
synonyms: overwhelmed
moved
overcome
glosses: Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.
Derived terms: word: antiemotional
word: emocore
word: emosh
word: emotional affair
word: emotional age
word: emotional blackmail
word: emotional competence
word: emotional cripple
word: emotional eating
word: emotional hardcore
word: emotional incontinence
word: emotional intelligence
english: also emotionalize
translation: also emotionalize
word: emotionalise
word: emotionalism
word: emotionalist
word: emotionalistic
word: emotionality
word: emotionalization
word: emotional lability
word: emotional labor
word: emotional labour
word: emotionally
word: emotionalness
word: emotional pivot
word: emotional reasoning
word: emotional support animal
word: emotional tampon
word: hyperemotional
word: hypoemotional
word: metaemotional
word: neuroemotional
word: nonemotional
word: overemotional
word: pseudoemotional
word: psychoemotional
word: socioemotional
word: superemotional
word: tired and emotional
word: underemotional
word: unemotional
emotional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃənəl/
ipa: /ɪˈməʊʃnəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊʃnəl/
ipa: /iˈmoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: emotionals
Etymology: From emotion + -al.
Senses: glosses: An emotional person
peroneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛː.ɹəˈniː.əl/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.oʊˈniː.əl/
ipa: /pəˈɹoʊ.ni.əl/
rhymes: -iːəl
Forms: form: more peroneal
form: most peroneal
Etymology: From perona or peroneus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 526:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the fibula or to the part of the leg containing it, the outside (lateral aspect) of the lower leg (that is, what anatomical terminology calls the leg, from knee to foot).
wikipedia: stress and vowel reduction in English
Synonyms: fibular
Derived terms: humeroperoneal
peroneal artery
peroneal nerve
peroneal vein
scapuloperoneal
tibioperoneal
sith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēth
ipa: /siːθ/
rhymes: -iːθ
Forms: form: siths
form: sithe
Etymology: From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head”). Cognate with Faroese sinn (“time”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs, “path, movement”), Icelandic sinn (“time”). See also send.
Senses: examples: text: The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe
ref: 15th c., “Thomas Indie [Thomas of India]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 340, line 85:
synonyms: word: trip
word: fare
word: journey
word: sith
word: trip
glosses: A journey, way.
examples: text: Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering.
glosses: One's journey of life, experience, one's lot, also by extension life, lifetime.
examples: text: Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning.
ref: a. 1450, Secretum Secretorum in Ashmole:
text: The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous blith, / As if the word so spoken, were halfe donne, / And humbly thanked him a thousand sith, / That had from death to life him newly wonne.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 3, canto X, stanza 33:
text: His land mortgag'd, he, sea-beat in the way, / Wishes for home a thousand siths a day.
ref: 1598, Joseph Hall, Quid placet ergo?, line 79:
synonyms: word: juncture
word: time
word: instant
word: juncture
word: minute
word: moment
word: occasion
word: point in time
word: sith
word: time
glosses: An instant in time, a point in time or an occasion.
sith
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: sēth
ipa: /siːθ/
rhymes: -iːθ
enpr: sĭth
ipa: /sɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
enpr: sēth
ipa: /siːθ/
rhymes: -iːθ
Forms: form: sithe
Etymology: Clipping of sithen; compare German seit (“since”).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore we need not fear them, sith Christ is with us; […]
ref: 1552, Hugh Latimer, “The Third Sermon, Preached on the Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity, 1552, by Master Hugh Latimer.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume II, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 161:
text: Welcome deere Roſencraus, and Guyldensterne, / Moreouer, that we much did long to ſee you, / The need we haue to vſe you did prouoke / Our haſtie ſending, ſomething haue you heard / Of Hamlets transformation, ſo call it, / Sith nor th'exterior, nor the inward man / Reſembles that it was, what it ſhould be, / More then his fathers death, that thus hath put him / So much from th'vnderſtanding of himſelfe / I cannot dreame of: […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signature E2, verso:
text: I had almost askt-⁠-⁠-qui gurges, aut quis tartarus hoc ſcelus-⁠-eſt auſus attrectare? ſith in ſo many thouſãds of years from the fal of the reprobate and faithleſſe angels it neuer came into the head of anie deuil to ſuggeſt to the hart of any mã before this time ſo nefarious, flagitius, portentuous a wickedneſſe, as this was?
ref: 1607 November 5, John Kinge, A Sermon Preached in Oxford: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Ioseph Barnes, page 23:
text: Therefoꝛe, as I liue, ſaith the Loꝛd GOD, I will pꝛepare thee vnto blood, and blood ſhall purſue thee: ſith thou haſt not hated blood, euen blood ſhall purſue thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 35:6, signature Bbbb3, verso, columns 1–2:
related: word: sithe
word: sithen
word: sithence
word: sithens
word: syth
word: sythe
synonyms: word: as
word: because
word: seeing that
word: as
word: as long as
word: because
word: being
word: being as
word: being that
word: due to the fact that
word: for
word: for that
word: forasmuch as
word: forthy
word: forwhy
word: given that
word: in regard
word: in that
word: inasmuch as
word: now that
word: on account of
word: seeing that
word: since
word: sith
word: sithence
word: when
word: ∵
glosses: Archaic form of since.
philalethia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φιλαλήθεια (philalḗtheia, “sincerity”), from φιλία (philía, “love”) + ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”).
Senses: glosses: The love of truth.
cottage cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage cheeses
Etymology: First known use is from 1831 in the periodical Godey's Lady's Book. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: quark, mató, ricotta, tvorog
synonyms: word: curd cheese
word: curds and whey
word: Dutch cheese
word: smearcase
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: ;
word: pot cheese
word: farmer cheese
glosses: A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.
wikipedia: Godey's Lady's Book
Derived terms: cottage cheese ass
pestilent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛstələnt/
ipa: /ˈpɛstɪlənt/
ipa: /ˈpɛstlənt/
Forms: form: more pestilent
form: most pestilent
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis.
Senses: glosses: Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
glosses: Annoying.
glosses: Harmful to morals or public order.
Synonyms: sense: harboring disease, annoying
word: pestiferous
Derived terms: pestilence
pestilently
Related terms: pest
pestiferous
pestilential
follow up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows up
form: following up
form: followed up
form: followed up
Senses: examples: text: Send a letter, then follow up promptly with a telephone call.
text: With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2012:
text: The US Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Eli Lilly subsidiaries funnelled millions of dollars to government employees in other countries to secure business and did little to follow up on red flags.
ref: 2012, Alan Rappeport, Financial Times, Eli Lilly settles bribery charges:
text: At the center of it all was Hu Shuo-Chieh, a decorated Taiwanese superstar who soon followed up his standout moment (his team would fall short in the finals) with an even more surprising move. In November, Mr. Hu, known in gaming as SwordArt, announced that he was leaving his base in China, […]
ref: 2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2021:
glosses: To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.
Synonyms: word: chase up
word: get back to
word: revert
Derived terms: word: follow-up
word: followup
Related terms: word: follow on
word: follow through
word: close the loop
word: through
sandwich board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich boards
form: sandwichboard
Etymology: From sandwich + board; when worn, the two sides of the sign “sandwich” the wearer between them.
Senses: examples: text: Towards the end of August, the Southern Railway decided to adopt a novel form of publicity to popularise the services. Sandwich board men were employed at Charing Cross and Cannon Street to display placards, and distribute leaflet timetables, calling attention to the vacant seats on the services via Nunhead.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:
synonyms: A board
glosses: A person-sized, wearable billboard or advertisement consisting of two printed boards strung together so that they hang over the shoulders, or simply set out on a street.
Related terms: sandwichman
sandwich board
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sandwich boards
form: sandwich boarding
form: sandwich boarded
form: sandwich boarded
form: sandwichboard
Etymology: From sandwich + board; when worn, the two sides of the sign “sandwich” the wearer between them.
Senses: glosses: To advertise or campaign using a sandwich board; to wear a sandwich board.
bovine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.vaɪn/
enpr: bōʹvīn'
enpr: bōʹvēn'
enpr: bōʹvĭn
ipa: /ˈboʊˌvaɪn/
ipa: /ˈboʊˌvin/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.vɪn/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊvaɪn
rhymes: (US) -oʊvaɪn
Forms: form: bovines
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Borrowed from Late Latin bovīnus (“relating to cattle”), from Latin bōs (“ox”). Cognate to beef.
Senses: glosses: An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison.
take a breather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a breather
form: taking a breather
form: took a breather
form: taken a breather
Senses: examples: text: Why don't we stop and take a breather before we continue?
glosses: To take a break; to pause or relax briefly.
Related terms: catch one's breath
get some air
swamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They have been swamped ever since they started advertising.
text: He can’t talk to you right now; he’s swamped.
glosses: very busy; having too much to do
swamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swamp
happy camper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy campers
Etymology: The Dictionary of American Slang suspects the phrase to have originated among California movie and show-business people as a reference to child clients of summer camps.
Senses: examples: text: I will be a happy camper when they fix the potholes on my commute.
text: “You all look like happy campers to me,” Dan Quayle to the people of American Samoa.
ref: 1989 April 26, Shirley Marlow, “Quayle Visits Samoa, Decides He'll Give It a Break”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: "Call, but you can't fight union regulations" / "You're probably right. Still, their boss needs to know I'm not a happy camper."
ref: 1997, Roz Denny Fox, Sweet Tibby Mack, page 132:
text: I had kept telling people that this company would be looking for a victim to pay for this. They would not let it go. And it wasn't just them—look at all the Mob guys I threw out of the union. They weren't happy campers.
ref: 2008, Deepa Kumar, quoting Ron Carey, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike, Appendix, page 194:
synonyms: happy bunny
glosses: One who is thoroughly content or satisfied.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see happy, camper.
heckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛkəl/
rhymes: -ɛkəl
Forms: form: heckles
form: heckling
form: heckled
form: heckled
Etymology: Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Related to hackle.
Senses: glosses: To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses.
examples: text: Promise that you won't heckle me after my performance.
text: As late as 1854, the antichoir members of an Ohio Methodist congregation heckled the choir whenever it tried to sing, hoping to "bring discredit on the singers by creating discord."
ref: 2008, BYU Studies, volume 47, page 108:
text: […] Internet postings, speeches, heckling, cartoons, faxes, composites, noises, threats, incitements, videos, ads, prayers, classes, live and filmed nudity (frontal, sideal, backal), defamation, blasphemy, and digital communication […]
ref: 2013, Alan M. Dershowitz, Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, Crown, →ISBN, page 106:
text: It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 102:
text: The student section of Blue Devils fans, called “Cameron Crazies” for the energy and antics they bring to that cramped arena at Duke, heckles opponents with the help of “cheer sheets” that include biographical details and biting comments about opposing players.
ref: 2024 March 7, Emmanuel Morgan, “Duke Asks Its Crazed Basketball Fans to Heckle Responsibly”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To prepare (flax) for spinning, using special combs called hackles.
Related terms: heckler
heckling
heckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛkəl/
rhymes: -ɛkəl
Forms: form: heckles
Etymology: Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Related to hackle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hackle (“tool for separating flax”).
glosses: The long shining feathers on a cock's neck.
glosses: A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments.
examples: text: The stand-up dealt well with the heckles from the crowd, replying with raucous banter to raise plenty of laughs.
glosses: An rude interruption during a show, especially a comedy performance
ticklish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪk(ə)lɪʃ/
Forms: form: more ticklish
form: most ticklish
Etymology: From tickle + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet.
glosses: Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
examples: text: That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 5, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: Opening round three, Enderby moved the ticklish issue of whether to advise the Hong Kong government of the intelligence regarding Ko.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 162:
text: The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one that pleased his master as it omitted the dead nephew's reign altogether.
ref: 2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.
Derived terms: ticklishly
ticklishness
sticky note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky notes
form: stick note
form: sticky-note
Senses: glosses: A slip of paper, or a chit, with a gummy or gluey top that can be moved from place to place, usually as a reminder.
tickled pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He's tickled pink about his promotion.
glosses: Very pleased; delighted; thrilled.
tickled pink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tickle pink
in the dark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn thə därk
ipa: /ɪn ðə dɑːk/
ipa: /ɪn ðə dɑɹk/
ipa: /ɪn ðə dɐːk/
ipa: /ən ðə dɐːk/
ipa: /ɪn ðə daɹk/
ipa: /ɪn d̪e ɖaːʳk/
Senses: examples: text: Management kept the board of directors completely in the dark.
text: They remained in the dark until the newspaper story came out.
text: You must remember, Mr Atherton, that I am wholly in the dark as to what has happened.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: Until two or three days before Carter's December 15 announcement, the State Department spokesman was still saying that no decisions had been reached on the timing and the modality for normalization of relations with Peking. Meanwhile, the administration had been keeping Congress, including its leadership, completely in the dark. Then, taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, during which no one was watching on Capitol Hill, Carter sprang his surprise.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Without information.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.
examples: text: I tripped over his suitcase in the dark.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, dark; without light, somewhere that is dark.
Synonyms: out of the loop
out of touch
holdup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holdups
Etymology: Deverbal from hold up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hold-up.
shelve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛlv/
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: shelves
Etymology: The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”).
The noun is derived from sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”).
Senses: examples: text: "This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]"
ref: 1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XVI, page 101:
text: Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]
ref: 1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, pages 170–171:
glosses: A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
Derived terms: shelvy
shelve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛlv/
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: shelves
form: shelving
form: shelved
form: shelved
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: shelve
form: shelve
form: shelved
form: shelve
form: shelvest
form: shelved
form: shelvedst
form: shelves
form: shelveth
form: shelved
form: shelve
form: shelved
form: shelve
form: shelved
form: shelve
form: -
form: shelving
form: shelved
Etymology: From Late Middle English shelven (“to separate (someone or something) from another thing, keep away”); further etymology uncertain, possibly:
* from shelf, shelfe (“shelf; cabinet, cupboard; grassy bank”) (though this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary); or
* related to West Frisian skelf (“not level or straight, oblique”).
Senses: glosses: To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
examples: text: The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.
ref: 1843, Digby P[ilot] Starkey, Judas; a Tragic Mystery, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Longman, Brown, and Co., →OCLC, Act V, scene iv, page 170:
text: From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […]
ref: 1864, John Campbell Shairp, “Canto III. The Island.”, in Kilmahoe: A Highland Pastoral: With Other Poems, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 23:
text: The sand shelved gently here. Only at waist-level did the sudden dips occur, and then an upward-sloping hill would lead to a sand-bar, to a new shore islanded in the sea.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, chapter 16, in The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy; 2), London: William Heinemann, published 1979, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
glosses: To be in an inclined or sloping position.
Derived terms: english: worker who tips carts
translation: worker who tips carts
word: shelver
word: shelving
shelve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛlv/
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: shelves
Etymology: Treated as a singular form of shelves, the plural of shelf (“reef; sandbar; shoal”).
Senses: examples: text: But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.
ref: 1582, Virgil, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Aeneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 21:
text: [T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 210, page 861:
text: And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crost / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet.
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza CLXXXI, page 209:
text: But upon inquiry among the company, this plan was wrecked upon the ordinary shelve, to wit, the difficulty of finding performers who would consent to assume the lower characters of the drama.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], “Theatricals”, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”).
Derived terms: shelvy
doublespeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəbəlˌspiːk/
Etymology: From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.
Senses: examples: text: The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.
text: The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."
ref: 1976, Brent D. Ruben, “The Coming of the Information Age”, in Brent D. Ruben, editor, Information and Behavior, page 7:
synonyms: double talk
glosses: Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
tip one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips one's hand
form: tipping one's hand
form: tipped one's hand
form: tipped one's hand
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand.
examples: text: In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire?"
ref: 1952 March 10, “Cause for Alarm”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2010:
text: In a nearly 13-minute address, he did not tip his hand about what he might do next.
ref: 2004 March 4, Randal C. Archibold, “As Edwards's Race Ends, Talk of No. 2 Spot on Ticket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The questioning during the two-hour argument was mostly technical, and several conservative justices did not tip their hands.
ref: 2022 February 28, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage.
Related terms: show one's cards
semantic differentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semantic differentiations
Etymology: semantic + differentiation
Senses: glosses: A bifurcation of the meaning along with time into two separate meanings of two separate resulting expressions.
glosses: A diachronic differentiation or change in meaning.
diachronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ.əˈkɹɒnɪk/
ipa: /daɪ.əˈkɹɑnɪk/
Forms: form: more diachronic
form: most diachronic
Etymology: By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ic; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: […] one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture.
ref: 2005 April 24, Los Angeles Times:
antonyms: synchronic
glosses: Occurring over or changing with time.
examples: text: It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before.
ref: 1963, Alfred Louis Kroeber, An Anthropologist Looks at History, page 169:
text: I also take a more diachronic perspective and relate the growth of empire to changes in the regional market system as they occurred in the transition from the Early Aztec to the Late Aztec periods.
ref: 1996, Richard E. Blanton, “3: The Basin of Mexico Market System and the Growth of Empire”, in Frances Berdan, editor, Aztec Imperial Strategies, page 52:
text: In short, it's usual for the syuzhet to appear more diachronic at the beginning and more synchronic at the end.
ref: 2011, Herman Rapaport, The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods, page 82:
text: Rethinking the revolution issue is therefore the key to any novel interpretation, but it needs to be addressed in a more diachronic and synchronic fashion, comparing the Wende to earlier German upheavals and to the concurrent transformation of East Central Europe.
ref: 2011, Konrad H. Jarausch, “Chapter One: Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution?”, in Marc Silberman, editor, The German Wall, page 11:
text: 2012, Paolo Ramat, Sturtevant's paradox revisited, Thomas Stolz, Hitomi Otsuka, Aina Urdze, Johan van der Auwera (editors), Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond), [page 61],
Consequently, the perspective will be more diachronic than synchronic.
text: However, his interpretation and conclusion receive their rationale almost as often from the subjective horizon as the more diachronic oriented commentaries do.
ref: 2012, Oliver Glanz, Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah, page 172:
antonyms: synchronic
glosses: Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
Synonyms: diachronical
Derived terms: word: diachronically
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: diachronic linguistics
word: nondiachronic
Related terms: diachrony
methylchloroisothiazolinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛθɪlˌklɔːɹəʊˌaɪsəʊˌθaɪəˈzəʊlɪnəʊn/
Etymology: From methyl + chloro- + isothiazol + -in + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: common chemical found in a number of cleaning detergents, especially hair shampoo