cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: frigs
form: frigging
form: frigged
form: frigged
Etymology: From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). More at free.
Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).
Senses: examples: text: She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.
text: There was an old parson of Lundy,
Fell asleep in his vestry on Sunday;
He awoke with a scream,
"What, another wet dream,
This comes of not frigging since Monday."
ref: 1880, anonymous author, The Pearl:
glosses: To masturbate.
examples: text: Come on, honey, let’s frig.
text: Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: To fuck; to have sex.
examples: text: Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now.
glosses: To mess or muck usually with about or around'.
examples: text: Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!
glosses: To break.
examples: text: The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now.
glosses: To make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate.
Synonyms: sense: to masturbate
word: fap
word: pleasure oneself
word: masturbate
sense: to fuck
word: eff
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: copulate
word: copulate with
sense: to mess, muck
word: fiddle around
sense: to mess, muck
word: fool around
sense: to mess, muck
word: fuck around
sense: to make a temporary alteration
word: bodge
word: patch
word: kludge
Derived terms: frigger
frigging
friggle
frig up
frig off
frig around
frig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: frigs
Etymology: From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). More at free.
Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).
Senses: glosses: An act of frigging.
examples: text: I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.
glosses: A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed).
examples: text: I don’t give a frig!
glosses: A fuck.
frig
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Etymology: From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). More at free.
Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of fuck
frig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
ipa: /fɹɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪdʒ
homophone: fridge
ipa: /fɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: friges
Etymology: See fridge.
Senses: examples: text: "Perhaps you prefer beer - there's plenty in the frig."
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 139:
glosses: Dated spelling of fridge.
Camelopardalis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin camēlopardalis (“a camelopard, giraffe”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe.
wikipedia: Jakob Bartsch
Petrus Plancius
take the bull by the horns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the bull by the horns
form: taking the bull by the horns
form: took the bull by the horns
form: taken the bull by the horns
Senses: examples: text: Wordsworth has a system which disposes him to take the bull by the horns and offend public taste.
ref: 1828 May, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:
text: "Then why couldn' ye take the bull by the horns an' march in by the front door?"
ref: 1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 4, in Hocken and Hunken:
text: [H]e was ready to take the bull by the horns and pay for his meal himself.
ref: 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 4, in The Coming of Bill:
text: In Korea General MacArthur took the bull by the horns and threw seven divisions into an all-out drive to clear North Korea.
ref: 1950 December 4, “The Nation: Between Friends”, in Time:
text: "Should I tell her? Should I send someone else?" he said yesterday. "I took the bull by the horns. I gave her the diagnosis. It was the most difficult time of my life."
ref: 2002 May 16, Selena Roberts, “Tennis: Healthy Morariu Expects to Return to Court”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Aug 2011:
glosses: To deal with a matter in a direct manner, especially to confront a difficulty rather than avoid it.
Synonyms: grab the bull by the horns
grab life by the balls
grab life by the horns
grab life by the throat
Related terms: beard the lion in his den
carpe diem
seize the day
the world is your oyster
bit between one's teeth
give it the gun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives it the gun
form: giving it the gun
form: gave it the gun
form: given it the gun
Etymology: Originally from the US.
Senses: glosses: To cause a specific vehicle to accelerate; to open the throttle of an engine.
Synonyms: rev up
tach up
give a gun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a gun
form: giving a gun
form: gave a gun
form: given a gun
Senses: glosses: To order a gun to be fired; sometimes construed with dative (or to), implying that it is done as an honor, as a help (occasionally as a hostile demonstration).
camelopard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.mə.lə.pɑːd/
ipa: /ˈkæ.mə.ləʊ.pɑːd/
ipa: /kəˈmɛ.lə.pɑːd/
ipa: /ˈkæ.mɪ.ləʊˌpɑːd/
ipa: /kəˈmɛ.lə.pɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈkæ.mə.loʊˌpɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈkæ.mə.ləˌpɑɹd/
Forms: form: camelopards
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin camēlopardus, variant of camēlopardalis, from Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis, “giraffe”).
Senses: related: word: cameleopard
glosses: Synonym of giraffe.
synonyms: word: giraffe
Hudson Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hudson's Bay
Etymology: From Henry Hudson, English sea explorer.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
glosses: A gulf of Nunavut, Canada, a southern extension of the Arctic Ocean. A large arctic sea, surrounded on three sides, by Quebec on the east, Nunavut to the west, Manitoba to the southwest, Ontario on the south, and extending southeast becoming James Bay. To the north lies the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
clip-clop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪp.klɒp/
ipa: /ˈklɪp.klɔp/
ipa: /ˈklɪp.klɑːp/
ipa: /k͜ǃ.k͜ǃ/
Forms: form: clip-clops
form: clip clop
Etymology: Onomatopoeia for two footsteps in succession.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: clop, cloop
text: The wagon creaked, swayed, moved on to strange accompaniment— clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop. The horses were trotting on hard road.
ref: 1925, Zane Grey, The Thundering Herd:
text: 1984, Anthony C. Yu, tr. 吴承恩, 西游记 (Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West) http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0226971538&id=1q2jr5jttaUC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=%22clip-clops%22&sig=AK8LZaIEHgK0n1Bxa7jLM3YK_Xo
With loud clip-clops, several middle-aged women ran out from within to stare at the T’ang monk, grinning stupidly all the time.
text: Suddenly I heard the familiar “clip-clop, clip-clop” of shower shoes coming up the path behind me—and a rapid pace it was.
ref: 2001, Dave Zorn, Dinky Dau: Love, War, and the Corps:
text: 2003, Ann Redisch Stampler, Something for Nothing http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0618159827&id=F6U_tU8-FFkC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=clip-clop&sig=bhYqdn7LQFMg6a0BuBGFIgpnP2E
All night long, Dog heard the clip-clop of horses hauling the wagons to market.
glosses: The sound of steps on hard ground, especially of a horse's hooves.
clip-clop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪp.klɒp/
ipa: /ˈklɪp.klɔp/
ipa: /ˈklɪp.klɑːp/
ipa: /k͜ǃ.k͜ǃ/
Forms: form: clip-clops
form: clip-clopping
form: clip-clopped
form: clip-clopped
form: clip clop
Etymology: Onomatopoeia for two footsteps in succession.
Senses: examples: text: At the some moment, a horse clip-clops past, hauling a wagon.
ref: 1999, Mary Downing Hahn, Anna All Year Round:
text: 2002, D J Vallone, For the Love of Freedom http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0595226183&id=xKV1VCsAwZIC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=%22clip-clops%22&sig=-LkO8mWX7qKZGvv2vcIXOHpIqYM
One of several pairs of mounted police in flak jackets clip-clops past, patrolling the perimeter.
text: There was a single arrivals platform, nearest to King's Cross. The large arch beneath the clock gave access to Hansom carriages clip-clopping up the cobbled ramp from the main gate in Euston Road, directly onto the platform, to meet well-to-do passengers.
ref: 2023 August 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: End damaging drift at Euston”, in RAIL, number 990, page 3:
glosses: To make a clip-clop noise.
inland sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inland seas
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A large but relatively shallow expanse of water within a landmass, sometimes connected to the ocean.
right-click
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: right-clicks
form: right-clicking
form: right-clicked
form: right-clicked
form: rightclick
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.
examples: text: You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.
ref: 2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.
Related terms: left-click
middle-click
Inland Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Inland Sea
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Seto Inland Sea.
synonyms: word: Seto Inland Sea
left-click
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: left-clicks
form: left-clicking
form: left-clicked
form: left-clicked
form: leftclick
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To press the left button on a computer mouse.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To activate an item on the screen by left-clicking while the pointer is over it.
Synonyms: sense: press the left button
word: click
Related terms: middle-click
right-click
elves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛlvz/
rhymes: -ɛlvz
Senses: glosses: plural of elf
glosses: plural of elve
next up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Next up is a performance you won't want to miss.
text: Next up is an out-and-back trip to Helensburgh Central aboard another Class 334.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:
glosses: That which is next; the next to be up.
Blissenbach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname used in the USA, most likely derived from the German surname of Blissenbach.
unfashionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfashionable
form: most unfashionable
Etymology: From un- + fashionable.
Senses: examples: text: The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Not fashionable.
examples: text: I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ...
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act XI, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: That cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
Synonyms: sense: not fashionable
word: démodé
word: passé
word: unchic
sense: that cannot be fashioned
word: deformed
word: malformed
word: misshapen
word: basic
word: cheugy
word: cringe
word: cringey
word: cringeworthy
word: dated
word: fossilized
word: inelegant
word: last year
word: normie
word: old
word: old-fashioned
word: old-hat
word: oldfangled
word: ossified
word: out
word: out of date
word: out of fashion
word: out of touch
word: outdated
word: outmoded
word: rinky-dink
word: tacky
word: uncool
word: unfashionable
word: unhip
word: unpopular
word: unstylish
word: untrendy
Related terms: word: on its way out
word: hackneyed
word: obsolete
word: unkempt
two-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English two-foted, equivalent to two + footed. Compare Old English twifēte (“two-footed”), Old Norse tvífættr (“two-footed”).
Senses: synonyms: bipedal
glosses: Having two legs or feet.
examples: text: Fred Flanagan, for two-footed kicking, marking ability and instinctive leadership, has been the best of the centre half forwards, but not much ahead of "Whopper" Lane.
ref: 1953 February 21, The Sporting Globe, Melbourne, page 7, column 2:
text: In contrast to his club duties, he had a role towards the left, but a change of flanks has no significance for a two-footed player.
ref: 2008 June 11, Kevin McCarra, “Two-footed Sneijder the fulcrum of Holland's new counter-attacking style”, in The Guardian, London:
text: Oct 20, 2010, Cameron Smith, Yahoo! Sports Blog, Two-footed Georgia placekicker creating quite a stir
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: ambipedal
glosses: Ambidextrous of the feet; having equal ability with either foot.
examples: text: Villa full-back Alan Hutton was perhaps fortunate to stay on the field when his two-footed challenge on Shane Long went unpunished by referee Phil Dowd.
ref: 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Using both feet.
grasp at straws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grasps at straws
form: grasping at straws
form: grasped at straws
form: grasped at straws
form: grab at straws
form: grab at a straw
form: grasp at a straw
Etymology: In reference to a drowning person grabbing any floating object, even a straw, to save themselves. First used by Thomas More in A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534).
Senses: examples: text: I've never met his mother, so I'm grasping at straws for an appropriate gift for her.
synonyms: clutch at straws
clutch at a straw
glosses: To guess randomly or pursue any apparent option, due to a lack of clear choices or information.
glosses: To obtain any form of help, even if it is insignificant.
Derived terms: a drowning man will clutch at a straw
straw-clutchingly
open proxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open proxies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A proxy server that may be accessed by any Internet user.
Synonyms: open proxy server
spam relay
Hypernyms: proxy
open proxy server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open proxy servers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a proxy server that may be accessed by any Internet user
Synonyms: open proxy
spam relay
spam relay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spam relays
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An open proxy used to send spam.
agonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɒnɪk/
ipa: /əˈɡɑnik/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Lacking an angle.
examples: text: There are two lines on the earth's surface which have been called agonic lines, upon which there is no declination; and where, therefore, the needle is directed along the terrestrial meridian.
ref: 1852, Dionysius Lardner, “Terrestrial Magnetism”, in Hand-book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, second course (Heat—Common Electricity—Magnetism—Voltaic Electricity), London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, book II (Magnetism), paragraph 1661, page 172:
text: It is contended by some that their [cyclones'] general movement is at right angles to the magnetic meridian. If this should prove to be correct, then in all that part of the United States lying west of the Agonic Line, the general direction whence local rain, hail, and snow-storms come, will be as many degrees north of west as the declination of the needle is east of north; and in all that part of the territory lying east of said Agonic Line, they will come from a direction as many degrees south of west as the declination of the needle is west of north.
ref: 1872 January 10, John H. Tice, “[Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting Held at Kansas City, January 9–11, 1872.] Meteorology”, in John F. Wielandy, editor, Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of Agricultural and Horticultural Societies for the Year 1871, Jefferson City, Mo.: Regan & Edwards, public printers, →OCLC, pages 73–74:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Having a magnetic deviation of zero.
glosses: Synonym of agonal.
synonyms: word: agonal
Derived terms: agonic line
preagonic
Related terms: isogonic
agonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɒnɪk/
ipa: /əˈɡɑnik/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: agonics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: One of these [agonic lines] passes over the American and the other over the Asiatic continent, and the former has consequently been called the American and the latter the Asiatic agonic. […] On the west of the Asiatic agonic the declination is west, on the east it is east.
ref: 1852, Dionysius Lardner, “Terrestrial Magnetism”, in Hand-book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, second course (Heat—Common Electricity—Magnetism—Voltaic Electricity), London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, book II (Magnetism), paragraphs 1661–1662, page 172:
text: It should be noted that the period of 2000 years deduced from the average motion of the agonics is identical with that which we obtain if we suppose that the secondary magnetic system revolves around the equator at the average rate of the two secondary poles, viz: ³⁶⁰⁄_(0.194) = 1860 years.
ref: 1895, The American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn.: J[ames] D[wight] & E[dward] S[alisbury] Dana, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 321:
glosses: Synonym of agonic line.
synonyms: word: agonic line
not leave one's thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The accident hasn't left my thoughts in years.
glosses: To remain in one's mind for a long duration.
Synonyms: haunt one's thoughts
cardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)diə
Forms: form: cardias
form: cardiae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.
Senses: examples: text: In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.
ref: 2004, William H. Marquardt, Biology of Disease Vectors, page 300:
text: The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer.
ref: 2012, Kin-ichi Nabeya, editor, Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus:
text: After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.
ref: 2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
Derived terms: cardial
noncardia
liquid document
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid documents
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A document showing a liquidated sum of money, such a cheque or promissory note.
examples: NEDCOR BANK LTD v LISINFO 61 TRADING (PTY) LTD 2005 (2) SA 432 (C) is a trite principle of our law that the term 'liquid document' for purposes of summary judgment proceedings has the same meaning as a 'liquid document' for purposes of provisional sentence proceedings. In Rich and Others v Lagerwey 1974 (4) SA 748 (A) at 754H, the Court said that, if a document in question, upon a proper construction thereof, evidences by its terms and without resort to evidence extrinsic thereto, an unconditional acknowledgment of indebtedness in an ascertained amount of money, the payment of which is due to the creditor, it is one upon which provisional sentence may properly be granted.
topics: law
glosses: A document on which summary judgment or provisional sentence may be granted.
Cardia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former town in Thrace.
atheophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪθioʊˈfoʊbiə/
Etymology: From atheo- (“a- + theo-”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: At many institutions, I have found atheophobia to be rampant among students; and religiophobia to be common among faculty.
ref: 2003 Spring, Robert J. Nash, “Inviting Atheists to the Table: A Modest Proposal for Higher Education”, in Religion & Education, volume 30, number 1, New York, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: Atheophobia leads to invisibility for many atheists, who find it is best to keep their nonbelief hidden for their own good.
ref: 2009 Spring, Kathleen M. Goodman with John A. Mueller, “Invisible, marginalized, and stigmatized: Understanding and addressing the needs of atheist students”, in New Directions for Student Services, number 125, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 55–63:
text: Atheophobia should be just as unacceptable as homophobia, anti-Semitism, or racism.
ref: 2011 January 25, Dan Barker, The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, Berkeley: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
glosses: Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
Related terms: atheophobe
atheophobic
inorganic polymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inorganic polymers
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any giant molecule linked by covalent bonds, but having no (or few) carbon atoms in the main molecular backbone.
Related terms: boric oxide
boron nitride
boron phosphate
chalcogenide glass
molybdenum disulphide
phosphorus oxynitride
polyphosphate
polyphosphazene
silica
silicate
silicon carbide
silicone
silicon nitride
siloxane
sulphur
sulphur nitride
giant molecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant molecules
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A macromolecule.
Related terms: polymer
atoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈatəmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of atom
instrument landing system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrument landing systems
form: ILS
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A collection of radio navigation aids (always including a localizer and glideslope, and often one to three marker beacons as well) used by pilots for approach guidance to a specific airport runway, especially when visibility is limited.
Coordinate terms: alt: VOR
word: VHF omnidirectional range
alt: PAPI
word: precision approach landing indicator
alt: ALS
word: approach lighting system
Related terms: alt: IGS
word: instrument guidance system
english: MLS
translation: MLS
word: microwave landing system
ILS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: classics
glosses: Initialism of Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae.
integral equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integral equations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equation involving a function f(x) and integrals of that function to be solved for f(x)
motivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mō′tə-vā′tər
ipa: /ˈməʊ.təˌveɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.təˌveɪ.təɹ/
ipa: [ˈmoʊ.ɾəˌveɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈməʉ.təˌvæɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈməʉ.ɾəˌvæɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɐʉ.təˌvæɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɐʉ.ɾəˌvæɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɐʉ.təˌvæɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɐʉ.ɾəˌvæɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmo.təˌve.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈmoː.ʈiˌveː.ʈaɾ/
Forms: form: motivators
Etymology: From motivate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of motivate: One who motivates or inspires others.
integrated services digital network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: as ISDN
Senses: glosses: The integration of data and voice communications services that are transported over digital facilities of various physical types.
Coordinate terms: BRI
basic rate interface
PRI
primary rate interface
integumentary pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integumentary patterns
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: All the features of the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal that are arranged in designs; especially, the configuration of epidermal ridges (dermatoglyphics) characteristic of primates.
Related terms: fingerprint
footprint
handprint
soleprint
thumbprint
integumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From integument + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or composed of integuments.
Derived terms: integumentary pattern
integumentary system
Related terms: tegumentary
integumentary system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integumentary systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The skin, feathers and other outer coverings of an animal.
Related terms: integumentary pattern
dermatoglyphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dermato- + glyphics.
Senses: glosses: The patterns of loops, arches and whorls on the skin of the fingers and feet.
examples: text: Dermatoglyphics is the study of the ridges and furrow patterns on the palms and on the soles of the feet.
ref: 1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vi. 190:
glosses: The study of such patterns.
Derived terms: dermatoglyphic
paleodermatoglyphics
Related terms: integumentary pattern
empathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈpæθɪk/
rhymes: -æθɪk
Forms: form: more empathic
form: most empathic
Etymology: From empathy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Showing or expressing empathy.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.
Synonyms: empathetic
Derived terms: empathically
empathic embarrassment
nonempathic
overempathic
unempathic
intercalation compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercalation compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a crystalline solid consisting of a host lattice containing voids into which guest atoms or molecules are inserted
Derived terms: graphite intercalation compound
interference filter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interference filters
Senses: glosses: An optical filter in which the wavelengths that are not transmitted are removed by interference rather than by absorption or scattering.
crinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌɪnɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪnɔɪd/
Forms: form: crinoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρίνον (krínon, “lily”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: One of the numerous animals that make up the class Crinoidea; the feather stars or sea lilies.
Derived terms: crinoidal
crinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌɪnɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪnɔɪd/
Forms: form: more crinoid
form: most crinoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρίνον (krínon, “lily”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: It was treasured and placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of Antarctica, salvaged from their ruins by the serpent-men of Valusia, and peered at aeons later in Lemuria by the first human beings.
ref: 1936, HP Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark:
glosses: Relating to or sharing the qualities and features of the class Crinoidea.
Derived terms: noncrinoid
Pomerania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒməˈɹeɪniə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Pomerania, from German Pommern, from Proto-Slavic *pomorьjane pl (“coast dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *pomorьje (“seaboard”).
Senses: examples: text: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
ref: 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
glosses: A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
Derived terms: Pomeranian
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
entr'acte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.tɹækt/
ipa: /ɒnˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ˈɒ̃.tɹækt/
ipa: /ɒ̃ˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ˈɑnˌtɹækt/
ipa: /ˈɑnˌtɹɑkt/
ipa: /ɑ̃.tɹækt/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒntɹækt
rhymes: (UK) -ækt
rhymes: (US) -ɑntɹækt
Forms: form: entr'actes
form: entracte
Etymology: Borrowed from French entr'acte.
Senses: glosses: An interval between two acts of a play or opera.
glosses: Another performance, such as a piece of music or a dance, during this.
Synonyms: word: interlude
word: intermezzo
english: sense 1 only
translation: sense 1 only
word: intermission
touch-tone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: touchtone
Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.
touch-tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-tones
form: touchtone
Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960.
Senses: examples: a teleconference service for touch-tones only
glosses: A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit.
examples: software to decode touch-tones
glosses: A tone produced by such a telephone.
Related terms: rotary dial
achalasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪkəˈleɪzi.ə/
Forms: form: achalasias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χάλασις (khálasis, “relaxation”), from χαλάω (khaláō, “I loosen”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction of a lumen, as:
Such obstruction in the esophagus: esophageal achalasia.
coordinate_terms: pseudoachalasia
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction of a lumen, as:
Such obstruction in the esophagus: esophageal achalasia.
Such esophageal achalasia of primary (idiopathic) nature: primary esophageal achalasia.
coordinate_terms: pseudoachalasia
qualifier: strictly
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction of a lumen, as:
Such obstruction due to impairment of other gastrointestinal tract smooth muscles.
qualifier: occasionally
CAT scan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAT scans
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Computed axial tomography scan.
lifepreserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifepreservers
Senses: examples: King Christ,this world is all aleak; / and lifepreservers there are none: / and waves which only He may walk / Who dares to call himself a man. - Jehova buried, Satan dead, E E Cummings - W [Viva], XXIX
glosses: Alternative form of life preserver (personal flotation device)
Glis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
disenchantment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃɑːntmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃæntmənt/
Forms: form: disenchantments
Etymology: From dis- + enchantment. In the social sciences sense a calque of German Entzauberung, as used by sociologist Max Weber.
Senses: glosses: The act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted.
examples: text: Disenchantment with the religion led to a sharp fall in church attendance.
glosses: Freeing from false belief or illusions.
examples: text: Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The devaluation of religion or mysticism apparent in modern society.
raw_tags: in particular
swath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒθ/
ipa: /swɑθ/
ipa: /swɔθ/
note: sense 2
ipa: /swɑð/
ipa: /sweɪð/
ipa: /swɔð/
rhymes: -ɒθ
Forms: form: swaths
form: swathe
Etymology: From Middle English swath, swathe, from Old English swæþ, swaþu (“track; trace; footstep; mark; vestige; scar”), from Proto-Germanic *swaþō (“a wind-swept place; open field; borderland; terrain”), of unknown further origin. Has been derived from a Proto-Indo-European *swey- (“to bend, turn, swing”), and compared with Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”) and Welsh chwil (“reeling, staggering”), though this is uncertain, as well as the Greek comparandum being unlikely. Cognate with Dutch zwade, zwad (“swath; windrow”), German Schwade (“swath; windrow”), Icelandic svæði (“area; zone; sector; region”).
other etymological information
Corresponds to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch swat, Middle High German and MNG swade, NDu swad(e), Old Frisian swethe (“border”).
Root meaning: trace of a cut.
Attested in English since 888 in its obsolete meaning of track or trace, since 1475 in its more modern usage.
Cognate with German Schwaden (“row of mown grass or grain”).
No definite cognates outside Germanic languages.
* See F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch (De Gruyter), entry Schwaden, and OED.
Senses: glosses: The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
examples: text: A large swath of the population is opposed to this government policy.
text: Five days after Hurricane Katrina, large swaths of New Orleans are still submerged in water.
text: It is undeniable that Malcolm was a beacon of huge strength in his lifetime. He could connect with swaths of people when others could not.
ref: 2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.
Derived terms: cut a wide swath
cut a swath
chief mate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief mates
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the merchant navy, the officer who is second in command to the captain, and whose primary duties include managing the maintenance and upkeep of the vessel.
shot in the dark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shots in the dark
Senses: examples: text: From listening, I can't tell who composed it. Beethoven, maybe, but that's a shot in the dark.
synonyms: stab in the dark
glosses: A guess, attempt, or choice made with little or no evidence or knowledge.
Related terms: in the dark
leap in the dark
pseud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːd/
ipa: /suːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: sued
Forms: form: pseuds
Etymology: Possible clipping of pseudointellectual. From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).
Senses: examples: text: He and two friends were known as “the three pseuds” among the rest of the boys, who thought them too clever by half.
ref: 2012 November 9, Decca Aitkenhead, “Robbie Coltrane: ‘I take no nonsense’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.
Derived terms: pseudery
pseudy
Related terms: pseudo
pseud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːd/
ipa: /suːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: sued
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pseudomonas bacteria.
Related terms: pseudomonad
pseud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːd/
ipa: /suːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: sued
Forms: form: pseuds
Senses: glosses: A pseudonym.
draconology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dracōn- (“dragon”, stem of dracō) + -ology (“study”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dracology.
Derived terms: draconologist
flagrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪ.ɡɹənt/
rhymes: -eɪɡɹənt
Forms: form: more flagrant
form: most flagrant
form: flagraunt
Etymology: From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals vve never entertain ſuch an abſurdity as that of paſſive obedience, but make allovvances for reſiſtance in the more flagrant inſtances of tyranny and oppreſſion.
ref: 1740, [David Hume], “Of the Measures of Allegiance”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book III (Of Morals), London: […] Thomas Longman, […], →OCLC, part II (Of Justice and Injustice), pages 163–164:
glosses: Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
glosses: On fire; flaming.
Synonyms: sense: obvious and offensive
word: blatant
sense: obvious and offensive
word: glaring
sense: on fire
word: burning
sense: on fire
word: flaming
Derived terms: flagrantly
unflagrant
Related terms: in flagrante delicto
in flagrant delict
flagrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪ.ɡɹənt/
rhymes: -eɪɡɹənt
Forms: form: more flagrant
form: most flagrant
form: flagraunt
Etymology: From Latin frāgrans, participle of frāgrō (“smell, reek”).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fragrant.
aerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛːɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɛːˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: aerates
form: aerating
form: aerated
form: aerated
Etymology: From Latin aer (“air”) + -ate. Compare French aérer.
Senses: examples: text: Blood is aerated in the lungs.
glosses: To supply with oxygen or air.
examples: text: Carbon dioxide aerated the drink and made it fizzy.
glosses: To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air.
examples: text: The mousse was aerated by beating rapidly.
glosses: To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material.
Derived terms: aeratable
aeration
aerator
deaerate
nonaerating
overaerate
reaerate
foreclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈkləʊz/
ipa: /fɔɹˈkloʊz/
ipa: /foːˈkləʉz/
ipa: /ˌfoːˈklɐʉz/
ipa: /foːˈklɐʉz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: forecloses
form: foreclosing
form: foreclosed
form: foreclosed
Etymology: Partially from Middle English foreclosen, forclosen, from Old French forclos, past participle of forclore (“to exclude”), from for- (“(prefix used to express error, exclusion, or inadequacy)”) + clore (“to shut”), and partially from Middle English forclusen (“to close up”), from Old English forclȳsan (“to close up”), equivalent to fore- + close.
Senses: examples: text: They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
topics: law
glosses: To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
topics: law
glosses: To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
examples: text: The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
text: One of the paradoxes of Ostpolitik, as practiced by Brandt and his successors, was that by transferring large sums of hard currency into East Germany and showering the GDR with recognition, attention, and support, West German officials unintentionally foreclosed any chance of internal change, including reform of Eastern Germany’s polluted, antiquated industrial economy.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, “The Power of the Powerless”, in Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: to foreclose the possibility completely. she packed the footwell of the passenger seat with her duffel bag and camping gear and buckled a stack of seed trays on to the seat.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 55:
synonyms: stop
prevent
bar
exclude
qualifier: originally
glosses: To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
Derived terms: foreclosee
forecloser
foreclosure
foreclosable
Related terms: forestall
preclude
foulard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːˈlɑːd/
ipa: /fuːˈlɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: foulards
Etymology: From French foulard.
Senses: examples: text: The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits of foulard (or foulard silk, I don't know which is proper,) with a small blue spot in it […]
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad:
text: A lot of foulard tie bulged out and was rain-spotted above his crossed lapels.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 176:
text: "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]
ref: 1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:
glosses: A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
glosses: A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
froward
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹəʊ.(w)əd/
ipa: /ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊəd
Forms: form: frowards
Etymology: From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”).
Senses: examples: text: Whan Sir Galahad herde hir sey so, he was adrad to be knowyn; and therewith he smote hys horse with his sporys and rode a grete pace froward them.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xvii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: Away from.
frowst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaʊst/
rhymes: -aʊst
Forms: form: frowsts
form: froust
Etymology: Back-formation from frowsty.
Senses: examples: text: I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.
ref: 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:
glosses: Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
Synonyms: sense: stuffiness, stifling warmth
word: stuffiness
word: fustiness
frowst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaʊst/
rhymes: -aʊst
Forms: form: frowsts
form: frowsting
form: frowsted
form: frowsted
form: froust
Etymology: Back-formation from frowsty.
Senses: examples: text: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;
ref: 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the story)”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.
ref: 2016, John Owens, A Month of Sundays:
glosses: To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
literati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪt.əˈɹɑː.tiː/
ipa: /ˌlɪtəˈɹɑti/
Forms: form: literatus
form: literato
form: litterati
Etymology: From Latin līterātī, plural of līterātus (“lettered, literate”).
Senses: examples: text: First, to Counsellor Fitzclabber, who, he told me, was then employed in compiling a history of the kings of Minster, from Irish manuscripts; and then to his friend Mr. Gahagan, who was a profound philosopher and politician, and had projected many excellent schemes for the good of his country. But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours; for, between them both, there was but one shirt, and half a pair of breeches.
ref: 1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, Forgotten Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 301:
text: He is not of the people, this lordly magistrate. He is one of the privileged literati. His literary degrees are high and numerous.
ref: 1883, Isabella L. Bird, The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither, BiblioBazaar, published 2008, →ISBN, Letter IV (Continued), page 83:
text: Just like every other human organization, the selection of political leaders through the parties has its weaknesses, but these have been exposed ad nauseam by German literati during the last decades.
ref: 1968, Max Weber, “Bureaucracy and Political Leadership”, in Reinhard Bendix, editor, State and Society: A Reader in Comparative Political Sociology, University of California Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 307:
text: Eighteenth-century Scottish intellectuals, the literati, had substantial interests in America. Yet no one has ever noticed just how extensive the ties were that bound the literati to the new world, or how relatively novel those were for Scots in the eighteenth century, and how they were formed and shaped.
ref: 2001, Roger L. Emerson, “The Scottish Literati and America, 1680–1800”, in Ned C. Landsman, editor, Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas,1600–1800, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.
Coordinate terms: literatae
Derived terms: arterati
belligerati
bloggerati
chatterati
cliterati
crypterati
culturati
cyberati
designerati
digerati
digiterati
geekerati
glitterati
hipsterati
ignorati
jazzerati
liggerati
nerderati
niggerati
Scouserati
technorati
Twitterati
wokerati