cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Inuit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɛt/
Forms: form: Innuit
Etymology: First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.
Senses: glosses: Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
Meronyms: word: Inupiatun
english: Alaska
translation: Alaska
word: Inupiak
english: Northwest Territories
translation: Northwest Territories
word: Inuvialuktun
english: Western Nunavut, Central Arctic Canada
translation: Western Nunavut, Central Arctic Canada
word: Inuinnaqtun
alt: Nunavut
word: Inuktitut
alt: Nunavi
word: Nunavimmiutitut
word: Nunatsiavummiutut
word: Labradorimiutut
english: Nunatsiavut, Labrador
translation: Nunatsiavut, Labrador
word: or locally Inuttut
word: Greenlandic
word: Greenlandish
english: Greenland
translation: Greenland
word: Kalaallisut
Inuit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɛt/
Forms: form: more Inuit
form: most Inuit
form: Innuit
Etymology: First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.
Derived terms: Inuitization
Inuitize
Thule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθjuːliː/
other: /ˈθuːliː/
ipa: /ˈtuːliː/
rhymes: -uːliː
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /θuːl/
ipa: /θjuːl/
rhymes: -uːliː
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /ˈtuːliː/
rhymes: -uːliː
Forms: form: Thulé
form: Thulê
form: Thulē
form: Thūlē
form: Tule
form: Thyle
form: Thylé
form: Thoule
form: Thoulê
Etymology: From Classical Latin Thūlē, Thȳlē, from Ancient Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē), Θῡ́λη (Thū́lē), of unknown origin, cognate with Middle English Tīle, Tȳle, from Old English Tȳle, Thīla, Tīle (variants of Þȳle) and Medieval Latin Tīle.
Senses: examples: text: I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe II (1859), “Dream-Land”, page 41, first stanza, lines 5–6
text: For distant India tremble may // Beneath your mighty rule, // And Thulé⁵ bow beneath your sway // Far in the Northern sea, // But if to care and want you’re prey, // No king are you, but slave.
ref: 1969, V.E. Watts (translator), Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, bk III, ch. v, page 89
text: 5. To the Romans Thulé, variously identified as Iceland or Mainland in the Shetland Isles, marked the extreme northern limit of the known world, just as India here stands for the farthest east.
ref: ibidem, footnote 5
glosses: The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
glosses: A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
glosses: The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
glosses: A settlement in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
glosses: An air base built on the site in the 1940s.
Derived terms: Thulean
Related terms: ultima Thule
Thule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθjuːliː/
other: /ˈθuːliː/
ipa: /ˈtuːliː/
rhymes: -uːliː
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /θuːl/
ipa: /θjuːl/
rhymes: -uːliː
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /ˈtuːliː/
rhymes: -uːliː
Forms: form: Thulé
form: Thulê
form: Thulē
form: Thūlē
form: Tule
form: Thyle
form: Thylé
form: Thoule
form: Thoulê
Etymology: Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).
Senses: examples: text: For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time.
ref: 2019 January 24, Stern, S. A., J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, C. B. Olkin, J. M. Moore, W. Grundy, R. Gladstone et al., “Overview of initial results from the reconnaissance flyby of a Kuiper Belt planetesimal: 2014 MU69”, in arXiv:
text: Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects.
ref: 2020, Umurhan, O. M., J. T. Keane, R. A. Beyer, M. Bird, I. Linscott, S. B. Porter, J. R. Spencer et al., “Thermophysical, Gravitational, and Geomorphology Properties of 2014 MU69”, in Abstracts of the 235th AAS Meeting (Honolulu, HI), page 717:
glosses: The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
Coordinate terms: english: the larger lobe of Ultima Thule
translation: the larger lobe of Ultima Thule
word: Ultima
Kapampangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pampangan
Etymology: From Kapampangan Kapampangan.
Senses: glosses: A language of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages; it is one of the major languages of the Philippines and the primary language in the province of Pampanga, as well as southern Tarlac.
glosses: The people of Pampanga or people with Kapampangan heritage.
Kapampangan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kapampangans
form: Pampangan
Etymology: From Kapampangan Kapampangan.
Senses: glosses: A native speaker of the Kapampangan language.
Kapampangan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Pampangan
Etymology: From Kapampangan Kapampangan.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Kapampangan language or its speakers.
Hypernyms: Filipino
Pilipino
Ilokano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ilokanos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ilocano.
Ilokano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ilocano.
Ilokano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ilokano
form: most Ilokano
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ilocano.
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: goam
Etymology: The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”). The verb is from Middle English *gomen, from the noun. Compare native Middle English yemen, from Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”).
Senses: examples: text: "S'cat! s'cat! — set that cat off that barns knee — it al puzzum it!"
"Ah've tel'd 'em awal abart that tu monny a hunderd times, bud thuh tak no moar gaum o' muh then a stoop."
ref: 1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, Illustrated, page 18:
text: "Good-night, Uncle Nat," he called. Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces. Then he came back to the gate to which Adam had also returned. "Tak' no gaum o' my gruntlin', Addy," asked Uncle.
ref: 1919, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, The Taming of Nan, page 31:
text: "Take no gaum," he said. "I've not heard her. This is between thee and me, Tommy. I'll use but one hand."
ref: 1972, William Mayne, The Incline, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Heed; attention.
Derived terms: gaumish
gaumless
gaum-like
gormless
gormy
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: gaums
form: gauming
form: gaumed
form: gaumed
Etymology: The noun is from dialectal (Northern) English, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō (“attention”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰowe- (“to heed, pay attention”). The verb is from Middle English *gomen, from the noun. Compare native Middle English yemen, from Old English ġīeman (“to care for, heed”), and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”).
Senses: examples: text: "We said nowt on 't. Ther' no 'casion to stir up trouble. But we all gaumed 'at when he heerd t' sounds o' them 'at com to lowse us he'd crawled off into t' workin's an' brayed his head agean a shou'der o' quartz."
ref: 1893, Keighley Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds, page 171:
text: 'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said.
ref: 1896, James Keighley Snowden, Web of an Old Weaver, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition)
text: Aye sir, we gaum ye.
ref: 1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary (1900 edition)
glosses: To understand; comprehend; consider.
Related terms: english: gape, gawk
translation: gape, gawk
word: gorm
english: see, recognize, take notice of
translation: see, recognize, take notice of
word: goam
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: gaums
form: gauming
form: gaumed
form: gaumed
form: gorm
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant of gum.
Senses: examples: text: No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]
ref: 1894, Rowland Evans Robinson, Danvis Folks, chapter VI, The Paring-Bee, page 117
text: Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter […]
ref: c. 1908, Mark Twain, “Little Bessie”, in Mark Twain's Fables of Man, published 1972:
text: Butter became in my eyes a gauge of character and gentility, almost of integrity. I watched these ravenous wretches "gaum" their batter-cakes with it, help themselves to more than they really wanted, leaving great golden chunks of it half melted and wholly useless, mixed as it was with gravy […]
ref: 1930, Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, Memoirs of a Poor Relation: Being the Story of a Post-war Southern Girl and Her Battle with Destiny, page 293:
text: Simply gaum them all over with thick claybank mud and throw them into the fire. The clay will bake hard.
ref: 1990, Appalachian Journal, volume 18, page 196:
glosses: To smear.
Derived terms: gaumy
begaum
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to gaum (“smear”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: "douse your head under the pump and wash some of the gaum off your hands and we'll see what your Aunt Debbie can do for that empty feelin'."
ref: 1913, William Gerard Chapman, “Wine of the Orchard”, in Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel Fiction, volume 61, page 210:
text: Said 'Black Bill' Walker, of Walker's Valley, in speaking of the forge: 'I never heerd sech a rackity-rack! Ye'd think the heavens was fallin' down! Them fellers aworkin' thar in the sweat an' gaum reminded me more of the gate to the bad place!'
ref: 1927, Robert Lindsay Mason, The lure of the Great Smokies, page 150
text: They thrust their wedge-shaped faces into the light, then, one by one, tried the air with their delicate paper wings. The air bore them up; they circled lazily over the heads of men, they lit on hands and faces and in the gaum of wounds, they died underfoot.
ref: 2000, Howard Bahr, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War, →ISBN, page 106:
qualifier: Appalachia and other dialects
glosses: Grime.
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: gaums
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: When he had let what he deemed was a sufficiency of blood out of the incised vein, he called to Elvira to bring a spoon of "sut" from off the back of the fireplace and a "gaum" of spiderwebs from somewhere or other.
ref: 1939, Esquire, volume 12, numbers 1-3, page 54:
text: The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call a "gaum" of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say. His paintings were what these same cynics would probably call "representational," […]
ref: 1978, Editorials on File, volume 9, number 2, page 1392:
text: "There aint a gaum of grub to be found nowheres. If rain was syrup, we'd all be gorged, but there aint enough sup to make a housefly floop his snoot."
ref: 1990, Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Stay More, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: A bit, a small amount.
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: gaums
Etymology: Probably a variant of gom (an Irish English slang term for a foolish person), but possibly related to or influenced by gorming, gawming (“clumsy, stupid”).
Senses: examples: text: He's a scrawny gaum of a lad named Tony Regan, the tailor's eldest son.
ref: 1946, Liam O'Flaherty, Land, →ISBN:
text: I saw standing up out of the grass a murderous length of sharp steel. Some gaum of a farm boy had abandoned this scythe while cutting bundles of sourgrass for cattle-breeding.
ref: 1947, James Reynolds, A world of horses: A conversation piece, page 229:
text: I'm no gaum. I'll work th' delivery in such a wise way that neither of the boyos'll fall into the suspicion they had lost as much as a burnt-out match.
ref: 1956, Sean O'Casey, I knock at the door. Pictures in the hallway. [etc], page 133:
glosses: A useless person.
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: gaums
form: gauming
form: gaumed
form: gaumed
Etymology: Variant of gorm (“to make a mess of”), which see for more.
Senses: examples: text: "She'll get plum bereft 'n worried, even git the all'overs, if n the place's all gaumed up."
ref: 2005, Charles Ray, The Tarheel Connection: An Environmental Romance, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Some gaumed up their whole lives by a-hasteing in this or that thing, taking out their impatience on this or the other body.
ref: 2011, Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of gorm (to make a mess of).
gaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: gaums
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A village.
glutei maximi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gluteus maximus
ulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulus
form: uluit
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐅᓗ (olo, “woman's knife”).
Senses: glosses: An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women.
ulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻulu.
Senses: glosses: Breadfruit
ulu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːluː/
Forms: form: more ulu
form: most ulu
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay ulu.
Senses: examples: text: Sembawang Park is considered to be one of the country's most ulu spots because of its comparative isolation, and it was almost empty.
ref: 2007, Neil Humphreys, Complete Notes from Singapore: The Omnibus Edition, page 157:
text: Just pretend you're walking in a more ulu part of Botanic Gardens.
ref: 2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene xii, page 51:
glosses: Remote; deserted
kamik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmɪk/
ipa: /ˈkæmɪk/
rhymes: -ɑmɪk
Forms: form: kamiks
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᑲᒥᒃ (kamik).
Senses: examples: text: Regional differences affect kamik styles.
ref: 1987, Jill Elizabeth Oakes, Factors influencing kamik production in Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories:
text: The old man in old grayish kamiks still had very good vision […]
ref: 1996, William T. Vollmann, The Atlas:
glosses: A mukluk.
qamutiik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qamutiiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of komatik.
megatsunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mega-tso͞o-nä'mi
ipa: /ˌmɛɡətsuːˈnɑːmi/
enpr: mega-so͞o-nä'mi
ipa: /ˌmɛɡəsuːˈnɑːmi/
Forms: form: megatsunamis
form: megatsunami
Etymology: From mega- + tsunami.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: An extremely large tsunami-like wave caused by an avalanche or landslide displacing large amounts of water very quickly.
glosses: A very large tsunami.
Related terms: ice tsunami
meteotsunami
teletsunami
tsunami
earthquake
flood
natural disaster
seaquake
seiche
tidal wave
Saku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
credulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛd͡ʒələs/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛdjələs/
Forms: form: more credulous
form: most credulous
Etymology: Originated in 1576, borrowed from Latin crēdulus (“that easily believes a thing, credulous”), from crēdō (“to believe”).
Senses: examples: text: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
text: The doctor was a small, black, plump man with fuzzy hair and round, credulous eyes.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: naive
word: unworldly
word: gullible
word: credulous
word: green
word: naive
word: fleeceable
word: naif
word: born yesterday
word: fresh off the boat
word: wide-eyed
glosses: Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
examples: text: 'Twas he possess'd me with your credulous death
ref: c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 99:
text: The powerful mind of Aristotle, which led him to reject with disdain the credulous tales and fabulous stories of the age, can nowhere be traced in the writings of Pliny, whose works, on the contrary, abound in fables and in prodigies, at once manifesting that weakness of mind inseparable from credulity, or that disinclination to investigate truth, which is the sure mark of a secondary order of intellect.
ref: 1834, William Swainson, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History (Cabinet Cyclopedia), pages 8–9:
text: The media (and politicians) are replete with credulous stories about machine learning and AI, but these stories are often based on commercial claims.
ref: 2020, David Spiegelhalter, “Should We Trust Algorithms?”, in Harvard Data Science Review, volume 2, number 1, →DOI, page 2:
glosses: Believed too readily.
Derived terms: credulity
credulosity
credulously
credulousness
discredulous
omnicredulous
overcredulous
ultracredulous
uncredulous
Related terms: incredulous
noncredulous
nuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nunas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noona.
hypersensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersensitive
form: most hypersensitive
Etymology: From hyper- + sensitive. Doublet of supersensitive.
Senses: glosses: Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
glosses: Excessively sensitive; easily offended.
Derived terms: electrohypersensitive
hypersensitive avoidant
hypersensitively
hypersensitiveness
nonhypersensitive
pseudohypersensitive
Related terms: hypersensitivity
hypersensitize
hypersensitized
gams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gam
gams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gam
mosaicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosaicists
Etymology: From mosaic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a person who designs or builds mosaics
qallunaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qallunaaqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Qallunaaq.
chemical cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical cells
Senses: glosses: a voltaic cell consisting of two metal electrodes connected by an electrolyte
self-absorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + absorption.
Senses: glosses: Preoccupation with oneself to the exclusion of everything else.
prescriptivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescriptivists
Etymology: From prescriptive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.
ref: 2001 April, David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage”, in Harper's Magazine:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
Synonyms: prescriptionist
Related terms: prescribe
prescriptivism
prescriptivistic
grammarian
prescriptivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prescriptivist
form: most prescriptivist
Etymology: From prescriptive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312:
glosses: Having a tendency to prescribe.
Synonyms: prescriptionist
prescriptionistic
prescriptivistic
Related terms: prescribe
prescriptivism
prescriptivistic
ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -eɪdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of age
examples: text: It'll be ages until/before we meet again.
text: Does the Station go on still? That was ages and ages ago. It must be crumbling to pieces. All except the Amirtollah kutcha road. I don't believe that could crumble till the Day of Judgment.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 86:
text: “He's been gone ages,” she said, and she went with little light steps to the door, opened it, and crossed the passage into his room.
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 108:
text: Judith, aged 58, described her experience of seeking help for persistent back pain: "You don't actually see the consultant. You wait for ages and ages and ages and you come out feeling totally baffled really."
ref: 2012, Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions, UK: McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: A long time.
ages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -eɪdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of age
psoriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹaɪ.əsɪs/
note: Indic
ipa: /sɵrɪˈjæsɪs/
note: Indic
ipa: /sɵˈraj(ə)sɪs/
Forms: form: psoriases
Etymology: From Late Latin psōriasis (“mange, scurvy, psoriasis”), from Koine Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis: forming nouns of action & medical disorders”). Cognate with psora.
Senses: examples: text: He suffers from a skin complaint, psoriasis, which has rendered his hands scaly, hard and red.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 11:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.
Synonyms: word: lepra
Derived terms: antipsoriasis
parapsoriasis
psoriatic
Related terms: psora
enfilade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnfəlˈeɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛnfəlˌeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: enfilades
Etymology: Borrowed from French enfilade.
Senses: examples: text: In his Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst wrote about people who know their world history as being able to look back through the millennia as an enfilade of rooms: Greece yields to Rome; Rome to the Byzantine Empire ... the Renaissance ... the British Empire ... America ... China. The same goes for people who can recite their kings and queens. British history clicks into a long enfilade of discrete, identifiable periods.
ref: 2015 January 4, Harry Mount, “Kings and queens – any other approach to history is boring [print version: Game of thrones, 3 January 2015, p. R22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
examples: text: Uncle Charles, a truly unparalleled slinger of shit, is laying down an enfilade of same, trying to mollify men who seem way more in need of a good brow-mopping than I.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 13:
text: In minutes they had gained the top, fell prone, and began to pour deadly repeater-fire into the enemy below while their compatriots raked the top of the coulee with an enfilade.
ref: 1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 27, in The Englishman’s Boy, New York: Anchor, page 266:
antonyms: defilade
glosses: Gunfire directed along the length of a target.
topics: architecture
glosses: A series of doors that provide a vista when open.
Synonyms: flanking fire
raking fire
enfilade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnfəlˈeɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛnfəlˌeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: enfilades
form: enfilading
form: enfiladed
form: enfiladed
Etymology: Borrowed from French enfilade.
Senses: examples: text: A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments.
ref: 1765, John Wright, chapter 7, in The Compleat History of the Late War, volume 1, London: David Steel, page 202:
text: As they scrambled up a narrow path they every where found holes dug to cover the defenders of the mountain, and sticks crossed for resting their guns, with which they enfiladed every angle, that from the steepness it was necessary to make in ascending.
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 3, p. 72:
text: It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: He killed the machine gun crew, and without further orders pushed on and enfiladed a ditch from which three officers and 160 men subsequently surrendered.
ref: 2019 November 20, “Service honours railwaymen who fought and died in WW1”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: To rake (something) with gunfire.
examples: text: Together they saw the market thicken, and in course of time thin away with the slow decline of the sun towards the upper end of town, its rays taking the street endways and enfilading the long thoroughfare from top to bottom.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 24, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: From her rocking chair in the parlour, Mrs. Zell’s scrutiny enfiladed the entire block.
ref: 1921, Henry G. Aikman, Zell, London: Jonathan Cape, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 15:
glosses: To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
examples: text: […] the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry […]
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, Chapter 3:
topics: architecture
glosses: To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.
Synonyms: flank
Derived terms: unenfiladed
monotony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɑtəni/
ipa: /məˈnɑtni/
ipa: /məˈnɒtəni/
Forms: form: monotonies
Etymology: From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).
Senses: examples: text: It matters little to trace the rapidity of the land journey, or the monotony of the sea voyage—alike unmarked by adventure. Robert Evelyn landed at Southampton,...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 24:
text: Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.
ref: 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 1, in Through the Magic Door, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2011:
text: Transform my death into a conduit
This body separate from the fear of fear
Inside a coping mechanism of monotony
I will destroy the double vision that I was forced to leave
ref: 2023, “Angel Eyes”, performed by Spiritbox:
glosses: Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of a monotonic function.
glosses: The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.
Synonyms: sense: tedium
word: boredom
word: sameness
word: tedium
Derived terms: monotone
monotonist
monotonous
rush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌʃ/
homophone: Rush
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsċ (“quick, quick-witted, clever”), Old Frisian rosk, rosch (“quick, rapid, sudden”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English ruschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.
Senses: examples: text: a rush job
glosses: Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure, especially if therefore done badly.
rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌʃ/
homophone: Rush
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: rushes
Etymology: From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysċ, rysċe, risċ, risċe, from a merger of Proto-West Germanic *riskijā, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)resg- (“to weave”) and Proto-West Germanic *ruskijā, possibly borrowed from Latin rūscum (“butcher's broom”), of unknown origin + *-jā (animal and plant suffix).
Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”). Further cognates include Russian ро́зга (rózga).
Senses: synonyms: juncus
glosses: Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
glosses: The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
examples: text: [W]hat occaſion haſt thou to give up Eccleſdoun-Caſtle to John Bull? his Friendſhip is not vvorth a Ruſh, give it me and I'll make it vvorth the vvhile.
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Rest of Nic’s Fetches to Keep John out of Ecclesdoun-Castle”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: The merest trifle; a straw.
glosses: A wick.
Derived terms: Baltic rush
basket rush
club rush
common rush
dirty rush
Dutch rush
flowering rush
heath rush
long-beaked bald rush
path rush
rush candle
rush holder
rushlight
rush lily
rush nut
rush ring
rush skeletonweed
rush toad
scouring rush
sea rush
sharp rush
soft rush
softstem rush
sweet rush
toad rush
wire rush
Related terms: rushes
clamour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæm.ə/
ipa: /ˈklæm.ɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clamours
form: clamor
Etymology: From Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).
Senses: examples: text: Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 17:
glosses: British and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
clamour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæm.ə/
ipa: /ˈklæm.ɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clamours
form: clamouring
form: clamoured
form: clamoured
form: clamor
Etymology: From Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).
Senses: examples: text: The second argument , against the integrity of the Law from this Omission , has been clamoured by a large Body of Answerers
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: British and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
examples: text: At ſight of him the people with a ſhout / Rifted the Air clamouring thir god with praiſe,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 94, lines 621–622:
glosses: To salute loudly.
examples: text: Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To stun with noise.
glosses: To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
Derived terms: clamourer
clamoursome
outclamour
rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of rush
Derived terms: green rushes
rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
synonyms: dailies
glosses: Unedited footage; film material as recorded to tape etc.
rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rush
larynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləɹˈɪn.d͡ʒiːz/
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: plural of larynx
pairwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pâr
ipa: /ˈpɛə.waɪz/
enpr: pâr
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.waɪz/
ipa: /ˈpeː.wɑɪz/
Forms: form: pair-wise
Etymology: From pair + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: They proceeded to make pairwise comparisons.
coordinate_terms: triplewise
glosses: Occurring in pairs; two at a time.
Derived terms: nonpairwise
pairwise disjoint
pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
pairwisely
pairwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: pâr
ipa: /ˈpɛə.waɪz/
enpr: pâr
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.waɪz/
ipa: /ˈpeː.wɑɪz/
Forms: form: pair-wise
Etymology: From pair + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In or by pairs.
fort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹt/
ipa: /fɔːt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹt/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
homophone: forte (one pronunciation)
homophone: fought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: forts
Etymology: From Middle English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”) (adjective use is from Old French). Doublet of fortis and forte.
Senses: glosses: A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
glosses: Any permanent army post.
glosses: An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
examples: text: The kids built a fort out of chairs and pillows.
synonyms: den
glosses: A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
Synonyms: sense: fortified defensive structure
word: bastion
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: bulwark
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: bunker
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: castle
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: citadel
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: donjon
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: fortification
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: fortress
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: foxhole
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: keep
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: motte and bailey
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: rampart
sense: fortified defensive structure
word: stronghold
sense: permanent army post
word: air base
sense: permanent army post
word: armory
sense: permanent army post
word: arsenal
sense: permanent army post
word: base
sense: permanent army post
word: camp
sense: permanent army post
word: headquarters
sense: permanent army post
word: supply depot
sense: permanent army post
word: watchtower
Derived terms: climbing fort
fairy fort
Fort Augustus
Fort Bend County
Fort Benton
Fort Collins
Fort Davis
Fort Dodge
Fort Edward
Fort Erie
Fort Gaines
Fort Gay
Fort George
Fort Gratiot
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lee
fortlet
fortlike
Fort Madison
Fort Matilda
Fort Morgan
Fort Payne
Fort Pierce
Fort Pierre
Fort Scott
Fort Smith
Fort Stockton
Fort Sumner
Fort Valley
Fort Victoria
Fort Wayne
Fort William
Fort Worth
forty
Fort Yates
hill-fort
hold down the fort
man the fort
Navan Fort
pillow fort
polygonal fort
ringfort
snow fort
star fort
Related terms: fortress
fortification
hold the fort
fort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹt/
ipa: /fɔːt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹt/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
homophone: forte (one pronunciation)
homophone: fought (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: forts
form: forting
form: forted
form: forted
Etymology: From Middle English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”) (adjective use is from Old French). Doublet of fortis and forte.
Senses: synonyms: fort up
glosses: To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.
Related terms: fort-da
boustrophedon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbuːstɹəˈfiːdən/
Forms: form: bustrophedon
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix).
Senses: topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: In a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right with each new line.
raw_tags: of writing
boustrophedon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbuːstɹəˈfiːdən/
Forms: form: bustrophedon
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix).
Senses: topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.
raw_tags: of writing
glosses: Changing direction, going back and forth.
Derived terms: boustrophedonally
boustrophedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbuːstɹəˈfiːdən/
Forms: form: boustrophedons
form: bustrophedon
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The number of Attic boustrophedon texts is fairly small; most of those just cited have been brought down by the experts to a date close to 550 B.C., a date to which several texts of more than one line inscribed left to right may also be assigned (cf. pp.56—57 infra), besides the four-line retrograde sep. mon. of Pediarchus cited in the previous section (cf. p.52 supra). Stone texts only really become numerous in Attica about 550, and by this time it is clear that left-to-right writing is just as common as boustrophedon, and may have been so even earlier.[…]After 540 boustrophedon was certainly unusual.
ref: 1980, Leslie Threatte, The Grammar of Attic Inscriptions: Phonology, page 55:
text: (Venetic apparently had both kinds of boustrophedon, either flipping the face of the characters when switching direction or else inverting them (Lejeune, 1974, pages 180-181).)
ref: 2000, Richard Sproat, A Computational Theory of Writing Systems, page 61:
text: He draws a sharp distinction between true boustrophedon, which has the tops of the runes pointed in the same direction, but with a change in the direction of writing with each line, and false boustrophedon, which changes from upright to inverted runes with each line, but the lines themselves are each written in the same direction.
ref: 2002, Elmer H. Antonsen, Runes and Germanic Linguistics, page 132:
topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.
raw_tags: of writing
Derived terms: boustrophedic
boustrophedonic
boustrophedonically
reverse boustrophedon
Related terms: stoichedon
hold the fort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds the fort
form: holding the fort
form: held the fort
form: held the fort
form: hold down the fort
Senses: glosses: To assume or take responsibility, especially in another's absence.
glosses: To maintain a secure position.
appositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-pŏzʹĭ-tĭv
ipa: /əˈpɑzɪtɪv/
ipa: /-ɾɪv/
ipa: /əˈpɒzɪtɪv/
Senses: glosses: of or being in apposition
Derived terms: appositively
appositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-pŏzʹĭ-tĭv
ipa: /əˈpɑzɪtɪv/
ipa: /-ɾɪv/
ipa: /əˈpɒzɪtɪv/
Forms: form: appositives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a word or phrase that is in apposition
apposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəˈzɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: appositions
Etymology: From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositiō, past participle of appōnere (“to put near”).
Senses: examples: text: The apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 65:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: parathesis
glosses: A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
glosses: The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
glosses: A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
glosses: Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
glosses: A public disputation by scholars.
glosses: A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
Derived terms: appositional
malapposition
reapposition
au courant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ kʊˈɹɒn(t)/
ipa: /ˌoʊ kʊˈɹɑnt/
Forms: form: more au courant
form: most au courant
Etymology: Borrowed from French au courant (literally “to the current”).
Senses: examples: text: Doctor Portman and Smirke were both cautious of informing the widow of the constant outbreak of calumny which was pursuing poor Pen, though Glanders, who was a friend of the house, kept him au courant.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 135:
text: As Hemingway once noted, Paris is an old city—and so even a 1946 film looks au courant: part of the aesthetic air.
ref: 2013 October 23, Meghan O’Rourke, “Watching American Movies in Paris”, in The Atlantic:
text: Its hipness recalls the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax, making for an intoxicating blend of the retro and au courant.
ref: 2018 May 2, Catherine Taylor, “Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes review – foul-mouthed satire of modern France”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.
ref: 2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:
text: “Know Your Enemy,” an au courant lefty podcast, has devoted multiple episodes to discussions of Freud, who has become a frequent topic of conversation among the show’s hosts.
ref: 2023 March 22, Joseph Bernstein, “Not Your Daddy’s Freud”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Up to date; informed about the latest developments; abreast.
Synonyms: au parfum
avowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Etymology: From avow + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avow