cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
inter alia
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inter alia.
Senses: examples: text: Minority rights and their content can furthermore be clarified by indicating their place among the two pillars of a system of minority protection sensu lato, namely the prohibition of discrimination (inter alia in combination with the individual human rights) on the one hand and minority protection sensu stricto (implying 'special' measures for (members of) minorities) on the other hand.
ref: 2000, Kristin Henrard, Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection: Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination, Kluwer Law International, page 159:
text: Ecma’s standards include, inter alia, safety specifications, specifications for environmental product attributes, specifications for data communications such as IT security, specifications for system interconnection, as well as specifications for multimedia such as universal 3D (Ecma 2007d).
ref: 2009, Eliza Varney, “Ecma International”, in Christian Tietje, Alan Brouder, editors, Handbook of Transnational Economic Governance Regimes, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, part C (Communications, Electronics, and Media), section VI (The Role of Ecma in Transnational Economic Governance), page 556:
glosses: Among other things.
Related terms: i.a.
inter al.
inter alios
et al.
disreputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹɛpjʊtəbəl/
Forms: form: more disreputable
form: most disreputable
Etymology: From dis- + reputable.
Senses: glosses: Not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.
Derived terms: disreputableness
disreputably
disreputable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹɛpjʊtəbəl/
Forms: form: disreputables
Etymology: From dis- + reputable.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not reputable.
hoi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch hoi.
Senses: examples: text: A hollow groan, unlike anything she had ever heard in her life, came from the front, followed by a shout of "Hoi, there!"
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of hoy, hey! a call to gain someone's attention.
Related terms: hoi toider
hoi polloi
mephitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛˈfɪ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: more mephitic
form: most mephitic
Etymology: From Latin mephīticus, from mephītis; compare French méphitique.
Senses: examples: text: "I could have borne the sight of his crutch," said she, "but the crutch and the nephew together really oppress me like a mephitic vapour."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152:
text: It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
text: From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3:
glosses: Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.
Derived terms: antimephitic
mephitic acid
mephitic air
mephitic toad
Related terms: mephitis
repo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpoʊ/
/ˈɹiːpoʊ/
Forms: form: repos
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: Can you do a repo tomorrow? It's an SUV in Springfield.
glosses: Clipping of repossession, most commonly of a vehicle, house or condominium.
examples: text: That cruise ship starts its repo tomorrow; it's going to the Caribbean for the winter.
glosses: Clipping of repositioning.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Clipping of repurchase A type of agreement which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate, or to buy something back that was sold.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of repository (“storage location for files”).
Derived terms: repo depot
repo man
reverse repo
repo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpoʊ/
/ˈɹiːpoʊ/
Forms: form: repos
form: repoing
form: repoed
form: repoed
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: I had my car repoed when I became unable to keep up the payments.
glosses: repossess
juxta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juxtae
Etymology: From Latin iuxta.
Senses: examples: text: The juxta is simple.
ref: 1971, The Moths of America North of Mexico, Including Greenland, page 73:
glosses: In males of most species of order Lepidoptera, an organ that supports the aedeagus and is located between the two valvae.
juxta
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Latin iuxta.
Senses: examples: text: From Bodenick in Lanteglos juxta Fowey, the same as Leland's Bodeneck and Bodennck.
ref: 1870, Richard Stephen Charnock, Patronymica Cornu-Britannica, page 7:
glosses: Near, alongside, next to.
aedeagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /iˈdiː.ə.ɡəs/
/i.diˈeɪ.ɡəs/
Forms: form: aedeagi
form: aedoeagus
form: adeagus
Etymology: From New Latin aedeagus, derived from Ancient Greek αἰδοῖα (aidoîa, “private parts, pudenda”) + ἀγός (agós, “leader”), from ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”).
Senses: glosses: A copulatory organ of some male insects.
Derived terms: aedeagal
valva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valve.
Senses: glosses: A paired copulatory organ of males in some species of insects that helps the male clasp the female.
demographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: demographers
Etymology: From demo- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies demography.
Derived terms: biodemographer
paleodemographer
demography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: demographies
Etymology: From demo- (“people”) + -graphy (“written representation of”) (From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) and Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía), from γραφή (graphḗ, “writing, drawing, description”)).
Senses: glosses: The study of the characteristics of human populations, especially with regards to their makeup and fluctuations and the social causes behind these.
glosses: The study of the structure and population dynamics of other lifeforms, such as mammals, insects, plants, etc.
examples: text: the schoolʼs demography began to change with the immigrants and their offspring pouring in
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 297:
glosses: The particular demographic makeup of a population.
Synonyms: demology
Derived terms: biodemography
demographic
demosprudence
ethnodemography
geodemography
paleodemography
phylodemography
sociodemography
Related terms: demographer
demographics
involucre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnvəˌluːkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: involucres
Etymology: Borrowed from French involucre, from Latin involūcrum (“wrapper”). Doublet of involucrum.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.
Derived terms: involucral
involucrate
involucred
buttercup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌt.ə.kʌp/
ipa: /ˈbʌt.ɚ.kʌp/
Forms: form: buttercups
Etymology: From butter + cup. Both sense 1 and 2 are from the flowers' association with butter, from their yellow colour. Compare butterflower for a similar derivation; outside of English, compare Dutch boterbloem, German Butterblume.
Senses: glosses: Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.
glosses: Any flower of the genus Narcissus; a daffodil.
glosses: Ellipsis of buttercup squash.
examples: text: When she touched my hand, what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup.
I'm in love - I'm all shook up.
ref: 1957, “All Shook Up”, Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:
text: Listen, buttercup, you're damned good in bed. They don't come any better, but I'm really not interested in playing second fiddle to your camera or your young lovers.
ref: 1987, Joyce Brandon, Lady and the Lawman, page 346:
glosses: Affectionate or ironic term of address.
Synonyms: ranunculus
crowfoot
Derived terms: Bermuda buttercup
bulbous buttercup
buttercup anemone
buttercuplike
buttercupped
buttercup squash
buttercup tree
California buttercup
creeping buttercup
glacier buttercup
goldilocks buttercup
Greenland buttercup
wood buttercup
kaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kak
glume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: glumes
Etymology: From Latin gluma (“husk of grain”). The root can also be seen in glubere (“to peel”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).
Derived terms: glumaceous
glumal
glumed
glumelike
glumiferous
glumose
glumous
perianth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perianths
Etymology: From French périanthe, from New Latin perianthium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
examples: text: Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: biology
botany
bryology
natural-sciences
glosses: The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.
Synonyms: perigone
Derived terms: perianthal
perianthless
pseudoperianth
in high dudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “[…] But wandering here and there, incognito in a vapor, so much wickedness did Vivo spy out, that in high dudgeon he hurried up his ladder, knocking the mountains from under him as he went. […]”
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, chapter XC, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 314:
text: We have seen today elements of the Conservative party in high dungeon, or dudgeon—[Interruption.] Maybe they should be in the high dungeon. We have seen them in high dudgeon about the fact that […]
ref: 2019 March 27, Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab), “EU Exit Day Amendment”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 446:
text: Perino is just one of many who is in high dudgeon. And Newsom responded to Perino with a dead-on Trump-like response: “DANA ‘DING DONG’ PERINO (NEVER HEARD OF HER UNTIL TODAY!)”
ref: 2025 August 22, Tom Nichols, “MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Indignant and enraged.
in high dudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: When civil dudgeon first grew high, \ And men fell out, they knew not why; \ When hard words, jealousies, and fears, \ Set folks together by the ears..
ref: 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
text: He puts on a querulous voice and says, "Question. What particular altitude is dudgeon inevitably? Answer. High." He laughs and slaps his knees.
ref: 1987, Bernard MacLaverty, short story. "The Drapery Man" (published in The Great Profumo and Other Stories, Jonathan Cape, 1987) - p.35
glosses: Resentfully or furiously, with indignation or pomposity.
stipule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪpjuːl/
Forms: form: stipules
Etymology: From French, from Latin stipula (“stalk (of hay), straw”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A basal appendage of a typical leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside the petiole although sometimes absent or highly modified.
Derived terms: extrapetiolar stipule
pseudostipule
stipular
stipulate
stipuled
acquiescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acquiescently
form: most acquiescently
Etymology: From acquiescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an acquiescent manner.
sojourner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒd͡ʒənə/
ipa: /ˈsoʊd͡ʒɚnɚ/
ipa: /soʊˈd͡ʒɝnɚ/
Forms: form: sojourners
Etymology: From sojourn + -er.
Senses: examples: text: At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond:
glosses: A person who resides temporarily in a place.
Related terms: sojourn
acquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acquiets
form: acquieting
form: acquieted
form: acquieted
Etymology: From Late Latin acquietare, from Latin ad + quies (“rest”). Equivalent to a- + quiet. Doublet of acquit. See also quiet and aquiesce.
Senses: examples: text: […] can acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace, tranquillity and security of your state and person.
ref: 1613, Anthony Sherley, Sir Antony Sherley, His Relation of His Travels in Persia, page 86:
glosses: To quiet.
acquirability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acquire + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being acquirable; attainableness.
acquirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acquirable
form: most acquirable
Etymology: From acquire + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I had to limit my shopping list to items I knew would be acquirable at short notice.
glosses: Capable of being acquired.
Derived terms: unacquirable
nacarat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nacarats
Etymology: Borrowed from French nacarat, from Spanish or Portuguese nacarado, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “small drum”), from نَقَرَ (naqara, “to hollow out”). Related to English nacre and nagara.
Senses: glosses: A shade of bright red-orange.
glosses: Linens and cloths dyed such a shade.
-dan
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /dæn/
Etymology: From pimobendan.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of pimobendan derivatives used as cardiac stimulants.
merlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːlən/
ipa: /ˈmɝl(ə)n/
Forms: form: merlons
Etymology: A variant of merlin.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.
ref: 1949, N. P. Toll, “[Fibulae.] Bow Fibulae.”, in Teresa G. Frisch, N. P. Toll, edited by M[ikhail] I[vanovich] Rostoftzeff, A. R. Bellinger, F. E. Brown, N. P. Toll, and C. B. Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters: Final Report IV: Part IV. The Bronze Objects: Fascicle 1. Pierced Bronzes, Enameled Bronzes, and Fibulae, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 56:
text: Smaller and less powerful falcons included the merlon, the hobby, and the kesterel.
ref: 1991, Thomas S. Henricks, “Sport in Feudal England”, in Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England (Contributions to the Study of World History; 28), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:
text: The connection between sporting activities and social rank is given a fanciful expression in the aforementioned The Boke of St. Albans. In that work the author lists the types of birds considered appropriate for the various stations of human life: / The eagle, the vulture, and the merlon for an emperor [...]
ref: 2003, Thomas S. Henricks, “Sport in the Later Middle Ages”, in Eric Dunning, Dominic Malcolm, editors, Sport (Critical Concepts in Sociology), volume II (The Development of Sport), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part 10 (Medieval and Other Pre-modern Sports), page 160:
glosses: Alternative spelling of merlin (“a small falcon, Falco columbarius”).
embrasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹeɪʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: embrasures
Etymology: From Middle French embrasure.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: crenel (sometimes hyponymous technically)
text: But there were less casualties than might have been expected, and the barricade rose steadily, a wall of concrete two feet thick, with embrasures for two machine-guns and a small field gun.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 311, about the church at Pembridge:
topics: architecture
government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: loophole
glosses: Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
examples: text: She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Any small protected space.
examples: text: When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: Now he stands in a window embrasure, Liz's prayer book in hand.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 155:
glosses: The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
examples: text: And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows / Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: An embrace.
Derived terms: embrasured
petronoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Ben Brockwell, editor-in-chief of the Oil Price Information Service. Blend of petroleum + paranoia.
Senses: examples: text: Last week, as Americans were hit the hardest by record crude oil prices, the LA Times reported, in a piece entitled "Supply Fears, Fuel Speculators Pumping up Oil Prices." It goes on in the article. It says, "In an energy futures market wracked with concern that oil demand might outstrip supplies, traders call it petronoia, threats alone were enough to ignite prices."
ref: 2006, World crude-oil pricing: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session:
glosses: Fear and/or paranoia due to the economics of oil and petroleum.
bumper crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/
ipa: /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/
Forms: form: bumper crops
Etymology: From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) + crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop.
Senses: examples: text: The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year.
text: And then the Gay Rights Movement took over and I watched a new generation of homos coming down the assembly line. The Anita Bryant and John Briggs madness of the late '70s brought a bumper crop of new activists onto the scene who were different than the Gay Lib queers.
ref: 1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 10:
glosses: An excess of something; a large yield.
waggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waggish
form: most waggish
Etymology: From wag (“waghalter, rogue”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [H]ere Pen was immensely waggish, and caused hysteric giggles of delight from the ladies […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 48, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: witty, jocular, like a wag
glosses: mischievous, tricky
Derived terms: waggishly
waggishness
actuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæktʃu.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈæktju.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈækt͡ʃu.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈækt͡ʃʉ.æɪt/
Forms: form: actuates
form: actuating
form: actuated
form: actuated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin āctuātus, perfect passive participle of āctuō (“actuate, implement”), from Latin āctus, perfect passive participle of agō (“do, act”).
Senses: examples: text: Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
ref: November 6, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 67
text: I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.
ref: 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, pages 68–69:
synonyms: get going
set in motion
set off
trigger
glosses: To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
examples: text: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, 2. ed., London, Oxford University Press, 1973. § 11.
A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
text: Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
ref: 1712 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 255; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: instigate
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To incite to action; to motivate.
Derived terms: actuatable
actuation
actuator
reactuate
underactuate
Related terms: actualise
actualize
gnawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːə/
ipa: /ˈnɔəɹ/
rhymes: -ɔːə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gnawers
Etymology: From gnaw + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gnaws.
examples: text: South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers […].
ref: 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter VII, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: The Norway Rat is a good digger and a superb gnawer.
ref: 1947, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California, Stanford University Press, page 182:
glosses: One who gnaws.
A rodent or other animal that gnaws.
alimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: more alimentary
form: most alimentary
Etymology: From aliment (“food”) + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the alimentary imperative.
ref: 2014, Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.
glosses: Nourishing; nutritious.
Derived terms: agroalimentary
alimentariness
alimentary canal
alimentary castration
alimentary paste
oroalimentary
unalimentary
Related terms: aliment
alimental
alimentation
alimony
alma mater
alumnus
alimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni/
Forms: form: alimonies
Etymology: Known since the 17th century, from Latin alimōnia (“food, support, nourishment, sustenance”) (English aliment, as in alimentary), itself from alō (“to nourish”) + -mōnia (“action, state, condition”).
Senses: examples: text: In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.
ref: 1938 November 11, Westbrook Pegler, “Fair Enough”, in The Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, Florida, retrieved 20 Dec 2008, page A1:
text: Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
ref: 1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), spoken by Kevin Dolenz (Andrew McCarthy):
text: Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]
ref: 2002, James A. Abrahamson, Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk, page 192:
topics: law
synonyms: maintenance
glosses: A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
examples: text: […]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]
ref: 1626, Sampson Price, Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall, pages 27–28:
text: […]What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.
ref: 1633, John Randal, Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber-man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace, pages 32–33:
text: […]having the advantage of this strange way of alimony, he sold his allowance of provant at great rates;[…]
ref: 1653, Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling, →OCLC, page 308:
glosses: Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit.
Derived terms: alimonious
alimony drone
manimony
nonalimony
palimony
vaginamony
Related terms: aliment
alimentary
child support
nothing to write home about
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: The vegetables were okay, but the soup was nothing to write home about.
synonyms: no great shakes
antonyms: something to write home about
glosses: Not exceptional; not noteworthy or especially good.
OOTB
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of out of the box (of a product).
triticale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹɪtɪˈkeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: triticales
Etymology: Blend of Latin trīticum (“wheat”) + Latin sēcale (“rye”).
Senses: hypernyms: grain
cereal
glosses: A grain crop, a hybrid of wheat and rye, that gives a high yield.
glosses: Any particular variety of triticale.
Related terms: triticum
freedom fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freedom fighters
Senses: glosses: A person involved in armed conflict against an occupation, or oppressive government, etc.; a revolutionary, an insurgent, a rebel or insurrectionist.
Hypernyms: fighter
Derived terms: one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
fanny fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanny farts
Etymology: fanny (“the vagina”) + fart
Senses: glosses: An emission of air from the vagina, especially when audible.
glosses: A (normal) fart.
Synonyms: sense: expulsion of air from the vagina
word: cunt fart
sense: expulsion of air from the vagina
word: pussy fart
sense: expulsion of air from the vagina
word: queef
sense: expulsion of air from the vagina
word: vart
spruce up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spruces up
form: sprucing up
form: spruced up
form: spruced up
Senses: glosses: To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten.
examples: text: Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room.
text: Hu Yaobang was officially rehabilitated on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth in 2005 and his mausoleum in China Youth League City (Gongqingcheng) in Jiangxi province was spruced up.
ref: 2010, Bruce Gilley, “Deng Xiaoping and His Successors (1976 to the present)”, in William A. Joseph, editor, Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: Here's an interesting effect of a global pandemic that has forced Americans to stay home for nearly 10 months: with less vacation and dine-out options, folks have more money saved up than usual and, given the virtually endless amount of time spent staring at their own four walls, they seem to be more willing than usual to shell out some extra cash to spruce up their abodes.
ref: 2020 December 3, Anna Rahmanan, “Christmas trees are, indeed, more expensive this year than last”, in Time Out:
glosses: To refresh, revamp; to freshen or improve something, especially its appearance.
Synonyms: spiff up
sprucen up
tart up
bystander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌstænd.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bystanders
form: bye-stander
form: by-stander
Etymology: From by- + stander. Compare passerby.
Senses: examples: text: If he wins, he will be at liberty, perhaps, to give vent to a laugh, or to pass a remark on the circumstance to a bystander, or to stake again, or to double his stake; but, even this he must do solely out of curiosity, and for the pleasure of watching the play of chances and of calculations, and not because of any vulgar desire to win.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/II):
text: Conservative influencer Nick Sortor is handcuffed Thursday night by a police officer outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, a bystander video shows; the video does not show events leading up to the arrest.
ref: 2025 October 3, Andy Rose, “Arrest of conservative influencer Nick Sortor outside Portland ICE building now under federal investigation”, in CNN:
synonyms: onlooker
glosses: A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer, witness, or spectator.
Derived terms: bystander effect
bystanderish
bystandership
innocent bystander
Related terms: rubberneck
upstander
impressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more impressed
form: most impressed
Senses: examples: text: I was impressed with the cleanliness of the hotel.
glosses: strongly affected, especially favourably
glosses: stamped, under pressure
glosses: compelled to serve in a military force
glosses: confiscated by force or authority
Derived terms: impressedly
nonimpressed
Related terms: impress
impressive
impressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impress
Related terms: imprest
imprest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impress
imprest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɛst/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
Forms: form: imprests
Etymology: Prefix form of prest, perhaps after Italian imprestare, or perhaps from a misunderstanding of the phrase in prest.
Senses: examples: text: Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 240:
glosses: An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee.
imprest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɛst/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛst/
Forms: form: imprests
form: impresting
form: imprested
form: imprested
Etymology: Prefix form of prest, perhaps after Italian imprestare, or perhaps from a misunderstanding of the phrase in prest.
Senses: examples: February 23 1780, Edmund Burke, Establism Bill
it shall not be lawful to imprest or issue to the paymaster general of his majesty's land forces
glosses: To advance funds on loan.
lymphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmˈfæ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more lymphatic
form: most lymphatic
Etymology: From lymph + -atic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.
examples: text: Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart.
ref: 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 188:
text: Streaker, the housemaid, too, had an attribute of a most discomfiting nature. I am unable to say whether she was of an unusually lymphatic temperament, or what else was the matter with her, but this young woman became a mere Distillery for the production of the largest and most transparent tears I ever met with.
ref: 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: Who has not marked, where the full cheek should be,
Incipient lines of lank flaccidity,
Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow,
And where the throb of transport, pulses low?—
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, “Lines”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., published 1919, page 224:
text: He was a lymphatic, half-witted Hindu youth, who lived his life in almost complete silence[…]
ref: 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:
text: Hari, the holy man, who was to be the pundit that day, was just as Mr Biswas remembered him, just as soft-spoken and lymphatic. His felt hat sat softly on his head. He greeted Mr Biswas without rancour, without pleasure, without interest.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:
glosses: Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.
examples: text: A Negro stood by all the while trembling, now and then lifting up his hands and eyes, muttering his black Art to some hobgoblin, and (when we least suspected it) skips out, and in a limphatic rapture drew a long knife which he brandisht about his head 7 or 8 times, and after so many spells put it up againe; he then kisses the humid earth 3 times and rises merrily: upon a sudden, the skie cleared and no more noise affrighted us.
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, Book I, p. 28:
glosses: Madly enthusiastic; frantic.
Derived terms: angiolymphatic
cardiolymphatic
endolymphatic
extralymphatic
glymphatic
haemolymphatic
hemolymphatic
intralymphatic
lymphatically
lymphatic node
lymphatic system
lymphatic vessel
microlymphatic
neurolymphatic
nonlymphatic
perilymphatic
right lymphatic duct
translymphatic
vasculolymphatic
venolymphatic
lymphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmˈfæ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: lymphatics
Etymology: From lymph + -atic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A vessel that transports lymph.
Related terms: thoracic duct
civil service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil services
Senses: glosses: In parliamentary forms of government, the branches of government that are not military, legislative, or judicial, but work to apply its laws and regulations.
glosses: The body of civilian employees of any level of government, not subject to political appointment and removal, normally hired and promoted largely on the basis of competitive examination.
Related terms: civil servant
executive
lymphatic system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphatic systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In mammals, including humans, a network of lymph vessels and lymph nodes that transport fluid, fats, proteins, and lymphocytes to the bloodstream as lymph, and remove microorganisms and other debris from tissues.
Synonyms: lymph system
lymphoid system
systema lymphaticum
Related terms: glymphatic system
tempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmpt/
ipa: /tɛmt/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
rhymes: -ɛmt
Forms: form: tempts
form: tempting
form: tempted
form: tempted
Etymology: From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tendere (“to stretch”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”).
Senses: examples: text: She tempted me to eat the apple.
text: By Heav’ns, ſuch Virtues, join’d with ſuch Succeſs,
Diſtract my very Soul: Our Father’s Fortune
Wou’d almoſt tempt us to renounce his Precepts.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
text: Eveline Hill, the protagonist of the Dubliners story "Eveline," for example, successfully extricates herself from the confines of her "Eve" name since, like her nameling in the Garden of Eden who was tempted by promises of knowledge, Eveline, too, is tempted: […]
ref: 1994, Claire A. Culleton, Names and Naming in Joyce:
synonyms: entice
fand
lure
pander
tease
glosses: To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
examples: text: Its glossy skin tempted me.
text: The next time you are trout fishing and none of your lures tempts the fish, smoke a spoon hook and cast it.
ref: 2008, Popular Mechanics, How to Tempt a Fish: A Complete Guide to Fishing, page 20:
synonyms: word: beguile
word: entrance
word: allure
word: arrest
word: attract
word: becharm
word: beguile
word: bewitch
word: beckon
word: captivate
word: charm
word: court
word: delight
word: draw
word: enchant
word: engage
word: enthrall
word: entrance
word: enrapture
word: fascinate
word: hypnotize
word: interest
word: intrigue
word: mesmerize
word: pull
word: pull in
word: seduce
word: sirenize
word: spellbind
word: tempt
word: tole
glosses: To attract; to allure.
examples: text: It would be tempting fate.
synonyms: word: foment
word: urge
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To provoke something; to court.
Derived terms: temptation
tempter
tempt fate
temptful
temptless
temptly
tempt providence
temptress
temptsome
temptuous
temptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: temptations
Etymology: From Old French temptacion, from Latin temptatio. Morphologically tempt + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of tempting.
glosses: The condition of being tempted.
examples: text: At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
ref: 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement, seducement, or enticement.
glosses: Pressure applied to one's thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.
Synonyms: topics: Islam
religion
lifestyle
word: fitna
Derived terms: temptational
temptationful
temptationless
Related terms: get thee behind me
tempting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: more tempting
form: most tempting
Senses: examples: text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Attractive, appealing, enticing.
glosses: Seductive, alluring, inviting.
Synonyms: slinky
tempting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tempt
tempting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: temptings
Senses: examples: text: If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?
ref: 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
glosses: The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
lymph node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymph nodes
form: lymphnode
form: lymphonode
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: lymphatic node
lymph gland
lymphoglandula
lymphonodus
glosses: Each of the small oval bodies of the lymphatic system, distributed along the lymphatic vessels, that are clustered in the armpits, groin, neck, chest and abdomen. They act as filters, with an internal honeycomb of connective tissue filled with lymphocytes and macrophages that collect and destroy bacteria, viruses and foreign matter from lymph. When the body is fighting an infection, these lymphocytes multiply rapidly and produce a characteristic swelling of the lymph nodes.
Derived terms: lymph node syndrome
mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
Related terms: lymphonodular
tenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.ə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈtɛn.ə.bl̩]
ipa: /ˈten.ə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈten.ə.bl̩]
rhymes: -ɛnəbəl
Forms: form: more tenable
form: most tenable
Etymology: From the French tenable, from tenir (“to hold”); compare tenible.
Senses: examples: text: Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all.
text: Modern war rests on industry, and its evolution has all but abolished the "non-combatant," emptied the old idea of "innocent" trade of meaning, and made even of neutrality a barely tenable status.
ref: 1919, Henry Noel Brailsford, The Covenant of Peace: An Essay on the League of Nations, page 25:
text: Fitting into a tenable social position among other people requires not only the ability to simultaneously assess the nature of relationships with each person individually but also the ability to comprehend the indirect relational consequences of actions for connected relationships.
ref: 1998, Luanna H. Meyer, Making Friends: The Influences of Culture and Development, page 391:
text: In short, it is not a tenable position in our tight-knit community, or in a pluralistic democracy, to ask for a kinder space and to be unkind towards others.
ref: 2017 February 8, Maxwell Bevilacqua, “Op-Ed: A kinder space in the ivory tower”, in The Tufts Daily:
qualifier: argument
glosses: capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded
raw_tags: of a theory
examples: text: The island of Melos undoubtedly fell within his general conceptions of tenable empire for Athens.
ref: 1850, George Grote, A History of Greece; from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great, volume 8:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible
examples: text: In February, 1679, he was admitted "a planter" of the town and a home lot was granted him "on condition that it should have a tenable house built upon it within two years.
ref: 1679, Roberta Elizabeth Foote, The ancestors and descendants of Theodore Munroe Foote, published 1969, page 14:
text: They made a day of straightening the leaning stable on its foundations and staying its framework, so that with new roof and sheathing, it would be a tenable building for many years to come.
ref: 1923, Gene Stratton-Porter, The White Flag, page 387:
text: Protecting or assisting occupant evacuation and safety by maintaining tenable building spaces and exit paths
ref: 1997, Consulting-specifying Engineer, volumes 21-22, page 220:
glosses: Fit for habitation, similar, or related use.
luminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːmɪˈnɛs(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more luminescent
form: most luminescent
Etymology: From stem of Latin lumen (“light”) + -escent, equivalent to luminesce + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: But this does not have the slightly yellow glow of things made with luminescent dye.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 218:
glosses: Emitting light by luminescence.
Derived terms: autoluminescent
bioluminescent
cathodoluminescent
chemicoluminescent
chemiluminescent
chemoluminescent
electroluminescent
equiluminescent
immunoluminescent
luminescently
magnetoluminescent
mechanoluminescent
nonluminescent
oxoluminescent
photoluminescent
piezoluminescent
proluminescent
radioluminescent
roentgenoluminescent
superluminescent
thermoluminescent
transluminescent
triboluminescent
Related terms: luminesce
luminescence
phosphorescent
fluorescent
iridescent