cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
elite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈliːt/
ipa: /ɛˈliːt/
ipa: /ɪˈlit/
ipa: /eɪˈlit/
ipa: /əˈlit/
ipa: /iˈlit/
ipa: /ɪˈliːt/
ipa: [ɪˈlɪit]
ipa: /əˈliːt/
ipa: [əˈlɪit]
ipa: /ɛˈliːt/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ᵻˈlajʈ/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: eliter
form: more elite
form: elitest
form: most elite
form: élite
Etymology: From Middle English elit, from Old French elit, eslit (“chosen, elected”) past participle of elire, eslire (“to choose, elect”), from Latin eligere (“to choose, elect”), with past participle electus; see elect.
Senses: glosses: Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
examples: text: Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
ref: 2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
Derived terms: antielite
anti-elite
counterelite
elitarian
elite capture
elitedom
eliteness
elite overproduction
eliticide
elitocracy
nonelite
subelite
superelite
unelite
elite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈliːt/
ipa: /ɛˈliːt/
ipa: /ɪˈlit/
ipa: /eɪˈlit/
ipa: /əˈlit/
ipa: /iˈlit/
ipa: /ɪˈliːt/
ipa: [ɪˈlɪit]
ipa: /əˈliːt/
ipa: [əˈlɪit]
ipa: /ɛˈliːt/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ᵻˈlajʈ/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: elites
form: élite
Etymology: From Middle English elit, from Old French elit, eslit (“chosen, elected”) past participle of elire, eslire (“to choose, elect”), from Latin eligere (“to choose, elect”), with past participle electus; see elect.
Senses: examples: text: constituting an elite
text: the hubris of the elites
text: Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow?
ref: 1964 August 7, “France's Culture Corps”, in Time:
text: So is there a way out of the grim place we’re in? What I believe is that while resentment can put bad people in power, in the long run it can’t keep them there. At some point the public will realize that most politicians railing against elites actually are elites in every sense that matters and start to hold them accountable for their failure to deliver on their promises. And at that point the public may be willing to listen to people who don’t try to argue from authority, don’t make false promises, but do try to tell the truth as best they can. We may never recover the kind of faith in our leaders — belief that people in power generally tell the truth and know what they’re doing — that we used to have. Nor should we. But if we stand up to the kakistocracy — rule by the worst — that’s emerging as we speak, we may eventually find our way back to a better world.
ref: 2024 December 9, Paul Krugman, “My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment”, in New York Times:
glosses: A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
examples: text: The Nations League results have also seen England respond to an ongoing criticism that they fail to beat the top sides, with even Southgate insisting they could not be considered among the world's elite until they beat the best. The World Cup did nothing to answer those questions.
ref: 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: pica
glosses: A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
Derived terms: cyberelite
liberal elite
metropolitan elite
power elite
technoelite
Related terms: elect
elegant
eligible
elitism
elitist
l33t
select
selection
elongation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: elongations
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin elongatio, elongationem.
Senses: glosses: The act of lengthening.
glosses: The state of being lengthened.
glosses: That which lengthens out; a continuation.
glosses: The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
glosses: A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
examples: the elongation of Venus
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
Derived terms: elongational
hyperelongation
overelongation
superelongation
Related terms: elongate
elsewhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
ipa: /ˌɛlsˈwɛə/
ipa: /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈɛlsˌwɛɹ/
ipa: [ˈɛls(h)weːɹ]
ipa: [ˌɛlsˈ(h)weːɹ]
Etymology: From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”).
Senses: examples: text: If you won’t serve us, we’ll go elsewhere.
text: These particular trees are not to be found elsewhere.
text: Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own, / In a blue summer ocean far off and alone; / [...] / Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, / Is worth the best joys that life elsewhere can give.
ref: [1850?], Thomas Moore, “Had We Some Bright Little Isle of Our Own”, in W[illiam] M[ark] Clark, compiler, Clark’s Orphean Warbler. Containing a Choice Collection of Nearly Two Thousand Favourite Songs, Glees, Duets, &c., so Popular at the Present Time, as Sung at the Theatres, Public Concerts, &c., in London, London: Published by W. M. Clark, […], →OCLC, page 36:
text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
text: Many monuments sold in the US are crafted from granite produced in China, India and elsewhere overseas, while a lot of stone-working equipment comes from Europe.
ref: 2022 February 21, Tami Luhby, “Headstone makers struggle to serve grieving families as supply chain woes continue”, in CNN:
glosses: Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
synonyms: word: somewhere else
extra: in, at, or to some other place
Derived terms: elsewhereness
hereinelsewhere
take one's business elsewhere
take one's custom elsewhere
Related terms: sense: chiefly
word: elsewise
word: elsehow
word: elseward
word: elsewhat
word: elsewhen
word: elsewhence
word: elsewhither
word: elsewho
word: elsewhom
elsewhere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlsˈʍɛə/
ipa: /ˌɛlsˈwɛə/
ipa: /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈɛlsˌwɛɹ/
ipa: [ˈɛls(h)weːɹ]
ipa: [ˌɛlsˈ(h)weːɹ]
Forms: form: elsewheres
Etymology: From Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr and elles hwerġen (“elsewhere”); corresponding with else + where. Cognate with Old High German alleswār (“elsewhere”), whence Middle High German alleswā, alswā (“elsewhere”).
Senses: examples: text: We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which vertigos push human beings toward all kinds of elsewheres.
ref: 2000, Angela M Jeannet, Under the radiant sun and the crescent moon: Italo Calvino's storytelling:
glosses: Synonym of somewhere else: a place other than here.
synonyms: word: somewhere else
extra: a place other than here
elucidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌlu.sɪˈdeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: elucidations
Senses: examples: text: The essay might, undoubtedly, have been rendered much more complete by a collection of a greater number of facts in elucidation of the general argument.
ref: 1798, Thomas Malthus., An Essay on the Principle of Population:
text: At a time like the present when Eastern æsthetics are attracting the attention of scholars in all quarters, and particularly when the great field of Buddhist art is coming more into focus, a view of a little-known aspect of this subject may perhaps be the humble means of assisting in the elucidation of some of the complex problems with which this study is surrounded.
ref: 1912, Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal:
text: This note does not arrive at any conclusions not previously obtained by Bastable, Marshall and Pigou, but it shows the nature of the slip which led Edgeworth to conclusions contrary to theirs, and demonstrates the applicability of Marshall's "offer curve" apparatus to the elucidation of this problem.
ref: 1936 August, A. P. Lerner, “The Symmetry between Import and Export Taxes”, in Economica, volume 3, number 11, →JSTOR, pages 306-313:
text: 2016, December 6, Christopher Hooton writing in The Independent, Westworld: Ed Harris doesn’t have a clue what’s going on either
The finale might not provide much elucidation, a feature-length instalment that bombarded the viewer with information.
glosses: A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration
emaciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emaciations
Etymology: From emaciate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of making very lean.
examples: text: In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Related terms: emaciate
emanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛməˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emanations
Etymology: From emanate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
examples: text: Perfume is an emanation from a flower.
text: Her love for Francis Evelyn was an emanation of that romance which is in the heart of every girl; her preference was as much circumstance as choice, and strengthened by no comparison.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 90:
text: Hence, not only men, but all animals, and even vegetables, were supposed to be impregnated with some particle of the divine nature which was infused into them, and from which their various qualities and dispositions, as well as their powers of propagation, were thought to be derived. These appeared to be so many emanations of the divine attributes, operating in different modes and degrees, according to the nature of the beings to which they belonged.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 25:
glosses: That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
glosses: (physics, chemistry) The element radon (Rn)
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.
Derived terms: alt: radon-219
word: actinium emanation
word: emanational
word: emanationism
word: emanationist
alt: radon-222
word: radium emanation
alt: radon-220
word: thorium emanation
Related terms: evolution
emancipate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/
ipa: /əˈmæn(t)səˌpət/
ipa: /i-/
Forms: form: more emancipate
form: most emancipate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)); and manceps is from Proto-Italic *manukaps, from *manus (“hand”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon; to signal”)) + *-kaps (suffix denoting a catcher) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize; to hold”); referring to one who catches something in the hand).
The verb emancipate has sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place under one’s control”) which are contradictory. The Latin word ēmancipō had the same senses, and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that according to the Latin grammarian Paulus Festus (fl. 8th century) this is because both actions were effected by the legal process of mancipation.
Senses: examples: text: For I doe take the conſideration in generall, and at large of hvmane natvre to be fit to be emancipate, & made a knovvledge by it ſelf; […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 36, verso:
text: VVe have no ſlaves at home.—Then vvhy abroad? / And they themſelves once ferried o'er the vvave / That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book II. The Time-piece.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 47:
text: This be thy chosen haunt—emancipate / From passion's dreams, a freeman, and alone, / I rise and trace its devious course.
ref: c. 1800 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Picture, or, The Lover’s Resolution”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, page 133:
qualifier: obsolete except poetic
glosses: Synonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).
synonyms: word: emancipated
extra: having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free
emancipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emancipations
Etymology: 1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 308:
text: As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]
ref: 2022 June 24 [2022 March 24], Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte, Jussi Ylikoski, “North Saami”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
examples: text: US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
glosses: The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
Synonyms: sense: setting free from slavery
word: manumission
Derived terms: Emancipation Day
emancipationist
emancipation waist
nonemancipation
postemancipation
Related terms: word: emancipate
word: emancipator
word: emancipatoric
word: emancipatrix
emasculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emasculations
Etymology: From emasculate + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
glosses: The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
examples: text: The authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.
glosses: The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
Hypernyms: sense: total removal of male genitalia
word: castration
Derived terms: auto-emasculation
Related terms: emasculate
effemination
feminine
masculine
embargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Forms: form: embargoes
form: embargos
Etymology: From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).
Senses: glosses: An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
examples: text: Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
glosses: A ban on trade with another country.
examples: text: This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.
glosses: A temporary ban on making certain information public.
examples: text: They were delighted with the idea of their mamma having forgiven Louisa, but sorry, she thought, such a public proof of her pardon necessary as that of giving a party; for the sisters well knew how great an embargo it would lay on the purses of Helen and Georgiana;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure.
Synonyms: sense: blocking seaport activity
english: often metonymically synonymous
translation: often metonymically synonymous
word: blockade
Derived terms: Bat-embargo
counterembargo
embargoist
preembargo
embargo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Forms: form: embargoes
form: embargoing
form: embargoed
form: embargoed
Etymology: From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).
Senses: glosses: To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
examples: text: Embargoed until after first reading in Parliament
ref: 2023 July 4, “Introduction of the Lease Agreements for Retail Premises Bill”, in Ministry of Trade and Industry:
glosses: To impose an embargo on a document.
embed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɛd/
ipa: /ɛmˈbɛd/
other: /əmˈbɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: embeds
form: embedding
form: embedded
form: embedded
form: imbed
Etymology: From em- + bed.
Senses: examples: text: to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
text: To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78:
text: I have given my reasons for believing that … ; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
text: This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.
ref: 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 304:
text: In the opposite direction a train got away from Huntly, but became embedded in the snow at Insch, where the passengers spent the night.
ref: 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
glosses: To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
examples: text: We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.
text: After some unnecessary, producer-pleasing expository text, he opens the movie in close-up on the back of a camo combat helmet Sharpied in Vietnam-style graffiti, effectively embedding the viewer with a bedraggled squad of human soldiers—armed with assault rifles, sawed-off shotguns, and crossbows—as they inch toward the stake-wall of Caesar’s compound in an attempt to bust through, only to be met with deadly clumps of Amazonian arrows and smoky flung projectiles.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To include (something) in surrounding matter.
examples: text: The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To encapsulate within another document or data file.
examples: text: The torus S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To define a one-to-one function from one set to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.
Derived terms: cryoembed
disembed
embeddability
embeddable
embedder
embedment
reembed
unembed
embed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.bɛd/
Forms: form: embeds
form: imbed
Etymology: From em- + bed.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: One thing embedded within another, as:
An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.
examples: text: He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase.
ref: 1992, Sammy Richard Danna, Advertising and Popular Culture:
glosses: One thing embedded within another, as:
An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
examples: text: When you change the content of these embeds, this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.
ref: 2006, Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions:
text: Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.
ref: 2011, Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas, page 265:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One thing embedded within another, as:
A digital object embedded within another, which is often a document.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One thing embedded within another, as:
A piece of computer hardware embedded within another physical object, which is often a larger IT device.
embrocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: embrocations
Senses: examples: text: The best cure of those who be in a frensie, is by sleepe: and that may be procured easily by the juice of Peucedanum & vineger together infused vpon the head by way of imbrocation, or by rubbing the same with it:
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXVI.] 11.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 260:
text: 1684, uncredited translator, Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences by Samuel Du Clos, London: Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, “Advertisements and Corollaries,” p. 121,
The Observations of the Effects of these Waters on Persons who use them in Drinking, Bathing, Pumping, Washing, Embrocation, &c. are reserv’d for the Physicians, whose Duty it is to know the Particular Constitutions of those Persons, and the State of their Health Declining or Improving.
glosses: The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
examples: text: “Oh! my dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it. Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of Mr. Wingfield’s, which we have been applying at times ever since August.”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: You are hereby notified that my embrocations burn and tingle as if distilled from liquid flame. My medicines taste vilely, of cimiter, dogbane and gall: the body quickly returns to robust health so that it need assimilate no more of my foul concoctions! That is the secret of my success.
ref: 1983, Jack Vance, chapter 25, in Suldrun’s Garden, New York: Berkley:
text: Here you can also stick your nose in a box and experience what a rugby changing room smells like—embrocation, I think they mean.
ref: 2010 September 6, “Scrum deal: Warm up for the World Cup with a tour of New Zealand”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.
Related terms: embrocate
emendation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛmənˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪˌmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emendations
Etymology: From Middle English emendatioun, from Latin ēmendātiō; equivalent to emend + -ation. Piecewise doublet of amendation.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Aye, aye,’ quoth she, and it will be observed that no emendation whatever is necessary to be made in these two initiative remarks, ‘Aye, aye! […]
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
examples: text: The book might be improved by judicious emendations.
text: After some deliberation I decided to publish this journal, with only such emendations and corrections as its hasty writing in camp necessitated.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page iv:
text: Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:
text: Thus he beheld her recede, and in the anguish of his heart quoted a line from a poet, with peculiar emendations of his own— God’s not in his heaven: All’s wrong with the world!
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXVII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
examples: text: The genus name Uramyia is an unjustified emendation of Uramya even though it uses a better transliteration of the Greek word μυῖα.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
Synonyms: revision
Derived terms: nonemendation
emigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emigrations
Etymology: From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).
Senses: synonyms: outmigration
antonyms: inmigration
immigration
hypernyms: migration
glosses: The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
examples: text: the Irish emigration
glosses: A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively.
Derived terms: antiemigration
emigrational
emigrationist
inner emigration
nonemigration
postemigration
semigration
Related terms: word: emigrate
word: émigré
word: emigre
word: migrate
word: migratory
eminent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪnənt/
homophone: imminent
homophone: immanent (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: more eminent
form: most eminent
Etymology: From Middle French éminent, from Latin present participle ēminēns, ēminentis, from verb ēmineō (“I project, I protrude”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + mineō, related to mons (English mount). Compare with imminent. Unrelated to emanate, which is instead from mānō (“I flow”).
Senses: examples: text: His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.
synonyms: word: remarkable
word: outstanding
word: distinguished
word: eminent
word: forestanding
word: markworthy
word: mentionable
word: nameable
word: namely
word: nameworthy
word: notable
word: noteworthy
word: extraordinaire
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: pass-remarkable
word: ponderable
word: prominent
word: remarkable
word: signal
word: sovereign
glosses: Noteworthy, remarkable, great.
examples: text: In later years, the professor became known as an eminent historian.
text: “So. Miss Alice. Are you game?” The question is posed by an eminent novelist of about 70, who has sat on a Manhattan park bench and struck up conversation with a young woman reading a book.
ref: 2018 February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: distinguished
word: noteworthy
word: distinguished
word: eminent
word: forestanding
word: markworthy
word: mentionable
word: nameable
word: namely
word: nameworthy
word: notable
word: noteworthy
word: extraordinaire
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: pass-remarkable
word: ponderable
word: prominent
word: remarkable
word: signal
word: sovereign
glosses: Distinguished, important, noteworthy.
raw_tags: of a person
synonyms: word: towering
word: prominent
word: elevated
word: eminent
word: exalted
word: high
word: lofty
word: tall
glosses: High, lofty.
Derived terms: eminence
eminent domain
eminently
eminentness
hypereminent
preeminent
supereminent
uneminent
Related terms: imminent
prominent
emulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛm.jʊˈleɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛm.juˈleɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /-ʃɪn/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʃɪn
Forms: form: emulations
form: æmulation
Etymology: From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō.
Senses: examples: text: a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation
text: Allur'd, not forc'd, encourag'd, not compell'd;
The shrinking eye look'd up, the soul was cheer'd,
Felt as it learnt, confided e'er it fear'd;
And first by emulation's ardour mov'd,
Prest onward in the path which soon it lov'd.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tribute to an Instructor, page 210:
glosses: The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
examples: text: Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […] , but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […]
ref: , New York Review Books 2001, p.263
glosses: Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.
Related terms: emulate
emulative
emulator
encase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: encases
form: encasing
form: encased
form: encased
form: incase
Etymology: From en- + case.
Senses: examples: text: They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.
ref: 1918, Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe:
text: She was a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body, with feet to match—these last encased in good thick boots.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 8:
text: And with the story of the booking office, we have a fortune deeply entwined with the stations encasing them.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 61:
glosses: To enclose, as in a case.
Derived terms: encasement
encaser
encapsulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: encapsulations
Senses: glosses: The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of arranging data into packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
Derived terms: bioencapsulation
hyperencapsulation
macroencapsulation
microencapsulation
nanoencapsulation
photoencapsulation
encincture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encinctures
Etymology: From en- + cincture.
Senses: glosses: A cincture or girdle.
encincture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encinctures
form: encincturing
form: encinctured
form: encinctured
Etymology: From en- + cincture.
Senses: glosses: To encircle or gird.
Derived terms: encincturement
enigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more enigmatic
form: most enigmatic
form: ænigmatic
form: ænigmatick
form: enigmatick
Etymology: From Latin aenigmaticus and French énigmatique, from Ancient Greek αἰνιγματικός (ainigmatikós); equivalent to enigma + -tic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an enigma.
examples: text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Mysterious.
glosses: Defying description.
glosses: Enigmatical.
Derived terms: enigmatically
enigmatic canon
enigmaticness
unenigmatic
enlace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: enlaces
form: enlacing
form: enlaced
form: enlaced
Etymology: From Old French enlacer.
Senses: examples: text: But yet I may ſay ſafely, so many wel lettred
Embraudred, enlaſid together, and fettred,
And ſo little learning, ſo lewdly alowed,
What fault find ye herein but may be avowed?
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
synonyms: lace
encircle
enfold
glosses: To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace
examples: text: The chains of command are designed to enlace various departments.
text: The bonds of friendship helped enlace the two communities.
text: His speech sought to enlace both the traditional and modern values.
glosses: To entangle.
Derived terms: enlacement
enlighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈlaɪtən/
ipa: /ənˈlaɪtən/
ipa: /ɛnˈlaɪtən/
rhymes: -aɪtən
Forms: form: enlightens
form: enlightening
form: enlightened
form: enlightened
Etymology: Formerly also inlighten, from Middle English enlightenen, inlightnen, a hybrid formed from inlighten (“to enlighten, illuminate”), from Old English inlīhtan, onlīhtan, enlīhtan (“to enlighten, illuminate, give light to, give sight to”) and lightnen (“to enlighten, illuminate”) (equivalent to light + -en). Cognate with Dutch inlichten (“to enlighten, inform”), Old High German inliuhten (“to enlighten, illuminate”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (inliuhtjan, “to enlighten, illuminate”). More at inlight, -en.
Senses: examples: text: The sun enlightens the Earth.
synonyms: word: illumine
word: illuminate
word: alight
word: belight
word: beshine
word: bright
word: enlighten
word: fire
word: illume
word: illuminate
word: illumine
word: illustrate
word: irradiate
word: light
word: lighten
word: light up
word: luster
word: lustrate
word: shed light on
antonyms: endarken
glosses: To supply with light.
examples: text: She tried to enlighten them about the rules of the program, but they remained belligerently and self-righteously ignorant.
text: Care to enlighten me, if you think I'm so benighted?
text: There was a warning sulkiness in the manner of this speech, which admonished Mr Pecksniff that his dear friend was not to be trifled with or fenced off, and that he must either return a straight–forward reply to his question, or plainly give him to understand that he declined to enlighten him upon the subject to which it referred.
ref: 1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in Martin Chuzzlewit:
text: As your reviewer showed, the purpose of the translator and publishers is to help along the labor movement by furnishing a lesson from the past to enlighten the movement of to-day.
ref: 1904 August 27, John Hossack, “The Mysteries of the People”, in New York Times:
text: I'm in jail for what I hope will be a short stay and really quite lonely. If there are any who would care to correspond, I will be greatly pleased and will try to enlighten any and all to the hardships we have in prison.
ref: 1976 August 21, Donald Dougherty, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 13:
text: Rather than focus on true-to-life drama that might have enlightened viewers, the BBC, frightened by Tory politicians’ threats to its very existence, concentrated its dramatic output on inaccurate historical soap operas, that falsified the view of our past.
ref: 2016 October 30, Bernie Evans, “The big issue: where the true blame lies for our dangerous politics of hate”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: apprise
clarify
explain
notify
inform
edify
glosses: To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.
Derived terms: enlightenable
enlightener
enlightenment
Related terms: elucidate
lighten
enlightenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/
ipa: /ənˈlaɪtənmənt/
ipa: /-laɪtmənt/
Forms: form: enlightenments
form: enlightment
Etymology: From enlighten + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
examples: text: But the man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion, or, as was said a couple of thousand years later, that there is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
ref: 1893, Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics:
text: Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
ref: 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
Synonyms: epiphany
peace that passeth understanding
bodhi
nirvana
satori
zen
Derived terms: pseudoenlightenment
enmity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɛn(ɨ)mɪʈi/
Forms: form: enmities
Etymology: From Middle English enemyte, from Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad. Equivalent to enemy + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: We know from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 14:
text: Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 242e:
glosses: The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
examples: text: I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: Maybe only a system that can contain the deep enmity between people who spell the metal aluminum and those who spell it aluminium is up to the task of preserving our fragile democratic institutions.
ref: 2018 August 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
Synonyms: animosity
animus
antagonism
antipathy
enemyhood
enemyness
enemyship
fiendship
foeship
hostility
rancor
Derived terms: archenmity
nonenmity
enrage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɹeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: enrages
form: enraging
form: enraged
form: enraged
Etymology: From Old French enrager, enragier, from rage. Equivalent to en- + rage.
Senses: glosses: To become angry or wild.
glosses: To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
examples: text: La[dy Macbeth]. I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe
Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight. […]
Len[nox]. Good night, and better health
Attend his Maieſty.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 2:
glosses: To provoke to madness, to make insane.
Synonyms: word: affront
word: aggravate
word: anger
word: antagonize
word: awrath
word: burn up
word: cheese off
word: cross
word: embitter
word: envenom
word: gall
word: get
word: get to
word: honk off
word: incense
word: inflame
word: infuriate
word: madden
word: make angry
word: nark
word: offend
word: outrage
word: provoke
word: put out
word: rankle
word: rile
word: piss off
word: roil
word: set off
word: steam
word: tick off
word: get one's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: make someone see red
word: make someone's blood boil
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: raise someone's shag
word: rattle someone's cage
word: rub the wrong way
word: ruffle some feathers
word: set up someone's birse
Hypernyms: word: incite
Derived terms: enragement
Related terms: word: angry
word: annoy
word: annoyed
enshrine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈʃɹaɪn/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɹʌɪn/
ipa: /ɛnˈʃɹʌɪn/
Forms: form: enshrines
form: enshrining
form: enshrined
form: enshrined
form: inshrine
Etymology: From en- + shrine.
Senses: examples: text: A Phœnix, gaz'd by all, as that ſole Bird / When, to enſhrine his reliques in the Sun’s / Bright temple, to Ægyptian Theb's he flies.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 272–274:
glosses: To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest.
examples: text: Warlike and Martiall Talbot, Burgonie / Inſhrines thee in his heart, and there erects / Thy noble Deeds, as Valors Monuments.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 108, column 2:
text: The minister knew well that he was himself enshrined within the stainless sanctity of her heart, which hung its snowy curtains about his image, imparting to religion the warmth of love, and to love a religious purity.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter XX, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: At the centre of Muhammad's achievement was the extraordinary poetry which enshrined his revelations.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 256:
glosses: To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence.
examples: text: Other measures, such as compensation for victims, will be enshrined in the proposed new law.
text: The links were mostly to newspaper articles and public records, and Google refused to comply, but with the “right to be forgotten” enshrined as a key objective of the European Union’s 2011 data protection strategy, more and bigger cases are likely to follow.
ref: 2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:
text: In total, it would have enshrined over 100 rights into Chile’s national charter, more than any other constitution in the world, including the right to housing, education, clean air, water, food, sanitation, internet access, retirement benefits, free legal advice and care “from birth to death.”
ref: 2022 September 4, Jack Nicas, “Chile Says ‘No’ to Left-Leaning Constitution After 3 Years of Debate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: To protect (an idea, ideal, or philosophy) within an official law or treaty.
Derived terms: enshrinee
enshrinement
enshriner
unenshrined
ensnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕn-snärlʹ
ipa: /ɛnˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/
other: [ɛnˈsnɑːɫ]
other: [ɛnˈsnɑɚ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: ensnarls
form: ensnarling
form: ensnarled
form: ensnarled
Etymology: From en- + snarl.
Senses: examples: text: They in awayt would closely him ensnarle, / Ere to his den he backward could recoyle, / And so would hope him easily to foyle.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To entangle; to trap.
Synonyms: ensnare