cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
translucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈluː.sənt/
ipa: /tɹænzˈlu.sənt/
Forms: form: more translucent
form: most translucent
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trāns-
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Italic *loukēō
Latin lūceō
Latin trānslūceō
Latin trānslūcēnsbor.
English translucent
From Latin trānslūcentem, accusative of trānslūcēns, present participle of trānslūcēre.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: semitransparent
text: The window-panes, encrusted with perennial deposits of Atmosphere, were less transparent than translucent.
ref: 1913, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 1, in The Day of Days:
text: On the windows of the nearer buildings the sun cast glittering beams, but further away a faint, translucent mist hid the city.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 21, in Jill the Reckless:
coordinate_terms: opaque
transparent
glosses: Allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it.
examples: text: Mr. Blaine's powers and disposition shone resplendent. . . . the gavel in his practised hand, chiming in with varied tones that aptly enforced his words, from the sharp rat-tat-tat that recalled the House to decorum, to the vigorous thunder that actually drowned unparliamentary speech; rulings, repartee, translucent explanation flashing from his lips as quick as lighting.
ref: 1884, Henry J. Ramsdell, Life and Public Services of Hon. James G. Blaine, Hubbard, pages 105–106:
text: I thought you'd come round to my view, but I own I was startled at your not seeing it from the beginning. The man is a translucent liar and knave.
ref: 1904 June 11 and 18, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “The Singular Speculation of the House-agent”, in The Club of Queer Trades, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, published April 1905, →OCLC, pages 151–152:
text: [T]he sun was in its greatest splendor, and the air was absolutely translucent. The lake and the mountains sprang out, sharp and clear.
ref: 1919, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 3, in The Lords of the Wild:
glosses: Clear, lucid, or transparent.
raw_tags: of words or traits
Synonyms: word: semitransparent
word: semipellucid
word: semiopaque
word: through-shine
word: tralucent
word: translucent
Hyponyms: word: frosted
word: milky
word: semidiaphanous
word: sheer
word: nacreous
word: opalescent
word: opaline
word: pearlescent
Related terms: translucence
translucency
translucent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈluː.sənt/
ipa: /tɹænzˈlu.sənt/
Forms: form: translucents
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trāns-
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Italic *loukēō
Latin lūceō
Latin trānslūceō
Latin trānslūcēnsbor.
English translucent
From Latin trānslūcentem, accusative of trānslūcēns, present participle of trānslūcēre.
Senses: examples: text: They can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, and all colors of translucents, transparents and opaques, grained ivory, shell (plain and corrugated mottle), onyx, wood effects, plaids, checks, stripes, metallic, bronze pearl plain, bronze pearl with fancy blocks, bronze pearl in veins and stripes, and what is called “essence pearl.”
ref: 1935 March, F. L. Nowosatka, “Making Colorful Modern Rings from Old Toothbrush Handles”, in Raymond J. Brown, editor, Popular Science Monthly, volume 126, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Home Workshop” section, page 97, column 2:
text: The trademark LaCie «eye» is back, metal is in the house and the translucents are finally in the trash.
ref: 2002 October, Neil Poulton, quotee, “LaCie ‘d2’ drives”, in David Flynn, editor, APC, number 286, Sydney, N.S.W.: ACP Tech, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 166:
text: These could be the raw material of both the massive cold phase, the giant molecular clouds and complexes through their connections with the translucent clouds, and also by ionization the warm medium. They and the translucents are also important for understanding the Lyα forest and therefore have cosmological implications.
ref: 2004, S. N. Shore, “The Milky Way: Four Centuries of Discovery of the Galaxy”, in Emilio J[avier] Alfaro, Enrique Pérez, José Franco, editors, How Does the Galaxy Work? A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds (Astrophysics and Space Science Library; 315), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, section 6 (Some New Questions), “Hot Gas, Warm Gas, Cool Gas, Cold Gas: Heating and Cooling” subsection, page 11:
coordinate_terms: opaque#Noun
transparent#Noun
glosses: Something that is translucent.
opaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈpeɪk/
ipa: /oʊˈpeɪk/
ipa: /əʉˈpæɪk/
ipa: [ɐʉˈpæɪk]
ipa: /ɐʉˈpæɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: more opaque
form: opaquer
form: most opaque
form: opaquest
form: opake
Etymology: From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque. Doublet of ubac.
Senses: examples: text: We have agreed that heat is energy to begin with. Light is also a form of energy for when absorbed by any opaque substance it turns completely into heat.
ref: 1968, Isaac Asimov, Photosynthesis, Basic Books, Inc., page 60:
glosses: Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
glosses: Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
glosses: Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
glosses: Obtuse, stupid.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
Synonyms: word: adiaphanous
word: nontransparent
word: opacous
word: opacular
word: opaque
word: thick
Hyponyms: word: starproof
Derived terms: nonopaque
opacify
opaque box
opaquely
opaquen
opaqueness
radio-opaque
radiopaque
referentially opaque
semiopaque
subopaque
unopaque
Related terms: opacity
opaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈpeɪk/
ipa: /oʊˈpeɪk/
ipa: /əʉˈpæɪk/
ipa: [ɐʉˈpæɪk]
ipa: /ɐʉˈpæɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: opaques
form: opake
Etymology: From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque. Doublet of ubac.
Senses: examples: text: Through this opaque of Nature and of Soul, / This double night, transmit one pitying ray, / To lighten, and to cheer.
ref: 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, section I:
glosses: An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
examples: text: They can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, and all colors of translucents, transparents and opaques, grained ivory, shell (plain and corrugated mottle), onyx, wood effects, plaids, checks, stripes, metallic, bronze pearl plain, bronze pearl with fancy blocks, bronze pearl in veins and stripes, and what is called “essence pearl.”
ref: 1935 March, F. L. Nowosatka, “Making Colorful Modern Rings from Old Toothbrush Handles”, in Raymond J. Brown, editor, Popular Science Monthly, volume 126, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Home Workshop” section, page 97, column 2:
coordinate_terms: translucent#Noun
transparent#Noun
glosses: Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
opaque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈpeɪk/
ipa: /oʊˈpeɪk/
ipa: /əʉˈpæɪk/
ipa: [ɐʉˈpæɪk]
ipa: /ɐʉˈpæɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: opaques
form: opaquing
form: opaqued
form: opaqued
form: opake
Etymology: From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque. Doublet of ubac.
Senses: glosses: To make, render (more) opaque.
Synonyms: blur
cloud
Related terms: translucent
sealab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealabs
Etymology: From sea + lab.
Senses: glosses: An underwater laboratory.
skylab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skylabs
Etymology: From sky + lab.
Senses: examples: text: Two possibilities come to mind: (1) the use of multi-body spacecraft systems, e.g. space stations or shuttle skylabs employing subsatellites and/or passive balloons. (2) the use of cluster system of several small satellites of different size, geometry and surface material.
ref: 1972, Israel Journal of Technology - Volume 10, page 188:
text: Two aspects of altered immunity must be dealt with before man can exist for extended periods in space capsules, skylabs, or sealabs.
ref: 1973, Aerospace Medicine - Volume 44, Issues 5-8, page 624:
text: What are the scientists up to, apart from perfecting impenetrable food packaging and orbiting skylabs?
ref: 1973, Institute of Bankers (Great Britain), Journal of the Institute of Bankers - Volumes 94-95, page 252:
text: With the growing possibility of a global nuclear accident, untold genetic defects, falling skylabs, and the unleasing of powers science cannot control people are once more “off center.”
ref: 1981, William J. Bausch, The Christian Parish: Whispers of the Risen Christ, page 51:
text: When asked whether China will launch its own skylabs and space shuttles, Shen Rongjun said: "The ultimate purpose of aerospace technology is to send people into space. […] "
ref: 1986, Daily Report: China - Issues 108-116:
glosses: An outer space laboratory.
Related terms: Skylab
skylab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skylabs
Etymology: From Cebuano skylab, from English Skylab, from its crude resemblance in shape to the space station.
Senses: examples: text: At the very beginning of my time in Lake Sebu the jeepneys coming from the lowland would go until Lëm-Delag. Later on, the barangay officials decided that only skylabs were allowed to carry passengers to Lëm-Delag.
ref: 2003, Karl Aanonsen, Sunggud is Our Business, page 55:
text: Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.
ref: 2005, Philip Cornwel-Smith, John Goss, Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture, page 46:
text: In the town of Mongkayo skylabs are designed to hold as many as a dozen passengers.
ref: 2006, Robin Hemley, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday, page 124:
glosses: A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam across the pillion.
Cyrillic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɹɪl.ɪk/
Etymology: From the name Cyril + -ic, from Medieval Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κῡ́ρῐλλος (Kū́rĭllos), denoting Saint Cyril, who devised a predecessor to the Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet, and whose students later devised the Cyrillic script itself.
Senses: glosses: Denoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system.
Derived terms: Cyrillic numeral
Cyrillic numerals
Cyrillic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɹɪl.ɪk/
Etymology: From the name Cyril + -ic, from Medieval Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κῡ́ρῐλλος (Kū́rĭllos), denoting Saint Cyril, who devised a predecessor to the Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet, and whose students later devised the Cyrillic script itself.
Senses: examples: text: Russian is typically written in Cyrillic.
text: Hidden behind a Cyrillic veil of mystery, it’s one of the harder languages to master, so much so that even many Russians speak it incorrectly.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
synonyms: Cyrillic script
glosses: The Cyrillic alphabet or writing system.
working class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: working classes
Senses: examples: text: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: It may seem that the Met was a snobbish outfit, a betrayer of the egalitarian dreams of Charles Pearson, but in being one of the pioneers of working men's fares the company had helped to bring about a revolution that would allow the working classes to live in London. Cheap trains would supersede Gladstone's well-meant Parliamentary Trains.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 47:
synonyms: proletariat
coordinate_terms: lower class
middle class
professional class
upper class
upper middle class
glosses: The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.
working class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more working class
form: most working class
form: working-class before noun
Senses: examples: text: Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for an obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 417:
glosses: Alternative spelling of working-class.
scritch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: scritches
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch:
For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
ref: 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel:
glosses: a screech
glosses: A thrush.
scritch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: scritches
form: scritching
form: scritched
form: scritched
Senses: glosses: To screech.
scritch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: scritches
form: scritching
form: scritched
form: scritched
Etymology: Variant of scratch.
Senses: glosses: To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
examples: text: One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching
ref: 2001, Miriam Moss, Scritch Scratch, →ISBN:
text: There once was a cat with a terrible itch. She had a flea in her fur which was making her twitch. She scratched herself here and she scritched herself there
ref: 2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.
examples: text: And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
ref: 2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.
scritch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: scritches
Etymology: Variant of scratch.
Senses: glosses: A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
glosses: The act of scratching an itch.
examples: text: Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.
ref: 2010, Marguerite Floyd, The Parrot Reckonings, →ISBN:
text: “It really does have to work out,” she said, setting Toby's carrier up on the kitchen table. “Because otherwise you'll be reduced to standing on a street corner and offering kitty head scritches for money. And none of us want to see you stoop that low."
ref: 2015, Maisey Yates, Part Time Cowboy, →ISBN:
text: And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
ref: 2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.
fascicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fascicules
Etymology: From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.
Senses: examples: text: In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104:
glosses: An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
examples: text: Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]
ref: 1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812:
text: In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]
ref: 1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97:
glosses: A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of fascicle.
dagnasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dagnasty
form: most dagnasty
Senses: examples: text: But, hey, if it gets too dagnasty, I can go spin tonight and be sure...
ref: 1995 August 23, Carl Payne, “Leave It Open...”, in rec.music.gaffa (Usenet):
text: it'd make unlife dagnasty for wraiths with no fetters
ref: 1997 April 25, Winter [username], “Re: Sleepy Wraith”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):
text: what the hell does any of this dagnasty crotchrot have to do with cooking?
ref: 1999 February 15, Monroe,of course [username], “Re: Linda Tiipp”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
text: > maxpain, huh? those dagnasty market makers.
ref: 2000 August 31, Bill B (quoting unknown), “Re: Bantz, hope you're still short BRCM”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet):
text: So, get off thy can, America! Quit showing-off thy gluteus maximus to that dagnasty downstairs!!
ref: 2005, Otto Man, King Size, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
text: He's just dagnasty!
ref: 2007 June 22, Mark K. Bilbo, “Re: Annihilating Atheists (was: Strategies for Dialoguing with Atheists)”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: Meyers, 34, has been on "Saturday Night Live" for seven years now, and has had key roles in memorable skits like "Doppelganger" and Natalie Portman's dagnasty turn as a rapper.
ref: 2008 November 20, “The funnyman”, in Salon:
glosses: Extremely distasteful; horrible.
Related terms: nasty
determinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/
Forms: form: determinisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument.
ref: 2015 January 1, John Danaher, “The Free Will Debate: Sourcehood or Alternative Possibilities?”, in Philosophical Disquisitions:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: fatalism
antonyms: indeterminism
glosses: The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: indeterminism
glosses: The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.
Derived terms: antideterminism
biodeterminism
biological determinism
creeping determinism
ecodeterminism
economic determinism
genetic determinism
nominative determinism
nondeterminism
non-determinism
predeterminism
retrospective determinism
superdeterminism
technodeterminism
techno-determinism
Related terms: determinist
deterministic
predeterminedness
compatibilism
incompatibilism
non-determinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-determinisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nondeterminism.
angelic non-determinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With angelic non-determinism, any problem in NP would be solvable in polynomial time.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A notional ability always to choose the most favorable option, in constant time.
sean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seans
Senses: glosses: Dated form of seine.
sean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seans
form: seaning
form: seaned
form: seaned
Senses: examples: text: Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards[…]
ref: 1874, Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats, page 157:
glosses: Dated form of seine.
Shaun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɔːn/
homophone: shorn (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: Shawn
Etymology: A variant of Sean, from Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Johannes, variant of Ioannes, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yōḥānān, literally “God is gracious”).
Doublet of John, Jack, Johan, Johann, Johannes, Jean, Ian, Evan, Ivan, Sean, Shawn, Shane, and Giovanni as a male name.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shauna, and Sheena as a female name.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Derived terms: Shauna
Shawn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɔːn/
ipa: /ʃɑn/
Etymology: A variant of Sean, from Irish Seán, from Old French Jehan, from Latin Jōhannēs, variant of Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (yōḥānān, yokhanán, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of Evan, Giovanni, Ian, Ivan, Jack, Jean, Johan, Johann, Johannes, John, Juan, Sean, Shane, and Shaun as a male name. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena as a female name.
Senses: examples: text: Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.
ref: 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 169:
text: Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.
ref: 1996, Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Earlier this week, an anonymous Jane Doe filed an amended complaint against Combs and Jay-Z, whose given name is Shawn Carter, which revealed that a previously unnamed celebrity in her original complaint against Combs, initially filed in October, was Carter.
ref: 2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of Shaun, a unisex given name.
Derived terms: Deshawn
Shawna
xeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɚ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈzɛɹ-/
ipa: /ˈzɪə.ɹɪk/
Forms: form: more xeric
form: most xeric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”) + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: arid
glosses: Very dry, lacking humidity and water.
raw_tags: of an environment or habitat
synonyms: xerophilic
glosses: Adapted to live in a very dry habitat.
raw_tags: of an organism
Derived terms: subxeric
xericity
sycophant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkəfænt/
ipa: /ˈsɪkəfənt/
ipa: /ˈsaɪkəfænt/
ipa: /ˈsaɪkəfənt/
Forms: form: sycophants
Etymology: First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a σῦκον (sûkon), which also meant vulva. The story behind this etymology is that politicians in ancient Greece steered clear of displaying that vulgar gesture, but secretly urged their followers to taunt their opponents by using it.
Cognate with Italian sicofante, Spanish sicofanta.
Senses: examples: text: A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire
ref: 1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry:
text: VVhile a mean Crovvd of Sycophants attend, / And favvn and flatter, creep and cringe and bend; / The Fav'rite bleſſes his ſuperior State, / Riſes o'er all, and hails Himſelf the Great.
ref: 1743, Henry Fielding, “Of True Greatness. An Epistle to George Dodington, Esq”, in Miscellanies, […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: ass-kisser
brown noser
suck-up
yes man
glosses: One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
synonyms: parasite
flunky
lackey
glosses: One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
examples: text: [H]is mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: An informer; a talebearer.
Synonyms: word: adulator
word: apple polisher
word: arse-kisser
word: arse-licker
word: ass-kisser
word: ass-licker
word: bootlicker
word: buttkisser
word: buttlicker
word: brown noser
word: clawback
word: dickrider
word: doormat
word: flatterer
word: flunkey
word: groveler
word: groveller
word: hanger-on
word: kiss-ass
word: lackey
word: lickspittle
word: lick-platter
word: lickpot
word: minion
word: people pleaser
word: pickthank
word: schmoozer
word: simp
word: suck up
word: sycophant
word: throne sniffer
word: toadeater
word: toady
word: white knight
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: courtier
word: shill
word: heeler
word: teacher's pet
word: tufthunter
word: yes man
Derived terms: sycophancy
sycophantic
sycophantish
sycophantism
Related terms: word: flattery
word: loyal follower
word: obedient
word: sycophantic
word: jerk
sycophant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkəfænt/
ipa: /ˈsɪkəfənt/
ipa: /ˈsaɪkəfænt/
ipa: /ˈsaɪkəfənt/
Forms: form: sycophants
form: sycophanting
form: sycophanted
form: sycophanted
Etymology: First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a σῦκον (sûkon), which also meant vulva. The story behind this etymology is that politicians in ancient Greece steered clear of displaying that vulgar gesture, but secretly urged their followers to taunt their opponents by using it.
Cognate with Italian sicofante, Spanish sicofanta.
Senses: examples: text: As therefore he began in the title, so in the next leaf he makes it his first business to tamper with his reader by sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
ref: 1642, John Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus:
glosses: To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
glosses: To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
exuberant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzuːbəɹənt/
Forms: form: more exuberant
form: most exuberant
Etymology: From Middle French exubérant, from Latin exūberāns, the present active participle of exūberō (“be abundant”). Put together from ex (“out”), and uber (“udder”), and originally would have referred to a cow or she-goat which was making so much milk that it naturally dripped or sprayed from the udder.
Senses: examples: text: exuberant feeling
text: He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.
ref: 1882, Frank R. Stockton, The Lady or the Tiger?:
text: She was a tall, earthy, exuberant girl with long hair and a pretty face.
ref: 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:
synonyms: buoyant
cheerful
high-spirited
glosses: Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic.
raw_tags: of people
examples: text: exuberant foliage
text: It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
ref: 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine:
text: The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.
ref: 1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22
synonyms: profuse
superabundant
glosses: Abundant, luxuriant.
raw_tags: of things that grow
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unusually proliferative, widespread or extreme, particularly in relation to a disease, immune reaction, or tissue
Derived terms: exuberantly
exuberantness
overexuberant
unexuberant
Related terms: exuberance
bespoke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈspəʊk/
ipa: /bəˈspoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: In sense “custom-made”, 1755, from earlier bespoken (c. 1600), form of bespeak, in sense “arrange beforehand” (1580s), a prefixed variant of speak; compare order, made-to-order.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: custom-made, tailored, tailor-made, custom-built, purpose-built; see also Thesaurus:custom-made
text: Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions.
ref: 1983 March 7, Kurt Andersen, “Her Majesty in Mellowland”, in Time:
text: Were Athenian pots bespoke, bearing images requested by Etruscans?
ref: 2001, Robin Osborne, “Why Did Athenian Pots Appeal to the Etruscans?”, in World Archaeology, volume 33, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →JSTOR, page 278:
text: People gathered round, since it was something of an event, their MP, in his bespoke pinstripe and red tie, clutching an old Wellington boot and about to hurl it through the air.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 10, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: … others are attempting the more ambitious feat of engineering bespoke human organs from scratch.
ref: 2012 August 1, Ed Yong, “Replacement Parts”, in The Scientist, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2012:
text: There are 436 escalators in the London Underground, and every one is totally bespoke.
ref: 2016, The Tube: Going Underground, season 1, episode 6:
text: You need to get a nice bespoked suit. "Bespoke" means i's custom-made to fit your specific dimensions and emphasize what's flattering about your shape.
ref: 2017, “Elements Part 2: Bespoken For”, in Adventure Time:
text: [I]t becomes a game of parkour just to change a battery, and when you’re working mostly alone that gets frustrating really fast, and when you get frustrated you get impulsive, and those impulses lead to half measure solutions, and those half measure solutions accumulate into a whole network of bespoke inefficiencies that you just live with because the process of unravelling them feels just so... big.
ref: 2024, Dan Olson, 1:06:09 from the start, in I Don't Know James Rolfe:
synonyms: custom#Adjective
glosses: Made or done in a way adjusted to the needs of a specific person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.
examples: text: a bespoke tailor
glosses: Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items.
Derived terms: bespokely
bespokeness
bespoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈspəʊk/
ipa: /bəˈspoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: In sense “custom-made”, 1755, from earlier bespoken (c. 1600), form of bespeak, in sense “arrange beforehand” (1580s), a prefixed variant of speak; compare order, made-to-order.
Senses: glosses: simple past of bespeak
glosses: past participle of bespeak
fasciculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsɪkjʊləs/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs
Forms: form: fasciculi
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
glosses: One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.
Derived terms: arcuate fasciculus
medial longitudinal fasciculus
uncinate fasciculus
Related terms: fascicle
fascism
claustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claustrations
Etymology: From Latin clōstra (“lock, enclosure”).
Senses: examples: text: He could scare find it in his heart to accuse Roderick of neglect of that function, united to him though the girl might be by a double bond; for it was natural that the inspirations of a man of genius should be both capricious and imperious, and on what plan had he ever started moreover but on that of diligence and claustration?
ref: 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 341
glosses: Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
glosses: A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.
Derived terms: bioclaustration
ned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: neds
Etymology: Unknown. The suggested initialism from "non-educated delinquent" is a backronym and folk etymology. Several other suggestions include a contraction of ne'er-do-well, neanderthal, or some kind of relationship with Teddy Boy although its use much predates the 1950s origin of that phrase. Ostensibly unrelated to "Ned" as a diminutive of the personal name "Edward" but the Scottish use of 'ned' for hooligan or lout is cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as dating from the early 19th century. The OED also attributes a possible derivation from the 'Edward' diminutive.
Senses: examples: text: The mindless behaviour of drunken neds and nuisance neighbours brings misery to tens of thousands of honest folk.
ref: 2007 (Scotland), RecordView in Daily Record, 14 Feb 07, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, p. 8
text: You could live in a place for twenty years, you could clean up its streets and lock up its neds.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 28:
glosses: A person, usually a youth, of low social standing and education, a violent disposition and with a particular style of dress (typically sportswear or Burberry), speech and behaviour.
Synonyms: word: chav
english: Northeast England
translation: Northeast England
word: charva
word: scally
english: Dublin/Ireland
translation: Dublin/Ireland
word: scanger
word: schemie
word: Senga
word: yob
word: yobbo
word: spide
monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭngʹkiz
ipa: /ˈmʌŋkiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey
monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭngʹkiz
ipa: /ˈmʌŋkiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monkey
Oedipus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdɪpəs/
ipa: /ˈiːdɪpəs/
Forms: form: Œdipus
Etymology: From the Latin Oedipus, from the Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, “swollen foot”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
Derived terms: word: Oedipus complex
word: Oedipal
fasciculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fasciculus
DVC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of digital video compression.
tutti-frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuːtɪˈfɹuːtɪ/
ipa: /ˌtutiˈfɹuti/
rhymes: -uːti
Forms: form: tutti-fruttis
form: tutti frutti
Etymology: From Sicilian tutti frutti (“all fruits”), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet.
Senses: glosses: A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit.
glosses: Candied raw papaya (unripened papaya).
glosses: A male homosexual.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A type of flavored cocaine.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A type of inhalable, powdered drug.
Derived terms: go tutti-frutti
a priori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: anglicized
ipa: /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹaɪ/
note: Latinist
ipa: /ˌɑː pɹiˈɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹi/
Forms: form: more a priori
form: most a priori
form: apriori
Etymology: First attested in 1610. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā priōrī (“involving reasoning from cause to effect; from first principles”, literally “from the former”).
Senses: glosses: Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
glosses: Presumed without analysis.
examples: text: In his opening argument, the student mentioned nothing beyond his a priori knowledge.
text: While the great critics drew their authority from the breadth of their reading, New Criterion critics often base their authority on an a priori rejection of the contemporary.
ref: 1996, Jeet Heer, Gravitas, Autumn 1996:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
examples: text: Conlangers can also create a priori languages, which have no basis in existing languages. You might be familiar with more a priori conlangs than you think: The Klingon language from the television series “Star Trek,” the Na’vi language from the movie “Avatar,” and the Dothraki language from the television series “Game of Thrones” are all examples of a priori languages.
ref: 2012 November 1, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2013:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
Synonyms: deductive
Derived terms: apriorism
apriorist
aprioristic
apriority
Related terms: a fortiori
a priori
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: anglicized
ipa: /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹaɪ/
note: Latinist
ipa: /ˌɑː pɹiˈɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹi/
Forms: form: more a priori
form: most a priori
form: apriori
Etymology: First attested in 1610. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā priōrī (“involving reasoning from cause to effect; from first principles”, literally “from the former”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: deductively[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous outside of philosophic arcanity>
antonyms: a posteriori
inductively
glosses: In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.
Related terms: ex ante
ahistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: more ahistorical
form: most ahistorical
Etymology: From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.
ref: 1925, The New Yorker, volume 51, page 32:
text: Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
synonyms: ahistoric
glosses: Lacking historical perspective or context.
Derived terms: ahistorically
ahistoricalness
airing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: erring stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air
airing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: erring stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: airings
Senses: glosses: An exposure to warm or fresh air.
examples: text: Seldom was he seen, and almost never were his recordings given mass airings.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: The broadcast of a television or radio show.
examples: text: One controversy which has not had an airing in discussion of the new Transport Bill is that centring on the status of the Pullman Car Co.
ref: 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: The "Midland Pullman"”, in Modern Railways, page 77:
glosses: A public expression of an opinion or discussion of a subject.
glosses: A short walk in fresh air.
Derived terms: airing cupboard
irk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːk/
ipa: /ɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: irks
form: irking
form: irked
form: irked
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work.
Senses: examples: text: It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.
text: Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
glosses: to irritate; annoy; bother
Derived terms: forirk
irksome
irky
irk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːk/
ipa: /ɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: irks
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English irken (“to tire, grow weary”), from Old Norse yrkja (“to work”), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja (“to compose”), Swedish yrka (“to urge, argue”), Old English wyrċan (“to work”). Doublet of work.
Senses: examples: text: The trade-off between computation cost and precision results in tuning parameters […] being exposed to the user, a major irk to practitioners of data science.
ref: 2022, Philipp Hennig, Michael A. Osborne, Hans P. Kersting, Probabilistic Numerics (page 13)
glosses: An annoyance.
moonbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnˌbæt/
Forms: form: moonbats
Etymology: From moon + bat, first used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).
Senses: examples: text: So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?
ref: 2005, Michele Malkin, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, →ISBN, page 108:
text: As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”
ref: 2006 May 11, Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House, New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 216:
text: Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal.
ref: 2009 October 13, Steve Eubanks, Downforce, New York: Harper, →ISBN, page 255:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: leftard
word: libtard
glosses: A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
moonbat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnˌbæt/
Forms: form: more moonbat
form: most moonbat
Etymology: From moon + bat, first used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).
Senses: examples: 20204: The Bulwark
Trump, who said last month at the Republican National Convention that he would never again retell the story of the attempt on his life “because it’s too painful to tell,” told that story with relish. He expounded at length on his usual moonbat fables about how countries around the world are emptying their prisons and mental institutions to send their convicts and lunatics to the United States.
topics: government
politics
glosses: (of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful.
Derived terms: moonbattery
moonbatty
Related terms: wingnut
wing nut
immobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/
Etymology: From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.
Senses: examples: text: This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.
ref: 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture:
synonyms: immovable
fixed
sessile
antonyms: word: movable
word: mobile
word: immobile
glosses: Fixed, not movable.
Synonyms: word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
Hypernyms: word: stable
Hyponyms: word: tight
immobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
ipa: /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/
Forms: form: immobiles
Etymology: From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.
Senses: examples: text: […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]
ref: 1963, Highway Research Record:
text: Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
ref: 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]
ref: 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
synonyms: inactive
nonmover
glosses: One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
Derived terms: immobilism
immobility
immobilization
immobilize