cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lemonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛmənˈeɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɛmənˌeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: lemonades
Etymology: From French limonade, equivalent to lemon + -ade.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Murphy, who had […] stopped for a few minutes, at Mrs. Loring's invitation, to rest and enjoy the cool glass of lemonade that was very refreshing after her long walk.
ref: 1910, New-York Observer, page 114:
text: The tiny flowers on the long skirt and sleeveless halter-top made her look like she belonged in some Southern porch handing out lemonade and sweet tea.
ref: 2017 March 28, Michelle M. Pillow, Cauldrons and Confessions: Warlocks MacGregor Book 4, The Raven Books LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: A flavoured beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment.
glosses: A clear, usually carbonated, beverage made from lemon or artificial lemon flavouring, water, and sugar.
examples: text: In fact, a recent report from Denver shows it [street heroin] was about 1 to 2 percent and the addicts that are receiving this in many cases refer to it as lemonade, because it is so weak.
ref: 1965, United States Congress, Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee of Appropriations, page 128:
text: Lemonade — heroin; poor quality drugs
ref: 1996, Karen Bellenir, Substance Abuse Sourcebook:
glosses: Recreational drugs of poor or weak quality, especially heroin.
Synonyms: word: citronade
sense: carbonated drink
word: carbonated lemonade
sense: carbonated drink
word: sparkling lemonade
sense: carbonated drink
word: fizzy lemonade
sense: carbonated drink
word: lemon soda
sense: carbonated drink
word: lemonade soda
Derived terms: word: Brazilian lemonade
word: dilemmanade
word: drink something like lemonade
word: hard lemonade
word: Indian lemonade
word: lemonade berry
taxonomic: Rhus integrifolia
word: lemonadeberry
word: lemonade braids
taxonomic: Rhus integrifolia
word: lemonade sumac
word: lemonadey
word: make lemonade
word: pink lemonade
word: red lemonade
word: Swiss lemonade
accouple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌpəl/
Forms: form: accouples
form: accoupling
form: accoupled
form: accoupled
Etymology: From Old French acopler, French accoupler. See couple. Equivalent to ad- + couple.
Senses: examples: text: The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen.
ref: 1548, Edward Hall, Hall's Chronicle:
glosses: To join; to couple.
Synonyms: affix
attach
put together
unite
join
accouplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌpəlmənt/
Forms: form: accouplements
Etymology: Borrowed from French accouplement.
Senses: glosses: The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union
glosses: That which couples, as a tie or brace
accourage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɜɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: accourages
form: accouraging
form: accouraged
form: accouraged
Etymology: From Old French acoragier; à (from Latin ad) + corage. See courage.
Senses: examples: text: […] willing the comfort of al merchauntes in accouraging of them willing to make any ship or shippes, and also towardes the supportacion of the costes and charges of the said Nicholas, [I grant them money].
ref: c. 1540, an act of Henry VIII, quoted in A Short History of the World's Shipping Industry →ISBN
text: Aftir two yeres Philometor obtayned helpe of the Roma[n]s to reamer his lost cities, and thus accouraged of [=by] the Romans he expelled his auuncles syriake hoste […]
ref: 1545, George Joye, The exposicion of Daniel the Prophete gathered oute of Philip Melanchton/ Johan Ecolampadius/ Conrade Pellicane & out of Johan Draconite:
text: But he endevored with ſpeaches milde
Her to recomfort, and accourage bold,
Bidding her feare no more her foeman vilde,
Nor doubt himſelfe: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To encourage.
accourt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: accourts
form: accourting
form: accourted
form: accourted
Etymology: From ac- (“to”) + court (“woo”).
Senses: examples: text: Whilest she her selfe thus busily did frame Seemely to entertaine her new-come guest, Newes hereof to her other sisters came, Who all this while were at their wanton rest, Accourting each her frend with lavish fest
ref: a. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 71:
glosses: To treat courteously; to court.
accouter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈku tɚ/
Forms: form: accouters
form: accoutering
form: accoutered
form: accoutered
form: accoutre
Etymology: From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s.
Senses: examples: text: […] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 177, column 1:
text: Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 110, column 2:
text: For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen?
ref: 1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Perseus”, in Walter Scott, editor, The works of John Dryden, volume 13, published 1808, page 235:
text: Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff;
ref: 1814, William Wordsworth, “The Solitary”, in The Excursion:
text: There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:
synonyms: word: equip
word: attire
word: array
word: accouter
word: address
word: apparel
word: array
word: attire
word: beclothe
word: clothe
word: dight
word: don
word: dress
word: enrobe
word: equip
word: invest
word: put on
word: robe
word: slip on
word: vest
glosses: To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service
Derived terms: unaccoutered
Related terms: accouterment
accouterments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkuːtəmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of accouterment
calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.kjʊ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjə.ləs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkælk(j)ʊləs/
Forms: form: calculi
form: calculuses
Etymology: * Borrowed from Latin calculus (“a pebble or stone used as reckoning counters in abacus”), diminutive of calx (“limestone”) + -ulus.
* Mathematical topic is from differential calculus.
Senses: synonyms: word: ciphering
word: reckoning
word: calculation
word: calculus
word: ciphering
word: computation
word: computing
word: reckoning
word: supputation
glosses: Calculation; computation.
examples: text: lambda calculus
text: predicate calculus
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: analysis, mathematical analysis
text: I took calculus in high school.
synonyms: infinitesimal calculus
glosses: Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject.
examples: text: Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.
ref: 2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: stone
glosses: A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: dental calculus
tartar
glosses: Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
examples: text: The Tory leader refused to state how many financiers he thought should end up in jail, saying: “There is not some simple calculus."
ref: 2008 December 16, “Cameron calls for bankers’ ‘day of reckoning’”, in Financial Times:
glosses: A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
Derived terms: absolute differential calculus
all students take calculus
calculus of moving surfaces
calculus of sums and differences
calculus of variations
dental calculus
differential calculus
felicific calculus
finite-difference calculus
fractional calculus
fundamental theorem of calculus
fundamental theorem of calculus for line integrals
hedonic calculus
hedonistic calculus
implicational propositional calculus
infinitesimal calculus
integral calculus
jackstone calculus
join calculus
Kirby calculus
lambda calculus
logical calculus
modular calculus
multivariable calculus
noncalculus
operational calculus
pi-calculus
precalculus
predicate calculus
propositional calculus
renal calculus
Ricci calculus
Schubert calculus
sentential calculus
sequent calculus
stochastic calculus
tensor calculus
tuple calculus
umbral calculus
utility calculus
variational calculus
vector calculus
Related terms: calcify
calcium
calculate
algebra
analysis
concretion
cosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈkəʉ.sɑɪn/
rhymes: -əʊsaɪn
rhymes: -oʊsaɪn
homophone: cosign
Forms: form: cosines
Etymology: From co- + sine, short for complementi sinus in Latin, meaning “sine of the complement”. Doublet of cosinus.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos
Derived terms: anticosine
coshine
cosine curve
cosine formula
cosine law
cosine rule
coversed cosine
Fourier cosine series
hyperbolic cosine
inverse cosine
Lambert's cosine law
versed cosine
Related terms: arccosine
sine
power series
secant
tangent
trigonometry
sine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīn
ipa: /saɪn/
homophone: sign
homophone: syne
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: sines
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sinus (“curve, bend; bosom”), a translation of Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “bosom”), a misidentification of the notation جيب (j-y-b), written without vowel diacritics, standing for Arabic جِيبَ (jība, “sine”), in turn from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “sine, chord, bowstring”) through the similar Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “sine, chord, life, existence”). Doublet of sinus.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
Synonyms: sense: Symbol
word: sin
Coordinate terms: cosine
cosecant
cotangent
secant
tangent
trigonometry
Derived terms: arcsine
cosine
coversed sine
Fourier sine series
hacoversed sine
haversed sine
hyperbolic sine
inverse sine
sine curve
sine formula
sine-Gordon equation
sine law
sine ratio
sine rule
sine wave
sinical
sinusoid
sinusoidal
versed sine
Related terms: word: insinuate
word: sinuous
word: sinus
word: sinusitis
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: adjournment sine die
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: Latino sine Flexione
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: nulla poena sine lege
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: nulla pœna sine lege
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: sine qua non
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: sine quâ non
sense: etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "sine"
word: zoster sine herpete
tangent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăn'jənt
ipa: /ˈtæn.d͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ændʒənt
Forms: form: tangents
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tangentem, the accusative of tangēns (“touching”) (in the phrase līnea tangēns (“a touching line”)), the present participle of the verb tangō (“touch”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Cognate with Old English þaccian (“to touch lightly, pat, stroke”). More at thack, thwack.
Senses: examples: text: One feature of the body, which is constructed of pressed-steel members, is the contour of the sides. They are in the form of a continuous radius from the bottom side to the cant rail, and to enable flat glass windows to be fitted the side panels are pressed around the window opening, forming a tangent to the curved bodyside.
ref: 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
synonyms: tangent line
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
examples: text: I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.
text: “Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will, I mean?”
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 1, in Well Tackled!:
text: Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: (1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and (2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
glosses: A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A visual interaction between two or more lines or edges that creates a perceived relationship between them, often in a way that the artist did not intend.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.
Derived terms: arctangent
cotangent
fly off at a tangent
go off at a tangent
go off on a tangent
hyperbolic tangent
inflectional tangent
inverse tangent
tangent bundle
tangent plane
tangent space
Related terms: tangential
tangent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tăn'jənt
ipa: /ˈtæn.d͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ændʒənt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tangentem, the accusative of tangēns (“touching”) (in the phrase līnea tangēns (“a touching line”)), the present participle of the verb tangō (“touch”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Cognate with Old English þaccian (“to touch lightly, pat, stroke”). More at thack, thwack.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
glosses: Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.
examples: text: The collision occurred on a two-mile stretch of tangent track.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Straight; not horizontally curved.
raw_tags: of track
Derived terms: tangently
Related terms: cosine
non sequitur
sine
trigonometry
binomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈnəʊ.mi.əl/
ipa: /baɪˈnoʊ.mi.əl/
Etymology: Formed from Late Latin binōmium + -al. The derivation of binōmium is unclear. It was used by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. Suggested sources are the Latin nōmen (“name”), the Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “distribution, pasture”), or the Old French nom (“name”).
Gérard de Crémone used the word in his translation of aν Arabic commentary on Euclid, corresponding to the Greek "ἐκ δύο ὀνομάτων". Compare binomy and binominal, as well as the French binôme. By surface analysis, bi- + -nomial.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, instead of returning to Chile’s traditional proportional representation system, the law adopted the “binomial” system, which gave strong incentives to the parties to form broad coalitions.
ref: 1992, Rhoda Rabkin, “The Aylwin Government and ‘Tutelary’ Democracy: A Concept in Search of a Case?”, in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, volume 34, number 4, →JSTOR, page 139:
glosses: Consisting of two terms, or parts.
examples: text: Assuming a normal approximation to binomial probabilities the proportion of total complications reported for 1979–85 in the age class 0–14 years was significantly higher than the proportion in the same age class for the period 1962–69 (p < 0·0001)
ref: 1991 November 23, D. J. Nokes, R. M. Anderson, “Vaccine safety versus vaccine efficacy in mass immunisation programmes”, in The Lancet, volume 338, number 8778, →DOI, page 1309:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of or relating to the binomial distribution.
Derived terms: binomial coefficient
binomial distribution
binomialism
binomialist
binomially
binomial nomenclature
binomial series
binomial theorem
extrabinomial
nonbinomial
quasibinomial
binomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈnəʊ.mi.əl/
ipa: /baɪˈnoʊ.mi.əl/
Forms: form: binomials
Etymology: Formed from Late Latin binōmium + -al. The derivation of binōmium is unclear. It was used by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. Suggested sources are the Latin nōmen (“name”), the Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “distribution, pasture”), or the Old French nom (“name”).
Gérard de Crémone used the word in his translation of aν Arabic commentary on Euclid, corresponding to the Greek "ἐκ δύο ὀνομάτων". Compare binomy and binominal, as well as the French binôme. By surface analysis, bi- + -nomial.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: word: binome
glosses: A polynomial with two terms.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A quantity expressed as the sum or difference of two terms.
examples: text: Common name followed by Latin binomial in parentheses.
ref: 1991, Daniel W. Gade, “Weeds in Vermont as Tokens of Socioeconomic Change”, in Geographical Review, volume 81, number 2, →JSTOR, page 169:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: binomen
binomial name
binominal
binominal name
species name
dionym
glosses: A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
Hypernyms: sense: polynomial with two terms
word: polynomial
Derived terms: frozen binomial
commutative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French commuter (“to substitute or switch”) + -ative (“tending to”). See commute.
Senses: examples: text: Addition on the real numbers is commutative because for any real numbers s,t, it is true that s#43;t#61;t#43;s.
text: Addition and multiplication are commutative operations but subtraction and division are not.
text: The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.
ref: 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
raw_tags: of a binary operation
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a commutative operation.
raw_tags: of an algebraic structure
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
raw_tags: of a diagram of morphisms
glosses: Relating to exchange; interchangeable.
Synonyms: sense: of an algebraic structure
word: abelian
sense: of an algebraic structure
word: Abelian
Derived terms: cocommutative
combinatorial commutative algebra
commutative algebra
commutative group
commutative justice
commutatively
commutativeness
commutative property
commutative ring
commutativity
gyrocommutative
noncommutative
supercommutative
uncommutative
Related terms: commutator
commute
Arabic numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arabic numerals
form: arabic numeral
Etymology: A calque of Medieval Latin numerus Arabicus, from its gradual adoption in Europe from Arabic sources.
Senses: synonyms: Hindu numeral
Hindu-Arabic numeral
Indo-Arabic numeral
glosses: A number represented using an Indian and Arabic system involving the symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0, representing digits.
glosses: The system using such numerals, now employed throughout the world.
Coordinate terms: Roman numeral
roman numeral
dodecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdəʊ.dɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/
ipa: /ˌdəʊ.dɪk.əˈhiː.dɹən/
ipa: /ˌdoʊ.dɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/
ipa: /doʊˌdɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/
Forms: form: dodecahedra
form: dodecahedrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δωδεκάεδρον (dōdekáedron). Equivalent to dodeca- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: 1707, Thomas Blount, Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words, D. Brown, heading DO–DO,
Dodecahedron, (Gr.) in Geometry, is a solid Figure of 12 Sides or Faces that are regular Pentagons, it is one of the Platonick or Regular Bodies.
text: It took me two years, but by the time I was 12 I could imagine the fifth four-dimensional polytope, which is made up of 120 dodecahedrons.
ref: 2015 March 17, Diana Lutz, quoting Ivan Horozov, “Researcher builds four-dimensional figure in his office”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2025:
text: There is no uniformity in the size or shape of the dodecahedra found so far, nor in their metal composition or even in the level of craftsmanship. If they were important objects, we would expect to also discover contextual evidence in the archaeological record, such as depictions in paintings or mosaics.
ref: 2024 May 9, Samantha Tipper, “Why Did Ancient Romans Make this Baffling Metal Dodecahedron?”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 May 2024:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: duodecahedron
glosses: A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
Derived terms: dodecadodecahedron
dodecahedral
dodecahedrane
dodecahedronic
great dodecahedron
hyperbolic dodecahedron
hyperdodecahedron
icosidodecahedron
pentadodecahedron
pentakis dodecahedron
rhombic dodecahedron
rhombicosidodecahedron
rhombidodecahedron
Roman dodecahedron
snub dodecahedron
truncated dodecahedron
Related terms: icosahedron
octahedron
polyhedron
tetrahedron
cube
Platonic solid
icosahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪkoʊsəˈhiːdɹən/
ipa: /ˌaɪkɒsəˈhiːdɹən/
ipa: /ˌaɪkɔsəˈhiːdɹən/
Forms: form: icosahedra
form: icosahedrons
form: eicosaedrum
form: icosaedrum
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰκοσάεδρον (eikosáedron), from εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”). Equivalent to icosa- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with twenty faces.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: regular gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid
glosses: A regular icosahedron: one of the Platonic solids, all of whose faces are regular (equilateral) triangles
Derived terms: great icosahedron
hemi-icosahedron
icosahedronic
supericosahedron
truncated icosahedron
Related terms: icosahedral
icosahedrite
mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪl/
homophone: male
Forms: form: mails
form: mailing
form: mailed
form: mailed
Etymology: From Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”). Compare Dutch maal.
Senses: glosses: To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
examples: text: Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
text: There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.
ref: 1983, Donn Seeley, “Source for 'Grab'”, in net.unix-wizards (Usenet):
text: Since .mp3's are so big (well for me with a 33.6kp/s connection they are anyway) maybe you should offer on your site to mail the file to people who want it, and have them request it, thus saving your web space, your upload time and their download time […]
ref: 1998, Michael Tomsett, “Re: Multiple postings?”, in alt.music.manics (Usenet):
text: If you mail an attachment from one mail client then it does not matter if the receiver uses a different mail client. The mail you send should be able to be read from their mail client.
ref: 2003, Chrissy, “Re: Send mail with attachment”, in microsoft.public.excel.programming (Usenet):
glosses: To send by electronic mail.
examples: text: I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.
text: I was horrified but my data was OK. Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends. I turned the power off.
ref: 2000, Carlton Alton Deltree, “Whoever did this sucks...”, in alt.comp.virus (Usenet):
text: 'Yes, at Quantico. She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, she mailed me from there too.'
ref: 2002, Jessica Mann, The voice from the grave, page 189:
text: He mailed me and said he had managed to hack into my email accounts.
ref: 2011, Rose Budworth-Levine, Intimate Encounters, page 41:
glosses: To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
Synonyms: sense: send through the mail
word: post
Derived terms: mailability
mailable
mailer
mailing
mail it in
premail
remail
mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪl/
homophone: male
Forms: form: mails
form: maille
Etymology: From Middle English mayle (“mail armor”), borrowed from Old French maille (“loop, stitch”), from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh₁-tleh₂, from *smeh₁- (“smear, rub”). Compare maillot.
Senses: examples: text: The knight is laid in his mail, only the hands and face being bare.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, in The Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § LVII, page 73:
text: "That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace.
"Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]
ref: 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle:
text: Under the sea-girt cliffs the shining ship was readied, laden with coats of mail, swords, and gleaming war harness.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
topics: fantasy
fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
examples: text: We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.
ref: 1716, John Gay, Epistle to the Earl of Burlington:
text: There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, / And metal wrought like fishes' mail, / Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, / And shining spears were laid in hoard.
ref: 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Journey in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published September 1973, →ISBN, page 412:
glosses: Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
examples: text: [T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, “[The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Part I […].] Fovrth Day.”, in Richard Le Gallienne, editor, The Compleat Angler, 5th edition, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 1897, →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
Derived terms: chain mail
coat of mail
mailed
mailler
mailure
plate mail
scale mail
Related terms: mailed
mail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪl/
homophone: male
Forms: form: mails
form: mailing
form: mailed
form: mailed
form: maille
Etymology: From Middle English mayle (“mail armor”), borrowed from Old French maille (“loop, stitch”), from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh₁-tleh₂, from *smeh₁- (“smear, rub”). Compare maillot.
Senses: glosses: To arm with mail.
glosses: To pinion.
mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪl/
homophone: male
Forms: form: mails
form: maile
form: maill
form: maille
Etymology: From Middle English mal, male from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement”) from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”). Akin to Old English mǣl (“speech”). Related to Old English mǣlan (mell), maþelian (“to speak out, declare”). From *maþlą (“meeting-place”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”), if so, related to meet, and moot.
Senses: glosses: An old French coin worth half a denier.
glosses: A monetary payment or tribute.
glosses: Rent.
glosses: Tax.
Derived terms: blackmail
mails and duties
apostasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒ.stə.si/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.tə.si/
ipa: /əˈpɑs.tə.si/
Forms: form: apostasies
Etymology: From Latin apostasia, from Ancient Greek ἀποστασία (apostasía, “defection, revolt”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “I withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
Senses: examples: text: The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse at the Hall occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world to which Waverley-Honour formed the centre: but the more judicious politicians of this microcosm augured yet worse consequences to Richard Waverley from a movement which shortly followed his apostasy.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: The King of Navarre suddenly abandoned his party and went over to the Catholics. The explanation of his apostasy was as simple as it was base: Navarre had no confidence in the success of his cause, and he cared little in his heart for anything but women and vanity.
ref: 1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 394:
text: What had he said, what had he done, after all, to give them the right to fasten on him the charge of apostasy? He had always been a free critic of everything, and it was natural that, on certain occasions, in the little parlour in Lisson Grove, he should have spoken in accordance with that freedom; but it was only with the Princess that he had permitted himself really to rail at the democracy and given the full measure of his scepticism.
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
synonyms: backsliding[emic]] viewpoint only>
glosses: The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
synonyms: defection
disaffection
estrangement
glosses: Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.
Derived terms: apostasize
Related terms: apostate
apostatic
apostatical
apostatically
apostatise
apostatize
deconvert
thoughtcrime
effigy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfəd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: effigies
Etymology: From French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).
Senses: examples: text: In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned.
glosses: A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
examples: text: All around, terrace by terrace, there went marble lawns well guarded by onyx lions and carved with effigies of all the gods striding amid the symbols of the worlds.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:
text: There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 54:
glosses: A likeness of a person.
Synonyms: sense: a likeness of a person
word: figure
sense: a likeness of a person
word: image
sense: a likeness of a person
word: picture
Coordinate terms: sense: crude representation of a person
word: caricature
Derived terms: effigial
effigylike
in effigy
semi-effigy
bagel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ˈbeɪ.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈbɛɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæɡ.əl/
ipa: [ˈbæɡ.l̩]
ipa: [ˈbɛː.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈbaɡ.ɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈbeː.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈbæɪ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ˈbæɪ.ɡl̩]
rhymes: -eɪɡəl
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: bagels
form: beigel
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”).
Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.
Senses: glosses: A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
examples: text: The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone.
ref: 2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
glosses: An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
Synonyms: sense: spoiled young Jewish man
word: JAP
sense: spoiled young Jewish man
word: kugel
Derived terms: bagel belt
bagel bender
bagel girl
bagel head
bagelry
cragel
eggel
everything bagel
pizza bagel
Related terms: sense: in German
word: Beuge
sense: in German
word: beugen
sense: in German
word: Beugung
sense: in German
word: Biege
sense: in German
word: biegen
sense: in German
word: Biegung
word: donut
word: doughnut
word: torus
word: toroid
bagel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ˈbeɪ.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈbɛɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæɡ.əl/
ipa: [ˈbæɡ.l̩]
ipa: [ˈbɛː.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈbaɡ.ɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈbeː.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈbæɪ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ˈbæɪ.ɡl̩]
rhymes: -eɪɡəl
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: bagels
form: bageling
form: bagelling
form: bageled
form: bageled
form: bagelled
form: bagelled
form: beigel
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”).
Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To achieve a score of 6–0 (as the winner) in a tennis set.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
bagel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ˈbeɪ.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈbɛɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæɡ.əl/
ipa: [ˈbæɡ.l̩]
ipa: [ˈbɛː.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈbaɡ.ɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈbeː.ɡɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈbæɪ.ɡəl/
ipa: [ˈbæɪ.ɡl̩]
rhymes: -eɪɡəl
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: bagels
Senses: examples: text: “He’s so adorable, Aaron. Part beagle, part basset hound.” “A bagel. Very appropriate.”
ref: 2003, Jeffrey Cohen, A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 211:
text: In October, Allan and Rebecca began to care for Marty’s dog Phil more often and adopted the “bagel” (basset and beagle mix breed) when the time came.
ref: 2005, Christina Larson, Marty Is Dead, Protea Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:
text: The Bagel isn’t necessarily a popular dog, but they seem to appear often enough to be worth mentioning.
ref: 2005, Margaret H. Bonham, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Designer Dogs, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: The Bagel is a cross between the Beagle and the Basset Hound. Though not as popular as some of the more well-established mixes, the short-coated Bagel has the loving personality one would expect from two Hounds, plus the potential for some stubbornness.
ref: 2010, Dogs All-in-One For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., page 601:
text: Linus was half basset and half beagle hound, thus a bagel.
ref: 2012, G. Terrell Cotter, The Arm of the Lord: End Times Mystery, WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of bagle.
Related terms: bagel hound
toroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more toroidal
form: most toroidal
Etymology: * toroid + -al
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a torus or toroid
torus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː.ɹəs/
ipa: /toʊ̯ɹəs/
note: horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtɔ.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈtoː.ɹəs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
homophone: Taurus (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: tori
form: toruses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).
Senses: examples: text: A 4-variable Karnaugh map can be thought of, topologically, as being a torus.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
hypernyms: toroid
glosses: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
A topological space which is a product of two circles.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
hypernyms: toroid
glosses: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
A topological space which is a product of two circles.
The product of the specified number of circles.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: toroid
glosses: The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a surface or solid formed by rotating a closed curve, especially a circle, about a line which lies in the same plane but does not intersect it (e.g. like a ring doughnut).
A ring-shaped object, especially a large ring-shaped chamber used in physical research.
topics: architecture
glosses: A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rounded ridge of bone or muscle, especially one on the occipital bone.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: receptacle
thalamus
glosses: The end of the peduncle or flower stalk to which the floral parts (or in the Asteraceae, the florets of a flower head) are attached.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity.
Derived terms: de Bruijn torus
hypertorus
keratotorus
nanotorus
polytorus
subtorus
supertorus
toric
toroid
Related terms: torus tubarius
annulus
hoop
standoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstændɒf/
ipa: /ˈstændɔːf/
ipa: /ˈstændɔf/
ipa: /ˈstændɑf/
ipa: [ˈsteəndɑf]
Forms: form: standoffs
form: stand off
form: stand-off
Etymology: Deverbal from stand off.
Senses: coordinate_terms: holdoff
glosses: A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign or electrical wiring.
examples: text: I don't want to get involved in the standoff between those two.
text: A tense standoff between demonstrators and police continued overnight.
text: In recent months, both Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Captain America: Civil War have offered up big, flashy superhero standoffs as feuds of ideology and stubborn will.
ref: 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
coordinate_terms: stalemate
glosses: A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists.
Derived terms: Mexican standoff
porcelain standoff insulator
standoffish
standoff markup
standoff missile
standoff weapon
standoff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstændɒf/
ipa: /ˈstændɔːf/
ipa: /ˈstændɔf/
ipa: /ˈstændɑf/
ipa: [ˈsteəndɑf]
Forms: form: stand off
form: stand-off
Etymology: Deverbal from stand off.
Senses: examples: a standoff bomb, missile, or weapon
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: For use at a distance sufficient from the target to allow defensive fire to be evaded.
standoff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstændɒf/
ipa: /ˈstændɔːf/
ipa: /ˈstændɔf/
ipa: /ˈstændɑf/
ipa: [ˈsteəndɑf]
Forms: form: stand off
form: stand-off
Etymology: Deverbal from stand off.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of stand off.
parachute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəʃuːt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpæɹəʃut/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəʃut/
ipa: /ˈpaɹəʃʉt/
Forms: form: parachutes
Etymology: Borrowed from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.
glosses: Any of various mushrooms with broad, domed caps.
examples: text: Under that there are dildos and butt-plugs arranged by size on two shelves: two fat butt-plugs and four small ones, four two-headed dildos, eight ordinary dildos. Under that, the little material hanging on nails: five different pairs of nipple clamps, some clothespins, a parachute for the balls, a dog collar, two hoods, one in leather, one in latex, six cockrings, in steel or leather, regular or with built-in ball-squeezers, two dick sheaths […]
ref: 1998, Guillaume Dustan, translated by Brad Rumph, In My Room, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Parachutes are usually made of leather and can be purchased through most fetish catalogs or stores catering to the BDSM scene.
ref: 2012, Peggy Sue, Guide to Female Supremacy, London: Gynarchy International Editions / Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 75:
text: She came near and grabbed his balls tightly with her left hand, tugging them downward while applying a parachute harness with her right hand. […] His balls stretched downward under the delicious weight.
ref: 2016, John Caesar, Wife Scorned!, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
text: A parachute is a small collar, usually made from leather, which fastens around the scrotum, and from which weights can be hung.
ref: 2022, Mohamed A. Baky Fahmy, “Scrotum in Human Conscience”, in Mohamed A. Baky Fahmy, editor, Normal and Abnormal Scrotum, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
glosses: A large sheet of fabric used in children's physical education, often colorful, with handles allowing many people to control its motion.
Derived terms: word: antiparachute
word: bumbershoot
word: chute
taxonomic: Marasmius rotula
word: collared parachute
word: drag parachute
word: drogue parachute
word: golden parachute
word: parachutable
word: parachute flare
word: parachuteless
word: parachutelike
word: parachute panties
word: parachute pants
word: parachute roll
word: parachutic
word: parachuting
word: parachutism
word: parachutist
word: paradun
word: peacock parachute spider
word: statichute
word: umbershoot
parachute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəʃuːt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpæɹəʃut/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəʃut/
ipa: /ˈpaɹəʃʉt/
Forms: form: parachutes
form: parachuting
form: parachuted
form: parachuted
Etymology: Borrowed from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).
Senses: examples: text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
examples: text: The soldiers were parachuted behind enemy lines.
glosses: To introduce into a place using such a device.
glosses: To place (somebody) in an organisation in a position of authority without their having previous experience there; used with in or into.
synonyms: bomb
glosses: To wrap illicit drugs in a covering before swallowing them, so that they will be released for absorption when the covering dissolves within the body.
Related terms: sense: device designed to control the fall of an object or person
word: parapente
sense: device designed to control the fall of an object or person
word: parasail
sense: device designed to control the fall of an object or person
word: paratrooper
sense: device designed to control the fall of an object or person
word: skydiving
sense: web or fold of skin between the legs of gliding mammals
word: patagium
machine translation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machine translations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The production of instructions in a computer language that are equal in meaning to that in another language.
Derived terms: interlingual machine translation
machine-translate
Related terms: english: mostly used by non-native speakers
translation: mostly used by non-native speakers
word: automatic translation
english: partial synonym
translation: partial synonym
word: computer assisted translation
english: partial synonym
translation: partial synonym
word: machine-aided translation
word: machine translator
word: mechanical translation
word: MT
word: MTL