cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nuthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌtˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: nuthouses
Etymology: From nut + house.
Senses: examples: text: That guy is totally crazy; he belongs in a nuthouse.
synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A hospital for the mentally ill.
midlife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdlaɪf/
Forms: form: mid-life
Etymology: From mid- + life.
Senses: glosses: Occurring in the middle point of one's life, usually considered about 45.
Derived terms: midlife crisis
midlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdlaɪf/
Forms: form: midlives
form: mid-life
Etymology: From mid- + life.
Senses: examples: text: Twins from all the patterns of twinship experienced this emotional disaster as young adults or in their midlives.
ref: 2003, Barbara Schave Klein, Not all twins are alike: psychological profiles of twinship, page 57:
text: Now we were writing, talking, sharing bits of our lives again, glad that both of us were able to talk about our midlives (which we realized could very well have been our late lives).
ref: 2007 August 12, Curtis Pesmen, “As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The middle period of one's life.
Derived terms: mid-life crisis
midlifer
Kirchhoff's current law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A law showing that electric charge is conserved around an electrical circuit:- At any point in an electrical circuit where charge density is not changing in time, the sum of currents flowing towards that point is equal to the sum of currents flowing away from that point.
wikipedia: Gustav Kirchhoff
Related terms: Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's voltage law
Kirchhoff's voltage law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A law showing that energy is conserved around an electrical circuit: the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must be zero.
wikipedia: Gustav Kirchhoff
Related terms: Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's current law
gutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gut + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This approach was firstly used in a metagenomic context to study the microbial community associated with the gutless worm Olavius algarvensis.
ref: 2015 November 16, Lanjuan Li, Infectious Microecology: Theory and Applications, Springer, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: Without a gut.
examples: text: No, you lied to me. You lied to me because you're gutless. You're a gutless drunken loser.
ref: 1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi):
synonyms: word: boneless
word: chicken
word: chicken-hearted
word: chickenshit
word: cowardly
word: craven
word: dastardly
word: fainthearted
word: fearful
word: heartless
raw_tags: in this sense
word: gutless
word: hen-hearted
word: kiasi
word: lily-livered
word: milky
word: mousy
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: niding
word: nithing
word: poor-spirited
word: pusillanimous
word: sissy
word: spineless
word: timid
word: timorous
word: unhearty
word: weak-kneed
word: wimpish
word: yellow
word: yellow-bellied
glosses: Cowardly; lacking courage or morals.
Derived terms: gutless wonder
gutlessly
gutlessness
predominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/
Forms: form: more predominant
form: most predominant
form: prædominant
Etymology: From Middle French prédominant, ultimately from Medieval Latin praedominans. By surface analysis, pre- + dominant.
Senses: glosses: Common or widespread; prevalent.
examples: text: On Lord Marchmont's return, he, too, was struck with the unusual appearance of confusion in his hall; but anger was his predominant sensation when he heard that Henrietta had actually set off without waiting one moment.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Truth of Presentiments”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 305:
glosses: Significant or important; dominant.
Derived terms: predominantly
Related terms: predominance
predominate
predominant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/
Forms: form: predominants
form: prædominant
Etymology: From Middle French prédominant, ultimately from Medieval Latin praedominans. By surface analysis, pre- + dominant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subdominant.
klystron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klystrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλύδων (klúdōn, “surf”) + -τρον (-tron).
Senses: examples: text: Then, he must misphase two klystrons, adjusting by equal and opposite amounts until the beam energy is correct.
ref: 1991, Richard B. Neal, The Stanford Two-mile Accelerator - Volume 1, page 541:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an electron tube used to amplify microwave-frequency electromagnetic radiation.
foggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Moscow is the foggiest city I've ever been to.
glosses: superlative form of foggy: most foggy
examples: text: I don't have the foggiest idea how to get to Piccadilly Circus on the Tube.
text: She wasn't going to get the foggiest notion about modern writing from those old books.
text: He asked me where she was going and I said "I don't have the foggiest."
glosses: Slightest, faintest, least.
raw_tags: used in the negative
Related terms: have the foggiest
have the foggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the foggiest
form: having the foggiest
form: had the foggiest
form: had the foggiest
form: have the foggiest idea
form: have the foggiest notion
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry, I haven't the foggiest. You should ask someone else.
glosses: To know, understand or have a clue.
raw_tags: with a negative
I don't know
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɑ̈ɪ̯(ɾ)oʊ̯̃(ʔ)(t̚)noʊ̯]
rhymes: -əʊ
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Schidtler: Does anybody here have any idea why "Inestine" was regarded as a great scientist? Kevin?
Kevin: Oh, uh, I don't know.
ref: 1982, “You Can't Do That on Television”, in Nickelodeon, season 3, episode 11:
glosses: Used in response to a question or command in which the target person does not know the answer to or how to respond.
examples: text: Maybe you could, I don't know, directly talk to her about it instead of complaining to me for once?
glosses: Used to indicate that one is speculating (often used sarcastically when stating the obvious).
examples: text: The audacity of that lad... I don't know.
glosses: Used to express exasperation or incredulity about a given situation or person.
examples: text: I don't know why Blip just shuts off the power and then blames it on the weather.
ref: 1984, Alasdair, You Can't Do That on Television, Nickelodeon, season 5, episode 24
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, don't, know.
Derived terms: dunno
iunno
Related terms: what do I know
diff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: diffs
Senses: examples: text: A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
text: MrX provided close to 100 diffs presented in a lengthy brief divided into sections.
ref: 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
glosses: Clipping of difference
examples: text: This function takes that diff and plugs it into the larger structure.
text: [Pogo:] A woman outthunk is a woman scorned and you know what's got no fury like that! [...] Mus' I tell you? It's Sunday.
 [Albert:] What's the diff? Tell away.
 [Pogo, whispering:] Hell.
ref: 1960 March 13, Walt Kelly, Pogo, Sunday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 277:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of differential
examples: text: tank diff (i.e., the deciding factor in the game was the difference in skill between the teams' tank players)
topics: video-games
glosses: Used to trash-talk an opposing team at the end of a game by pointing out a skill difference between some role and the same role on the other team.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
examples: text: edit diff
text: I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs.
ref: 2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The output of a diff program, a diff file.
examples: text: This diff is capable of locking up when wheel slip occurs.
text: Many operators cursed the early diff and driveline set-ups[.]
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 45:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile.
examples: text: CBC with diff
text: Hemoccult emesis and stool, CBC with diff, PT/PTT, type and cross for PRBCs.
ref: 2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Varices”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A difficult route.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of difficulty.
Derived terms: diff EQ
diff lock
diff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: diffs
form: diffing
form: diffed
form: diffed
Senses: examples: text: As we move through this chapter, you will quickly see the benefits of diffing code changes to drivers, libraries, and applications.
ref: 2011, Gray Hat Hacking : The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, 3rd edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 484:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To win a fight against another, with a defined level of difficulty. Usually used when power scaling fictional characters.
Derived terms: diffable
differ
high diff
low diff
mid diff
neg diff
no diff
diff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Senses: examples: text: I don't think it's any diff then in grade school when someone said "come on take a drag it will make you look cool"
ref: 2000 August 15, ZedMan2K, “Anti-Leiberman Backlash Already”, in alt.religion.christian.baptist (Usenet):
text: Is there a way to tell it to pick a diff one by default?
ref: 2006 August 25, jes.t.er, “Character names”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of different.
diff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
Related terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: delta
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: patch
darkroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darkrooms
form: dark room
Etymology: From dark + room.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A dark room, where photographs are developed.
glosses: A darkened room where sexual activity can take place, especially one in a gay club.
Hypernyms: room
wittol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtəl/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
homophone: whittle
Forms: form: wittols
form: wittold
Etymology: From Middle English witewold; likely a blend of witen (“to know”) + cockewold (“cuckold”), equivalent to wit + cuckold.
Senses: examples: text: To see […] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: So the Ifrit cried at her, "Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!
ref: 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor:
glosses: A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.
glosses: A bird, the wheatear.
Related terms: cuckold
cuckquean
mari complaisant
wittoldry
shore up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɔːˈɹ‿ʌp/
ipa: /ʃɔˈɹ‿ʌp/
ipa: /ʃoːˈɹ‿ɐp/
Forms: form: shores up
form: shoring up
form: shored up
form: shored up
Etymology: From shore (“to provide with support”) + up. Shore is derived from Late Middle English shoren (“to prop, to support”) [and other forms], from shore (“a prop, a support”) [and other forms], + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); while shore (noun) is from Middle Dutch schore, schare (“a prop, a stay”) (modern Dutch schoor), and Middle Low German schōre, schāre (“a prop, a stay; barrier; stockade”) (compare Old Norse skorða (“a prop, a stay”) (Norwegian skor, skorda)); further etymology unknown.
Senses: examples: text: They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.
text: He needed something bold and dramatic to shore up his failing candidacy.
text: I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.
text: This answer fell just at the right time and just in the right place, to save the poor unstable young man from changing his political complexion once more. He had been on the point of beginning to totter again, but this prop shored him up and kept him from floundering back into democracy and re-renouncing aristocracy.
ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, pages 233–234:
text: [Harry] Redknapp was determined to secure victory and sent on Younes Kaboul and star playmaker Luka Modric to shore things up.
ref: 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 – 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2021:
text: However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.
ref: 2018, Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand […] , Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:
text: [Liz Truss] had cleared her diary and called off a planned visit amid desperate attempts to shore up her premiership, before speaking to Braverman at a meeting in the House of Commons, sources said.
ref: 2022 October 19, “Suella Braverman forced to resign as UK home secretary”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: embolster
word: prop up
word: underfoot
word: undergird
word: underpin
word: underprop
word: underset
glosses: To reinforce or strengthen (something at risk of failure).
pull over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls over
form: pulling over
form: pulled over
form: pulled over
Senses: examples: text: Can you pull over just after the post office? My house is next door.
glosses: To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder).
raw_tags: of a vehicle
examples: text: The cops pulled me over for speeding.
glosses: To command or force someone to drive their vehicle to the side of the road or curb and come to a stop.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, over.
Synonyms: sense: for a vehicle, to come to a stop and turn off the road
word: pull up
Derived terms: word: pullover
hard shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard shoulders
Senses: examples: text: As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:
glosses: A verge to the side of a highway, which should be used only in case of an emergency (especially on a motorway)
Synonyms: breakdown lane
Related terms: soft shoulder
pull away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls away
form: pulling away
form: pulled away
form: pulled away
Senses: examples: text: Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers.
text: As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.
ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To move ahead.
examples: text: She pulled away from me when I approached her.
text: We used to be close, but Paul has been pulling away from me for years.
text: My 7-year-old son pulled away from my lover when she picked him up. He was upset. He said he loves her but he's afraid because he knows when he gets home Daddy is going to ask him if he touched us and if he says 'yes' he's going to get a spanking.
ref: 1983 August 13, Jil Clark, quoting Ronni Sanlo, “Lesbian's Activism 'Confusing' to Children”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 3:
glosses: To move oneself further from a target, either literally or figuratively
columnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.lə.mɪst/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.ləm.nɪst/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.ləm.nɪst/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.lə.mɪst/
Forms: form: columnists
Etymology: From column + -ist, from Latin and Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.
Senses: examples: text: a sports columnist
text: a news columnist
text: a sporadic columnist
text: Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.
ref: 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
text: As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body.
ref: 2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.
Derived terms: advice columnist
cybercolumnist
social columnist
society columnist
Related terms: column
fifth columnist
equilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: æquilateral
Etymology: From equi- + lateral.
Senses: examples: text: Kissinger had wanted to keep an “equilateral” distance between the US, USSR and China. Under Carter, they became de facto partners.
ref: 2025 April 12, Edward Luce, “The revenge of geopolitics”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having all the sides equal.
raw_tags: of a polygon
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having all the faces equal.
raw_tags: of a polyhedron
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the two sides equal, as a surface divisible by a longitudinal median line into two halves of the same form.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having all the convolutions of the shell in one plane, chiefly of foraminifers.
Derived terms: equilateral arch
equilateral cross
equilateral hyperbola
equilaterality
equilaterally
equilateral triangle
hemiequilateral
inequilateral
nonequilateral
unequilateral
equilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: equilaterals
form: æquilateral
Etymology: From equi- + lateral.
Senses: glosses: A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others.
glosses: A figure having all its sides equal.
equiangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: æquiangular
form: equangular
Etymology: From equi- + angular.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a polygon, having all interior angles equal. This is not necessarily a regular polygon, since that would also be equilateral; a rectangle is equiangular but not equilateral, unless it is a square.
Derived terms: equiangularly
equiangular spiral
inequiangular
unequiangular
solarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛəɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: solariums
form: solaria
form: Solarium
Etymology: From Latin sōlārium (“sundial, place for enjoying sunlight”), from sōl (“sun”) + -ārium (“-arium: indicating related places or devices”).
Senses: examples: text: My brother kept a health-lift a few years ago... and then he had a blue-glass solarium.
ref: 1891, Edward Eggleston, The Faith Doctor, page 289:
text: The solariums on the roofs of the houses of the ancient Greeks and Romans testify to the benefits obtained by them from sun baths.
ref: 1894 September 20, The Voice
text: The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.
ref: 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:
synonyms: sunroom
coordinate_terms: conservatory
greenhouse
hothouse
glosses: A room, rooftop, balcony, or terrace, used for its abundant sunlight, especially when used as a medical treatment.
glosses: Synonym of tanning salon, a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds.
synonyms: word: tanning salon
extra: a room or business used for its sunlamps or tanning beds
glosses: An earthen structure constructed by certain ants for the purpose of brood incubation.
examples: text: […] this solarium being made for a different meridian […]
ref: 1842, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity, page 487:
text: […] lifting his eyes from the solarium set under the aplustre for reference in keeping the course...
ref: 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur, page 142:
glosses: Synonym of sundial.
synonyms: word: sundial
regular polygon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular polygons
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon which is both equiangular and equilateral (i.e. having all sides the same length and all interior angles the same).
reactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more reactive
form: most reactive
Etymology: From react + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That reacts or responds to a stimulus.
examples: text: francium is the most reactive of the alkali metals.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That readily takes part in reactions.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
glosses: Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.
Derived terms: adrenoreactive
alloreactive
aminoreactive
antireactive
autoreactive
bioreactive
C-reactive protein
crossreactive
hyperreactive
hyporeactive
immunofluororeactive
immunoreactive
monoreactive
multireactive
neuroreactive
nonreactive
nonreactively
normoreactive
over-reactive
overreactive
photoreactive
polyreactive
reactive armor
reactive armour
reactive arthritis
reactive attachment disorder
reactive centre
reactive depression
reactive distillation
reactive dye
reactive homeostasis
reactive hyperemia
reactive hypoglycemia
reactive intermediate
reactive ion etching
reactive load
reactively
reactive lymphocyte
reactive mind
reactiveness
reactive oxygen species
reactive power
reactive programming
reactive schizophrenia
reactive search
reactivity
seroreactive
subreactive
thermoreactive
unreactive
vasoreactive
xenoreactive
limelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪm.laɪt/
Forms: form: limelights
Etymology: From lime + light.
Senses: synonyms: Drummond light
glosses: The intense white light produced when heating lime in an oxyhydrogen flame.
glosses: A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime.
examples: text: Remember Rappin' Duke? Duh-ha, duh-ha
You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far
Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight
Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade
ref: 1994, 0:41 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
glosses: Attention, notice, a starring or central role, present fame; spotlight.
Derived terms: in the limelight
limelighter
steal the limelight
limelight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪm.laɪt/
Forms: form: limelights
form: limelighting
form: limelighted
form: limelighted
form: limelit
form: limelit
Etymology: From lime + light.
Senses: glosses: to illuminate with limelight
Related terms: public eye
in the limelight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the use of limelight for theatre lighting, in particular, for powering the spotlights which are used to put the focus on individual actors on stage.
Senses: examples: text: The politician was in the limelight from the moment the scandal became public.
synonyms: in the spotlight
glosses: In the focus of attention, especially from the media.
Related terms: public eye
spotlight
lapel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈpɛl/
ipa: /ləˈpel/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: lapels
Etymology: From lap + -el (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil ! You ! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow !” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.
Derived terms: grab by the lapels
lapeled
lapelled
lapelless
lapel mic
lapel pin
homemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homemakers
Etymology: From home + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.
ref: 1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233:
glosses: A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.
Derived terms: displaced homemaker
nonhomemaker
Related terms: homemaking
farmwife
househusband
housespouse
housewife
hideout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdˌaʊt/
Forms: form: hideouts
form: hide-out
Etymology: From hide + out.
Senses: examples: text: They'll never find us in this makeshift hideout we've got in the woods.
glosses: A place to hide.
glosses: A hidden headquarters or place to return to.
Related terms: word: hide out
word: bunker
word: hideaway
word: hiding place
greyhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪhaʊnd/
Forms: form: greyhounds
form: grayhound
Etymology: From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey + hound.
Senses: examples: text: Her young heart was full of love; and a world of kindly feelings were wasted on her delicate greyhound, her bright winged birds, and her favourite flowers.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.
glosses: A highball cocktail of vodka and grapefruit juice.
glosses: A swift steamer, especially an ocean steamer.
Synonyms: sense: highball cocktail
word: salty dog
Derived terms: Arabian Greyhound
greycing
greyhoundlike
greyhound racing
Italian greyhound
greyhound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪhaʊnd/
Forms: form: greyhounds
form: greyhounding
form: greyhounded
form: greyhounded
form: grayhound
Etymology: From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey + hound.
Senses: glosses: To leap rapidly across the surface of the water.
raw_tags: of fish
bowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bow (all senses)
bowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbəʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: bowings
Senses: examples: text: The courtier had practiced his bowing.
text: But it is not in the appearance of the fields, or of the cities, nor in the cuſtoms or genius of the inhabitants, that the country where you reſide has the great advantage over this land of darkneſs, but in the important article of religion; which here conſiſts almoſt entirely of external ſhow and gewgawry, of bowings, courteſies, and various geſticulations, of fantaſtical dreſſes, proceſſions, and other idle ceremonials, […]
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], “Buchanan’s Letter”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 240:
glosses: The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
examples: text: The heavy books caused a bowing in the shelf.
glosses: A bending.
examples: text: The bowing arm, the fingers on the strings, and then the violin itself polished brown, and the soloist's chin pillowed on it.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461:
glosses: A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.
Derived terms: bowing and scraping
bowingly
suggestions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈd͡ʒɛstjənz/
ipa: /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of suggestion
strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪks/
rhymes: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of strike
strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪks/
rhymes: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike
stationed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛɪʃənd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of station
stationed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛɪʃənd/
Senses: glosses: That is or which has been stationed; placed in a particular location in order to perform a task.
roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːvz/
ipa: /ɹuːfs/
ipa: /ɹʊfs/
ipa: /ɹʊfs/
ipa: /ɹufs/
ipa: /ɹuvz/
rhymes: -uːvz
rhymes: -uːfs
rhymes: -ʊfs
Forms: form: rooves
Etymology: From Middle English rofes, equivalent to roof + -s without voicing, first appearing in print in the 14th century. Displaced rooves as the standard plural in the early 17th century.
Senses: glosses: plural of roof
roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːvz/
ipa: /ɹuːfs/
ipa: /ɹʊfs/
ipa: /ɹʊfs/
ipa: /ɹufs/
ipa: /ɹuvz/
rhymes: -uːvz
rhymes: -uːfs
rhymes: -ʊfs
rhymes: -uːfs
rhymes: -ʊfs
ipa: /ɹuːvz/
ipa: /ɹuːfs/
ipa: /ɹʊfs/
ipa: /ɹʊfs/
ipa: /ɹufs/
ipa: /ɹuvz/
rhymes: -uːvz
rhymes: -uːfs
rhymes: -ʊfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roof
artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːtɪsts/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.tɪsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of artist
affidavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæfɪˈdeɪvɪt/
ipa: /-ævɪt/
rhymes: -eɪvɪt
rhymes: (Philippines) -ævɪt
Forms: form: affidavits
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affidavit (“he has sworn”), the third person singular perfect tense of affido (“swear”), from fīdō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to fidelity and faith (same Latin root), but not to affirm (shared Latin ad- prefix, but different Latin and Proto-Indo-European roots).
Senses: examples: text: He submitted his affidavit rather than appearing to testify in court.
text: Lee's case is urgent. He has to file an immediate affidavit that he is suffering from bubonic plague to avoid eviction from the house he has occupied ten years without paying the rent.
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 170:
text: All lifters were certified by affidavit and polygraph to be steroid free.
ref: 1984 December 8, “Pressing Records”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 2:
topics: law
synonyms: sworn statement
deposition
oath
testimony
glosses: A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.
Derived terms: affidavit man
evidentiary abuse affidavit
affidavit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæfɪˈdeɪvɪt/
ipa: /-ævɪt/
rhymes: -eɪvɪt
rhymes: (Philippines) -ævɪt
Forms: form: affidavits
form: affidaviting
form: affidavited
form: affidavited
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affidavit (“he has sworn”), the third person singular perfect tense of affido (“swear”), from fīdō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”). Cognate to fidelity and faith (same Latin root), but not to affirm (shared Latin ad- prefix, but different Latin and Proto-Indo-European roots).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To swear by such a document.
pebbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛbəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pebble
pebbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛbəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pebble
elders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛldəz/
ipa: /ˈɛldɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of elder
elders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛldəz/
ipa: /ˈɛldɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elder
wanderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɒndəɹə/
Forms: form: wanderers
Etymology: From Middle English wanderere, wandrere, wanderare, equivalent to wander + -er. Cognate with Scots wanderer, wandirer (“wanderer”), Dutch wandelaar (“walker, hiker”), German Wanderer (“wanderer”), Danish vandrer (“wanderer”), Swedish vandrare (“wanderer”), Norwegian vandrer (“wanderer”).
Senses: examples: text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth.
ref: 1898, Leon H. Vincent, The Bibliotaph And Other People:
text: She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
ref: 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
glosses: Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
glosses: The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
Synonyms: word: vagabond
word: ambler
word: flaneur
word: gadling
word: itinerant
word: nomad
word: peregrinator
word: rambler
word: rover
word: saunterer
word: straggler
word: stroller
word: vagrant
word: walke-street
word: wanderer
Hypernyms: word: traveller
Derived terms: lesser wanderer
plains-wanderer
Related terms: word: gadabout
word: idler
word: vagabond
APDU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APDUs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of application protocol data unit.
application protocol data unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: application protocol data units
form: APDU
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A packet of data exchanged between two application programs across a network.
p.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of PS (post scriptum).
p.p.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: P.P.S. By the way, if, by some chance, you folks do manage to straighten things out and make everything better, I still don't wish to be included.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, “Preface”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page xii:
glosses: Alternative form of PPS.
body image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body images
Senses: glosses: The subjective inner picture of one's outward physical appearance.
examples: text: we found that women are more likely to share facial images while men prefer body images and that women are more likely to share their Instagram accounts than men.
ref: 2025 January 25, Gözde Cöbek, Özen Baş, Aylin Sunam Audry, İrem İnceoğlu, Yiğit Bahadır Kaya & Aslı Özenç, “Putting Your Best Self or No Self at All? An Analysis of Young Adult’s Dating App Profiles in Turkey”, in Sexuality & Culture, →DOI:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see body image.
Akkub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew עַקּוּב (ʿaqūv).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several minor characters in the Hebrew Bible.
lash line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lash lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lashline.
RAE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of right (side) above elbow (said of an amputee/amputation).
umptieth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From umpty + -eth.
Senses: examples: text: After he retied the knot for the umptieth time, he finally figured out how to make it stay tied.
glosses: A generic ordinal number; a last or one of the latest in a long series; implies repetition.
Related terms: umpteen
umpteenth
anastrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anastrophic
form: most anastrophic
Senses: synonyms: inverted
glosses: Of or relating to an anastrophe; having an unusual word order.
glosses: inverted, upside-down; disordered, jumbled.
deaverage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deaverages
form: deaveraging
form: deaveraged
form: deaveraged
Etymology: From de- + average.
Senses: glosses: To apply different prices for a commodity to different customers (especially by location), instead of applying an average price to all.
dur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːɹ/
Etymology: From German Dur, from Latin dūrus (“hard, firm, vigorous”).
Senses: examples: text: C dur
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Major; in the major mode.
dur
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːɹ/
ipa: /də(ɹ)/
ipa: /duːɹ/
Etymology: Of imitative/exclamatory origin, similar to der, duh, derp, etc.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, dur. I'm not that stupid, I knew that."
ref: 2015, Liberty Kratz-Gullickson, Write Like a Girl, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of duh (“indicating stupidity etc.”).
Related terms: dur-brain
dur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːɹ/
ipa: /də(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dur
form: durs
Senses: examples: text: He began to tell me that Marybeth is accused or it is alleged she is one of the dur in Crooked Tree.
ref: 2023 June 13, Jules Vasquez, “Who Put Marybeth's Fraudulent Approval on Chester's Desk?”, in 7 News Belize:
glosses: A marijuana dealer.
mala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
Forms: form: malae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A single lobe of an insect's maxilla.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The grinding surface of an insect's mandible.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The third segment of a mandible of some myriapods.
Related terms: malar
mala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈmæl.ə/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of malum
mala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈmæl.ə/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.lɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑl.ɑ/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈmæl.ə/
Forms: form: malas
form: mala
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit माला (mālā, “wreath, garland, crown”).
Senses: examples: text: His words were like beads on the string of a mala, escaping his lips in small puffs of air.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 413:
synonyms: japamala
glosses: A bead or a set of beads commonly used by Hindus and Buddhists for keeping count while reciting, chanting, or mentally repeating a mantra or the name or names of a deity.
mala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈmæl.ə/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.lɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑl.ɑ/
Forms: form: malas
Etymology: From Western Desert Language, as Pitjantjatjara mala.
Senses: glosses: A species of hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus, of arid Australia.
mala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.lə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
ipa: /ˈmæl.ə/
ipa: /ˈmɑː.lɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɑl.ɑ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 麻辣 (málà)
Senses: glosses: A seasoning made from Sichuan pepper and chilis.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: mala fide
tendre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tendre
form: most tendre
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tender.
tendre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tendres
form: tendring
form: tendred
form: tendred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tender.
tendre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendres
Senses: examples: text: You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Tender feeling or fondness; affection.
piscina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈsiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: piscinas
form: piscinae
Etymology: From Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”). Compare Middle English piscyne (“pool, pond”), from the same Latin word.
Senses: glosses: A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions.
glosses: A basin or tank, especially one for holding fishes or for growing aquatic plants.
Synonyms: washbasin
Related terms: sense: ritual of using a piscina
word: lavatory
crisis center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crisis centers
Senses: glosses: a place staffed by volunteers who give help and advice to people experiencing difficulties
Synonyms: word: citizens advice bureau
word: citizens advice centre
pagar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagars
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay pagar.
Senses: examples: text: The pagars, or fences, are about six feet high, and the bars about fifteen inches one above the other; […]
ref: 1848, Hugh Low, Sarawak, Its Inhabitants and Productions, page 227:
glosses: A fence, in parts of Asia.
nen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Senses: glosses: none
lana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The tree Genipa americana.
Derived terms: lana dye
festa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstə/
rhymes: -ɛstə
Forms: form: festas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, and Maltese festa. Doublet of fete, fiesta, feast, and fest.
Senses: glosses: A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
academic freedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk ˈfɹiː.dm̩/
ipa: /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk ˈfɹi.dm̩/
Forms: form: academic freedoms
Etymology: Calque of German akademische Freiheit. First attested in English in 1901.
Senses: glosses: The right to teach, learn, and (communicate) research freely without unreasonable interference from authority, or fear of reprisal.
cel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛl/
homophone: cell
homophone: sell
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: cels
form: cell
Etymology: Clipping of celluloid.
Senses: examples: text: After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation.
ref: 2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times:
glosses: A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
Derived terms: cel-shaded
cel shading
cel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛl/
homophone: cell
homophone: sell
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: cels
form: cell
Etymology: Clipping of celibate.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of celibacy or celibate.
Synonyms: celibate
truecel
trucel
Derived terms: sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: heightcel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: hicel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: incel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: marcel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: nearcel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: noncel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: truecel
sense: terms derived using cel as suffix
word: volcel