cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌbæɡ/
ipa: /ˈhæm.bəɡ/
Forms: form: handbags
Etymology: From hand + bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs. The verb is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag.
Senses: examples: text: From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: I put on my new suit and put my watch on and packed the other suit and the accessories and my razor and brushes in my hand bag […].
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
glosses: A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job.
examples: text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
ref: 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
text: In London, of all places, where people are always on the lookout for opportunities to commit crimes: an unzipped handbag, a phone sticking out of a back pocket, an unpadlocked bike.
ref: 2020, Jess Ryder, The Night Away:
synonyms: word: purse
coordinate_terms: man-bag
murse
glosses: A small bag used chiefly by women for carrying various small personal items, sometimes considered as a fashion accessory.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of handbag house.
Derived terms: bachelor's handbag
handbag clip
handbagful
handbagger
handbaggy
handbagless
handbags at dawn
hardbag
I lost my handbag
man-bag
smell like a tart's handbag
social handbag
handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌbæɡ/
ipa: /ˈhæm.bəɡ/
Forms: form: handbags
form: handbagging
form: handbagged
form: handbagged
Etymology: From hand + bag. The music genre is named from women dancing around a pile of their handbags in nightclubs. The verb is a reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Apparently Birt happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time on Sunday afternoon. Virginia saw him and handbagged him. She really was very cross.’
ref: 1995, Nicholas Jones, Soundbites and Spin Doctors, London: Cassell, →ISBN, page 202:
text: My favourite part of the whole day was being handbagged by a reader who was quivering with rage and said, ‘You've changed everything!’ and complained about everything, even how easy the crossword was, as Dower filmed every foam-flecked word.
ref: 2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of the Lady, London: Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: To attack verbally or subject to criticism (typically used of a woman).
pus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭs
ipa: /pʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: pura
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.
Senses: examples: text: Pus was seeping out of the wound.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
Derived terms: word: pus-gutted
word: pussy
word: pusy
word: puss
Related terms: puriform
purulent
pustulent
suppure
suppurate
suppurative
suppurant
pus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭs
ipa: /pʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: pusses
form: pussing
form: pussed
form: pussed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.
glosses: To emit pus.
ideology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.diːˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/
ipa: /aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɑɪ.diːˈɔl.ə.d͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: ideologies
Etymology: Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- + -logie (equivalent to English ideo- + -logy). Cognate with, but not derived from, idea. Coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: A dictatorship bans things, that do not conform to its ideology, to secure its reign.
text: This article examines how these three scholars use the term "Occitan" and ideologies of Occitanism to characterize southern France, and how such ideologies reflect the intellectual traditions in which they write.
ref: 1987 April, Vera Mark, “In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France”, in Anthropological Quarterly, volume 60, number 2, Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 64–70:
text: What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
ref: 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
text: Ideology constantly gets in the way. For the Government, unions are militant "Trots" out to cause political trouble. For the unions, the private sector is a grasping, evil leech. Neither is true.
ref: 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
glosses: Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
glosses: The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
Derived terms: gender ideology
ideolog
ideologeme
ideologic
ideological
ideologically
ideologisation
ideologise
ideologiser
ideologism
ideologist
ideologization
ideologize
ideologizer
ideologue
subideology
successor ideology
microhabitat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhabitats
Etymology: From micro- + habitat.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: microsite (the location), microenvironment (the location or its milieu)
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specific habitat, typically extremely small, such as a cave corner or a cardboard box.
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: tushes
Etymology: From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].
ref: 1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.:
text: […] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: A tusk.
glosses: A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: tushes
form: toosh
Etymology: Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”).
Senses: examples: text: Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.
ref: 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):
glosses: The buttocks.
Derived terms: tushie
tushy
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Etymology: A natural utterance (OED).
Senses: examples: text: "Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]
ref: 1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter [XIII], in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 275:
text: He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful?"
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
Synonyms: sense: exclamation of scorn
word: feh
word: pfaugh
word: pish
word: pshaw
word: pooh
word: bah
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Etymology: A natural utterance (OED).
Senses: glosses: Nonsense; tosh.
Synonyms: balderdash
drivel
poppycock
nonsense
Derived terms: pishtush
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: tushes
form: tushing
form: tushed
form: tushed
Etymology: A natural utterance (OED).
Senses: glosses: To express contempt; rebuke.
Synonyms: castigate
lambaste
scold
criticize
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: tushes
form: tushing
form: tushed
form: tushed
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
tush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: tŭsh
ipa: /tʌʃ/
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
enpr: to͝osh
ipa: /tʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: tushes
Etymology: From British slang tusheroon.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.
newt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːt/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ut/
ipa: /ˈnjʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: newts
Etymology: From Middle English newte, newete, from rebracketing of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft.
Senses: glosses: A small lizard-like amphibian in the subfamily Pleurodelinae that lives in the water as an adult.
newt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːt/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ut/
ipa: /ˈnjʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: newts
form: newting
form: newted
form: newted
Etymology: From Middle English newte, newete, from rebracketing of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft.
Senses: examples: text: If you moved first and newted someone , you were a murderer.
ref: 2012, Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: To turn (someone) into a newt, especially by magic.
examples: text: So instead Sredna [presumably an abbreviation of "Nosredna", one of the LambdaMOO wizards] newted Finn. She newted him, and though she did not specify the length of time for which he was to remain newted, it seemed clear enough that forever would be just fine with the wizards.
ref: 1998, Julian Dibbell, My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World, Julian Dibbell, →ISBN, page 222:
text: If, after a period of newting, the person still refuses to adhere to proper conduct and[…]
ref: 2001, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: To (usually temporarily) expel a user from a MUD or similar system
Synonyms: word: ask
word: askard
english: usually refers to the terrestrial phase of a newt
translation: usually refers to the terrestrial phase of a newt
word: eft
word: salamander
Derived terms: alpine newt
California newt
dragonewt
fire-bellied newt
great crested newt
Iberian ribbed newt
newtish
newtlike
newtling
newtly
paddle-tailed newt
palmated newt
palmate newt
pissed as a newt
smooth newt
cardboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːdbɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdbɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dbɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: cardboards
Etymology: From card + board.
Senses: glosses: A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
examples: text: In my experience, one of the most vital times in the life of a piece of fiction is when a character begins to speak, timidly and softly, in one's head. Honest and true books get written when the author feels free to coax and invite that character in. If the author's response to that small voice is instead to submit it to a test: "Are you: black/white/gay/straight/male/female/Christian/Jewish/old/young/politically correct" the character will probably turn around and leave or else turn into cardboard.
ref: 1980 February 9, Andrea Loewenstein, “James Baldwin and His Critics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 10:
text: According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army.
ref: 2018 February 21, Jeff Pearlman, “Parkland students, ignore the idiots”, in CNN:
glosses: Something flat or insubstantial.
Derived terms: cardboard box
cardboard city
cardboard cut-out
cardboard cutout
cardboarded
cardboarding
cardboardy
corrugated cardboard
Related terms: paperboard
cardboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːdbɔːd/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdbɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dbɔː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From card + board.
Senses: examples: text: The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
ref: 1868, Arthur William A'Beckett, “Painted Ships and Painted Oceans”, in The Tomahawk, page 114:
text: The thing really looked quite cardboard.
ref: 1973, Journal of Black Poetry, number 17, page 27:
text: While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard, Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.
ref: 2008, Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia's Border, page 122:
text: MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.
ref: Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama, page 501
glosses: Made of or resembling cardboard; (figurative) flat or flavorless.
cardamom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.də.məm/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.də.mən/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.də.məm/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.dəˌmɑm/
Forms: form: cardamoms
form: cardamon
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Old French cardamome or Latin cardamōmum, from Ancient Greek καρδάμωμον (kardámōmon).
Senses: glosses: An herb, native to India (Elettaria cardamomum.
glosses: Seed of Elettaria cardamomum, used as a medicine and spice, especially in curry powder.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Synonym of grains of paradise, seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa.
synonyms: word: grains of paradise
word: seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta
word: of East Africa
Synonyms: sense: spice
word: elaichi
sense: spice
word: queen of spices
Derived terms: black cardamom
Cardamom Mountains
green cardamom
natch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /næt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Etymology: Clipping of naturally, originally US.
Senses: examples: text: The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.
text: [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
 [Dog:] Natch.
ref: 1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Engineers held morning meetings sitting in rainbow-colored beanbags, took lunch gratis at the corporate sushi bar and unwound in the afternoon with craft brews from the office keg (nitrogen chilled, natch).
ref: 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:
text: The size of Trump’s penis? Somewhere between 6-7cm. All of this is foretold in Revelation 6:7, natch.
ref: 2025 October 16, Zach Vasquez, “‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Naturally; of course.
natch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: natches
Etymology: From Old French nache, Late Latin natica, from Latin natis (“the rump, buttocks”). Compare aitchbone.
Senses: glosses: The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.
Derived terms: natch-bone
natch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: natches
Senses: glosses: A notch.
deffo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfəʊ/
Forms: form: more deffo
form: most deffo
Etymology: From definitely or definite + -o (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I know for certain they′re not speaking to each other, that′s for deffo, not that I′ve even seen them in the same room over the last week to confirm their silence.
ref: 2003, Grace Dent, LBD: it′s a girl thing, page 45:
text: ‘An infection. Nothing serious. They′ll have some colour in them soon, for deffo.’
ref: 2009, Joe Stretch, Wildlife, unnumbered page:
text: “Couldn′t say for deffo, probably at least fifteen years old, but I know they don′t make them like these any more for exactly the reason you′ve just seen. The security systems shite.”
ref: 2009, Stephen Leonard Lancashire, Immaculate Deception, page 271:
text: Needles wilted under the force of Pegg′s demand, his eyes widened and he seemed to shrink in size, and I can′t say for deffo but I think he probably wet himself.
ref: 2010, Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well, page 25:
glosses: Definite.
raw_tags: with for
deffo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfəʊ/
Forms: form: more deffo
form: most deffo
Etymology: From definitely or definite + -o (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He told me that he's deffo going to be there tonight.
text: And I deffo don′t believe in me, cos I′m a proper knobhead, aren′t I, and always have been.
ref: 2009, Nick Leather, Billy Wonderful, page 12:
text: It′s weird, but even though Dosser was only grounded for like two weeks, I was actually starting to kind of miss him, and I deffo would′ve loved to have gone for a good old-fashioned crow-hunt that Saturday afternoon,[…].
ref: 2011, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Strictly Legal, page 128:
text: ‘[…]And no giving in at the slightest whimper. Agreed?’
‘Deffo!’ He couldn′t see my fingers crossed behind my back.
ref: 2011, Maggie Graham, Me and My Animals, page 142:
glosses: Definitely.
Derived terms: deffos
ow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: our (some dialects)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ouch (“cry of pain”).
synonyms: word: ouch
extra: cry of pain
examples: text: Now don't you wait or hesitate / Let's move before they raise the parking rate, ow!
ref: 1970, Free, “All Right Now”:
text: Then you ran into the bedroom / You were struck down / It was your doom, Annie / Ow!
ref: 1987, Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Used for emotional emphasis.
ow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: our (some dialects)
Forms: form: ows
Senses: examples: text: Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 98:
glosses: An uttering of an 'ow'.
Derived terms: owie
youch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jaʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -aʊt͡ʃ
Senses: examples: text: Youch! I stubbed my toe!
glosses: Synonym of ouch.
synonyms: word: ouch
yowch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -aʊtʃ
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ouch.
synonyms: word: ouch
fitte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fittes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fit (“section of a poem or ballad”).
pule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːl/
ipa: /pjʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: pules
Etymology: From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).
Senses: glosses: A plaintive melancholy whine.
pule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːl/
ipa: /pjʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: pules
form: puling
form: puled
form: puled
Etymology: From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).
Senses: examples: text: Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
text: ... rain-drops over the puling baby she carried in her arms;[…]
ref: 1898, The Ludgate Monthly, page 13:
glosses: To whimper or whine.
glosses: To pipe or chirp.
examples: text: ... rain took even less time since fronts rolled through about every forty-eight hours. The first two opportunities he didn't even bother to check out since the low pressure systems had been puling little pissers[,] dropping spotty rainfall[,][…]
ref: 2006 06, Dan Skelton, The Human Element, Dan Skelton, →ISBN, page 123:
text: ... rain fell, not merely spilling from the clouds, but pitched down to beat the earth. Broad leaves of the multitude of banana trees thundered from the force. He almost longed for the puling rain of England instead of this assault[…]
ref: 2007 March 5, Kresley Cole, The Price of Pleasure, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 68:
text: ... looked at the puling sky, face upturned to a mirr of rain.
ref: 2019 January 21, Robert Low, Beasts Beyond The Wall, Canelo, →ISBN:
qualifier: snow; etc; snow; etc
glosses: To fall in a continuous, light dribble.
raw_tags: of rain
Derived terms: puler
pule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːl/
ipa: /pjʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /ˈpuːleɪ/
ipa: /pjuːl/
ipa: /pjʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Senses: glosses: A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.
plow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plows
Senses: examples: text: A plow, they say, to plow the snow.
They cannot mean to plant it, no–
Unless in bitterness to mock
At having cultivated rock.
ref: 2019 December 10, Cider Mill Press, Robert Frost Signature Notebook (The Signature Notebook Series), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of plough.
Derived terms: ard plow
gangplow
mine plow
moldboard plow
motor plow
plowbote
plowboy
plowgate
plowgirl
plowhorse
plowland
plowless
plowlike
plowman
plowpan
plowpoint
plowshare
plowstaff
plowtail
plowwoman
plowwright
plowzone
Rome plow
snowplow
snow plow
sodbuster plow
turnplow
plow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plows
form: plowing
form: plowed
form: plowed
Senses: examples: text: Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
text: It was the Viking habit. Even as a man plowed his field or chopped trees in the woods, his byrnie and his sword were always at hand.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
text: Government institutions seem prepared to continue plowing public funds into the projects. A Brazilian newspaper reported Tuesday that the national development bank had approved a new loan of about $200 million for Itaquerão, a new stadium in São Paulo that is expected to host the opening match of the World Cup.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
glosses: Alternative spelling of plough.
Derived terms: overplow
plowable
plow down
plower
plow one's way
plow over
replow
up-plow
sticky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: stickies
Etymology: From stick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.
glosses: A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
glosses: A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
glosses: A sweet dessert wine.
examples: text: We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 268:
text: Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping
ref: 2011 April 12, “Made Men”performed by Rick Ross:
text: As drunk as I was, all I could think about was getting some sticky down my lungs.
ref: 2014, Jagada Chambers, Based on a True Story:
glosses: Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
glosses: Wax.
sticky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: stickies
form: stickying
form: stickied
form: stickied
Etymology: From stick + -y.
Senses: qualifier: bulletin boards
glosses: to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
meteor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːtɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈmiːtɪɔː/
ipa: /ˈmiːtiɚ/
ipa: [ˈmiːɾiɚ]
ipa: /ˈmiːtioɹ/
homophone: meatier
Forms: form: meteors
form: meteoring
form: meteored
form: meteored
Etymology: From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).
The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.
Senses: glosses: To move at great speed.
stickshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkˌʃɪft/
Forms: form: stickshifts
Etymology: From stick + shift.
Senses: examples: text: In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift.
synonyms: manual#Noun
glosses: A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
examples: text: My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.
synonyms: manual#Noun
glosses: A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
examples: text: Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick]
glosses: Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.
examples: text: It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.
glosses: A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor.
Coordinate terms: sense: manual transmission or a vehicle that has one
word: automatic
sense: manual transmission or a vehicle that has one
word: automatic transmission
sense: manual transmission or a vehicle that has one
word: continuously variable transmission
sense: manual transmission or a vehicle that has one
word: semi-automatic transmission
Related terms: drive stick
shifter
shift gears
downshift
gear change
upshift
define
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: defines
Etymology: From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”).
Senses: examples: text: From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
ref: 1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment:
text: Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.
ref: 1999, Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++, page 309:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
coulee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːli/
ipa: /ˈkuli/
ipa: /ˈkʉːli/
rhymes: -uːli
homophone: coolly
Forms: form: coulees
form: coulée
form: cooley
Etymology: From French coulée (“flow”), from couler (“to flow”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Mauvaise Coulee enters Devils Lake from the north, but it cannot be said to drain the lakes with which it is connected. It is itself a long-drawn-out slough or pool which is broader at those places where it spreads out into lakes. […] the head streams or coulees of the Park, the Forest and the Turtle, have all cut deep channels down through the drift into the underlying shales. This is because of the fall from the top of the high plateau down to the low prairie. […] all the larger lakes upon this plateau have already been tapped by the head coulees of the streams named.
ref: 1907, Daniel Everett Willard, The Story of the Prairies, page 168:
text: The small streams and coulees which flow into the Mississippi River in the area are firmly entrenched by the natural topography, and little lateral migration is possible.
ref: 1982, State Road and Ebner Coulees Flood Control Project, ..., page 16:
glosses: A stream, especially one in the western US or Canada, generally smaller than a bayou; it may (or may not) run dry in summer, may be sluggish, shallow, and wide (forming in effect a pond or slough), or may have cut a deep gulch or ravine.
examples: text: We were in a coulee, which is like a slough but deeper and with slushier muds at the bottom.
ref: 1989, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, →ISBN, page 73:
qualifier: Mississippi Delta region
glosses: A reach of water in a bayou that is like a slough but deeper.
examples: text: The edge of a coulee, or stream of solidified lava, though ordinarily a very low escarpment, is exceptionally of such size as to deserve attention in the present connection.
ref: 1928, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 43:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lava flow (whether molten or solidified).
Related terms: coulis
autor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autors
Senses: examples: text: Iohan Baptiſt than ſheweth a reaſon, why he ſaide, that the lord Ieſus was before him, bicauſe, ſaieth he, he was my firſt, that is to ſaye, my prince, my head, my autor, my maker.
ref: 1558, Bartho[lomew] Traheron, An Exposition of a Parte of S. Iohannes Gospel Made in Sondrie Readinges in the English Congregation […] :
text: VVhereby first, note with me, the goodnes of our God toward vs, who ſeeing that we wil not shun plaies for anie dehortations of his godlie Preachers, who daie by daie in al places of greatest reſort denounce the vengeance of GOD to them, be they hie or lowe, that fauor plaies, Theaters, or plaiers, ſtirreth vp the verie Autors themſelues to inueigh against them, that we maie be ashamed any waie to allowe that, which the verie Autors do vtterlie condemne.
ref: 1580, “Anglo-phile Eutheo to the Reader,S”, in A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters: […]:
text: […]; in the one, eſteeming Plutarch or Homer as an hundred autors; in the other, valuing Cato or Scipio as a thouſand examples.
ref: 1593, Gabriell Harvey, “To my very gentle, and liberal Frendes, M. Barnabe Barnes, M. John Thorius, M. Anthony Chewt, and every favorable Reader”, in Pierces Supererogation: or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame., London: […] Iohn Wolfe, page 5:
glosses: Obsolete form of author.
Dagon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪ.ɡɒn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דגון.
Senses: examples: text: When the Philistines tooke the Arke of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 5:2:
text: This day a ſolemn Feaſt the people hold / To Dagon thir Sea-Idol,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 12–13:
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: The main god of the Phoenicians. Although at one time believed to be represented as half man and half fish, modern scholarship recognizes that the latter was the apkallu, while Dagan/Dagon was a grain god.
Dagon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪ.ɡɒn/
Senses: glosses: Former name of Yangon.
narrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈnæɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈnɛɹ.eɪt/
ipa: /nəˈɹæɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: narrates
form: narrating
form: narrated
form: narrated
Etymology: In English (recorded only since 1656, but until the 19th century stigmatized as 'Scottish') apparently from narration.
Senses: examples: text: narrate a story
text: narrate a tale
text: narrate one's life
text: narrate the play
text: The documentary will narrate the rise and fall of the historic club.
synonyms: tell
glosses: To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.
examples: text: narrate the meeting
synonyms: report
glosses: To give an account.
Derived terms: aforenarrated
misnarrate
narratability
narratable
narratage
narratee
narrateme
renarrate
unnarrated
Related terms: antenarratology
narrater
narration
narrative
narratology
narrator
narratory
patrilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /patɹɪˈlɪnɪəl/
Etymology: From patri- + lineal. Coined by British government anthropologist Northcote Whitridge Thomas in 1904 along with matrilineal.
Senses: examples: text: The Xhosa are a proud and patrilineal people with an expressive and euphonious language and an abiding belief in the importance of laws, education and courtesy.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 4:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to descent through male lines.
Derived terms: nonpatrilineal
patrilineal cousin
patrilinealism
patrilineality
patrilineal Jew
patrilineally
Related terms: patrilateral
WONF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of with other natural flavors, on food packaging.
underground
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndəˈɡɹaʊnd/
note: for the noun
ipa: /ˈʌndəɡɹaʊnd/
ipa: /ˌʌndɚˈɡɹaʊnd/
note: for the noun
ipa: /ˈʌndɚɡɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: more underground
form: most underground
form: under ground
Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds.
Senses: examples: text: The tunnel goes underground at this point.
synonyms: below ground
glosses: Below the ground.
synonyms: clandestinely
in secret
on the quiet
glosses: Secretly.
underground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndəˈɡɹaʊnd/
note: for the noun
ipa: /ˈʌndəɡɹaʊnd/
ipa: /ˌʌndɚˈɡɹaʊnd/
note: for the noun
ipa: /ˈʌndɚɡɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: undergrounds
form: under ground
Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
examples: text: London Underground
synonyms: word: underground railway
word: subway
extra: a railway that is under the ground
glosses: Synonym of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
examples: text: the French underground during World War II
text: Victor, please, don't go to the underground meeting tonight.
ref: 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman):
synonyms: resistance
glosses: A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
synonyms: avant-garde
counterculture
glosses: A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
underground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndəˈɡɹaʊnd/
note: for the noun
ipa: /ˈʌndəɡɹaʊnd/
ipa: /ˌʌndɚˈɡɹaʊnd/
note: for the noun
ipa: /ˈʌndɚɡɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: undergrounds
form: undergrounding
form: undergrounded
form: undergrounded
form: under ground
Etymology: From Middle English undergrounde (adverb), equivalent to under + ground or under- + ground. Compare Dutch ondergrond, ondergronds, German Untergrund, Danish undergrunds.
Senses: examples: text: One is to underground where no other alternative will work, and this method should be used universally in urban regions as it now is in “downtown” sections.
ref: 1962, David Pesonen, “Battles Over Energy”, in Carolyn Merchant, editor, Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History, Island Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 325:
text: Also, undergrounding may not eliminate the potential for crashes with other roadside objects, such as trees, walls, buildings, and so forth. [...] When looking at the fesibility of undergrounding utilities, the complete roadside area and nearby adjacent properties should be evaluated for potential roadside obstructions or hazards.
ref: 2004, Don L. Ivey, C. Paul Scott, “Solutions”, in Transportation Research Board Committee on Utilities, editor, Utilities and Roadside Safety, State of the Art Report 9, Transportation Research Board, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The utility now wants the network to be undergrounded in the urban areas, which would mean substations with 33 kV distribution swtichgear.
ref: 2006, Janes Northcote-Green, Robert Wilson, “Design, Construction and Operation of Distribution Systems, MV Networks”, in Control and Automation of Electrical Power Distribution Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: To route electricity distribution cables underground.
Related terms: underground railway
go underground
hoary marmot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoary marmots
Senses: glosses: A rodent of the species Marmota caligata.
Synonyms: sense: Marmota caligata
word: whistler
sense: Marmota caligata
word: whistling marmot
et seq.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: seq.
form: sq.
form: & seq.
form: & seqq.
Etymology: Borrowing of Latin et seq., an abbreviation variously of et (“and”) sequens (“the following item”), sequente (“in what follows”), sequentes and sequentia (“the following items”), or sequentibus (“in the following items”).
Senses: examples: text: See p. 87 et seq.
text: Covered in Code Section 123 et seq.
topics: law
glosses: And what follows, and following, and in the following [pages, sections, &c.].
raw_tags: used in page references
Synonyms: word: f.
english: and the following pages
translation: and the following pages
word: ff.
english: with a following blank space representing the indeterminate end
translation: with a following blank space representing the indeterminate end
word: –
Related terms: english: and elsewhere
translation: and elsewhere
word: et alibi
english: and elsewhere throughout
translation: and elsewhere throughout
word: et passim
N.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of n.b..
N.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Brunswick: a province of Canada.
glosses: Abbreviation of North Britain.
op.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Opus.
glosses: Operation.
glosses: Operator.
glosses: Operative.
glosses: A detective.
glosses: An operator's license, usually ops
examples: text: photo op.
glosses: Opportunity.
Related terms: Ocean Pacific
v.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of very.
v.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of version.
glosses: Abbreviation of verb.
examples: text: Three stages beyond Irkutsk is Listvenitchnaya, the place of embarkation for the lake of Baikal (112 v. wide and 1800 v. long), which is crossed in a steamer, and from which passengers are landed in small boats. Fare, 8 rs. In winter the lake is crossed over the ice.
ref: 1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:
glosses: Abbreviation of verst.
glosses: Abbreviation of victim.
v.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: Brown v. Board of Education
text: Two questions are at issue in the case, NRC v. Texas.
ref: 2025 March 4, John Fritze, “Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: vs.
word: v
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of versus.
v.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: See. vide(te)
v.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vv.
Etymology: From Latin versus (“verse”).
Senses: glosses: verse
Related terms: v. a.
vs.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The dream mix of classic characters is at the very core of what makes this series great. Mario vs. Link! Donkey Kong vs. Bowser! Fox vs. Samus! Smash Bros. gives fans the kind of matchups that they can normally only dream about.
ref: 2007 December 24, Chris Slate, “Get Ready to Smash”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 47:
synonyms: vs
v.
glosses: Abbreviation of versus.
viz.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: vid.
form: videl.
Etymology: From Medieval Latin viꝫ, from Latin vidēlicet (“that is to say, namely”), short for vidēre licet (“it is permitted to see, look (it is) legal”). The ‘z’ was originally not a letter but a common Middle Latin scribal abbreviation ꝫ that was used for -et, specifically a Tironian note. The symbol resembled ‘z’, or rather 3 and Ȝ, and hence is thus represented in type. Compare ⁊, the Tironian symbol for Latin et (“and”) (in isolation, not as suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I am at this period, viz. in 1812, living in a cottage; […]
ref: 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “[Part II.] Introduction to the Pains of Opium.”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC, page 119:
text: The fact is, when Captain Dobbin blushed so, and looked so, it was necessary to inform the young ladies, viz., that he had been calling at Mr. Sedley's house already, […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: This, however, makes it necessary to distinguish between two different types of gaps, viz. between “singular NP gaps” and “plural NP gaps.”
ref: 1993, Hans Kamp, Uwe Reyle, From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory, page 51:
text: As to (b), the joint intention, like any intention, commits the intending agents to carry out its content, viz. to act.
ref: 2012, Matti Sintonen, Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences:
synonyms: word: namely
word: especially
word: in especial
word: in particular
word: namely
word: particularly
word: peculiarly
word: specially
word: specifically
word: to wit
glosses: Videlicet: namely, to wit, that is to say, specifically, as an illustration.
wikipedia: scribal abbreviation
Related terms: ⁊
chas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cha
contradiction in terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contradictions in terms
Senses: examples: "A miniature giant" is a contradiction in terms.
glosses: A phrase or expression in which the component words contradict one another, often unintentionally, or are claimed to do so when seen from a particular point of view.
Synonyms: oxymoron
contradictio in terminis
Hypernyms: contradiction
contradiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: contradictions
Etymology: From Middle English contradiccioun, contradiction, from Old French contradiction, from Latin contrādictiō, from contrādīcō (“speak against”).
Senses: examples: text: His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
glosses: The act of contradicting.
examples: text: There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right.
text: There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.
glosses: A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
examples: text: Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
glosses: A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
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glosses: A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
Synonyms: sense: statement that contradicts itself
word: oxymoron
sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: ↯
sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: ⇒⇐
sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: ⊥
sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: ↮
sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: ※
Coordinate terms: sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: contingency
sense: proposition that is false for all values of its variables
word: tautology
Derived terms: contradictional
contradiction in terms
contradictionism
contradictionless
intercontradiction
law of contradiction
law of non-contradiction
non-contradiction
noncontradiction
principle of contradiction
proof by contradiction
self-contradiction
sign of contradiction
Related terms: contradict
contradictory