cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
compensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒm.pɛn.seɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔm.penˌsæɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -æɪt
Forms: form: compensates
form: compensating
form: compensated
form: compensated
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: compensate
form: compensate
form: compensated
form: compensate
form: compensatest
form: compensated
form: compensatedst
form: compensates
form: compensateth
form: compensated
form: compensate
form: compensated
form: compensate
form: compensated
form: compensate
form: -
form: compensating
form: compensated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: glosses: To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
examples: text: It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
glosses: To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
examples: text: His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
text: To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
text: The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: , Preface
The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
synonyms: make up
glosses: To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
examples: text: I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
text: To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
glosses: To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
Synonyms: sense: to pay
word: guerdon
word: reimburse
sense: to make up for
word: atone
word: offset
sense: to adjust to a change
word: acclimatize
word: acclimate
word: accommodate
word: accustom
word: adapt
word: accord
word: amend
word: appease
word: atone
word: equate
word: expiate
word: harmonize
word: indemnify
word: level
word: reconcile
word: rectify
word: redeem
word: redress
word: remedy
word: remunerate
word: requite
word: resolve
word: restitute and restitution
word: square
word: compensate
word: compense
word: dispense
word: make good
word: make up
word: recompense
word: restore
Hyponyms: word: atone
word: offset
word: reimburse
Derived terms: compensatable
compensator
decompensate
malcompensate
miscompensate
overcompensate
precompensate
recompensate
undercompensate
Related terms: compensation
compensatory
compensable
compensably
recompense
decry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: decries
form: decrying
form: decried
form: decried
Etymology: C. 1600, from Middle French decrier (“to denigrate; depreciate”), from Old French descrier (“to shout”) (modern décrier). Doublet of descry. The pejorative meaning had not been present in the Middle English loan, but it was present in the French word from at least the 13th century, with a meaning of "to denigrate; depreciate; to announce the depreciation or suppression of a currency", presumably from the interpretation of de- as meaning "down, inferior".
Senses: examples: text: Nothing is more uſual and more natural for thoſe, vvho pretend to diſcover any thing nevv to the vvorld in philoſophy and the ſciences, than to inſinuate the praiſes of their ovvn ſystems, by decrying all thoſe, vvhich have been advanced before them.
ref: 1739, [David Hume], “Introduction”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book I (Of the Understanding), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC:
text: All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
ref: 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock: Bantam Books, page 99:
text: While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.
ref: 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock: Bantam Books, page 474:
text: For London, Beeching decries the low fares, resulting in an inability to justify investment in capacity enhancement despite severe overcrowding.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 47–48:
glosses: To denounce as harmful.
glosses: To blame for ills.
Derived terms: decriable
decrial
decryingly
undecried
rant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: US, parts of UK
ipa: /ɹænt/
note: parts of UK
ipa: /ɹɑːnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: rants
form: ranting
form: ranted
form: ranted
Etymology: From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), from Middle Dutch ranten (“to rant, babble, goof around”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”).
Senses: glosses: To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
examples: text: Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.
glosses: To disseminate one's own opinions in a—typically—one-sided, strong manner.
glosses: To criticize by ranting.
glosses: To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
glosses: To dance rant steps.
Derived terms: rant and rave
rant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: US, parts of UK
ipa: /ɹænt/
note: parts of UK
ipa: /ɹɑːnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: rants
Etymology: From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), from Middle Dutch ranten (“to rant, babble, goof around”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”).
Senses: glosses: A criticism done by ranting.
glosses: A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
glosses: A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
Derived terms: /end rant
rantful
ranty
Related terms: screed
ramble
rave
frail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: frailer
form: frailest
Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
Senses: examples: text: Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away,
Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
text: Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird
ref: 1831, John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography: Volume 1: Blue-grey Fly-catcher:
glosses: Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
examples: text: Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
text: O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids
ref: 1922, Isaac Rosenberg, Dawn:
glosses: Weak; infirm.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
glosses: Mentally fragile.
glosses: Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
Derived terms: frailish
frailly
frailness
frail sister
frailsome
lily-frail
overfrail
prefrail
unfrail
Related terms: fractal
fraction
fracture
fragile
fragility
frailty
frail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: frails
Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
Senses: examples: text: She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
ref: 1931, Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Minnie the Moocher:
text: There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter X, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 238:
text: ‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 148:
text: Sullivan, the girl and the butler get to the ground. The girl wears a turtle-neck sweater, a cap slightly sideways, a torn coat, turned-up pants and sneakers.
SULLIVAN Why don't you go back with the car... You look about as much like a boy as Mae West.
THE GIRL All right, they'll think I'm your frail.
ref: 1941, Preston Sturges, “Sullivan's Travels”, in Five Screenplays, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A girl.
frail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: frails
form: frailing
form: frailed
form: frailed
Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
Senses: glosses: To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
frail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: frails
Etymology: From Middle English frayel, from Old French frael, fraiel, of unknown origin; possibly a dissimilatory variant of flael, flaiel (“flail”).
Senses: glosses: A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
glosses: The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
glosses: A rush for weaving baskets.
frail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: frails
Senses: glosses: Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
synonyms: word: farasola
extra: old unit of weight
frail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: frails
Senses: examples: text: The scythe, the sickle and the flail (or "frail", is it is invariably called) - these should surely be incorporated in the county arms, for on their use much of the prosperity of Essex has always rested until now.
ref: 1948, C. Henry Warren, The English Counties, Essex: Odhams, page 170:
glosses: Synonym of flail.
synonyms: word: flail
Gaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæbi/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: Gabby
Etymology: Short form of Gabrielle.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Gaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæbi/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: Gabys
form: Gabby
Etymology: Borrowed from Southern French Gaby, a hypocoristic form of Gabriel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
impertinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɝt.nənt/
Forms: form: more impertinent
form: most impertinent
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
Senses: examples: text: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 11:
glosses: Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
examples: text: Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness
ref: 1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:
text: How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
synonyms: nonpertinent
antonyms: pertinent
relevant
glosses: Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
Derived terms: impertinently
impertinentness
unimpertinent
Related terms: impudent
impertinent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɝt.nənt/
Forms: form: impertinents
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
Senses: examples: text: Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.
ref: 1808 (date written), [Maria] Edgeworth, “Manœuvring. Chapter XII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life, volume III, London: […] [S. Hamilton] for J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1809, →OCLC, page 292:
glosses: An impertinent individual.
invert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɜːt/
enpr: ĭn-vərtʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈɪn.vət/
enpr: ĭnʹvərt
ipa: /ˈɪn.vəɹt/
rhymes: -ɪnvə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: inverts
form: inverting
form: inverted
form: inverted
Etymology: From Middle French invertir.
Senses: examples: text: to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
text: That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Seldom, alas! the power of logic reigns / With much ſufficiency in royal brains. / Such reaſ'ning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper baſe to ſtand upon.
ref: 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Table Talk”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To undergo inversion, as sugar.
examples: text: [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To turn (the foot) inwards.
Synonyms: word: invert
word: reverse
word: up-end
Hyponyms: word: flip the script
word: turn the tables
Derived terms: invertase
invertasome
inverted
invertible
invertin
invertive
invertomer
invertor
invert sugar
reinvert
uninvert
Related terms: inversion
convert
invert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɜːt/
enpr: ĭn-vərtʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈɪn.vət/
enpr: ĭnʹvərt
ipa: /ˈɪn.vəɹt/
rhymes: -ɪnvə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: inverts
Etymology: From Middle French invertir.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
glosses: The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
glosses: A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
examples: text: We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.
ref: 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
qualifier: conspiracy theories
glosses: Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
Derived terms: invert enzyme
Jenny invert
invert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɜːt/
enpr: ĭn-vərtʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈɪn.vət/
enpr: ĭnʹvərt
ipa: /ˈɪn.vəɹt/
rhymes: -ɪnvə(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Middle French invertir.
Senses: examples: text: invert sugar
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
invert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɜːt/
enpr: ĭn-vərtʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈvɜɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
ipa: /ˈɪn.vət/
enpr: ĭnʹvərt
ipa: /ˈɪn.vəɹt/
rhymes: -ɪnvə(ɹ)t
Forms: form: inverts
Etymology: Abbreviation of invertebrate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An invertebrate.
peevish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːvɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈpivɪʃ/
rhymes: -iːvɪʃ
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English pievish, peuysche, pevish, pevysh (“capricious, wilful; perverse, wayward”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from one of the following:
* From an unattested Old French word, from Latin perversus (“corrupted, perverted, subverted; overthrown”), the perfect passive participle of pervertō (“to corrupt, subvert; to overthrow”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘intensively, thoroughly’) + vertō (“to turn; to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow, subvert”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). However, the Oxford English Dictionary says this derivation “presents some formal difficulties”.
* From Middle French *expaive + -ish (similar to; somewhat, rather). *Expaive is an unattested variant of Middle French espave, Old French espave (“(adjective) of an animal: stray; of a person: foreign; (noun) flotsam; lost property”) (referring to the behaviour of stray animals; modern French épave), from Latin expavidus (“extremely frightened or horrified”), from ex- (intensifying prefix) + pavidus (“fearful, terrified; quaking, trembling; shy, timid”) (from paveō (“to be afraid; fear; to quake or tremble with fear”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to hit, strike”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)).
The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: She was not halfe so wyse / As she was peuysshe nyse.
ref: c. 1517 (date written; published c. 1545), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth the Booke Called Elynour Rummynge. The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng per Skelton Laureat.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 114, lines 588–589:
text: Be the atturney of my loue to her. / Pleade vvhat I vvill be, not vvhat I haue bene, / Not by deſertes, but vvhat I vvill deſerue, / Vrge the neceſſitie and ſtate of times, / And be not pieuiſh, fond in great deſignes.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], signature K3, verso:
glosses: Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”).
synonyms: word: peevishly
extra: (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”).
ref
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: reph
Forms: form: refs
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of referee.
glosses: Abbreviation of reference.
glosses: Abbreviation of reference.
Abbreviation of refsheet.
glosses: Abbreviation of refectory.
examples: text: Please close the ref.
translation: Please close the refrigerator.
english: Please close the refrigerator.
bold_translation_offsets: 17
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glosses: Clipping of refrigerator.
Derived terms: work the refs
ref
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: reph
Forms: form: refs
form: reffing
form: reffed
form: reffed
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.
ref: 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:
glosses: To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
unmount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: unmounts
form: unmounting
form: unmounted
form: unmounted
Etymology: From un- + mount.
Senses: examples: text: Please unmount the external hard drive before unplugging it.
text: You must unmount the filesystem before running the data recovery tool.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.
Synonyms: word: dismount
word: umount
umount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umounts
form: umounting
form: umounted
form: umounted
Etymology: From the Unix program name umount.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To unmount.
athlete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæθ.liːt/
ipa: /ˈæθ.lit/
note: proscribed, anaptyctic
ipa: /ˈæθ.ə.liːt/
rhymes: -æθliːt
Forms: form: athletes
Etymology: From Middle English athlete, from Latin āthlēta (and probably also partly from Middle French athlete), from Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs), from ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete for a prize”), from ἆθλον (âthlon, “prize”) or ἆθλος (âthlos, “competition”).
Senses: glosses: A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
examples: text: She's the first athlete in her sport to obtain a corporate sponsor.
text: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
ref: 2013 March 24, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134:
glosses: A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
glosses: An exceptionally physically fit person.
Synonyms: word: sportsperson
word: competitor
word: jock
word: pro
word: sportsman
word: sportswoman
Hypernyms: word: person
Derived terms: athletehood
athlete's foot
athleticism
athletocracy
biathlete
cyberathlete
decathlete
e-athlete
ethlete
heptathlete
mathlete
neutral Paralympic athlete
nonathlete
para-athlete
parathlete
Spanish athlete
student-athlete
student athlete
superathlete
triathlete
world's greatest athlete
Related terms: word: athletic
word: athletics
word: -athlon
word: :Category:Occupations
zealot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛl.ət/
rhymes: -ɛlət
Forms: form: zealots
form: Zealot
Etymology: Initially only found as Middle English zelote, an epithet of Simon the Zealot, acquiring its current senses in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Middle English derives from Latin zēlōtēs, from Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs, “emulator, zealous admirer, follower”), from ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate, to be jealous”), from ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”).
Senses: examples: text: For Modes of Faith let graceleſs zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whoſe life is in the right:
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle III, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 55, lines 305–306:
synonyms: enthusiast
fanatic
glosses: One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.
glosses: A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews.
glosses: A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.
Related terms: jealous
jealousy
zeal
zealotry
zealous
ardent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːdənt/
ipa: /ˈɑɹdənt/
Forms: form: more ardent
form: most ardent
Etymology: First attested circa 14th century as Middle English ardaunt, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ardent and Old French ardant, from Latin ardentem, accusative of ardēns, present participle of ardeō (“I burn”).
Senses: examples: text: This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 43:
text: I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2011:
text: Nor gushing tears, nor ardent prayers, shall shake our firm decree.
ref: 1750, “Theodora”, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music):
glosses: Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm.
glosses: Providing light or heat.
Derived terms: ardentness
Related terms: ardency
ardently
ardent spirits
ardor
passionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæʃənɪt/
ipa: /ˈpæʃənət/
ipa: /ˈpæʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: more passionate
form: most passionate
Etymology: From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
Senses: examples: text: Mandy is a passionate lover.
glosses: Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
examples: text: 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,
Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
synonyms: ardent
blazing
burning
dithyrambic
fervent
fervid
fiery
flaming
glowing
heated
hot-blooded
hotheaded
impassioned
perfervid
red-hot
scorching
torrid
glosses: Fired with intense feeling.
examples: text: She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 544:
text: Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 124:
glosses: Suffering; sorrowful.
Derived terms: nonpassionate
overpassionate
passionate friendship
passionately
passionateness
unpassionate
Related terms: impassion
impassionate
impassioned
passion
passive
passivity
patience
patient
passionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæʃənɪt/
ipa: /ˈpæʃənət/
ipa: /ˈpæʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: passionates
form: passionating
form: passionated
form: passionated
Etymology: From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner.
Senses: examples: text: Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
antonyms: dispassionate
glosses: To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
examples: text: Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 6:
glosses: To express with great emotion.
fanatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnaʔɪk/
ipa: /fəˈnæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈfæ.nət.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
homophone: phonetic
homophone: phenetic (only in certain topolects with the met–mat merger)
Forms: form: more fanatic
form: most fanatic
form: fanatick
Etymology: First attested in 1525. Learned borrowing from Latin fānāticus (“of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”), from fānum (“temple”). Influenced by French fanatique.
Senses: examples: text: But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast / To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
ref: 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […] :
glosses: Fanatical.
glosses: Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
Derived terms: fanaticize
nonfanatic
ultrafanatic
unfanatic
fanatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnaʔɪk/
ipa: /fəˈnæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈfæ.nət.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
homophone: phonetic
homophone: phenetic (only in certain topolects with the met–mat merger)
Forms: form: fanatics
form: fanatick
Etymology: First attested in 1525. Learned borrowing from Latin fānāticus (“of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”), from fānum (“temple”). Influenced by French fanatique.
Senses: examples: text: The reclusive tycoon calling himself the Illusive Man is a human nationalist focused on advancing human interests, whatever the cost to non-humans. The Citadel Council regards him as a fanatic posing a serious threat to galactic security.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cerberus: The Illusive Man Codex entry:
text: A zealot can't change his mind. A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. —Winston Churchill (attributed)
text: A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim. —George Santayana
synonyms: freak
glosses: A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause.
Derived terms: antifanatic
ecofanatic
fanaticism
fanaticize
Jonatic
Lovatic
nonfanatic
Sinatratic
ultrafanatic
Related terms: fan
crank
extremist
floury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊɹi/
ipa: /ˈflaʊəɹi/
rhymes: -aʊɹi
rhymes: -aʊəɹi
homophone: flowery stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: flourier
form: flouriest
Etymology: From Middle English floury, equivalent to flour + -y. Piecewise doublet of flowery.
Senses: examples: text: These mashed potatoes have a floury texture.
coordinate_terms: mealy
grainy
powdery
glosses: Resembling flour.
examples: text: The baker wiped his floury hands on his apron.
glosses: Covered in flour.
Derived terms: flourily
flouriness
floury baker
floury miller
Related terms: wood flour
trout pout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trout pouts
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme and suggesting the grimace of a fish's mouth.
Senses: glosses: The exaggerated, grotesque result of injection of excessive quantities of collagen into the lips in order to make them appear fuller.
outie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊti
Forms: form: outies
form: outtie
form: outy
Etymology: From out + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Anything convex; especially:
A navel that protrudes from the abdomen.
glosses: Anything convex; especially:
A vulva with external labia minora.
glosses: Anything convex; especially:
A penis, seen as an everted version of a vulva.
glosses: An extrovert.
outie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊti
Forms: form: outtie
form: outy
Etymology: From out + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outtie.
outy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outies
Etymology: From out + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of outie.
innie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
homophone: any stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: innies
Etymology: From in + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Anything concave; especially:
A navel that is formed of a hollow in the abdomen (as opposed to one that protrudes from the abdomen).
glosses: Anything concave; especially:
A vulva with inner labia minora.
glosses: Anything concave; especially:
A vulva seen as an inverted version of a penis.
glosses: An introvert.
acred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acre + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Owning or possessing many acres of land.
adobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdəʊ.bi/
ipa: /əˈdoʊ.bi/
rhymes: -əʊbi
Forms: form: adobes
Etymology: From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).
Senses: examples: text: Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
text: “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
ref: 1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny:
text: Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
ref: 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 24:
text: The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
ref: 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)
text: 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,
The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
synonyms: mudbrick
dobe
glosses: An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
glosses: The earth from which such bricks are made.
examples: text: The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].
ref: 2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”, in New York Times:
glosses: A house made of adobe brick.
Derived terms: adobe bread
adobelike
adobe lily
superadobe
orbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)bd/
ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)bɪd/
Forms: form: more orbed
form: most orbed
Etymology: From orb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Orbed is the moon and bright,
 And the stars they glisten, glisten,
ref: 1818, John Keats, A Prophecy:
glosses: Having the form of an orb; round; spherical.
Derived terms: unorbed
addend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɛnd/
Forms: form: addends
Etymology: Short for addendum, by surface analysis, add + -end.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A moiety added to another molecule.
Synonyms: sense: any of various terms added together
word: summand
Hypernyms: term
Coordinate terms: sense: term added to another
word: augend
sense: term added to another
word: sum
Related terms: word: add
word: addition
word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
word: summation
addend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ɛnd/
Forms: form: addends
form: addending
form: addended
form: addended
Etymology: Short for addendum, by surface analysis, add + -end.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with an addendum.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To furnish with an addend.
adept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɛpt/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɛpt/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɛpt/
ipa: /ædˈɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: more adept
form: adepter
form: most adept
form: adeptest
Etymology: From French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Senses: examples: text: Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
Derived terms: adeptist
adeptly
adeptness
adeptship
inadept
unadept
adept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɛpt/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɛpt/
ipa: /ˈæd.ɛpt/
ipa: /ædˈɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: adepts
Etymology: From French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Senses: examples: text: adepts in philosophy
text: When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
text: Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
ref: 1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
glosses: One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
Related terms: apt
aptitude
adipic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin adeps (“lard, fat”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, or derived from adipic acid.
Derived terms: adipate
adipyl
aminoadipic
ketoadipic
Related terms: adipose
adiposeness
adiposis
adiposity
admix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈmɪks/
ipa: /ədˈmɪks/
ipa: /ˈædmɪks/
rhymes: (verb) -ɪks
Forms: form: admixes
form: admixing
form: admixed
form: admixed
Etymology: Back-formation from admixture; analyzable as ad- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore in our account of the development of their intellectual ideas, we also admix pertinent personal details.
ref: 2011, David Munchin, Is Theology a Science?, page 18:
text: They have 78 chromosomes, and all are known to admix.
ref: 2012, Stephen Spotte, Societies of Wolves and Free-ranging Dogs, page 1:
glosses: To mingle with something else; to mix.
Derived terms: interadmixed
nonadmixed
unadmixed
admix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈmɪks/
ipa: /ədˈmɪks/
ipa: /ˈædmɪks/
rhymes: (verb) -ɪks
Forms: form: admixes
Etymology: Back-formation from admixture; analyzable as ad- + mix.
Senses: examples: text: In light (vision) the admix results in white and in pigments the admix results in grey.
ref: 2014, Michael Sandborn, Nataliya Vatsyayana, A Rosetta Stone: The Universal Harmonic Language Model, page 48:
glosses: The act of admixing.
examples: text: In the late 1990s metal-reinforced glass ionomers were introduced for use as core buildups. These contain a silver alloy admix.
ref: 2011, George A. Freedman, Contemporary Esthetic Dentistry, page 337:
glosses: The mixture that results from admixing, especially an alloy.
addle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.dəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: more addle
form: most addle
Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”).
Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”) , Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”).
Senses: examples: text: addle eggs
text: Pan. Troilus! Why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg.
Cres. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: It was a feathered riddle; a mystery hatched out of an egg, and just as mysterious as if the egg had been addle!
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
examples: text: addle brains
text: Thus far the Poet, but his brains grow Addle; / And all the reſt is purely from this Noddle.
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, “[https://archive.org/details/donsebastianking00dryd/page/n20/mode/1up Prologue to Don Sebastian King of Portugal. […]]”, in Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify |act=I or II), page 20:
text: She stretched out a great red hand and arm on each side of her, so as to bar the doorway, and slowly nodded her addle head at me.
ref: 1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC:
glosses: Unfruitful or confused; muddled.
Synonyms: addled
Derived terms: addle-brain
addlebrained
addlehead
addleheaded
addlement
addleness
addle pate
addlepated
addle plot
addlings
addle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.dəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: addles
Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”).
Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”) , Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”).
Senses: glosses: Liquid filth; mire.
addle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.dəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: addles
Etymology: From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”).
Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”) , Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”).
Senses: glosses: An unwise or intellectually impaired person.
addle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.dəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: addles
form: addling
form: addled
form: addled
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English addlen, adlen, probably from Old Norse ǫðlask (“to gain possession of property”), from ōðal (“owndom, property”).
Senses: examples: text: ADDLINGS, wages. "Poor addlings," small pay for work. "Hard addlings," money laboriously acquired. "Saving's good addling," as the well known saying, "a penny saved is a penny gained."
ref: 1855, "An inhabitant" [pseudonym; Francis Kildale Robinson], A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases, Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood. With Examples of their Colloquial Use, and Allusions to Local Customs and Traditions, London: John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 2:
text: ADDLE. To earn. "It's weel-addled" – well-earned. "Addle nowt an' ware at t' end on 't, an' tha'll soin ha' to leuk raand t' corners." – Earn nothing and spend hard, and you'll soon come to poverty.
ref: 1862, anonymous [C. Clough Robinson], The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood, London: John Russell Smith, page 233:
qualifier: provincial
glosses: To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
examples: text: Kill ivy, or else tree will addle no more.
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
qualifier: provincial
glosses: To thrive or grow; to ripen.
ados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ado
adsorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈzɔːb/
ipa: /ədˈsɔːb/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: adsorbs
form: adsorbing
form: adsorbed
form: adsorbed
Etymology: From French adsorber, from Latin ad- (“to”) + sorbeō (“suck in”).
Senses: examples: text: The gas was purified by adsorbing the impurities onto active carbon.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.
Derived terms: adlayer
adsorbable
adsorbate
adsorbed
adsorber
adsorption
bioadsorb
chemisorb
chemosorb
coadsorb
deadsorb
immunoadsorbed
nonadsorbed
nonadsorbing
preadsorb
preadsorbed
readsorb
unadsorbed
Related terms: absorb