cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
banana
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bə-näʹnə
rhymes: -ɑːnə
ipa: /bəˈnɑː.nə/
note: Indic
ipa: /bəˈnɑ.nɑ/
enpr: bə-nănʹə
rhymes: -ænə
ipa: /bəˈnæ.nə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana), possibly from Arabic بَنَان (banān, “fingertip, banana”). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are “Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, but White (Westernized) on the inside”.
Senses: examples: text: Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
ref: 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155:
text: He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
ref: 2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, →ISBN, page 53:
text: [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
ref: 2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, →ISBN, page 247:
glosses: Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
Hypernyms: bunch
hand
Related terms: word: bananas
word: abaca
word: coconut
word: dining leaf
word: matoke
word: oreo
word: plantain
word: sinamay
word: waragi
paralipsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæ.ɹəˈlɪp.sɪs/
Forms: form: paraleipses
form: paralepsis
form: paraleipsis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παράλειψις (paráleipsis, “omission”), from παραλείπω (paraleípō, “I pass over”), from παρά (pará, “by, near”) + λείπω (leípō, “I leave”).
Senses: examples: text: These negatives are a paraleipsis: what cannot be done to the soul can be done to the body.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
text: Oxenberg tells us twice that she does not talk about the sister who died. She fools no one with this paralipsis […].
ref: 2008, Alisa Lebow, First Person Jewish, page 60:
text: What's left to consider? I am loath to bring up Trump's paralipsis.
ref: 2016 November 2, Slate:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: apophasis
preterition
glosses: A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it.
Derived terms: paraliptic
paraskavedekatriaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: paraskevidekatriaphobia
Etymology: From Greek Παρασκευή (Paraskeví, “Friday”) + δεκατρείς (dekatreís, “thirteen”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:paraskavedekatriaphobia.
glosses: The fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Synonyms: friggatriskaidekaphobia
deoxyribonucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /di.ɒk.sɪˌɹaɪ.bəʊ.njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæ.sɪd/
ipa: /di.ɔk.siˌɹaɪ.boʊ.nuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæ.sɪd/
Forms: form: deoxyribonucleic acids
form: desoxyribonucleic acid
Senses: examples: Meronym: nucleotide
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: deoxyribose nucleic acid
word: desoxyribose nucleic acid
word: double helix
word: DNA
word: thymonucleic acid
glosses: A nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction.
Related terms: word: nucleic acid
alt: RNA
word: ribonucleic acid
alt: PNA
word: peptide nucleic acid
alt: TNA
word: threose nucleic acid
alt: GNA
word: glycol nucleic acid
alt: UNA
word: unlocked nucleic acid
alt: LNA
word: locked nucleic acid
alt: BNA
word: bridged nucleic acid
tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪɡə/
enpr: tī'gər
ipa: /ˈtaɪɡɚ/
note: Inland Northern American, New England, some speakers
ipa: [ˈtʌɪɡɚ]
ipa: /ˈtɑɪɡə/
rhymes: -aɪɡə(ɹ)
homophone: taiga (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: tigers
form: tigre
form: tyger
form: tygre
Etymology: From the mascot of Princeton (a tiger), which led to early cheerleaders calling out "Tiger" at the end of a cheer for the Princeton team.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'
ref: 1868, Punch: Or the London Charivari - Volume 55, page 231:
text: . . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.
ref: 1941, Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington:
text: One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers. When drawled out by a hundred throats the phrase "I-wanter-know!" always produces a laugh.
ref: 2008, D. C. Beard, The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest, page 413:
glosses: A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
Synonyms: word: tiger
Hypernyms: word: mammal
word: feline
word: big cat
Hyponyms: word: tigress
word: Balinese tiger
word: Bengal tiger
word: Indian tiger
word: Javan tiger
word: Siberian tiger
word: South China tiger
protester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛstəɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtɛstəɹ/
Forms: form: protesters
form: protestor
Etymology: From protest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The protesters thronged Trafalgar Square and sang anti-war songs.
text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
text: “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
ref: 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN:
glosses: One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.
examples: text: The protester must also draw up an affidavit containing the literal reproduction of the bill with its acceptance, endorsements, guarantee by endorsement ("aval"), and anything else contained in the note […]
ref: 1997, Charles Evan Stewart, Transnational Contracts, volume 1, page 96:
topics: law
glosses: One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
Hyponyms: tax protester
demonstrator
Related terms: dissenter
dissident
eleven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛvən/
ipa: /əˈlɛvən/
ipa: /i-/
note: casually also
ipa: [ɪˈlɛbm̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /(ɪ)ˈlɛvən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Forms: form: Arabic numerals
form: Roman numerals
Etymology: From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.
Senses: examples: text: It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.
ref: 1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:
text: I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven[…]
ref: 2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:
text: It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.
ref: 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:
glosses: The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
Derived terms: elevener
elevenie
elevenish
elevenness
elevenpence
elevenpenny
elevenscore
elevenses
elevensies
eleventeen
eleventh
eleventy
eplerenone
forty-leven
genuine number eleven
more than eleven
up to eleven
Related terms: onety-one
Last: ten. Next: twelve
eleven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛvən/
ipa: /əˈlɛvən/
ipa: /i-/
note: casually also
ipa: [ɪˈlɛbm̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /(ɪ)ˈlɛvən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Forms: form: elevens
form: Arabic numerals
form: Roman numerals
Etymology: From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
examples: text: Sneeze is well known by all followers of U. of D. athletics for his great work at halfback on the Flyers' eleven for the past four seasons [...]
ref: 1926, J. Conoboy, “Walter Achiu: Chinese-Hawaiian Athlete Will Be Leader of Flyers On Cinder Path This Year”, in The Dayton Herald, page 21:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
examples: A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of !!, used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
glosses: A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
glosses: A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
A very high level of intensity.
Synonyms: sense: sarcastic substitution for !
word: one
sense: sarcastic substitution for !
word: 1
Derived terms: eleven-dimensional
eleven hundred
eleven o'clock
eleven plus
eleven-plus
eleven-striped blind snake
film at eleven
first eleven
grade eleven
legs eleven
more at eleven
number eleven
second eleven
seven come eleven
third eleven
up to eleven
twelve
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: twĕlv
ipa: /twɛlv/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɛɫv]
enpr: twəlv
ipa: /twəlv/
ipa: [tʰw̥əɫv]
enpr: twĕlv
ipa: /twelv/
ipa: [tʰw̥eɫv]
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated
enpr: twĕv
ipa: /twɛv/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated
ipa: [tʰw̥ɛv]
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: 12
form: XII
form: twelue
Etymology: From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (“twelve”), West Frisian tolve (“twelve”), Dutch twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), German zwölf (“twelve”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).
Senses: examples: text: There are twelve months in a year.
text: Hopper points out that duodecads have been prominent in every ancient civilization and cites as examples twelve spokes in the wheel of the Hindu Rta, the twelve gates of hell where Egyptian Ra must spend the twelve hours of night, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve labors of Hercules, [...]
ref: 1972, Eleanor Webster Bulatkin, Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland.", Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
Synonyms: word: twelveteen
Derived terms: feel twelve feet tall
grade twelve
it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six
twelve bar blues
twelve-bar blues
twelve godfathers
twelve good men and true
twelve hundred
twelve-inch
twelve-note
twelve-ounce curls
twelve penny nail
twelve-penny nail
twelve-pounder
twelvesome
twelve-speed
twelve-stepper
twelve stepper
twelve-step program
twelve-tone
twelve-tone technique
Related terms: word: twelfth
word: Last: eleven. Next: thirteen
twelve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: twĕlv
ipa: /twɛlv/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɛɫv]
enpr: twəlv
ipa: /twəlv/
ipa: [tʰw̥əɫv]
enpr: twĕlv
ipa: /twelv/
ipa: [tʰw̥eɫv]
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated
enpr: twĕv
ipa: /twɛv/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated
ipa: [tʰw̥ɛv]
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: twelves
form: 12
form: XII
form: twelue
Etymology: From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (“twelve”), West Frisian tolve (“twelve”), Dutch twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), German zwölf (“twelve”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).
Senses: examples: text: Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
glosses: A group of twelve items.
examples: text: In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 880:
glosses: A twelve-bore gun.
topics: law
glosses: A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
glosses: The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
examples: text: watch your twelve
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:twelve.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: by ellipsis of twelve o'clock
glosses: Front (front side of something, position in front of something).
Related terms: twelfth
dozen
tigre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tigres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tiger.
bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒm/
ipa: /bɑm/
ipa: /bʌm/
ipa: /bɔm/
rhymes: -ɒm
homophone: balm (father-bother merger)
homophone: BOM
Forms: form: more bomb
form: most bomb
Etymology: From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
Senses: examples: text: Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!
glosses: Great, awesome.
Related terms: the bomb
henna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛnə/
rhymes: -ɛnə
Forms: form: hennas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ), the name of the tree used to make the dye, probably from Middle Persian [script needed] (*hannāy-, “to smear, anoint”).
Senses: glosses: A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers.
examples: text: The aroma given off by flowers has an aphrodisiac effect, especially on women. This is so particularly in the case of lilies of the valley, gardenia, frangipani, and henna.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 98:
glosses: A flower of this plant.
examples: text: Among Arabs, it is believed that henna rubbed on the fingers, skull, and feet produces an aphrodisiac effect.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 114:
glosses: A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black.
glosses: A rich reddish-brown colour.
Derived terms: black henna
hendigo
henna tattoo
henna tree
henna
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛnə/
rhymes: -ɛnə
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ), the name of the tree used to make the dye, probably from Middle Persian [script needed] (*hannāy-, “to smear, anoint”).
Senses: glosses: Of a rich reddish-brown colour.
henna
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛnə/
rhymes: -ɛnə
Forms: form: hennas
form: hennaing
form: hennaed
form: hennaed
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ), the name of the tree used to make the dye, probably from Middle Persian [script needed] (*hannāy-, “to smear, anoint”).
Senses: glosses: To dye or tattoo with henna.
Brazilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈzɪ.lɪ.ən/
ipa: /bɹəˈzɪl.jən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: Brazilians
Etymology: From Brazil + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The world descended on Rio de Janeiro for the XXXI Olympiad in 2016, but Brazilians have been ready anytime to help the world take a load off and experience something missing for a while: fun.
ref: 2017 September 21, Joe Robinson, “10 things Brazil does better than anywhere else”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent.
examples: text: So why get a Brazilian? There are several levels of reasoning beyond what I mentioned in the foreword, but let's discuss the most obvious. Getting a Brazilian wax will make you feel cleaner down there and improve your sex life.
ref: 2009, Molly Aldrich, How to Get the Perfect Brazilian Wax […] , iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Ellipsis of Brazilian wax (“style of pubic hair removal”).
Derived terms: boyzilian
manzilian
Brazilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈzɪ.lɪ.ən/
ipa: /bɹəˈzɪl.jən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Etymology: From Brazil + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela's ruling party and its opposition which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.
ref: 2024 August 15, Reuters, “US, Brazil float new Venezuela election despite government, opposition rebuffs”, in Fox News:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Brazil, or the Brazilian people.
glosses: Pertaining to full removal of pubic hair.
Derived terms: Afro-Brazilian
Brazilian aardvark
Brazilian berry
Brazilian blowout
Brazilian booty
Brazilian butt
Brazilian butt lift
Brazilian cherry
Brazilian duck
Brazilian emerald
Brazilian firetree
Brazilian ginseng
Brazilian grape tree
Brazilianization
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian lemonade
Brazilian logic
Brazilian orchid tree
Brazilian peel
Brazilian pepper tree
Brazilian phonk
Brazilian pine
Brazilian porcupine
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Shorthair
Brazilian Sign Language
Brazilian tea
Brazilian teal
Brazilian terrier
Brazilian tinamou
Brazilian wandering spider
Brazilian wax
Brazilian waxing
Brazilian whiteknee tarantula
Catalonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætəˈləʊniə/
ipa: /ˌkætəˈloʊniə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: From Catalan Catalunya. Further origins disputed. One theory would make it related to Gotland.
Senses: glosses: An autonomous community in northeast Spain.
glosses: The Catalan Countries: A cultural area in northeast Spain, southern France and Andorra where Catalan is or historically was spoken, including the autonomous communities of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, part of the autonomous community of Valencia, the Aragon Strip, the Carche in Murcia and the region of Northern Catalonia in France.
glosses: A former principality in modern northeast Spain, approximately coincident with the current autonomous community of Catalonia but including Northern Catalonia in modern France.
Related terms: Catalan
Catalonian
Catalan Republic
Cayman Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cayman Islands
form: Caiman Islands
Etymology: From Spanish Caymanes, variant of earlier Spanish Lagartos in reference to the early prevalence of marine and freshwater crocodiles on the islands. Spanish caimán and Portuguese caimão are of uncertain etymology, being variously attributed to Taíno kaimán, Kari'na acayouman, and Kongo.
Senses: glosses: Three islands constituting an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea.
glosses: Offshore bank accounts based in the Cayman Islands.
glosses: Tax havens.
Synonyms: word: Caymans
word: Cayman
Derived terms: Cayman Islander
CYM
fy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "O fy, Andrew, how can ye say sae? How can ye doubt that it was in the Almighty's name?"
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
glosses: Archaic form of fie.
Jacobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: yä-kō'-bi-un
ipa: /jɑːˈkəʊ.bi.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkoʊ.bi.ən/
Etymology: From Jacobi + -an, after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a German mathematician of the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The Jacobian matrix has partial derivatives as its entries.
glosses: Used to specify certain mathematical objects named in honour of C. G. J. Jacobi.
Jacobian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yä-kō'-bi-un
ipa: /jɑːˈkəʊ.bi.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkoʊ.bi.ən/
Forms: form: Jacobians
Etymology: From Jacobi + -an, after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a German mathematician of the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..
ref: 2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv:
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Jacobian matrix or its associated operator.
examples: text: In terms of per-bit security, elliptic curves and Jacobians of genus 2 curves appear to be roughly equivalent. However, when it comes to efficient and side-channel-aware implementations, we see a curious divergence.
ref: 2015, Ping Ngai Chung, Craig Costello, Benjamin Smith, “Fast, uniform, and compact scalar multiplication for elliptic curves and genus 2 Jacobians with applications to signature schemes”, in arXiv:
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The determinant of such a matrix.
Jacobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: yä-kō'-bi-un
ipa: /jɑːˈkəʊ.bi.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkoʊ.bi.ən/
Forms: form: more Jacobian
form: most Jacobian
Etymology: From Jacob + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Jacobic
glosses: Of or relating to the biblical Jacob.
BID
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin bis in diē.
Senses: examples: text: It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
ref: 2014 April, Ken. Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
coordinate_terms: QID
TID
glosses: twice a day, two times per day
BID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BIDs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of business improvement district.
kindling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndlɪŋ
Forms: form: kindlings
Etymology: From kindle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Go and collect some kindling.
text: When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: tinder
;
firewood
glosses: Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
examples: December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher
The kindlings of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth […]
glosses: The act by which something is kindled.
kindling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndlɪŋ
Forms: form: more kindling
form: most kindling
Etymology: From kindle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The morning o'er the gilded grove
Bright on the kindling landscape fell,
I sought her where she oft did rove
In want and sorrow's lonely cell;—
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, "Ye shall seek me in the Morning, but I shall not be,", page 52:
glosses: Illuminated, lit.
kindling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndlɪŋ
Etymology: From kindle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.
glosses: present participle and gerund of kindle
pulpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: po͝olˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ-pĭt
enpr: pŭlˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ-pĭt
ipa: /ˈpʊlpɪt/
ipa: /ˈpʌlpɪt/
rhymes: -ʊlpɪt
rhymes: -ʌlpɪt
Forms: form: pulpits
Etymology: From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum.
Senses: examples: text: Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
ref: 1915, Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton, chapter IV, in Acres of Diamonds, His Life and Achievements:
text: [H]is `Amens' were ejected at the pulpit with the severity of a reprimand.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 12:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
examples: text: He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.
glosses: Bully pulpit.
glosses: Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.
examples: text: [Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit!
[Brody:] What for?
[Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale.
[Brody:] Foreground, my ass!
ref: 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bow platform for harpooning.
examples: text: In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
ref: 1941 March 24, Life, page 85:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A plane's cockpit.
Synonyms: sense: place or occasion for public speaking or for expounding one's views
word: platform
sense: place or occasion for public speaking or for expounding one's views
word: soapbox
sense: place or occasion for public speaking or for expounding one's views
word: tribune
sense: dated British slang for cockpit
word: office
sense: dated British slang for cockpit
word: cockpit
Derived terms: bully pulpit
Jack-in-the-pulpit
parson-in-the-pulpit
pulpital
wayside pulpit
Related terms: ambo
church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɜɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊrt͡ʃ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪrt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: churches
form: churching
form: churched
form: churched
form: churche
form: chirche
Etymology: From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”). Doublet of kirk.
additional etymological information
 For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “Tercium”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
text: Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
glosses: To educate someone religiously, as in a church.
church
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɜɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊrt͡ʃ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪrt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: churche
form: chirche
Etymology: From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”). Doublet of kirk.
additional etymological information
 For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.
Senses: examples: text: – These burritos are the best! – Church!
synonyms: preach
glosses: Used to express strong agreement.
Related terms: sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: abbe
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: abbey
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: basilica
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: cathedral
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: ecclesiastical
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: Eucharist
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: house of worship
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
english: Jehovah's Witness
translation: Jehovah's Witness
word: Kingdom Hall
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: liturgy
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: mass
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: mission
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: mosque
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: pastor
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: priory
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: rector
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: religion
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: religious
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: sermon
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: synagogue
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
english: non-Christian
translation: non-Christian
word: temple
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: vicar
sense: selected ecclesiastical terms
word: worship service
small
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔːl/
ipa: [smoːɫ]
ipa: /smɔl/
ipa: /smɑl/
ipa: /smoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: smaller
form: smallest
Etymology: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't write very small!
glosses: In a small fashion
examples: text: That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.
ref: 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
glosses: In or into small pieces.
examples: text: It small avails my mood.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 1273:
glosses: To a small extent.
examples: text: That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 49:
glosses: In a low tone; softly.
Derived terms: writ small
small
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔːl/
ipa: [smoːɫ]
ipa: /smɔl/
ipa: /smɑl/
ipa: /smoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: smalls
Etymology: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: S
qualifier: food or drink
glosses: One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
examples: text: Two smalls and a large, please.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: food or drink
glosses: An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
glosses: One who fits an item of that size.
raw_tags: with respect to clothing
examples: text: I got a splitting pain in the small of my back
glosses: Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
Derived terms: small of the back
small
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔːl/
ipa: [smoːɫ]
ipa: /smɔl/
ipa: /smɑl/
ipa: /smoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: smalls
form: smalling
form: smalled
form: smalled
Etymology: From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).
Senses: glosses: To make little or less.
examples: text: And smalled till she was nought at all.
ref: 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years:
glosses: To become small; to dwindle.
smalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔːlz/
ipa: /smɔlz/
ipa: /smɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Etymology: From small.
Senses: examples: text: He's in the garden hanging his smalls on the washing line.
text: The smalls he was wearing were tight.
text: Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls—the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Echo Library, published 2007, page 31:
text: […]there are also some great B&Bs and guesthouses where you can unpack a toothbrush and fresh set of smalls for the morning.
ref: 2008, Donna Wheeler, Melbourne & Victoria City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 198:
text: They billowed in the sticky summer breeze, curved and enormous like the sails of the Sydney Opera House.
Just when did my smalls become so impossibly large?
ref: 2008, Shauna Reid, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, page 7:
glosses: Underwear.
examples: text: He reassured another questioner that B.R. were still deeply interested in smalls traffic, but said that there would have to be substantial changes in the mode of operation and that concentration of the traffic was essential.
ref: 1963 December, “News and Comment: Smalls rates to be increased?”, in Modern Railways, page 364:
glosses: Small goods.
examples: text: You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: The preliminary examination for a degree.
examples: text: Provincial English papers still carry their “smalls” — want ads — on the first page.
ref: 1957, Morton J. A. McDonald, How to Use Classified Advertising to Sell More Real Estate, page 21:
glosses: Ellipsis of small ads.
Synonyms: sense: underwear
word: undies
word: unmentionables
word: underwear
sense: preliminary examination
word: little go
sense: preliminary examination
word: responsions
smalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔːlz/
ipa: /smɔlz/
ipa: /smɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of small
smalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔːlz/
ipa: /smɔlz/
ipa: /smɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of small
smallgoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From small + goods.
Senses: examples: text: He worked at a smallgoods manufacturer.
text: Some smallgoods are cooked to kill harmful micro-organisms, but cooking changes the taste and texture of the food.
ref: 2000, Peter Cerexhe, John Ashton, Risky Foods, Safer Choices: Avoiding Food Poisoning, page 47:
text: The Garibaldi incident has also been credited with a change in culture among smallgoods manufacturers in Australia.
ref: 2001, John Spriggs, Grant Isaac, Food Safety and International Competitiveness: The Case of Beef, page 112:
text: The types of smallgoods discussed include uncooked and cooked fermented meats, cured meats and fish, and some specialty products such as pâté.
ref: 2010, CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Make It Safe: A Guide to Food Safety, page 124:
glosses: Cooked, dried, cured and otherwise processed meat products, such as salami; manufactured meats.
Related terms: smallgood
minuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnəˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnjəˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnjʊˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnəˌskjul/
ipa: /mɪˈnʌsˌkjul/
Forms: form: minuscules
form: miniscule
Etymology: From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A lowercase letter.
examples: text: By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.
ref: 2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
glosses: A letter in these styles.
Derived terms: Caroline minuscule
Carolingian minuscule
humanist minuscule
minuscule cursive
minuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnəˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnjəˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnjʊˌskjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɪnəˌskjul/
ipa: /mɪˈnʌsˌkjul/
Forms: form: more minuscule
form: most minuscule
form: miniscule
Etymology: From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Written in minuscules, lowercase.
glosses: Written in minuscule handwriting style.
examples: text: a minuscule dot
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
synonyms: minuscular
glosses: Very small; tiny.
Synonyms: sense: written in minuscules
word: lower-case
sense: written in minuscules
word: small
sense: very small
word: microscopic
sense: very small
word: minute
sense: very small
word: tiny
Derived terms: cominuscule
minuscular
minusculely
nuisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.səns/
ipa: /ˈnuː.səns/
rhymes: -uːsəns
Forms: form: nuisances
Etymology: From Middle English noysaunce, from Anglo-Norman nusaunce, nussance and Old French nuisance, from nuisir (“to harm”), from Latin nocēre. Doublet of nocence and nocency.
Senses: examples: text: The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.
text: What a nuisance to have to go now!
text: By itself, nondifferentiability at zero is a minor nuisance.
ref: 2010, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, page 407:
glosses: A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
examples: text: You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.
text: With Vardy working tirelessly up front, chasing lost causes and generally making a nuisance of himself, Sevilla were never allowed to settle on a night when the atmosphere was electric inside the King Power Stadium.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
examples: text: a public nuisance
topics: law
glosses: Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
Synonyms: sense: minor annoyance or inconvenience
word: annoyance
sense: minor annoyance or inconvenience
word: inconvenience
sense: minor annoyance or inconvenience
word: offense
sense: person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
word: bother
sense: person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
word: obstacle
sense: person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience
word: pest
word: faff
word: grievance
word: hassle
word: irritation
word: nuisance
word: palaver
word: peeve
word: plague
word: trouble
word: vexation
Derived terms: antinuisance
attractive nuisance
make a nuisance of oneself
nuisance call
nuisance caller
nuisance candidate
nuisance fee
nuisance ground
nuisanceless
nuisance parameter
nuisancer
nuisance tax
Related terms: word: bugbear
word: headache
word: irritant
word: mischief
word: nag
word: pain
word: pain in the butt
word: pain in the neck
word: pain in the rear
word: pain in the ass
word: pain in the arse
word: pain in the bum
word: pest
word: problem child
word: annoy
word: annoyed
word: annoying
supersede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəˈsiːd/
ipa: /ˌsupɚˈsiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: supersedes
form: superseding
form: superseded
form: superseded
form: supercede
form: superseed
Etymology: From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.
Senses: examples: text: Those older products have been superseded by our new range.
text: Then one deep love doth supersede
⁠All other, when her ardent gaze
⁠Roves from the living brother’s face,
And rests upon the Life indeed.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 51:
text: A new marshalling yard at Perth will supersede existing yards, and will secure greater economy and efficiency in working.
ref: 1957 April 23, “Modernisation Schemes in Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, page 222:
text: In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
ref: 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:
glosses: To take the place of.
examples: text: Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
glosses: To displace in favor of itself.
Synonyms: sense: take the place of
word: replace
sense: take the place of
word: supplant
sense: take the place of
word: usurp
Derived terms: superseding cause
Related terms: supersedure
supersession
supersessional
supersessionary
supersede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəˈsiːd/
ipa: /ˌsupɚˈsiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: supersedes
form: supercede
form: superseed
Etymology: From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.
Senses: examples: text: Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.
glosses: An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.