cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
midwife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪd.waɪf/
ipa: /ˈmɪd.(w)ɪf/
Forms: form: midwifes
form: midwifing
form: midwifed
form: midwifed
form: midwive
Etymology: From Middle English midwif, corresponding to mid (“with”) + wif (“woman, wife, female”). It appears not to be entirely clear whether the original understanding was “with-woman” in the sense of “attending/assisting woman”, or “they who are with the woman” (namely the mother).
Senses: glosses: To act as a midwife.
examples: text: But the bigger objective was to help Iraqis midwife a democratic model that could inspire reform across the Arab-Muslim world and give the youth there a chance at a better future.
ref: 2010 April 13, Thomas L. Friedman, “Attention: Baby on Board.”, in The New York Times:
text: In the mid-1960s, Reichism was midwifed into reexistence by such stalwarts as William Schutz, Bernard Gunther, Charlotte Selver, Alexander Lowen, Ida Rolf, and many other exponents of human knead needs.
ref: 2013, Jon Carlson, William Knaus, Albert Ellis Revisited, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: To facilitate the emergence of.
Related terms: doula
obstetrician
obstetrics
mortgagor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortgagors
Etymology: From mortgage + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mortgager.
impede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: impedes
form: impeding
form: impeded
form: impeded
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin impediō (“to shackle”), from pēs (“foot”) (compare pedestrian). First attested use as a verb was in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: impede someone's progress
text: That I may powre my Spirits in thine Eare, / And chastise with the valour of my Tongue / All that impeides thee from the Golden Round, / Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme / To haue thee crown'd withall.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: “Everything had been ticking along like a fine clock, even with Bornhald impeding, until this new one appeared with his Gray Men. Ordeith scrubbed bony fingers through greasy hair. Why could not his dreams at least be his own?”
ref: 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 501:
text: The human-machine imbalance made Sellers concerned that the modern thirst for AI-powered optimization was starting to impede human interaction.
ref: 2025 July 2, Lisa Bonos, Danielle Abril, “No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025:
glosses: To get in the way of; to hinder.
wikipedia: Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Synonyms: hinder
Derived terms: impedance
impeder
impedible
unimpeded
Related terms: expede
expedite
impediment
advisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ædˈvaɪ.zɚ/
ipa: /ædˈvɑɪ.zə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: advisors
form: adviser
Etymology: From advise + -or.
Senses: synonyms: counselor
consultant
glosses: One who offers advice.
topics: board-games
games
xiangqi
glosses: A xiangqi piece that is moved one point diagonally and confined within the palace.
Derived terms: advisoress
advisorship
chief medical advisor
doctoral advisor
financial advisor
military advisor
police search advisor
robo-advisor
sales advisor
subadvisor
turf advisor
lucid dreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by psychiatrist Frederik Willem van Eeden in his paper A Study of Dreams (1913). It is possible that he coined this as a calque of "rêve lucide", which appears in Les Rêves et les Moyens de les Diriger; Observations Pratiques (1867) by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys.
Senses: glosses: A form of dreaming in which the conscious mind takes control over the contents of the dream.
Related terms: lucid dream
oneironautics
lucid dreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Coined by psychiatrist Frederik Willem van Eeden in his paper A Study of Dreams (1913). It is possible that he coined this as a calque of "rêve lucide", which appears in Les Rêves et les Moyens de les Diriger; Observations Pratiques (1867) by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lucid dream
denialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnaɪ(j)əlɪst/
Forms: form: denialists
Etymology: From denial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The whole point of the TAC and other Aids activists is that the country can never deal with its Aids problem while the president is an Aids denialist, and while the government keeps putting back the timetable for providing ARVs.
ref: 2004, The Sunday Times, November 21 (online)
text: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found in favour of the Treatment Action Campaign, which complained to it about an advertisement that was placed by a controversial German Aids denialist and which said, among other things, that anti-retrovirals were poisonous.
ref: 2005, The Cape Times 2005-03-11 (online)
glosses: One who denies an assertion in a controversial debate.
Derived terms: climate denialist
Related terms: denier
denialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnaɪ(j)əlɪst/
Forms: form: more denialist
form: most denialist
Etymology: From denial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to denial in a controversial debate.
Synonyms: negationist
Related terms: denialism
nose to the grindstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noses to the grindstone
form: noses to grindstones
Etymology: From the literal action of intensely working a grindstone, whether powered by a treadle or waterwheel. The expression initially implied punishment or abusive management, forcing the worker into intense work, and was used in the anonymous translation (1557) of Erasmus's Merry Dialogue as a hyperbolic punishment threatened for an abusive husband. It was later adapted to forcing oneself into similarly intense effort.
Senses: examples: text: This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grynde stone that it clean disfigureth their faces.
ref: a. 1533, John Frith, A Mirrour or Glasse to Know Thyselfe, sig. Avi v
text: I shall to reuenge former hurts,
Hold their noses to grinstone.
ref: 1546, John Heywood, A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue, sig. Bii
text: Be to the Poor like onie whunstane,
And haud their noses to the grunstane.
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, Poems, page 188:
glosses: Used to form idioms meaning "to force someone to work hard or to focus intensely upon their work".
examples: text: People whose heads are a little up in the world, have no occasion to keep their nose to the grindstone.
ref: 1828, Lights & Shades of English Life, volume II, page 13:
text: I travelled energetically; I went everywhere and saw everything; took as many letters as possible, and made as many acquaintances. In short, I held my nose to the grindstone.
ref: 1886 [1882], Henry James, The Point of View, London: Macmillan and Co.:
text: Thirty years ago, I lived in Stearns County with my wife and little boy in a rented farmhouse south of Freeport, an area of nose-to-the-grindstone German Catholics proud of their redneck reputation.
ref: 2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: see at strive
glosses: Used to form idioms meaning "to force oneself to work hard or to focus intensely upon one's work".
Related terms: daily grind
nose to the grindstone
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the literal action of intensely working a grindstone, whether powered by a treadle or waterwheel. The expression initially implied punishment or abusive management, forcing the worker into intense work, and was used in the anonymous translation (1557) of Erasmus's Merry Dialogue as a hyperbolic punishment threatened for an abusive husband. It was later adapted to forcing oneself into similarly intense effort.
Senses: examples: text: Nose to the grindstone, he was up all night.
glosses: Hard at work.
Synonyms: word: head down, bum up
biased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəst/
rhymes: -aɪəst
Forms: form: more biased
form: most biased
form: biassed
Etymology: From bias + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
text: Obviously I'm biased, but…
synonyms: partial
prejudiced
tendentious
glosses: Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
examples: text: a biased coin
glosses: Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.
examples: text: The table had a biased edge.
glosses: Angled at a slant.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: On which an electrical bias is applied.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
Derived terms: biasedly
biasedness
debiased
equibiased
nonbiased
overbiased
unbiased
biased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəst/
rhymes: -aɪəst
Forms: form: biassed
Etymology: From bias + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
glosses: simple past and past participle of bias
peeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: peeves
Etymology: Back-formation from peevish.
Senses: examples: text: stylistic peeve
synonyms: word: bother
word: vexation
word: annoyance
word: bother
word: faff
word: grievance
word: hassle
word: inconvenience
word: irritation
word: nuisance
word: palaver
word: peeve
word: plague
word: trouble
word: vexation
glosses: An annoyance or grievance.
Derived terms: peeververein
peevery
peeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: peeves
form: peeving
form: peeved
form: peeved
Etymology: Back-formation from peevish.
Senses: examples: text: He was peeved to note that his hard work had been undone.
synonyms: word: bother
word: pique
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy; vex.
Related terms: pet peeve
privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪv(ɪ)lɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: privileges
form: privileging
form: privileged
form: privileged
form: priviledg
form: priviledge
Etymology: From Middle English privilege, from Anglo-Norman privilege and Old French privilege, from Latin prīvilēgium (“ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual”), from prīvus (“private”) + lēx, lēg- (“law”).
Senses: examples: text: to privilege representatives from arrest
glosses: To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
glosses: To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
examples: text: “Rolling Stone” is spacious and ethereal but not directionless — it is R&B that privileges mood over structure, soft daubs of feeling over authoritative belting.
ref: 2022 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To prioritize.
Related terms: allege
Bernard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːnəd/
ipa: /bəɹˈnɑɹd/
rhymes: (UK) -ɜːnəd
rhymes: (US) -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: Barnard
Etymology: From Middle English Bernard, from Old French Bernard, Bernart, from Medieval Latin Bernardus, probably from Frankish *Bernhard (compare Old High German Bernhart, Old English Beornheard), from Proto-Germanic *Bernuharduz, equivalent to bear + -ard. Popularized by medieval European saints.
Senses: examples: text: A similar arrangement was made for her son Bernard, named in honor of the great Carthusian mystic (at least, that is what Jim Gaffney would softly tell Mrs. Kozinski) and of Bernie Astor, the publicist.
ref: 1992, Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea, Plume, published 1994, →ISBN, pages 18–19:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Bernadette
Bernard-Soulier syndrome
Bernie
carbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)bən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bən
Senses: examples: text: The colour we now know to be owing to the influence of the oxygenous gas, and the darker colour of venal blood to carbone.
ref: 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary, volume 2, page 279:
glosses: Obsolete form of carbon.
carbone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)bən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bən
Forms: form: carbones
form: carboning
form: carboned
form: carboned
Senses: examples: text: We had a calf's head carboned.
ref: 1661 January 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 1st, 1660–1661”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:
glosses: To broil.
Related terms: carbonara
budget
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ət/
rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt
Etymology: Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.
Senses: examples: text: We flew on a budget airline.
text: A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.
ref: 1991 December, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 3”, in Your Sinclair, number 72:
glosses: Appropriate to a restricted budget.
Synonyms: sense: appropriate to a restricted budget
word: low-cost
Derived terms: budget airline
budget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ət/
rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt
Forms: form: budgets
form: budgeting
form: budgeted
form: budgeted
Etymology: Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.
Senses: examples: text: Budgeting is even harder in times of recession
glosses: To construct or draw up a budget.
examples: text: The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously
glosses: To provide funds, allow for in a budget.
examples: text: The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.
glosses: To plan for the use of in a budget.
Derived terms: overbudget
rebudget
underbudget
abdominally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ɪ.nə.li/
Etymology: From abdominal + -ly.
Senses: examples: I have never in my life seen someone so abdominally strong.
glosses: In the area of the abdomen.
Related terms: abdomen
abdominal
abominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abominate
above ground
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌvˌɡɹaʊnd/
Etymology: From above + ground.
Senses: examples: text: "This place Rome? It is but the tomb of mighty Rome." He showed Gerard . . . the gigantic vestiges of antiquity that peeped aboveground here and there.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, chapter 60, in The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref: 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 172:
glosses: On or above the surface of the ground.
examples: text: Alice: I told you, he don't have no wife, not aboveground, anyhow.
ref: 1992, David Webb Peoples, Unforgiven, screenplay
glosses: Not dead and buried; alive.
examples: text: More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world.
ref: 2003, Henry Jenkins III, Tara McPherson, Jane Shattuc, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, page 228:
text: And they argue that if aboveground activists continue to express public sympathy for their underground counterparts […]
ref: 2006 March, “Watching What You Eat”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 82:
text: But there is yet another interlocutor that precedes the underground culture of zines: the aboveground world of straight society.
ref: 2014, Stephen Duncombe, Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture:
glosses: Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment.
Synonyms: sense: on or above the surface of the ground
word: superterranean
sense: not dead and buried
word: kicking
word: alive
sense: existing within or produced by the establishment
word: mainstream
sense: existing within or produced by the establishment
word: official
abrasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abrasivenesses
Etymology: From abrasive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The only abrasivenesses in her stories are the ones she deliberately puts there to be smoothed away as her fictional children progress towards the desired conclusion – so that she can begin another story and do the same thing all over again.
ref: 2013, Victor Watson, Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp:
glosses: The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
absentminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more absentminded
form: most absentminded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of absent-minded.
absentmindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more absentmindedly
form: most absentmindedly
Etymology: From absentminded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Across the aisle, she was absentmindedly fiddling with a loose piece of yarn that had unraveled from her sweater, wrapping it around her finger the same way Derek was wrapped around her finger. And she didn't even know it. Hoo-boy. She killed him.
ref: 2005, Dallas Woodburn, 3 A.m.: A Collection of Short Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of absent-mindedly.
absentmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of absent-mindedness.
absorbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹb.ɪŋ.li/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹb.ɪŋ.li/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹb.ɪŋ.li/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹb.ɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more absorbingly
form: most absorbingly
Etymology: From absorbing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an absorbing manner.
abstemiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsti.mi.əs.li/
ipa: /əbˈsti.mi.əs.li/
Forms: form: more abstemiously
form: most abstemiously
Etymology: From abstemious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He lived abstemiously for his entire life, eschewing pleasure for purity.
glosses: Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink.
Related terms: abstemious
abstemiousness
blacksploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blaxploitation.
citronella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: citronellas
Etymology: From French citronnelle
Senses: glosses: A tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon nardus, that has citrus-scented leaves.
glosses: An essential oil obtained from this plant, often used as an insect repellent.
Derived terms: citronella circuit
citronella grass
citronellal
citronella oil
citronellol
citronellyl acetate
Related terms: lemongrass
blaxploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacksploitation
Etymology: Blend of black + exploitation (from exploitation film) or blend of blax + exploitation.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of exploitation films of the 1970s that starred black actors.
wikipedia: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Derived terms: blaxploitationer
blaxploitative
abstractest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: abstract + -est
Senses: examples: text: But the copula is related to the copulable, so the copula itself cannot be the abstractest representation
ref: 2013, O.K. Wiegand, Robert J. Dostal, Lester Embree, Phenomenology on Kant, German Idealism, Hermeneutics and Logic, page 277:
glosses: superlative form of abstract: most abstract
abstractest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: abstract + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of abstract
abstrict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: abstricts
form: abstricting
form: abstricted
form: abstricted
Etymology: From Latin ab (“by”) + stringō (“to draw tight”)
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: To cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint
accelerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accelerate
accelerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accelerated
form: most accelerated
Senses: examples: text: The requirement that students read textual materials before their first class is probably more important for accelerated than intensive courses, but it is relevant for both.
ref: 2010, Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Margery B. Ginsberg, Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses: Instruction that Motivates Learning, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Moving or progressing faster than is usual.
examples: text: OMB's November 15 deadline for the PAR submission is earlier than the statutory deadline. OMB's recent memorandum to agency heads on the subject made this accelerated deadline permanent
ref: 2006, David M. Walker, Performance Budgeting: PART Focuses Attention on Program Performance, But More Can Be Done to Engage Congress, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Happening sooner than expected.
Hyponyms: hardware-accelerated
Derived terms: accelerated dragon
acceleratedly
hyperaccelerated
nonaccelerated
reaccelerated
unaccelerated
archi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ɑː(ɹ)kɪ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- (arkhi-), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin, lead, rule, govern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arch-.
byline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪlaɪn
Forms: form: bylines
form: by-line
Etymology: From by- + line.
Senses: examples: text: Paste Magazine opted not to put a byline on its harsh review of Swift’s album, citing safety concerns for the writer.
ref: 2024 April 22, Matt Stevens, Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 May 2024:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A touchline.
Derived terms: byliner
Related terms: word: headline
word: dateline
sense: Glossary of journalism
word: Article components
byline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪlaɪn
Forms: form: bylines
form: bylining
form: bylined
form: bylined
form: by-line
Etymology: From by- + line.
Senses: examples: text: Mitchell, Lange and Brus (2013) find that in a top international relations Journal^([sic])—ISQ—83 percent of men's citation are to research bylined by just men, while 57 percent of women's citations are to articles bylined by just men (table 2).
ref: 2020, Colin Elman, John Gerring, James Mahoney, editors, The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, footnote 34, page 416:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: To provide (an article) with a byline.
fuck you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: fuck-you
form: fuk u
Senses: examples: text: So you're not gonna help me?! Well, fuck you!
text: What made you decide to mistreat him? Fuck you, that's what.
text: And this was the time he heard Goldman say to Bennett, "Fuck you, you little bastard, we will get you later."
ref: 1936, Violations of free speech and assembly and interference with rights of labor: hearings before a subcommittee, Seventy-fourth Congress, page 21061:
text: If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 25, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
text: "Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you" and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.
ref: 2001, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (American Gods #1):
text: That’s nothing compared with the actions of Emil Bove, Trump’s new nominee for the US court of appeals for the third circuit, who reputedly told subordinates at the Department of Justice that they should “consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’” and ignoring any court order blocking a planned deportation flight.
ref: 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
synonyms: fuck yourself
go fuck yourself
glosses: An expression to show discontent with the other party, or to show contempt.
examples: text: Fuck you—I’m not giving you any!
text: You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so fuck you!
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Go away, go to hell!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, you.
Synonyms: go away
Derived terms: fuck-you finger
fuck you, I got mine
fuck you, I've got mine
fuck you, Jack, I'm alright
fuck-you lizard
fuck you money
fuck you very much
funk you
fuck you
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck yous
form: fuck-you
form: fuk u
Senses: examples: text: Humiliating your kid on national television for a short-term profit is one of the biggest fuck yous that a parent can ever give to their own child.
text: I think there is a bit of a desire to be active in funding these alternatives as a fuck you to both Wall Street and Elon Musk.
ref: 2023 May 6, Hannah Murphy, quoting Evan Henshaw-Plath, “Twitter's co-founder moves against Musk”, in FT Weekend, page 9:
glosses: An insulting and humiliating action against somebody.
Related terms: fuck your mother
rheumatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈɹu.məˌtɪz/
Forms: form: rheumatisms
Etymology: First attested 1601, from Latin rheumatismus (“rheum”), from Ancient Greek ῥευματισμός (rheumatismós, “humour, discharge, rheum”) from ῥευματίζομαι (rheumatízomai, “I suffer from a rheum”) from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”)
Senses: examples: text: And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.
ref: 1763 June 20 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garret. A Comedy, […], London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […], published 1764, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
text: The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronic rheumatism to his chair.
ref: 1874, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Alive:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disorder of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, nerves, characterized by pain, discomfort and disability.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
Derived terms: desert rheumatism
rheumatismal
rheumatismoid
rheumatism root
rheumatism weed
Related terms: rheum
rheumatic
rheumaticky
rheumatoid
rheumatologist
rheumatology
rheumy
proclivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /pɹoʊˈklɪvɪti/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /pɹoʊˈklɪvəti/
rhymes: -ɪvɪti
Forms: form: proclivities
Etymology: From Latin prōclīvitās, from prōclīvis (“prone to”).
Senses: examples: text: The child has a proclivity for exaggeration.
text: This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The idea is that the choice of x when facing the alternatives #92;#123;x,y#92;#125; reveals a proclivity for choosing x over y that we should expect to see reflected in the individual's behavior when faced with the alternatives #92;#123;x,y,z#92;#125;.
ref: 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 10:
text: The sermon that morning was ostensibly about healthy sexual relationships, but scathing critiques of capitalism and corporations also got significant airtime. (“I have leftist proclivities,” Brown explained.)
ref: 2016 March 22, Emma Green, quoting Pastor Brown, “Where Is the Church in the Black Lives Matter Movement?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2019:
text: A contingent of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have spurred a rightward shift, leading to the rise of the “Liberaltarian” — a term coined by two Stanford political economists to describe the tech industry’s proclivity toward trumpeting liberalism in some social issues but maintaining antigovernment posturing in regulating businesses.
ref: 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:
synonyms: word: penchant
word: propensity
word: affinity
word: bag
word: bent
word: cup of coffee
word: cup of joe
word: cup of tea
word: fancy
word: liking
word: partiality
word: penchant
word: predilection
word: predisposition
word: preference
word: proclivity
word: propension
word: propensity
word: shine
word: taste
word: thing
glosses: A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.
percolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːkəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝkəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝkjəleɪt/
Forms: form: percolates
form: percolating
form: percolated
form: percolated
Etymology: From Latin percōlātus, past participle of percōlō (“I filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“I strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin).
Senses: examples: text: Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]
ref: 1926, Joseph Price Remington, Ernest Fullerton Cook, Charles Herbert La Wall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy:
glosses: To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
examples: text: Water percolates through sand.
glosses: To drain or seep through a porous substance.
examples: text: I'll percolate some coffee.
text: Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.
ref: 2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36:
glosses: To make (coffee) in a percolator.
examples: text: Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.
text: Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.
text: […] so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
text: Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.
ref: 2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:
text: The moves were a TikTokky blend of semaphore and street dance, busy with content. The teen, whose name is Zoi Lerma, has a large following on the network and her dance percolated around the world, with other celebrated TikTokkers adding their own versions.
ref: 2020 November 13, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Benee’s ‘Hey u x’ illustrates the upside of TikTok-dominated pop”, in Financial Times:
glosses: To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
Derived terms: overpercolated
percolative
repercolate
subpercolating
unpercolated
Related terms: percolation
percolator
colander
percolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːkəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝkəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝkjəleɪt/
Forms: form: percolates
Etymology: From Latin percōlātus, past participle of percōlō (“I filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“I strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin).
Senses: examples: text: Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]
ref: 1926, Joseph Price Remington, Ernest Fullerton Cook, Charles Herbert La Wall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy:
glosses: A liquid that has been percolated.
tappen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æpən
Senses: examples: text: The inference drawn by the northern chasseurs from this is, that the tappen, in conjunction with repose, is the cause of the bear retaining his condition, though without taking any kind of nourishment, for nearly one-half of the year.
ref: 1831, Lews Lloyd, Field sports of the north Europe, volume 1, page 98:
text: No food can pass through the system and a mechanical obstruction called a tappen or plug blocks the passage.
ref: 1951, The New York State Conservationist, volumes 6-7, page 60:
text: Many hunters believe that the size of the tappen determines how soundly and how long a bear sleeps
ref: 1958, Will Barker, Winter-Sleeping Wildlife, page 41:
glosses: A plug that forms in the anus of a bear or other mammal during hibernation.
hypostatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɒstətaɪz/
Forms: form: hypostatizes
form: hypostatizing
form: hypostatized
form: hypostatized
form: hypostatise
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποστατίζω (hupostatízō, “I hypostatize”).
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, there were a few who could see no objective reality in anything but individuals, and looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
ref: 1887 April, Thomas Henry Huxley, “Scientific and Pseudo-scientific Realism”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 30:
text: Positivism, restricted to a programme of investigating observable particulars, cannot grasp the ‘self-formative process of man as process’. It hypostatizes the abstract concept of fact or datum.
ref: 1980, David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: To render into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
examples: text: Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.
ref: 2005 February, Cardozo Law Review:
text: Roman Christianity is characterized by filial love and obedience expressed towards the fatherly authority hypostatized in the first Person of the Trinity […]
ref: 2011, Paul Evdokimov, Orthodoxy:
glosses: To attribute actual or personal existence to.
Derived terms: hypostatization
Related terms: word: hypostasis
word: embody
word: personify
english: compare
translation: compare
word: reify
specific rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific rotations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: [α]_D, the angle of rotation of the plane of polarization of a ray of monochromatic light that passes through 10cm of the substance in solution at a concentration of 1 gram per millilitre
raw_tags: of a compound
Related terms: polarimeter
pyracanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyracanths
Senses: glosses: Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha having small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
percussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈkʌsɪv/
ipa: /pɚˈkʌsɪv/
Forms: form: more percussive
form: most percussive
Etymology: From percuss + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: He massaged her shoulders with a gentle percussive action.
text: As argued by Dr. Burney, and as implied by the customs of still extant barbarous races, the first musical instruments were, without doubt, percussive—sticks, calabashes, tom-toms—and were used simply to mark the time of the dance ; and in this constant repetition of the same sound, we see music in its most homogeneous form.
ref: 1864, Herbert Spencer, “Progress: Its Law and Cause”, in Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 26:
glosses: Characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something.
examples: text: Two additional, and much rarer, percussive articulations are represented by symbols in the extIPA chart. Their exclusion from the main IPA chart is an indication that they do not seem to occur as typical forms of adult speech in any part of the world, although they may have some communicative function. The symbol, [ʬ], is used to transcribe a bilabial percussive sound, which might be described in lay terms as lip-smacking.
ref: 2013, Nigel Hewlett, Janet Mackenzie Beck, An Introduction to the Science of Phonetics, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Produced by striking organs together, for example, smacking the lips or gnashing the teeth.
Derived terms: nonpercussive
percapella
percussively
percussive maintenance
percussiveness
ultrapercussive
unpercussive
percussive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈkʌsɪv/
ipa: /pɚˈkʌsɪv/
Forms: form: percussives
Etymology: From percuss + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Percussives are articulations where two rigid or semirigid articulators are struck against each other to produce a short, sharp sound.
ref: 2014, Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller, Phonetics for Communication Disorders, Psychology Press, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A percussive phone.
maintainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪnˈteɪnə/
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: maintainers
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He become the maintainer of the software project.
text: Blessed are the maynteyners of peace: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
glosses: Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
examples: text: “In somm trouble. Got off trail to go to br. Now lost. Can u call AMC to c if a trail maintainer can help me. Somewhere north of woods road. Xox,” she wrote.
ref: 2016 May 26, Steve Almasy and Chris Boyette, “Lost hiker’s message: Please call husband when my body is found”, in CNN:
text: “To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”
ref: 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:
text: RAIB looked at why the washers were missing. This took it into the relationship between the wagon's owner and maintainers.
ref: 2022 January 26, Philip Haigh, “The 'holes in the Swiss cheese' that led to train derailment”, in RAIL, number 949, page 46:
text: Muehlendorf told CNN that O’Hara was a crew chief by trade, explaining that his “military occupational specialty was a 15T and he was originally trained to be a maintainer of Black Hawk helicopters.”
ref: 2025 January 30, Helen Regan, Taylor Romine, Dalia Faheid, et. al., “January 30, 2025 - DC plane collision news”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who does maintenance work.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device used to keep teeth in a given position.
Derived terms: maintainership
Related terms: maintenance
Rosales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pangasinan, Philippines.
pyracanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyracanthuses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A pyracantha; a plant of the genus Pyracantha; the firethorn.
Pyrex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From pie + r + -ex.
First manufactured by the Corning Glassware Factory in 1915.
* 1957, Letter from the Corning Glassware Factory:
*: "We had a number of prior trademarks ending in the letters ex. One of the first commercial products to be sold under the new mark was a pie plate, and in the interests of euphonism the letter "r" was inserted between pie and ex, and the whole thing condensed to pyrex."
Senses: glosses: A brand of glassware produced by the Corning corporation, capable of resisting high temperatures, and suitable for cooking applications, currently made with tempered glass.
glosses: A brand of glassware produced by Corning using borosilicate glass.
Pyrex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pie + r + -ex.
First manufactured by the Corning Glassware Factory in 1915.
* 1957, Letter from the Corning Glassware Factory:
*: "We had a number of prior trademarks ending in the letters ex. One of the first commercial products to be sold under the new mark was a pie plate, and in the interests of euphonism the letter "r" was inserted between pie and ex, and the whole thing condensed to pyrex."
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pyrex.
Derived terms: pyrex
Related terms: -ex
pyro-
pyrheliometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrheliometers
Etymology: From pyr- + helio- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the intensity of solar radiation received on the surface of the earth.
Related terms: pyrheliometry
pyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrite
pyritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or consisting of pyrite or pyrites
Derived terms: pyritic heave
complaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpleɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: complaints
Etymology: From Middle English compleynte, from Anglo-Norman compleint, from Old French compleindre, eventually from Latin planctus (whence plaint).
Senses: examples: text: customer complaints
text: noise complaints
text: file complaints
text: The company received numerous complaints about the product.
text: He filed complaints with the housing authority.
text: Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: The act of complaining.
examples: text: I have no complaints about the quality of his work, but I don't enjoy his company.
synonyms: plaint
glosses: A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
topics: law
glosses: In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based.
topics: law
glosses: In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
examples: text: Don't come too close; I've got this nasty complaint.
glosses: A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
Synonyms: sense: in criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer
word: criminal complaint
word: complaint of an offence
word: offense
sense: penal
word: charge
sense: criminal
word: charges
word: criminal information
word: inform the police
word: authorities
word: notification of the police
word: report an offence
word: offense to the police
Derived terms: bill of complaint
complaintful
complaintive
countercomplaint
cross-complaint
doorknob complaint
noncomplaint
summer complaint
super-complaint
transiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + iliac.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Extending between the two ilia.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Through an ilium.
ilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ilium
ilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪlɪəm/
rhymes: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: ilia
form: ilion
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īlium (“lower abdomen”), from īle (“flank”).
Senses: examples: Holonyms: hip bone, os coxae < pelvis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
related: word: acetabulum
word: ischium#Noun
word: pubis#Noun
glosses: The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ileum, part of the small intestine (in modern usage, misspelling of ileum).
Coordinate terms: ischium
pubis
Derived terms: iliac
ilio-
subilium
suprailium