cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
choker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃəʊkə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chokers
Etymology: From choke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
text: She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.
ref: 2010 October 24, Alice Fisher, “Lara Stone: 'I think naughty photoshoots suit my personality'”, in The Observer:
text: The words: “Take your hands off when I say no, take your eyes off when I say no” were spelled out on video screens as the first model marched past in loose black layers, a punky choker and black shoes.
ref: 2023 September 26, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Dior opens Paris fashion week with feminist sloganeering on the catwalk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.
examples: text: The Yorkshire Choker, a serial killer who quotes Shakespeare, is pursued by Dalziel and Pascoe.
ref: 1990, Janet Husband, Jonathan F. Husband, Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series, page 199:
synonyms: strangler
glosses: One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
glosses: One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
examples: text: I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker!
synonyms: bummer
downer
pisser
glosses: Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
examples: text: The choker tag will always follow the Proteas until we win a trophy — Temba Bavuma
glosses: One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.
glosses: A loop of cable fastened around a log to haul it.
Derived terms: choker chain
chokered
chokerman
hogchoker
muffin choker
nigger choker
white choker
precious metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precious metals
Senses: examples: text: The reason for the ruckus: A thief in the night had made off with the car’s catalytic converter, a critical emissions-control device that contains precious metals more valuable than gold.
ref: 2021 February 9, Hiroko Tabuchi, “Thieves Nationwide Are Slithering Under Cars, Swiping Catalytic Converters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A rare metallic chemical element of high economic value, such as gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium.
wikipedia: precious metal
Related terms: noble metal
noble metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noble metal
platinum group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In chemistry, a group of elements with related properties similar to that of platinum, notably high resistance to chemical activity, particularly oxidation and reaction with acids. The platinum group consists of the elements ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum. In the periodic table of the elements they are in period 5 or 6 and in groups 8, 9 or 10.
catalexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalexes
Senses: glosses: A shortened or incomplete last foot at the end of a verse.
glosses: Truncation at the close of a line of poetry by omission of one or two final syllables.
Related terms: catalectic
recourse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭkôsʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɔːs/
enpr: rēʹkôrs
ipa: /ˈɹiːkɔɹs/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rikōrsʹ
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rēʹkōrs
ipa: /ɹɪˈko(ː)ɹs/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈɹiːko(ː)ɹs/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈkoəs/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈɹiːkoəs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: recourses
form: recoursing
form: recoursed
form: recoursed
Etymology: From Middle English recours (noun) and recoursen (verb), from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō.
Senses: examples: text: […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]
ref: 1563, John Foxe, “Martyrdom of Thomas Bilney”, in Actes and Monuments:
glosses: To return; to recur.
examples: text: Recoursing deuoutlie to the onlie refuge of humane saluation
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
glosses: To have recourse; to resort.
Synonyms: sense: to recur
word: repeat
word: repeat
cornstarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornstarches
form: corn starch
Etymology: From corn + starch.
Senses: synonyms: cornflour
maizestarch
glosses: A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.
Related terms: baby powder
hard cider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard ciders
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic beverage formed by fermenting cider (apple juice).
Related terms: hard liquor
sweet cider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet ciders
Senses: glosses: Cider (apple juice containing pulp) which has not been fermented and so is non-alcoholic.
headliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌlaɪnɚ/
Forms: form: headliners
Etymology: From headline (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I was ahead of my deadline so I watched "Flatliners," about some serious deadliners with a headliner complex.
ref: 1995, Andrei Codrescu, Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio, page 28:
text: There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual:
ref: 1998 Aug, Vibe, page 44:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The headlining band or performer at a concert or similar event; the best-known and first billed musician, comedian, etc., often performing as the final act of the evening.
Derived terms: coheadliner
headliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌlaɪnɚ/
Forms: form: headliners
Etymology: From head + liner.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
hypernyms: liner#Noun
lining#Noun
coordinate_terms: cargo liner
glosses: The interior fabric covering the ceiling-like area inside of a vehicle.
shape-shifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shape-shifter
shape-shifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪp.ʃɪf.tə/
ipa: /ˈʃeɪp.ʃɪf.tɚ/
Forms: form: shape-shifters
Senses: topics: fantasy
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of shapeshifter.
Synonyms: word: changeling
word: shape-shifter
word: shapeshifter
word: shifter
Hyponyms: word: lycanthrope
word: werebear
word: werecat
word: werecreature
word: werecritter
word: weredog
word: werefox
word: werehyena
word: wereleopard
word: werelion
word: wererat
word: weretiger
word: werewolf
word: wolfman
word: wolfwoman
Related terms: word: magician
word: multiform
word: oracle
hand tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand tools
Senses: hypernyms: tool#Noun
coordinate_terms: machine tool
power tool
glosses: A tool powered by human muscular action rather than a motor or engine.
changeling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃeɪn(d)ʒlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒlɪŋ/
Forms: form: more changeling
form: most changeling
Etymology: The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Away thou changeling motley humouriſt, / Leave me, and in this ſtanding wooden cheſt, / Conſorted with theſe few books, let me lye / In priſon, and here be coffin'd, when I dye.
ref: 1719, John Donne, “Satyre I”, in Poems on Several Occasions. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, and sold by William Taylor […], →OCLC, page 107:
synonyms: word: changeable
word: changeful
word: changeling
word: dynamic
word: everchanging
word: fickle
word: fluid
word: inconstant
word: labile
word: mobile
word: unstable
word: variable
word: wavering
glosses: Changeable, fickle, inconstant, wavering.
Related terms: foundling
DIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DIPs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acronym of dual in-line package.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Acronym of dependency inversion principle.
Related terms: DIL
VIP
pipe wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe wrenches
Senses: glosses: An adjustable wrench (British spanner) with a toothed jaw for gripping pipe, frequently used by a plumber or pipe fitter, to loosen and tighten pipes with threaded connections.
Synonyms: Stillsons
Stillson wrench
monkey wrench
Coordinate terms: plumber wrench
Swedish wrench
adjustable pliers
Channellocks
tongue-and-groove pliers
water pump pliers
plier wrenches
log dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: log dogs
Senses: glosses: A device for holding a log in place while it is being worked on. Either metal rods driven into the wood or a mechanical clamping device (perhaps hydraulic or pneumatically activated).
black pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Piper nigrum.
glosses: The dried, unripe berries (peppercorns) of the Piper nigrum plant which are commonly used as a spice and seasoning. They are either used whole, or in a ground or crushed form.
Related terms: bell pepper
chili pepper
green pepper
hot pepper
red pepper
sweet pepper
white pepper
peppercorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛpəkɔːn/
ipa: /ˈpɛpɚkɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: peppercorns
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English peper corn, peper-corn, pepercorn, from Old English piporcorn (“peppercorn”), corresponding to pepper + corn. Compare Dutch peperkorrel (“peppercorn”), German Pfefferkorn (“peppercorn”), Danish peberkorn (“peppercorn”), Swedish pepparkorn (“peppercorn”), Icelandic piparkorn (“peppercorn”).
Senses: glosses: The seeds of the pepper plant Piper nigrum, commonly used as a spice, usually ground or crushed.
examples: text: A 75 ¢ book must look 40 ¢ better to the distributor and wholesaler, because if one peppercorn of doubt that people will pay 75 ¢ for the book gets thrown into the distribution mill, the books may never leave their cartons […]
ref: 1961, Book Production Magazine, volumes 73-74, page 47:
glosses: A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.
examples: text: peppercorn rent
topics: law
glosses: A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.
A nominal consideration used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.
Derived terms: peppercorn hair
peppercorn rent
peppercorny
pink peppercorn
chili pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪli ˈpɛpə(ɹ)/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: chili peppers
form: chile pepper
form: chilli pepper
Senses: glosses: Any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum, which contains capsaicin and typically has a spicy or burning flavor.
Derived terms: ghost chili pepper
Related terms: bell pepper
cayenne
chipotle
habanero
jalapeño
paprika
rocoto
Scotch bonnet
sport pepper
tabasco
baguette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈɡɛt/
Forms: form: baguettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.
Senses: glosses: A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
glosses: A gem cut in such a shape.
glosses: A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
topics: architecture
glosses: A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
synonyms: frog
glosses: A French person, or a person of French descent.
examples: text: I ain't pray for these baguettes, I prayed for better days (Better days)
ref: 2021, “Outside (Better Days)”, in Holy Goat 2, performed by Blueface and OG Bobby Billions:
synonyms: word: bread
word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money.
Synonyms: topics: politics
government
sense: bread
word: freedom bread
sense: bread
word: French bread
sense: bread
word: French stick
tabasco pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabasco peppers
Etymology: See Tabasco.
Senses: glosses: A variety of chili pepper having a conical shape and a bitter and burning taste, Capsicum frutescens variety tabasco.
celery salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celery salts
Senses: glosses: A spice ingredient used in cooking consisting of ground celery seed and salt.
winter worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter worms
Senses: glosses: A caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis), used in traditional Chinese medicine
Synonyms: summer grass
caterpillar fungus
profanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /prəˈfænɪti/
Forms: form: profanities
form: prophanity
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin profānitās. By surface analysis, profane + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.
ref: 1910, John William Cousin, “Bunyan, John”, in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature:
glosses: The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
examples: text: He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
glosses: Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
Derived terms: profanity delay
Kahlúa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈluːə/
rhymes: -uːə
Forms: form: Kahlúas
form: Kahlua
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Kahlúa. Said by the company to be from an Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl term meaning “house of the Acolhua people”.
Senses: examples: text: Kahlúa, sweet and thick, painted itself in a coating on his tongue, not to be removed.
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 378:
text: He lifted the window. “What the hell are you doing down there?” he called down. “Are you drunk?” “No, actually, weirdly enough, we're sober,” Bingley called up. “Although I did have two Kahlúas, but I've probably walked those off by now."
ref: 2017, Melissa de la Cruz, Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A brand of heavy, sweet, coffee flavored liqueur made in Mexico; a variety or serving of this drink.
Related terms: Tia Maria
Judas goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judas goats
Etymology: Referring to the traitor Judas Iscariot in the Bible.
Senses: glosses: A goat trained to lead other goats (or sheep) to a place of slaughter.
glosses: A goat trained to find feral goats.
breezeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiːzˌweɪ/
Forms: form: breezeways
Etymology: From breeze + way.
Senses: examples: text: One of his favorite pastimes was strolling through the breezeway on warm spring afternoons.
glosses: A covered walkway, with open sides, that connects two buildings.
glosses: The space between two groups of rowhouses in the middle of a city block.
Hyponyms: english: the central breezeway within a dogtrot house
translation: the central breezeway within a dogtrot house
word: dogtrot
brunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: brunts
Etymology: From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
text: There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
ref: 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar:
text: Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
ref: 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey reels from storm's thrashing”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
glosses: The force or shock of an attack in war.
examples: text: If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
glosses: The major part of something; the bulk.
examples: text: Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them?
Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot,
Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: A violent attack or charge in battle.
glosses: A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
glosses: A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.
Derived terms: at a brunt
at the first brunt
bear the brunt
brunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: brunts
form: brunting
form: brunted
form: brunted
Etymology: From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).
Senses: examples: text: "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"
"What if they do? We must brunt it."
We brunted the storm.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 7, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
glosses: To make a violent attack or charge.
sprouted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having sprouts.
Derived terms: sprouted bread
sprouted coconut
sprouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprout
aqua regia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.kwə ˈɹeɪ.ɡi.ə/
ipa: /ˌækwə ˈɹiː.ʒə/
enpr: ăʹkwə-rēʹjē-ə
Forms: form: A.R.
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aqua rēgia (literally “royal water”), so named because it is one of the few solvents capable of dissolving noble metals.
Senses: examples: text: Consider another example. If gold is placed in aqua regia then it dissolves. Aqua regia is a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids that dissolves gold or platinum. Observation of gold dissolving in aqua regia (argument 1 1) lends credence to the above conditional statement.
Not placing the gold into aqua regia and gold not dissolving (argument 0 0) does not disprove the truth-value of this conditional.
ref: 2005, D.J. Krus, Elements of Propositional Calculus:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: aqua regis
nitro-hydrochloric acid
glosses: A mixture of three parts concentrated hydrochloric acid to one part concentrated nitric acid, named for its ability to dissolve gold.
Coordinate terms: aqua fortis
Related terms: regaline
imperturbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + perturbability.
Senses: examples: text: "As I sat alone at my breakfast--Mrs. Challenger is in the habit of keeping her room of a morning--it suddenly entered my head that it would be entertaining and instructive to see whether I could find any limits to this woman's imperturbability."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A state of calm, unruffled self-assurance; aplomb, composure.
Related terms: imperturbable
unflappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈflæpəbəl/
Forms: form: more unflappable
form: most unflappable
Etymology: From un- + flap (“to upset, stir”) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The whole thing looked remarkably like an implacable force meeting an unflappable object.
ref: 1959, The Economist, volume 190:
text: It was for this reason that when Lord Hailsham first described Harold Macmillan as "unflappable'", it became an instant catchword, distancing the incoming Prime Minister from his predecessor
ref: 1978, James D. Margach, The abuse of power: the war between Downing Street and the media from Lloyd George to Callaghan:
text: Whereas his predecessor was impetuous, Obama was praised for being contemplative and unflappable. Bush had a gut; Obama had a brain.
ref: 2010 September 26, Gary Younge, “Obama won as cool and unflappable. But presidents need to act angry too”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It took a lot to get Wheeler's pulse going, but Lillian's dangerous joke had done the job. The otherwise unflappable woman was flushed with adrenaline.
ref: 2023 October 22, HarryBlank, “Waiting to Happen”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
synonyms: word: collected
word: cool
word: even-keeled
word: imperturbable
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
antonyms: flappable
glosses: Remaining composed and level-headed at all times; impossible to fluster; not becoming frustrated or irritated easily.
Related terms: flappable
unflappability
unflappableness
unflappably
straight from the horse's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: This idiom comes from British horse-racing circles, likely because the presumed ideal source for racing tips would be the horse rather than spectators or riders.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't believe me, go talk to him and hear it straight from the horse's mouth. It's true.
glosses: Directly from the source; firsthand.
straight from the horse's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: This idiom comes from British horse-racing circles, likely because the presumed ideal source for racing tips would be the horse rather than spectators or riders.
Senses: examples: text: This is straight from the horse's mouth.
glosses: firsthand; direct; from the source.
dreary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹiɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɹiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɹiɹe/
ipa: /ˈdɹiəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Forms: form: drearier
form: more dreary
form: dreariest
form: most dreary
Etymology: From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Senses: examples: text: It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
text: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
text: It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter V, in Frankenstein, volume 1:
text: The train is booked to stop at Jiza for only three minutes, but more often than not twenty minutes or more are spent on shunting before it sets off again on what must be one of the most dreary journeys in the world.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 165:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: gloomy
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
word: bland
word: colourless
word: dim
word: dingy
word: dull
word: faint
word: lackluster
word: leaden
word: muddy
word: sad
word: sober
word: uncolorful
word: unholiday
word: wan
glosses: Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
glosses: Grievous, dire; appalling.
Derived terms: drear
drearihead
drearihood
drearily
dreariment
dreariness
drearisome
dreary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹiɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɹiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɹiɹe/
ipa: /ˈdɹiəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Forms: form: drearies
Etymology: From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Senses: examples: In the glow of this project Steele manages to forget altogether the parade of donnish and scholastic drearies, the barricades of schoolbooks, texts, examinations with which he has dealt so faithfully.
2018, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
I'm taking it all down. The trivialities. The ramblings. The drearies. The trites.
glosses: A dreary person or thing.
thoughtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɔːtfl̩/
enpr: thôt’fl
ipa: /ˈθɔtfl̩/
enpr: thät’fl
ipa: /ˈθɑtfl̩/
Forms: form: more thoughtful
form: most thoughtful
Etymology: From Middle English thoȝtful, thohtful, equivalent to thought + -ful. Compare Dutch gedachtenvol, Swedish tankfull.
Senses: examples: text: Most thoughtful people eventually solve the puzzle.
text: Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:
text: But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
synonyms: careful
contemplative
pensive
thoughty
glosses: Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
examples: text: Preparing dinner is a thoughtful gesture for a new mother.
synonyms: thoughty
considerate
attentive
caring
glosses: Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
Synonyms: word: attentive
word: careful
word: caring
word: cogitative
word: contemplative
word: considerate
word: introspective
word: observative
word: pensive
word: thoughty
Hypernyms: word: kind
Hyponyms: word: charitable
word: helpful
Derived terms: thoughtfully
thoughtfulness
Related terms: word: sensitive
word: solemn
give pause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives pause
form: giving pause
form: gave pause
form: given pause
Senses: examples: text: Here is a fact that will give you pause. Many states do not publish the voting records of their legislators.
glosses: To give somebody cause for concern.
Related terms: food for thought
makes you think
cleaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The silence of a summer night is now sleeping on its bosom, where the bright stars are mirrored, as if in its depths they had another home and another heaven. A spirit, cleaving air midway between the two, might have paused to ask which was sea, and which was sky.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 1:
glosses: present participle and gerund of cleave
cleaving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That cleaves
cleaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleavings
Senses: examples: text: Many of Spenser's readers today find the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation […]
ref: 2010, Greg Kucich, Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism, page 273:
glosses: The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
examples: text: On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight.
ref: 1813, John Owen, The grace and duty of being spiritually minded:
glosses: The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.
Derived terms: autocleaving
cleavingly
noncleaving
circus ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circus rings
Senses: glosses: A circular arena in a circus, where the acts are performed.
cloudberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaʊdˌbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈklaʊdbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈklaʊdbɹi/
Forms: form: cloudberries
Etymology: From cloud + berry.
Senses: glosses: A species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus.
synonyms: bakeapple
aqpik
glosses: The fruit of these plants.
tourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourist
pseudo-science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-sciences
Etymology: From pseudo- + science, attested from 1796 (James Pettit Andrews, Robert Henry, History of Great Britain, from the death of Henry viii. to the accession of James vi. of Scotland to the crown of England p. 87, in reference to alchemy).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudoscience.
soft-boiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: softboiled
form: soft boiled
Senses: glosses: cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny
raw_tags: of a boiled egg
glosses: softhearted or sentimental
Related terms: hard-boiled
hard-boiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-boiled
form: most hard-boiled
form: hardboiled
form: hard boiled
Senses: antonyms: runny
soft-boiled
glosses: Cooked to a solid consistency. (of a boiled egg)
examples: text: He told me afterward that he tried to find his folks and square himself—and maybe it was the truth—but some of the hard-boiled townspeople found him, instead, and he had a running fight all the way to the depot.
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: 'Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.'
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:
text: Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled. The kind of a broad who knew a hell of a lot.
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
synonyms: word: harsh
word: severe
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Callous and unsentimental. (of a person, especially a detective)
topics: literature
media
publishing
qualifier: especially detective fiction
glosses: Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.
Derived terms: hard-boiledness
Related terms: soft-boiled
hard-boiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardboiled
form: hard boiled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hard-boil
eggcup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggcups
form: egg cup
Etymology: From egg + cup. Compare Swedish äggkopp.
Senses: hypernyms: cup
<
dish
coordinate_terms: ramekin
;
egg spoon
egg cosy
glosses: A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten.
Derived terms: eggcupful
rough trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Looked to me like one of these here sissies lookin' for rough trade, see, thought I'd roll him for some jack, what the hell, what can you do if you're sick an' can't work?
ref: 1932, John Dos Passos, 1919:
text: The tragic story of a young gay man who meets up with a piece of rough trade, gets convinced to become a drag hustler, and ultimately feels his life and relationships slipping away from him.
ref: 1985 August 17, Michael Bronski, “Angel (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 15:
text: Marc Blitzstein [...] forever championed the working class but avoided rubbing elbows with them unless they were rough trade (which wasn't quite elbows).
ref: 1994, Ned Rorem, Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir:
text: Some of them preferred only men; some of them dressed in flamboyant “feminine” style; some continued to be interested also in women but wore lipstick and dressed as “queans” when they went to gay clubs. But many of these men who were “to be had” were “rough trade” whose self-understanding was by no means either effeminate in gender role or exclusively homosexual in object choice.
ref: 2011, Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History, page 33:
text: I was compelled to check in on him after I'd come across a photography book in the East Village about gay male go-go dancers in New York. The book showed gritty backrooms, suggestions of illicit sex, parties, and drugs. Flipping through its pages, I saw dancers caught in risqué, frozen poses. The photographer suggested the subjects were “rough trade,” men with criminal pasts, busted for prostitution, drugs, or assault. Others were “gay for pay,” husbands with wives and kids, trying to scrape by.
ref: 2015, Ryan Berg, No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions:
topics: LGBT
glosses: Rough or tough men who are available as casual sexual partners for other men (for example in exchange for money).
examples: text: Marcus Miller, The Mother Truckers (San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1968)
Truck drivers Joe, Jimmy, and Allyson cruise the nation's highways in a never-ending quest for rough trade. That's how they get their kicks and break free from the boredom of the road. When they cross paths with Gino and his biker gang, however, the truckers get more than they've bargained for. These hardcore homos are into heavy-duty sadomasochsim, and they think they've found three new slaves!
ref: 2000, Susan Stryker, Gay Pulp Address Book, →ISBN:
glosses: Violent or sadomasochistic sex, especially casual gay sex.
Related terms: bit of rough
straightjacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Confusion between the spelling of strait in straitjacket and the more common word straight; more at straight-laced § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of straitjacket.
tetrahemihexahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahemihexahedra
Etymology: From tetra- + hemi- + hexahedron.
Senses: glosses: A concave uniform polyhedron with four triangular faces, three square faces, twelve edges and six vertices.
Synonyms: hemicuboctahedron
circlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)klət/
Forms: form: circlets
Etymology: From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.
Senses: glosses: A small circle.
examples: text: He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before.
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Thuvia”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
examples: text: Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:
glosses: A crown without arches or a covering.
examples: text: Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A round body; an orb.
Derived terms: circleted
aerial survey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerial surveys
Senses: glosses: A method of collecting information by using aerial photography, or from remote sensing technology using other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared, gamma-ray, or ultraviolet.
chardonnay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɑɹ.dnˈeɪ/
Forms: form: chardonnays
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Chardonnay.
hermicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Unitarity is to hermicity what orthogonality is to symmetry. (That is, conjugation by unitary matrices preserves a Hermitian matrix’s hermicity, just as conjugation by orthogonal matrices preserves a symmetric matrix’s symmetry: (OSO⁻¹)ᵀ=(OSOᵀ)ᵀ=OᵀᵀSᵀOᵀ=OSOᵀ=OSO⁻¹; (UHU⁻¹)^†=(UHU^†)^†=UH^†U^†=UHU^†=UHU⁻¹.
glosses: The quality that an operator has of being Hermitian.
sea horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea horses
form: seahorse
form: sea-horse
Etymology: From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea + horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus.
Senses: glosses: Any of the small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright.
examples: text: One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
glosses: The walrus.
examples: text: Instead, it seems to be a unique case that ends in the tail of a hippocamp or seahorse, although with one fin now missing. Ultimately, the form might have been inspired by bent-leg vases produced in Greece.
ref: 2013, Richard Daniel De Puma, Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 107:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of hippocampus.
synonyms: word: hippocampus
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Any of a series of high-value British stamps issued during the reign of King George V, featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas.
examples: text: As most authors mention the hippopotamus under the names of the sea-horse, or the sea-cow, he has sometimes been confounded with the latter, which inhabits only the northern seas.
ref: 1830, Georges Louis Le Clerc (Count de Buffon), The Natural History of Quadrupeds (page 331)
text: The sea-horse teeth (so called) are the tusks of the hippopotamus.
ref: 1857, Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 5, page 72:
glosses: A hippopotamus.
Derived terms: Fisher's seahorse
Hawaiian seahorse
seahorse dad
tiger snout seahorse
Hermitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)ˈmɪʃən/
Etymology: After the French mathematician Charles Hermite (1822–1901), + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: If φ=φ^† then φ is Hermitian.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: self-adjoint
glosses: Equal to its own transpose conjugate.
raw_tags: of an operator
wikipedia: Charles Hermite
Derived terms: Hermitian adjoint
Hermitian bilinear form
Hermitian conjugate
Hermitian conjugate matrix
Hermitian conjugate operator
Hermitian form
Hermitian inner product
Hermitian inner product space
Hermitian matrix
Hermitian metric
Hermitian operator
Hermitian sesquilinear form
Hermitian space
Related terms: hermicity
hermiticity
hermitize
Woden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Wōden, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Doublet of Odin and Wotan.
Senses: examples: text: From Woden, by which name they stiled Mercurie.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 175:
glosses: The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.
wikipedia: Wōden
Derived terms: Wodenism
Related terms: Wednesday
Wensley
tope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊp/
ipa: /təʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: taupe
Forms: form: topes
form: toping
form: toped
form: toped
Etymology: Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off).
Senses: glosses: To drink excessively; to get drunk.
Derived terms: toper
tope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊp/
ipa: /təʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: taupe
Forms: form: topes
Senses: glosses: A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.
tope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊp/
ipa: /təʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: taupe
Forms: form: topes
Etymology: From Tamil.
Senses: examples: text: 1868?, James Grant, First Love and Last Love
Concealed among the long rank grass of the mango tope the three lurkers watched the gate of the camp; but though many passcd out and in, the rider on the bay mare was not one of the number.
text: In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.
ref: 2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India:
glosses: A grove of trees.
tope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊp/
ipa: /təʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: taupe
Forms: form: topes
Etymology: Probably from Pali thūpa. Doublet of stupa.
Senses: glosses: A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
tope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊp/
ipa: /təʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
homophone: taupe
Forms: form: topes
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तोप (top), which in turn is borrowed from Classical Persian توپ (tōp). Ultimately loaned from a Turkic word, which is derived from Proto-Turkic *top. Compare Turkish top.
Senses: examples: text: They found him strongly posted near the fortress of Deeg, in the midst of bogs, tanks, and topes, and formidably defended by artillery.
ref: 1857, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, page 269:
glosses: A cannon (weapon).
idiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪdiˈɑtɪk/
ipa: [ˌɪɾiˈɑɾɪk]
ipa: /ˌɪdiˈɒtɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˌɪɖiˈɔʈɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more idiotic
form: most idiotic
form: idiotick
Etymology: From idiot + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.
raw_tags: of a person or animal
examples: text: Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 131:
synonyms: stupid
nonsensical
glosses: Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish
raw_tags: of an action
Synonyms: idiotish
Derived terms: idiotical
idioticity
unidiotic
Related terms: idiocy
idiot
idiotically
idioticness
demos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmɒs/
ipa: /ˈdiˌmɑs/
ipa: /ˈdiˌmɔs/
Forms: form: demoses
form: demoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”). Doublet of deme.
Senses: synonyms: deme
glosses: An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.
examples: text: When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.
ref: 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 323:
topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.
demos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmɒs/
ipa: /ˈdiˌmɑs/
ipa: /ˈdiˌmɔs/
Etymology: From demo + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of demo
demos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmɒs/
ipa: /ˈdiˌmɑs/
ipa: /ˈdiˌmɔs/
Etymology: From demo + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demo