cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
impropriety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪm.pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: improprieties
Etymology: From French impropriété, from Latin improprietās. By surface analysis, improper + -iety or im- + propriety.
Senses: examples: text: If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 295–296:
text: To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […]
ref: 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.), p. 23
glosses: The condition of being improper.
examples: text: Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no "appearance" of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an "appearance" of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 421:
glosses: An improper act.
glosses: Improper language.
ankh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋk/
ipa: /ɑːŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
rhymes: -ɑːŋk
ipa: /ɑŋk/
other: /æŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: ankhs
form: onch
Etymology: From Egyptian anx-Z1 (ꜥnḫ, “life, to live, symbol for life”).
Senses: examples: text: On temple wall paintings, the ankh is often seen being carried by gods who hold it up to the nose of the pharaoh. This gesture symbolizes the offering of the "breath of life" or eternity. Sometimes the pharaoh is also depicted with a stream of water in the form of ankhs being poured over him during a purification ritual.
ref: 1994, Mira Bartok, Christine Ronan, Ancient Egypt and Nubia, page 11:
text: The ankh combines the male and female sexual symbols: a female oval surmounting a male cross. It was also called the Key of the Nile, and was said to represent the sacred marriage between the God and Goddess which took place each year at the source of the Nile before the river flooded. Egyptians regarded the ankh as a universal life charm.
ref: 2001, Anna Franklin, Paul Mason, Lammas: Celebrating Fruits of the First Harvest, page 245:
text: Now, the ankh that Thoth always held hovered in the air between Sekhmet and the Magus, and both fixed their gaze upon it.
ref: 2013, Gordon Strong, Windleroot, page 125:
synonyms: ansate cross
crux ansata
Egyptian cross
tau
glosses: A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
glosses: A tau cross.
Related terms: ☥
𓋹
ankhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankh
treacherous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹəs/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃɹəs/
Forms: form: more treacherous
form: most treacherous
Etymology: From Old French trecheros, tricheros (“deceitful”), equivalent to treacher + -ous. See treacher.
Senses: examples: text: I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass:
glosses: Exhibiting treachery.
glosses: Deceitful; inclined to betray.
examples: text: a treacherous mountain trail
text: […] they stood in the region of perpetual snow, amidst the glittering, treacherous glaciers and crevasses, with vast slippery-pathed precipices yawning round.
ref: 2002, Charles Morris, The San Francisco Calamity:
glosses: Unreliable; dangerous.
Related terms: treacher
treachery
trick
trickster
tricky
treachery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹi/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃɹi/
Forms: form: treacheries
Etymology: From Middle English trecherie, from Old French tricherie, trecherie, from tricher, trichier (“to cheat”).
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, in the midst of high-camp treachery and sleuthery, each character does a star turn, breaking out in song.
ref: 2002 January 3, Joan Dupont, “MOVIE GUIDE : 8 Femmes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
glosses: The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
glosses: Treason.
examples: text: These submerged treacheries left an atmosphere. Even two such practised obliterators of their species as Bradly and Podson could not fail to note that each was secreting a certain reservation of opinion on the other.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: An act or instance of treachery.
Synonyms: Punic faith
treacherousness
Derived terms: treacher
treacherous
Related terms: trick
trickster
tricky
trickery
luminosity distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminosity distances
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An estimate of the distance of a body based on its luminosity and the inverse square law.
Related terms: angular size distance
Hubble law distance
standard candle
rhododendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊdəˈdɛndɹən/
Forms: form: rhododendrons
form: rhododendra
Etymology: The obsolete sense derives from Latin rhododendron (“oleander”), from Ancient Greek ῥοδόδενδρον (rhodódendron, “oleander”), from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + δένδρον (déndron, “tree”). The modern sense comes through the intermediary of the genus name Rhododendron.
Senses: glosses: Oleander (Nerium oleander).
glosses: Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, especially
glosses: Any of various flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, especially
Pontic rhododendron, common rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum)
Synonyms: word: rhodie
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhododendron maximum
word: American rhododendron
word: bell-flowered rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron campanulatum
word: bell rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron macrophyllum
word: big leaf rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron maximum
word: big rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron macrophyllum
word: California rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron catawbiense
word: Catawba rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron macrophyllum
word: coast rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron ponticum
word: common rhododendron
word: dwarf rhododendron Rhododendron anthopogon)
taxonomic: Rhododendron maximum
word: great rhododendron
word: great white rhododendron (Rhododendron decorum
taxonomic: Rhododendron malabathricum
word: Indian rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron mucronulatum
word: Korean rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron macrophyllum
word: Pacific rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron malabathricum
word: planter's rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron ponticum
word: pontic rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron catawbiense
word: purple rhododendron
taxonomic: Conus adamsonii
word: rhododendron cone
taxonomic: Stephanitis rhododendri
word: rhododendron lace bug
taxonomic: Graphocephala fennahi
word: rhododendron leafhopper
taxonomic: Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa
word: rhododendron psilocybe
taxonomic: Rhododendron maximum
word: rosebay rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron malabathricum
word: Singapore rhododendron
taxonomic: Melastoma affine
word: Straits rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron arboreum
word: tree rhododendron
taxonomic: Rhododendron lanatum
word: woolly rhododendron
Related terms: dendron
rhodo- and its derivatives
rhodonite
rhodium
passerine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsəɹaɪn/
ipa: /-ɹən/
ipa: /-ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈpæsəˌɹaɪn/
Etymology: Adjective sense 1 is borrowed from New Latin Passer (“bird genus”) (from Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly (in the sense of spreading out wings)”)) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Adjective sense 2 is borrowed from New Latin passerinus (“bird species”) + English -ine. Passerinus is derived from Latin passerīnus (“of or fit for sparrows”), from passer (“sparrow”) (see above) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The noun is borrowed from New Latin Passerinae (“former order of birds”), a calque of French passereaux, the plural of passereau (“sparrow; passerine (bird of the order Passeriformes)”), from Latin passer (“sparrow”) (see above) + -eau (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns, specifically the names of young animals).
Cognates
* French passerin (“sparrowlike”) (obsolete), Provençal French passerine (“passerine whitethroat, a bird from order Passeriformes”)
Senses: antonyms: nonpasserine
glosses: Of or relating to the Passeriformes order of perching birds, which are generally anisodactyl (“having three toes pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching”).
glosses: Chiefly in the former names of some birds: approximately the size of a sparrow.
Derived terms: nonpasserine
passerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsəɹaɪn/
ipa: /-ɹən/
ipa: /-ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈpæsəˌɹaɪn/
Forms: form: passerines
Etymology: Adjective sense 1 is borrowed from New Latin Passer (“bird genus”) (from Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly (in the sense of spreading out wings)”)) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Adjective sense 2 is borrowed from New Latin passerinus (“bird species”) + English -ine. Passerinus is derived from Latin passerīnus (“of or fit for sparrows”), from passer (“sparrow”) (see above) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The noun is borrowed from New Latin Passerinae (“former order of birds”), a calque of French passereaux, the plural of passereau (“sparrow; passerine (bird of the order Passeriformes)”), from Latin passer (“sparrow”) (see above) + -eau (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns, specifically the names of young animals).
Cognates
* French passerin (“sparrowlike”) (obsolete), Provençal French passerine (“passerine whitethroat, a bird from order Passeriformes”)
Senses: examples: text: If we examine the names of the Orders of Birds, we find that they are in Latin, […] We might venture to anglicize the terminations of the names which Cuvier gives to the divisions of these Orders: thus the Predators are the Diurnals and the Nocturnals; the Passerines are the Dentirostres, the Fissirostres, the Conirostres, the Tenuirostres, and the Syndactyls: the word lustre showing that the former termination is allowable.
ref: 1840, William Whewell, “Aphorisms Concerning the Language of Science. Aphorism XVI. In the Composition and Inflexion of Technical Terms, Philological Analogies are to be Preserved if Possible, but Modified According to Scientific Convenience.”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, paragraph 3, pages cx–cxi:
synonyms: passeriform
antonyms: nonpasserine
glosses: Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.
Synonyms: word: passerine
word: perching bird
Hypernyms: word: bird
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: songbird
word: blackbird
word: bunting
word: bushtit
word: canary
word: cardinal
word: chickadee
word: creeper
word: crossbill
word: crow
word: dipper
word: finch
word: flycatcher
word: gnatcatcher
word: grackle
word: grosbeak
word: jay
word: kinglet
word: lark
word: linnet
word: meadowlark
word: mockingbird
word: mynah
word: nutcracker
word: nuthatch
word: oriole
word: ouzel
word: pipit
word: raven
word: robin
word: rook
word: shrike
word: skylark
word: sparrow
word: starling
word: tanager
word: thrasher
word: thrush
word: tit
word: titmouse
word: vireo
word: wagtail
word: warbler
word: waxbill
word: waxwing
word: weaverbird
word: wren
Meronyms: word: See Thesaurus:bird
mayfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayflies
form: mayfly
Etymology: From May + fly. Compare Saterland Frisian Moaifljooge (“blowfly”).
Senses: examples: text: While some animals take months to reproduce, mayfly need just one perfect day.
text: [A] silver fish clooped a lazy arc downstream, not really caring that the mayfly were out of reach; […]
ref: 1986, Mary Brown, “The Gathering: One; The Unicorn and the Prince”, in The Unlikely Ones (Pigs Don’t Fly; 1), London: Century, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Adult mayflies have large compound eyes and most have two pairs of wings.[…]Mayfly nymphs are distinguished by their three tails (two cerci and a terminal filament) and the set of gills on each side of their abdomen.
ref: 2002, John Gooderham, Edward Tsyrlin, The Waterbug Book, page 132:
text: Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.
ref: 2005, Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art, page 213:
text: Stoneflies have negligible consumptive (thin solid line) and behavioral effects (thin dashed line) on mayfly abundance. Consumption by trout decreases the abundance of mayflies (solid line), but trout suppress mayfly emigration (drift) and thereby increase their abundance (thick dashed line).
ref: 2010, Barbara L. Peckarsky, J. David Allan, Angus R. McIntosh, Brad W. Taylor, “Chapter 9: Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems”, in Ian Billick, Mary V. Price, editors, The Ecology of Place, page 195:
synonyms: shadfly
dayfly
ephemera
ephemerid
glosses: Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.
examples: text: Dipping a French fry in her tomato ketchup, she admits that her name recognition could be higher. But it did spike a year ago during the mayfly premiership of Liz Truss.
ref: 2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It's not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Characterized by a short duration; short-lived.
Related terms: hatch
caddis fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caddis flies
form: caddisfly
Etymology: From earlier caddis (“larva of the caddis fly”) + fly.
Senses: synonyms: rail fly
sedge fly
glosses: Any insect, of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings; they are found near lakes and streams.
Derived terms: bizarre caddisfly
fingernet caddisfly
Kammer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kammers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kammer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
stonefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneflies
Etymology: From stone + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any of the freshwater aquatic insects in the order Plecoptera.
Synonyms: salmonfly
common green lacewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common green lacewings
Senses: glosses: a particular species of green insect in the order Neuroptera, Chrysoperla carnea
glosses: a member of the genus Chrysoperla in general (the common green lacewing genus)
webinar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕb′ə-när′
ipa: /ˈwɛb.əˌnɑː/
ipa: /ˈwɛb.əˌnɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈweb.əˌnɐː/
ipa: /ˈwɛb.əˌnaɹ/
ipa: /ˈweb.iˌnaːʳ/
Forms: form: webinars
form: Webinar
Etymology: Blend of Web + seminar.
Senses: examples: text: I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.
text: Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.
ref: 2002, Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content, page 274:
text: Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.
ref: 2003, Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM, page 168:
text: It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars, it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.
ref: 2003, Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women, page 93:
text: Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.
ref: 2006, Selling Power, volume 26, numbers 1–9, page 44:
text: One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.
ref: 2011, Jon Wuebben, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile, page 28:
text: Although there are many other tools that are available in a webinar tool, these are the ones you'll find yourself using most often.
ref: 2013, Kristin Kipp, Teaching on the Education Frontier, page 82:
glosses: An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.
Related terms: webcast
web conference
webconferencing
waffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wafflings
Senses: glosses: A repetitive speech or response to a question.
waffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Brad and Nicole were waffling in humanities class because they didn't know the answer.
glosses: present participle and gerund of waffle
flesh fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh flies
form: flesh-fly
Senses: glosses: any fly of the family Sarcophagidae that feed on carrion
Related terms: blowfly
blow fly
flower-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower-flies
Senses: glosses: the hover-fly
Synonyms: flower fly
hoverfly
hover-fly
Boglin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boglins
Etymology: A marketing coinage, apparently combining goblin and bog.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of grotesque rubbery hand puppets.
hover-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hover-flies
Senses: synonyms: flower-fly
flower fly
glosses: Alternative form of hoverfly; any insect, of the Syrphidae family, having wasp-like markings
lacewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪs.wɪŋ/
Forms: form: lacewings
Etymology: From lace + wing. Possibly a calque of translingual Neuroptera.
Senses: examples: text: We recently proposed a new genus of Thorny Lacewing (Insecta, Neuroptera, Rhachiberothidae) from the Eocene amber of France.
ref: 2005, Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, volume 110, page 128:
text: The family Rachiberothidae has been of considerable controversy and has been considered at different times during its history as a subfamily of Berothidae (Tjeder, 1959), or even of Mantispidae (Willmann, 1990b, 1004b). The "thorny lacewings" generally resemble other berothids except in the raptorial forelegs, which are convergent with those of the mantispids. While thorny lacewings are today confined to sub-Saharan Africa (U. Aspock and Mansell, 1994; U. Aspöck and H. Aspöck, 1997), they were clearly distributed throughout the world in the Cretaceous and perhaps into the Tertiary as well, disappearing from other regions apparently during the Eocene-Oligocene transition.
ref: 2005, David Grimaldi, Evolution of the Insects, page 356:
text: As an extinct clade, many species of the saucrosmylids were erected just based on a single fore- or hindwing, and it should be realized that providing more stable characters is necessary when describing new lacewing taxa just based on an isolated hindwing.
ref: 2015 October 21, “Familial Clarification of Saucrosmylidae stat. nov. and New Saucrosmylids from Daohugou, China (Insecta, Neuroptera)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia (order Lepidoptera).
Synonyms: sense: insect
word: lacewing fly
Derived terms: english: family Berothidae
translation: family Berothidae
word: beaded lacewing
english: family Hemerobiidae
translation: family Hemerobiidae
word: brown lacewing
english: dustywing, family Coniopterygidae
translation: dustywing, family Coniopterygidae
word: dusty lacewing
english: family Polystoechotidae
translation: family Polystoechotidae
word: giant lacewing
word: common green lacewing
english: family Chrysopidae
translation: family Chrysopidae
word: green lacewing
english: family Ithonidae
translation: family Ithonidae
word: moth lacewing
english: family Dilaridae
translation: family Dilaridae
word: pleasing lacewing
english: family Psychopsidae
translation: family Psychopsidae
word: silky lacewing
english: family Nymphidae
translation: family Nymphidae
word: split-footed lacewing
english: family Nemopteridae
translation: family Nemopteridae
word: spoon-winged lacewing
english: family Rachiberothidae
translation: family Rachiberothidae
word: thorny lacewing
english: family Nemopteridae
translation: family Nemopteridae
word: thread-winged lacewing
elapse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: elapses
form: elapsing
form: elapsed
form: elapsed
Etymology: From Middle French elapser, from Latin elapsus.
Senses: examples: text: He allowed a month to elapse before beginning the work.
text: Several days elapsed before they met again.
text: The week that was yet to elapse, she spent in wandering through her uncle's favourite walks in hours of tearful vigil, beside his tomb, and in collecting together every trifle on which he had set a value.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Remembrance of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 322:
text: Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 832:
glosses: To pass or move by.
raw_tags: of time
Synonyms: word: elapse
word: go by
word: go
word: go past
word: pass
word: pass by
word: roll on
Derived terms: elapsed
elapsing
elapsion
unelapsed
Related terms: word: run its course
elapsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elapse
elapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elapse
fruit fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit flies
form: fruitfly
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
glosses: Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.
examples: text: Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.
ref: 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:
synonyms: fag hag
glosses: A woman who enjoys the company of homosexual men.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhagoletis fausta
word: black cherry fruit fly
taxonomic: Rhagoletis cerasi
word: cherry fruit fly
taxonomic: Drosophila melanogaster
word: common fruit fly
taxonomic: Rhagoletis cerasi
word: European cherry fruit fly
word: flightless fruit fly
taxonomic: Drosophila melanogaster
word: lesser fruit fly
taxonomic: Ceratitis cosyra
word: mango fruit fly
taxonomic: Ceratitis capitata
word: Mediterranean fruit fly
taxonomic: Anastrepha ludens
word: Mexican fruit fly
taxonomic: Ceratitis rosa
word: Natal fruit fly
taxonomic: Bactrocera oleae
word: olive fruit fly
taxonomic: Bactrocera dorsalis
word: oriental fruit fly
taxonomic: Toxotrypana curvicauda
word: papaya fruit fly
taxonomic: Bactrocera tryoni
word: Queensland fruit fly
taxonomic: Tephritidae spp.
word: tephritid fruit fly
taxonomic: Anastrepha obliqua
word: West Indian fruit fly
JCR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JCRs
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: MCR
SCR
glosses: Initialism of junior common room (in British universities).
JCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Content Repository.
Obst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Obsts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Obst.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
firewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪə.wɔəl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əˌwɔːl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɔl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɑl/
Forms: form: firewalls
Etymology: From fire + wall. Compare West Frisian brânmuorre, Dutch brandmuur, German Brandmauer, Feuermauer, Swedish brandvägg, brandmur, Icelandic eldvegg. The verb sense for using maximum power or acceleration comes from the engine's firewall being the limit of forward movement of the throttle controls on many simpler vehicles; thus, to get the maximum engine output, one would push the throttle levers or pedal all the way to the firewall.
Senses: topics: architecture
coordinate_terms: firestop
fire block
;
bulkhead
glosses: A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical phenomenon where an observer falling into a black hole encounters high-energy quanta at or near the event horizon.
Derived terms: Great Firewall of China
Chinese firewall
firewall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪə.wɔəl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əˌwɔːl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɔl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌwɑl/
Forms: form: firewalls
form: firewalling
form: firewalled
form: firewalled
Etymology: From fire + wall. Compare West Frisian brânmuorre, Dutch brandmuur, German Brandmauer, Feuermauer, Swedish brandvägg, brandmur, Icelandic eldvegg. The verb sense for using maximum power or acceleration comes from the engine's firewall being the limit of forward movement of the throttle controls on many simpler vehicles; thus, to get the maximum engine output, one would push the throttle levers or pedal all the way to the firewall.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: To protect with a firewall.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: To block with a firewall.
qualifier: motor vehicles or aircraft
glosses: To use maximum engine power or acceleration.
Related terms: balls to the wall
GPRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of General Packet Radio Service.
Hypernyms: 2.5G
Hyponyms: EGPRS
Related terms: GSM
WiMAX
Wi-Fi
snakefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakeflies
Etymology: From snake + fly.
Senses: examples: text: Although sexual behavior is not well studied in the order, observations exist for members of both snakefly families.
ref: 1997, Charles S. Henry, “11: Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects”, in Jae C. Choe, Bernard J. Crespi, editors, The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids, page 196:
text: Adult snakeflies stalk their prey in a manner similar to snakes. When an insect comes within reach, the snakefly will strike, catching the victim with its jaws.
ref: 2009, David Hugh Kattes, Insects of Texas: a Practical Guide, page 109:
text: The order snakeflies (Raphidioptera) consists predominantly of saproxylic predators (Aspöck, 2002). Snakeflies have an almost worldwide distribution, mostly occurring in temperate regions and in mountainous areas closer to the equator.
ref: 2012, Jogeir N. Stokland, Juha Siitonen, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Biodiversity in Dead Wood, page 239:
glosses: Any insect of the order Raphidioptera.
scorpionfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorpionflies
Etymology: From scorpion + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the family Panorpidae, having a curved tail rather like a scorpion.
glosses: The insect order Mecoptera or superorder Mecopterida.
water scorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water scorpions
Senses: glosses: Any long-legged aquatic insect of the family Nepidae, commonly in temperate Europe of species Nepa cinerea.
Synonyms: sense: insect in Nepidae
word: water stick insect
sense: insect in Nepidae
word: needle bug
Hummel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hummels
Senses: glosses: Hummel figurine
backbiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.baɪt.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbæk.baɪt.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈbæk.baɪɾ.ɚ]
Forms: form: backbiters
Etymology: From Middle English bakbitere, bakbytere, bacbitere, equivalent to backbite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
text: She better not hear none of them old backbiters talking about her husband!
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 143:
glosses: A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.
Related terms: back
backbite
backbiting
backstab
bite
biter
soldier fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soldier flies
Senses: examples: text: Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory.
ref: 2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO:
glosses: Any fly of the insect family Stratiomyidae, which resemble wasps.
Derived terms: word: Brues' soldier fly
alt: Inopus rubriceps
word: sugarcane soldier fly
sole proprietor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sole proprietors
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: The person who owns and controls a sole proprietorship.
Derived terms: sole proprietorship
general partnership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general partnerships
Senses: glosses: A business partnership in which each partner is liable for the firm's debts.
Related terms: limited partnership
housefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseflies
form: house fly
form: house-fly
Etymology: From house + fly. Cognate with Dutch huisvlieg (“housefly”), Danish husflue (“housefly”), Swedish husfluga (“housefly”), Faroese húsfluga (“housefly”).
Senses: glosses: Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
examples: text: Of the three potential means (carriage on the body and legs, regurgitation and defecation) by which houseflies can transmit pathogens, one involves passage through the gut. During passage through the housefly, pathogens may replicate within the gut.
ref: 1990, D. C. Kaslow, S. Welburn, “16: Insect-transmitted pathogens in the insect midgut”, in M. Lehane, P. Billingsley, editors, Biology of the Insect Midgut, page 454:
text: In the housefly, M. domestica, sex pheromone production is correlated with egg development.
ref: 2004, R. Jurenka, “Insect Pheromone Biosynthesis”, in Stefan Schulz, editor, The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals I, page 123:
text: Houseflies are known to carry at least 100 different pathogens and they are vectors for at least 65 of these.
ref: 2011, Ross Piper, Pests: A Guide to the World's Most Maligned, Yet Misunderstood Creatures, page 102:
glosses: Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
The common housefly, Musca domestica, that frequents most homes and spreads some diseases.
anatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætə
Forms: form: anattas
Etymology: From Pali anattan, from Sanskrit अनात्मन् (anātman, “no soul”), from अन्- (an-, “non-, un-, a-”) + आत्मन् (ātman, “soul”).
Senses: examples: text: The texts indicate that when the Buddha's first disciples heard about anatta, their hearts were filled with joy and they immediately experienced Nirvana.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 33:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The idea that there is no separate self or soul; egolessness. One of the three marks of existence.
Synonyms: egolessness
anatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætə
Forms: form: anattas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of annatto.
philippic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlɪpɪk/
Forms: form: philippics
form: philippick
Etymology: From Latin philippicus, from Ancient Greek φιλιππικός (philippikós), from Φίλιππος (Phílippos, “lover of horses”), from φίλος (phílos, “loving”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 348:
glosses: Any of the discourses of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon, defending the liberty of Athens.
examples: text: Mrs. Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter phillipic; “Miss Morton is Lord Morton’s daughter.”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 234:
text: "Sir Robert Akhurst is a good man, a very good man, notwithstanding his philippic; but he is an old one, which makes all the difference."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 172:
text: Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God’s earth, far and away superior to England
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: As a young man, Lytton Strachey admired Hastings and wrote a long thesis on him, while dismissing Burke as ‘an ignorant enthusiast’. What strikes me on rereading those great philippics is, on the contrary, their exactness and perceptiveness.
ref: 2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:
synonyms: word: admonition
word: condemnation
word: diatribe
word: dithyramb
word: harangue
word: impugnation
word: j'accuse
word: jeremiad
word: philippic
word: polemic
word: rant
word: screed
word: slanging match
word: tirade
glosses: Any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation.
Derived terms: philippicize
philippize
elevate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛləveɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛləvət/
ipa: /ˈɛləveɪt/
Forms: form: more elevate
form: most elevate
Etymology: From Middle English elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French élevé.
Senses: examples: text: 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6,
The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,
text: Others apart sat on a Hill retir’d,
In thoughts more elevate,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, 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, lines 567-578:
glosses: Elevated, raised aloft.
extraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: extractions
Etymology: From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.
Senses: coordinate_terms: abstraction#Noun
glosses: An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
examples: text: They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
examples: text: Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
ref: 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: A person's origin or ancestry.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms: topics: origin
sense: ancestry
word: descent
topics: origin
sense: ancestry
word: lineage
sense: something extracted
word: extract
word: reduction
Derived terms: agroextraction
autoextraction
buccal fat extraction
coextraction
collocation extraction
comedo extraction
cryoextraction
dilation and extraction
electroextraction
extractional
hot extraction
hydroextraction
immunoextraction
intact dilation and extraction
microextraction
nonextraction
overextraction
perstraction
phytoextraction
postextraction
preextraction
reextraction
root extraction
solvent extraction
Soxhlet extraction
underextraction
extracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extract
displeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈplɛʒə/
enpr: dĭs-plĕzhʹər
ipa: /dɪsˈplɛʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: displeasures
Etymology: From Old French desplaisir, equivalent to dis- + pleasure. See displease.
Senses: examples: text: Tangling with Ziv, Cameron caught him with a flailing elbow, causing the Israeli defender to go down a little easily. However, the referee was in no doubt, much to the displeasure of the home fans.
ref: 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A feeling of being displeased with something or someone; dissatisfaction; disapproval.
examples: text: Hast thou delight to see a wretched man / Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offence; injury.
examples: text: [King Lear] charged me, on pain of their perpetual displeasure, neither to speak of him [Edgar], entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: [H]ee went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for ouermuch familiaritie with a kinswoman of his.
ref: 1622, Henry Peacham, The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman., page 101:
glosses: A state of disgrace or disfavour.
Synonyms: sense: feeling of being displeased with someone or something
word: discontent
sense: feeling of being displeased with someone or something
word: discontentment
sense: feeling of being displeased with someone or something
word: dissatisfaction
sense: feeling of being displeased with someone or something
word: unhappiness
sense: pain, discomfort
word: ache
sense: pain, discomfort
word: discomfort
sense: pain, discomfort
word: pain
sense: disapproval
word: condemnation
sense: disapproval
word: disapprobation
sense: disapproval
word: disapproval
Derived terms: displeasurable
take a displeasure
take displeasure
displeasurement
displeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈplɛʒə/
enpr: dĭs-plĕzhʹər
ipa: /dɪsˈplɛʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: displeasures
form: displeasuring
form: displeasured
form: displeasured
Etymology: From Old French desplaisir, equivalent to dis- + pleasure. See displease.
Senses: glosses: To displease or offend.
motor mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor mouths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of motormouth.
wite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wīt
ipa: /waɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: wight
homophone: white (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wites
form: witing
form: wited
form: wited
form: wyte
Etymology: From Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below.
Senses: glosses: To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
examples: text: [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:
glosses: To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
glosses: To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.
wite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wīt
ipa: /waɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: wight
homophone: white (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wites
Etymology: From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 209, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
qualifier: obsolete outside Scotland
glosses: Blame, responsibility, guilt.
glosses: Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
wite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wīt
ipa: /waɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: wight
homophone: white (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wites
form: witing
form: wited
form: wited
Etymology: From Middle English witen, from Old English wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).
Senses: glosses: To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
codfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codfish
form: codfishes
Etymology: From cod + fish.
Senses: glosses: A cod (the fish).
glosses: The flesh of the cod as food.
Derived terms: codfish aristocracy
tilapia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈlɑːpiə/
ipa: /tɪˈlɑːpiə/
ipa: /tɪˈlæpiə/
rhymes: -ɑːpiə
rhymes: -æpiə
Forms: form: tilapias
form: tilapia
Etymology: From translingual Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”).
The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".
Senses: examples: text: Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.
ref: 2006, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Bottom of the World:
synonyms: St. Peter's fish
glosses: Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
examples: text: Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.
ref: 2019 June 13, Sam Damshenas, “Drag Race star Plastique Tiara wants to be a "pioneer" for the queer Asian community”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2021:
qualifier: drag slang
glosses: A fishy (resembling a cisgender woman) drag queen; a drag queen who could pass for a woman, as opposed to one who is exaggeratedly feminine.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tilapia sparrmanii
word: banded tilapia
taxonomic: Sarotherodon melanotheron
word: blackchin tilapia
taxonomic: Sarotherodon linnellii
word: blackfin tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis placidus
word: black tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis aureus
word: blue tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis esculentus
word: Graham's tilapia
taxonomic: Coptodon guineensis
word: Guinean tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis mortimeri
word: kariba tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis macrochir
word: longfin tilapia
taxonomic: Alcolapia grahami
word: magadi tilapia
taxonomic: Sarotherodon galilaeus
word: mango tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis amphimelas
word: Manyara tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis mossambicus
word: Mozambique tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis niloticus
word: Nile tilapia
taxonomic: Tilapia ruweti
word: Okavango tilapia
taxonomic: Tilapia guinasana
word: Otjikoto tilapia
taxonomic: Coptodon zillii
word: redbelly tilapia
taxonomic: Coptodon rendalli
word: redbreast tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis esculentus
word: Singida tilapia
taxonomic: Pelmatolapia mariae
word: spotted tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis andersonii
word: threespot tilapia
taxonomic: Oreochromis urolepis
word: Wami tilapia
taxonomic: Tilapia zilli
word: Zill's tilapia
neep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neeps
Etymology: From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).
Cognate with English turnip.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 494:
glosses: The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
Derived terms: neep lantern
rearguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪəɹˌɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: rearguards
form: rear guard
form: rear-guard
Etymology: From rear + guard. Attested in The Song of Roland c. 1150 (rereguarde). Doublet of retrogarde.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: vanguard
glosses: The rearmost part of a force, especially a detachment of troops that protect the rear of a retreating force.
examples: text: Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.
ref: 2011 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The defence, collectively the defenders.
Coordinate terms: sense: rearmost part of a troop
word: backstop
Derived terms: rearguard action