cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vibrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪbɹənt/
Forms: form: more vibrant
form: most vibrant
Etymology: From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate.
Senses: examples: text: He has a vibrant personality.
glosses: Pulsing with energy or activity.
glosses: Lively and vigorous.
examples: text: Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;
ref: 1770, Anthony Champion, “The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem.”, in Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin, T. Bensley, for J. White, page 111:
text: A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable
ref: 1905, David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies, The Singing of the Future, J. Lane, page 258:
glosses: Vibrating, resonant or resounding.
glosses: Bright.
raw_tags: of a color
Synonyms: sense: pulsing with energy or activity
word: dynamic
word: energetic
word: spirited
word: active
sense: resonant, resounding
word: booming
word: remugient
word: sonorous
sense: bright
word: dazzling
sense: bright
word: luminous
sense: bright
word: nitid
Related terms: vibrate
vibration
vibrantly
vibrator
vibrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪbɹənt/
Forms: form: vibrants
Etymology: From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of consonants including taps and trills.
pétillant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French pétillant.
Senses: glosses: Of wine, cider, etc.: sparkling, fizzy.
Related terms: pétillant naturel
vibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: vibrations
Etymology: From French vibration, from Latin vibrātiō (“a shaking or brandishing”), from vibrō (“shake, vibrate”); see vibrate. Morphologically vibrate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
examples: text: The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: A single complete vibrating motion.
examples: text: "And the sitters?" "I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own." "They will form a horrible block of vibrations! We must have some of our own sympathetic people to counteract it."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.
examples: text: I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations.
ref: 1966, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, “Good Vibrations”, performed by The Beach Boys:
text: The procession circled the district, symbolically purging the area of its “evil,” which paraders described as the “bad vibrations” from tourists and youths in Hippie clothes not living up to Hippie standards.
ref: 1967 October 7, “Parade in Haight-Ashbury Marks ‘Death of the Hippie’”, in New York Times, page 26:
synonyms: vibe
glosses: An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere.
Derived terms: hand-arm vibration syndrome
sympathetic vibration
vibration control
vibration white finger
Related terms: vibrant
vibrate
vibratiuncle
vibrato
vibrator
vicarage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicarages
Etymology: From vicar + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288:
coordinate_terms: rectory
parsonage
curatage
manse
glosses: The residence of a vicar.
synonyms: vicarship
coordinate_terms: curateship
curacy
parsonship
parsonhood
rectorship
rectorate
priestship
priesthood
glosses: The benefice, duties, or office of a vicar.
Related terms: vicarate
vice-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare viscount.
Senses: glosses: Taking the place or rank of (another person); deputy.
Derived terms: air vice-marshal
doubtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtfəl/
Forms: form: more doubtful
form: most doubtful
form: doubtfull
Etymology: From Middle English doutfull, douteful, equivalent to doubt + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Subject to, or causing doubt.
glosses: Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical.
glosses: Undecided or of uncertain outcome.
glosses: Fearsome, dreadful.
glosses: Improbable or unlikely.
examples: text: Yet it is not the predominant views of the experts but the views of a minority, mostly of rather doubtful standing in their profession, which are taken up and spread by the intellectuals.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 419:
glosses: Suspicious, or of dubious character.
examples: text: The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, “395–396”, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: Unclear or unreliable.
Derived terms: doubtfully
doubtfulness
undoubtful
doubtful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtfəl/
Forms: form: doubtfuls
form: doubtfull
Etymology: From Middle English doutfull, douteful, equivalent to doubt + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: They had their lists of Liberals and of the doubtfuls who still remained doubtful. As the election drew near, the force of the whole organization was turned upon these unrepentant doubtfuls.
ref: 1976, Kenneth Gibbons, Donald Cameron Rowat, Political Corruption in Canada: Cases, Causes and Cures, page 45:
glosses: A doubtful person or thing.
vice admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvaɪsˈædmɪɹəl/
Forms: form: vice admirals
form: vice-admiral
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A person holding a naval rank between rear admiral and full admiral.
Synonyms: word: vadm
word: Vadm.
word: VAdm.
word: VADM.
word: VADM
word: Vadm
word: VAdm
word: V.Adm.
Derived terms: word: vadm
word: Vadm.
word: VAdm.
word: VADM.
word: VADM
word: Vadm
word: VAdm
word: V.Adm.
Related terms: vice-admiralty
vice president
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice presidents
form: VP
form: vice-president
Etymology: From vice- + president.
Senses: glosses: A deputy to a president, often empowered to assume the position of president on their death or absence.
glosses: An executive in a business in charge of a department or branch.
Synonyms: word: VP
sense: senior administrator at a college or university
word: provost
word: veep
topics: politics
government
word: deputy president
Derived terms: junior vice president
senior vice president
veep
vice presidency
vice presidential
vice-presidential
VP
viceroy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪsˌɹɔɪ/
Forms: form: viceroys
form: vice-roi
Etymology: From Middle French vice-roy, from vice- + roy (“king”).
Senses: examples: text: Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
text: The Viceroy's on board - tends to liven things up.
ref: 1980, David Lean, A Screenplay of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Script City, page 2:
text: Mike Davis, a former Senate GOP staffer on Supreme Court nominations and current “viceroy” of Trumpworld, wrote that Alito was “gleefully packing up his chambers” after the 2024 election.
ref: 2025 July 20, John Bowden, “Why two justices could hand Republicans their own ‘Ginsburg moment’ next year”, in The Independent:
synonyms: vicar
provost
glosses: One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
glosses: A zongdu.
glosses: An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
Coordinate terms: vicereine
Related terms: roy
governor-general
governor general
lord lieutenant
interrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/
rhymes: -ʌpt (verb)
ipa: /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/
Forms: form: interrupts
form: interrupting
form: interrupted
form: interrupted
form: interrumpt
form: interroupt
form: interrout
Etymology: From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
text: Do not interrupt me in my course.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
examples: text: The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
glosses: To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
examples: text: The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
Synonyms: interject
Derived terms: interruptable
interruptee
interrupter
interruptible
interruptingly
interruption
interruptive
interruptless
interrupt request
manterrupt
noninterrupt
reinterrupt
self-interrupt
those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
uninterrupting
Related terms: abrupt
corrupt
disrupt
interrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/
rhymes: -ʌpt (verb)
ipa: /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/
Forms: form: interrupts
form: interrumpt
form: interroupt
form: interrout
Etymology: From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
Hyponyms: hardware interrupt
non-maskable interrupt
NMI
pattern interrupt
software interrupt
Derived terms: interrupt handler
interrupt storm
vicinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈsɪnəti/
Forms: form: vicinities
Etymology: From vicine + -ity, from Latin vīcīnitās (“neighborhood”) (compare French vicinité), from vīcīnus (“neighbor”) (compare French voisin), from vīcus (“village”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear.
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Proximity; the state of being near.
examples: text: There is a hurricane in the vicinity of the Bahamas.
text: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come
To this well-nightingaled vicinity?
ref: 1883, A. E. Housman, Fragment of a Greek Tragedy:
text: Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler, reporting from Bangkok, said hundreds of Yingluck's supporters gathered outside the Bangkok Supreme Court to await the verdict but were not allowed in the vicinity.
ref: 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
glosses: Neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area.
examples: text: I weigh in the vicinity of 80kg.
glosses: Approximate size or amount.
ongoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on-going
Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
Senses: examples: text: "Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.
ref: 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: Continuing, permanent, lasting.
glosses: Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
Derived terms: ongoing covid
ongoingly
ongoingness
ongoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ongoings
form: on-going
Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
Senses: examples: text: We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.
ref: 1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure:
glosses: Something that is going on; a happening.
ongoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: on-going
Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ongo
vicious circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicious circles
form: vicious cycle
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile street congestion grows worse and the vicious circle tightens of private motor-cars which impede L.T.E. buses in Central London and of exasperated bus travellers who therefore take to using their own cars.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: London Transport in 1960”, in Trains Illustrated, page 656:
glosses: A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
Synonyms: sense: logical fallacy
word: begging the question
sense: logical fallacy
word: circular argument
sense: logical fallacy
word: petitio principii
Derived terms: vicious circle principle
Related terms: slippery slope
vicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪʃəs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more vicious
form: viciouser
form: most vicious
form: viciousest
form: vitious
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Violent, destructive and cruel.
examples: text: He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: Savage and aggressive.
examples: text: We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195
text: A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.
ref: 1930, Ogden Nash, Lines to Be Mumbled at Ovington's:
glosses: Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
Synonyms: scathy
Derived terms: vicious circle
vicious cycle
vicious intromission
Related terms: vice#Related_terms
viciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viciousnesses
Etymology: From Middle English viciousnesse; equivalent to vicious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: viciosity
vitiosity
glosses: the characteristic of being vicious
glosses: the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty
crown fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown fires
Senses: glosses: Fire that spreads through a forest at the crown or canopy level, without the need for a fire at ground level to ignite the trees.
ear tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear tunnels
Senses: glosses: A round piece of jewelry with a hole in the middle, which fits into a stretched earlobe.
interfere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈfɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: interferes
form: interfering
form: interfered
form: interfered
form: enterfere
Etymology: From Old French entreferir, from entre- + ferir (“to hit, to strike”), itself from the Latin verb ferio.
Senses: examples: text: I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
text: I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
ref: 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
examples: text: Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.
text: Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
glosses: To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
raw_tags: of horses
examples: text: The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.
glosses: To sexually molest, especially of a child.
raw_tags: with with
Derived terms: interferant
interference
interferer
interferingly
interferingness
interferogram
interferometer
interferon
noninterfering
reinterfere
small interfering RNA
uninterfered
Related terms: busy body
interferometry
English Plus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A movement that encourages English-only speakers to learn other languages in order to promote cultural diversity and acceptance.
lota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Forms: form: lotas
Etymology: From Hindi लोटा (loṭā) / Urdu لوٹا (loṭā).
(person who switches loyalties): From the fact that the lota pot has a tendency to fall over and roll around, as it is not stable sitting on its base.
Senses: examples: text: She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 9:
glosses: A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass.
qualifier: Pakistani politics
glosses: A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another, engaging in lotacracy.
motard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motards
Etymology: From French motard.
Senses: glosses: A supermotard.
motard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motards
Etymology: From moto (“motivated, gung-ho marine”) + retard.
Senses: glosses: In the United States Marine Corps, one who expresses his/her motivation for the Marine Corps to the point of obnoxiousness.
Derived terms: motarded
roastnear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roastnears
Etymology: From roasting ear.
Senses: glosses: An ear of corn or corn on the cob.
vicariance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicariances
Etymology: From vicariant + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Such an old origin for parts of Sulawesi would explain its unique biota and high species richness; species would have rafted along on these fragments from worlds since long lost (a process known as vicariance).
ref: 2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The separation of a group of organisms by a geographic barrier, resulting in differentiation of the original group into new varieties or species.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The geological event which produces such a barrier (volcano, earthquake, etc)
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The act of experiencing an event by proxy through an empathic link with the person who is experiencing the event firsthand.
Related terms: vicariated
virgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɜɹˈɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈvɝɡət/
ipa: /ˈvɜːɡət/
rhymes: (US) -eɪt
Forms: form: virgates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virgāta, "yard" compared to "virga" as a measuring rod. Doublet of vergée.
Senses: glosses: The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ¹⁄₄ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.
Synonyms: yardland
yard
yard of land
Hypernyms: alt: 400 virgates
word: hundred
alt: 4 virgates
word: carucate
Hyponyms: sense: See oxgang
word: 1⁄2 virgate & for Scottish divisions
word: nook
word: fardel
sense: various & for further subdivisions
word: acre
virgate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɜɹˈɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈvɝɡət/
ipa: /ˈvɜːɡət/
rhymes: (US) -eɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virgātus.
Senses: glosses: Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, (particularly botany) the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Finely striped, often with dark fibers.
Related terms: virgulate
spinster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪnstə/
ipa: /ˈspɪnstɚ/
Forms: form: spinsters
Etymology: From Middle English spynnestere (“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread for a living.
Senses: examples: text: If […] a woman be named spinster, she may abate […]the same [writ].
ref: 1628–1644, Edw[ard] Coke, (please specify |part=1 to 4), London:
synonyms: old maid
glosses: A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
glosses: One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.
examples: text: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
glosses: A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
glosses: A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
Related terms: bachelor
bachelorette
divorcee
thornback
widow
utterance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəɹəns/
Forms: form: utterances
form: utteraunce
Etymology: From Middle English utteraunce, outeraunce; equivalent to utter + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: at length gave utterance to these words
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, 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:
text: July 1857, The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
Mathematics and Poetry are … the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
synonyms: uttering#Noun
glosses: An act of, or the process of, uttering.
examples: text: And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, “XXVA”, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203:
text: To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237a:
glosses: An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.
examples: text: Mrs. Weston kissed her with tears of joy; and when she could find utterance, assured her, that this protestation had done her more good than any thing else in the world could do.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: The ability to speak.
examples: text: He has a good utterance.
text: They [...] began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts ii:4:
text: [...] O, how frail / To that large utterance of the early Gods!
ref: 1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 148:
glosses: A manner of speaking.
examples: text: The clothemakers[…] had great profite and good utterance of the sayd cloth
ref: a. 1564, King Edward IV of England, a royal decree:
glosses: A sale made by offering to the public.
examples: text: the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes
glosses: An act of putting in circulation.
Derived terms: performative utterance
Related terms: utter
utterable
utterer
utterance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəɹəns/
Forms: form: utterances
form: utteraunce
Etymology: From Middle English outraunce, utteraunce, from Old French outrance (see outrance).
Senses: examples: text: Among champions and such as strive for the masterie in feats of activitie, we count those for their adversaries and concurrents onely, who professe and practise the same kinde of game or exercise; for those that goe to it with fists and buffers, are commonly friends good enough to such sword-fencers as fight at sharpe to the utterance, and well-willers to the champions called Pancratiastae.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Of Brotherly Love”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 184:
text: To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list,
And champion me to th' utterance.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Besides, For the most part, the Combate was continued or ended at the discretion of the Prince, or his Substitutes, which also did most commonly part the Duellists, and not suffer them to proceed to the utterance, but pronounced them both good and approved Cavaliers upon the place, which was a token of their prudent affection to preserve noble spirits for better uses.
ref: 1659, Thomas Pestell, “A Collection of several mens Discourses and Opinions concerning Duels”, in Sermons and devotions old and new, page 326:
synonyms: outrance
glosses: The utmost extremity, especially of a fight; bodily harm or death.
immeasurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmɛʒɹəbəl/
Etymology: From Middle English inmesurable, ynmesurable; equivalent to im- + measurable.
Senses: examples: text: Give me your hand, and in a few minutes we shall be in my own dwelling, amid those immeasurable deserts where only my story may be communicated.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, pages 12–13:
text: There is also the former Great Central main line which, though it climbs to an almost equal altitude at Dunford, has the immeasurable advantage of electric traction.
ref: 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 175:
glosses: impossible to measure
examples: text: "His contribution has been immeasurable," Bush said in a statement. "I value his judgment, and I treasure his friendship."
ref: 2007, Terence Hunt, “Longest-serving Bush aide resigns”, in Associated Press:
glosses: vast
Synonyms: immensurable
unmeasurable
Derived terms: immeasurable light
immeasurableness
immeasurably
immeasurable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmɛʒɹəbəl/
Forms: form: immeasurables
Etymology: From Middle English inmesurable, ynmesurable; equivalent to im- + measurable.
Senses: examples: text: And inspiring good relationships is all about immeasurables: it is about inspiring purpose, compassion and attentiveness.
ref: 2009 September 29, Madeleine Bunting, “Forget 'clients' and 'users' – public services are about people”, in Guardian:
glosses: anything that cannot be measured
Black Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Black Russian
form: most Black Russian
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Black Russia.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.
Black Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Russians
Senses: glosses: A cocktail containing vodka and a coffee-flavoured liqueur such as Kahlúa.
examples: text: I had met Yelena Khanga (Lily Golden's daughter) in Chicago when we were both on a panel about blacks and Russia in the early 1990s. Her book, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865–1992, had just come out, and she was ...
ref: 2008, Joy Gleason Carew, Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
ref: 1989, John Oliver Killens, Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.
Related terms: Blue Russian
Great Russian
Little Russian
New Russian
Russian
White Russian
balaclava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæl.əˈklɑː.və/
ipa: /ˌbɑː.ləˈklɑː.və/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: balaclavas
Etymology: From the city of Balaklava in Crimea, from Ottoman Turkish بالقلاوه (modern Turkish balıklava), alteration of بالقلاغه (balıklaga, “fishing ground”). During the Crimean War the British troops suffered from cold due to improper clothing. When the news spread in the home front after the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, the people began knitting warm clothing for the soldiers, including woollen caps to be worn under the helmet, which were named balaclavas by the troops.
Senses: glosses: A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.
examples: text: George Ronald Waite, 33, known as Balaclava Bill because of the dark blue woollen hood he wore while robbing seven banks of $46,200 over the past two years, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in Kingston Penitentiary.
ref: 1969 January 10, “Robbed seven banks, Balaclava Bill given 15-year term in jail”, in Globe and Mail, Toronto, page 1:
glosses: A ski mask with holes for the eyes and, sometimes, the nose and mouth, which may be rolled up and worn like a toque or pulled over the face for greater protection.
Derived terms: balaclavaed
windlass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnd.ləs/
homophone: windless
Forms: form: windlasses
form: windless
Etymology: From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
examples: text: With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 65:
glosses: A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
glosses: An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
Derived terms: Spanish windlass
windlass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪnd.ləs/
homophone: windless
Forms: form: windlasses
form: windlassing
form: windlassed
form: windlassed
form: windless
Etymology: From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass.
Senses: examples: text: A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.
ref: 1882, Constance Gordon-Cumming, “Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples”, in The Century Magazine:
glosses: To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
examples: text: He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
vespillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vespilloes
Etymology: From Latin vespillo.
Senses: examples: text: Like vespilloes or gravemakers.
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
glosses: A wasp from the genus Vespillo in the family Vespidae.
longish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From long + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html
"How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!)
text: She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 16, in Klee Wyck:
text: It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
glosses: Somewhat long.
vertiport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː.tɪˌpɔːt/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.tɪˌpɔɹt/
Forms: form: vertiports
Etymology: Blend of vertical + airport
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An airport for VTOL aircraft.
Synonyms: EVTOLport
VTOLport
Coordinate terms: sense: VTOL airport
word: aerodrome
sense: VTOL airport
word: airfield
sense: VTOL airport
word: airport
sense: VTOL airport
word: heliport
sense: VTOL airport
word: jetport
sense: VTOL airport
word: marine air terminal
sense: VTOL airport
word: S/VTOL
sense: VTOL airport
word: seaplane base
sense: VTOL airport
word: STOL
sense: VTOL airport
word: STOLport
sense: VTOL airport
word: STOVL
sense: VTOL airport
word: V/STOL
sense: VTOL airport
word: VTOL
sense: VTOL airport
word: water aerodrome
Related terms: airport
heliport
jetport
port
seaport
STOLport
versatilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versatilists
Etymology: From versatile + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A versatile specialist who can switch to a new discipline if needed.
value-added network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value-added networks
Senses: glosses: A communications network with additional functions such as error correction, protocol conversion and message storing.
Related terms: VAN
virility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: və.rĭʹlĭ.tē
ipa: /vəˈɹɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: virilities
Etymology: From virile + -ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās.
Senses: examples: text: Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:
glosses: The state of being virile.
glosses: Manly character, quality, or nature.
examples: text: The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:
glosses: The ability of a man to procreate.
Synonyms: masculinity
Derived terms: viropause
Related terms: virile
vapour density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapour densities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the density of a gas to the density of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure.
woolyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolybacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woolly back.
charged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒd/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒd
Senses: examples: text: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: simple past and past participle of charge
Derived terms: guilty as charged
charged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒd/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒd
Forms: form: more charged
form: most charged
Senses: examples: a charged issue in American politics
glosses: Arousing strong emotion.
examples: an emotionally charged plea
glosses: Showing or having strong emotion.
examples: text: It was an emotionally charged moment when President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress for the first time during his administration. It was also a charged moment because of failing economies in the US and around the world. Congress and the public waited to hear how he proposed to help solve the problem. President Obama suggested several strategies[…]
ref: 2016 April 8, Lindon J. Robison, Bryan K. Ritchie, Relationship Economics: The Social Capital Paradigm and its Application to Business, Politics and Other Transactions, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 217:
text: Eva approached me , and her closeness made my senses come alive. There was a charged moment where words seemed superfluous. She finally broke the silence. "So, Killian, why did you really want me here on stage? You insisted that I didn't need to audition. Was this even about the music?"
ref: 2023 October 19, Haliya May, Savage Devotion, Haliya May:
glosses: Fraught with emotion; tense.
examples: charged particles
a charged phone
glosses: Having electricity.
Synonyms: sense: arousing strong emotion
word: heated
Derived terms: chargedness
charged particle
countercharged
decharged
electrocharged
hypercharged
millicharged
minicharged
monocharged
multicharged
noncharged
turbocharged
uncharged
thusly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðʌs.li/
Etymology: From thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel, with a false inference that thus is not an adverb.
Senses: examples: text: Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!
ref: 1865, Hingston, editor, Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons:
text: His course can only be akkounted for thusly:
ref: 1866, Petroleum V. Nasby, Life of Androo Johnson:
text: He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"
ref: 1866, Harper's Magazine:
text: Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.
ref: 1893, Isabel Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton KCMG, FRGS, volume II:
text: The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."
ref: 1995 December, John P. Wiley Jr, quoting Edward R. Harrison, Smithsonian Magazine
text: Going thusly, unwillingly at the bell,
Answering the call to recycle my time.
ref: 1996, Charles Harding, High Rise Dwelling:
glosses: thus (in this way).
examples: text: Lately, they [the prison authorities] came up with a new excuse. Seems like they consider owning a Gay publication is an expression of a person's sexuality and would thusly identify the person as a homosexual which would then subject him to assault or pressures.
ref: 1976 August 21, Calvin Keach, quotee, “Leavenworth, Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 2:
glosses: thus (therefore)
flamboyant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flamˈbɔɪ.ənt/
ipa: /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/
ipa: /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ənt
Forms: form: more flamboyant
form: most flamboyant
form: Flamboyant
Etymology: Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery.
Senses: examples: text: When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
ref: 1902, G. K. Chesterton, “The Optimism of Byron”, in Twelve Types:
text: 1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,
But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] .
text: The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
ref: 1962 May 12, Douglas MacArthur, Duty, honor, country:
text: Health of flamboyant media tycoon who led three Italian governments had deteriorated in recent years[.]
ref: 2023 June 12, Angela Giuffrida, Lorenzo Tondo, “Silvio Berlusconi, scandal-ridden former Italian prime minister, dies aged 86”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: operatic
glosses: Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
examples: text: S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
ref: 1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, chapter XIX, in In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc, Avignon:
text: The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
ref: 1911, “Bruges”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
text: The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.
ref: 1913, “Abbey of Saint-Ouen”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:
topics: architecture
glosses: Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
examples: text: Ancient swords were frequently “flamboyant,” or with waved edges; more especially those used for purposes of state. The Dukes of Burgundy bore a two-handed sword of this form. Indeed, “flaming swords,” as they were called, were worn down to the times of our Charles II., and perhaps later.
ref: 1851 April 12, William John Bernhard-Smith, Notes and Queries, volume s1-III, number 76, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, page 292:
synonyms: serpentine
glosses: Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
Derived terms: flamboyance
flamboyancy
flamboyant cuttlefish
flamboyantly
flamboyantness
unflamboyance
unflamboyant
unflamboyantly
flamboyant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flamˈbɔɪ.ənt/
ipa: /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/
ipa: /flæmˈbɔɪ.(j)ənt/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ənt
Forms: form: flamboyants
form: Flamboyant
Etymology: Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery.
Senses: examples: text: The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 45, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar.
royal poinciana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal poincianas
Senses: glosses: A tropical tree, Delonix regia, grown for its bright red flower clusters; native to Madagascar but grown in many other tropical regions; the flamboyant.
lesbiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbianas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lesbiana.
Senses: glosses: A Latina lesbian.
lesbiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lesbian + -ana.
Senses: examples: text: The "conference vision and goals" discussion included the question of whether the gathering should be a "lesbo expo" ― with crafts and other lesbiana. Instead, the group decided on a "lesbian conference with related events."
ref: 1989 April 15, Angela Bowen, “Towards a National Lesbian Conference”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: Things (artifacts, literature, etc.) related to lesbians or lesbianism.