cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: fringes
form: fringing
form: fringed
form: fringed
Etymology: From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, / ⁠And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: Presently she saw the King's palace. Pillars of ice held up the roof fringed with icicles, which would have sparkled splendidly if there had been any sun.
ref: 1887, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “The Frost King and How the Fairies Conquered Him”, in Lulu’s Library, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: To decorate with fringe.
examples: text: Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room:
glosses: To serve as a fringe.
hinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭnj
ipa: /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: hinges
form: hinging
form: hingeing
form: hinged
form: hinged
Etymology: From Middle English henge, from Old English *henġ (“hinge”), compare Old English henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju. Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Dutch heng (“door handle”), Low German henge (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), geheng (“hinge”), hengsel (“handle”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.
Senses: glosses: To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
examples: text: Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre-half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.
ref: 2015 March 4, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
qualifier: with on or upon
glosses: To depend on something.
examples: text: The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
examples: text: Be thou a Flatterer now, and ſeeke to thriue / By that which ha's^([sic – meaning has]) vndone thee; hindge thy knee, / And let his very breath whom thou'lt obſerue / Blow off thy Cap: [...]
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 92:
glosses: To bend.
synonyms: swing
glosses: To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
Derived terms: hinge upon
hingey
forge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /fɔɹd͡ʒ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: forges
Etymology: From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
Senses: examples: text: Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:
glosses: A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
synonyms: smithy
smithery
glosses: A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
examples: text: In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of beating or working iron or steel.
examples: text: If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]
ref: 2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: software forge
glosses: A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
Derived terms: American forge
brute de forge
Catalan forge
Clifton Forge
Consall Forge
forge-hammer
forgelike
forgeman
forgemaster
Forge Valley
forge wagon
microforge
software forge
forge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /fɔɹd͡ʒ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: forges
form: forging
form: forged
form: forged
Etymology: From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
Senses: examples: text: On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
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 ii], line 451:
text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
examples: text: The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
text: Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
text: O purblind race of miserable men, / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. / By taking true for false, or false for true.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 45–46:
text: In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.
ref: 2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To form or create with concerted effort.
examples: text: He had to forge his ex-wife's signature.  The jury learned the documents had been forged.
glosses: To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
examples: text: That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
Derived terms: forgeability
forgeable
forge over
forgery
misforge
reforge
forge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /fɔɹd͡ʒ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /foəd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: forges
form: forging
form: forged
form: forged
Etymology: Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.
Senses: examples: text: The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
text: We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
text: And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
ref: 1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
glosses: To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
raw_tags: as forge ahead
examples: text: With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
text: Let's forge past that runner on the inside.
glosses: To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
raw_tags: as forge ahead
Related terms: fabricate
make up
blacksmith
archpriest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archpriests
Etymology: From Middle English archepreest, archeprest, archiprest, ercheprest, erchepreste; compare Old French archeprestre and Medieval Latin archipresbyter; equivalent to arch- + priest.
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The highest rank given to a married priest.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: An honorific title applied to a priest who has a specific function.
Derived terms: archpriesthood
sugartime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sugar + time.
Senses: examples: text: It's sugartime in Vermont.
glosses: The time that is spent collecting sap from trees.
X-rated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: adult
word: XXX
word: XXXX
word: 18+
word: adult
word: blue
word: graphic
word: mucky
word: pornographic
word: pornographical
word: rude
word: X-rated
word: XXX
word: XXXX
glosses: Pornographic or indecent.
glosses: Denoting a film given an X classification.
idle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: īʹd(ə)l
ipa: /ˈaɪd(ə)l/
note: Canada, idle-idol split
ipa: /ˈʌɪdəl/
rhymes: -aɪdəl
homophone: idol
homophone: idyll
homophone: idyl stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: idles
form: idling
form: idled
form: idled
Etymology: From Middle English idelen, from Old English īdlian, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalēn. Cognate with German eiteln (“to make empty, free up”).
Senses: glosses: To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
examples: text: to idle in an IRC channel
text: He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo […]
ref: 1939, Joan Evans, Chateaubriand, page 32:
glosses: To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
examples: text: High levels of all pollutants were found during time idling in stations.
ref: 2021 October 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: RSSB research exposes poor air quality on diesel trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 14:
glosses: Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
glosses: To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
Derived terms: idler
idlingly
nonidling
Related terms: sense: sense 3
word: idling speed
idle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īʹd(ə)l
ipa: /ˈaɪd(ə)l/
note: Canada, idle-idol split
ipa: /ˈʌɪdəl/
rhymes: -aɪdəl
homophone: idol
homophone: idyll
homophone: idyl stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: idles
Etymology: From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).
Senses: glosses: The state of idling, of being idle.
examples: text: a lumpy idle
text: A slight valve tap was audible at idle but was not noticeable otherwise.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: full throttle
wide open
glosses: The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: An idle animation.
topics: games
gaming
synonyms: idle game
incremental game
glosses: An idle game.
Hyponyms: flight idle
ground idle
compact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
Forms: form: compacts
Etymology: From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
Senses: examples: text: President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on Wednesday night to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, child care, health care, preschool and college education for millions of people to be financed with increased taxes on the wealthiest earners.
ref: 2021 April 29, Peter Baker, “Biden Seeks Shift in How the Nation Serves Its People”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: After taking over this month as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan coalition of city mayors, he urged members to sign a “crypto compact” calling on the federal government to eschew overly aggressive regulation of the industry.
ref: 2022 January 25, David Yaffe-Bellany, “The Rise of the Crypto Mayors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Countering this in international media by offering more balanced views for a global audience is near impossible as censorship is rife. There almost seems to be a global compact to control the narrative, a propaganda war powered by today’s digital technology.
ref: 2023 February 21, Chandran Nair, “Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media”, in The Diplomat:
synonyms: agreement
contract
pact
treaty
glosses: An agreement or contract.
Derived terms: interstate compact
social compact
compact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
rhymes: (adjective, verb) -ækt
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
rhymes: (adjective, verb) -ækt
Forms: form: compacts
form: compacting
form: compacted
form: compacted
Etymology: From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
Senses: examples: text: In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.
ref: 2004, Ronan Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy, page 94:
glosses: To form an agreement or contract.
compact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
Etymology: From Latin compactum (“agreement”).
Senses: examples: text: O Gorice XI., most glorious King of Witchland, and O Lord Goldry Bluszco, captain of the hosts of Demonland, it is compact betwixt you, and made fast by mighty oaths whereof I, the Red Foliot, am keeper, that ye shall wrastle three falls together on these conditions, […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Agreed, contracted.
Synonyms: word: close
word: compact
word: crowded
word: dense
word: solid
word: thick
word: tight
Hyponyms: word: concentrated
word: serried
word: tight-fitting
word: packed
word: rammed
compact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmˌpækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmˌpækt/
Forms: form: compacts
Etymology: From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
Senses: glosses: A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
glosses: An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
examples: text: The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.
ref: 2012, BBC News, Dundee Courier makes move to compact:
glosses: A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
Derived terms: minicompact
compact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
rhymes: (adjective, verb) -ækt
ipa: /kəmˈpækt/
rhymes: (adjective, verb) -ækt
Forms: form: compacts
form: compacting
form: compacted
form: compacted
Etymology: From Middle French compact, from Latin compāctus, perfect passive participle of compingō (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pangō (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).
Senses: examples: text: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
ref: 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
glosses: To make more dense; to compress.
examples: text: The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 4:16:
glosses: To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
Synonyms: sense: make more dense
word: compress
word: condense
word: compress
Derived terms: compactable
compactible
precompact
recompact
uncompact
wilful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlfʊl/
ipa: /ˈwɪlfəl/
rhymes: -ɪlfəl
Forms: form: more wilful
form: wilfuler
form: wilfuller
form: most wilful
form: wilfulest
form: wilfullest
form: willful
form: wilfull
Etymology: From Middle English wilful; equivalent to will + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice.
ref: 2005, Irvin D. Yalom with Molyn Leszcz, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, page 182:
synonyms: word: volitional
word: voluntary
word: advertent
word: conscious
word: deliberate
word: intentional
word: on purpose
word: purposeful
word: purposive
word: volitational
word: volitional
word: voluntary
word: wilful
glosses: Intentional; deliberate.
examples: text: Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her.
ref: 1893, Edwin Caskoden, When Knighthood Was in Flower, page 110:
text: Let you not be taking it bad, Conchubor, but you’ll get little good seeing her this night, for with all my talking it’s wilfuler she’s growing these two months or three.
ref: 1909, John M[illington] Synge, “Act I”, in Deirdre of the Sorrows: A Play, Churchtown: Cuala Press, published 1910, page 5:
text: He was a youth to the end of his days, the heart of a boy with the head of a sage; the heart of a good boy, or a bad boy, but always a wilful boy, and wilfulest to show himself out at every time for just the boy he was.
ref: 1910, W[illiam] D[ean] Howells, chapter I, in My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, part first (Memories), page 5:
text: "He's as willful as you," Rizpah said. "If you let him hurt himself again, so help me, I'll — "
ref: 1995, Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn, page 232:
text: You had a pampered upbringing, and possessed enough of a willful streak that I wanted to slap you at times
ref: 2007, Roger K. Thomas, Kinshu: Autumn Brocade, translation of original by Teru Miyamoto, page 136:
synonyms: obstinate
self-willed
headstrong
troponyms: spiteful
malicious
glosses: Stubborn and determined.
Derived terms: word: unwilful
word: unwillful
word: wilful blindness
word: willful blindness
word: wilful homicide
word: wilful ignorance
word: willful ignorance
word: wilfully
word: willfully
word: wilfulness
word: willfulness
putrefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjutɹəfaɪ/
Forms: form: putrefies
form: putrefying
form: putrefied
form: putrefied
form: putrify
Etymology: From Middle French putréfier.
Senses: glosses: To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
glosses: To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
examples: text: In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:
glosses: To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
glosses: To become gangrenous.
examples: to putrefy an ulcer or wound
glosses: To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
examples: text: Private suits do putrefy the public good.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Suitors”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: They would but stink, and putrefy the air.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
glosses: To corrupt; to make foul.
Synonyms: decay
fester
rot
East-West engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East-West engines
form: east-west engine
form: East/West engine
form: east/west engine
Etymology: As in "east to west", this direction being conventionally crossways on a map.
Senses: glosses: A transverse car engine, that is, one that lies parallel to the front of the car, rather than parallel to the sides.
pre-Adamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-Adamites
form: præ-Adamite
Etymology: From pre- + Adamite.
Senses: glosses: A member of any race that predates Adam.
glosses: A believer in pre-Adamitism.
pre-Adamite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pre-Adamite
form: most pre-Adamite
form: præ-Adamite
Etymology: From pre- + Adamite.
Senses: examples: text: I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Poo-Bah”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a race that predates Adam; pre-human.
lap dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap dances
form: lap-dance
form: lapdance
Etymology: From lap + dance.
Senses: examples: text: A asks Z, a child, to perform a lap dance on B while being recorded by A. […] A is guilty of an offence under this section by causing a child to engage in a sexual performance.
ref: 2023, Parliament of Malaysia, “Section 14, new section 15A, illustration (a)”, in Sexual Offences against Children (Amendment) Act 2023, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023, page 9:
glosses: An erotic form of entertainment, typically at a men's club, where a naked or nearly-nude performer straddles a customer and moves in a rhythmic, sexual manner over their lap.
lap dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lap dances
form: lap dancing
form: lap danced
form: lap danced
form: lap-dance
form: lapdance
Etymology: From lap + dance.
Senses: glosses: To perform a lap dance.
Derived terms: lap dancer
lap dancing
Related terms: erotic dancing
pole dancer
private dancer
stripper
striptease
table dance
gangbanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌbæŋɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌbæŋə/
Forms: form: gangbangers
Etymology: From gangbang + -er.
Senses: examples: text: After a turbulent youth — the bookish, asthmatic child became a teenage gangbanger, juvenile offender and drug addict — Coolio worked as a volunteer firefighter.
ref: 2022 September 29, Eduardo Medina, McKenna Oxenden, “Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A member of a violent gang; a violent person.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: Someone who takes part in a gangbang.
Related terms: bang
banger
systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of system
Derived terms: systems analysis
systems art
systems biology
systems ecology
systems engineering
systems programming
systems psychology
systems science
baobab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪə(ʊ)bab/
ipa: /ˈbeɪoʊˌbæb/
ipa: /ˈbaʊbæb/
Forms: form: baobabs
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin bahobab, from Arabic أَبُو حِبَاب (ʔabū ḥibāb, “father of many seeds”), from أَبُو (ʔabū, “father”) + حَبّ (ḥabb, “seed”).
Senses: synonyms: African baobab
cream of tartar tree
monkey bread
sour gourd
tabaldi
tebeldi
upside-down tree
glosses: A tree, Adansonia digitata, native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
glosses: Any tree of the genus Adansonia.
ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪz/
homophone: weighs
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of way
ways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪz/
homophone: weighs
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: examples: text: a little ways out
text: We walked a ways from my house to the mall.
text: “We still have a ways to go with patterns.”
“You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.
ref: 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals, Simon and Schuster, page 41
qualifier: usually preceded by a
glosses: A distance.
standards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstændədz/
ipa: /ˈstændɚdz/
Senses: examples: text: There is some sign of disparate standards bodies becoming more closely aligned.
glosses: plural of standard
examples: text: by my standards
text: moral standards
text: The behaviour of these kids! Standards are really slipping these days.
glosses: Principles of conduct shaped by one's ideas of morality, decency and honor.
Derived terms: almost standards mode
standards and practices
standards compliance
standards compliant
standards organization
abaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abaques
Etymology: From French abaque. Doublet of abacus.
Senses: glosses: nomogram
nomogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒ.məˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.mə.ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈnɑ.məˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.məˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒməɡɹæm
rhymes: -əʊməɡɹæm
Forms: form: nomograms
Etymology: Formed as nom- + -o- + -gram, by analogy with French nomogramme.
Senses: examples: text: Cravalho et al. compared the agreement in obstruction measurements by the AG nomogram, passive urethral resistance relation (PURR), and the micturitional urethral pressure profile (MUPP) [20 ].
ref: 2015 October 28, “Simple Modification of the Bladder Outlet Obstruction Index for Better Prediction of Endoscopically-Proven Prostatic Obstruction: A Preliminary Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A diagram in which the relationship between three variables is represented by a straight line or curve for each variable; the value of the third variable corresponding to particular values of the first two is obtained by drawing a straight line through the points on the first two curves that represent particular values of the first two variables and noting the point at which the line intersects the third line or curve.
Synonyms: abac
abaque
alignment chart
alignment diagram
nomograph
Derived terms: nomographic
nomogram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒ.məˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈnəʊ.mə.ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈnɑ.məˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.məˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒməɡɹæm
rhymes: -əʊməɡɹæm
Forms: form: nomograms
form: nomogramming
form: nomogrammed
form: nomogrammed
Etymology: Formed as nom- + -o- + -gram, by analogy with French nomogramme.
Senses: glosses: To represent as a nomogram.
nomograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomographs
Etymology: From nom- + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A nomogram.
alignment chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alignment charts
Senses: glosses: A nomogram.
alignment diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alignment diagrams
Senses: glosses: A nomogram.
orthopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: An alternative-medicine philosophy advocating a vegetarian raw-food diet with periods of intermittent fasting.
Synonyms: natural hygiene
Related terms: naturopathy
rawism
duality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d(j)uːˈælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: dualities
Etymology: From Latin duālitās.
From dual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: moral duality
text: philosophical duality
text: The novel explored the duality of good and evil.
text: He was fascinated by the duality of human nature.
glosses: A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
qualifier: projective geometry
glosses: The interchangeability of points and planes.
examples: text: wave-particle duality
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
Synonyms: dichotomy
Derived terms: autoduality
Koszul duality
nonduality
non-self-duality
pseudoduality
self-duality
wave-particle duality
hygiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hī'jēn
enpr: hījēn'
ipa: /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/
ipa: /haɪˈd͡ʒiːn/
Forms: form: hygienes
Etymology: From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).
Senses: glosses: The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
examples: text: Hygiene is an important consideration in places where food is prepared.
glosses: Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
examples: text: They have poor personal hygiene.
glosses: Cleanliness.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
raw_tags: of a macro
Derived terms: chronohygiene
cyberhygiene
feminine hygiene
hygiene poverty
hygiene theater
hygienic
hygienically
hygienics
hygienism
hygienist
hyperhygienist
mental hygiene
occupational hygiene
oral hygiene
personal hygiene
racial hygiene
sleep hygiene
social hygiene
zoohygiene
hygiene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hī'jēn
enpr: hījēn'
ipa: /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/
ipa: /haɪˈd͡ʒiːn/
Forms: form: hygienes
form: hygiening
form: hygiened
form: hygiened
Etymology: From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).
atomic orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic orbitals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of either one electron or a pair of electrons in an atom. This function can be used to calculate the probability of finding any electron of an atom in any specific region around the atom's nucleus.
glosses: The physical region or space where an electron can be calculated to be present, as defined by the particular mathematical form of the orbital.
Related terms: molecular orbital
molecular orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular orbitals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The quantum mechanical behavior of an electron in a molecule describing the probability of the electron's particular position and energy; approximated by a linear combination of atomic orbitals.
molecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛkjʊlə/
ipa: /məˈlɛkjələɹ/
ipa: /məˈlɛkjuləɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɔ~o.li.kju.lə(r)/
Etymology: From molecule + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March-April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or consisting of, or produced by molecules.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of an element) Combined with itself and with no other element; elemental.
glosses: Relating to a simple or basic structure or organization.
examples: molecular dishes
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Relating to molecular gastronomy.
Derived terms: bimolecular
biomolecular
clinicomolecular
cytomolecular
dimolecular
equimolecular
extramolecular
gram-molecular weight
heteromolecular
histomolecular
homomolecular
immunomolecular
intermolecular
intramolecular
macromolecular
micromolecular
molecular assembler
molecular beam epitaxy
molecular biologist
molecular biology
molecular clock
molecular cloud
molecular compound
molecular core
molecular dipole
molecular drive
molecular dynamics
molecular engineering
molecular entity
molecular formula
molecular genetics
molecularity
molecularization
molecularize
molecular knife
molecularly
molecular mass
molecular mechanics
molecular medicine
molecular modeling
molecular orbital
molecular orbital theory
molecular oxygen
molecular pathology
molecular sieve
molecular volume
molecular weight
molecular-weight
moletronics
monomolecular
morphomolecular
multimolecular
nanomolecular
neuromolecular
nonmolecular
orthomolecular
pathomolecular
polymolecular
premolecular
pseudomolecular
quadrimolecular
quasimolecular
seromolecular
submolecular
supermolecular
supramolecular
termolecular
tetramolecular
thermomolecular
trimolecular
turbomolecular
ultramolecular
unimolecular
molecular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛkjʊlə/
ipa: /məˈlɛkjələɹ/
ipa: /məˈlɛkjuləɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɔ~o.li.kju.lə(r)/
Forms: form: moleculars
Etymology: From molecule + -ar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having a specified (range of) molecular weight(s)
economy rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economy rates
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler's statistic, being the average number of runs conceded per over.
Related terms: economical
expensive
extra cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra covers
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position on the off side, about 45° forward of square, between cover and mid off.
golden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊl.dən/
ipa: [ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩]
ipa: /ˈɡoʊl.dən/
ipa: [ˈɡəɫ.dn̩]
rhymes: -əʊldən
Forms: form: goldens
form: goulden
Etymology: From Middle English golden, a restored form (due to the noun gold) of earlier Middle English gulden, gylden, gilden ("golden"; > English gilden), from Old English gylden (“golden”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden, made of gold”), equivalent to gold + -en.
Cognate with Dutch gouden, gulden (“golden”), German gülden, golden (“golden”), Danish gylden (“golden”). Doublet of gilden. More at gold.
Senses: glosses: Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
examples: text: The archives of the Golden Retriever Club of America (GRCA) record goldens in the United States as early as the 1890s.
ref: 1995, Jaime J. Sucher, Golden Retrievers, Barron’s, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Golden retrievers, or goldens, make great family pets.[…]Goldens should be brushed regularly.
ref: 2017, Linda Bozzo, I Like Golden Retrievers! (Discover Dogs with the American Canine Association), Enslow Publishing, pages 4 and 15:
text: Throw a toy into the water, and watch your golden go for it!
ref: 2019, Sarah Frank, Golden Retrievers, Lerner Publishing Group, page 6:
text: People like petting goldens.
ref: 2021, Marcie Aboff, Fast Facts About Golden Retrievers (Fast Facts About Dogs), Raintree, Capstone Global Library Limited, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Ellipsis of golden retriever.
golden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊl.dən/
ipa: [ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩]
ipa: /ˈɡoʊl.dən/
ipa: [ˈɡəɫ.dn̩]
rhymes: -əʊldən
Forms: form: goldens
form: goldening
form: goldened
form: goldened
form: goulden
Etymology: From gold + -en, or perhaps a derivation from the adjective above.
Senses: glosses: To become gold or golden (in color).
examples: text: It goldened, as nothing else goldened, the commonplace countryside.
ref: 1994, Marion H. Hedges, Iron City:
glosses: To make golden or like gold.
hath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæθ/
ipa: /həθ/
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: hathe
Etymology: From Middle English hath, heth, hafth, hefth, from Old English hæfþ, hafaþ (“has”), from Proto-Germanic *habaiþi (“has”), equivalent to have + -th. Cognate with Saterland Frisian häd (“has”), West Frisian hat (“has”), Dutch heeft (“has”), Afrikaans het (“has, have”), German Low German hett (“has”), German hat (“has”).
Senses: examples: text: Thirty days hath September.
text: What hath God wrought.
text: To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.
ref: 1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96:
text: ... unto every one that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away ...
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 19:26:
text: I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of Glubbdubdrib. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 108:
text: To be plain, I much question whether the politician, who hath generally a good nose, hath not scented out somewhat of the utility of this practice.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have
Synonyms: has
Derived terms: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
Related terms: have
hast
has
had
hath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæθ/
ipa: /həθ/
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: haths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hauth (“unit of measure”).
construct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'strŭkt
ipa: /ˈkɒn.stɹʌkt/
enpr: kän'strŭkt
ipa: /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/
Forms: form: constructs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“I heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.
Senses: examples: text: The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
text: Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
glosses: Something constructed from parts.
examples: text: Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
glosses: A concept or model.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.
Synonyms: topics: construction
manufacturing
business
word: something constructed from parts
sense: concept, model
word: concept
sense: concept, model
word: idea
sense: concept, model
word: model
sense: concept, model
word: notion
sense: concept, model
word: representation
Derived terms: construct state
nanoconstruct
social construct
subconstruct
construct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-strŭkt'
ipa: /kənˈstɹʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: constructs
form: constructing
form: constructed
form: constructed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“I heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.
Senses: examples: text: We constructed the radio from spares.
text: A wall constructed of random stones.
glosses: To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
examples: text: A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
text: The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.
ref: 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
examples: text: Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
Synonyms: sense: build or form by assembling parts'
word: assemble
sense: build or form by assembling parts'
word: build
sense: build or form by assembling parts'
word: form
sense: build or form by assembling parts'
word: make
sense: build or form by assembling parts'
word: produce
sense: build or form by assembling parts'
word: put together
sense: build (a sentence or argument)
word: form
Derived terms: coconstruct
constructable
constructibility
constructible
constructive
deconstruct
foreconstruct
galcon
ill-constructed
interconstruct
misconstruct
overconstruct
preconstruct
reconstruct
unconstruct
vital statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vital statistic
vital statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Office of National Statistics maintains Britain's vital statistics.
glosses: Statistics of births, marriages and deaths.
examples: text: My vital statistics are 41, 19, 36.
glosses: The size of a woman's bust, waist and hips, normally measured in inches.
examples: text: The vital statistics of the Ferrari F430 are 4.3 litre V8 engine, 6-speed transmission, 2,600 mm wheelbase, and RMR (rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive) engine and drive layout.
glosses: A concise set of trivia on a subject, sometimes in table format.
victuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪtəlz/
ipa: [ˈvɪtɫ̩z]
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈvɪktʃuəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of victual
victuals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪtəlz/
ipa: [ˈvɪtɫ̩z]
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈvɪktʃuəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of victual
Related terms: victualer
victualler
victualer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victualers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of victualler.
limerick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪm(ə)ɹɪk/
Forms: form: limericks
Etymology: From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲənʲəx].
Senses: examples: text: The limerick, it would appear,
Is a verse form we owe Edward Lear;
Two long and two short
Lines rhymed, as was taught,
And a fifth just to bring up the rear.
ref: Description of the limerick in limerick form
text: Take a look. That’s Buffy, Muffy, and Fluffy.
Do they have anything in common other than names you could write a limerick around?
ref: 2006 May 24, Rhonda Smiley, “Sis-KaBOOM-Bah!”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 4, episode 15, spoken by Jerry Lewis and Samantha “Sam” (Adrian Truss and Jennifer Hale), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
glosses: A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
Derived terms: limeraiku
limericist
limerick hook
simplistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmˈplɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more simplistic
form: most simplistic
Etymology: From simple + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: At one time, I was extremely skeptical of such simplistic medicine until observing a reflexologist at work and finding that many of the patients showed steady improvement in cases where official medical practitioners had recommended surgery or prescribed the usual quantum of pills. Along with the foot massage, the reflexologist recommended herbal teas to her clients.
ref: 2012, Wolf D. Storl, The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners, page 97:
text: This simplistic method of using herbs isolates the disease from the person and the chemical aspects of an herb from its overall individual therapeutic effects.
ref: 2013, Lesley Tierra, Healing with the Herbs of Life:
text: It might also be worth taking the simplistic claims of some of the herbal health books with just a bit more than a pinch of salt: if you do decide to try feverfew tea, or a liver flush mixture, do it for yourself, not for someone trying to sell a magazine or book.
ref: 2013, Andrew Vickers, Complementary medicine and disability, page 220:
glosses: Overly simple.
examples: text: (Mao's) reliance on simplistic Soviet interpretations was reflected in his dismissal of Hitler as "a mere will-less puppet of the reactionary capitalists."
ref: China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War, Stanford University Press, 1968, →ISBN, pages 211–
text: The cliché is not untrue, but, like all generalisations, it distorts reality so that overly simplistic judgments have to be tempered by a few qualifications.
ref: Jacques Lambert (1967), Latin America: Social Structure and Political Institutions, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 107–
text: "There are some things that RFK Jr. gets right," says former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden. "We do have a chronic disease crisis in this country, but we need to avoid simplistic solutions and stick with the science."
ref: 2024 November 15, Will Stone, Allison Aubrey, “RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback”, in NPR:
glosses: In a manner that simplifies a concept or issue so that its nuance and complexity are lost or important details are overlooked.
Derived terms: oversimplistic
oversimplistically
simplism
simplistically
simplisticness
unsimplistic
Related terms: word: simplism
word: simplistically
word: simpleton
word: simplified
premises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛməsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹemɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹeməsəz/
Forms: form: præmises
Etymology: See premise
Senses: glosses: plural of premise
premises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛməsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹemɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹeməsəz/
Forms: form: præmises
Etymology: See premise
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of premise