cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
radiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/
Forms: form: more radiant
form: most radiant
form: radient
Etymology: From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).
Senses: examples: text: the radiant sun
text: They in ranks / Sat all, where ſtood the fiery ſteeds of each, / And where his radiant arms lay on the field.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book III.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: Radiating light and/or heat.
glosses: Emitted as radiation.
examples: text: a radiant face
text: His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil ! You ! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow !” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
examples: text: And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.
ref: 1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94:
glosses: Strikingly beautiful.
glosses: Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
examples: text: the sun radiant
text: a crown radiant
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Giving off rays.
raw_tags: of a bearing
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
Derived terms: radiant energy
radiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/
Forms: form: radiants
form: radient
Etymology: From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).
Senses: glosses: A point source from which radiation is emitted.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
clerisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛɹɪsi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪsi
Forms: form: clerisies
Etymology: Introduced by Coleridge, based on German Clerisei (modern Klerisei), from Late Latin clēricus.
Senses: examples: 2003: By the nineteenth-century clerisy […] Christianity itself, yoked to material civilization, came to be questioned as gross and vulgar. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 432)
2016: Only the highly educated write so badly. Indeed, the point of such ludicrous prose is to signal membership in a closed clerisy that possesses a private language. — George F. Will, Washington Post, 18 Nov, 2016
2022: We invent ourselves as American writers—it's not a clerisy we’re born into... — Edward Hirsch, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022)
glosses: An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.
examples: text: Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.
ref: 1986, Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow, Classics Revisited, page 174:
glosses: The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
Synonyms: intelligentsia
incompossible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + compossible.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of joint existence; incompatible; inconsistent.
database transaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: database transactions
Senses: examples: text: Technically, a database transaction is sequence of operations that is treated as a single unit (an atomic unit). All of the operations in a transaction have to be completed before the database changes are made permanent.
ref: 2007, Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 298:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unit of interaction in a database management system.
database management system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: database management systems
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A suite of interrelated computer programs designed to manage message processing and database update in a tightly controlled manner.
Synonyms: DBMS
DBMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DBMSs
form: DBMSes
Senses: examples: text: Aside from the functional DBMS components described above, the logfile is a vital element in transaction management and recovery.
ref: 2018, Wilfried Lemahieu, Seppe vanden Broucke, Bart Baesens, Principles of Database Management (page 435)
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of database management system.
Hyponyms: RDBMS
morning glory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning glories
form: morning-glory
form: morningglory
Senses: synonyms: bindweed
glosses: Several members of the family Convolvulaceae; climbing plants with trumpet shaped flowers.
examples: text: What's the story morning glory? Well? / You need a little time to wake up wake up
ref: 1995, “Morning Glory”, performed by Oasis:
text: Morning Glory (Penis) Would appear to refer to one that stands tall and erect on waking.
ref: 2003, Ray Puxley, Britslang: An Uncensored A-Z of the People's Language, Including Rhyming Slang, Robson, published 2003, page 326:
text: Like any man he wakes up with a morning glory. He precums.
ref: 2011, Michael Kantor, Now That You're Out, page 64:
synonyms: morning wood
glosses: An involuntary erection present upon waking.
glosses: A morning bout of love-making.
glosses: A rolling cloud in the shape of a cylinder; a roll cloud.
Derived terms: sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea pes-caprae
word: beach morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea pandurata
word: bigroot morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea nil
word: blue morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea purpurea
word: common morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea quamoclit
word: cypressvine morning glory
sense: plants
english: Convolvulus tricolor; Evolvulus
translation: Convolvulus tricolor; Evolvulus
word: dwarf morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea nil
word: ivy morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea nil
word: Japanese morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea tricolor
word: Mexican morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea indica
word: perennial common morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea purpurea
word: purple morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Evolvulus nuttallianus
word: shaggy dwarf morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea purpurea
word: tall morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea aquatica
word: water morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Ipomoea nil
word: white-edge morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Argyreia nervosa
word: woolly morning glory
sense: plants
taxonomic: Merremia tuberosa
word: yellow morning glory
oscillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: oscillations
Etymology: From French oscillation, from Latin oscillatio, from Latin oscillo. By surface analysis, oscillate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The trial running tests which were made with the vehicles showed that they ride very steadily laterally, with almost complete absence of oscillation at all speeds.
ref: 1950 January, “British Railways Double-Deck Suburban Stock”, in Modern Railways, page 57:
text: In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
ref: 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:
text: The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
glosses: the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
glosses: a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
glosses: a single such cycle
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a function) defined for each point x in the domain of the function by inf diam(f(U))∣Uisaneighborhoodofx, and describes the difference (possibly ∞) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.
Hyponyms: Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
baryon acoustic oscillation
Bloch oscillation
climate oscillation
decadal oscillation
Madden-Julian oscillation
North Atlantic Oscillation
North Pacific Oscillation
pogo oscillation
quasi-biennial oscillation
quasi-periodic oscillation
quasi-quadrennial oscillation
Shubnikov-de Haas oscillation
Southern Oscillation
Derived terms: eigenoscillation
equioscillation
magnetooscillation
multioscillation
oscillational
oscillationless
oscillationlike
superoscillation
Related terms: oscillate
query
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɪ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwi.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈkwi.ɹe/
ipa: /ˈkwiə.ɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈkwɛː.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkweɾi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: queries
form: quæry
Etymology: An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
examples: text: His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.
ref: 1886, Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society, Great Britain:
text: She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page […]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.
ref: 2006, Pip, “Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one?”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
glosses: A question mark.
examples: text: The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of instructions passed to a database.
examples: text: Although many agents accept email queries, check to see if they prefer mailed query letters.
ref: 2006, Michael Larsen, How to Get a Literary Agent, Sourcebooks Inc., page 46:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Ellipsis of query letter.
Hyponyms: doubt
subquery
Derived terms: non-query
query-by-query
query language
query plan
query processing
query string
query
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɪ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwi.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈkwi.ɹe/
ipa: /ˈkwiə.ɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈkwɛː.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkweɾi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: queries
form: querying
form: queried
form: queried
form: quæry
Etymology: An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.
Senses: glosses: To ask a question.
examples: text: I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted question, and they chose one, instead, that querried her favourite colour, quelle banel.
ref: 1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
glosses: To ask, inquire.
examples: text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: To question or call into doubt.
examples: text: Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.
ref: 1999, Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and computing: an introduction, page 104:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
examples: text: He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...
ref: 2000, Phantom, “Re: Uhm.. hi... I guess...”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet):
text: if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
ref: 2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet):
glosses: To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
topics: media
publishing
glosses: To send out a query letter.
Related terms: inquiry
querent
quest
question
quorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔː.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːɹəm/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
Forms: form: quorums
form: quora
Etymology: From Latin quōrum, genitive plural form of quī (“who, which”), used as standard wording in written commissions.
Senses: examples: text: We can discuss the issue tonight but cannot vote until we have a quorum.
text: Texas House Democrats’ historic quorum break unexpectedly ended Thursday evening when at least three new Democrats returned to the floor, paving the way for state Republicans to pass restrictive voting legislation.
The surprise turn of events quickly led to public accusations of betrayal among Democrats, as the House now has the required two-thirds of members necessary for a quorum.
ref: 2021 August 19, Dianne Gallagher, “Texas Democrats’ effort to freeze voting bill ends”, in CNN:
text: They may not be using the same sort of hard-charging tactics we saw in the first Trump administration, when they would deny Republicans quorums for votes in committee or those kinds of things, but what we will see is they’re going to ask hard questions and make made-for-TV moments.
ref: 2024 December 7, Zachary B. Wolf, “What will be the signature achievement of Trump 2.0?”, in CNN:
glosses: The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority.
glosses: A selected body of persons.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: distributed systems
glosses: The minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system.
Derived terms: disappearing quorum
inquorate
quorate
quorum-busting
quorum sensing
fender-bender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fender-benders
form: fender bender
Senses: examples: text: My insurance went up even though all my accidents were just fender-benders.
glosses: A minor accident involving at least one motor vehicle.
Synonyms: prang
bingle
Related terms: crash
wreck
gynocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyno- + -centrism.
Senses: examples: text: We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism.
ref: 1897, “Book Reviews and Notes”, in The Open Court, volume 11, page 575:
glosses: An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.
Related terms: gynocentric
androcentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andro- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: An ideological focus on males, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-males.
Related terms: androcentric
phallocentrism
phallogocentrism
gynocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynocentric
form: most gynocentric
Etymology: From gyno- + -centric.
Senses: antonyms: phallocentric
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting gynocentrism; focused on females.
Derived terms: gynocentrically
androcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more androcentric
form: most androcentric
Etymology: From andro- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting androcentrism; focused on males.
Derived terms: androcentrically
prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛə/
enpr: prâr
enpr: prāʹər
ipa: /pɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɾe.jə(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: prayers
Etymology: From Middle English preiere, from Old French preiere, from Early Medieval Latin precāria, derived from Latin precem. Displaced native Old English ġebed.
Senses: examples: text: Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.
text: In many cultures, prayer involves singing.
glosses: A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
examples: text: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: In that spirit, we’ll close with the wish we always offer at the end of our annual review, although this time it’s more of a prayer: Happy new year.
ref: 2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:
glosses: An act of praying.
examples: text: Christians recite the Lord's Prayer.
text: For Baha'is, there's a difference between obligatory prayers and devotional prayers.
glosses: The specific words or methods used for praying.
examples: text: Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.
glosses: A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
examples: text: This, your honor, is my prayer; that all here be set free.
glosses: A request; a petition.
examples: text: That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.
glosses: The remotest hope or chance.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
Synonyms: word: orison
word: precation
word: bead
Derived terms: arrow prayer
call to prayer
dawn prayer
evening prayer
Friday prayers
house of prayer
morning prayer
not have a prayer
on a wing and a prayer
prayer bead
prayer beads
prayer book
prayer box
prayer bump
prayer card
prayer circle
prayer flag
prayer for relief
prayer mat
prayer meeting
prayer mill
prayer-monger
prayer plant
prayer room
prayer rope
prayer rug
prayer shawl
Prayers of the People
prayer wheel
psychic prayer
sinner's prayer
sunset prayer
the answer to a maiden's prayer
wing and prayer
prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛə/
enpr: prâr
enpr: prāʹər
ipa: /pɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɾe.jə(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪə(ɹ)/
enpr: prāʹər
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
ipa: /pɹɛə/
enpr: prâr
enpr: prāʹər
ipa: /pɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɾe.jə(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: prayers
Etymology: pray + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar / A hope-er^([sic]), a pray-er^([sic]), a magic bean buyer…
ref: 1974, Shel Silverstein, “Invitation”, in Where the Sidewalk Ends, Harper Collins Publishers:
text: Out of the 37 respondents, seven are infrequent prayers who prefer to leave the precise details of their prayer life ambiguous.
ref: 2012, Paul O'Connor, Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China's World City:
glosses: One who prays.
vocabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊˈkabjʊləɹɪ/
ipa: /vəˈkabjʊləɹɪ/
ipa: /voʊˈkæbjəlɛɹi/
ipa: /vəˈkæbjəlɛɹi/
ipa: [vo(ː)ˈkabjʊlɛɹi]
ipa: [vəˈkabjʊləɹi]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [voˈkjab(ɪ)lɛɹɪ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [vəˈkabələɹi]
note: Indic
ipa: /vɵˈkab(j)ʊləri/
Forms: form: vocabularies
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabularium.
Senses: glosses: A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
examples: text: My Russian vocabulary is very limited.
glosses: The collection of words a person knows and uses.
examples: text: The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.
glosses: The stock of words used in a particular field.
examples: text: The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.
text: Vocabulary provides a foundation from which grammar, phonology, and morphology emerge, and in a subject area it provides access to conceptual knowledge. Vocabulary selection for pedagogical purposes is therefore crucial.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
glosses: The words of a language collectively; lexis.
glosses: A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.
Synonyms: alt: wordlist
word: dictionary
sense: total words of a person or language
word: word-stock
sense: total words of a person or language
word: word-hoard
Derived terms: active vocabulary
controlled vocabulary
defining vocabulary
extended vocabulary
in someone's vocabulary
international scientific vocabulary
vocabulary word
working vocabulary
Related terms: vocable
vocal
communicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: more communicate
form: most communicate
Etymology: From Middle English communicate, an adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect passive participle of commūnicō (“to make commune”).
Senses: examples: text: The property of the manhood is communicate with the other nature.
ref: 1561, T. Norton, translation of J. Calvin, Institution of Christian Religion (1634), volume ii. xiv., page 226:
text: Art..gives a natural scope, and lasting experience, to Genius. Artists are men of a communicate genius.
ref: 1893, W. Allingham, Varieties in Prose, volume III., page 260:
glosses: Communicated, (made) commune, joined.
Related terms: excommunicate
incommunicado
alphabetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alphabetizes
form: alphabetizing
form: alphabetized
form: alphabetized
form: alphabetise
Etymology: From alphabet(ical) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.
glosses: To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
Derived terms: alphabetizable
alphabetization
alphabetizer
misalphabetized
realphabetize
unalphabetized
Related terms: alphabetic
alphabetical
alphabetical order
comic strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comic strips
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A series of drawings, in sequence, often but not necessarily depicting something funny or satirical in nature; more specifically, a single work consisting of a short row of such drawings.
examples: text: Calvin and Hobbes was one of the most significant American comic strips of the 1980s and 1990s.
coordinate_terms: comic book
glosses: An ongoing series of comics published in strip form, whether or not containing a continuing narrative.
Synonyms: sequential art narrative
Related terms: charge
cartoon
comics
funnies
funny papers
political cartoon
strip cartoon
chantey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chanteys
Senses: examples: text: Then we had a mouth-organ solo or two, which naturally led on to songs. My turn came. I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty.
Oh once we were a-sailing, a-sailing were we;
Blow high, blow low, what care we;
And we were a-sailing to see what we could see,
Down on the coast of the High Barbaree.
ref: 1906, Stewart Edward White, Buried Treasure:
glosses: Alternative form of shanty (sailor's song).
chanty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chanties
Senses: examples: text: The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shanty (“song”).
turnup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnups
Etymology: Deverbal from turn up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn-up.
woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊdz/
rhymes: -ʊdz
Senses: glosses: plural of wood
woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊdz/
rhymes: -ʊdz
Senses: examples: text: These woods are part of the Campbell property.
text: This woods is part of the Campbell property. (uncommon)
text: The woods are lovely, dark and deep
ref: 1923, Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
text: Where protection is not considered essential, the logical places for establishing a woods are on those portions of the farm which have steep slopes […].
ref: 1939, C. R. Tillotson, The Care and Improvement of the Farm Woods (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1177), page 18:
text: Night after night, we both had similar dreams that our daughter was wandering around in a woods.
ref: 2009, James Preston Hardison, Miracles on the Poke-A-No, page 159:
text: It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods.
ref: 2013, Robert McGowan, Current: Essays on the Passing of Time in the Woods, page 20:
glosses: A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
raw_tags: with plural construction
with singular construction
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
Derived terms: Big Woods
Great North Woods
Lake of the Woods
master of the woods
out of the woods
woodsman
woods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊdz/
rhymes: -ʊdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wood
abreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɹiˈæk.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: abreactions
Etymology: Partial calque of German Abreagierung, from ab (“away from”) + Reagierung (“reaction”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.
cufflink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌflɪŋk/
Forms: form: cufflinks
form: cuff link
Etymology: From cuff + link.
Senses: examples: text: Every gentleman needs at least one pair of cufflinks.
glosses: A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
Synonyms: sleeve-button
sleeve-link
Hypernyms: fastener
Derived terms: cufflinked
Related terms: French cuff
hairy eyeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairy eyeballs
Senses: examples: text: He was giving me the hairy eyeball.
glosses: A look askance at someone; a look of disdain or skepticism.
examples: text: He was telling me about a girl looking at him and he said, "She gave me the hairy eyeball." That meant she liked him.
text: (Second variation as first used and described on television, in the TV show Hazel 4/6/1962).
glosses: A fond look at someone while batting one's eyelashes.
turnip greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: rapini
turnip tops
glosses: The edible leaves of the turnip plant (Brassica rapa).
meronymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meronymies
Etymology: From mero- + -onymy (from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”)); compare meronym.
Senses: examples: text: This relationship of meronymy is controversial for various reasons. First, there are several types of meronymy, such as functional meronymy, where one concept is a functional part of another (e.g. FINGER-HAND) or more general part-whole relations, where the part and the whole exist as a continuous entity (e.g. FLAME-FIRE). Secondly, there are diverging opinions as to whether meronymy should be treated as a semantic primitive in the sense of s[yn]onymy, antonymy, and hyponymy.
ref: 1995, Jürgen Handke, The Structure of the Lexicon: Human Versus Machine, page 90:
text: But whereas hyponymy is a member–class relation, reflecting a taxonomy or conceptual hierarchy, meronymy is a part–whole relation, reflecting the existence of complex structures in concrete reality.
ref: 1999, Sylvia Adamson, “7: Literary Language”, in Roger Lass, editor, The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume III: 1476-1776, page 564:
text: Possession, like meronymy, is described in English (and equivalently in other languages) with the verb to have (A millionaire has money) and the line between possession and part-having is fuzzy at best.[…]Priss (1998) suggests that meronymy might be formalized as an attribution relation, such that has-a-handle-for-a-part would be an attribute of hammer and cup. Thus, the case for separating attribution and possession from meronymy is not strong.
ref: 2003, M. Lynne Murphy, Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and Other Paradigms, pages 233–234:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
antonyms: holonymy
glosses: The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.
Derived terms: comeronymy
Related terms: mereology
mereotopology
synonymy
antonymy
homonymy
polysemy
paronymy
hypernymy
hyponymy
metonymy
holonymy
endocentric
exocentric
semantics
Pollyanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒliˈænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: Polly-Anna
form: Polly Anna
Etymology: From Polly + Anna.
Senses: examples: text: Pollyanna Pocket was small, with long floppy ears and a tail that coiled upwards in a little ringlet. She was a bouncy, happy young dog, who frolicked all day
ref: 2014, Dot and the Waves, page 10:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew derived from Polly and Anna; rare in the real world.
Pollyanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒliˈænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: Pollyannas
form: pollyanna
Etymology: From the name of the protagonist in the 1913 novel Pollyanna, by Eleanor Porter.
Senses: examples: text: You call her an optimist, but I call her an obnoxious Pollyanna.
text: I never wanna hear / From any cheerful Pollyannas / Who tell you Fate supplies a mate / It's all bananas
ref: 1930, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, “But Not for Me”, performed by Ginger Rogers:
text: ‘Next time we’re going to have fun, OK?’ I wanted this album to go towards the light. You indulge in the grief to a certain point, but then you have to be a little bit Pollyanna.”
ref: 2017 November 12, Miranda Sawyer, “Björk: ‘People miss the jokes. A lot of it is me taking the piss out of myself’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who is persistently cheerful and optimistic, even when given cause not to be so.
Derived terms: Pollyanna creep
Pollyannaish
Pollyannish
Pollyannaism
Related terms: IBM Pollyanna Principle
Panglossian
quixotic
Pollyanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒliˈænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: Pollyannas
Senses: glosses: A secret Santa gift exchange.
danger area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danger areas
Senses: qualifier: air traffic control
glosses: an airspace within which it is dangerous for aircraft to fly.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rectangular protected area of the pitch on which bowlers may not run in their follow through so as to avoid damage.
airspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airspaces
form: air space
Etymology: From air + space.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: aerospace (not synonymous)
text: Various European countries transferred the aviation control of their adjoining airspace to Eurocontrol, while each retaining legal jurisdiction.
text: Haines has previous experience of dealing with a hugely disruptive crisis. He said: "I left the railway in 2008 and went to the Civil Aviation Authority. And within a few months I was in the middle of an Icelandic volcanic storm. Eyafjallajokull closed airspace across northern Europe.
ref: 2020 March 25, “Network News: Railway working with government to combat crisis”, in Rail, page 7:
text: During the war, Israel quickly took control of much of Iran's airspace, and attacked its military infrastructure. Top commanders of the Revolutionary Guard and the army were swiftly killed.
ref: 2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
glosses: A specified portion of the atmosphere, especially that under the technical aviation control and/or jurisdiction of a particular state over which territory (and territorial waters) it lies.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: that part of the sky designated for the sole use of aircraft.
examples: text: The legalisation of free radios caused a bitter fight for airspace.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Space (i.e. a few neighboring frequencies) available for broadcasting within a particular frequency band.
glosses: The portion of an enclosed area which contains air, especially breathable air.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The cavity in a cavity wall containing air for insulation.
Related terms: dead-air space
u-space
air traffic control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system designed to give assistance to aircraft, to prevent collisions and to manage aircraft flow.
Related terms: air traffic controller
control tower
verbify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verbifies
form: verbifying
form: verbified
form: verbified
Etymology: From verb + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To use a noun as a verb via anthimeria.
examples: text: One way to verbify quickly is by adding the suffix -ize to a word. Numerous examples are cited where verbified words have come into common usage.
ref: 1994, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, page 1173:
glosses: To derive a verb from a pre-existing noun.
Derived terms: verbification
verbifier
verbification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbifications
Etymology: From verb + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The use of a noun as though it were a verb; conversion into a verb.
dead ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The ball when dead and out of play.
Related terms: set piece
Nigel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -aɪdʒəl
Etymology: English form of Latin Nigellus, from nigellus (“slightly black”), diminutive of niger (“(shining) black”), particularly used in the Middle Ages to Latinize Norman Néel and Irish Neil.
Senses: examples: text: 'I thought, sir,' answered Nigel, with as much haughtiness as was consistent with the cool distance he desired to preserve, 'I thought I had told you, my name was Nigel Grahame.'
His eminence of Whitefriars on this burst into a loud, chuckling, impudent laugh, repeating the word, till his voice was almost inarticulate, - 'Niggle Green - Niggle Green - Niggle Green! why, my lord, you would be queered in the drinking of a penny pot of Malmsey, if you cry before you are touched.'
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, chapter XXIII, in The Fortunes of Nigel:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, of mostly British usage.
Derived terms: word: Nigella
english: rare; African-American
translation: rare; African-American
word: Niyjale
word: Nige
Nigel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -aɪdʒəl
Forms: form: Nigels
Etymology: English form of Latin Nigellus, from nigellus (“slightly black”), diminutive of niger (“(shining) black”), particularly used in the Middle Ages to Latinize Norman Néel and Irish Neil.
Senses: examples: text: He's such a Nigel, hanging around in the library all day by himself.
qualifier: youth slang
glosses: Synonym of dweeb (“boring or socially inept person”).
synonyms: word: dweeb
extra: boring or socially inept person
glosses: An Englishman.
Synonyms: Nigel no friends
Nigel no mates
Nige
dead bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead bats
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.
dead bat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead bats
form: dead batting
form: dead batted
form: dead batted
Senses: examples: text: Known for his innovative and unpredictable strokeplay, Dhoni had dead-batted this doosra straight back to the bowler.
ref: 2022, Amit Sinha, Joy Bhattacharjya, Do Different: The Untold Dhoni:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play (the ball) with a dead bat.
momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/
ipa: /ˌmoʊˈmɛntəm/
ipa: /ˌməʉˈmentəm/
ipa: /ˌmɐʉˈmentəm/
ipa: /mɵˈmɛɳʈəm/
ipa: /mʊ-/
ipa: /mɵməɳˈʈəm/
ipa: /mʊ-/
Forms: form: momentums
form: momenta
Etymology: From Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
examples: text: The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
ref: 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Old Apple Dealer:
text: Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 31:
text: Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...
ref: 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R29:
glosses: The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The surmise of an accelerated price trend in the technical analysis of an asset.
Derived terms: angular momentum
crystal momentum
four-momentum
gain momentum
-mentum
momenergy
momentum junkie
momentumless
Planck momentum
pseudomomentum
quasimomentum
supermomentum
Related terms: wind at one's back
Simon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sīm'ən
ipa: /ˈsaɪmən/
rhymes: -aɪmən
Forms: form: Simons
Etymology: From Middle English Simon, from Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”). In Britain, confusion arose at an early date due to similarity with native Sigmund (Siegmund), and its Norman introduced variant, Simund. Doublet of Simeon.
Senses: examples: text: Now the names of the twelue Apoſtles are theſe: The firſt, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, Iames the ſonne of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother: Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the Publicane, Iames the ſonne of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whoſe ſurname was Thaddeus: Simon the Canaanite, and Iudas Iſcariot, who alſo betrayed him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:2–4, columns 2–1:
glosses: Name of any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.
examples: text: His first name is Simon. I wonder why his mother named him that, or it may have been his father. My own father never bothered with the naming of us, it was up to Mother and Aunt Pauline. There is Simon Peter the Apostle, of course, who was made a fisher of men by our Lord. But there is also Simple Simon. Met a pie man, going to the fair.
ref: 1996, Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 379:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
examples: text: Western musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Sting, Paul Simon and David Byrne
ref: 2016, Vanessa Knights, Ian Biddle, Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location, page 52:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Simon says
Related terms: Sim
Simcox
Simeon
Simmonds
Simmons
Simms
Simone
Simons
Simonson
simony
Simpson
Sims
Simson
Syme
Symes
Symonds
Symons
Peter
Simon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīm'ən
ipa: /ˈsaɪmən/
rhymes: -aɪmən
Forms: form: Simons
Etymology: From Middle English Simon, from Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”). In Britain, confusion arose at an early date due to similarity with native Sigmund (Siegmund), and its Norman introduced variant, Simund. Doublet of Simeon.
Senses: examples: text: […] I ovve Crop the Lender a Brace, and if I have a ſingle Simon to pay him, rot me: […]
ref: 1721, [Colley] Cibber, The Refusal; or, The Ladies Philosophy: A Comedy. […], London: […] B[arnaby Bernard] Lintot, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […], →OCLC, Act I, pages 9–10:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of simon (“sixpence coin”).
simony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈsɪ.mə.ni/
Forms: form: simonies
Etymology: From Old French simonie, from Late Latin simonia, named after Simon Magus (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (Šimʻôn, “Simon”)), with reference to Acts 8:18–20.
Senses: examples: text: To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.
ref: 1855, Anthony Trollope, chapter 20, in The Warden:
text: ‘There are those two,’ he then said, ‘who were recently arraigned on a charge of high simony. Fancying a monstrance and stealing it and proposing to sell it. They pleaded the usual pagan ignorance.’
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Hun”, in The Devil’s Mode:
text: He openly practiced simony; in other words, he sold benefices.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 37:
glosses: The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
Synonyms: Simonism
Coordinate terms: barratry
Derived terms: simoniac
simonist
Related terms: benefice
Tyson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪsən/
rhymes: -aɪsən
Forms: form: Tysons
form: Tison
form: Dyson
form: Theisen
form: Theissen
form: Teisen
form: Teissen
form: Teison
Etymology: * A variant of Tison. A nickname from Old French tison (“firebrand”).
* A patronymic English surname, variant of Dyson, from Dennis + -son.
* In the US, adopted by a German family who came to America (Germantown, PA) in 1683, originally named German Teisen "son of Theiss", which was short for Matthias. Original spellings were Theisen, Theissen, Teisen, Teison.
Senses: examples: text: Democrats called for investigation, not resignation, after Vanessa Tyson accused Justin Fairfax of sexual assault earlier this week.
ref: 2019 February 8, Dan Merica, “Key supporters tell Justin Fairfax to step down after 2nd sexual assault allegation”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
A surname, variant of Dyson
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Old French, variant of Tison
glosses: A surname.
A surname from German, variant of Theisen
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
abbozzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔtˌsoʊ/
Forms: form: abbozzi
form: abozzo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian abbozzo.
Senses: examples: text: We speak of a typical instance. Now what is typical? It is derived from the Greek τύπος, the name which Greek artists used of their first sketches, the abozzi of the Italians.
ref: 1886, Good Words and Sunday Magazine, volume 27, page 536:
text: But as regards the first six, might they not be mistaken for an abbozzo or first sketch of the Bill which was presented to Parliament in April 1886, one hundred and one years later?
ref: 1887 August 24, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 270:
text: Either way, it is far enough advanced beyond the early abbozzo stage that it would be better to designate it as "unfinished" than as an abbozzo.
ref: 1997, Richard E. Spear, The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money, and Art in the World of Guido Reni:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A rough drawing or model.