cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
loot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /ɫʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: lute (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: loots
form: looting
form: looted
form: looted
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.
text: Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder
ref: 1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66:
text: The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.
ref: 1842 May 17, Lord Ellenborough, letter
text: On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.
ref: 1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483:
glosses: Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
synonyms: word: plunder
extra: (video games) after successful combat
word: to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or
extra: (video games) after successful combat
examples: text: He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’
ref: 1851 June 20, Mrs. Hervey, journal
qualifier: chiefly South Asian
glosses: Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
synonyms: word: rob
word: to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence
Derived terms: lootable
looter
unlooted
when the looting starts, the shooting starts
loot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /ɫʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: lute (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: loots
form: lute
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch loet or loete (“scoop, shovel, scraper”), from reconstructed Old Dutch *lōta, from Old Frankish *lōtija (“scoop”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō (“scoop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”).
Related to lade and ladle, and cognate with Dutch loet, Scots lute or luyt (“scoop”), West Frisian loete or lete, Middle Low German lōte (“rake”), and French louche (“ladle”).
Senses: glosses: A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
loot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːt/
ipa: /ɫʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: lute (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: loots
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.
ref: 1898, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace & War, page 11:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Clipping of lieutenant.
ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ī'ən
ipa: /ˈaɪən/
enpr: ī'ŏn
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɒn/
enpr: ī'ŏn
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɑn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ajˈɔn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajən/
rhymes: -aɪən
rhymes: -aɪɒn
homophone: iron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: ions
Etymology: From the ending of anion and cation, which in turn is from Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión, “going”), neuter present participle of εἶμι (eîmi, “I go”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.
Senses: glosses: An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.
Derived terms: alkanium ion
amidium ion
aminium ion
anion
arenium ion
arenonium ion
arsanylium ion
autoion
benzenium ion
benzenonium ion
bromonium ion
byion
carbenium ion
carbonium ion
cation
chloronium ion
coion
common-ion effect
complex ion
counterion
diion
dipolar ion
electrion
electron
fluoronium ion
gegenion
halonium ion
heavy ion
hydrogen ion
hydronium ion
interion
iodonium ion
ion carrier
ion channel
ion channelopathy
ion chromatography
ion engine
ion exchange
ion exchange chromatography
ion exchange resin
ionic
ionics
ionise
ionize
ionist
ion milling
ion mirror
iono-
ionogel
ionogenic
ionome
ionophore
ion selective electrode
ion-selective electrode
ion-selective membrane
ion storm
ion trap
ion wind
Li-ion
lithium-ion battery
lithium ion battery
macroion
microion
monoion
multiion
nebenion
oxoion
oxonium ion
oxylium ion
photoion
polyion
radical ion
secondary ion mass spectrometry
sodion
solion
spectator ion
sulphion
superion
t
thermion
un-ionized
unionized
ion
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: ī'ən
ipa: /ˈaɪən/
enpr: ī'ŏn
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɒn/
enpr: ī'ŏn
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɑn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ajˈɔn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajən/
rhymes: -aɪən
rhymes: -aɪɒn
homophone: iron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈaɪˌoʊn/
enpr: ī'ən
ipa: /ˈaɪən/
enpr: ī'ŏn
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɒn/
enpr: ī'ŏn
ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɑn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ajˈɔn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajən/
rhymes: -aɪən
rhymes: -aɪɒn
homophone: iron stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From a reduction of I don't.
Senses: examples: text: ion know what 2 do
translation: I don't know what to do
english: I don't know what to do
bold_translation_offsets: 0
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text: ion want 2
translation: I don't want to
english: I don't want to
bold_translation_offsets: 0
7
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: I don't.
frantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/
Forms: form: more frantically
form: most frantically
form: frantickly
form: franticly
Etymology: From earlier franticly, equivalent to frantic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:frantically.
glosses: In a frantic way.
CN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛn
Forms: form: CNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of catalogue number.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cranial nerve.
glosses: Initialism of content note.
CN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛn
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Canadian National: a national trans-continental railway of Canada.
twat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twæt/
ipa: [tʰw̥æt]
ipa: /twɑt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɑt]
ipa: /twɔt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɔt]
ipa: [t(ʰ)wat]
ipa: [t(ʰ)wɔt]
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: twats
form: tw*t
form: tw@
form: tw@t
Etymology: Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”), and if so a doublet of thwaite. May however simply be onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic.
Senses: examples: text: That you wanna get with, lick up in my twat / Gotta hit the spot, if not don't test the poom-poom
ref: 1996, “No Time”, in Hard Core, performed by Lil' Kim ft. Puff Daddy:
glosses: The vagina or vulva.
examples: text: At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'
She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.
As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
ref: 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:
text: "LARGE MOCHA TO GO, MEDIUM CHAI FOR HERE, YOU TWATS"
ref: 2009, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 1433: Sweet Distraction:
glosses: A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.
Derived terms: eat twat
lick-twat
twunt
twat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twæt/
ipa: [tʰw̥æt]
ipa: /twɑt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɑt]
ipa: /twɔt/
ipa: [tʰw̥ɔt]
ipa: [t(ʰ)wat]
ipa: [t(ʰ)wɔt]
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: twats
form: twatting
form: twatted
form: twatted
form: tw*t
form: tw@
form: tw@t
Etymology: Unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Norse þveit (“cut, slit, forest clearing”), and if so a doublet of thwaite. May however simply be onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic.
Senses: examples: text: Arnold Rimmer: What are we gonna do?
Dave Lister: Well, I say let's get out there and twat it!
ref: 1989, Red Dwarf, series III, episode 3 (Polymorph)
text: "Umbridge'll twat him into next week."
ref: 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public:
text: "I'd love to twat her over the head with this. What d'ya reckon?"
"She'd certainly bleed a lot."
ref: 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red:
text: That's the only time I have been twatted by someone.
ref: 2007, Mark Button, Security Officers And Policing: Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space:
glosses: To hit, slap.
Derived terms: twat about
twat around
Related terms: twit-twat
PhyloCode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From phylo- + code.
Senses: examples: text: They want to replace it with a more rational scheme they call the PhyloCode […] Given the hostile reception PhyloCode has received so far, they have a lot of convincing to do […]
ref: 2004 September 11, New Scientist, pages 12–13:
glosses: A draft code of formal nomenclature intended to allow naming phylogenetic groups, of all living things, rather than taxonomic groups (taxa). Officially, such names are intended to supplement scientific names rather than replace them.
Related terms: ICBN
supertribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertribes
Etymology: From super- + tribe.
Senses: examples: text: taxonomists have been inventing a confusing raft of ranks, such as phalanxes, infracohorts and supertribes
ref: 2004 September 11, New Scientist, page 13:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: one of the ranks used in classifying animal life forms; a supertribe is more specific than a subfamily and more general than a tribe
infracohort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infracohorts
Etymology: From infra- + cohort.
Senses: examples: text: taxonomists have been inventing a confusing raft of ranks, such as phalanxes, infracohorts and supertribes
ref: 2004 September 11, New Scientist, page 13:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: One of the ranks used in classifying animal life forms; an infracohort is more specific than a subcohort and more general than a subtercohort.
chitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīʹtĭn
ipa: /ˈkaɪtɪn/
rhymes: -aɪtɪn
Forms: form: chitins
Etymology: From French chitine, from Latin chitōn (“mollusk”), from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn). See also chiton.
Senses: examples: text: Chitin usually occurs throughout Invertebrates in the form of an investment to the outermost cellular layer or ectoderm.
ref: 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body, Macmillan, page 299:
text: The robot’s energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly’s exoskeleton.
ref: 2004 September 11, New Scientist, page 19:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: entomolin
glosses: A complex polysaccharide, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and in the cell walls of fungi; thought to be responsible for some forms of asthma in humans.
Derived terms: chitinaceous
chitinase
chitinization
chitinize
chitinless
chitinlike
chitinoid
chitinolysis
chitinous
lipochitin
polychitin
pseudochitin
Sorbian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːbi.ən/
ipa: /ˈsɔːɹbi.ən/
Etymology: From Sorb + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A group of Slavic languages spoken by a minority in eastern Germany.
Synonyms: Lusatian
Wendish
Related terms: Lower Sorbian
Sorb
Upper Sorbian
Sorbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːbi.ən/
ipa: /ˈsɔːɹbi.ən/
Etymology: From Sorb + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sorbs or to the Sorbian language.
Sorbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːbi.ən/
ipa: /ˈsɔːɹbi.ən/
Forms: form: Sorbians
Etymology: From Sorb + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Sorb.
Tulbagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ryk Tulbagh.
Senses: glosses: A small town situated in the Witzenberg Mountain Winelands of the Bolands, Western Cape province, South Africa.
wikipedia: Ryk Tulbagh
unguent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌŋɡjuənt/
ipa: /ʌnd͡ʒ(u)ənt/
ipa: /ˈʌŋɡwənt/
Forms: form: unguents
form: onguent
Etymology: From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Senses: examples: text: "Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"
ref: 1809–1812, William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque:
text: So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.
ref: a. 1864, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece:
text: Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.
ref: 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Literary Mosaic:
glosses: Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
unguent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌŋɡjuənt/
ipa: /ʌnd͡ʒ(u)ənt/
ipa: /ˈʌŋɡwənt/
Forms: form: onguent
Etymology: From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Senses: examples: text: In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]
ref: 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Taking the form of a cream or ointment.
Related terms: medicine
ointment
ingot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡət/
Forms: form: ingots
Etymology: From Middle English ingot (“something poured in”), from Old English *ingot, ingyte (“a pouring in, infusion, inspiration”), from Proto-Germanic *in (“in”) + *gutaz, *gutiz (“gush, flow”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), equivalent to in- + gote or in- + yote. Cognate with German Einguss (“in-pouring, sprue”), Swedish ingjut (“in-pouring”), Dutch ingieten (“to pour in”), Scots gote (“drain, ditch, gutter”), Swedish göt (“ingot”). More at gote, goit, yote.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English ingot from ingoten (“poured in”), from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan (“to pour in, fill”), from the same Proto-Germanic base as above.
Senses: glosses: A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
Derived terms: ingotlike
oxhide ingot
ingot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡət/
Forms: form: ingots
form: ingoting
form: ingoted
form: ingoted
Etymology: From Middle English ingot (“something poured in”), from Old English *ingot, ingyte (“a pouring in, infusion, inspiration”), from Proto-Germanic *in (“in”) + *gutaz, *gutiz (“gush, flow”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), equivalent to in- + gote or in- + yote. Cognate with German Einguss (“in-pouring, sprue”), Swedish ingjut (“in-pouring”), Dutch ingieten (“to pour in”), Scots gote (“drain, ditch, gutter”), Swedish göt (“ingot”). More at gote, goit, yote.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English ingot from ingoten (“poured in”), from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan (“to pour in, fill”), from the same Proto-Germanic base as above.
Senses: glosses: To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
stereo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈstɛəɹ.i.oʊ/
Forms: form: stereos
Etymology: A shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).
Senses: glosses: A system of recording or reproducing sound that uses two channels, each playing a portion of the original sound in such a way as to create the illusion of locating the sound at a particular position, each offset from the other, thereby more accurately imitating the location of the original sound when the recorded or reproduced sound is heard.
examples: text: He liked to listen to classical music on his stereo.
glosses: Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A stereotype.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Western-style pop and rock music.
Synonyms: sense: object or device
word: hi-fi
sense: object or device
word: music centre
sense: object or device
word: console
sense: object or device
word: radiogram
sense: object or device
word: consolette
Derived terms: personal stereo
stereo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈstɛəɹ.i.oʊ/
Etymology: A shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).
Senses: glosses: Of sound, music, etc, recorded in stereo.
examples: text: One could easily do this with stereo photographs, but one could also do it by making a pseudoscope, with a short cardboard tube and mirrors, […]
ref: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:
glosses: Of a pair of images: one depicting the view as would be seen from one eye and the other from the other eye, so that when viewed appropriately, they combine to give an impression of three dimensions.
Synonyms: sense: of sound
word: in stereo
sense: of sound
word: stereophonic
sense: of a pair of images
word: in stereo
sense: of a pair of images
word: stereographic
stereo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈstɛəɹ.i.oʊ/
Forms: form: stereos
form: stereoing
form: stereoed
form: stereoed
Etymology: A shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).
Senses: glosses: To create a stereophotographic image of.
Related terms: stereographic
stereophonic
stereoscope
stereoscopic
surround sound
fetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfet.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɛt.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɛt.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fetters
Etymology: From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot, step”). Cognate with Dutch veter (“lace”). Related to foot.
Senses: glosses: A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural).
examples: text: Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Prologue:
text: He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 08 May 2013:
text: That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …
ref: 1910, Erwin Rosen, “Prolog”, in In the Foreign Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
glosses: Anything that restricts or restrains.
Synonyms: leg irons
Hyponyms: handcuff
handcuffs
leg irons
manacle
manacles
shackle
shackles
fetter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfet.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɛt.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɛt.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fetters
form: fettering
form: fettered
form: fettered
Etymology: From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot, step”). Cognate with Dutch veter (“lace”). Related to foot.
Senses: examples: text: The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
ref: 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:
glosses: To shackle or bind up with fetters.
glosses: To restrain or impede; to hamper.
Hyponyms: handcuff
manacle
shackle
Derived terms: befetter
enfetter
fetterer
fetterless
fetterlock
unfetter
sui generis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suˑ.i ˈɡɛnɛɹɪs/
ipa: /sʊɪ d͡ʒəˈnɛɹɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suī generis (literally “of its own kind/class”).
Senses: examples: text: It is easy to describe second-rate talents, because they fall into a class and enlist under a standard; but first-rate powers defy calculation or comparison, and can be defined only by themselves. They are sui generis, and make the class to which they belong.
ref: 1821–1822, William Hazlitt, “Character of Cobbett”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Warren; Henry Colburn and Co.:
text: The transcendent case before us is absolutely sui generis.
ref: 1828, John Pye Smith, Four Discourses on the Sacrifice and Priesthood of Jesus Christ: and on Atonement and Redemption, page 67:
text: The eminent Italian geologist, Stoppani, goes further than I had ventured to do, and treats the action of man as a new physical element altogether sui generis.
ref: 1874, George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action:
text: The system was neither free enterprise nor socialism; it was sui generis, one of the unique creations of the Middle Ages.
ref: 1994, Frances and Joseph Gies, “The Technology of the Commercial Revolution”, in Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel, →ISBN, page 111:
text: We see him as he sees himself, surveying the invisible depths of ethical space, with all the distinction of a specialist in the sui generis.
ref: 1995, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words:
text: Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s remarkable, sui generis semi-autobiographical graphic novel, […]
ref: 2015 August 6, Leslie Felperin, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy”, in The Guardian:
text: The basic operational mechanisms and business practices were so new and strange, so utterly sui generis, that all we could see was a gaggle of “innovative” horseless carriages.
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
text: Hitchens was sui generis. He made most other book reviewers, to borrow Dorothy Parker’s words about the drama critic George Jean Nathan, “look as if they spelled out their reviews with alphabet blocks.”
ref: 2024 January 1, Dwight Garner, “Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
synonyms: one of a kind
unique
original
glosses: In a class of its own; one of a kind.
sui generis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /suˑ.i ˈɡɛnɛɹɪs/
ipa: /sʊɪ d͡ʒəˈnɛɹɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suī generis (literally “of its own kind/class”).
Senses: examples: text: They came up with a program that the federal Minister of Agriculture and his provincial colleagues agreed was a good and appropriate approach to handling that particular problem. They did it sui generis.
ref: 2003, Canada. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Délibérations Du Comité Sénatorial Permanent Des Affaires Sociales, Des Sciences Et de la Technologie:
text: Another possibility is that the council acted sui generis and expressed a one-off view on the facts with no precedential significance.
ref: 2014 August 7, Jonas Ebbesson, Marie Jacobsson, Mark Adam Klamberg, David Langlet, Pål Wrange, International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security: Liber Amicorum Said Mahmoudi, Hotei Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
text: The refutation of Kleinliteratur conceptions enabled Kloppenborg to do away with the idea that Q was created sui generis, which, in turn, enabled him to compare Q with other ancient literature (Kirk 1998:35–36, 64).
ref: 2015 December 31, Llewellyn Howes, Judging Q and saving Jesus - Q’s contribution to the wisdom-apocalypticism debate in historical Jesus studies., AOSIS, →ISBN, page 62:
synonyms: per se
glosses: By itself; of its own.
sui generis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suˑ.i ˈɡɛnɛɹɪs/
ipa: /sʊɪ d͡ʒəˈnɛɹɪs/
Forms: form: sui genera
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suī generis (literally “of its own kind/class”).
Senses: examples: text: It is word-generated knowledge or knowledge by testimony ( K. T. for short ) – a sui generis.
ref: 2013 June 29, Bimal K. Matilal, A. Chakrabarti, Knowing from Words: Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Prior to the 1990s a large segment of New Testament scholarship maintained that the Gospels represent a sui generis, that is, a genre unique to them. This sui generis was viewed as a type of mythology.
ref: 2020 May 21, Michael R Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach, Inter-Varsity Press, →ISBN:
text: Insofar as none of these approaches has ever been formally overruled by the highest Court of the land, the law of deviation remains an area of controversy and is practically treated as a sui generis - that is, as a law quite distinct from the general law of contract.
ref: 2021 October 5, Sze Ping-fat, Carrier's Liability under the Hague, Hague-Visby and Hamburg Rules, BRILL, →ISBN, page 124:
topics: law
glosses: Something of its own kind; a thing apart.
martyrdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ).tə(ɹ).dəm/
Forms: form: martyrdoms
Etymology: From Middle English martyrdome, martirdom, marterdom, from Old English martyrdōm (“martyrdom”), corresponding to martyr + -dom. Cognate with German Märtyrertum (“martyrdom”), Danish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), Swedish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), Norwegian martyrdom (“martyrdom”).
Senses: examples: text: The like clamour, and outcry, the Rabble of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles made againſt Polycarp Biſhop of Smyrna, at the time of his Martyrdom. crying out againſt him to the Governour, that he ſhould caſt him to the Lyons, and when he anſwered them he could not, becauſe the Spectacular ſports were concluded, then they cry’d out, Burn him, burn him, juſt as the Jews cryed out againſt Chriſt to Pilate, Crucify him, crucify him.
ref: 1681, George Hickes, A Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London:
text: “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:
text: The ceiling had been painted with the martyrdom of some saint. Who shall place a bound to human folly, when both the inflicter and the endurer of torture have deemed that pain is acceptable in the sight of God?
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 11:
text: The Communists wanted to go on and on, suffering a comfortable martyrdom, meeting with endless defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:
glosses: The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
glosses: Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
Derived terms: blue martyrdom
green martyrdom
martyrdom video
pseudomartyrdom
red martyrdom
white martyrdom
unite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o-nītʹ
enpr: yo͝o-
ipa: /juˈnaɪt/
ipa: /jʊˈnaɪt/
ipa: [ju̟ˈnaɪ̯ʔ]
ipa: [ju̟ˈnaɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [jʊˈnaɪ̯ʔ]
ipa: [jʊˈnaɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [jəˈnaɪ̯ʔ]
ipa: [jəˈnaɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: unites
form: uniting
form: united
form: united
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: unite
form: unite
form: united
form: unite
form: unitest
form: united
form: unitedst
form: unites
form: uniteth
form: united
form: unite
form: united
form: unite
form: united
form: unite
form: -
form: uniting
form: united
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *éy?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Latin -iō
Latin ūniō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin ūnītuslbor.
Middle English uniten
English unite
From Middle English uniten, from Latin ūnītus, perfect passive participle of ūniō.
Senses: examples: text: The new government will try to unite the various factions.
text: I hope this song can unite people from all different cultures.
glosses: To bring together as one.
examples: text: If we want to win, we will need to unite.
glosses: To come together as one.
Synonyms: bewed
join
wed
Derived terms: reunite
united
uniter
workers of the world, unite
Related terms: union
unit
unity
unite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o-nītʹ
enpr: yo͝o-
ipa: /juˈnaɪt/
ipa: /jʊˈnaɪt/
ipa: [ju̟ˈnaɪ̯ʔ]
ipa: [ju̟ˈnaɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [jʊˈnaɪ̯ʔ]
ipa: [jʊˈnaɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [jəˈnaɪ̯ʔ]
ipa: [jəˈnaɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: unites
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *éy?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Latin -iō
Latin ūniō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin ūnītuslbor.
Middle English uniten
English unite
From Middle English uniten, from Latin ūnītus, perfect passive participle of ūniō.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.
ref: 1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin, numbers 593-604, page 198:
glosses: A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland.
reunite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːjuːˈnaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɹiːjʊˈnaɪt/
Forms: form: reunites
form: reuniting
form: reunited
form: reunited
Etymology: From re- + unite.
Senses: examples: text: After ten years apart, the band will reunite.
text: Two of the members tried several times, but failed to reunite the band.
text: Since 2001, islanders and their immediate Chinese neighbors have been able to take the 90-minute boat ride between the Chinese port of Mawei and the Matsu town of Nankan, allowing people with the same ancestry to reunite after generations of estrangement. Now any Chinese or Taiwanese can make the trip.
ref: 2009 July 5, Annie Huang, “Taiwan islands blossom as China tensions ebb”, in San Diego Tribune, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022:
text: Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
text: Come find me / I'm hiding in the deepest night / Far away from the riddle of time / Come down here / In twilight we can reunite / Sharing hopes of a wonderful life
ref: 2019, “Lascivious”, in Lotus, performed by Soen:
text: London Transport Museum's Siddy Holloway and rail historian and RAIL contributor Tim Dunn will reunite to discover more hidden sites and little-known stories from the Tube.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: More Secrets of the Underground”, in RAIL, number 948, page 19:
glosses: To unite again.
Related terms: reunion
unite
schmuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmʌk/
ipa: /ʃmʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: schmucks
form: schmucking
form: schmucked
form: schmucked
form: schmock
form: shmock
form: shmok
form: shmuck
form: shmuk
Etymology: From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok, “penis, fool”).
Senses: examples: text: […] there's actually a shortage of schmucks in America. As a result, there's big money in schmucking. The average schmuck earns $28,000 a year, plus benefits.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?:
glosses: To behave like a schmuck.
examples: text: His buddy was supposed to be arriving from Helena that morning but had schmucked a mule deer buck with his vehicle so there was going to be a delay.
ref: 2008, Richard Powell, Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, page 171:
text: “She schmucked three deer on M-95,” del Olmo said. “I was two minutes behind her. Man, she blew them up! […]
ref: 2020, Joseph Heywood, Shadow of the Wolf Tree, page 130:
text: Everyone gathered around the cake as Mitch and Liz prepared to cut the cake. She took a small piece in her hand, and Mitch said, "What are you doing with that, babe?" and she schmucked it into his mouth. He did the same right back.
ref: 2021, Victoria Pearle Hart, Ladies of the Mountain:
glosses: To mash or smoosh.
Related terms: schlemiel
reunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈjuːnjən/
ipa: /ɹɪˈjuːnjən/
Forms: form: reunions
form: re-union
form: reünion
Etymology: From Middle French reunion (modern French réunion). By surface analysis, re- + union. Doublet of Réunion.
Senses: examples: text: The reunion took forever, but it was worth it.
text: It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again.
glosses: The process or act of reuniting.
examples: text: Are you going to the high-school reunion this year?
glosses: A planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together.
Synonyms: reunition
reunite
Derived terms: class reunion
family reunion
Related terms: reunite
union
homecoming
class reunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class reunions
Senses: examples: text: The class of 1986 is having its 20th class reunion before too long.
glosses: A planned event at which members of a past school class meet.
school class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school classes
Senses: examples: text: I was the only unicyclist in my English class, but it turned out there was another in my school class, and two more due to come in with next year's class.
glosses: All students who have graduated or will graduate from a school in a given year.
during
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence, without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdʒʊəɹɪŋ/
note: yod-coalescence, pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdʒɔːɹɪŋ/
note: without the yod-coalescence, without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdjʊə.ɹɪŋ/
note: without the yod-coalescence, pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdjɔː.ɹɪŋ/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈd(j)ʊəɹɪŋ/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈd(j)ɜɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɪʊɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˈdɪʊɹɪn/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: dureing
Etymology: From Middle English during, durynge, durinde, durand, durende, present participle of duren (“to last”), equivalent to dure + -ing. Compare Dutch gedurende (“during”). More at dure.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dure
around
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹaʊnd/
ipa: /əˈɹuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: round
form: arownd
form: ron
form: 'round
Etymology: From Middle English around, arounde, from a- (from Old English a- (“on, at”)) + Middle English round (“circle, round”) borrowed from French, equivalent to a- + round. Cognate with Scots aroond, aroon (“around”). Displaced earlier Middle English umbe, embe (“around”) (from Old English ymbe (“around”)).
Senses: examples: text: Is Clare around today?
glosses: Present in the vicinity.
raw_tags: with the verb "to be"
examples: text: The record store on Main Street? Yes, it's still around.
text: "How is old Bob? I heard that his health is failing." "Oh, he's still around. He's feeling better now."
text: Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref: 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alive; existing.
raw_tags: with the verb "to be"
Derived terms: be around
considerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/
ipa: /kənˈsɪdɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: more considerable
form: most considerable
Etymology: From consider + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.
glosses: Significant; worth considering.
examples: text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.
ref: 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 18:
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: good-sized
glosses: Large in amount.
Derived terms: considerableness
inconsiderable
unconsiderable
Related terms: consider
considerably
considerable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/
ipa: /kənˈsɪdɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: considerables
Etymology: From consider + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9:
glosses: A thing to be considered, consideration.
considerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹəbli/
ipa: /kənˈsɪdɹəbli/
Forms: form: more considerably
form: most considerably
Etymology: From considerable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The situation has improved considerably.
text: The situation is considerably better.
text: From several magnets combined von Hellenbach and Gessmann in Vienna constructed considerably stronger hypnoscopes, through which 66 per cent. of those examined showed the above mentioned sensitiveness […]
ref: 1889, Humboldt library of science, number 113, page 13:
text: The hand which is not concealed by the drapery is gloveless; the arms are bare considerably above the elbow; and a bracelet encircles the right wrist.
ref: 1900, William Carew Hazlitt, The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797:
text: Despite the ups and downs of removals and rehousings, the collection was considerably extended under his guidance, both by purchases and donations.
ref: 2001, Constantijn Petridis, Daniel P. Biebuyck, Frans M. Olbrechts, 1899-1958: in search of art in Africa, page 15:
glosses: Significantly; to a degree worth considering.
considerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹət/
Forms: form: more considerate
form: most considerate
Senses: examples: text: It was very considerate of you to give up your place for your friend.
synonyms: caring
glosses: Consciously thoughtful and observant (often of other people and their rights, needs, feelings and comfort).
synonyms: deliberate
glosses: Characterised by careful and conscious thought.
Derived terms: omniconsiderate
overconsiderate
unconsiderate
Related terms: consider
consideration
considerately
considerateness
considerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹət/
Forms: form: considerates
form: considerating
form: considerated
form: considerated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of consider.
synonyms: word: consider
reconsider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconsiders
form: reconsidering
form: reconsidered
form: reconsidered
form: re-consider
Etymology: From re- + consider.
Senses: examples: text: Is there any way I can get you to reconsider selling your car?
glosses: To consider a matter again.
glosses: To change one's mind, with or without actually considering the matter again
Synonyms: think over
second-guess
Related terms: consider
mirage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /məˈɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /mɪˈɹɑːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: mirages
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
Senses: hypernyms: optical illusion
glosses: An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
examples: text: I remember hearing, that in the East the clear and azure waters seem to flow before the weary and parched traveller; yet a little further, and on he urges his weary way, but in vain—the fair stream is a delusion. Even thus happiness is the mirage which leads us over the desert of life, ever fated to end in deceit and disappointment.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: An illusion.
Derived terms: gravitational mirage
mirageless
miragelike
miragy
red mirage
mirage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /məˈɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /mɪˈɹɑːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: mirages
form: miraging
form: miraged
form: miraged
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
Senses: examples: text: All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.
ref: 1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo:
text: The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.
ref: 1901, A. E. W. Mason, Ensign Knightley and Other Stories:
glosses: To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
enpr: ĭ-lo͞o'zhən
ipa: [ɪˈluː.ʒən]
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːzj(ə)n/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: illusions
Etymology: From Old French illusion, from Latin illūsiō, from illūdere, from in- (“at, upon”) + lūdere (“to play, mock, trick”). Displaced native Old English dwimmer.
Senses: examples: text: We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
text: Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.
text: You realize the sun don't go down it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.
ref: 2002, “Do You Realize??”, performed by The Flaming Lips:
glosses: Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
examples: text: Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.
glosses: A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
glosses: A magician’s trick.
glosses: The state of being deceived or misled.
Synonyms: sense: that seems to be something it is not
word: mirage
sense: that seems to be something it is not
word: phantom
sense: a belief in something untrue, the state of being misled
word: delusion
sense: a belief in something untrue
word: misapprehension
sense: a belief in something untrue
word: misbelief
sense: a belief in something untrue
word: misconception
Derived terms: argument from illusion
barber pole illusion
café wall illusion
clustering illusion
coffer illusion
comparative illusion
Cornsweet illusion
cutaneous rabbit illusion
Delboeuf illusion
disillusion
Ebbinghaus illusion
Ehrenstein illusion
end-of-history illusion
flash-lag illusion
Hering illusion
illusionable
illusional
illusionary
illusion cake
illusioned
illusionette
illusionism
illusionist
illusionistic
illusionless
illusionlike
illusory
introspection illusion
irradiation illusion
Jastrow illusion
leaning tower illusion
money illusion
moon illusion
Müller-Lyer illusion
Oppel-Kundt illusion
optical illusion
Orbison illusion
Pac-Man illusion
Pinocchio illusion
Poggendorff illusion
Ponzo illusion
reillusion
somatogravic illusion
stepping feet illusion
stopped clock illusion
Thatcher illusion
under the illusion
watercolor illusion
White's illusion
Wundt illusion
Zoellner illusion
Zöllner illusion
capital budgeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The budgeting process in which a company plans its capital expenditure (the spending on assets of long-term value).
baculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.jə.ləm/
Forms: form: baculums
form: bacula
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin baculum (“stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel”).
Senses: examples: text: Bacula can be straight rods, s-shaped curves, or even bizarre, flared scoops.
ref: 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: os penis
penis bone
penile bone
glosses: A bone found in the penis of some placental mammals.
examples: text: The sexine usually consists of two main parts, a partially or wholly covering layer — the tectum (roof) and below that the rods or rod-like elements — the bacules (baculum, columella).
ref: 1993, M. R. Saxena, Palynology: A Treatise, page 34:
glosses: A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen.
Derived terms: probaculum
Related terms: argumentum ad baculum
bacular
bacule
baculiform
baculine