cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
retire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: retires
Etymology: From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from Old French retirer, built from re- (“back”) + tirer (“draw, pull”), the latter from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of highly uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
synonyms: retreat
glosses: A place to which one retires.
examples: text: At the retire, the cavalry fell back.
glosses: A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
retire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹiˈtaɪɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: retires
form: retiring
form: retired
form: retired
form: retyre
Etymology: From re- + tire.
Senses: glosses: To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
retry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rētrīʹ
ipa: /riˈtɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
enpr: rēʹtrī
ipa: /ˈriːtɹaɪ/
Forms: form: retries
form: retrying
form: retried
form: retried
Etymology: From re- + try.
Senses: examples: text: to retry connecting to the Internet after an error
text: On October 20, Forsen streamed on Twitch as he retried to defeat the Ender Dragon as fast as he could.
ref: 2023 October 21, Josh Taylor, “Forsen smashes xQc’s Minecraft speedrun time with impressive new record”, in Dexerto:
text: There’s a chance the error code appeared as a mistake, so retrying could help you get back to the fight in no time.
ref: 2024 June 4, Brad Norton, “What error code PLUM means in Destiny 2 & how to fix it”, in Dexerto:
text: The problem? Unlike dying during the Great Ape Vegeta fight, you can’t retry right away.
ref: 2024 October 9, Michael Gwilliam, “Forget Great Ape Vegeta, this is Dragon Ball Sparking Zero’s most frustrating feature”, in Dexerto:
glosses: To try or attempt again.
examples: text: to retry a case
text: to retry an accused person
text: Despite mounting evidence against her, the jury found Casey not guilty. Since then, she’s thrown out numerous accusations about her family, a number of which she alleged in the 2022 docu-series Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies. But amid the release of a new documentary involving her parents, George and Cindy, could she be retried?
ref: 2024 January 11, Daisy Phillipson, “The Lie Detector Test: Can Casey Anthony be tried again?”, in Dexerto:
topics: law
glosses: To try judicially a second time.
Derived terms: retriable
retry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rētrīʹ
ipa: /riˈtɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
enpr: rēʹtrī
ipa: /ˈriːtɹaɪ/
Forms: form: retries
Etymology: From re- + try.
Senses: examples: text: “As such, the issue with login remains. If for any reason you get the ‘Failed to connect to server’ issue, it means that the maximum number of login requests for that particular minute is exceeded and/or that the servers are full and will require someone to log out before allowing new players in. As mentioned above, the increased capacity should require less retries to get in.”
ref: 2024 February 12, Sourav Banik, “Helldivers 2 devs issue apology after massive server issues”, in Dexerto:
glosses: Another attempt.
revert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rə-vûrtʹ
enpr: rĭ-vûrtʹ
enpr: rē-vûrtʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɝt/
ipa: /ɹiˈvɝt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːt/
enpr: rēʹvûrt'
ipa: /ˈɹiˌvɝt/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
rhymes: -iːvɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reverts
Etymology: From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reverts.
examples: text: [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].
ref: 2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250, page 77:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
examples: text: Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.
ref: 1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27:
text: Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
ref: 2001, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: due to the belief that all people are born Muslim
glosses: A convert to Islam.
examples: text: We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
examples: text: In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
ref: 2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124:
glosses: The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
Derived terms: revert war
three-revert rule
revise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvaɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɑez/
ipa: /ɹəˈvaɪ̯z/
ipa: [ɹəˈvɑe̯z]
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: revises
form: revising
form: revised
form: revised
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsō, from re- + vīsō (“examine”), frequentative of videō (“see”).
Senses: examples: text: This statute should be revised.
text: There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur′an since the end of the Second World War.
ref: 1951, Maulana Muhammad Ali, Preface to the Revised Edition: The Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary, published 2011, unnumbered page:
text: 1983, Willard Scott Thompson, Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited, Willard Scott Thompson (editor), The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy, Revised edition, page 15,
The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes′ revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia.
text: The best writers know better. They write a first draft not to show readers, but to discover what case they can make for their point and whether it stands up to their own scrutiny. Then they revise and revise until they think their readers will think so too.
ref: 2008, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams., The Craft of Research, 3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, page 203:
glosses: To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
examples: text: I've only just begun to revise for my exams.
text: In revising your notes, you can also reorganize them so that they are more legible, better arranged, and in a more useful condition for subsequent reviews.
ref: 1957, Clifford Thomas Morgan, James Deese, How to Study, McGraw-Hill, page 16:
text: 4 Is it necessary to revise vocabulary (= study it again for a second or third time)?
5 Is it better to revise vocabulary occasionally for long periods of time, or is it better to revise regularly for short periods of time?
ref: 2003, Stuart Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 5:
text: 2008, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Chapter 19: How to build your memory and revise effectively, Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University, SAGE Publications, UK, page 273.
synonyms: review
glosses: To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
glosses: To look at again, to reflect on.
Synonyms: sense: review, edit and amend
word: overhaul
sense: look over again
word: review
Derived terms: revise one's priors
Related terms: revision
revise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvaɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɑez/
ipa: /ɹəˈvaɪ̯z/
ipa: [ɹəˈvɑe̯z]
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: revises
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsō, from re- + vīsō (“examine”), frequentative of videō (“see”).
Senses: glosses: A review or a revision.
examples: text: The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.
ref: 1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30:
text: 1869 August 16, Anthony Trollope, letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.
text: 1917, United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President′s note to Belligerent Powers, page 1440,
I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.
text: […]until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.
ref: 1997, David Lodge, The Practice of Writing, published 2011, page 219:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Derived terms: press revise
Related terms: revisable
revisal
reviser
revisory
revision
revisionism
revisionist
revive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvaɪv/
ipa: /ɹəˈvaɪv/
ipa: /ɹi-/
text: -
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: revives
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English reviven, revyven (“to recover from illness; to regain consciousness; to return to life after death; to happen again, recur; to be rejuvenated, renewed; (figurative) to bring back; (alchemy) of a metal: to be restored to its original form”), from Anglo-Norman reviver, revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew; to make (a law or legal document) valid again”), Middle French revivre, and Old French revivre (“to return to life after death; to rejuvenate, renew”) (modern French revivre), and directly from their etymon Latin revīvere, the present active infinitive of revīvō (“to live again”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + vīvō (“to be alive, survive; to live”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: [F]irst called at Wotton's, the shoemaker's, who tells me the reason of [Henry] Harris's going from Sir W[illia]m Davenant's house, that he grew very proud and demanded £20 for himself extraordinary, more than [Thomas] Betterton, or any body else, upon every new play, and £10 upon every revive; […]
ref: 1663 August 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 22nd, 1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 217:
glosses: Synonym of revival (“an act of reviving, or a state of being revived (in various senses)”).
synonyms: word: revival
extra: (“an act of reviving, or a state of being revived (in various senses)”)
rife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: rifer
form: rifest
Etymology: From Middle English rife, from Old English rīfe, rȳfe (“rife, abundant, frequent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīb, from Proto-Germanic *rībaz (“generous”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to tear (off), rip”). Cognate with West Frisian rju (“rife, much”), Dutch rijf (“abundant, copious”), Low German rive (“abundant, munificent”), Icelandic rífur (“rife, munificent”), Faroese ríviligur (“plentiful, abundant”), Faroese rívan (“abundantly”), Icelandic reifa (“to bestow”).
Senses: examples: text: Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
text: Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
ref: 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:
text: The tumult of loud mirth was rife.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: She was afterwards Lady Keith; and the mention of this name in the tale, as it were by mere accident, fixes the era of it in the reign of James the Fourth, at the very time that fairies, brownies, and witches, were at the rifest in Scotland.
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
text: The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
ref: 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 170:
text: BRB engineers, it is known, have a warm regard for the Ventura range and speculation is rife that it may feature more widely in future BR dieselisation programmes.
ref: 1964 May, R. K. Evans, “The Ventura—Paxman's high-speed engine”, in Modern Railways, page 329:
synonyms: fraught
glosses: Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).
examples: text: Red deer are rife in these woodlands.
text: Seeds are rife in a watermelon.
glosses: Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
examples: text: Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption.
text: They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
ref: 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things).
examples: text: What! I am rife a little yet.
ref: 1661, John Webster, William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold:
glosses: Having power; active; nimble.
Synonyms: sense: widespread
word: pandemic
word: ubiquitous
word: widespread
sense: abounding, plentiful
word: filled
word: plentiful
Derived terms: rifely
rifeness
rife
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: more rife
form: most rife
Etymology: From Middle English rife, from Old English rīfe, rȳfe (“rife, abundant, frequent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīb, from Proto-Germanic *rībaz (“generous”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to tear (off), rip”). Cognate with West Frisian rju (“rife, much”), Dutch rijf (“abundant, copious”), Low German rive (“abundant, munificent”), Icelandic rífur (“rife, munificent”), Faroese ríviligur (“plentiful, abundant”), Faroese rívan (“abundantly”), Icelandic reifa (“to bestow”).
Senses: examples: text: The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.
glosses: Plentifully, abundantly.
rigorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪɡəɹəs
Forms: form: more rigorous
form: most rigorous
form: rigourous
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rigorous, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman rigoreus, derived from Late Latin rigōrōsus (stiff, rigid; inflexible). By surface analysis, rigor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: a rigorous officer of justice
text: a rigorous execution of law
text: a rigorous inspection
text: From this time onwards, the Westinghouse air brake literally went from strength to strength, and was triumphantly justified in the course of rigorous trials, both on the Pennsylvania Railroad and at Newark-on-Trent in this country.
ref: 1946 November and December, “George Westinghouse, 1846-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 375:
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
examples: text: a rigorous winter
glosses: Severe; intense.
Synonyms: alt: showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
word: painstaking
word: scrupulous
word: meticulous
sense: severe; intense
word: harsh
word: strict
word: stern
Derived terms: nonrigorous
overrigorous
rigorously
rigorousness
unrigorous
riot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.ɪt/
rhymes: -aɪət
homophone: ryot
Forms: form: riots
Etymology: From Middle English riot (“debauched living, dissipation”), from Old French riote (“debate”), from rioter (“to quarrel”), perhaps related to riboter or from Latin rugio (“I roar”).
Compare French riotte and Occitan riòta.
Senses: examples: text: The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.
glosses: A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.
examples: text: In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.
text: The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of “stocks.”
ref: 1921, Edward Sapir, chapter VII, in Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech:
glosses: A wide and unconstrained variety.
examples: text: Check this out! We have to get this! I can't believe all this stuff! This is a total riot!
ref: 1997, Daniel Clowes, “The First Time”, in Ghost World, Jonathan Cape, published 2000, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A humorous or entertaining event or person.
examples: text: For when his head-ſtrong Riot hath no Curbe,
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 93:
glosses: Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.
examples: text: the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
Synonyms: word: anarchy
word: breach of the peace
word: chaos
word: discord
word: trouble
word: disorder
word: disorderliness
word: disturbance
word: instability
word: lawlessness
word: mayhem
word: rioting
word: riot
word: rowdiness
word: strife
word: turbulence
word: upheaval
Derived terms: anti-riot
laugh riot
race riot
read someone the riot act
riot act
Riot Act
riot booster
riot boosting
rioter
riot gear
riot girl
riot grrl
riot grrrl
riot mask
riot money
riotous
riot police
riot shield
riot stairs
run riot
Swing riot
Related terms: word: commotion
riot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.ɪt/
rhymes: -aɪət
homophone: ryot
Forms: form: riots
form: rioting
form: rioted
form: rioted
Etymology: From Middle English riot (“debauched living, dissipation”), from Old French riote (“debate”), from rioter (“to quarrel”), perhaps related to riboter or from Latin rugio (“I roar”).
Compare French riotte and Occitan riòta.
Senses: examples: text: The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
glosses: To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
examples: text: Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: Think of the insults, wrongs, and contumelies, / Ye bear from your proud lords—that your hard toil / Manures their fertile fields—you plow the earth, / You sow the corn, you reap the ripen'd harvest,— / They riot on the produce!— […]
ref: 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act I, page 21:
glosses: To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.
glosses: To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.
glosses: To annoy.
ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: ripes
form: rype
Etymology: From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
Senses: examples: text: When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.
ref: 1993, Paul J. Dosal, Doing Business with the Dictators, →ISBN, page 76:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: ripes
form: riping
form: riped
form: riped
form: rype
Etymology: From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.
Senses: examples: text: […] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
glosses: To ripen or mature
ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: ripes
Etymology: From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.
Senses: glosses: The bank of a river.
Related terms: riparian
ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: ripes
form: riping
form: riped
form: riped
Senses: glosses: To search; to rummage.
Related terms: rip
ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Etymology: An alteration of rife.
Senses: examples: text: The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.
ref: 2022 November 27, Edward Helmore, “‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity”, in The Guardian :
glosses: Rife
raw_tags: used with with
rive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: rives
Etymology: From Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to crumble, tear”).
Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian rīva (“to tear”), Old English ārǣfan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (“breach of contract, rift”), Norwegian Bokmål rive (“to tear”), Swedish riva (”to tear”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.
Senses: glosses: A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Synonyms: sense: a place torn
word: rent
sense: a place torn
word: rift
rive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: rives
Etymology: Compare Latin ripa (“shore”)
Senses: glosses: A bank or shore.
rive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Etymology: Compare Latin ripa (“shore”)
Senses: glosses: To land.
robust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈbʌst/
ipa: /ɹəˈbʌst/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈbʌst/
ipa: /ɹəˈbʌst/
ipa: /ɹəʉˈbɐst/
ipa: /ɹəˈbɐst/
ipa: /ɹɐʉˈbɐst/
ipa: /ɹəˈbɐst/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɵˈbəsʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrobəsʈ/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: more robust
form: robuster
form: most robust
form: robustest
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.
Senses: synonyms: sturdy
antonyms: fragile
glosses: Able to withstand adverse conditions.
examples: text: He was a robust man of six feet four.
text: robust health
text: A robust wall was put up.
text: She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
ref: 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
glosses: Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
examples: text: robust employment
glosses: Requiring strength or vigor.
examples: text: robust findings
text: robust proof
text: robust explanation
text: robust lesson
glosses: Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
examples: text: As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Rough; rude.
qualifier: systems engineering
glosses: Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
topics: anthropology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.
Derived terms: bias-robust
heterokurtosis-robust
heteroscedasticity-robust
robust association of massive baryonic objects
robust australopithecine
robust blacksmelt
robust capuchin monkey
robustly
robustness
Related terms: robusta
rocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏk'i
ipa: /ˈɹɒki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɒki]
ipa: /ˈɹɑki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɑki]
ipa: /ˈɹɔki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɔki]
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: rockier
form: more rocky
form: rockiest
form: most rocky
Etymology: From Middle English rokki, rokky (“rocky”), from rok, rokke (“rock; a rock or stone; large rock by a coast or in the sea; rocky outcrop on a mountain, cliff; castle, citadel, stronghold”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Rok, rokke are derived from:
* Old English *rocc (“rock”); and
* Anglo-Norman roc, roce, roque, and Old French roce, roke, roque, variants of roche (“rock”);
both from Medieval Latin roca, rocca; further etymology uncertain, possibly of Celtic origin. The English word is analysable as rock + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Senses: examples: text: a rocky mountain    a rocky shore
text: The pihoihoi live in the island's interior, and the torea on its rocky shore.
ref: 2003, Margaret Rose Orbell, Carolyn Lagahetau, Birds of Aotearoa: a natural and cultural history:
text: When faced with a rockier or muddier section, look ahead for the easiest way across. This might involve hopping from one rock to another, or looking for flat sections or patches of vegetation that might be grippier.
ref: 2021, Claire Maxted, “Quick Start”, in The Ultimate Trail Running Handbook: Get Fit, Confident and Skilled Up to Go from 5K to 50K, London: Bloomsbury Sport, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
examples: text: Marsh went on as his prisoner drank. "Because you're caught in the middle of my alternate plan, Ram-Jam, which ram-jams your ass between the rockiest rock and the hardest hard place you ever imagined.
ref: 1988, Lloyd Pye Lloyd Pye, Mismatch, →ISBN, page 134:
synonyms: flinty
rocklike, rock-like
stonelike
glosses: Like a rock; rigid, solid.
qualifier: Of an animal or plant
glosses: Having a habitat around or on rocks.
examples: text: to have a rocky heart
glosses: Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
Derived terms: Rockies
rockily
rockiness
Rocky Ford
Rocky Mount
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountains
rocky planet
rocky road
Rocky View County
rocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏk'i
ipa: /ˈɹɒki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɒki]
ipa: /ˈɹɑki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɑki]
ipa: /ˈɹɔki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɔki]
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: rockier
form: more rocky
form: rockiest
form: most rocky
Etymology: From rock (“to move back and forth”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’). Rock is derived from Middle English rokken (“to move (something, such as a cradle) back and forth; to move or sway back and forth in an unstable manner; to go”) […], from Old English roccian (“to rock”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną (“to move; to move back and forth, rock”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (“to dig; to till (soil)”).
Senses: examples: text: The table was rocky, so we put a book under one leg.
synonyms: tottering
wobbly
glosses: Easily rocked; unstable.
examples: text: Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.
synonyms: word: hard
word: tough
word: arduous
word: challenging
word: nasty
word: difficult
word: effortful
word: hard
word: rocky
word: thistly
word: tough
word: uneath
word: unsimple
word: unsteady
word: chaotic
word: instable
word: irregular
word: rocky
word: unstable
word: unsteady
word: variable
word: varying
glosses: Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
synonyms: shaky
unnerved
weakened
glosses: Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
Derived terms: rockily
rockiness
rocking chair
rocking horse
rocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏk'i
ipa: /ˈɹɒki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɒki]
ipa: /ˈɹɑki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɑki]
ipa: /ˈɹɔki/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɔki]
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: rockier
form: more rocky
form: rockiest
form: most rocky
Etymology: From rock (“rock and roll music”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Senses: examples: text: His new album is quite rocky.
synonyms: rockish
rockesque
rocklike, rock-like
glosses: In the style of rock music.
Related terms: punk-rocky
roulette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈlɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: roulettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”). The sense "situation with a random chance of incurring serious harm" may be abstracted from Russian roulette.
Senses: synonyms: word: roly-poly
glosses: A game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered (usually red and black) spaces. When the ball stops, it indicates the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
examples: text: Doctors and health officials said that the WRC-TV documentary, "DPT: Vaccine Roulette," emphasized the risks of the vaccine while ignoring the dangers of the disease, which has been almost wiped out in this country.
ref: 1982 April 28, Donna Hilts, “TV Report On Vaccine Stirs Bitter Controversy”, in Washington Post:
text: They would all rather take their chances with the existing policy-making roulette rather than follow process discipline.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 290:
text: By contrast giving treatments open-label slows everything down by leading us up blind alleys while playing roulette with our patients' lives.
ref: 2020 November 2, Adam Finn quoted by Alessandra Scotto Di Santolo in Daily Expresshttps://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1354994/tony-blair-coronavirus-vaccine-coronavirus-treatment-astrazeneca-covid-19-vn
glosses: An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
glosses: A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
glosses: A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
glosses: A cylindrical curler for the hair.
Derived terms: Delaunay roulette
pepper roulette
roulette table
roulette wheel
Russian roulette
Sturm roulette
Vatican roulette
Related terms: roll
roulette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈlɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: roulettes
form: rouletting
form: rouletted
form: rouletted
Etymology: Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”). The sense "situation with a random chance of incurring serious harm" may be abstracted from Russian roulette.
Senses: examples: to roulette a sheet of postage stamps
glosses: To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
Related terms: cycloid
epicycloid
hypocycloid
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
form: routing
form: routed
form: routed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route.
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to assemble, congregate; of animals: to herd together; to regroup, make a stand against; to be riotous, to riot”) [and other forms], from rout, route (noun); see above.
Senses: examples: text: Whereupon the meaner ſort [of people] routed together, and ſuddenly aſſayling the Earle [i.e., Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland] in his Houſe, ſlew him, and diuers of his ſeruants.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
form: routing
form: routed
form: routed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle French route (“military defeat; retreat”), from rout, archaic past participle of Middle French, Old French rompre (“to break; to break up, disperse”) (modern French rompre (“to break, snap; to break up (with someone)”)), from Latin rumpere, the present active infinitive of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”); see further at etymology 1.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat Party of the King's Horſe which Charged the Scots, ſo totally Routed and defeated their whole Army, that they fled all ways for many Miles together, and were knock'd on the head, and taken Priſoners by the Country, [...]
ref: 1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, Book VIII, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, volume II, Oxford: The Theater, page 503:
text: They write with eloquence against the men, using the men’s own language to embarrass them and sometimes even to rout them.
ref: 1977, Larry Mitchell, “It Takes All Kinds to Make the Revolutions”, in The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, New York, N.Y.: Nightboat Books, published 2020, →ISBN, part 2 (The Energy of Oppression), page 86:
text: Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and seized control of the enclave in June 2007.
ref: 2009 January 30, Adam Entous, “Mitchell Warns of Setbacks ahead in Mideast Talks”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2009:
glosses: To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
examples: text: The Ra division broke in panic and fled up against the just-arriving Amon division, which as a result began to rout as well.
ref: 2005, Brian Todd Carey, “Warfare in the Ancient Near East: The Bronze and Early Iron Ages”, in Warfare in the Ancient World, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, published 2013, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
form: routing
form: routed
form: routed
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to snore; to grunt, snort; to sleep; to dwell; to settle permanently”), [and other forms], from Old English hrūtan (“to snore; to make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrūtan (“to snore”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to snore”), from *hruttōną (“to snore; to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor-, *kr- (“to croak, crow”), *krut- (“to snore; to roar”), probably ultimately imitative.
The English word is cognate with Icelandic rjóta, hrjóta (“to snore; to rattle, roar”), rauta (“to roar”), Middle Dutch ruyten (“to make a noise; to chatter, chirp”), Middle High German rūssen, rūzen (“to make a noise; to buzz; to rattle; to snore”), Norwegian Nynorsk ruta (“to make a loud noise; to roar, rumble”), Swedish ryta (“to bellow, roar; to scream or shout angrily”). Compare Old English rēotan, *hrēotan (“to make a noise; to make a noise in grief, lament, wail; to shed tears, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *reutaną; see further at etymology 4.
The noun is derived from the verb. It is cognate with Southern Norwegian rut (“loud noise, din, roar”).
Senses: glosses: To snore, especially loudly.
glosses: To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
glosses: Especially of the sea, thunder, wind, etc.: to make a loud roaring noise; to howl, to roar, to rumble.
Derived terms: english: to cheer
translation: to cheer
word: root
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to snore; to grunt, snort; to sleep; to dwell; to settle permanently”), [and other forms], from Old English hrūtan (“to snore; to make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrūtan (“to snore”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to snore”), from *hruttōną (“to snore; to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor-, *kr- (“to croak, crow”), *krut- (“to snore; to roar”), probably ultimately imitative.
The English word is cognate with Icelandic rjóta, hrjóta (“to snore; to rattle, roar”), rauta (“to roar”), Middle Dutch ruyten (“to make a noise; to chatter, chirp”), Middle High German rūssen, rūzen (“to make a noise; to buzz; to rattle; to snore”), Norwegian Nynorsk ruta (“to make a loud noise; to roar, rumble”), Swedish ryta (“to bellow, roar; to scream or shout angrily”). Compare Old English rēotan, *hrēotan (“to make a noise; to make a noise in grief, lament, wail; to shed tears, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *reutaną; see further at etymology 4.
The noun is derived from the verb. It is cognate with Southern Norwegian rut (“loud noise, din, roar”).
Senses: glosses: A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
form: routing
form: routed
form: routed
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to cry out, bellow, roar”) [and other forms], from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”), from Proto-Germanic *reutaną (“to cry, wail”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *HrewdH- (“to weep”), probably imitative. The English word is cognate with Danish ryde (“to low, moo”), Latin rudere, rūdere (“to bray; to cry”), Lithuanian raudóti (“to wail; to lament; to sob”), Norwegian raute (“to bellow; to low, moo”), Old Church Slavonic рꙑдати (rydati, “to wail, weep”), Old High German riozan (“to roar; to wail”) (Middle High German riezen (“to wail”)), Old Norse rjóta (“to roar”), Old Swedish riuta, ryta (“to howl, wail; to roar”) (modern Swedish ruta, ryta (“to howl; to roar”) (regional)), Old Swedish röta (“to bellow, roar”) (modern Swedish rauta, råta, rota, röta (“to bellow, roar”) (regional)), Sanskrit रुद् (rud, “to cry, wail, weep; to howl, roar; to bewail, deplore, lament”).
The noun is derived from the verb, or from a noun derived from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”) (see above).
Senses: glosses: Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
glosses: Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
glosses: Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to cry out, bellow, roar”) [and other forms], from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”), from Proto-Germanic *reutaną (“to cry, wail”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *HrewdH- (“to weep”), probably imitative. The English word is cognate with Danish ryde (“to low, moo”), Latin rudere, rūdere (“to bray; to cry”), Lithuanian raudóti (“to wail; to lament; to sob”), Norwegian raute (“to bellow; to low, moo”), Old Church Slavonic рꙑдати (rydati, “to wail, weep”), Old High German riozan (“to roar; to wail”) (Middle High German riezen (“to wail”)), Old Norse rjóta (“to roar”), Old Swedish riuta, ryta (“to howl, wail; to roar”) (modern Swedish ruta, ryta (“to howl; to roar”) (regional)), Old Swedish röta (“to bellow, roar”) (modern Swedish rauta, råta, rota, röta (“to bellow, roar”) (regional)), Sanskrit रुद् (rud, “to cry, wail, weep; to howl, roar; to bewail, deplore, lament”).
The noun is derived from the verb, or from a noun derived from Old Norse rauta (“to roar”) (see above).
Senses: glosses: A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
examples: text: And what of this new book the whole world makes ſuch a rout about?—Oh! 'tis out of all plumb, my Lord,—quite an irregular thing!
ref: 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
rout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: [ɹʌʊt]
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
note: verb sense 3, noun sense
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
ipa: /ɹut/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: route (in some pronunciations)
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: routs
form: routing
form: routed
form: routed
Etymology: Possibly a variant of root (“to dig or pull out by the roots; to abolish, exterminate, root out”), from Middle English wroten; see further at etymology 5. Some recent uses are difficult to tell apart from rout (“of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to search for and find (something)”).
Senses: glosses: Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
glosses: Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.