cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
depopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌpɒ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /diˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depopulations
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English depopulacion (also spelled depopulacyoun, depopolacion), borrowed from Latin dēpopulātiō. By surface analysis, depopulate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: A 2022 report published by the Scottish Borders Council states: "Hawick has been affected more by depopulation than any other Borders town, with all parts of the town experiencing population loss, and Hawick Central is currently experiencing the highest depopulation out of the 30 Intermediate Zones in Scottish Borders."
ref: 2025 April 30, Andy Comfort, “£10 million closer to Carlisle”, in RAIL, number 1034, page 41:
glosses: The act of depopulating or condition of being depopulated; the destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.
Related terms: depopulacy
depopulant
depopulate
depopulative
depopulator
deportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌpɔːˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deportations
Etymology: From Middle French déportation, equivalent to deport + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Garcia is one of many undocumented people in America who earn their living in construction. He and millions of others now face the prospect of mass deportations during President-elect Donald Trump’s term.
Trump has said that undocumented immigrants share the blame for America’s once-in-a-generation home affordability crisis, but the president-elect’s deportation plans may backfire, driving up the cost of homebuying even further.
ref: 2024 November 19, Samantha Delouya and Julia Vargas Jones, “Here’s how mass deportations could change the housing market”, in CNN:
glosses: The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
Derived terms: antideportation
deportational
nondeportation
self-deportation
depravation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛp.ɹəˈveɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depravations
Etymology: From Middle French dépravation, from Latin dēprāvātiō (“perversion, distortion, corruption, depravity”).
Senses: glosses: Detraction; depreciation.
glosses: The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
glosses: The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
glosses: Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Synonyms: depravity
deprecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛpɹɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deprecations
Etymology: From Middle French deprecation (French: déprécation), from Latin dēprecātiōnem, from dēprecātiō (“deprecation, invocation”), from dēprecor (“I avert, I warn off; I deprecate”).
Senses: glosses: The act of deprecating.
glosses: A praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
glosses: Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.
glosses: An imprecation or curse.
Derived terms: self-deprecation
Related terms: imprecation
precation
depreciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌpɹiːʃɪˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depreciations
Etymology: From French dépréciation.
Senses: glosses: The state of being depreciated; disparagement.
examples: text: asset depreciation
text: currency depreciation
text: The accountant calculated the annual depreciation of the machinery.
text: There was a sharp depreciation in the value of the currency.
glosses: The decline in value of assets.
examples: text: annual depreciation
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.
Derived terms: accelerated depreciation
accumulated depreciation
depreciational
self-depreciation
deprivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛp.ɹɪˈveɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deprivations
Senses: glosses: The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
examples: text: Outside the boundaries of the PTEs [Passenger Transport Executives], there was little mechanism to re-open routes, and despite a growing realisation that the lack of transport connectivity was a big contributor towards social deprivation and poor economic performance, there was little government policy recognition.
ref: 2023 March 22, 'Industry Insider', “Restoring Your Railway”, in RAIL, number 979, page 68:
synonyms: privation
loss
want
bereavement
glosses: The state of being deprived
glosses: The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
examples: text: He was suffering from deprivation of sleep.
glosses: lack
raw_tags: followed by “of”
Derived terms: deprivational
postdeprivation
redeprivation
self-deprivation
sensory deprivation
Townsend deprivation index
deputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛpjuːˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deputations
Etymology: From Middle French députation, from Late Latin deputatio.
Senses: examples: text: The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
examples: text: The general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
text: A deputation came to the Hotel de Ville from the district of the Mathurins, where the people had assembled, appointed a president and other officers, and begun to make a list of the citizens who were able to bear arms.
ref: 1850, George Long, France and Its Revolutions: A Pictorial History, 1789-1848, page 29:
text: From time to time deputations from the town urged the construction of a more central station, and in November, 1842, the directors announced that a temporary station at the south end of the viaduct would be erected as early as practicable, and the experiment fairly tried, but that under no circumstances would the company consent to the expense of having two passenger stations at Stockport.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 618:
glosses: The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation.
glosses: Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.
Derived terms: counterdeputation
deputational
derivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: derivations
Etymology: From Middle English derivacioun, borrowed from Middle French dérivation, from Latin dērīvātiō, dērīvātiōnem. Morphologically derive + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
glosses: The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
examples: text: the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
glosses: The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
glosses: That from which a thing is derived.
glosses: That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
glosses: The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: differential algebra
glosses: An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: differential algebra
glosses: An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
Derived terms: biderivation
derivational
derivationism
derivationist
derivation tree
misderivation
quasiderivation
rederivation
subderivation
superderivation
zero derivation
Related terms: derive
derived
derivative
desecration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /dɛ.səˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /dɛ.zəˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desecrations
Senses: examples: text: It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:
glosses: An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.
Synonyms: blasphemy
sacrilege
profanation
Derived terms: host desecration
nondesecration
Related terms: desecrate
desiccation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desiccations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dessiccation, from Late Latin desiccatio, desiccationem, from Latin desicco.
Senses: glosses: The state or process of being desiccated
examples: text: The most important mortality affecting the larval population was most probably caused by the repeated desiccations of the marsh in the summer.
ref: 1968, M.W. Service, “The Ecology of the Immature Stages of Aedes detritus”, in Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 5, number 3:
glosses: An act or occurrence of desiccating
Synonyms: word: demoisturization
word: demoisturisation
Derived terms: cryodesiccation
desiccational
desiccome
electrodesiccation
Related terms: desiccant
desiccate
desiccator
designation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: designations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French designation, from Latin designatio. Morphologically designate + -ion.
Senses: synonyms: indication
glosses: An act or instance of designating
examples: text: His designation as chief justice was controversial.
text: July 2021, Omar Marrero, quoted in CyberNewshttps://web.archive.org/web/20210805184306/https://www.puertoricoheadlinenews.com/15-million-allocated-for-non-profit-organizations/
The designation of funds by Governor Pedro Pierluisi will also allow non-profit entities to continue providing services to communities
glosses: Selection and appointment for a purpose or office.
examples: text: The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name of the father and of the tribe): […]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
text: Man is the most aggressive animal in the sea (and on the land as well), and all the "man-eater" stories in history will not change this designation.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
examples: text: It doesn't list all the connotations that the term may have in various contexts: it specifies the designation of the term, or one of the designations of the term.
ref: 1953, Jacob Hooper Wise, The Meaning in Reading:
glosses: Signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase.
Derived terms: Bayer designation
predesignation
redesignation
desolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛsəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desolations
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English desolacioun, from Middle French, Old French desolacion f, from Latin dēsōlātiō f.
Senses: glosses: The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
examples: text: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 1:26–27:
text: One or two uncovered masses appeared like the lingering foot-prints of desolation; but in general where the statelier trees had not taken root, the soil was luxuriantly covered with heath and the golden blossomed furze.
ref: 1823, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Forget Me Not 1824, The Indian Orphan, page 68:
synonyms: ruin
solitariness
destitution
gloom
gloominess
glosses: The state of being desolated or laid waste
glosses: A place or country wasted and forsaken.
desperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛspəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desperations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēspērātiō, dēspērātiōnis. By surface analysis, desperate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: in desperation
text: utter desperation
glosses: The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
examples: text: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 10:
synonyms: word: despair
word: despondency
word: despair
word: desperation
word: despond
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: unhope
word: wanhope
glosses: A state of despair, or utter hopelessness; abandonment of hope.
glosses: Reckless fury.
glosses: Ellipsis of bladder desperation.
Derived terms: semidesperation
despicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛspɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: more despicable
form: most despicable
Etymology: From Late Latin dēspicābilis, from Latin dēspicor, a variant of dēspiciō (“I despise”), from de (“down”) + speciō (“I look at, behold”). First attested in the 1550s. Equivalent to despise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The physical penis is consumed by despicable fish, animals of the turgid depths, but the higher phallus, the image of resurrection through the goddess, is fashioned as a sacred icon.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 234:
synonyms: vile
evil
mean
contemptible
obscene
glosses: Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
Synonyms: word: abject
word: base
word: beggarly
word: blameworthy
word: carrion
word: cheap
word: contemptible
word: cringing
word: dedecorous
word: degraded
word: deridable
word: derisible
word: despicable
word: despisable
word: dirty
word: discreditable
word: disdainable
word: disgraceful
word: dishonorable
word: disreputable
word: execrable
word: groveling
word: ignoble
word: ignominious
word: inglorious
word: lame
word: laughable
word: loathsome
word: ludicrous
word: low
word: mean
word: mean-spirited
word: miserable
word: obscene
word: outrageous
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: plebeian
word: paltry
word: putrid
word: reprehensible
word: reptile
word: reptilian
word: reptitious
word: ridiculous
word: risible
word: roynish
word: scald
word: scornworthy
word: scummy
word: scurvy
word: shabby
word: shameful
word: sleazy
word: slavish
word: slimy
word: sordid
word: sorry
word: trashy
word: ugly
word: uncommendable
word: uncool
word: unmentionable
word: unwashed
word: unsophisticated
word: unworthy
word: vile
word: vulgar
word: weak
word: worthless
word: wretched
Derived terms: despicableness
despicably
Related terms: word: unclean
word: evil
word: immoral
despicable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛspɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: despicables
Etymology: From Late Latin dēspicābilis, from Latin dēspicor, a variant of dēspiciō (“I despise”), from de (“down”) + speciō (“I look at, behold”). First attested in the 1550s. Equivalent to despise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Robbers assemble other robbers for the purpose of robbery; but Christians gather thieves, bandits, and other despicables for the purpose of spiritual transformation.
ref: 2004, Wayne Campbell Kannaday, Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition:
glosses: A wretched or wicked person.
despoliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: despoliations
Etymology: From Latin dēspoliātiō, from dēspoliō.
Senses: examples: text: Time has taken a terrible revenge upon mankind for his despoliation of the valleys and his defilement of the mountains, yet the industries and the railways of South Wales still put the bravest front upon an outlook which all may hope is becoming less saddening and less grim.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 165:
glosses: A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Related terms: despoil
destination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: destinations
Etymology: From Latin dēstinātiō, from dēstinō (“to destine”).
Senses: examples: text: arrive at your destination
glosses: The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
glosses: The act of destining or appointing.
glosses: Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
Derived terms: destinational
destination board
destination fee
destinationless
destination wedding
ecodestination
final destination
multidestination
nondestination
tourist destination
tourist-oriented destination sign
Related terms: destinate
destine
destiny
desultory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛs.əl.t(ə).ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɛz.əl.t(ə).ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.əlˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈdɛz.əlˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more desultory
form: most desultory
Etymology: From Latin dēsultōrius (“hasty, casual, superficial”), from dēsultor (“a circus rider who jumped from one galloping horse to another”), from dēsiliō (“jump down”), from dē (“down”) + saliō (“jump, leap”).
Senses: examples: text: He wandered round, cleaning up in a desultory way.
text: I teach a class of desultory minds.
text: subject to desultory fire from the enemy
text: To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 25, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: The Benelux Customs Union came into effect on January 1st 1948, and there followed desultory conversations between the Benelux countries, France and Italy over projects to extend such cooperation across a larger space.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, “The Coming of the Cold War”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: ‘Your desultory twenties,’ my mother calls my lost time, trying to make it sound reasonable and fun, but it started before I was twenty and lasted much longer.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “You (Plural)”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
synonyms: word: disconnected
word: unmethodical
word: aimless
word: quodlibetic
word: quodlibetical
english: in conversation
translation: in conversation
glosses: Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.
examples: text: I made a desultory remark while I was talking to my friend.
text: She made a desultory attempt at conversation.
glosses: Out of course; by the way; not connected with the subject.
examples: text: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: Disappointing in performance or progress.
glosses: Leaping, skipping or flitting about, generally in a random or unsteady manner.
Derived terms: desultorily
desultoriness
Related terms: salient
deteriorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɪə.ɹɪə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɪə.ɹɪ.eɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /diˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /dəˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /dəˈtɪɹ.i.eɪt/
Forms: form: deteriorates
form: deteriorating
form: deteriorated
form: deteriorated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin dēteriorātus, perfect passive participle of Late Latin dēteriorō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from Latin dēterior (“worse”). Cognate with French détériorer.
Senses: examples: text: to deteriorate the mind
text: The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation[…]
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
examples: text: During this fine run through Fife the weather had deteriorated rapidly, and as we passed Wormit and came onto the Tay Bridge heavy rain clouds were piled over the sea.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
text: It was turning into an abysmal afternoon for Newcastle and it deteriorated further when Tiote saw red for his challenge on Jon Ashton.
ref: 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
glosses: To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
Synonyms: word: worsen
english: of foods
translation: of foods
word: to go off
english: gaming term
translation: gaming term
word: nerf
word: degenerate
word: weaken
Derived terms: biodeteriorate
deteriorator
undeteriorated
Related terms: deterioration
deteriorative
deteriorable
deterioration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌtɪəɹɪəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /dɪˌtɪəɹɪˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /dəˌti.ɹi.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /dəˌtiɹiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deteriorations
Etymology: Borrowed from French détérioration; morphologically deteriorate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: From 1945 onwards, deterioration in the condition of the brickwork in the arch soffits was kept under close observation, and in 1951 it was decided that strengthening must be undertaken.
ref: 1954 January, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
text: The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
ref: 2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016:
text: "The quantum sensors will provide highly accurate measurements that will help to detect the rate of change of the track and subsequently, any deteriorations which might lead to faults."
ref: 2020 November 18, “Network News: Researchers team up on navigation data system”, in RAIL, page 23:
synonyms: retrogression
antonyms: amelioration
glosses: The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Derived terms: biodeterioration
deterioratingly
deteriorationism
deteriorationist
neurodeterioration
nondeteriorating
photodeterioration
undeteriorating
Related terms: deteriorate
detonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛtəˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: detonations
Etymology: From French détonation; equivalent to detonate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: the detonation of gun cotton
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.
examples: text: a nuclear detonation
text: carbon detonation
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.
Any sudden explosion made by an exothermic process (whether chemical or not) that produces a supersonic shock wave.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Engine knocking, a type of improper combustion in gasoline piston engines.
Hypernyms: combustion
decomposition
Derived terms: antidetonation
autodetonation
carbon detonation
detonation cord
pulse detonation engine
rotating detonation engine
sympathetic detonation
Related terms: detonate
detonator
devastation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛ.vəˈsteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: devastations
Etymology: From Middle French dévastation.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
ref: 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey continues to cope with Hurricane Sandy”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012:
glosses: The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
topics: law
synonyms: devastavit
glosses: Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.
Synonyms: havoc
Derived terms: devastational
deviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiː.viˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiː.viˈæɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deviations
Etymology: From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
examples: text: The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture.
ref: 2007, Nick Bentley, “Re-writing Englishness: imagining the nation in Julian Barnes’s England, England and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, in Textual Practice, volume 21, number 3, →DOI, pages 496–7:
glosses: A departure from the correct way of acting.
examples: text: mankind’s deviation from divine will
glosses: The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
examples: text: "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: A detour in a road or railway.
examples: text: The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP).
ref: 1992 March 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Explosive Decompression - Loss of Cargo Door in Flight, United Airlines Flight 811, Boeing 747-122, N4713U, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 24, 1989, page 2:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
qualifier: contract law
glosses: The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
qualifier: Absolute Deviation
glosses: The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
topics: metrology
glosses: The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
Derived terms: absolute deviation
average deviation
cyclodeviation
deviational
deviationism
deviationist
deviation ratio
exodeviation
immune deviation
immunodeviation
magnetic deviation
mean absolute deviation
mean deviation
multideviation
nondeviation
overdeviation
quartile deviation
relative deviation
sexual deviation
signed deviation
standard deviation
underdeviation
Related terms: deviance
deviate
deviant
devout
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaʊt/
ipa: /dəˈvʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: devouter
form: more devout
form: devoutest
form: most devout
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Ecclesiastical Latin -tus
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor.
Old French devotbor.
Middle English devout
English devout
Inherited from Middle English devout, borrowed from Old French devot, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtus, from dēvoveō + -tus.
From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote.
Senses: examples: text: a devout man, and one that feared God
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:2:
text: We must be constant and devout in the worship of our God.
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
text: I first became aware of changing Hui-Han social dynamics in the village from a discussion with one of the Han villagers in Team 1. She explained: “Since 1979, we have had less and less social contact with the Hui in the other teams. There are no problems between us, but the Hui are more devout [qian-cheng] now and less willing to come to our homes and visit or borrow tools. We raise pigs in our yards and eat pork, so they are afraid it will influence their religion [yingxiang tamende jiaomen]."
ref: 2002, Dru C. Gladney, “Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community”, in Susan D. Blum, Lionel M. Jensen, editors, China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:
text: The question, which visibly moved Clinton, delves into an area of the candidate’s life that is deeply personal but rarely discussed. Clinton’s friends and confidants describe the former first lady as a devout Methodist whose faith guides much of what she does.
ref: 2016 January 25, Dan Merica, “In personal exchange, Clinton laments using faith to ‘judge so harshly’”, in CNN:
glosses: Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.
examples: text: devout sighs; devout eyes; a devout posture
glosses: Expressing devotion or piety.
examples: text: devout wishes for one's welfare
glosses: Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.
Derived terms: devoutful
devoutless
devoutly
devoutness
indevout
undevout
devout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaʊt/
ipa: /dəˈvʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: devouts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Ecclesiastical Latin -tus
Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor.
Old French devotbor.
Middle English devout
English devout
Inherited from Middle English devout, borrowed from Old French devot, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtus, from dēvoveō + -tus.
From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote.
Senses: glosses: A devotee.
glosses: A devotional composition, or part of a composition; a devotion.
dhow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: dow
Forms: form: dhows
Etymology: From Arabic دَاو (dāw).
Senses: examples: text: I suppose I must have slept for seven or eight hours, getting the first real rest that I had had since the night before the loss of the dhow, for when I woke the sun was high in the heavens.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Joshua continued preparing breakfast, Bijan returned to piloting the dhow offshore and Pourghasem returned to his watch.[…]Several dhows were on the water and some fishermen were already at work.
ref: 2001, David M Besaw, Joshua, Trafford Publishing, page 251:
text: The navy sometimes hired dhows for its patrols.[…]If a dhow was stopped, the slaves could not be counted on to make their presence known, having probably been told that the Europeans would kill them.
ref: 2003, Suzanne Miers, Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem, Rowman & Littlefield (AltaMira), page 78:
text: They took a dhow from Mombasa bound for Aden and planned to take a larger vessel to Suez and then overland to Cairo.
ref: 2011, J. W. Heldring, The Killing of Dr. Albrecht Roscher, Xlibris, page 109:
text: In contemporary Anglophone usage, the term ‘dhow’ has come to refer generically and exonymically to traditional wooden vessels of the western Indian Ocean, whatever their particular forms or emic classification.
ref: 2015, John P. Cooper, Dionisius A. Agius, Tom Collie, Faisal al-Naimi, “Boat and ship engravings at al-Zubārah, Qatar: the dāw exposed?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 45: Papers from the forty-eighth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 25 to 27 July 2014 (2015), →ISSN, pages 35–47:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail.
diabetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbitiz/
ipa: [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾiz]
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbitɪs/
ipa: [ˌdaɪəˈbiɾɪs]
ipa: /ˌdɑɪəˈbiːtiːz/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖajəbɪʈ.s/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖajəˈbɛʈi.s/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖajəˈbiʈi.s/
ipa: /dajaˈbitis/
Etymology: From Latin diabētēs (“siphon”), from Ancient Greek διαβήτης (diabḗtēs), from Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”).
Senses: examples: text: In the UK, one in 10 people over 40 live with type 2 diabetes, while one in four have high blood pressure, a condition described as a “silent killer” because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke but rarely causes symptoms beforehand.
ref: 2020 September 7, Ian Sample, The Guardian:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Diabetes mellitus; any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.
examples: text: This milkshake is pure diabetes, as my friends and I agreed on as a joke when we first came to Black Tap.
ref: 2017 August 6, “The craziest things you have to eat in New York City”, in Silver Stories:
glosses: Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
examples: text: A Sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continuall pissing.
ref: 1649, Nicholas Culpeper, The Physical Directory:
text: The lady laboured under a Diabetes, in consequence of having used the waters injudiciously for another complaint; and, that she might not be an impediment to the carriage, by ordering it to halt,as often as she should have occasion to disembogue, she had provided herself with a leathern contrivance […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
Synonyms: sense: group of metabolic diseases
word: diabetes mellitus
sense: group of metabolic diseases
word: DM
sense: group of metabolic diseases
word: diabeetus
Hyponyms: sense: group of metabolic diseases
word: IDDM
sense: group of metabolic diseases
word: juvenile diabetes
sense: group of metabolic diseases
word: NIDDM
Derived terms: adult-onset diabetes
antidiabetes
bronze diabetes
diabesity
diabetes insipidus
diabetes mellitus
diabetology
diabulimia
gestational diabetes
I have diabetes
nondiabetes
prediabetes
sugar diabetes
telediabetes
type 1 diabetes
type 2 diabetes
type 3 diabetes
Related terms: diabetic
dictation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪkˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: dictations
Etymology: From Late Latin dictātiō, noun of action from dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō. By surface analysis, dictate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
glosses: Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
examples: text: We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:
glosses: An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
examples: text: ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
ref: 1852, Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury:
glosses: The act of ordering or commanding.
examples: text: His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
glosses: Orders given in an overbearing manner.
Derived terms: dictational
dictation machine
musical dictation
redictation
running dictation
shouting dictation
dictum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪk.təm/
rhymes: -ɪktəm
Forms: form: dicta
form: dictums
Etymology: From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“I say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”). Doublet of dict.
Senses: examples: text: This should not surprise us who know that van Gogh wrote: 'To paint and to love women is incompatible'; van Gogh was right for himself, which does not mean that he was right for everybody, and I will not draw from his dictum the probably incorrect conclusion that 'To paint and to love literature is incompatible.'
ref: 1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels:
text: […]a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound[…]
ref: 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
text: 1. The utmost in steam producing capacity permitted by weight and dimensions; in other words, capacity to boil water—H. A. Ivatt's old dictum.
ref: 1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 438:
text: But this is not the philosophical revolution of which I speak. What Warhol's dictum amounted to was that you cannot tell when something is a work of art just by looking at it, for there is no particular way that art has to look.
ref: 1992, Arthur Coleman Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
glosses: A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
glosses: The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
glosses: An arbitrament or award.
Derived terms: Aristotle's dictum
Judd's dictum
obiter dictum
Related terms: quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
ipse dixit
diffident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪfɪdənt/
Forms: form: more diffident
form: most diffident
Etymology: From Latin diffīdentem, present participle of diffīdere (“to mistrust”). Doublet of defiant.
Senses: glosses: Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
examples: text: Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
text: Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 5:
text: At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
synonyms: timid
modest
glosses: Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest
Derived terms: diffidently
diffidentness
undiffident
digest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī-jĕstʹ
enpr: də-jĕstʹ
ipa: /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
ipa: /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
enpr: dīʹjĕst
enpr: dīʹjəst
ipa: /ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/
ipa: /ˈdaɪd͡ʒəst/
rhymes: -ɛst
enpr: dī-jĕstʹ
enpr: də-jĕstʹ
ipa: /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
ipa: /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: digests
Etymology: From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).
Senses: examples: text: By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years.
ref: 1986 December 21, Donald Stone, “Gay Male Fiction Comes of Age in Anthology”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 8:
glosses: That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
examples: text: Comyn's Digest
text: the United States Digest
glosses: A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
examples: text: Reader's Digest is published monthly.
text: The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
glosses: Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The result of applying a hash function to a message.
digestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈdʒɛstəbəɫ/
Etymology: From Old French digestible, equivalent to digest + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being digested.
Synonyms: bite-sized
Derived terms: digestibility
digestibleness
digestibly
nondigestible
total digestible nutrients
undigestible
digress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɡɹɛs/
ipa: /dɪˈɡɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: digresses
form: digressing
form: digressed
form: digressed
Etymology: From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
text: […] For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress.)
ref: 1959, “In Old Mexico”, Tom Lehrer (music):
glosses: To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
examples: text: Thy overflow of good converts to bad;
And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 5, scene 3]:
glosses: To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
Synonyms: sense: turn from the course of argument
word: sidetrack
sense: turn from the course of argument
word: stray
sense: turn from the course of argument
word: divagate
Derived terms: digressingly
redigress
Related terms: digression
digressive
excursive
dilapidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˌlæp.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: dilapidations
form: delapidation
Etymology: From dilapidate.
Senses: glosses: The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
topics: law
glosses: The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
topics: law
glosses: Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
glosses: Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.
Derived terms: semidilapidation
Related terms: dilapidate
dilapidated
dilapidator