cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
purblind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːblaɪnd/
ipa: /ˈpɝblaɪnd/
Forms: form: purblinds
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English purblind (“(adjective) completely blind; blind in one eye; near-sighted; (noun) near-sighted animal, specifically a hare”) [and other forms], possibly from pur, pure (“completely, entirely”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean; pure”); influenced by pur- (prefix meaning ‘completely; forward; in advance’)) + blind (“sightless, blind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to blend, mix up; to make cloudy or opaque”)).
Sense 4.1 (“completely blind”) was the original sense. The senses denoting partial blindness are possibly the result of confusion of the first element pur- with poor, perhaps through folk etymology. (Compare parboil regarding per versus pars.)
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: If the miraculous Blood fails of diſſolving at its Approach to the miraculous Head, the vviſe Neapolitans look on it as an Omen of ſome more grievous Judgmt. than our Foreſighted Purblinds do of a Salt's Overthrovv on Table; but vvhen it benignly liquifies 'tis then a ſure Token of heavenly Favour, and the Able Pious ſurely make rich Offerings accordingly.
ref: 1759, Andrew Brice, “NAPLES”, in A Universal Geographical Dictionary; or, Grand Gazetteer; of General, Special, Antient and Modern Geography: […], volume II, London: […] J. Robinson and W. Johnston, […]; P. Davey and B. Law […]; and H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, […], →OCLC, page 918, column 1:
text: To love and adore is our proper province, not to knovv much; for as to knovvledge, vve are mere purblinds both in naturals and ſpirituals.
ref: 1781, John Rutty, Meditations and Soliloquies, with Religious Experiences, […], Dublin: […] Robert Jackson […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: By the freak of Fortune we were like to like, three Kalendars and three purblinds, all blind of the left eye.
ref: 1886, “The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad. [The Sixteenth Night.]”, in Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl., edited by Isabel Burton and Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton’s Edition of Her Husband’s Arabian Nights […], volume I, London: Waterlow & Sons […], →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.
backport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backports
form: backporting
form: backported
form: backported
Etymology: From back + port.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: retrofit
antonyms: port
glosses: To retroactively supply (to a previous version of a software product) a fix, or a new feature, at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: retrofit
antonyms: port
glosses: To retroactively supply (a fix or a new feature) to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.
backport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backports
Etymology: From back + port.
Senses: examples: text: This backport fixes an urgent bug.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An act of backporting.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software program that has been backported.
ballast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæl.əst/
rhymes: -æləst
Forms: form: ballasts
Etymology: From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, for the-- how much did you waste on that little boondoggle?” “Well, it's not that so much as--” “Krieger.” “Well, I needed ballast, and what better to simulate bricks of cocaine than, you know, bricks of cocaine.”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (18:15 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Algernop Krieger (Lucky Yates):
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
glosses: Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
glosses: Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
examples: text: With 73 minutes gone Rafael Márquez came on to add ballast at the back, appearing in his fifth World Cup aged 39 and with alleged links to drug trafficking, which he denies, on hold for now. And so they sat deep with a thin green line of five defenders ranged across their own penalty area as the game became a Mexican stand-off, attack versus defence.
ref: 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
text: It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.
ref: a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Profitableness of Godliness:
glosses: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
Derived terms: autoballaster
ballastage
ballast car
ballastless
ballastmaster
ballast resistor
ballast tank
ballast wagon
deballast
in ballast
in ballast condition
overballast
unballast
unballasted
ballast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæl.əst/
rhymes: -æləst
Forms: form: ballasts
form: ballasting
form: ballasted
form: ballasted
Etymology: From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).
Senses: glosses: To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
examples: text: The task of a Railway Construction Company, R.E., is to lay and ballast the track; [...].
ref: 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
text: Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity!
ref: 1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:
glosses: To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
examples: text: The noosance was […] that to make the umbrella effective he would have to carry abroad such weight to ballast it as would put the whole contraption out of action for carrying abroad at all.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: To weigh down with a ballast.
Derived terms: ballast up
reballast
reballasting
gravel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹævəl/
rhymes: -ævəl
Forms: form: gravels
form: graveling
form: gravelling
form: graveled
form: graveled
form: gravelled
form: gravelled
Etymology: From Middle English gravel, grauel, from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave (“gravel, seashore”), from Medieval Latin grava, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”) (compare Breton groa, Cornish grow, Welsh gro), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroh₁weh₂, from *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”). Compare also Old English græfa (“coal”).
Senses: examples: text: We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled, and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.
ref: 1905, John F. Hume, The Abolitionists:
glosses: To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
examples: text: It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.
ref: 1922, Herbert Quick, Vandemark's Folly:
glosses: To puzzle or annoy.
examples: 1605, William Camden, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in Remaines Concerning Britain, London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243,
William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.
glosses: To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
examples: text: The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
ref: 1579, Sir Thomas North, tr., Plutarch's Lives, The Life of Marcus Antonius
text: When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: […] I arrived at a spot where I was completely gravelled, and could go no farther one way or the other; […]
ref: 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. VIII”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:
glosses: To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
glosses: To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
glosses: To prostrate; to beat to the ground.
Oort Cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːrt klaʊd/
Forms: form: Oort cloud
Etymology: Named after Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The Solar System's Oort cloud, extending from 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical units (approximately 1 light year) from the sun; supposedly the source of most comets around the Solar System.
Synonyms: Öpik-Oort Cloud
supposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpəʊzd/
ipa: /səˈpoʊzd/
rhymes: -əʊzd
ipa: /səˈpəʊzɪd/
ipa: /səˈpoʊzɪd/
rhymes: -əʊzɪd
rhymes: -əʊzd
ipa: /səˈpəʊst/
ipa: /spəʊst/
ipa: /səˈpoʊst/
ipa: /spoʊst/
ipa: /əspoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suppose
supposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpəʊzd/
ipa: /səˈpoʊzd/
rhymes: -əʊzd
ipa: /səˈpəʊzɪd/
ipa: /səˈpoʊzɪd/
rhymes: -əʊzɪd
rhymes: -əʊzd
ipa: /səˈpəʊst/
ipa: /spəʊst/
ipa: /səˈpoʊst/
ipa: /spoʊst/
ipa: /əspoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Senses: examples: text: Elvis is the supposed king of rock and roll.
text: The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.
ref: 1759, David Hume, “[Henry VIII.] Chapter XXXII.”, in The History of England, under the House of Tudor. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 239:
text: Many criticisms have been made of prophylactic external cephalic version based on the supposed dangers of the manipulation.
ref: 1936 November 28, “Prognosis in Prophylactic External Cephalic Version”, in The Lancet, page 1285:
synonyms: reputed
glosses: Alleged; assumed.
Derived terms: supposedly
supposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpəʊzd/
ipa: /səˈpoʊzd/
rhymes: -əʊzd
ipa: /səˈpəʊzɪd/
ipa: /səˈpoʊzɪd/
rhymes: -əʊzɪd
rhymes: -əʊzd
ipa: /səˈpəʊst/
ipa: /spəʊst/
ipa: /səˈpoʊst/
ipa: /spoʊst/
ipa: /əspoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Senses: glosses: Only used in supposed to
expected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛk.tɪd/
Forms: form: more expected
form: most expected
Senses: examples: text: The expected storm never arrived.
glosses: Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
Derived terms: expected date of confinement
expected goal
expectedly
expectedness
expected value
inexpected
to be expected
expected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛk.tɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expect
Related terms: expect
expectation
best practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best practices
Senses: examples: text: For the record: A best practice for account names is to use the organization's full name in the account name field—such as, Department of Usually Micro Managed Important Executive Secretaries.
ref: 2008, Joel Scott, David Lee, Scott Weiss, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 For Dummies, John Wiley, →ISBN, page 374:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A well-defined procedure that is known to produce near-optimum results.
impawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impawns
form: impawning
form: impawned
form: impawned
Etymology: From im- + pawn.
Senses: glosses: To place an item into pawn.
examples: text: He had to impawn everything he owned just to pay his rent.
glosses: To pledge an item of value in return for a loan, or a trade for money.
inclination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: inclinations
Etymology: From Middle English inclinacioun, inclinacyon, from Old French inclination and Latin inclīnātiō. Morphologically incline + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.
glosses: A physical tilt or bend.
examples: text: The road up to the house had a steep inclination.
glosses: A slant or slope.
examples: text: His inclination to drink escalated to alcoholism.
glosses: A tendency.
examples: text: The astronomer calculated the inclination of the equator or ecliptic of Earth and the orbital planes of each visible heavenly body.
text: Artillery must take account of a weapon's precise inclination.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
examples: c. 1672-1679, William Temple, Memoirs
you make will be a Discovery of your Inclinations
c. 1771, John Adams, speaking in a trial
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
glosses: A person or thing loved or admired.
Synonyms: sense: slant or slope
word: incline
sense: slant or slope
word: inclining
sense: slant or slope
word: steepness
sense: tendency
word: leaning
sense: tendency
word: proclivity
sense: tendency
word: propensity
Derived terms: counterinclination
disinclination
hyperinclination
inclinational
inclinationism
misinclination
preinclination
Related terms: inclinable
incline
inclined plane
inclinometer
ecliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: ecliptics
form: ecliptick
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin eclīptica. So named because an eclipse can occur only when the Moon lies on this plane.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The great circle on the celestial sphere that is the mean apparent path of the sun as viewed from the earth.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: ecliptic plane
plane of the ecliptic
glosses: The plane in which this great circle lies.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
Derived terms: plane of ecliptic
superecliptic
ecliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: ecliptick
Etymology: From Middle English ecliptik, from Latin eclīpticus.
Senses: synonyms: ecliptical
glosses: Relating to an eclipse or the ecliptic.
Derived terms: ecliptic longitude
pastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪstɹi/
rhymes: -eɪstɹi
Forms: form: pastries
Etymology: From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)) or paste + -ri (modern paste + -ry).
Senses: examples: text: That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.
glosses: A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
examples: text: That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.
glosses: The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
glosses: The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
examples: text: They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2:
glosses: A place where pastry is made.
examples: text: He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.
glosses: The act or art of making pastry.
examples: text: I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.
qualifier: culinary industry
glosses: Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
Derived terms: choux pastry
cigarette pastry
Danish pastry
filo pastry
flakey pastry
flaky pastry
French pastry
nonpastry
pastry bag
pastry chef
pastrycook
pastry cook
pastry cream
pastry flour
pastry fork
pastryless
pastrylike
pastrymaker
pastrymaking
pastryman
pastry ring
pastry shop
pastry stout
Pastry War
pastry wheel
phyllo pastry
puff pastry
shortcrust pastry
short pastry
geometric progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometric progressions
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: geometric sequence
coordinate_terms: arithmetic progression
glosses: A sequence in which each term except the first is obtained from the previous by multiplying it by a constant value, known as the common ratio of the geometric progression.
Related terms: geometric series
patchouli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈt͡ʃuli/
Forms: form: patchoulis
form: patchouly
form: pachouli
Etymology: From Tamil பச்சுளி (paccuḷi).
Senses: glosses: Any of several East Indian plants in the genus Pogostemon, especially Pogostemon cablin, which yield a highly fragrant oil.
examples: text: Well she looks at you so coolly / And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea / She comes in incense and patchouli
ref: 1976, Peter Wood, Al Stewart, “Year of the Cat”, in Year of the Cat:
glosses: The oil or perfume made from these plants.
Derived terms: patchoulied
patchoulol
deference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfəɹəns/
ipa: /ˈdɛ.fɚ.əns/
ipa: /ˈdɛ.fɹəns/
rhymes: -ɛfəɹəns
Forms: form: deferences
Etymology: From French déférence. Morphologically defer + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: The children treated their elders with deference.
glosses: Great respect.
examples: text: By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.
text: Michael in turn benefits from Tom. He loosens up a bit, stops talking so much like one of the bad novels he used to read, and learns to give his intellect a rest once in a while in deference to the emotions.
ref: 1983 December 31, Kenneth Hale-Wehmann, “The Business of Sex and Affection”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 8:
glosses: The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
Synonyms: honor
respect
Derived terms: in deference to
nondeference
overdeference
suitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsjuːtəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌsuːtəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌsutəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [ˌsutəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: [ˌsuɾəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /ˌsjutəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ˌsʉːtəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [ˌsʉːtəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /ˌsjʉːtəˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: suitabilities
Etymology: From suit + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: As he knows little about the particular issues, his criterion must be consistency with his other views, suitability to combine them into a coherent picture of the world.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 423:
glosses: The quality of being suitable.
Related terms: suit
suitable
patchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchworks
Etymology: From patch + work.
Senses: glosses: A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
examples: text: Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.
text: Everything about China is super-sized: The five new parks, which in some cases stitched together an older patchwork of conservation zones, sprawl across more than 88,800 square miles of territory—a protected area more than 25 times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
ref: 2022 November 17, Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, in National Geographic:
text: The wider North West and Central Region is itself a microcosm of the industry's complexity. Covering the approaches to London Euston, stretching through Birmingham and the West Midlands, and reaching Manchester, Liverpool and beyond, it is a patchwork of overlapping markets, political geographies, and infrastructure types.
ref: 2025 October 1, Richard Wilcock, “There is more to be proud of in the railway than we sometimes allow ourselves to see”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 40:
glosses: Any kind of creation that makes use of many different aspects to create one whole piece.
examples: text: Present United States privacy law – despite being made up of a patchwork federal and state constitutional, statutory, and common law – is predominantly based on the ideals of individual control, autonomy, and liberty from governmental intrusion, despite the fact that its inspiration was an idea grounded on the importance of protecting human dignity and an “inviolate personality.”
ref: 2011, Bryce Clayton Newell, “Rethinking Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Online Social Networks”, in Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, volume 17, number 4, page 5:
text: Proponents of an AI moratorium had argued that a patchwork of state and local AI laws is hindering progress in the AI industry and the ability of U.S. firms to compete with China.
ref: 2025 July 1, Matt Brown and Matt O'Brien, “Senate strikes AI regulatory ban from GOP bill after uproar from the states”, in AP News:
glosses: A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
Derived terms: patchworky
Related terms: patchwork plagiarism
patchwork quilt
patchwork ruler
patchy
patchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: patchworks
form: patchworking
form: patchworked
form: patchworked
Etymology: From patch + work.
Senses: glosses: To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
glosses: To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
foreshorten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreshortens
form: foreshortening
form: foreshortened
form: foreshortened
Etymology: From fore- + shorten.
Senses: glosses: To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
synonyms: word: abate
word: bring down
word: cut
word: decrease
word: decrement
word: diminish
word: foreshorten
word: lessen
word: lower
word: reduce
glosses: To abridge, reduce, contract.
examples: text: When the church was demolished it was decided to preserve the chancel, partly for its Montagu monuments and partly to avoid disturbing the remains of the many members of the family who lie in the vaults beneath. The result is a foreshortened building of considerable charm, almost as broad as it is long and with great high windows.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 51, as an adjective:
text: The Californian duo looked and sounded like the kind of band you would have seen being excitedly introduced on The Old Grey Whistle Test in early 1976, only to find their career suddenly foreshortened by the arrival of punk
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To make shorter.
Derived terms: foreshortener
unforeshortened
pastorale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastorales
form: pastorali
Etymology: From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pastorali.
Senses: glosses: A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
examples: text: She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.
glosses: An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.
glosses: One of the figures of a quadrille.
pastel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæstl̩/
ipa: /pæsˈtɛl/
rhymes: -æstəl
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: pastels
form: pastille
Etymology: Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.
Senses: glosses: Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A drawing made with any of those colors.
glosses: A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
glosses: A crayon made from such a paste.
examples: text: Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.
glosses: Woad.
Derived terms: pastelist
pastellic
pastellist
pastelly
pastel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæstl̩/
ipa: /pæsˈtɛl/
rhymes: -æstəl
rhymes: -ɛl
ipa: /pæsˈtɛl/
ipa: /pɑsˈtɛl/
ipa: /ˈpæstl̩/
ipa: /pæsˈtɛl/
rhymes: -æstəl
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: pastels
form: pasteles
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pastel, ultimately the same word as Etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
glosses: A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.
disrepair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disrepairs
Etymology: From dis- + repair.
Senses: examples: text: The sewing machine is in disrepair.
text: The house had fallen into such disrepair that no agent would show it to buyers.
text: All the A.C.V. four-wheel diesel railbuses are now stored in seeming disrepair at Derby Friargate.
ref: 1962 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Midland Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 59:
text: We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own, and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
ref: 2017 January 20, Donald Trump, Inauguration speech:
text: The overriding reason that the public estate - be it roads, hospitals or schools - has fallen into disrepair is the continuing lack of economic growth, which has meant no budget can be found to keep assets in a good state of repair.
ref: 2023 October 18, 'Industry Insider', “High speed abandoned”, in RAIL, number 994, page 68:
glosses: The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.
Synonyms: unrepair
disrepair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disrepairs
form: disrepairing
form: disrepaired
form: disrepaired
Etymology: From dis- + repair.
Senses: examples: text: The house was disrepairing before your very eyes.
ref: 1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion, Or, One Good Bull is Half the Herd:
glosses: To get into a state of disrepair.
exoskeleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoskeletons
head_nr: 1
form: exoskeleta
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From exo- + skeleton.
Senses: examples: text: This is the case not only with all forms provided with exoskeleta and endoskeleta, into the composition of which lime largely enters, but also with those which exercise the precipitating effect on the calcium salts they absorb from sea water, the precipitation rarely going so far as to form a distinct deposit in the cells or tissues of the organism.
ref: 1903 January 17, A[rchibald] B[yron] Macallum, “The Palæochemistry of the Ocean in Relation to Animal and Vegetable Protoplasm”, in Transactions of the Canadian Institute, volume VII, Toronto, Ont.: […] for the Canadian Institute by Murray Printing Company, published 1904, section IV (The Composition of the Primeval Ocean), page 551:
text: Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.
ref: 1982, R. V. Lynch, Jr.; R. Burrell, “Primate Dander Allergy of Lesser Bushbaby (Galago): A Case Report”, in D[uane] E. Haines, editor, The Lesser Bushbaby (Galago) as an Animal Model: Selected Topics, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 304:
text: After separation, the next generation of daughters resumes the photosynthetic fixation (reduction) of carbon, the sequestration of phosphorus, nitrogen, and mineral nutrients (up to a score), and the synthesis of the proteins that will contribute to the generational doubling of biomass. Structures such as flagella, scales, and exoskeleta also have to be reallocated or copied.
ref: 2009, Klement Tockner, Gene E[lden] Likens, editors, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Academic Press, →ISBN:
text: Drawings supplied with NR's council application show a bridge with an exoskeleton that repeats some of the angles of Hitachi's '800' series trains which LNER and TransPennine Express run through the station.
ref: 2024 February 21, Philip Haigh, “Network News: New platforms and bridge to transform Darlington”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 12:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A wearable robotic machine used for aided or augmented mobility.
Derived terms: exoskeletal
semiexoskeleton
Related terms: english: often meronymous
translation: often meronymous
word: carapace
dissolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsəljuːt/
Forms: form: more dissolute
form: most dissolute
Etymology: From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
Senses: glosses: Unrestrained by morality.
examples: text: Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).
ref: 2023 October 4, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
Synonyms: debauched
dissipated
hedonic
lascivious
lewd
libidinous
profligate
wanton
Derived terms: dissolutely
dissoluteness
undissolute
dissolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsəljuːt/
Forms: form: dissolutes
Etymology: From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.
ref: 1879, The Quarterly Review, volume 148, page 263:
glosses: An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
incline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnklīn'
ipa: /ɪnˈklaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
enpr: ĭn'klīn
ipa: /ˈɪn.klaɪn/
rhymes: -ɪnklaɪn
Forms: form: inclines
form: inclining
form: inclined
form: inclined
form: encline
Etymology: From Middle English enclinen, from Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin inclīnō (“incline, tilt”), from in- + clīnō (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).
Senses: examples: text: He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.
text: The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.
glosses: To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
examples: text: Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.
glosses: To slope.
examples: text: He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.
text: I'm inclined to give up smoking after hearing of the risks to my health.
text: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters. […] Those who inclined to the stock-breeding theory based their arguments on the absence of ploughs, […].
ref: 1966, J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170
synonyms: dispose
qualifier: chiefly passive voice
glosses: To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
Derived terms: disincline
inclinable
inclinator
incliningly
misincline
preincline
uninclining
Related terms: inclination
incline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnklīn'
ipa: /ɪnˈklaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
enpr: ĭn'klīn
ipa: /ˈɪn.klaɪn/
rhymes: -ɪnklaɪn
Forms: form: inclines
form: encline
Etymology: From Middle English enclinen, from Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin inclīnō (“incline, tilt”), from in- + clīnō (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).
Senses: examples: text: To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.
glosses: A slope.
examples: text: the Pleasant Street Incline
glosses: A portal of a subway tunnel.
Derived terms: incline elevator
incline lift
inclineman
inclinometer
Related terms: climate
cline
decline
recline
proprietary trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Trading activity conducted by a securities firm for its own profit rather than for its clients.
monogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogrammes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of monogram.
engulf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈɡʌlf/
rhymes: -ʌlf
Forms: form: engulfs
form: engulfing
form: engulfed
form: engulfed
Etymology: From en- + gulf.
Senses: examples: text: Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
text: Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
text: The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.
ref: 1934, The Modern Monthly, volume 8, page 308:
glosses: To overwhelm.
examples: text: Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
glosses: To surround; to cover; to submerge.
glosses: To cast into a gulf.
Derived terms: engulfer
engulfment
unengulfed
boychik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪ.t͡ʃɪk/
Forms: form: boychiks
form: boychick
form: boychek
Etymology: From American Yiddish בויטשיק (boytshik), from a blend of English boy + Russian ма́льчик (málʹčik, “boy”).
Senses: examples: “Simpsons Christmas Stories”, in The Simpsons, season 17, episode 9, 2005: “Professor Frink (Hank Azaria): Uh, now you wouldn't hurt the little boychik? / Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer): Of course not.”
glosses: Term of endearment for a young boy, or a young man.
examples: text: You do nice work, boychik.
glosses: Term of endearment for any special male with whom one is familiar.
Derived terms: girlchik
overwhelm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛlm/
ipa: /-ˈʍɛlm/
ipa: /ˌo.vɚˈʍɛlm/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʍɛlm/
ipa: /-ˈwɛlm/
ipa: /ˌoː.vaˈwɛlm/
ipa: /ˌo.ʋəˈʋʱɛlm/
enpr: ōˌ-vər-hwĕlmˈ
enpr: -wĕlmˈ
rhymes: -ɛlm
Forms: form: overwhelms
form: overwhelming
form: overwhelmed
form: overwhelmed
form: o'erwhelm
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English overwhelmen, equivalent to over- + whelm.
Senses: examples: text: The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
synonyms: swamp
glosses: To engulf, surge over and submerge.
examples: text: In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
text: The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 78:53:
glosses: To overpower, crush.
examples: text: He was overwhelmed with guilt.
text: Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
text: Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To overpower emotionally.
examples: text: I lay Turpentine all over the same: then I overwhelm a broader pipe about the first
ref: 1684, Denis Papin, Instrument to make turpentine penetrate plaster and wood using the airpump:
glosses: To cause to surround, to cover.
Synonyms: grip
ravish
Derived terms: overwhelmable
overwhelmer
overwhelming
Related terms: whelm
overwhelm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛlm/
ipa: /-ˈʍɛlm/
ipa: /ˌo.vɚˈʍɛlm/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈʍɛlm/
ipa: /-ˈwɛlm/
ipa: /ˌoː.vaˈwɛlm/
ipa: /ˌo.ʋəˈʋʱɛlm/
enpr: ōˌ-vər-hwĕlmˈ
enpr: -wĕlmˈ
rhymes: -ɛlm
Forms: form: overwhelms
form: o'erwhelm
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English overwhelmen, equivalent to over- + whelm.
Senses: examples: text: If you beat your opponent by a margin of 5 or more, you have Overwhelmingly Succeeded. This type of success is often simply called an Overwhelm. […] An overwhelm means you've not only succeeded, but you've done something better than the average success would be.
ref: 1999, Jason Holmgren, Ironclaw:
text: The fact is, that full permeation and understanding of an overwhelm or trauma makes it cease as an overwhelm or trauma.
ref: 2015, Rolf Dane, Deep Clearing, Releasing the Power of Your Mind:
text: And what you’re feeling is normal in a dangerous situation — overwhelm and guilt when someone is harmed.
ref: 2021, Star Trek: Discovery, “Stormy Weather”, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Michael Burnham:
glosses: The state or condition of being overwhelmed.
Related terms: too many balls in the air
monogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: monograms
form: monogramme
Etymology: From French monogramme, from the Classical Latin adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured Ancient Greek * μονόγραμμος (monógrammos, “outlined”, “drawn with single lines”).
Senses: glosses: A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.
monogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: monograms
form: monogramme
Etymology: Formed as mono- + -gram, by analogy with epigram.
Senses: glosses: A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.
monogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: monograms
form: monogramme
Etymology: The noun derives from the post-Classical Latin monogrammum, itself from the Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον (monógrammon); compare the French and Middle French monogramme, as well as the Italian monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.
Senses: examples: text: It dates from 1909-1911, when the then District Railway (its DR monogram is on one of the roundels in the fine plasterwork) rebuilt its Victoria station.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade”, in RAIL, number 946, page 59:
glosses: A design or motif composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution; the letters are usually the initials of their names.
Derived terms: monogrammal
monogrammatic
monogrammatise
monogrammatize
monogrammic
monogrammist
Related terms: royal cypher
imperial cypher
tughra
monogram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: monograms
form: monogramming
form: monograming
form: monogrammed
form: monogrammed
form: monogramed
form: monogramed
form: monogramme
Etymology: The noun derives from the post-Classical Latin monogrammum, itself from the Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον (monógrammon); compare the French and Middle French monogramme, as well as the Italian monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.
Senses: glosses: To mark something with a monogram.
Derived terms: monogrammable
unmonogrammed
monogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.nəˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nəˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɒnəɡɹæm
Forms: form: monograms
form: monogramme
Senses: glosses: One of the symbols used in either the I Ching divination or the Taixuanjing divination:
the unbroken line ⚊ for Heaven;
glosses: One of the symbols used in either the I Ching divination or the Taixuanjing divination:
the once-broken line ⚋ for Earth;
glosses: One of the symbols used in either the I Ching divination or the Taixuanjing divination:
the twice-broken line 𝌀 for Man (only used in Taixuanjing divination).
producers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of producer
betwixt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtwɪkst/
rhymes: -ɪkst
Forms: form: betwix
form: betwixte
form: betwyxt
Etymology: From Middle English bitwixe, from Old English betweox, from Proto-Germanic *twiskaz (“twofold, double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice, doubly; in two”). By surface analysis, be- (“by, near, around”) + twixt (“between”). Compare Saterland Frisian twiske (“between”), Dutch tussen, German zwischen.
Senses: examples: text: There was some speech of marriage / Betwixt myself and her.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and communication betwixt one part of Scotland and another.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], “I. Being Introductory.”, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 13:
text: When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: And praying to the Gods beneath, I stuck my dirk betwixt my teeth and drew my sabre from its sheath.
ref: 2011, Felix Hagan, “Vengeance On My Mind”, in Dawn Breaks, the Monster Wakes...:
glosses: Between.
Derived terms: betwixt and between
betwixtness
betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea
inbetwixt
'twixt
twixt
dissipated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: James dissipated his savings with all of his addictions.
glosses: simple past and past participle of dissipate
dissipated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪpeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
Synonyms: dissolute
intemperate
Derived terms: dissipatedly
dissipatedness
nondissipated
undissipated
Magnetic North
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic north
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: At a given point, the direction in which the magnetic North Pole of the Earth lies.
Related terms: True North
True North
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of true north.
True North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the True North
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Canada.
acidophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidophiles
Etymology: From acid + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: The presence of this and other closely related Thermoplasmales suggests that these acidophiles are important contributors to acid mine drainage and may substantially impact iron and sulfur cycles.
ref: 2000, Edwards KJ, Bond PL, Gihring TM, Banfield JF, “An archaeal iron-oxidizing extreme acidophile important in acid mine drainage.”, in Science, 287(5459), pages 1796-1799, pmid:10710303:
glosses: An organism that lives and thrives under acidic conditions; a form of extremophile.
examples: text: Examples of acid vegetation include specific plant associations dominated by heath, sphagnum moss and many other acidophile plants.
ref: unknown - Unknown author. FORMATION OF PEATS: Type of Vegetation. Retrieved 2005-03-13
glosses: An organism that lives and thrives under acidic conditions; a form of extremophile.
A plant that thrives in relatively acid soil.
Derived terms: acidophile body
nonacidophile
Related terms: acidophil
acidophilia
acidophilic
disruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/
ipa: /dɪzˈɹʌpʃən/
ipa: /dɪzˈɹʊpʃən/
ipa: /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/
rhymes: -ʌpʃən
Forms: form: disruptions
Etymology: From Latin disruptionem, from disrumpere. By surface analysis, disrupt + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The network created a disruption in the show when they broke in with a newscast.
text: In the May 12 memo, Meta said it had previously allowed open discussion of abortion at work but later recognized that it had led to “significant disruptions in the workplace given unique legal complexities and the number of people affected by the issue.”
ref: 2022 June 24, Mike Isaac and Ryan Mac, “Meta clamps down on internal discussion of Roe v. Wade’s overturning.”, in The New York Times:
text: Much more disruption, we are told, lies ahead.
ref: 2024 June 16, Jill Lepore, “The Disruption Machine”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
examples: text: There was great disruption in the classroom when the teacher left.
glosses: A continuing act of disorder.
glosses: A breaking or bursting apart; a breach.
Derived terms: chronodisruption
disruptionism
disruptionist
infodisruption
photodisruption
predisruption
weapon of mass disruption
Related terms: disrupt
disruptive