cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
terms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɜːmz/
ipa: /tɝmz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of term
knot theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of topology dealing with knots.
host response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: host responses
Senses: examples: text: The host response is the defense mechanism of the host against exogenous microorganisms.
glosses: The reaction of a living system to the presence of a material.
Related terms: biomaterial
biocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocompatibilities
Etymology: From bio- + compatibility.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific situation.
Derived terms: cytobiocompatibility
Related terms: biocompatible
biomaterial
cytocompatibility
decimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məɫ/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.ə.məl/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.məl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.
Synonyms: word: base-ten
word: denary
Derived terms: decimal comma
decimal mark
decimal reduction time
decimal time
decimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məɫ/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.ə.məl/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.məl/
Forms: form: decimals
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.
Senses: examples: text: What is ⁷⁄₂₃ as a decimal?
glosses: A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.
glosses: The decimal system itself.
examples: text: Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals.
glosses: A decimal place.
glosses: A decimal point.
glosses: Alternative spelling of dismil.
Synonyms: word: decimal number
sense: system
word: decimal system
word: decimal place
Hyponyms: binary-coded decimal
Related terms: decim
decimate
decimal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məɫ/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.ə.məl/
ipa: /ˈdɛs.məl/
Forms: form: decimals
form: decimaling
form: decimalling
form: decimaled
form: decimaled
form: decimalled
form: decimalled
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.
Senses: examples: text: Single- decimaled entries, often originating in Whiting (Wh) or Wilson (OW; see p. 23, fn.3), are from SPL. To save space, examples cited in SPL are normally not repeated (examples therefore begin with "Add:"). Double- decimaled entries, again often based on Wh or OW, are "new."
ref: 1984, Robert William Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616: An Index:
text: simplified, substantively interpretable versions of the optimal (but many-decimaled) linear combinations of your original variables
ref: 2001, Richard J. Harris, A Primer of Multivariate Statistics, page 54:
text: So naturally, 3/14 – the 14th of March – is celebrated as “Pi Day.” And since 3.14 is the beginning, not the end of Pi – it can be decimaled on out to infinity – and since the next two numbers are 1 and 5 voila! today’s date 3/14/15 is really special.
ref: 2015, Brad Knickerbocker, It’s Pi Day! Let’s have some pie., Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To represent with numbers after a decimal point.
Derived terms: binary decimal
decimal arithmetic
decimal candle
decimal dozen
decimaled
decimal fraction
decimalic
decimalise
decimalism
decimalist
decimalite
decimalization
decimalize
decimally
decimal without a zero
dotted decimal
hexatrigesimal
heximal
negadecimal
nondecimal
packed decimal
pentadecimal
postdecimal
pre-decimal
repeating decimal
sedecimal
septendecimal
sexadecimal
subdecimal
tetradecimal
tridecimal
Related terms: base
binary
octal
undecimal
duodecimal
hexadecimal
vigesimal
sexagesimal
transdecimal
hexadecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛksəˈdɛsɪməl/
Forms: form: hexadecimals
Etymology: 1952. hexadeca- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for more information.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number expressed in the hexadecimal system.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base sixteen
word: hex
word: sedecimal
word: sexadecimal
Derived terms: hexadecimally
hexadecimal time
hexit
nonhexadecimal
hexadecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛksəˈdɛsɪməl/
Etymology: 1952. hexadeca- + decimal; see the Wikipedia article for more information.
Senses: glosses: Of a number, expressed in hexadecimal.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base-sixteen
Related terms: base
binary
decimal
octal
0x
colo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊləʊ/
rhymes: -əʊləʊ
Senses: examples: text: The previous wall outlet tests at their colo facility ran for 6 days straight without issue.
text: One was a mistake in the colo, where there was a mislabeled circuit, so they cut power to 1/3 of one of our racks.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: co-location
Related terms: colo-colo
filial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪl.i.əl/
ipa: /ˈfɪl.jəl/
ipa: /ˈfi.li.əl/
rhymes: -ɪliəl
rhymes: -ɪljəl
rhymes: -iːliəl
Forms: form: more filial
form: most filial
Etymology: From Middle English filial, from Latin fīliālis, from filius (“son”) / filia (“daughter”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The filial duty Ellesmere had paid to a father, who had no other claim to it than that he was his father, was now consoling to him [D'Alonville]; […]
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, “Chapter 20”, in The Banished Man, volume 2:
text: The plot revolves around an aimless and unemployed young man, M, whose sole ambition is to livestream his online games. He volunteers to take care of his maternal grandmother after he finds out she has Stage 4 cancer. His motivation is not filial piety; instead, he hopes that he can inherit her house.
ref: 2024 June 23, Sui-Lee Wee, “Why Southeast Asia Is Crying Over This Movie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2024:
antonyms: unfilial
coordinate_terms: motherly
maternal
parental
fatherly
paternal
glosses: Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
examples: text: If the admonition [to the parent] does not take effect, the son will be more reverential and more filial; […]
ref: 1885, The actions and Attitude of Filiality, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by ConfuciusJames Legge:
glosses: Respectful of the duties and attitudes of sons or daughters toward their parents.
examples: text: This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, as first filial (F₁), second filial (F₂), etc.
ref: 1916, William E. Castle, Gregor Mendel, Genetics & Eugenics, page 101:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: parental
glosses: Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
Derived terms: filial duty
filial generation
filially
filialness
filial piety
filiopietistic
grandfilial
nonfilial
Related terms: filiation
lachrymose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæk.ɹɪ.moʊs/
Forms: form: more lachrymose
form: most lachrymose
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lacrimōsus, from lacrima (“tear”) + -osus (“-ful”), from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Indo-European *dakru-, cognate with English tear.
Senses: examples: text: It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.
ref: 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 69:
synonyms: word: miserable
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
Derived terms: lachrymatory
lachrymosely
lachrymoseness
lachrymosity
unlachrymose
bonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.nəs/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.nəs/
rhymes: -əʊnəs
Forms: form: bonuses
form: bonusses
form: boni
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.
Senses: glosses: Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
text: The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
glosses: An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
examples: text: Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.
ref: 1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25
topics: video-games
glosses: An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
Derived terms: antibonus
baby bonus
bonus baby
Bonusgate
bonus genius
bonus hole
bonus-less
bonus mother
bonus point
bonus-point
bonus question
double bonus
no claims bonus
non-bonus
nonbonus
signing bonus
sign on bonus
sign-on bonus
bonus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.nəs/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.nəs/
rhymes: -əʊnəs
Forms: form: bonuses
form: bonusses
form: bonusing
form: bonussing
form: bonused
form: bonused
form: bonussed
form: bonussed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.
Senses: examples: text: In its adherence to a system of rating which bonusses the most anti-social owners and penalises those doing something to improve the district, the municipality must accept a large measure of responsibility.
ref: 1949, Land Values Research Group, Reclamation of an Industrial Suburb:
text: The main bulk of the piece-workers (71%) are bonussed for fulfillment of the production quotas by the section, shop or plant on condition they fulfill the norms.
ref: 1964, Translations on USSR Labor, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 22:
text: Extracting grants called bonusses from municipal councils had become a fine art in the hands of railway promoters, and by the 1870s councils were aware that huge municipal debts could be mounted up by bonussing railway lines that as often as not never materialized.
ref: 1991, Bruce S. Elliott, The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada’s Capital, 1792-1990, Corporation of the City of Nepean, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: To pay a bonus, premium
innkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnkiːpəɹ/
Forms: form: innkeepers
Etymology: From Middle English inkeper; equivalent to inn + keeper. Compare Middle English inholder (“innkeeper”).
Senses: synonyms: taverner
tavernkeeper
glosses: The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor.
Derived terms: fat innkeeper
innkeeperess
innkeeper worm
innkeepress
cognate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɡn(e)ɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɡn(e)ɪt/
Forms: form: cogn.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from co- + gnātus (“born”). Compare Portuguese cognato and Spanish cognado. Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Senses: synonyms: word: akin
word: same-blooded
word: akin
word: cognate
word: consanguine
word: consanguineous
word: consanguineal
word: natural
word: same-blooded
glosses: Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
examples: text: This explanation provoked further great hilarity among the members of the committee. And the frankness was admired by many with which Louit, on his return, confessed to having found, in the course of his excursion, three barns in all, of which two contained empty bottles and the third the skeleton of a goat. But in other quarters this and cognate statements were viewed in another and less friendly light.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: allied
word: kindred
word: connate
word: akin
word: cognate
word: connate
word: kindred
glosses: Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Derived terms: cognately
cognateness
cognation
noncognate
cognate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɡn(e)ɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɡn(e)ɪt/
Forms: form: cognates
form: cogn.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from co- + gnātus (“born”). Compare Portuguese cognato and Spanish cognado. Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Senses: glosses: One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
topics: law
glosses: One who is related to another on the female side.
topics: law
glosses: One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: paronym
coordinate_terms: etymon
derivative/reflex
glosses: A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
Derived terms: cognacy
cognatic
cognatically
false cognate
Related terms: english: accusative cognate, cognate object
translation: accusative cognate, cognate object
word: cognate accusative
word: agnate
word: derivation
word: etymology
word: etymon
word: false friend
word: root
filter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪltə/
ipa: /ˈfɪltɚ/
rhymes: -ɪltə(ɹ)
homophone: philter
Forms: form: filters
form: filtering
form: filtered
form: filtered
Etymology: From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.
Senses: examples: text: This strainer should filter out the large particles.
text: “You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur:
text: Receivers often incorporate digital equalisers to 'mop up' slight intersymbol interference after initial filtering at the receiver.
ref: 1992, Chris C. Bissell, David A. Chapman, Digital signal transmission (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle.
ref: 2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: To sort, sift, or isolate.
examples: text: The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
glosses: To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
examples: text: The water filtered through the rock and soil.
glosses: To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
examples: text: The crowd filtered into the theater.
glosses: To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
examples: text: I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
glosses: To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
examples: text: Most people get filtered by that episode.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
Synonyms: sense: to sort, sift, or isolate
english: something
translation: something
word: to filter out
Derived terms: defilter
filterability
filterable
filterer
misfilter
overfilter
postfilter
prefilter
refilter
subfilter
underfilter
unfilter
Related terms: filtrate
filtration
filtride
filtrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪltɹeɪt/
rhymes: -ɪltɹeɪt
Forms: form: filtrates
Etymology: From the substantivation of New Latin filtrātus (“filtered”) past perfect participle of filtrō (“to filter”). Equivalent to filter (the verb) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: coordinate_terms: filtride
filtrand
glosses: The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from other fractions of the original material.
Derived terms: filtrate tracer
hemofiltrate
microfiltrate
ultrafiltrate
Related terms: filtration
autolysate
condensate
diffusate
distillate
eluate
exudate
hemolysate
leachate
lysate
filtrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪltɹeɪt/
rhymes: -ɪltɹeɪt
Forms: form: filtrates
form: filtrating
form: filtrated
form: filtrated
Etymology: From New Latin filtrō (“to filter”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Ashes boil'd in Water; and filtrated
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To filter.
Derived terms: hyperfiltrating
hypofiltrating
filtride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪltɹaɪd/
rhymes: -ɪltɹaɪd
Forms: form: filtrides
Etymology: From filter + -ide.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: filtrand, residue (usually synonymous)
text: The filtride, i.e. the solid portions that are obtained from the filtration, adheres to the outer surface of the wire 2 and may be gathered, e.g. by means of a water jet, a doctor blade or the like.
ref: 2008, David Lindkvist, Method and arrangement for fixing an endless wire (US Patent application US20110233130A1):
text: After the monomer is consumed, the reaction mixture is cooled to room temperature. Then, filtration is employed to separate the solid filtride from the liquid filtrate.
ref: 2014, Dylan J. Boday, Timothy C. Mauldin, Flame-retardant polylactic acid (PLA) by grafting through of phosphorus-containing polymers directly to PLA backbone (US Patant US9187597B1):
text: The precipitate was filtered out, and the filtride on the filter paper was washed repeatedly with distilled water until the filtrate became neutral. Soxhlet extraction using ethanol and diethyl ether mixture was performed to remove unreacted reagents.
ref: 2015 September, Yilei Wang, Ahmed G. El-Deen, Peng Li, Bernice H.L. Oh, Zanru Guo, Mya Mya Khin, Yogesh S. Vikhe, Jing Wang, Rebecca G. Hu∥, Remko M. Boom, Kimberly A. Kline, David L. Becker, Hongwei Duan, Mary B. Chan-Park, “High-Performance Capacitive Deionization Disinfection of Water with Graphene Oxide-graft-Quaternized Chitosan Nanohybrid Electrode Coating”, in American Chemical Society NANO:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: filtrate
glosses: The substance which remains on the filter after the filtrate passes through it.
Related terms: filtration
condensate
dialysate
diffusate
distillate
appoggiatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌpɒ.d͡ʒəˈtʊɹ.ə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: appoggiaturas
form: appoggiature
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian appoggiatura, derived from appoggiare (“to lean”).
Senses: examples: text: The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions.
ref: 1992 March 2, New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
trill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪl/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪl]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: trills
Etymology: From Middle English trillen, from Italian trillo, trillare. Compare German trillern, Norwegian trille, Swedish trilla.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
glosses: A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
Synonyms: word: chirl
word: chirr
word: quaver
word: trill
word: warble
word: wobble
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: yodel
Derived terms: trilly
Related terms: word: birdsong
word: shake
word: trembling
word: vibrate
word: mordente
word: tremolo
word: vibrato
trill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪl/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪl]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: trills
form: trilling
form: trilled
form: trilled
Etymology: From Middle English trillen, from Italian trillo, trillare. Compare German trillern, Norwegian trille, Swedish trilla.
Senses: examples: text: To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
ref: 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy:
synonyms: warble
glosses: To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
examples: text: to trill a note, or the letter r
text: The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
Synonyms: roll
Derived terms: triller
trill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪl/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪl]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: trills
form: trilling
form: trilled
form: trilled
Etymology: Perhaps identical to Etymology 3, but compare the same sense of drill, and German trillen, drillen.
Senses: examples: text: I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc[…]who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 30, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Whisper'd sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.
glosses: To trickle.
trill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪl/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪl]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: trills
form: trilling
form: trilled
form: trilled
Etymology: Probably related to Old English þweran (“to twirl, stir”). Compare twirl, thirl, and Swedish trilla, Norwegian trille, etc.
Senses: glosses: To twirl.
Related terms: tirl
trill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪl/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪl]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: triller
form: trillest
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of true + real, or from keep it real, exhibiting the fill–feel merger.
Senses: examples: text: All my trill niggas know who be bringin da funk / Lees and shell toes like it's Black History Month
ref: 2007, “Black History Month”, in The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, performed by Saul Williams:
text: LAMAR: Oh, really? That's a nice change from fools comin' up on us. / FRANKLIN: That's trill, homie. / LAMAR: You damn straight that's trill, partner, but it's a shame I don't believe it. You wanna drop some notes on that shit, I'll give you the odds, homie.
ref: 2013, Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar Games, level/area: Repossession:
text: Middle finger to the critics, me and my nigga Skrillex / You know we finna kill it, A$AP we the trillest
ref: 2013, “Wild for the Night”, performed by A$AP Rocky:
qualifier: hip-hop culture
glosses: True, respected.
glissando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glissandi
form: glissandos
form: glissandoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian glissando.
Senses: examples: text: After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.
ref: 2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
glosses: A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
Derived terms: glissando babbler
glissando
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glissandos
form: glissandoing
form: glissandoed
form: glissandoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian glissando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play with a glissando or sliding effect.
dynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/
ipa: /dʌɪˈnamɪks/
ipa: /dəˈnamɪks/
Etymology: From dynamic + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
Derived terms: aerodynamics
astrodynamics
autodynamics
barodynamics
biodynamics
cardiodynamics
chemodynamics
chromodynamics
cliodynamics
cytodynamics
ecodynamics
elastodynamics
electrodynamics
ferrofluid dynamics
flavordynamics
fluid dynamics
fluidodynamics
fluidynamics
gas dynamics
geodynamics
geoecodynamics
geometrodynamics
glucodynamics
glycodynamics
gravidynamics
group dynamics
hadrodynamics
haemodynamics
hemodynamics
homeodynamics
hydrodynamics
hyperdynamics
immunodynamics
macrodynamics
magnetodynamics
magnetofluidodynamics
magnetohydrodynamics
metadynamics
microdynamics
modified Newtonian dynamics
molecular dynamics
morphodynamics
myodynamics
nematodynamics
neurodynamics
oligodynamics
optodynamics
paleodynamics
peridynamics
phacodynamics
pharmacodynamics
photodynamics
phylodynamics
plasmadynamics
population dynamics
power dynamics
pseudodynamics
psychodynamics
rigid body dynamics
serodynamics
social dynamics
sociodynamics
spatiodynamics
stereodynamics
subdynamics
thermodynamics
thermofluid dynamics
thrombodynamics
toxicodynamics
trophodynamics
tubulodynamics
urodynamics
vasodynamics
zoodynamics
dynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/
ipa: /dʌɪˈnamɪks/
ipa: /dəˈnamɪks/
Etymology: From dynamic + -ics.
Senses: glosses: Loudness of sound.
The changing amplitude or level of a sound wave or selection of audio.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Loudness of sound.
The volume with which music is to be performed, denoted by such terms as piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, or forte.
examples: text: The changing dynamics in international politics led to such an outcome.
glosses: Forces that stimulate growth, change, or development.
Related terms: dynamic
dyne
statics
false cognate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false cognates
Senses: examples: text: False cognates are words in different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots. They appear to have a common linguistic origin (regardless of meaning) but actually do not. [...] The two terms, "false cognates" and "false friends," are sometimes used incorrectly or interchangeably by some teachers[. ... Learn to] recognize false cognates, which are pairs of words in different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots.
ref: 2015, Donna Spangler, John Alex Mazzante, Using Reading to Teach a World Language, →ISBN, page 34:
text: I don't speak Chinese, but "Mama" is a false cognate, means the same thing in English, Swahili, Navajo--
ref: 2011, Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, “Motherland”, in Y: The Last Man: The Deluxe Edition Book 5, page 36:
text: Conversely, the Italian word cazzo [cock, penis] and the Spanish word cazo [ladle, small saucepan] would be false friends and false cognates inasmuch as their respective meanings are different; additionally, there is not any etymological [...] common root for both words. This makes the set of false friends wider than the set of false cognates, since all false cognates are false friends, but not all false friends are false cognates.
ref: 2012, Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez, Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A word that appears to be cognate (etymologically related) to another given word, but in fact is not.
examples: text: False cognates, on the other hand, are words in two languages that are identical or similar in form and may mislead the bilingual to think that they have the same or similar meaning, while their meaning is actually different, e.g., become-bekommen in English-German, […]
ref: 2010, Gregory M. Shreve, Erik Angelone, Translation and Cognition, →ISBN, page 324:
glosses: A false friend: a word that appears to have the same meaning as another given word, but in fact does not (without regard to whether or not the two terms are cognate).
Related terms: lists of false friends in various languages
Lingua Franca Nova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Dr. C. George Boeree, the inventor of the language.
Senses: glosses: A constructed language created by C. George Boeree based on French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan using either Latin or Cyrillic alphabets with grammar based on that of Romance Creoles.
wikipedia: C. George Boeree
Synonyms: word: Elefen
word: LFN
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Lingua Franca Nova terms
snailery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaileries
Etymology: From snail + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where snails are bred or kept.
draco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɹeɪkoʊ/
rhymes: -eɪkəʊ
Forms: form: dracos
Senses: examples: text: Chop trees with the draco
ref: 2018, “Narcos”, in Quavious Marshall, Kirshnik Ball, Kiari Cephus (lyrics), Culture II, performed by Migos, Motown:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
Related terms: draco lizard
constellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constellation
cuatro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuatros
Etymology: From Spanish cuatro. Doublet of four and quatre.
Senses: glosses: Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).
Derived terms: cuatrista
hyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: hyps
form: hyp.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven ſend thou haſt not got the Hypps. / How? Not a Word come from thy lips?
ref: 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Cassinus and Peter. A Tragical Elegy.”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Guess I've got a bad case of the hyps.
ref: 1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates’ Hope, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 33:
glosses: Hypochondria.
examples: text: A hyp act is scheduled after the acrobats.
text: [W]hen a dream or the hyp has given us falſe terrors, or imaginary pains, we immediately conclude, that the infernal tyrant owes us a ſpite, and inflicts his wrath and ſtripes upon us, by the hands of ſome of his ſworn ſervants amongſt us.
ref: 1759 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Deceit and Falshood”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], new edition, number VIII, London: […] W[illiam] Lane, […], published c. 1790, →OCLC, page 230:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: Hypnotism.
examples: text: The hyp is booked through the end of the month.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A hypnotist.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hypotenuse.
examples: text: Itinerant short con and carny hyp men have burned down the croakers of Texas. . . .
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of hype (“hypodermic [needle]”).
Derived terms: hyppish
hyp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: hyps
form: hypping
form: hypped
form: hypped
Senses: glosses: To make melancholy.
achromatopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achromatopsias
form: achromatopsy
Etymology: From German Achromatopsie, from Ancient Greek ἀχρώματος (akhrṓmatos), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”), + -opsie. By surface analysis, a- + chromato- + -opsia.
Senses: synonyms: achromatism
achromatopsy
achromatopia
glosses: Total color blindness; the total inability to distinguish colors due to the absence of cone cells in the eyes.
Hypernyms: color blindness
Derived terms: achromatopsic
hemiachromatopsia
acicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪk.jə.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Latin aciculāris.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: needlelike, pinlike
1992, Oliver Sacks, Migraine, Berkeley: University of California Press, revised and expanded edition, Part 5, Chapter 17, p. 279,
Sometimes these networks have an acicular or crystalline appearance, and may grow visibly, sometimes with sudden jerks, “like frost on a windowpane,” or “primitive plants.”
glosses: Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
glosses: Having sharp points like needles.
examples: text: the acicular foliage of coniferous trees
text: […] though fond of foliage, their trees always had a tendency to congeal into little acicular thorn-hedges, and never tossed free.
ref: 1860, John Ruskin, chapter 3, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VIII (Of Ideas of Relation:—I. Of Invention Formal.), page 189:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a leaf, slender and pointed, needle-like.
Derived terms: acicularity
acicularly
nonacicular
subacicular
Related terms: acicle
acicula
acierage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French aciérage, from acier (“steel”).
Senses: glosses: The process of electroplating a copper engraving with iron or steel.
Synonyms: steeling
microcontroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹə(ʊ)kənˌtɹəʊlə/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊkənˌtɹoʊlɚ/
Forms: form: microcontrollers
form: µC
form: uC
form: MCU
Etymology: From micro- + controller.
Senses: examples: text: The microcontroller is a mini computer which can be programmed to perform different tasks, including monitoring things and making things happen. It is pre-programmed for use with the games projects. See project 17 for how to select games on it.
ref: 2021 December 24, “Snap Circuits Arcade”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 6:
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.
Hypernyms: controller
Related terms: microbot
microprocessor
folksy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊksi
Forms: form: folksier
form: more folksy
form: folksiest
form: most folksy
Etymology: From folks + -y or folk + -sy.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of simple country life.
examples: text: Mr. Clooney, as a veteran spacewalker, with his resonant voice and folksy yarns, seems to be channeling every imperturbable astronaut you ever heard speaking from on high.
ref: 2013 September 30, Dennis Overbye, “Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Informal, affable and familiar.
Synonyms: sense: affable and familiar
word: chummy
Derived terms: folksily
folksiness
Related terms: folkish
folkishness
folksiness
just folks
inaccuracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈakjʊɹəsi/
ipa: /ɪnˈakjəɹəsi/
ipa: /ɪnˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/
Forms: form: inaccuracies
Etymology: Morphologically in- + accuracy.
Senses: synonyms: imprecision
incorrectness
inexactness
glosses: The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.
examples: text: This book has a few factual inaccuracies, but only because of the limits of contemporary knowledge. For instance, at the time of writing, Ribbon Falls was thought to be the highest waterfall in the world; today we know that Angel Falls in Venezuela has this distinction.
ref: 1922, Herbert Earl Wilson, The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite Indians:
synonyms: error
mistake
fault
glosses: A statement, passage etc. that is inaccurate or false.
glosses: Incorrect calibration of a measuring device, or incorrect use; lack of precision.
topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: word: mul:?!
glosses: A move that is considered suboptimal, but not as bad as a mistake or blunder.
Related terms: inaccurate
inaccurately
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Etymology: Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
Senses: examples: text: Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
antonyms: yum
glosses: Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
Synonyms: word: ack
word: agh
word: argh
word: bah
word: barf
word: bleah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: bleh
word: eugh
word: eurgh
word: ew
word: eww
word: faugh
word: feh
word: foh
word: gah
word: gack
word: ick
word: no
word: pah
word: pew
word: phew
word: poo
word: pooh
word: uck
word: ugh
word: urgh
word: yech
word: yeurgh
word: yeugh
word: ych a fi
word: yuck
Derived terms: yuck factor
yuck it up
yuck out
yuck someone's yum
yuck up
yucky
Related terms: word: nauseated
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Etymology: Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
Senses: examples: text: I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it […] “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate the yuck."
ref: 2003 December 8, The New Yorker:
glosses: Something disgusting.
examples: text: Alright, settle down, you yucks!
ref: 2018 November 11, “Stand by Meg”, in Family Guy, season 17, episode 6:
glosses: A general insult.
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yucks
form: yucking
form: yucked
form: yucked
Etymology: Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
Senses: examples: text: I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
ref: 1994, Linda Shands, A Time to Keep, page 37:
text: Dom was yucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.
ref: 1997, Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel, page 79:
text: He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.
ref: 2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, page 47:
text: I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but no yucking will I tolerate.
ref: 2015, Paulette, Echoes of Color, page 511:
text: We are not interested in yucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.
ref: 2016, Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer, Queering Criminology:
text: We collected birds' eggs, gingerly plucking them from nests high in the trees and holding the eggs in our mouths as we used both hands to climb back down; sometimes they'd crack and the bitter taste of the contents would have us yucking for hours.
ref: 2016, Margaret Court, Margaret Court: The Autobiography:
glosses: To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
examples: text: She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .
ref: 1987, Martyn Godfrey, Sandra Scott, It Isn't Easy Being Ms Teeny Wonderful, page 130:
text: And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.
ref: 2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138:
text: As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.
ref: 2021, Glenn Rolfe, August's Eyes:
glosses: To vomit or gag;
examples: text: I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no mother yucking nickker home to my mother yucking house."
ref: 2004, Michael Atkinson, Life Is Amazing, page 365:
text: But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.
ref: 2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies, page 107:
text: Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.
ref: 2010, Don L. Clark, Magy la Magnifica, page 28:
glosses: fuck.
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yucks
Etymology: 1930s theatrical slang, probably Imitative. Compare the variant yuk.
Senses: examples: text: Given this insecurity, the creators of “The Simpsons” took an extraordinary risk: they decided not to use a laugh track. On almost all other sitcoms, dialogue was interrupted repeatedly by crescendos of phony guffaws (or by the electronically enhanced laughter of live audiences), creating the unreal ebb and flow of sitcom conversation, in which a typical character’s initial reaction to an ostensibly humorous remark could only be to smile archly or look around while waiting for the yucks to die down.
ref: 2000 March 13, The New Yorker:
glosses: The sound made by a whole-hearted laugh.
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yucks
form: yucking
form: yucked
form: yucked
Etymology: 1930s theatrical slang, probably Imitative. Compare the variant yuk.
Senses: examples: text: And I so miss the laughs we yucked when I used to point out to you the irony of people's names in town .
ref: 2006, Joseph George Hayes, A Map of the Harbor Islands, page 299:
text: His buddies yucked and laughed as they motored away.
ref: 2006, Dan Bomkamp, Thanks Thunderfoot, page 99:
text: Ori wiped his cheek and yucked again.
ref: 2014, Caroline Adderson, Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love:
text: The whole room yucked and tittered.
ref: 2018, Sarah Sparrow, A Guide for Murdered Children, page 130:
glosses: To laugh or joke.
raw_tags: followed by "up"
Related terms: yuk
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yucks
form: yucking
form: yucked
form: yucked
Senses: examples: text: Briggs yucked the mare about, and she stood straight up seven or eight times.
ref: 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications - Volume 25, page 171:
text: I took it bad when it were lifted and yucked into a truck and shifted
ref: 1945, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 209, page 393:
text: Bey don't leave me bey, f***k that other nigga mjay and let me talk to you (I yucked my hand away and kept on walking)
ref: (Can we date this quote?), M. J. King, My Big Brother's Best Friend, page 127:
glosses: To yank or grab.
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yucks
form: yucking
form: yucked
form: yucked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yawk (“to inflict a violent impact upon”).
yuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
ipa: /jʊk/
homophone: yuk
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yucks
Senses: examples: text: Amy tells us that her husband, Jim Nelson, is deployed to Afghanistan […] as a nuclear operations officer — a result of graduating from the Naval Postgraduate School in December 2007 with a master's in Applied Physics. I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help as a Yuck!
ref: 2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).
synonyms: word: yearling
extra: a sophomore at West Point military academy
Related terms: yuck fou
yum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: yum yum
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Yum! This apple pie is delicious!
glosses: Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
yum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: This apple pie is yum!
antonyms: yuck
glosses: Delicious.
Derived terms: yummo
yummy
yum yum
Related terms: nom
nom nom
om nom nom
nom nom nom
yum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: examples: text: Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.
Related terms: tom yum
yuck someone's yum
yum cha
yum yum sauce