cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
symmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɛtɹɪkəl/
ipa: /səˈmɛtrək(ə)l/
ipa: /sɪˈmetɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: more symmetrical
form: most symmetrical
Etymology: From symmetry + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: symmetrical design
text: perfectly symmetrical
text: The building had a perfectly symmetrical façade.
text: She admired the symmetrical pattern of the snowflake.
synonyms: symmetric
antonyms: asymmetrical
glosses: Exhibiting symmetry; having harmonious or proportionate arrangement of parts; having corresponding parts or relations.
Derived terms: antisymmetrical
centrosymmetrical
dissymmetrical
hypersymmetrical
monosymmetrical
nonsymmetrical
persymmetrical
polysymmetrical
pseudosymmetrical
quasisymmetrical
subsymmetrical
supersymmetrical
symmetrical balance
symmetricality
symmetrically
symmetricalness
symmetrical OCD
symmetrical voice
unsymmetrical
Related terms: symmetric
symmetricity
symmetrize
symmetrise
symmetry
symmetrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symmetrizes
form: symmetrizing
form: symmetrized
form: symmetrized
form: symmetrise
Etymology: Either from French symétriser or symmetry + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become symmetric.
Derived terms: symmetrization
humourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humourous
form: most humourous
Etymology: From humour + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hatever Perſon vvould aſpire to be completely vvitty, ſmart, humourous, and polite, muſt by hard Labour be able to retain in his Memory every ſingle Sentence contained in this VVork, […]
ref: 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page xiv:
glosses: Alternative spelling of humorous.
Derived terms: humourously
humourousness
unhumourous
strenuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛ.nju.əs/
Forms: form: more strenuous
form: most strenuous
Etymology: From Latin strenuus (“quick”).
Senses: examples: text: strenuous exercise
text: strenuous activity
synonyms: ardent
earnest
eager
energetic
determined
resolute
vigorous
zealous
glosses: Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
examples: text: It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
text: We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato”, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, page 467:
text: Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.
ref: 2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN:
glosses: Requiring great exertion; very laborious.
raw_tags: of a task
Derived terms: nonstrenuous
overstrenuous
strenuously
strenuousness
Related terms: strenuity
strenuosity
Demi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmiː/
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /ˈdɛ.mi/
rhymes: -ɛmi
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a diminutive of Demetria introduced into English in the 1990s by the actress Demi Moore.
deceitfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːtf(ə)li/
Forms: form: more deceitfully
form: most deceitfully
form: deceiptfully
Etymology: From deceitful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a deceitful manner
glosses: with the intention to deceive
kylie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪli/
rhymes: -aɪli
Forms: form: kylies
form: kiley
form: kyley
Senses: examples: text: Then we drove up to the cricket-ground to see them throw their boomerangs or kylies, which they did very cleverly. One of the kylies was broken against a tree, but most of the others flew with unerring precision.
ref: 1889, Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam, published 2010, page 252:
text: The islanders have discovered that kylies made out of thin iron, such as ship′s tanks, are the most serviceable, and they show great dexterity in making them (see Fig. 6).
ref: 1916, Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, volume 1, page 57:
text: Kylies were used by prehistoric people in all parts of the world. Usually made of wood, they were banana shaped; both faces of each arm were carved into curved, airfoil surfaces.
ref: 2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products Are Made, page 55:
glosses: A boomerang.
eidetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more eidetic
form: most eidetic
form: edetic
Etymology: From German eidetisch, from Ancient Greek εἰδητικός (eidētikós), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”).
Senses: examples: text: an eidetic memory
text: ‘Funny that I should remember it? I have an eidetic memory for numbers, can't help
ref: 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 276:
text: Eidetic images are pictures in the head. They are internal images that have the full force of conventional vision, but which are retained solely in the mind of the eidetiker.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: Les Assassins’ M. Fortier and M. Broullime and some others of his comrades-on-wheels believed Remy Marathe to be eidetic, near-perfect in recall and detail.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 127:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.
Derived terms: dyseidetic
eidetically
eidetic memory
eidetic reduction
eidetics
eidetiker
noneidetic
semi-eidetic
Related terms: photographic memory
ejido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈhiːdəʊ/
ipa: /ɛˈhidoʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: ejidos
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish ejido, from Latin exitus (“departure”), an early borrowing from Latin. Doublet of exit and exitus.
Senses: examples: text: Ejidos are land-grant communities organized by the federal government. Each family has a plot, which cannot be sold and can only be inherited by one person. Each ejido member has a vote at ejido meetings.
ref: 1989, Mary I O'Connor, Descendants of Totoliguoqui: Ethnicity and Economics in the Mayo Valley, page 71:
text: They made camp in an oakgrove beside the river and built a fire and sat while the girl prepared their dinner out of the bounty they’d carried off from the ejido.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
text: Today, the ejido sector (including both new ejidos created by the land reform and lands restituted to indigenous communities) is composed of 28,058 communities with 3.5 million ejidatario households, 18 million individuals, and some 70 percent of the rural population.
ref: 2000, Masahiko Aoki, Yūjirō Hayami, Communities and Markets in Economic Development, page 323:
glosses: A Mexican cooperative farm.
dickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪki
Forms: form: dickies
form: dicky
form: dickey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dicky.
kif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːf/
ipa: /kɪf/
rhymes: -iːf
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: kaif
form: keef
form: kef
form: kief
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).
Senses: examples: text: The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
ref: 1809, James Grey Jackson, chapter VIII, in An Account of the Empire of Marocco:
text: I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.
ref: 1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places:
text: The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80:
text: […]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 54:
text: ‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 52:
text: Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […])
ref: 2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
glosses: A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
glosses: The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
glosses: The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
kif
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːf/
ipa: /kɪf/
rhymes: -iːf
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: more kif
form: most kif
form: kaif
form: keef
form: kef
form: kief
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiff.
colinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + linear.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of collinear.
Derived terms: colinearly
noncolinear
indy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indies
Etymology: From independent, by shortening, + -y.
Senses: examples: text: To survive, an indy needed hits big enough that distributors would pay up overdue accounts to get them
ref: 2004, Michael Lydon, Ray Charles: Man and Music, page 80:
glosses: An independent entity.
Derived terms: indy-curious
indy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From independent, by shortening, + -y.
Senses: glosses: Independent, unaffiliated (especially not affiliated with a major organization or company).
Related terms: indie
indy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indies
form: indys
Etymology: From Indianapolis (“location of major car race”).
Senses: topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
transport
vehicles
synonyms: indy car
indycar
Indy car
Indycar
Formula Indy car
Formula Indy
glosses: A car designed to meet the rules on the Indianapolis 500 car race.
topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
transport
vehicles
synonyms: indy car
indycar
Indy car
Indycar
coordinate_terms: formula car
Formula car
glosses: An open-wheel open-cockpit single-seat racecar
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
synonyms: indy car race
Indy car race
indycar race
Indycar race
coordinate_terms: grand prix
glosses: A motorcar race that uses this type of car
collinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
ipa: /koʊˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
Forms: form: colinear
Etymology: From col- + linear.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Lying on the same straight line.
raw_tags: of three or more points
glosses: Coaxial.
Coordinate terms: cocircular
coincident
coplanar
Derived terms: acollinear
bicollinear
collinear hoe
collinearity
collinearly
multicollinear
noncollinear
moto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motos
Senses: examples: text: In fact, after the third of four motos, Hinkle had opened a comfortable lead toward the overall win, and perhaps he really didn't feel any pressure as he cruised home seventh in the final moto to lock up the crown.
ref: American Motorcyclist, Jan 1982
glosses: One of a series of motocross or BMX races.
examples: text: He stood in the evening on the street in the haze of rain-flecked light. The backfire of a fucked moto cracked like a gunshot, but he did not flinch from it.
ref: 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 192–193:
qualifier: In only some varieties of English
glosses: A motorcycle or moped.
Derived terms: mini-moto
moto-cross
moto-x
moto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: motos
form: motoing
form: motoed
form: motoed
Senses: glosses: To use or ride a moto (“n.”) (vehicle)
glosses: Synonym of motor (“v.”) (ride a vehicle)
synonyms: word: motor
extra: (“v.”) (ride a vehicle)
pimpernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪmpənɛl/
Forms: form: pimpernels
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al., from Medieval Latin pimpinella, pipinella, most likely from piper (“pepper”) because its fruit resembled peppercorns, although variants may suggest other derivations, bipinnella the bipennis (“two-winged”).
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
examples: text: Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 221:
text: Pimpernel (poor man's weather glass) was also a protection, but as the gatherer collected the herbs, he must chant a certain incantation and continue to do so twice a day for 15 days[.]
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 272:
glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
glosses: Sanguisorba spp.
Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
glosses: Sanguisorba spp.
Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
glosses: A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
examples: Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.
glosses: Someone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice.
Derived terms: bastard pimpernel
false pimpernel
water pimpernel
butt pirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt pirates
Etymology: From butt + pirate, in reference to anal sex.
Senses: glosses: A gay man.
glosses: A person who engages in anal sex.
Synonyms: word: arse bandit
Chimaera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chimæra
Etymology: As a mythological beast, a variant of earlier Chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera. As a placename, directly from Latin Chimaera.
Senses: examples: text: CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
glosses: Alternative form of Chimera.
naken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪkən
Forms: form: nakens
form: nakening
form: nakened
form: nakened
form: nakyn
Etymology: From Middle English nakenen, nacnen, equivalent to nake + -en.
Senses: glosses: To make naked; nake.
allocthonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of allochthonous.
pimpology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pimp + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: 1999, Rodney R Jones et al., Disorderly Conduct http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0393319261&id=mp5UFv5CfukC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&sig=6ZxwOExWZ5kPZzjYJgIQzMTKUhk
D.A.: Mr. P., do you consider yourself to be a student of pimpology or the study of pimping?
text: 2003, White Noise, Hilton Als, Darryl A Turner edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN156025534X&id=lBXhPaF9zBIC&pg=PR23&lpg=PR23&sig=t-WYMT_KOHZNEebaxfZu8Q9AOeE
Randomly choose any pre-Chronic rap track—say Ice-T’s “Somebody’s Gotta Do It”—and, despite the crass pimpology, the record exudes pleasure.
text: 2004, Eddie B Allen, Low Road http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312291248&id=duZ1TlrmEUkC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&sig=GT6Yk7TnKHRE-vlMoH97Ol9kDvI
The rules of pimpology would probably not have applied to Darrin and Samantha’s marriage anyway, but the mind-set, to Donnie, was all the same.
text: He had something the band wanted and that was pimpology.
ref: 2005, Eddie Beverage, Tom Brown Saves the World http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419604201&id=FUQr9KRm89kC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&sig=xpjB1HUShK_3R4jtjlV3ktZqdQ4
glosses: The study or practice of pimping or being a pimp.
concierge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.siˈɛə̯ʒ/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.siˈɛɹʒ/
Forms: form: concierges
Etymology: Borrowed from French concierge.
Senses: synonyms: caretaker
custodian
janitor
glosses: One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.
glosses: One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
glosses: A nurse who provides support during fertility treatment.
glosses: Synonym of conciergerie.
synonyms: word: conciergerie
Derived terms: concierge mom
conciergeship
ashame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: ashames
form: ashaming
form: ashamed
form: ashamed
Etymology: From Old English āsċamian, from ā- + sċamian (“feel shame”), from Proto-Germanic *skamēnan, from *skamō (“shame, humiliation”).
Senses: examples: text: Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes.
ref: c. 1390, John Wycliffe, transl., edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions (Wycliffe's Bible), volume II (in Middle English), Oxford UP, published 1850, Isaiah 23:4, page 264, column 1:
english: Be ashamed, Sidon, says the sea, the strength of the sea, saying, “I did not travail with child [give birth], and did not nurse boys, nor to full waxing bring forth maidens.
translation: Be ashamed, Sidon, says the sea, the strength of the sea, saying, “I did not travail with child [give birth], and did not nurse boys, nor to full waxing bring forth maidens.
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glosses: To feel shame; to be ashamed.
examples: text: I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raiſe my fortune conſiderably had I not got ſuch a Habit of Sweating, which quite aſhames me, when in Company, to ſee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold.
ref: 1740, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Sylvanus Urban (ed.), vol 10, p. 245 (Google preview)
text: The notice annoyed and ashamed him.
ref: 1860, Frederic W. Farrar, Julian Home: A Tale of College Life, page 99:
text: If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore.
ref: 1983, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) Oct 18 - Dec 1, page 399:
text: They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely.
ref: 2009, Steve Scott, Insiders - Outsiders, →ISBN, pages 36–37:
text: “As a nation, our head is bloodied but unbowed,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address, declaring three days of mourning. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers.”
ref: 2013 September 24, Sudarsan Raghavan, “Kenyan officials say Nairobi mall siege is over”, in Washington Post, retrieved 30 Sep 2013:
glosses: To make ashamed; to shame.
NPTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Police and Troopers Association.
arabesque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹ.əˈbɛsk/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.əˈbɛsk/
Forms: form: arabesques
Etymology: Borrowed from French arabesque, from Italian arabesco, from arabo (“Arab”). By surface analysis, Arab + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: It was a sort of scene which Adam had beheld almost weekly for years; he knew by heart every arabesque flourish in the framed specimen of Bartle Massey’s handwriting which hung over the schoolmaster’s head, by way of keeping a lofty ideal before the minds of his pupils; […].
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXI, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
art
arts
glosses: An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns, mainly used in Islamic art and architecture.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ornate composition, especially for the piano.
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A dance position in which the dancer stands on one leg, with the other raised backwards, and the arms outstretched.
examples: text: For a man who condemned worldly pleasures he ate with elegance. She loved to watch the arabesque of fingers and two forks.
ref: 1995, Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, 25th Anniversary edition, William Morrow, published 2020, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
text: In characterizing some of his tales as 'Arabesque', Poe intended no specific reference to the Arab manner of telling stories. He only used the term to refer to intricately patterned tales (intricate as the design of an oriental carpet) in which the centre of interest lay in the cunningly crafted plot, […]
ref: 2003, Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion, page 210:
glosses: Elaborate or ornate creations in general.
Derived terms: arabesqued
arabesquely
Robin Hood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒbɪn ˈhʊd/
ipa: /ˈɹɑbɪn hʊd/
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of Robert.
Senses: glosses: A legendary English outlaw famous for his skill in archery and his vow to defend the poor and the oppressed against established authority.
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Baslow and Bubnell parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2772).
glosses: A place in England:
A settlement in Wrightington parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire (OS grif ref SD5211).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3227).
glosses: A locality near Drouin, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Robin Hood effect
Robin Hood hashing
Robin Hood's Bay
Robin Hood shot
Robin Hood tax
Robin Hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒbɪn ˈhʊd/
ipa: /ˈɹɑbɪn hʊd/
Forms: form: Robin Hoods
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of Robert.
Senses: examples: text: There were still nobly-born and accomplished sea-rovers — Robin Hoods of the wave — […]
ref: 1862, Henry T. Spicer, “Black Flags in the Channel”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume 6, page 523:
text: Hey now, go play Robin Hood with somebody else's heart.
ref: 1954, “Stupid Cupid”, Howard Greenfield (lyrics), Neil Sedaka (music), performed by Connie Francis:
text: Of course the story is more interesting and complex than that; there are Robin Hoods of infofeudalism – the Free Software Movement and many groups like Napster.
ref: 2002, Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?:
glosses: A criminal or vigilante with similar social tendencies.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Short for Robin Hood shot
blood sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood sports
form: bloodsport
Senses: examples: text: The way she said, “Are you not entertained?”—surely we both knew it was a quote from Gladiator, a movie in which a hero falls from grace, is forced to perform blood sport for the pleasure of spectators, and emerges victorious, having survived humiliation and debasement to soar higher than ever.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:
glosses: A sport involving the killing or the shedding of blood of animals.
examples: text: Shopping here is bloodsport, and you are the game, but the vendors are friendly.
ref: 2003, J. D. Brown, Josh Chin, Michelle Sans, Sharon Owyang, Beth Reiber, Graeme Smith, edited by Peter Neville-Hadley, Frommer's China, page 248:
text: Debating the topic, of course, is practically a blood sport. There is an essay genre devoted to “Leaving New York.”
ref: 2020 June 5, Alyson Krueger, “The Agonizing Question: Is New York City Worth It Anymore?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any activity that revels in the misfortune of others, or taking advantage of others.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Synonym of bloodplay.
synonyms: word: bloodplay
Underground Railroad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Underground Railroad
form: Underground Railway
Senses: glosses: The pre-American Civil War anti-slavery resistance movement dedicated to helping escaped slaves to reach safe territory.
Derived terms: underground railroad
meteorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /-ɾi-/
Forms: form: meteorites
Etymology: From meteor + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The Vestan, Lunar, and Martian meteorites are achondrites.
ref: 2011, Dieter Rehder, Chemistry in Space:
text: Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes […]
ref: 2014, Martha Evans Wiley, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, page 117:
glosses: A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.
Synonyms: word: meteorite
Hypernyms: word: entity
Hyponyms: word: Leonid
word: achondrite
word: aerolite
word: aerolith
word: ataxite
word: chondrite
word: diogenite
word: hexahedrite
word: howardite
word: lodranite
word: mesosiderite
word: moldavite
word: nonchondrite
word: oligosiderite
word: pallasite
word: shergottite
word: siderite
word: siderolite
Meronyms: word: alabandite
word: chondrule
word: clinoenstatite
word: hibonite
word: kamacite
word: taenite
word: troilite
Derived terms: iron meteorite
meteoritic
meteoriticist
meteoritics
meteorwrong
micrometeorite
nuclearite
pseudometeorite
Related terms: word: meteor
word: meteoroid
word: meteorology
word: achondrite
word: aerolite
word: angrite
word: asteroid
word: aubrite
word: chassignite
word: chondrite
word: fireball
word: nakhlite
word: shergottite
word: ureilite
word: baetyl
word: tektite
meteoritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meteorite + -ic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to meteorites, meteors, or meteoroids.
Derived terms: meteoritically
meteoritic iron
meteoriticist
micrometeoritic
Related terms: meteor
meteoric
meteorite
meteoritics
meteoroid
meteoroidal
meteorology
DSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DSOs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of deep sky object.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dynamic shared object.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of days sales outstanding.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Distinguished Service Order.
deep-sky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A modern term used primarily by amateur astronomers.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Existing outside of the Solar System; relating to that which exists outside of the Solar System.
nebular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nebular
form: most nebular
Etymology: From nebula + -ar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a nebula.
glosses: Cloudy; diffuse.
Derived terms: nebular hypothesis
nebularization
nebularize
nonnebular
supernebular
Related terms: nebulosity
nebulous
nebula
sudokuist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudokuists
Etymology: From sudoku + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who solves sudoku puzzles.
Liz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: examples: text: "Liz. That doesn't sound like your name, wildcat. It is far too hard and brittle." She shrugged. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that is my name. Elizabeth is too stuffy, Beth is too soft, so Liz it is."
ref: 2010, R. G. Alexander, Midnight Falls, Samhain Publishing,, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday if the Supreme Court does not resolve the issue of presidential immunity “quickly and decisively,” it will have a “profoundly negative impact” on the country.
ref: 2024 April 22, Colin McCullough, “Cheney warns of ‘profoundly negative impact’ if SCOTUS doesn’t resolve Trump immunity case quickly”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
serval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːvəl/
enpr: sûrʹvəl
ipa: /ˈsɝvəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vəl
Forms: form: servals
Etymology: From French serval, from Portuguese (lobo) cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus cervārius (literally “stag wolf”), i.e. "wolf that hunts stags", from cervus (“deer, stag”).
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval.
manul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manuls
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ману́л (manúl), from Mongolian мануул (manuul)/ᠮᠠᠨᠤᠤᠯ (manuul).
Senses: glosses: A small wild cat of Central Asia, Otocolobus manul.
Synonyms: sense: Otocolobus manul
word: Pallas's cat
sense: Otocolobus manul
word: Pallas' cat
sense: Otocolobus manul
word: Pallas cat
sense: Otocolobus manul
word: steppe cat
sand cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand cats
Senses: glosses: A small wild cat, Felis margarita, distributed over African and Asian deserts.
margay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡeɪ
-eɪ
Forms: form: margays
Etymology: From Old Tupi marakaîá via Spanish margay, Portuguese maracajá.
Senses: examples: text: In Costa Rica margays were once widely distributed in dense forest from the coastal lowlands to about 3,000 meters elevation in the interior mountains.
ref: 2002, Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist, Wild Cats of the World, University of Chicago Press, page 137:
text: Margays are small and slim spotted cats (60cm/40cm/3.5kg) with long bushy tails and long legs with large feet.
Typically found in mature forest, margays are nocturnal and arboreal, hunting mostly in trees (they can rotate their hind legs and descend a tree head first).
ref: 2008, Kirk Smock, Guyana, Bradt Travel Guides, page 32:
text: The margay has broad feet, flexible ankles, and a long tail, all adaptations for arboreality (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In captivity, the margay is well known for its climbing and jumping acrobatics.
ref: 2010, David Whyte Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, Kristin Nowell, “Chapter 1: Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild felids”, in David Whyte Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, editors, The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids, Oxford University Press, page 38:
synonyms: kuichua
tree ocelot
tiger cat
glosses: Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America.
Derived terms: marlot
jaguarundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaguarundis
form: jaguarondi
form: yaguarondi
form: yagouarondi
form: yagouaroundi
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese jaguarundi, from Old Tupi yawaundí.
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized Central and South American wild cat, Herpailurus yagouaroundi.
Related terms: jaguar
jack off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jacks off
form: jacking off
form: jacked off
form: jacked off
form: J-O
form: J/O
Senses: examples: text: Two boys jacking off under railroad bridge. The train shakes through their bodies, ejaculates them, fades with distant whistle.
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 81:
synonyms: word: jerk off
word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
glosses: To stimulate or please oneself in an unproductive or idle way.
Derived terms: word: jackoff
word: JAQ off
Related terms: jack it
jerk off
jack off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack offs
form: J-O
form: J/O
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of jackoff (“a jerkoff”).
languor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈlæŋ(ɡ)ɚ/
rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: languors
form: languoring
form: languored
form: languored
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English langouren (“to be ill; to languish, suffer; to cause to suffer”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman langurer and Middle French langorer, langorir, langourer (“to languish; to be languorous”), from Old French languerer, from langueur (“disease, illness; suffering; emotional fatigue, sadness; listlessness; stagnation”); see further at etymology 1 above. Later uses of the verb have been influenced by the noun.
Senses: glosses: To languish.
Derived terms: word: languoring
word: languoring
word: languorment
sky pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky pilots
Senses: examples: text: "But we've got the laugh on our sky-pilot, for he's as puzzled as the rest of us."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Jack, I swear, I'm no sky-pilot, but a creep pad turns into a confession booth as soon as I squat in it – the chicks really run their mouths some spieling their life histories in my face.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 88:
glosses: A clergyman, especially a military chaplain or padre.
glosses: A polemonium, especially Polemonium eximium.
Synonyms: Holy Joe
stationmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationmasters
Etymology: From station + master.
Senses: examples: text: The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
text: The stationmaster was an important part of the local community. Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The person in charge of a railroad station, usually an employee of a particular railroad by which the station is owned, but sometimes an employee of a separate corporation, such as one owning a station used by two or more railroads.
ventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From New Latin *ventricularis, from ventriculus (“belly, stomach, ventricle”), diminutive of venter (“belly, stomach, womb”). Equivalent to ventricle + -ar; See ventricle.
Senses: examples: text: Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.
ref: 2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297:
glosses: Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
Derived terms: abventricular
arterioventricular
biventricular
cardioventricular
cerebroventricular
circumventricular
endoventricular
extraventricular
interventricular
intraventricular
left ventricular ejection time
midventricular
nodoventricular
paraventricular
periventricular
postventricular
preventricular
subventricular
superventricular
supraventricular
transventricular
univentricular
ventricular fibrillation
ventricularly
ventricular septum
ventricular tachycardia
Related terms: biventricular
triventricular
ventricle
ventriculus
arterioventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arterio- + ventricular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the spatial relationship or communication between the great arteries and the ventricles of the heart.
subitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subitises
form: subitising
form: subitised
form: subitised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of subitize.
subitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbɪtaɪz/
Forms: form: subitizes
form: subitizing
form: subitized
form: subitized
form: subitise
Etymology: From Latin subitus (“sudden; unexpected”) + -ize, from the feeling of immediately knowing the number of items present.
Senses: examples: text: Previous researchers have noted a similarity between the set sizes that adults can estimate rapidly, or subitize, and the set sizes that infants can discriminate: both are less than five items. This similarity has led some to suggest that subitizing is […]
ref: 2002, Kelly S. Mix, Janellen Huttenlocher, Susan Cohen Levine, Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: When students subitize, they know how many because the arrangement is familiar and/or friendly. While recent information about the benefits of teaching subitizing has surfaced (Clements, 1999), early use of the term appeared more than […]
ref: 2016, Jennifer Taylor-Cox, Math Intervention P–2: Building Number Power with Formative Assessments, Differentiation, and Games, Grades PreK–2, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To judge (the number of objects in a group) rapidly, accurately and confidently without counting them.
Related terms: subitive
numeron
French numéron
Oshindonga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ndonga Oshindonga (“Ndonga language”).
Senses: glosses: Ndonga
vanadyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanadyls
Etymology: From vanadium + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical VO, or the cation VO²⁺.
Derived terms: vanadylate
vanadyl monochloride
vanadyl sulfate
vanadyl sulphate
odoriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/
ipa: /ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/
ipa: /ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/
ipa: /ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more odoriferous
form: most odoriferous
form: odouriferous
Etymology: From Latin. By surface analysis, odor + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee^([sic]) smelled a filthy stinke.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 1, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 3:
text: True, the rich spices, the perfumed woods, the fragrant oils, which would feed the sacred fire of my funeral pyre, would save my mortal remains from that corruption which makes the disgust of death even worse than its dread. A few odoriferous ashes alone would be left for my urn.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:
text: Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.
ref: 1874, Charles Darwin, “Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals—continued”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 529:
text: Frankini disguised as Mr. Beefo: "Who wants to get out and smell that wet beef?"
Captain Man: "Me, I do, Me! Oh yes, so odoriferous!"
ref: 2018, Dan Schneider, Daniel Warren, “Magical Beefery Tour”, in The Adventures of Kid Danger, season 1, episode 7:
glosses: Having an odor or fragrance.
Synonyms: odiferous
odorous
Derived terms: odoriferously
odoriferousness
unodoriferous
omata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omata
Etymology: From Japanese 大股 (ōmata).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker grabs his opponent's leg from the inside and lifts it up and backwards, driving his body into that of the defender, forcing him over onto his back. A thigh scooping body drop.
osakate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osakate
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大逆手, literally backward twisting overarm throw.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker, grappling near the edge, bends backwards and swings his opponent around and out.
aithochrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌɪˈθəʊkɹəs/
Forms: form: more aithochrous
form: most aithochrous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἰθός (aithós, “reddish brown”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “color”).
Senses: examples: text: a boy as splendid and aithochrous as the Cnossan striplings wrestling among blue flowers on Minos’ walls
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: reddish-brown, ruddy
oshidashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oshidashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 押し出し, literally "frontal push out".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a kimarite in which the attacker pushes his opponent out of the ring, maintaining hand contact at all times
oshitaoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oshitaoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 押し倒し, meaning frontal push down.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker pushed his opponent backwards and over.
stock ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the type of ball (such as an off break) that a particular bowler most frequently bowls
Synonyms: stock delivery
straight bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight bats
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The bat when held vertically, or when swung through a vertical arc.
straight bat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straight bats
form: straight batting
form: straight batted
form: straight batted
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play (a delivery) with the bat held or swung in this manner.
straight hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight hits
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position close to the boundary directly behind the bowler; a fielder in this position.
strike bowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strike bowlers
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler having the ability to take wickets, though often conceding runs.
astrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæstɹəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Forms: form: more astrological
form: most astrological
Etymology: From Latin astrologicus + -al. By surface analysis, astrology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: astrological prediction
text: She read her astrological chart every morning.
glosses: Of, or relating to astrology.
Derived terms: astrologically
astrological sign
nonastrological
colour blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour blindnesses
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of color blindness.
Related terms: colour blind
cleft palate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleft palates
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: An abnormal condition in which the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate (roof of the mouth) are not completely joined.
Coordinate terms: cleft lip
hard palate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard palates
Senses: coordinate_terms: soft palate
glosses: A thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth.
soft palate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft palates
Senses: examples: text: The part which is connected by a thin tendinous end to the tendinous membrane, that is extended above upon the soft palate, coming from the nostrils; and with that membrane seems to be inserted into the middle and posterior edge of the palate bones.
ref: 1754, Bernhard Siegfried, The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: velum
muscular palate
coordinate_terms: hard palate
glosses: The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.
leper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛpɚ/
rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lepers
Etymology: From Middle English lepre, leprosy, from Old French [Term?], from Latin leprae, lepra, from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra).
Senses: glosses: A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.
glosses: Synonym of outcast: A person who is shunned, a pariah.
synonyms: word: outcast
extra: A person who is shunned, a pariah
Derived terms: beleper
leper colony
leperdom
moral leper
leper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛpɚ/
rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lepers
form: lepering
form: lepered
form: lepered
Etymology: From Middle English lepre, leprosy, from Old French [Term?], from Latin leprae, lepra, from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra).
Senses: glosses: To afflict with leprosy.
glosses: Synonym of infect.
synonyms: word: infect
glosses: Synonym of disfigure.
synonyms: word: disfigure
glosses: Synonym of taint.
synonyms: word: taint
glosses: Synonym of ostracize.
synonyms: word: ostracize