cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unconventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconventional
form: most unconventional
Etymology: From un- + conventional.
Senses: glosses: Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
glosses: Out of the ordinary.
examples: text: The other two banned titles are The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption, which features a lesbian couple, and Who’s In My Family: All About Our Families, which describes unconventional parental set-ups.
ref: 2014 July 11, Charlie Campbell, “Singapore Provokes Outrage by Pulping Kids’ Books About Gay Families”, in Time:
glosses: Atypical.
Derived terms: unconventionally
unconventional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconventionals
Etymology: From un- + conventional.
Senses: glosses: Something or someone that is unconventional.
atypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: more atypical
form: most atypical
Etymology: From a- + typical.
Senses: examples: text: The condition also has an associated atypical development of the retina and optic nerve misrouting, resulting in significant vision issues.
ref: 2018 May 12, Stephanie Sinclair, “'What I Learned From Adopting Two Children With Rare Genetic Conditions'”, in Time:
glosses: Not conforming to the normal type.
glosses: Unusual or irregular.
Derived terms: atypical autism
atypicality
atypically
atypicalness
atypical pneumonia
atypical tarantula
neuroatypical
neuroatypicality
nonatypical
atypical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: atypicals
Etymology: From a- + typical.
Senses: qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: An atypical antipsychotic.
mutate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈteɪt/
ipa: /ˈmju.teɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: mutates
form: mutating
form: mutated
form: mutated
Etymology: First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult.
Senses: examples: text: The virus has mutated into a more resilient version.
glosses: To undergo mutation.
glosses: To cause mutation.
Derived terms: dismutate
hypermutate
mutase
mutatable
mutative
mutator
mutein
paramutate
premutate
stereomutate
transmutate
Related terms: mutant
mutation
mutatis mutandis
mutatis mutandis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /m(j)uːˌtɑːtɪs muːˈtandɪs/
ipa: /m(j)uˌtɑtəs m(j)uˈtɑndəs/
ipa: /mjuˌteɪtəs mjuˈtændəs/
Forms: form: m.m.
form: mut. mut.
form: mut. mutand.
form: mut. mutandis
form: mutat. mutand.
form: mutat. mutandis
form: mutatis mandis
form: mutatis mundi
form: mutis mundis
form: mutis mutandis
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin mūtātīs mūtandīs (“with [the things] to be changed having been changed”).
Senses: examples: text: And like billes, mutatis mutandis, were put In ayenst Gloucestre & Worcestre
ref: a.''' 1525, The Coventry Leet Book, page 595:
text: 26 May 1564. M. to Mr. Tipton, and another (mutatis mutandis) to Mr. Cuerton. Pp. 3.
ref: 1863, H.M.'s Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, volume VII, page 141:
text: What is said of the army here is to be taken also to apply, mutatis mutandis, to the air force and the navy.
ref: 1962, Samuel Edward Finer, chapter 2, in The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics:
text: Similar considerations apply, mutatis mutandis, to the example of nightmare imagined by Brown.
ref: 1962, Norman Malcolm, chapter 15, in Dreaming:
topics: law
glosses: With the necessary changes being made; with the necessary modifications; with such changes as are necessary to ensure congruence.
Related terms: mutandum
mutate
mutation
mutatio nomine
beautification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bjuːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: beautifications
Etymology: Attested since at least 1790, from beautify (“to make beautiful”) + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to the beautification efforts, the appearance of the highway has vastly improved.
text: This trend, which he attributes to social media and describes as “beautification” rather than a desire to turn back the years, might involve a blepharoplasty or removing buccal fat (between the cheek and jaw bones.)
ref: 2025 August 16, Emma Jacobs, quoting Aamer Khan, “Would you pay $200,000 to look half your age?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 5:
glosses: Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
Related terms: beautiful
beauty
macrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪliə
Etymology: From macro- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: "This guy's into microphilia — or is it macrophilia? He gets off on being made to feel that he's really small."
"You're joking," I replied.
"No, I'm not."
"And I thought my fantasies about gladiators were kinky."
ref: 2006, David Stukas, Biceps Of Death, page 14:
text: The giantess fetish, whether it's macrophilia or microphilia, is a pretty unique one. What y'all want is to be made to feel tiny by a bigger, stronger, superior woman.
ref: 2010, Diamond, “Black BBW Goddess Fulfills All Your Giantess Fetish Fantasies”, in alt.sex.telephone.alt (Usenet):
glosses: A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to giants.
Related terms: macrophile
rebirthing
unbirthing
maverick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: măvʹər-ĭk
ipa: /ˈmævəɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈmævəɹɪk/
Forms: form: more maverick
form: most maverick
Etymology: Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick.
The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally some young men who have no cattle of their own will take part in these expeditions, or they will give their services by the year to receive a pro rata of all the maverick cattle that may be found. [Quoted from The Texas New Yorker, pages 110–111.]
ref: 1875, “Investigating Commission of the Northern Frontier”, in Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas. […], New York, N.Y.: Baker & Godwin, printers, […], →OCLC, section V, pages 62–63:
text: But I would rather have maverick cattle, they are more accustomed to range conditions. My cattle from the registered herd have not done too well.
ref: 1963, Harry T. Getty, The San Carlos Indian Cattle Industry (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona; no. 7), Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →OCLC, page 65:
text: Attempts to regulate the distribution of maverick cattle throughout the 1880s affected particularly the access of cowboys to mavericks.
ref: 2016, Victoria Lamont, “Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power”, in Westerns: A Women’s History, Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Unbranded.
raw_tags: of cattle
examples: text: He made a maverick decision.  She is such a maverick person.
text: A maverick person tends to be wild, unsettled, and irresponsible, often an outlaw not bound by the rules and mores of society.
ref: 2003, Leon Claire Metz, “Maverick”, in The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 170, column 2:
text: John Maynard Keynes, the internationally renowned economist, was impressed by Alan [Turing]'s work, and his unorthodox style. […] It is quite likely that Keynes viewed Alan and his maverick attitude to maths research sympathetically.
ref: 2013, Jim Eldridge, “The Thinking Machine”, in Alan Turing (Real Lives), London: A. & C. Black, →ISBN, page 17:
text: As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.
ref: 2025 February 26, Roy Rivenburg, “Nellie Bowles of The Free Press punctures pretension left and right”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
maverick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măvʹər-ĭk
ipa: /ˈmævəɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈmævəɹɪk/
Forms: form: mavericks
form: mavericking
form: mavericked
form: mavericked
Etymology: Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick.
The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”.
Senses: examples: text: The court permitted the State to prove, over defendant's objections, that Thedford met Noon Tucker and Calvery driving the yearling over to Bachelor's for delivery. Thedford inquired of Noon "if that [meaning the yearling] was one he had mavericked?"
ref: 1887, A. M. Jackson; A. M. Jackson, Jr., Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin, Tx.: Hutchings Printing House, →OCLC, page 514:
text: For the capricious and uncertain favor of this the only marriageable young lady in the district, all the susceptible and unattached cowboys (of which class the population almost wholly consisted) strove together eagerly and without ceasing, mavericking right and left everything they could lay their hands on, with a running brand L I L, until, when the tenderfoot she had all along been engaged to came out and married her, she brought him great herds of L I L cattle, with which they gayly set up a ranch beneath the noses of the forlorn celibate community.
ref: 1894 July, Alice MacGowan, “The Heraldry of the Plains”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume III, number 2, New York, N.Y.; London: S[amuel] S[idney] McClure, Limited, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: To take an unbranded range animal.
glosses: To seize without a legal claim.
Derived terms: maverick brand
mavericker
maverickish
maverickism
mavericky
tautomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautomerisms
Etymology: From tautomer + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of isomerism in which a dynamic equilibrium between multiple isomers exists, such as that between an enol and a ketone.
Related terms: tautomer
mass number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass numbers
Etymology: Ellipsis of atomic mass number.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The total number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. Symbol: A
Synonyms: atomic mass number
nucleon number
Related terms: atomic mass
atomic mass unit
atomic number
atomic weight
poise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: poyz
ipa: /pɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Forms: form: poises
Etymology: From Middle English poys, poyse, from Anglo-Norman pois, Middle French pois (“weight”) and Anglo-Norman poise, Middle French poise (“measure of weight”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh, ponder, think”). Doublet of peise.
Senses: examples: text: plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
glosses: A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
glosses: Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
glosses: Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
glosses: A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
examples: text: Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
ref: 1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
examples: text: as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
glosses: The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
examples: text: As for Hyperboles, I will neither quote Lucan, nor Statius, Men of an unbounded imagination, but who often wanted the Poyze of Judgement.
ref: 1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
Derived terms: anglepoise
centipoise
counterpoise
decapoise
equipoise
millipoise
overpoise
poiseless
unpoise
Related terms: peso
pansy
pensive
avoirdupois
poise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: poyz
ipa: /pɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Forms: form: poises
form: poising
form: poised
form: poised
Etymology: From Middle English poys, poyse, from Anglo-Norman pois, Middle French pois (“weight”) and Anglo-Norman poise, Middle French poise (“measure of weight”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh, ponder, think”). Doublet of peise.
Senses: examples: text: The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in the air.
ref: 1850, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Seaside and the Fireside:
glosses: To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
examples: text: one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden
to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit
glosses: To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
glosses: To be of a given weight; to weigh.
examples: text: Every man poiseth [translating poise] upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 2, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To add weight to, to weigh down.
examples: text: you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.
examples: text: I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.
text: to poise the scales of a balance
text: Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; / Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie.
ref: 1717, John Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The intention to close [Yeovil] Pen Mill was therefore abandoned and instead the economy axe was re-poised over Yeovil Junction.
ref: 1964 November, J. H. Lucking, “The Salisbury-Exeter rationalisation—first results and local reaction”, in Modern Railways, page 331:
glosses: To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.
examples: text: The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.
glosses: To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.
examples: text: He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
Derived terms: apoise
counterpoise
outpoise
overpoise
poiser
unpoised
poise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: poyz
ipa: /pɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Forms: form: poises
Etymology: From French physicist and physiologist Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille.
Senses: glosses: Unit of viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS).
take in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪk‿ˈɪn/
ipa: /tæɪk‿ˈɪn/
ipa: /tæɪk‿ˈən/
Forms: form: takes in
form: taking in
form: took in
form: taken in
Senses: examples: text: The company took in more than forty million euros last year.
glosses: To receive.
examples: text: The news is a lot to take in right now.
text: I was so sleepy that I hardly took in any of the lecture.
text: At the final whistle, it was just like old times as those thousands of Leicester supporters stayed in their seats for the trophy celebration to take in scenes that will live with them forever while the Chelsea end was a scene of desolation before it became a sea of deserted red seats.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To receive and properly absorb or comprehend.
examples: text: I'm just going to sit on a bench and take in the scenery.
text: Just relax and take in the fresh ocean air.
glosses: To enjoy or appreciate.
examples: text: take in a stray cat
glosses: To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
examples: text: In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs.
glosses: To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
examples: text: Try taking the skirt in a little around the waist.
antonyms: let out
let down
glosses: To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
examples: text: take in a show
text: take in a movie
glosses: To attend a showing of.
examples: text: Their grandma lost thousands of dollars because she was taken in by scammers.
text: She liked and trusted everybody, which was the reason why she was so popular, and so often taken in.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 3, in The Gem Collector:
glosses: To deceive; to hoodwink.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: take up
glosses: To tighten (a belaying rope).
examples: text: [James Whiteside:] May I ask what newspaper you take in? [John Jolly:] I take in no newspaper.
[James Whiteside:] Well, then, what newspapers do you read? [John Jolly:] I am glad to see any of them.
ref: 1844 January 23, cross-examination in the case of R v Daniel O'Connell, et al., reprinted in, 1844, John Flanedy, editor, A Special Report of the Proceedings in the Case of the Queen against Daniel O'Connell […] on an Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanour, page 218 http://google.com/books?id=do7RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA218&dq=%22take+in+no+newspaper%22
glosses: To subscribe to home delivery of.
examples: text: The second mate holds on to the main top-gallant sail until a heavy sea is shipped, and washes over the forecastle as though the whole ocean had come aboard; when a noise further aft shows that that sail, too, is taking in.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To reef.
examples: text: The police took in the suspect.
synonyms: take up
glosses: To arrest (a person).
Derived terms: word: take-in
reit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːt/
Forms: form: reits
Senses: examples: text: The Squillae[…]live in marine[…]places: their meat is oisters, and reites.
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC:
glosses: sedge; seaweed
countermand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/
ipa: /ˈkaʊntɚˌmænd/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈmænd/
Forms: form: countermands
form: countermanding
form: countermanded
form: countermanded
Etymology: From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“I order; I command”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: counteract
text: to countermand an order for goods
synonyms: cancel
rescind
veto#Verb
override
glosses: To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
glosses: To recall a person or unit with such an order.
examples: text: Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying.
ref: 1727, Jonathan Swift, A True and Faithful Narrative of What Passed in London:
glosses: To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
examples: text: Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.”
ref: 2018 February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.
examples: text: Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
synonyms: prohibit
forbid
glosses: To prohibit (a course of action or behavior).
examples: text: For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To oppose or revoke the command of (someone).
examples: text: Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe,
That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land.
And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
glosses: To maintain control of, to keep under command.
Derived terms: countermandable
countermander
countermandment
uncountermanded
Related terms: counterargue
countermand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/
ipa: /ˈkaʊntɚˌmænd/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈmænd/
Forms: form: countermands
Etymology: From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“I order; I command”).
Senses: glosses: An order to the contrary of a previous one.
physiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪziˈɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌfɪziˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: physiologies
Etymology: From French physiologie, from Latin physiologia, from Ancient Greek φυσιολογία (phusiología, “natural philosophy”), from φύσις (phúsis, “nature”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”). Equivalent to physio- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: So he clung to the sides of the vertical tunnel, le wormhole, employing the setules covering his legs, that is, millions of tiny spider-hairs with triangular tips, a wall-creeper physiology if you wish, a hang-upside-down-from-the-ceiling anatomical boon.
ref: 2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 86:
glosses: A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
glosses: The biology and/or form of a living organism.
glosses: The study and description of natural objects; natural science.
Synonyms: sense: branch of biology
word: bionomy
Hypernyms: biology
Hyponyms: aestho-physiology
biophysiology
cardiophysiology
cerebrophysiology
chronophysiology
cosmophysiology
cryophysiology
cytophysiology
ecophysiology
electrophysiology
ethnophysiology
etiophysiology
geophysiology
histophysiology
immunophysiology
macrophysiology
metaphysiology
microphysiology
mitophysiology
morphophysiology
nanophysiology
neuro-associative physiology
neurophysiology
neuropsychophysiology
normophysiology
optophysiology
palaeophysiology
paleophysiology
pathoneurophysiology
pathophysiology
pharmacophysiology
photophysiology
phytophysiology
psychophysiology
sociophysiology
sports physiology
thermophysiology
zoophysiology
Coordinate terms: anatomy
Related terms: physiologic
physiological
physiologist
physiologize
biochemistry
changed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -eɪndʒd
Forms: form: more changed
form: most changed
Senses: examples: text: I'm a changed man.
glosses: Having undergone a change.
Derived terms: changedness
climate-changed
counterchanged
get changed
nonchanged
unchanged
changed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -eɪndʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of change
Related terms: short changed
vituperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /v(a)ɪˌtjuːpəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /v(a)ɪˌt(j)upəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: vituperations
Etymology: From Latin vituperātiō (“censure, blame”), equivalent to vituperate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.
examples: text: ...but, for several successive days, as she was careful in observing the strictest regimen (..), she actually became much better, especially as to these favourable circumstances was added great calmness of temper, she wisely substituting the quiet sneer of contempt for angry vituperation and vindictive scorn.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 120:
text: "Do you call me a spy?" / "And what have you called me? Because you are a husband, is the privilege of vituperation to be all on your side?"
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Hard Words”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 78:
text: His face turned red with passion; he made one bound, hurled me across the house with a sweep of his arm, spun the wheel down, and began to pour out a stream of vituperation upon me which lasted till he was out of breath.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 18, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:
text: The rather too inclusive speech brought down a torrent of vituperation from other quarters upon fair Tess’s unlucky head[…]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter X, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Sterling himself, though he had the most picturesque and inimitable vocabulary of vituperation, was highly squeamish about ordinary smut or profanity. He had indeed that nice-Nelliness which is often characteristic of the Don Juan type.
ref: 1947, Miriam Allen deFord, “Laureate of Bohemia: George Sterlin”, in They Were San Franciscans, Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., page 306:
glosses: Criticism or invective that is sustained and overly harsh; abuse, severe blame or censure.
Related terms: vituperable
vituperant
vituperate
vituperative
vituperatively
vituperator
vituperatory
vituperous
vituperously
megabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabases
form: mega base
Etymology: From mega- + base.
Senses: glosses: A very large player built structure where the player lives.
glosses: A length of nucleic acid containing one million nucleotides (bases if single-stranded, base pairs if double-stranded)
Synonyms: word: Mb
english: double-stranded DNA
translation: double-stranded DNA
word: Mbp
english: double-stranded DNA
translation: double-stranded DNA
word: megabase pair
Related terms: kilobase
submegabase
kilobase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪl.ə.beɪs/
Forms: form: kilobases
Etymology: From kilo- + base.
Senses: glosses: a length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand
glosses: a length of single-stranded RNA containing one thousand nucleotides
Synonyms: word: kb
english: double-stranded DNA
translation: double-stranded DNA
word: kbp
english: double-stranded DNA
translation: double-stranded DNA
word: kilobase pair
Derived terms: multikilobase
Related terms: megabase
ablutophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ablutophobes
Etymology: From Latin ablutio (“a washing”) + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: glosses: A person who fears bathing.
Related terms: ablutophobia
throwed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹəʊd/
ipa: /θɹoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Etymology: Regularized form of threw and thrown.
Senses: examples: text: I come a booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and shot by, amongst a lot of snags that fairly roared, the current was tearing by them so swift.
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
text: The Devil looked around and he picked the next biggest one he could find and he throwed it over the fence.
ref: 1988, Leonard W Roberts, South from Hell-Fer-Sartin:
text: 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803270925&id=IkYA69A0Me0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=qMZfjtlvPlVLAVpmCe6OsQkXkuw
I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!
text: 2003, Mark Harris, The Southpaw http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803273371&id=ZcXrSFki8LYC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&sig=luXWpLfgFo79Qyrz6QZ0yzyqrrU
I throwed slow and easy, and I felt in my mind like the sight of Pop out there on that same pitching hill.
glosses: simple past of throw; threw.
examples: text: If they want a light-weight, to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let ’em throw me.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: The Blocker was a versatile loop. It could be throwed from hossback or afoot, and could be used for a head ketch, heelin’, or forefootin’.
ref: 1989, Ramon F Adams, The Old-Time Cowhand:
text: 1991, Ben K Green, Some More Horse Tradin’ http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803270925&id=IkYA69A0Me0C&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&sig=qMZfjtlvPlVLAVpmCe6OsQkXkuw
I’d lost my hat, tore my fingernails off on the saddle horn, and was damn near throwed when he lost his breath and throwed his head up and stopped!
text: They had one motel in that town, and friends of ours owned it, but we got throwed out of it before it got dark after they got to fighting.
ref: 2004, Peter Golenbock, Nascar Confidential:
glosses: past participle of throw; thrown.
abydocomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbɪdəˈkəʊmɪst/
ipa: /æbɪdəˈkoʊmɪst/
Forms: form: abydocomists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀβυδοκόμης (Abudokómēs), after the town Ἄβυδος (Ábudos, “Abydos”), the inhabitants of which were known for inventing slanders and boasting of them.
Senses: examples: text: The character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare's plays (Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor) is a famous example of an abydocomist.
Falstaff: "I may lie, but I am no counterfeit." (paraphrased)
text: Most of us, I am afraid, are only nominal Christians, but at least there are no Sethians or Seleucians among us, not even a single bitter abydocomist. Convert has slipped from our vocabularies.
ref: 2016, Sam Pickering, One Grand, Sweet Song:
text: The point of this expedition was to spend as much of Sand's gold as possible, only purchasing the most useless and cumbersome ... Including a massive rug from that abydocomist large enough to be its own small shop in this traveling market.
ref: 2017, M. Q. Gelfand, Wraith:
text: "Give me the key." I commanded while gasping. "You want this key you filthy scumbag! Then come and get it you abydocomist!" Zulaia screamed at the top of her lungs.
ref: 2018, Jordan Kyree Lane, KRISHNA GHJI: The Assassin's Medallion: A War Without End:
glosses: A liar or sycophant who boasts of his falsehood.
Related terms: fissilingual
sycophant
acalculiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪkælˈkjulɪək/
Forms: form: acalculiacs
Etymology: From acalculia + -ac.
Senses: glosses: One who is unable, as a result of mental disability sometimes caused by brain injury, to employ basic mathematical skills
Related terms: acalculia
agrammatist
smeghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smegheads
Etymology: From smeg + head, from television series Red Dwarf.
Senses: glosses: A fool.
wikipedia: Red Dwarf
acalculia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.kælˈkjuː.lɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.kælˈkjuː.li.ə/
Etymology: From a- (negative prefix) + Latin calculare (“to calculate”) + -ia (“pathological condition”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of lacking basic mathematical skills caused by a brain injury, or more specifically an injury to the parietal lobe.
Derived terms: acalculiac
Related terms: dyscalculia
agrammatism
upgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /əpˈɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: upgrades
Etymology: From up- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: The Worthens sighed with relief as the engine began its night of upgrade chugging.
ref: 1931, Journal of the Outdoor Life, volume 28, page 303:
antonyms: downgrade#Noun
hypernyms: grade#Noun
gradient
slope#Noun
glosses: An upward grade or slope.
examples: text: Near-synonym: option
text: With my phone company, I get a free upgrade every twelve months if I keep topping up 10 pounds a month.
antonyms: downgrade#Noun
glosses: An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
examples: text: The remarried couples among my friends often joke that their divorce and remarriage amounted to an upgrade.
text: "When we're finished in 2024, this upgrade programme will provide a much-improved railway between London Waterloo and Portsmouth," said NR's Wessex Route Director Mark Killick.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Portsmouth line upgrade set to begin”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:
antonyms: downgrade#Noun
step back#Noun
glosses: An improvement.
Related terms: upcharge
upmarket
upscale
upgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /əpˈɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: upgrades
form: upgrading
form: upgraded
form: upgraded
Etymology: From up- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: When you upgrade your standard of living, you become addicted to that standard of living.
antonyms: downgrade#Verb
glosses: To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
examples: text: I had to upgrade my anti-virus software to protect my computer from the newer threats.
antonyms: downgrade#Verb
glosses: To replace with something better.
examples: text: They upgraded him to the latest model.
text: They were upgraded to first class.
text: From the builder's standpoint, the name of the game is to upgrade you to the maximum you can qualify for.
ref: 2014, Sid Davis, A Survival Guide for Buying a Home - Page 80:
text: Calls at Cardiff Parkway are proposed once this station opens, with investment promised to upgrade station facilities at Severn Tunnel Junction.
ref: 2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:
text: Several level crossings would have to be upgraded, with the existing track re-laid to allow a line speed of 60mph.
ref: 2022 December 14, “Network News: Fawley branch line reopening supported by 80% of locals”, in RAIL, number 972, page 20:
antonyms: downgrade#Verb
glosses: To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
examples: text: She upgraded to a more successful husband.
antonyms: downgrade#Verb
glosses: To improve in condition or status.
examples: text: She waited a long time to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, hoping the worst bugs would be worked out before she took the plunge.
text: She waited a long time to upgrade Windows, hoping the worst bugs would be worked out before she took the plunge.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
Related terms: step up
upcharge
update
upgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /əpˈɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈʌp.ɡɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: further upgrade
form: farther upgrade
form: furthest upgrade
form: farthest upgrade
Etymology: From up- + grade.
Senses: examples: text: Men fell out, worn-out, and there were sunstroke cases. It was an eight-mile march upgrade.
ref: 1955, Carl Sandburg, Prairie-town boy, page 173:
text: Northbound trains originating near the Ohio River faced a 26-mile climb upgrade to Flushing.
ref: 2009, Craig Sanders, Canton Area Railroads, page 66:
text: From there it was an eight-mile pull upgrade to the mountain top.
ref: 2010, Elliott Merrick, True North: A Journey Into Unexplored Wilderness, page 167:
text: I did that and saw we had to go upgrade a long ways.
ref: 2013, Marty Metras, Walking the Walk, Camino de Santiago 2012, page 16:
text: [...] 37905 hauls the 1,400-tonne 0730 Mossend-Margam upgrade from Shrewsbury, mainly at 1-in-100, through Church Stretton at around 25mph on May 13 1989.
ref: 2020 December 16, David Clough, “Class 37s at 60: the great survivors”, in Rail, page 55, photo caption:
glosses: Up a slope or grade.
ablutophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ablutophobic
form: most ablutophobic
Etymology: From Latin ablutio (“a washing”) + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to or suffering from ablutophobia.
acrocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækɹəʊsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ˌækɹəsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ˌækɹoʊsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ˌækɹəsəˈfælɪk/
Forms: form: acrocephalics
Etymology: From acro- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: A person suffering from a pointed skull.
acrocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækɹəʊsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ˌækɹəsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ˌækɹoʊsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ˌækɹəsəˈfælɪk/
Forms: form: more acrocephalic
form: most acrocephalic
Etymology: From acro- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: Possessing a pointed skull.
Related terms: acrocephaline
acrocephaly
acrocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acro- + -cephaly, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “highest, on the extremity”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Senses: glosses: The condition of suffering from a pointed skull.
Related terms: acrocephalic
duds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌdz/
rhymes: -ʌdz
Senses: glosses: plural of dud
duds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌdz/
rhymes: -ʌdz
Senses: examples: text: I looked at what I could see of my rough blue duds, which I had plenty of opportunity of contrasting with the gay attire of the citizens we had come across; […]
ref: 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
text: “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.
ref: 1970 June 24, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span:
text: We were hard-pressed to find anyone who actually skis in these designer duds, but someone's buying the stuff: Hilfiger's ski and boardwear line grosses around $25 million per year […]
ref: 1997, Skiing, volume 50, number 4:
text: JESSE:Badger? Where you been keeping yourself? Nice duds.
ref: 2008 October 26, Vince Gilligan,Patty Lin, directed by Tricia Brock, Breaking Bad (Gray Matter) (1), episode 5 (TV), spoken by Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul):
text: Scavenger: Nice duds. Better watch your back. There's probably already a dozen people planning to kill you for them.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Elaaden:
glosses: Clothing, especially for work or of rough appearance.
glosses: One's personal property.
Synonyms: topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: clothes
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: clothing
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: outfit
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: garb
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: kit
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: togs
topics: clothing
textiles
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
business
word: threads
Derived terms: dudded up
dudder
adipocere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈædɪpoʊˌsiɚ/
/ˈædəpoʊˌsiɚ/
Forms: form: adipoceres
Etymology: From adipo- + Latin cēra.
Senses: examples: text: In some cases, however, brains outlast all other soft tissues and remain intact for hundreds or thousands of years. […] [Alexandra] Morton-Hayward's experiments suggest the brains endure through a process called molecular cross-linking, in which brain protein remnants and degraded lipids form a spongy polymer. […] The mechanism appears distinct from how some other bodily tissues are preserved after turning to adipocere, or "grave wax," which forms when body fats transform into a tallow-colored soaplike substance. "Adipocere forms in adipose tissue — that's buttocks, arms, cheeks," says Sonia O'Connor, an archaeologist and pioneering researcher of ancient brains at the University of Bradford in England. "There is no adipose tissue in the brain. It's the wrong chemistry."
ref: 2025, “Advances: Biology: Brain Endurance. Misfolded proteins may preserve brains for millennia”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 2 (February), pages 10-12:
related: word: adipocire
synonyms: grave wax
glosses: A brown, fatty, waxy substance (fatty acids) that forms on dead animal tissues in response to hydrolysis.
Related terms: adipocerate
adipoceration
adipoceriform
adipocerous
frenchified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frenchified
form: most frenchified
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Frenchified.
frenchified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of frenchify
fireship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireships
Etymology: From fire + ship.
Senses: examples: text: Fireships were famously used by Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.
text: His attempt in 208 to cross the Yangtse was frustrated in the famous battle of Ch'ih-pi, in which his immense fleet was destroyed by his enemies' fireships, and most of his army slain.
ref: 1984, Witold Rodzinksi, The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from 2000 BC to the Present, London: Fontana Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: word: brulot
glosses: A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.
glosses: A diseased prostitute.
Related terms: fireboat
hellburner
frenchified
venereal disease
gallows humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallows humour
Senses: examples: text: 1931, "German Falstaff" (review of The Mirror of Fools by Alfred Neumann), Time, 16 Jan.,
Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: "Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place—gallows humor."
text: The term was part of the language before Freud wrote an essay on it -- 'gallows humour.' This is middle European humour, a response to hopeless situations. It's what a man says faced with a perfectly hopeless situation and he still manages to say something funny. Freud gives examples: A man being led out to be hanged at dawn says, 'Well, the day is certainly starting well.' It's generally called Jewish humour in this country. Actually it's humour from the peasants' revolt, the thirty years' war, and from the Napoleonic wars. It's small people being pushed this way and that way, enormous armies and plagues and so forth, and still hanging on in the face of hopelessness. Jewish jokes are middle European jokes. And the black humourists are gallows humourists, as they try to be funny in the face of situations which they see as just horrible.
ref: 1971, Kurt Vonnegut, “Running Experiments Off: An Interview”, in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut:
text: True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. . . . While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, "I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight."
ref: 2005, Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Mattis, it turned out, was meeting with Trudeau at NATO headquarters. Already engaging in gallows humor, I wondered if Mattis was defecting.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: A form of comedy that still manages to be humorous in the face of, and in response to, a tragic or hopeless situation.
Related terms: black humor
black humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black humour
Senses: examples: text: Black humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.
synonyms: black comedy
glosses: A subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with subjects that are believed to be serious or controversial, such as death, divorce, drug abuse, etc.
Derived terms: black-humored
Related terms: comedy
gallows humor
humor
tragicomedy
sailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sail
sailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
Senses: glosses: Travelling by ship.