cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
toy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: toi
ipa: /tɔɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /taɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /tɑɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: more toy
form: most toy
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“play-thing, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.
Senses: examples: text: Our evaluation scenarios are purposefully simplistic […] This implies that the scenarios are quite toy and not representative of real deployments.
ref: 2024 December 5, Alexander Meinke et al., Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming, page 15:
glosses: Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple.
Related terms: game
plaything
year-to-date
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
glosses: Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.
Related terms: year to date
smoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: smokers
Etymology: From smoke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Even though I don't smoke, I'm not one of those fanatics you run into. In fact, I love watching cigarette smokers in their sad little sealed-off areas, sucking away, deep lines in their faces, precancerous lesions taking hold, the posture and body language of petty criminals. You know what you do with these people? Give 'em free cigarettes. Let 'em smoke. Offer them a light!
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
antonyms: never-smoker
quitter
hypernyms: ever-smoker
glosses: A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
examples: text: We had all got into a first-class smoker, and he had already lit the short and charred old briar pipe which seemed to singe the end of his long, aggressive nose.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A smoking car on a train.
examples: text: A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]
ref: 1904, Forest and Stream, volume 63, page 120:
text: One of the most unique athletic programs given in Tacoma for a long time, and which should furnish rare fun for the spectators, is scheduled for the smoker given tonight by company A, Second infantry regiment, N. G. W., at the company drill hall, South Twelfth and A streets.
ref: 1908 April 22, The Tacoma Daily Ledger, page 7:
text: A morning paper made brief mention of a smoker that was to be given on the following evening by the German minister.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground
ref: 1982, Donald Fagen, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:
glosses: An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
examples: text: All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 129:
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
glosses: A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
glosses: An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
glosses: A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
glosses: A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
glosses: A two-stroke engine.
glosses: Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball.
glosses: Synonym of stag film.
synonyms: word: stag film
Hyponyms: word: smokeress
Derived terms: black smoker
chain-smoker
dick smoker
ever-smoker
ever smoker
ex-smoker
never-smoker
never smoker
pole smoker
pole-smoker
smokeress
smokerette
smoker's cough
social smoker
white smoker
foil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: foils
form: foiling
form: foiled
form: foiled
Etymology: From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.
Senses: glosses: To cover or wrap with foil.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Clipping of hydrofoil.
foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: foils
Etymology: From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin fullō (“I trample, I full”).
Senses: examples: text: Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis:
glosses: Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
glosses: One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: foils
Etymology: From French foulis.
Senses: examples: text: […]but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: The track of an animal.
Synonyms: sense: track of an animal
word: spoor
foil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: foils
form: foiling
form: foiled
form: foiled
Etymology: From mnemonic acronym FOIL (“First Outside Inside Last”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
foil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: foils
form: foiling
form: foiled
form: foiled
Etymology: See file.
Senses: glosses: To defile; to soil.
foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: foils
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
Related terms: multifoil
polyfoil
trefoil
taker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪkɚ/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: takers
Etymology: From Middle English takere, equivalent to take + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She is known as quite a risk taker.
text: The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.
text: The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.
text: An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.
ref: 2008 March 2, Bruce Barcott, “The Higher They Climb”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: word: recipient
word: taker
word: thief
glosses: One who takes something.
examples: text: I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker.
glosses: A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
examples: text: Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?
text: I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?
text: Barely a decade ago, the notion that land should be managed in order to ensure planetary wellbeing had few takers among farmers whose raison d'etre was to fill human bellies at the lowest possible cost. But this is the proposition that is now poised to determine the future of farming.
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023:
glosses: One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
examples: text: The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh.
ref: 1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Scorpion”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 223:
glosses: A nipper or claw of a scorpion.
Synonyms: word: appropriator
word: taker
Hypernyms: word: recipient
Hyponyms: word: annexer
word: bribetaker
word: captor
word: confiscator
word: hostage-taker
word: thief
Derived terms: check-taker
double taker
hostage taker
hostage-taker
liberty taker
piss-taker
price taker
taker-backer
taker-off
test-taker
thief-taker
time-taker
wicket taker
wife-taker
Related terms: word: taking
word: get
word: receive
word: take
foolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/
rhymes: -uːlɪʃ
Forms: form: more foolish
form: most foolish
Etymology: From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Next season will, as ever, be a different matter, another problem for Conte to solve as he looks to extend his personal record of four straight league titles in club football across England and Italy. Given his hunger for more – more time, more detail, more work – only the brave or the foolish would bet against him.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
text: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
qualifier: an action
glosses: Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Synonyms: word: absurd
word: idiotic
word: ridiculous
word: silly
word: unwise
word: asinine
word: balmy
word: barmy
word: bedaft
word: loony
word: daft
word: derpy
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dopey
word: dull-headed
word: dull-witted
word: dumb
word: duncical
word: fatuous
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gauvison
word: goofy
word: idle
word: insipient
word: mookish
word: naive
word: simple
word: slight
word: slow-witted
word: softheaded
word: soft in the head
word: sottish
word: stupid
word: thick
word: unsage
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: crackpot
word: dense
Hypernyms: word: lacking
word: weak-minded
Hyponyms: word: gullible
Derived terms: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
foolishly
foolishment
foolishness
overfoolish
penny wise and pound foolish
pound-foolish
unfoolish
Related terms: word: thick as a brick
word: daft as a brush
word: cretinous
word: imbecilic
word: lame
word: moronic
word: retarded
word: fool
word: insane
forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwəd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/
ipa: /ˈfoʊwəɹd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹəɹd/
ipa: /ˈfoːwəd/
ipa: /foːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -oʊ(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔɹə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: foreword
Forms: form: forwards
form: forwarding
form: forwarded
form: forwarded
form: foreward
form: forrard
form: forrad
form: forred
Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).
Senses: examples: text: He did all he could to forward the interests of the school.
text: Mary had a suspicion that this plan had been arranged beforehand, for she knew how the lewd old woman loved to forward love affairs […].
ref: 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 26:
glosses: To advance, promote.
examples: text: I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.
text: One of the most important aspects of the social service operation was the maintaining of a telephone "hot line," supposedly available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week […] This unbelievable achievement was accomplished with the expedient of "call forwarding" which made it possible for all the calls coming in to the CHAT office to be sent by means of technical magic to any other telephone in the area.
ref: 1981 April 4, Steve Owens, “We Are God's Children Too”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
glosses: To arrive, come.
Synonyms: sense: send (something received) on to a third party
word: pass on
Derived terms: unforwarded
forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwəd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwəɹd/
ipa: /ˈfoʊwəɹd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹəɹd/
ipa: /ˈfoːwəd/
ipa: /foːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -oʊ(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔɹə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: foreword
Forms: form: forwards
form: foreward
form: forrard
form: forrad
form: forred
Etymology: From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“condition, bargain, agreement, contract, treaty, assurance”), equivalent to fore- + ward (“ward, keeping”). Cognate with Scots forward (“covenant, compact”), Dutch voorwaarde (“condition, terms, proviso, stipulation”). More at fore-, ward.
Senses: glosses: Agreement; covenant.
flustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈstɹeɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈflʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd/
Forms: form: more flustrated
form: most flustrated
Etymology: Blend of flustered + frustrated
Senses: glosses: Frustrated to the point of being flustered, or vice versa.
cooperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /kuˈɒp.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɑ.pəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /kuˈɑ.pəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /kəʉˈɔp.ə.ɹæɪt/
rhymes: -ɒpəɹeɪt
Forms: form: cooperates
form: cooperating
form: cooperated
form: cooperated
form: co-operate
form: coöperate
Etymology: Originated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperātus, perfect passive participle of cooperor (“to work with”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Equivalent to co- + operate. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Senses: examples: text: In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
glosses: To allow for mutual unobstructed action.
glosses: To function in harmony, side by side.
glosses: To engage in economic cooperation.
topics: law
glosses: To obtain the cooperation of (a potential witness); to turn (someone) into a cooperating witness.
Synonyms: coact
coadjute
co-op
liaise
make common cause
play ball
Derived terms: cooperating
coopete
noncooperating
uncooperating
Related terms: word: cooperation
word: cooperative
word: cooperator
fowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: foul
ipa: /faʊl/
homophone: foul
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: fowls
form: fowling
form: fowled
form: fowled
Etymology: From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
Senses: examples: text: We took our guns and went fowling.
glosses: To hunt fowl.
Derived terms: fowler
fowling
fowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: foul
ipa: /faʊl/
homophone: foul
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: fowler
form: fowlest
Senses: examples: Paradise Lost, John Milton
Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?
glosses: foul
dispatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspætʃ/
ipa: /dəˈspæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: dispatches
form: depeche
form: despatch
Etymology: From Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, replacing alternate reflex depeach, which is from French dépêcher. Further, several steps omitting, from Latin dis- + impedicō (whence impeach). The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.
Compare typologically deliver (for the meaning to bring or transport) (< Latin dē- + līberō).
Senses: examples: text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
examples: text: We must act with dispatch in this matter.
text: During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
text: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
ref: 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
synonyms: haste
hurry
rapidity
glosses: The act of doing something quickly.
glosses: A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
glosses: A dismissal.
Derived terms: dispatch box
dispatch case
dispatchful
dispatch money
dispatch rider
dispatch table
dynamic dispatch
emergency dispatch center
happy dispatch
multidispatch
static dispatch
with dispatch
frequent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
Forms: form: more frequent
form: frequenter
form: most frequent
form: frequentest
Etymology: From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).
Senses: examples: text: I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
text: There are frequent trains to the beach available.
text: I am a frequent visitor to that city.
text: During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]
ref: 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
glosses: Done or occurring often; common.
examples: text: Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LV.2, page 31:
glosses: Occurring at short intervals.
examples: text: [E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.
ref: 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
examples: text: 'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
ref: 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Full; crowded; thronged.
examples: text: 'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.
ref: 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:
glosses: Often or commonly reported.
Synonyms: regular
recurring
continual
steady
Derived terms: equifrequent
frequentative
frequent flier
frequent flyer
frequentism
frequentist
frequentistic
frequentness
hyperfrequent
monofrequent
nonfrequent
normofrequent
overfrequent
semifrequent
unfrequent
Related terms: word: frequency
word: frequently
word: infrequent
alt: FAQ
word: frequently asked questions
frequent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
ipa: /fɹɪˈkwɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
ipa: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
Forms: form: frequents
form: frequenting
form: frequented
form: frequented
Etymology: From Old French frequenter, from Latin frequentare (“to fill, crowd, visit often, do or use often, etc.”), from frequens (“frequent, crowded”).
Senses: examples: text: I used to frequent that restaurant.
glosses: To visit often.
Derived terms: frequentable
frequentage
frequentation
frequenter
unfrequent
unfrequented
glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glŭv
ipa: /ɡlʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: gloves
Etymology: From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.
Senses: examples: text: I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
text: The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
glosses: A baseball mitt.
examples: text: Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The ability to catch a hit ball.
glosses: A condom.
examples: text: to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it
glosses: A challenge from one to another.
Synonyms: word: gauntlet
word: handglove
word: handshoe
jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jəl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.ɡjəl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.əl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.lɚ/
rhymes: -ʌɡjʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -uːɡjʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌɡələ(ɹ)
Forms: form: jugulary
Etymology: Late 16th century borrowing from Late Latin jugulāris, from jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to jugulum + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
Of or pertaining to the jugular vein.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Having ventral fins attached under the throat.
raw_tags: of fish
glosses: Relating to juggling.
Derived terms: abdominojugular
hepatojugular
hepatojugularometer
intrajugular
jugular foramen
jugular notch
jugular trunk
jugular vein
jugular venous pressure
jugulo-
transjugular
jugular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jəl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.ɡjəl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.əl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.lɚ/
rhymes: -ʌɡjʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -uːɡjʊlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌɡələ(ɹ)
Forms: form: jugulars
form: jugulary
Etymology: Late 16th century borrowing from Late Latin jugulāris, from jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to jugulum + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of jugular vein.
examples: text: It was vicious; he went for the jugular.
text: One of Lionel's old Salthill friends with whom he exchanged perhaps a dozen words a year, and with whom he sometimes played squash, and tennis, both men killers on the court, seeking the jugular […].
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 83:
glosses: Any critical vulnerability.
Derived terms: go for the jugular
modern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒd(ə)n/
enpr: mŏdʹərn
ipa: /ˈmɑdɚn/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: moderns
Etymology: From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (“just now”), originally ablative of modus (“measure”); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.
Senses: examples: text: The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
ref: 1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare:
text: They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
ref: 1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome:
text: Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did […] we must as historians make the attempt.
ref: 1956, John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, page 144:
text: Yeats understood these ancient mysteries better than any modern.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 181:
glosses: Someone who lives in modern times.
moderne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moderne
form: most moderne
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of modern.
commercialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɚʃəlaɪz/
ipa: /kəˈmɜːʃəlaɪz/
Forms: form: commercializes
form: commercializing
form: commercialized
form: commercialized
form: commercialise
Etymology: From commercial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: productize
text: the work required not only to invent a device but also to commercialize it
glosses: To bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
examples: text: finding the right balance in paying for water infrastructure (treatment plants and pipe networks) but not commercializing water to the point of excluding low-income people from adequate access to a basic necessity
coordinate_terms: monetize#Verb
glosses: To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).
examples: text: a market district formerly served mainly by artisans but increasingly commercialized for mass tourism
glosses: To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.
Derived terms: commercializable
commercialization
commercializer
decommercialize
noncommercialized
overcommercialize
recommercialize
uncommercialized
Related terms: commodify
commoditize
consumerize
commercialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌmɜːʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /kəˌmɜːʃələˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /kəˌmɝʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /kəˌmɝʃələˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /kəˌmɜːʃəlɑɪˈzæɪʃən/
ipa: /kəˌmɜːʃələˈzæɪʃən/
Forms: form: commercializations
form: commercialisation
Etymology: From commercialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: productization
glosses: The act of commercializing.
Derived terms: anticommercialization
decommercialization
overcommercialization
Related terms: commercialize
commodification
commoditization
consumerization
barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹi.ə(ɹ)/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹi.ɚ/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹi.ɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: barriers
Etymology: From Middle English barryer, barrere, barryȝer, from Old French barriere (compare French barrière), from Old French barre (“bar”).
Senses: examples: text: The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
text: The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
glosses: A structure that bars passage.
examples: text: Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
text: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
glosses: An obstacle or impediment.
examples: text: Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
text: The downside of normalization is that it erects a defensive barrier between the real world and the perceived i.e. normalized world.
ref: 2025 April 21, Charles Hugh Smith, What's "Normal" in a Hyper-Normalized World?:
glosses: A boundary or limit.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
glosses: The lists in a tournament.
glosses: A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Derived terms: acoustic barrier
allobarrier
automatic half-barrier level crossing
barrier board
barrier cream
barrier island
barrier lake
barrierless
barrierlike
barrier method
barrier nursing
barrier reef
barrier ridge
barrier rogue
barrier to entry
barrier to trade
barrier troops
barristor
biobarrier
blood-brain barrier
boom barrier
color barrier
Coulomb barrier
crash barrier
crowd control barrier
crush barrier
cyberbarrier
death barrier
diffusion-barrier
Einstein barrier
Great Barrier Island
Great Barrier Reef
half-barrier
heat barrier
hematoencephalic barrier
ice barrier
immunobarrier
Jersey barrier
jersey barrier
language barrier
light barrier
memory barrier
metabarrier
multibarrier
nanobarrier
New Jersey barrier
noise barrier
non-tariff barrier
police barrier
racial barrier
Schottky barrier
security barrier
sonic barrier
sound barrier
species barrier
subbarrier
superbarrier
tariff barrier
ticket barrier
tilt barrier
time barrier
tire barrier
tyre barrier
toll barrier
trade barrier
traffic barrier
underbarrier
vapor barrier
Weismann barrier
barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹi.ə(ɹ)/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbæɹi.ɚ/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈbɛɹi.ɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: barriers
form: barriering
form: barriered
form: barriered
Etymology: From Middle English barryer, barrere, barryȝer, from Old French barriere (compare French barrière), from Old French barre (“bar”).
Senses: synonyms: bar
glosses: To block or obstruct with a barrier.
malodorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmælˈəʊ.də.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˌmælˈoʊ.də.ɹəs/
Forms: form: more malodorous
form: most malodorous
form: malodourous
Etymology: From mal- + odorous.
Senses: examples: text: There were malodorous garbage bags aplenty outside her house.
glosses: Having a bad odor.
glosses: Highly improper.
Synonyms: sense: having a bad odor
word: foul
word: putrid
word: smelly
word: stinky
word: stenchy
word: fetid
word: funky
word: noisome
word: reeky
word: reeking
word: stinking
word: mephitic
word: foul-smelling
word: rank
word: rotten
word: vile
word: offensive
word: bad
word: buckish
word: cacodorous
word: graveolent
word: malodorous
word: niffy
word: nonaromatic
word: nonfragrant
word: olid
word: on the nose
word: pongy
word: putredinous
word: ripe
word: stank
word: stinksome
word: unaromatic
word: unfragrant
word: whiff
word: whiffy
Hypernyms: word: olfactible
word: unpleasant
Hyponyms: word: nidorous
word: pungent
word: putrid
Related terms: word: malodor
word: malodorously
word: malodorousness
word: mephitic
word: rank
word: stench
word: reek
boundary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊndɹi/
ipa: /ˈbaʊndəɹi/
rhymes: -aʊndɹi
Forms: form: boundaries
Etymology: From bound + -ary, Old French, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:
text: City or national boundaries are locations of economic opportunity, especially if the existence of the border is itself the source of a monopoly situation that favors one side over the other (Krakover, 1997).
ref: 2017 October, Juin-Jen Chang, Ching-Chong Lai, Ping Wang, “A Tale of Two Cities: Cross-Border Casino Competition Between Detroit and Windsor”, in NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021, page 1:
glosses: the dividing line or location between two areas
examples: text: I didn’t mean to push the boundaries by sending my boss a message on Saturday night.
glosses: the bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond)
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an edge or line marking an edge of the playing field
examples: text: Travis hit a boundary to seal the match on the last ball of the over.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set
glosses: commission paid by a bus or jeepney driver to a public transportation operator for taking passengers, or the excess collected fares taken as daily wage
Derived terms: boundaried
boundariless
boundaryless
Boundary Commission
boundary condition
boundary corner
Boundary County
boundary four
boundary group
boundary homomorphism
boundary line
boundary map
Boundary Peak
boundary point
boundary rider
boundary scan
boundary stone
boundary term
boundary umpire
coboundary
geoboundary
grain boundary
isoboundary
Kootenay Boundary
K-T boundary
lower boundary
missing boundary
natural boundary
Northwestern Boundary Dispute
outflow boundary
San Juan Boundary Dispute
surface boundary layer
transboundary
upper boundary
Related terms: bound
border
confine
fladry
frontier
blockade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑˈkeɪd/
ipa: /blɒˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: blockades
Etymology: From block + -ade, probably after Dutch blocquade (now blokkade) or German Blockade.
Senses: examples: text: A six-day blockade from 28 May to 2 June saw NR [National Rail] straighten the track through the station, facilitating a linespeed increase from 60mph to 85mph over a 4km stretch.
ref: 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
glosses: The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
examples: text: In the mean time, Francesca, separated from Madame de Mercœur, was hidden by a group around the Queen of Sweden. With the wall on one side, and a human blockade on the other, she was left at full leisure to meditate on a vow made at the first announcement of the lottery, namely, that whatever might fall to her lot she would offer in a neighbouring chapel to the Virgin, at whose shrine she would kneel one hour for Guido's safe return.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 265:
glosses: Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
examples: text: beta-blockade
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: Synonym of prime.
synonyms: word: prime
Synonyms: sense: blocking seaport activity
english: often metonymically synonymous
translation: often metonymically synonymous
word: embargo
sense: inhibition via medication
word: antagonism
sense: inhibition via medication
word: receptor antagonism
Derived terms: antiblockade
beta blockade
blockade crown
blockader
blockade runner
blockade whiskey
Coulomb blockade
counterblockade
immunoblockade
neuroblockade
nonblockaded
preblockade
unblockaded
Related terms: english: nearly synonymous, but not interchangeably; blockade usually denotes human agency
translation: nearly synonymous, but not interchangeably; blockade usually denotes human agency
word: blockage
alt: e.g., alpha-blocker, beta-blocker
word: blocker
blockade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑˈkeɪd/
ipa: /blɒˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: blockades
form: blockading
form: blockaded
form: blockaded
Etymology: From block + -ade, probably after Dutch blocquade (now blokkade) or German Blockade.
Senses: examples: text: On January 5 1969, residents blockaded the level crossing at Newcastleton, ahead of the final passenger train. It was only after the then-local MP David (now Lord) Steel had alighted from the St Pancras-bound Sleeper service and negotiated their dispersal (in return for the release without charge of one of the protest organisers, Reverend Brydon Maben) that the train was allowed on its way.
ref: 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52:
glosses: To create a blockade against.
manyogana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man'yōgana.
capillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
ipa: /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæpəˌlɛri/
ipa: /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
ipa: /käˈpɪʎä.ɹi/
ipa: /käˈpɪʎä.ɾi/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
Forms: form: more capillary
form: most capillary
Etymology: From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
glosses: Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
glosses: Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.
Derived terms: alveolocapillary
arteriocapillary
capillaric
capillarily
capillaritis
capillarization
capillary bed
capillary refill
cerebrocapillary
choriocapillary
elastocapillary
electrocapillary
endocapillary
exocapillary
extracapillary
intercapillary
intracapillary
juxtacapillary
magnetocapillary
megacapillary
microcapillary
midcapillary
multicapillary
nanocapillary
neocapillary
neurocapillary
noncapillary
optocapillary
pericapillary
polycapillary
postcapillary
precapillary
pseudocapillary
thermocapillary
transcapillary
vasocapillary
venocapillary
capillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
ipa: /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæpəˌlɛri/
ipa: /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
ipa: /käˈpɪʎä.ɹi/
ipa: /käˈpɪʎä.ɾi/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
Forms: form: capillaries
Etymology: From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.
Derived terms: capillarity
capillary action
capillary wave
peritubular capillary
Related terms: artery
circulatory system
vein
integral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɪɡr(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛɡr(ə)l/
enpr: ĭn-tĕgʹrəl
ipa: /ˈɪntəɡɹəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəl/
Forms: form: more integral
form: most integral
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French integral, from Medieval Latin integrālis, from Latin integer (“entire”); see integer.
Senses: examples: text: Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
synonyms: word: immanent
word: inherent
word: necessary
word: built-in
word: essential
word: immanent
word: inbuilt
word: infused
word: ingrained
word: inherent
word: instilled
word: integral
word: intrinsic
word: inwrought
word: radical
glosses: Constituting a whole together with other parts or factors; not omittable or removable
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being an integer.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to integration (“the process of finding the integral [noun] of a function”).
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: integral element
algebraic
qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: Being the root of some monic polynomial in A.
raw_tags: of a ring element in a ring B relative to a subring A
examples: text: A local motion keepeth bodies integral.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Whole; undamaged.
Derived terms: differintegral
integral brick
integral closure
integral cosmology
integral cuboid
integral current
integral curvature
integral curve
integral domain
integral drawing
integral ecology
integral element
integral energy
integral extension
integral fast reactor
integral field unit
integral function
integral geometry
integral graph
integral homology group
integralism
integralist
integrality
integral kernel
integrally
integral membrane protein
integralness
integral number
integral politics
integral polygedron
integral polynomial
integral post-metaphysics
integral psychology
integral transformative practice
integral yoga
integraph
integrity
nonintegral
semi-integral
unintegral
Related terms: word: integer
word: integrity
word: integrous
grus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gruses
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.
cruor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuː.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cruor (“blood”). See crude.
Senses: glosses: The colouring matter of the blood.
examples: text: The boy is pinched and bled, heated and cooled, sprinkled with powders, spread with salves and a gritty mucilage of peony seeds and cat’s cruor.
ref: 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 70-71:
glosses: The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.
Derived terms: cruoric
cruorin
levir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levirs
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin lēvir.
Senses: examples: text: The tie between the childless widow and the levir exists automatically from the moment of widowhood. Thus a sexual relationship with anyone other than the levir would be adulterous, an offense punishable by the death penalty, according to Lev. 20:10 and Deut. 22:22.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 236:
text: Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.
ref: 2008, Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 261:
glosses: A husband's brother.
Anglo-Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈsæk.sən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈsæk.sən/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: Anglosaxon
Etymology: From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Angli Saxones (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons.
Senses: meronyms: Anglian
Kentish
Mercian
Northumbrian
West Saxon
glosses: Synonym of Old English (language).
synonyms: word: Old English
extra: language
examples: text: Sometimes these chairmen are authoritarians, who wield the budget-book as a weapon - the junior staff members have some Anglo-Saxon words for them
ref: 1954, American Association of University Professors, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors:
text: I haven't eaten in two days. What's left to puke? You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.
ref: 1995, Margaret Edson, Wit:
text: How fucked up is that? (Pardon my Anglo-Saxon)
ref: 2008, Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, →ISBN:
glosses: Profanity, especially words derived from Old English.
Related terms: Early Modern English
Early New English
English
Middle English
Modern English
New English
Semi-Saxon