cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tasmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæzˈmeɪniən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Forms: form: Tasmanians
Etymology: From Tasmania + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The engineer of the line, a young Tasmanian named Sharland, decided the best course would be to take the new railway along a chain of four deep valleys. [...].
ref: 1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 37:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the state of Tasmania, Australia.
Synonyms: word: Taswegian
Derived terms: word: Tasmanian cave spider
english: swamp gum, Eucalyptus ovata
translation: swamp gum, Eucalyptus ovata
word: Tasmanian cider tree
taxonomic: Astroloma humifusum
alt: syn. Styphelia humifusa
word: Tasmanian cranberry
word: Tasmanian currant
taxonomic: Sarcophilus harrisii
word: Tasmanian devil
word: Tasmanian dogwood
word: Tasmanian honeysuckle
word: Tasmanian hyacinth
word: Tasmanian ironwood
taxonomic: Anopterus glandulosus
word: Tasmanian laurel
word: Tasmanian mountain myrtle
taxonomic: Lophozonia cunninghamii
word: Tasmanian myrtle
taxonomic: Tasmannia lanceolata
word: Tasmanian pepper
word: Tasmanian plum
word: Tasmanian rope-grass
english: Australian sassafras
translation: Australian sassafras
word: Tasmanian sassafras
taxonomic: Zieria arborescens
word: Tasmanian stinkwood
taxonomic: Thylacinus cynocephalus
word: Tasmanian wolf
extremes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɹiːmz/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɹiːmz/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɹimz/
rhymes: -iːmz
Senses: glosses: plural of extreme
glosses: The opposite ends of a range or scale.
Buffalonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʌfəˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌbʌfəˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Buffalonians
Etymology: From Buffalo + -n- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Buffalo, NY.
things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of thing
things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: examples: text: Have you brought all your things with you?
text: Get your hands off my things!
text: Ole Golly just had indoor things and outdoor things.... She just had yards and yards of tweed which enveloped her like a lot of discarded blankets, which ballooned out when she walked, and which she referred to as her Things. —Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (1964)
glosses: One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff
Synonyms: stuff
things
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thing
perception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛpʃn̩/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɛpʃən
Forms: form: perceptions
Etymology: From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.
Senses: glosses: The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
examples: text: have perception of time
glosses: Conscious understanding of something.
glosses: Vision (ability)
glosses: Acuity
Synonyms: ken
Derived terms: afterperception
anorthoscopic perception
chemoperception
chronoception
depth perception
disperception
doors of perception
extrasensory perception
graviperception
heteroperception
imperception
magnetoperception
mechanoperception
metaperception
misperception
nociperception
nonperception
non-referential perception
osseoperception
overperception
perceptional
perceptionism
perceptionist
petite perception
photoperception
preperception
reperception
self-perception
somatoperception
space perception
underperception
visuoperception
Related terms: perceive
percept
perceptual
possiblities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of possibilities.
manifest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/
ipa: /ˈmæn.ə.fɛst/
Forms: form: more manifest
form: most manifest
Etymology: From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.
Senses: examples: text: It re-envisioned Freddy Krueger in the “real world,” where the nightmare-dwelling being is made manifest in our reality, one where Freddy actor Robert Englund and original Nightmare On Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp play themselves, as does [Wes] Craven himself.
ref: 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
text: Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 4:13:
glosses: Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
glosses: Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
examples: text: Caliſtho there ſtood manifeſt of Shame, / And turn’d a Bear, the Northern Star became[…]
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book II, page 47:
glosses: Detected; convicted.
raw_tags: used with "of"
Synonyms: sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: apparent
sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: plain
sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: clear
sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: distinct
sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: obvious
sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: palpable
sense: evident to the senses, easy to understand
word: patent
Derived terms: immanifest
manifest content
manifest destiny
manifestness
nonmanifest
premanifest
unmanifest
manifest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/
ipa: /ˈmæn.ə.fɛst/
Forms: form: manifests
Etymology: From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendō (“strike”) (from the root of dēfendō, offendō, etc.), or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰers-. Doublet of manifesto.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: bill of lading
text: ship's manifest
coordinate_terms: bill of goods
bill of sale
schedule#Noun
glosses: A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file containing metadata describing other files.
examples: text: But you, authentick Witneſſes I bring, / Before the gods, and your ungrateful King, / Of this my Manifeſt : That never more / This Hand ſhall combate on the crooked Shore : / No, let the Grecian Powers oppreſs’d in Fight, / Unpity’d periſh in their Tyrants fight.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, pages 206–7:
glosses: A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto.
Derived terms: flight interruption manifest
manifest file
manifest typing
verifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌvɛɹ.əˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: [ˌvɛɹˈfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.əˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈvɛɹˌfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: more verifiable
form: most verifiable
Etymology: From verify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim?
text: Sometimes these sagas and anecdotes are touched with ribaldry, or with excessive obscenity, according to the times, and sometimes they are rooted in obscure but still verifiable deistic concepts.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 88:
text: But the post-truthism that the new autocrats are so apt at employing goes far beyond fibbing: it denies the existence of a verifiable reality. Post-truthism is not chiefly about getting lies accepted as truths but about muddying the waters to the point that it becomes difficult to discern the difference between truth and falsehood.
ref: 2022 February 22, Moisés Naím, “The Dictator's New Playbook”, in Foreign Affairs:
glosses: Able to be verified or confirmed.
glosses: Able to be qualified by a Boolean expression.
verifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌvɛɹ.əˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: [ˌvɛɹˈfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.əˌfaɪ.ə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈvɛɹˌfaɪ.ə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: verifiables
Etymology: From verify + -able.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A statement or observation that can be verified.
Boolean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːl.i.ən/
ipa: /buːˈli.ən/
enpr: bo͞oʹliən
enpr: bo͞oliʹən
ipa: /ˈbuli.ən/
rhymes: -uːliən
Forms: form: boolean
form: Boolian
Etymology: From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
examples: text: Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!
ref: 2005 May 9, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Bug In Mouth Disease”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Sad (Matthew Chapman):
text: The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.
ref: 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.
Derived terms: Boolean algebra
Boolean circuit
Boolean function
Boolean logic
Boolean ring
Boolean variable
Boolean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːl.i.ən/
ipa: /buːˈli.ən/
enpr: bo͞oʹliən
enpr: bo͞oliʹən
ipa: /ˈbuli.ən/
rhymes: -uːliən
Forms: form: Booleans
form: boolean
form: Boolian
Etymology: From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
Synonyms: sense: Boolean variable
word: flag
sense: Boolean variable
word: bool
echt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: more echt
form: most echt
Etymology: Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.
Senses: examples: text: I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8:
text: And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.
ref: 2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet):
text: An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].
ref: 2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times:
glosses: Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
MBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MBAs
Senses: coordinate_terms: BBA
DBA
glosses: Initialism of master's of business administration (a college degree).
glosses: Initialism of MacBook Air.
BSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of business system analyst.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of bovine serum albumin.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of body surface area.
BSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: BuzzFeed News previously obtained a letter reportedly from GSUSA President Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, who accused BSA of welcoming girls to help their diminished enrollment numbers.
ref: 2019 February 1, Dakin Andone, “Girls can join the Boy Scouts now – but not everyone is happy about it”, in CNN:
qualifier: scouting
glosses: Initialism of Boy Scouts of America.
glosses: Initialism of Birmingham Small Arms Company.
glosses: Initialism of Bharatiya Sakshya Act, the official evidence act of India.
Derived terms: BSAer
accounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/
Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.
* account + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of account
accounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: accountings
Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.
* account + -ing
Senses: examples: text: British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently to deal with the pay of some 10,000 employees.
ref: 1957 November 23, “Electronics in Railway Accountancy”, in Railway Magazine, page 746:
topics: business
glosses: The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions and financial status of an individual or a business.
examples: text: He was required to give a thorough accounting of his time.
glosses: A relaying of events; justification of actions.
examples: text: In contrast, an accounting for profits, or accounting— a distinct form of relief that the majority groups with disgorgement — has a well-accepted definition: It compels a defendant to account for, and repay to a plaintiff, those profits that belong to the plaintiff in equity.
ref: 2020, Liu v. SEC (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-1501), Justice Thomas dissenting
topics: law
glosses: An equitable remedy requiring wrongfully obtained profits to be distributed to those who deserve them.
Derived terms: accounting cost
accounting equation
accounting machine
accounting period
accounting profit
accounting year
cookie-jar accounting
creative accounting
financial accounting
forensic accounting
green accounting
Hollywood accounting
management accounting
nonaccounting
Pereira accounting
preaccounting
project accounting
pushdown accounting
shadow accounting
tax accounting
Van Camp accounting
Related terms: accountancy
individual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊəl/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊl/
ipa: /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əl/
ipa: /ˌɪndə-/
Forms: form: individuals
form: individuall
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
Senses: examples: text: He is an unusual individual.
text: “You have to be an individual,” said Ms. Smoke, a 40-year-old saleswoman, as she sipped her beverage. “You can’t just get black coffee.”
ref: 2024 September 16, Priya Krishna, “The Customized Drink Is Out of Control”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
examples: text: Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination […].
ref: 1982, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
topics: law
glosses: A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
examples: text: It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.
ref: 2006, Steven French, “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An element belonging to a population.
individual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊəl/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒʊl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ɪndɪˈvɪdjʊl/
ipa: /ˌɪndɪˈvɪd͡ʒ(u)əl/
ipa: /ˌɪndə-/
Forms: form: more individual
form: most individual
form: individuall
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: individuated, solitary, self-standing, freestanding
text: As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
synonyms: single#Adjective
antonyms: collective#Adjective
glosses: Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
examples: text: individual personal pension
text: individual cream cakes
synonyms: personal#Adjective
single#Adjective
antonyms: group#Noun
joint#Adjective
shared#Adjective
collective#Adjective
glosses: Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
examples: Near-synonyms: unatomizable, indivisible, undividable
glosses: Not divisible without losing its identity.
Derived terms: bioindividual
extraindividual
individualise
individualism
individualistic
individual item picking
individuality
individualization
individualize
individually
individual medley
individualness
individual psychology
individual pursuit
individual sport
individual time trial
individual voluntary arrangement
induhvidual
interindividual
intraindividual
nonindividual
subindividual
superindividual
supraindividual
transindividual
unindividual
fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːk/
ipa: /fɔɹk/
ipa: [fo̞ɹk]
note: without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: forks
form: forcque
Etymology: Ultimately from Etymology 1, above, through use for various things with two or more branches. Attested in this sense from the 18th century.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
fork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːk/
ipa: /fɔɹk/
ipa: [fo̞ɹk]
note: without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic
ipa: /fo(ː)ɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: forks
form: forking
form: forked
form: forked
form: forcque
Etymology: Ultimately from Etymology 1, above, through use for various things with two or more branches. Attested in this sense from the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: Forking the water, is drawing it all out; and when it is done, they say, “the mine or the water is forked;” and “the engine is in fork.”
ref: 1836 [1808], Richard Polwhele, A Cornish English Vocabulary:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To bale a shaft dry.
kosher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊʃə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɔʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more kosher
form: most kosher
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér).
Senses: examples: text: Only in New York can you find a good, kosher hamburger!
text: David's mother kept a kosher kitchen, with separate sets of dishes for meat and for dairy.
text: In order for a suit to be kosher, it cannot contain both wool and linen together.
text: Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95).
ref: 2007 January 14, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Tour of Israel, Bottle by Bottle”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
glosses: Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food).
examples: text: "Are you kosher?" "No, I love to eat scallops."
text: "Is this restaurant kosher?" "No, we serve pork."
glosses: Observant of the rules of kashrut (of a person or establishment).
examples: text: Is what I have done kosher with Mr. Smith?
glosses: In accordance with standards or usual practice.
Derived terms: eco-kosher
kosherize
kosherly
kosherness
kosher pickle
kosher salt
kosher-style
kosher tax
nonkosher
unkosher
Related terms: kasher
kashrut
kosher
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊʃə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɔʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér).
Senses: examples: text: Just like eating halal is not a choice for our Muslim brothers and sisters, for us, eating kosher is not voluntary; it’s who we are and as necessary as the oxygen we need for sustenance.
ref: 2020 August 20, Eliezer Brand, “ICE is forcing Muslims to eat pork. My fellow Orthodox Jews: This is our fight!”, in The Forward:
glosses: In a kosher manner; in accordance with kashrut.
kosher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊʃə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɔʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: koshers
form: koshering
form: koshered
form: koshered
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשר (kosher), from Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér).
Senses: glosses: To kasher; to prepare (for example, meat) in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law.
Derived terms: unkoshered
Related terms: halal
pager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
enpr: pāʹjər
rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pagers
Etymology: From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).
Senses: examples: text: Before he could bring it down, the pager clipped to his belt went off. Alan pushed the button that turned the hateful gadget off and stood indecisively in front of the shop door a moment longer […]
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things, page 355:
text: I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em
ref: 2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
synonyms: beeper
glosses: A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
examples: text: more is a pager. The basic purpose of a pager is that it lets you view the contents of a file without actually having to open the file.
ref: 2006, James Duncan Davidson, Jason Deraleau, Running Mac OS X Tiger, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 73:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
examples: text: Sunday papers kept growing in bulk, however. The Boston Globes standard eight-page Sunday offering swelled to forty pages in 1895, and sixty pages soon after. The New York World issued a record-breaking hundred-pager' in 1893 to celebrate its tenth anniversary under Pulitzer's ownership.
ref: 2019, Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 309–310:
glosses: Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
Derived terms: radiopager
Related terms: back-pager
eight-pager
one-pager
transparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæn(t)sˈpæɹənt/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpæɹənt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹæn(t)sˈpæɹənt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹænz-/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹæn(t)sˈpɛɹənt/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹænz-/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈransp(ə)rəɳʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈrans ˈparəɳʈ/
Forms: form: transparents
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārēntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpareō, from Latin trans + pareō. Displaced native Old English þurhsīene.
Senses: examples: text: The Dress Cap and Under-Sleeves are en suite. In both the puffings are separated by equal intervals, in which the transparents are uncovered.
ref: 1858 March, G. Brodie, “Fashions for March”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XVI, number XCIV, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 576, column 2:
text: They can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, and all colors of translucents, transparents and opaques, grained ivory, shell (plain and corrugated mottle), onyx, wood effects, plaids, checks, stripes, metallic, bronze pearl plain, bronze pearl with fancy blocks, bronze pearl in veins and stripes, and what is called “essence pearl.”
ref: 1935 March, F. L. Nowosatka, “Making Colorful Modern Rings from Old Toothbrush Handles”, in Raymond J. Brown, editor, Popular Science Monthly, volume 126, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The Home Workshop” section, page 97, column 2:
text: The trick is to make the white core slightly smaller than the size ultimately required for the press, so that after the transparents are added, the bead won’t overflow the press cavity.
ref: 2011, Jeri L. Warhaftig, “Session 7: Silver Butterfly”, in Creating Glass Beads: A New Workshop to Expand Your Beginner Skills and Develop Your Artistic Voice, New York, N.Y.: Lark Crafts, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 86, column 1:
coordinate_terms: opaque#Noun
translucent#Noun
glosses: Something that is transparent.
transparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæn(t)sˈpæɹənt/
ipa: /tɹænzˈpæɹənt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹæn(t)sˈpæɹənt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹænz-/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹæn(t)sˈpɛɹənt/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /tɹænz-/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈransp(ə)rəɳʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʈrans ˈparəɳʈ/
Forms: form: transparents
Etymology: From trans- (“transgender or transsexual”) + parent.
Senses: examples: text: He went to tranny day in the park. Transparents & their kids. Played baseball & cooked out; hot dogs & burgers & buns on the grill.
ref: 1999, Red Jordan Arobateau, “Tales of Transman: Part II”, in Autumn Changes, [Oakland, Calif.]: Red Jordan Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Recently the genre has expanded to consider the lives of transpersons of color as well as the experiences of transparents.
ref: 2016, Catherine L. Langford, “Trans*Forming Higher Education to Advance Workforce Diversity”, in Chaunda L. Scott, Jeanetta D. Sims, editors, Developing Workforce Diversity Programs, Curriculum, and Degrees in Higher Education (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development), Hershey, Pa.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, section 3 (Future Direction for Workforce Diversity in Higher Education), page 225:
text: There are also important considerations and conversations that transmen need to have after birth – such as whether to chest/breastfeed, and whether supportive, knowledgeable care around the management of chest or breastfeeding is available. Please find an empathic breastfeeding counsellor or IBCLC who is familiar with supporting transparents to chest or breastfeed if you need further support.
ref: 2020, Lyndsey Hookway, “What about transgender co-parents?”, in Let’s Talk about Your New Family’s Sleep, London: Pinter & Martin, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Positive sleep starts in pregnancy):
glosses: A transgender or transsexual parent.
paradigm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/
enpr: păr′ədīm
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ə.daɪm/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˈpɛɹ.daɪm]
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.ɹə.daɪm/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ə.dɑem/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ə.daɪm/
ipa: [ˈpɛɹ.ə.dɑe̯m]
Forms: form: paradigms
form: paradigmata
form: paradigma
Etymology: Established 1475-85 from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”), from παραδείκνυμι (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -μα (-ma, suffix forming nouns concerning the results of actions).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: style, model, worldview
text: Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.
glosses: A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: template, exemplar, archetype, poster child; see also Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
text: According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
ref: 2000, Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.:
text: DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory, […]
ref: 2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group.
examples: text: The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
Derived terms: macroparadigm
microparadigm
morphoparadigm
multiparadigm
multi-paradigm
paradigmal
paradigmatic
paradigmaticism
paradigm leveling
paradigm shift
social conflict paradigm
biofuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.əʊˌfjʊ(.ə)l/
Forms: form: biofuels
Etymology: From bio- + fuel.
Senses: examples: text: Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
ref: 2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20:
text: The Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed changes to its biofuels program Tuesday to spur more biofuel use and crack down on waivers issued to refineries by the Trump administration, notching a win for the biofuels industry and farmers and a blow to oil refineries.
ref: 2021 December 7, Ella Nilsen, “EPA proposes changes to its biofuels program, notching a win for the industry and farmers”, in CNN:
synonyms: biomass
glosses: Any fuel that is obtained from a renewable biological resource, especially from biomass.
Coordinate terms: english: likewise from biologic origins, but ancient and nonrenewable
translation: likewise from biologic origins, but ancient and nonrenewable
word: fossil fuel
Genoese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/
Forms: form: Genoese
Etymology: From Genoa + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: America. One of the four parts of the world, ſo called from Americus Veſpuſius a Florentine, who with Columbus a Genoeſe, firſt diſcover'd this Country about the yeer 1492 which is moſt aptly called the New world; ….
ref: 1656, T. B. of the Inner-Temple, Glossographia: or a Dictionary, Interpreting all such Hard Words, …, London, s.v. America (https://books.google.com/books?id=QctmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP45)
text: However, John not liking a Partner in the Empire, left Conſtantinople, and retir'd to Tenedos, where he engag'd Francis Cataluze a Genoeſe to aſſiſt him, and with the Fleet under his Command, return'd to the Imperal City, compell'd Contacuzenus to quit the Empire; …
ref: 1708, The General History of the World, being an Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh. With a Continuation from the Best Historians to the Present Times. Vol. III, London, p. 249 (https://books.google.com/books?id=UXE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249)
text: For at preſent the Greateſt, among the Genoeſe, are in part ſubjects to the monarchy of Spain …. The Spaniards tax them very high upon occaſion, and are ſo ſenſible of the advantage this gives them over the republick, that they will not ſuffer a Neapolitan to buy the lands of a Genoeſe, who muſt find a purchaſer among his own countrymen, if he has a mind to ſell.
ref: 1741, The Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; – Volume the Second. – The Third Edition: With a Compleat Index, London, p. 6 (https://books.google.com/books?id=c5ZNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA6)
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy.
Genoese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/
Etymology: From Genoa + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The inhabitants of Genoa, collectively.
glosses: The dialect of Ligurian spoken in Genoa
Genoese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnoʊˈiz/
Etymology: From Genoa + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Genoa or surrounding province, Liguria, Italy.
Synonyms: Genovese
co-operative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more co-operative
form: most co-operative
Senses: examples: text: The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:
text: At Futsing, in 1915, a school for boys was established which, because of its co-operative basis, was unique.
ref: 1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 159:
text: The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.
ref: 1960 December, “The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cooperative.
Derived terms: unco-operative
co-operative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-operatives
Senses: examples: text: In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste.
ref: 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Organizational Problems of the Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cooperative.
sonne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonnes
Senses: examples: text: And when I roſe in the moꝛning to giue my childe ſucke, behold, it was dead: but when I had conſidered it in the moꝛning, beholde, it was not my ſonne, which I did beare.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 3:21, signature Hh3, recto, column 2:
text: 19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby
She moved where Lindis wandereth,
My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of son.
sonne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonnes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sun.
restaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɛsˈʈɔrəɳʈ/
rhymes: -ɛstəɹɒnt
rhymes: -ɛstɹɒnt
rhymes: -ɛstəɹɒ̃
rhymes: -ɛstɹɒ̃
rhymes: -ɛstəɹənt
rhymes: -ɛstɹənt
Forms: form: restaurants
form: resto
Etymology: Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
Senses: examples: text: That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
Synonyms: word: automat
word: beanery
word: buffet
word: cafeteria
word: caff
word: canteen
word: cookhouse
word: cookshack
word: diner
word: dining hall
word: eatery
word: hashery
word: hotel
word: luncheonette
word: lunchroom
word: noshery
word: restaurant
Hypernyms: word: building
word: business
word: eating establishment
word: establishment
word: enterprise
Hyponyms: word: dining car
word: drive-in
word: gastropub
word: hash house
word: hole-in-the-wall
word: bistro
word: curry house
word: chophouse
word: greasy spoon
word: grill
word: grillroom
word: pizza parlor
word: pizza shop
word: pizza store
word: pizzeria
word: steakhouse
word: trattoria
word: chow hall
word: mess hall
word: messroom
word: refectory
Meronyms: word: dining room
word: kitchen
word: lunch counter
word: chef
word: cook
word: cordon bleu
word: dishwasher
word: hash slinger
word: maître d'
word: restauranteur
word: server
word: sommelier
word: sous-chef
word: waiter
word: waitress
word: waitstaff
word: chair
word: fork
word: glass
word: knife
word: menu
word: house wine
word: plate
word: spoon
word: table
word: wine list
Derived terms: barstaurant
breastaurant
bustaurant
Chinese restaurant process
Chinese restaurant syndrome
clubstaurant
family restaurant
ghost restaurant
grocerant
HoReCa
HORECA
impresstaurant
multirestaurant
nonrestaurant
one-arm restaurant
overhead bridge restaurant
overhead restaurant
restaurant car
restauranteer
restauranteur
restaurantgoer
restaurant-goer
restaurantish
restaurantland
restaurantware
restauranty
restaurateur
resto
restobar
restopub
Related terms: word: restaurateur
word: bar
word: cook
word: chef
word: drive-in
word: fast food
word: grill
word: menu
word: slow food
word: waiter
word: waitress
word: waitron
word: all-you-can-eat
word: chuck wagon
word: could I see the menu
word: please
word: front of house
word: lady who lunches
word: the bill
word: café
word: pub
-sson
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -son.
television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: televisions
Etymology: From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Senses: examples: text: She watched the television for over five hours.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
examples: text: I have an old television in the study.
glosses: An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
examples: text: fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
glosses: Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
examples: text: Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.
ref: 1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue:
text: […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country
ref: 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
glosses: Vision at a distance.
Synonyms: boob tube
cultural barbiturate
electric tit
electronic babysitter
glass teat
goggle box
idiot box
idiot's lantern
magic box
shit box
television set
telly
the box
the tube
TV
zombie box
Derived terms: ambush television
analog television
antitelevision
appointment television
black-and-white television
breakfast television
cable television
cablevision
cellevision
closed-circuit television
color television
colour television
digital television
face for television
guerrilla television
high-definition television
jiggle television
linear television
made-for-television
network television
nontelevision
on television
pay television
pretelevision
public access television
public television
reality television
satellite television
scramblevision
slow television
spankavision
standard-definition television
Talmudvision
teleplay
televangelical
televangelism
televangelist
televangelize
televidiot
television black
television channel
televisionish
televisionless
televisionlike
television match official
television network
television personality
television program
television programme
television receive-only
television series
television show
television star
television station
television stone
television studies
television tube
television white
trash television
TV
web television
Related terms: televise
televize
televisional
televisionally
televisionary
televisual
television
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: televisions
form: televisioning
form: televisioned
form: televisioned
Etymology: From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Senses: glosses: To watch television.
ejector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
ipa: /iːˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/
Forms: form: ejectors
Etymology: From eject + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
glosses: ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
glosses: That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
glosses: A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.
Derived terms: cartridge ejector
ejector condenser
ejector seat
saliva ejector
steam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːm/
ipa: /stiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Etymology: From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
Senses: examples: text: Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio"
ref: 1989 December 30, “Despite the era's technological marvels, 'wireless' is still magic”, in Toronto Star:
text: Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.
ref: 2000 January 10, Bill Pannifer, “Sore eyes”, in The Independent:
text: In the old days of steam journalism, after cleft sticks had been phased out but before the advent of e-mail, there used to be a fairly sure-fire way of getting your story to the news desk.
ref: 2002 September 5, Alex Kirby, “Summit diary: Aftermath”, in BBC News:
text: Fox has been at Capital since 1988, where he lurks a little in the shadow of Chris Tarrant, the radio station's monolithic star who has helmed the plum breakfast show slot since the steam radio dawn of time.
ref: 2004 April 2, “'I'ma player. It's time to move on'”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
glosses: Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
mech.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of mechanical.
glosses: Abbreviation of mechanized.
mech.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of mechanic.
glosses: Abbreviation of mechanics.
mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkænɪks/
Etymology: From Latin mēchanicus, from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine, tool”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass
glosses: The design and construction of machines.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: Spelling and punctuation.
examples: text: the mechanics of a board game
text: It was anticipated that children who encountered difficulty with the mechanics of word processing could turn to the coach for help rather than interrupt Margaret's work with a reading group.
ref: 1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, Learning to Write Differently, page 99:
glosses: Operation in general; workings.
Derived terms: aeromechanics
analytic mechanics
atomechanics
biomechanics
bionanomechanics
body mechanics
Bohmian mechanics
celestial mechanics
chemomechanics
classical mechanics
cytomechanics
ecomechanics
electromechanics
fluid mechanics
gas mechanics
geomechanics
hereditary mechanics
hydromechanics
Lagrangian mechanics
magnetomechanics
magnomechanics
matrix mechanics
mechatronics
mecomtronics
mesomechanics
micromechanics
molecular mechanics
morphomechanics
nanomechanics
neuromechanics
Newtonian mechanics
nonquantum mechanics
nonrelativistic mechanics
optomechanics
orbital mechanics
particle mechanics
pathobiomechanics
pathomechanics
poromechanics
psychomechanics
quantum mechanics
rational mechanics
relativistic mechanics
rock mechanics
soil mechanics
statistical mechanics
telemechanics
thermomechanics
wave mechanics
mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkænɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanic