cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rayon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāʹŏn
ipa: /ˈɹeɪɒn/
rhymes: -eɪɒn
enpr: ʀāyôɴʹ
enpr: ʀĕyôɴʹ
ipa: /reɪˈjɔ̃/
ipa: /rɛˈjɔ̃/
enpr: rāʹŏn
ipa: /ˈɹeɪɒn/
rhymes: -eɪɒn
Forms: form: rayons
Etymology: From Middle French rayon [1539], from Old French rai (whence English ray), from Latin rādius (whence English radius).
Senses: examples: text: Nor brick, nor marble was the wall in view,
But ſhining Chriſtall, which from top to baſe
Out of her womb a thouſand rayons threw, […]
ref: 1591, Joachim du Bellay, “The Visions of Bellay”, in Ed[mund] Sp[enser], transl., Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, part 2, signature Y3, recto:
text: The rayons of the Sunne we see, Diminish in their strength.
ref: a. 1609, Alex. Hume, Day Estivall, page 177:
text: Here stood A cave,…unreached by rayons of the Sun.
ref: 1859, Singleton, Virgil, volume II, page 244:
glosses: A ray or beam of light.
examples: text: Within a rayon of a certain number of miles.
ref: 1878, Lady Herbert, transl., Hübner’s Ramble, part iii, chapter i, page 459:
text: I found myself within his rayon at Newcastle, which is one of his bases of supply.
ref: 1879 May 26th, Daily News, page 5/6:
synonyms: radius
glosses: A circular area whose extent is measured by the length of the radius of the circle which bounds it.
Related terms: word: rayonnance
word: rayonné
rayon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāʹŏn
ipa: /ˈɹeɪɒn/
rhymes: -eɪɒn
enpr: ʀāyôɴʹ
enpr: ʀĕyôɴʹ
ipa: /reɪˈjɔ̃/
ipa: /rɛˈjɔ̃/
Forms: form: rayons
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of raion.
rosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rossers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rozzer (“police officer”).
trainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnə(ɹ)z/
Senses: glosses: plural of trainer
muid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muids
Etymology: Borrowed from French muid, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and mud.
Senses: glosses: An old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.
conjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʒʌŋktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv
Etymology: From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.
Senses: antonyms: disjunctive
glosses: Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
synonyms: conjunct#Adjective
antonyms: disjunctive
disjunct#Adjective
glosses: Connected: being joined, united, connected.
topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to the conjunctive mood.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: disjunctive
glosses: Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: subjunctive
glosses: Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
raw_tags: of a verb
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: disjunctive
glosses: Of or relating to logical conjunction.
examples: text: She is so conjunctive to my life and soul / That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, / I could not but by her.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 15:
glosses: Closely united.
Derived terms: canonical conjunctive normal form
conjunctive adjunct
conjunctive adverb
conjunctive approach
conjunctive archaeology
conjunctive conjunction
conjunctive error
conjunctive eye movement
conjunctive grammar
conjunctive illocutionary act
conjunctively
conjunctive management
conjunctive membrane
conjunctive mode
conjunctive mood
conjunctiveness
conjunctive normal form
conjunctive operation
conjunctive participle
conjunctive symbiosis
conjunctive tissue
conjunctive tunic
conjunctive use
conjunctive verb
conjunctivism
conjunctivist
conjunctivity
non-conjunctive
nonconjunctive
subconjunctively
unconjunctive
Related terms: conjunct
conjunction
conjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʒʌŋktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv
Forms: form: conjunctives
Etymology: From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A conjunction.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The subjunctive.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A conjunction.
Related terms: conjunctional
conjunctiva
disjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈdʒʌŋktɪv/
ipa: /dɪsˈdʒʊŋktɪv/
ipa: /dɪsˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv
Forms: form: more disjunctive
form: most disjunctive
Etymology: From Middle English disjunctief, disjunctyf, from Middle French disjunctif and Latin disjunctīvus (“placed in opposition”).
Senses: examples: text: That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.
ref: 1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA:
glosses: Not connected; separated.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
raw_tags: of a personal pronoun
examples: text: The words "but" and "or" are disjunctive conjunctions.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: contrastive
glosses: Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
raw_tags: of a conjunction
antonyms: conjunctive
coordinate_terms: contrastive
glosses: Tending to disjoin; separating.
examples: text: […] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.
ref: 2005, Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 206:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
examples: text: An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.
ref: 1873, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page 235:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or related to a disjunction.
Derived terms: canonical disjunctive normal form
disjunctively
disjunctiveness
disjunctive normal form
disjunctive syllogism
disjunctivism
disjunctivist
disjunctivitis
nondisjunctive
disjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈdʒʌŋktɪv/
ipa: /dɪsˈdʒʊŋktɪv/
ipa: /dɪsˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv
Forms: form: disjunctives
Etymology: From Middle English disjunctief, disjunctyf, from Middle French disjunctif and Latin disjunctīvus (“placed in opposition”).
Senses: examples: L. H. Atwater
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A disjunction.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: concessive#Noun
glosses: A disjunct.
engaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -eɪdʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engage
engaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -eɪdʒd
Senses: synonyms: affianced
betrothed
glosses: Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
examples: text: Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?
ref: 1984, “When Doves Cry”, in Purple Rain, performed by Prince:
glosses: Busy or employed.
glosses: Greatly interested.
examples: text: I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
synonyms: word: busy
glosses: (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
topics: architecture
glosses: attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
raw_tags: of a column
glosses: in contact and in operation
raw_tags: of gears or cogs
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: being attacked or attacking
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
raw_tags: of a foetus
examples: text: Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.
ref: 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature, page 81:
glosses: Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
synonyms: word: engagé
extra: passionately committed to a cause
Derived terms: engaged column
engagedly
engagedness
engaged time
engaged tone
nonengaged
otherwise engaged
semiengaged
underengaged
unengaged
Related terms: engage
engagement
bitter end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitter ends
Etymology: The figurative usage is influenced by bitter (“unpleasant, arduous”).
Senses: examples: pay out a rope to the bitter end (pay out all of the rope)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: That part of an anchor cable which is abaft the bitts and thus remains inboard when a ship is riding at anchor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The final six fathoms (11 m) of anchor chain before the point of attachment in the chain locker of modern US naval vessels.
glosses: The end of a long and difficult process.
Derived terms: bitter-ender
Related terms: bitts
fight to the finish
last gasp
the end of one's rope
until the bitter end
to the bitter end
to the bitter end and beyond
bitts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English, probably of Low German or North Germanic origin, and the English form a corruption or contraction, from Old Norse biti, probably ultimately from a variant of Proto-Germanic *bitiz. Compare Swedish beting and Danish beding.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor
Derived terms: bitter
bitter end
bitt-heads
bitt-pins
bitt-stopper
bitt the cable
carrick-bitts
fore-brace bitts
gallows-bitts
jear-bitts
paul-bitts
pawl-bitts
riding-bitts
topsail-sheet bitts
winch-bitts
windlass-bitts
necrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛˈkɹɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: necrologies
Etymology: From necro- + -logy.
Senses: synonyms: word: obituary
qualifier: church history
glosses: A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.
examples: text: Voltaire and Rousseau died in 1778, d'Alembert in 1783, and Diderot in 1784, while leading salonnières Mesdames du Deffand and d'Épinay passed away in 1780 and 1783. Beneath this sombre necrology, important shifts were occurring in the workings of the public sphere and in the sites in which opinion was constructed.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 366:
text: 2006 Marc Fisher; We Loved That Airline To Death; Washington Post
The fare structure is one reason Independence Air has joined a necrology of low-cost carriers that stretches over four decades.
glosses: A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.
synonyms: obituary
glosses: A notice of death.
glosses: The study of death or the dead.
Derived terms: necrological
funerary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːn(ə)ɹəɹi/
ipa: /ˈfjunəˌɹɛɹi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerārius, from Latin funus.
Senses: examples: text: The team says it has uncovered Bronze Age burnt mounds which heated water from the River Cole, Iron Age houses and funerary remains, plus evidence of Roman salt processing.
ref: 2021 November 3, “Network News: Coleshill's ancient past on display”, in RAIL, number 943, page 19:
glosses: Of or relating to a funeral.
Synonyms: funereal
crapulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapulences
Etymology: From crapulent + -ence, from Latin crapula (“excessive drinking, intoxication”).
Senses: glosses: Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
glosses: Intemperance; debauchery; excessive indulgence.
Related terms: crapula
crapulent
crapulous
crapula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹapjʊlə/
Forms: form: crapulas
Etymology: From Latin crāpula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”).
Senses: examples: text: If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]
ref: 1726, Peter Shaw, A New Practice of Physic:
text: Perhaps the tonic medicines which have been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed.
ref: 1794, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations. Second American edition:
text: Disorders sometimes happen to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence.
ref: 1808, Thomas Topham, A new compendious system on several diseases incident to cattle:
text: [I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 214:
glosses: Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
Related terms: crapulence
crapulent
crapulental
crapulous
crapulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crapulent
form: most crapulent
Etymology: From Latin crāpulentus (“very intoxicated”), from crāpula (“excessive drinking”).
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to crapulence.
Synonyms: crapulous
crapulentall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to crapulence.
impunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpjuːnɪti/
Forms: form: impunities
Etymology: From Middle French impunité, from Latin impunitas, from impunis (“without punishment”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Exemption from punishment.
examples: text: Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation,[…] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter IV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 91:
text: I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
ref: 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
text: The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 495:
text: [...] and the rebuilding of Birmingham New Street with its Taurus Bar ("where one for the road - the railroad - can be taken with impunity").
ref: 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, pages 44–45:
text: If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949.
ref: 2022 August 30, Donald Kirk, “Could China invade South Korea after Taiwan?”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2022:
text: It said that Russian troops were massing at the border and preparing strikes on Ukraine with impunity.
ref: 2024 June 4, Maria Varenikova, Constant Méheut, Aric Toler, “Ukraine Strikes Into Russia With Western Weapons, Official Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
Related terms: impunitive
punishment
punition
punitive
punitively
black jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black jacks
Senses: glosses: Any of certain species of Caranx of gamefish, including C. latus and C. crysos, but especially Caranx lugubris.
glosses: Certain beggarticks (Bidens spp.), especially Bidens pilosa.
examples: text: There is a sort of black caterpillar called a black jack, which is seldom seen; but when they do come, they make terrible havock.
ref: 1807, Richard Parkinson, The Experienced Farmer, Enlarged and Improved, page 370:
synonyms: black canker
black palmer
nigger
glosses: Larva of a turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae)
topics: business
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Sphalerite.
glosses: A tufted or ring-necked scaup duck (Aythya collaris).
glosses: Alternative form of blackjack.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, jack.
brahmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑːmɪn/
Forms: form: brahmins
form: Brahmin
form: brahman
form: Bramin
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bramine, from obsolete Portuguese bramine, from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa); modern French brahmane, Portuguese brâmane are readjusted after Sanskrit. Doublet of Brahmana.
Senses: synonyms: brahmana
glosses: A member of the Hindu priestly caste, one of the four varnas or social groups based on occupation in ancient Hindu society.
glosses: One who has realized or attempts to realize Brahman, i.e. God or supreme knowledge.
glosses: A scholar, teacher, priest, intellectual, researcher, scientist, knowledge-seeker, or knowledge worker.
examples: text: Branching from the root of it all was New England Society. The original Nelson [W. Aldrich] became remembered as a patrician, a Brahmin.
ref: 1988 July 31, Jane O'Reilly, “Even Brahmins Get The Blues”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In Iran-Contra, the independent counsel investigating the scandal, Lawrence Walsh, was a deadly serious Brahmin lawyer with a sterling Republican pedigree; he nevertheless faced withering criticism from members of his own party, just as special counsel Robert Mueller has as he investigates Trump and his circle.
ref: 2018, Zach Dorfman, “How to Kill a Presidential Scandal”, in Foreign Policy:
glosses: A member of a social and cultural elite, especially in the New England region of the USA.
glosses: A learned person of refined taste and mild manners.
Derived terms: Boston Brahmin
Brahmanism
brahminess
brahminical
Daivadnya brahmin
brahmin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɑːmɪn/
Forms: form: Brahmin
form: brahman
form: Bramin
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bramine, from obsolete Portuguese bramine, from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa); modern French brahmane, Portuguese brâmane are readjusted after Sanskrit. Doublet of Brahmana.
Senses: glosses: Scholarly.
Synonyms: brahminic
brahminical
graduated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of graduate
graduated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In steps.
glosses: Having a university degree; having completed training.
glosses: Marked with graduations.
examples: text: The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
ref: 1888, Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, London: Whiting and Co, page 17:
glosses: Arranged by grade, level, or degree.
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
Derived terms: graduated cylinder
nongraduated
ungraduated
transformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transformer
menopause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnəpɔːz/
ipa: /ˈmɛnoʊpɔːz/
Forms: form: menopauses
Etymology: From French ménopause, from Latin menopausis, from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + παῦσις (paûsis, “pause”). Equivalent to meno- + -pause.
Senses: examples: text: The encounter soured Thomas's relationship with Jessa, who had founded the mobile payments company, with the chief executive eventually attributing the 51-year-old's behavior to the menopause, an employment tribunal was told.
ref: 2023 November 24, Jonathan Ames, “‘Menopausal’ director wins discrimination case over Bibimoney boss’s jibe”, in The Times of London:
text: The council is proposing to include guidance to magistrates and judges to consider the impact of the menopause on the behaviour of women typically aged between 45 and 55.[…]Earlier this year an employment tribunal took account of a woman’s menopause symptoms in her claim of discrimination by her employers. Maria Rooney, 52, claimed her anxiety and depression from the menopause meant she took extended periods of sick leave leading to her resignation.
ref: 2023 November 29, Charles Hymas, “Menopausal female offenders could be spared jail under new sentencing guidelines”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause.
glosses: The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.
Synonyms: estropause
femopause
Coordinate terms: andropause
viropause
Derived terms: femopause
henopause
male menopause
manopause
menopausal
menopaused
menopausing
menoporsche
menopot
penopause
philosopause
premenopause
pseudomenopause
menopause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnəpɔːz/
ipa: /ˈmɛnoʊpɔːz/
Forms: form: menopauses
form: menopausing
form: menopaused
form: menopaused
Etymology: From French ménopause, from Latin menopausis, from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + παῦσις (paûsis, “pause”). Equivalent to meno- + -pause.
Senses: glosses: To undergo the menopause.
Misesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: 'mē′zĕs-ē-ən
ipa: /ˌmiˈzɛs.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛsiːən
Forms: form: Misesean
Etymology: From German (von) Mises + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating the praxeological or economic theories of Ludwig von Mises.
Misesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: 'mē′zĕs-ē-ən
ipa: /ˌmiˈzɛs.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛsiːən
Forms: form: Misesians
form: Misesean
Etymology: From German (von) Mises + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of the praxeological or economic theories of Ludwig von Mises.
neta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi नेता (netā, “leader”).
Senses: glosses: A politician.
neta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese ネタ (neta).
Senses: glosses: The ingredient that tops the mound of rice on a piece of nigiri sushi.
campout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmp(ˌ)aʊt/
Forms: form: campouts
Etymology: From camp + out, from the phrasal verb.
Senses: examples: text: The Degree of Three Years' Service may be conferred on any one who has been a member of a Woodcraft Tribe for three years, never missing a tribal campout in that time, attending half of the tribal meetings at other times, and having a clear record for law and order.
ref: 1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Woodcraft Manual for Boys, page 423:
text: Circle the words that would be good to use in a story titled "The Scariest Campout Ever!"
ref: 2004. Murray, Mary. Traits of Writing Skills Grade 2-3 Creative Teaching Press p. 63
text: Even if you have a whole week of vacation and not just a short weekend, for your first campout with small children you are better off planning a trip of only one or two nights until you get the hang of camping.
ref: 2006, . Silverman, Goldie Gendler., Camping with Kids: The Complete Guide to Car, Tent, and RV Camping, Wilderness Press., →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A gathering or event at which people sleep outdoors or camp.
Derived terms: advancement campout
Related terms: camp out
schizocoelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to schizocoely
yolk plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yolk plugs
Senses: glosses: The large edible endothermal cells surrounded by the blastopore of an amphibian gastrula during its later stages
incomplete flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incomplete flowers
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flower lacking sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels.
dead end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead ends
form: dead-end
form: deadend
Senses: examples: text: That road comes to a dead end at the lake.
glosses: A street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
examples: text: The ventilation of dead ends — always a serious problem — has in some mines been an absolute necessity. At the Oriental Consols Gold Mine a crosscut at a depth of 2,600 ft. has been continued to over 1,400 ft. from the shaft, and at the No. 2 South Great Eastern Gold Mine crosscutting and driving has been carried on at depths of 1,750 ft. and 2,000 ft. In order to ventilate these dead ends blowers have been used to force air into the faces through lines of pipes.
ref: 1912 Queensland Annual Report of the Under Secretary for Mines for 1911. Brisbane, Australia. p.167
topics: business
mining
glosses: The inner end of a drift or tunnel.
examples: text: Her father suggested that she decline the job because it was a dead end.
glosses: A position that offers no hope of change or progress.
examples: text: Cut the ends of the hair once a month certain — no matter if you do cut but just the tips of a fourth of an inch, cut it. Cut off the dead ends every month as regularly as the new moon comes round.
ref: 1890, The Young Lady's Private Counselor, page 208:
glosses: A split end in the hair.
Synonyms: cul-de-sac
blind alley
impasse
Derived terms: dead-ender
genetic dead end
Related terms: no outlet
no through road
have a cow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a cow
form: having a cow
form: had a cow
form: had a cow
Etymology: Unknown. Popularized by the TV show The Simpsons where it was one of the catchphrases of Bart Simpson.
Senses: examples: text: My mom had a cow when I came in late.
text: Dad says I'm too young to go steady and seems to think I'm going to drag a girl up the aisle instead of to a school dance. He won't let me watch rock 'n' roll shows, and he'd "have a cow" if he knew I watched 77 Sunset Strip.
ref: 1959 April 1, The Des Moines Register, page 9:
text: "Of all the fates on heaven and earth, why did this one befall me?" "Don't have a cow, dad."
ref: 1990, “The Call of the Simpsons” (0:12:10 from the start), in The Simpsons, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Homer Simpson and Bart Simpson (Dan Castellaneta and Nancy Cartwright):
text: “Pregnant. Holy shit.” “Alyson!” “Oh, Mummy, don't have a cow.”
ref: 2007, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 69:
text: “Dammit, Kayla, you're pregnant. Don't pick up a suitcase,” her husband demanded. “It's just a little one.” “Put it down now.” “Don't have a cow, Patrick. I'm pregnant, not incapacitated.”
ref: 2014, Susan Mallery, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: To get angry; have a fit.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, a, cow.
Related terms: have kittens
dieses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesis
act up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ækt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ækˈtɐʔp]
enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ækt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ækˈtʌp̚]
ipa: /ækt ˈap/
ipa: [ækˈtäp]
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: acts up
form: acting up
form: acted up
form: acted up
Senses: examples: text: My allergies act up during hay fever season.
text: Children may act up in class in an effort to get attention.
text: My car started acting up after I drove through that huge puddle.
synonyms: carry on
act out
play up
coordinate_terms: kick up
glosses: To misbehave; to cause trouble.
examples: text: Acting up is always recommended when you find yourself under a new boss.
glosses: To perform the duties of an appointment senior to that actually held; to deputise for a superior.
Related terms: throw a tantrum
chode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃəʊd/
ipa: /tʃoʊd/
homophone: choad
rhymes: -əʊd
Etymology: Formed in 16th–17th century by analogy with other strong verbs.
Senses: examples: text: And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:36:
text: And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Number 20:30:
synonyms: chid
chided
glosses: simple past of chide
chode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃəʊd/
ipa: /tʃoʊd/
homophone: choad
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: chodes
Etymology: See choda.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of choad.
misbehave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: misbehaves
form: misbehaving
form: misbehaved
form: misbehaved
Etymology: From Middle English misbehaven, equivalent to mis- + behave.
Senses: examples: text: He doesn't mean to misbehave; he just doesn't know better.
glosses: To act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.
Synonyms: go it
carry on
err
Derived terms: misbehaver
Related terms: misbehavior
misbehaviour
dort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: dorts
Etymology: From Middle English dort (found in compound cankerdort), of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A sulky or sullen mood; the sulks.
Derived terms: dorty
dort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: dorts
form: dorting
form: dorted
form: dorted
Etymology: From Middle English dort (found in compound cankerdort), of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: To become pettish; sulk.
wo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: whoa
Etymology: Variant of who.
Senses: glosses: A falconer's call to a hawk.
glosses: A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
wo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wos
form: whoa
Etymology: Variant of woe.
Senses: examples: text: Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!
ref: 1815, Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects, page 82:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of woe.
wo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wo/
ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -o
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: wos
form: waw
form: waugh
form: whoa
Etymology: From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.
Senses: examples: text: He stands ahint our wo.
ref: 1859, Thomas Moore, The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, ii. 9:
text: Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame,
An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo :
Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar,
So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.
ref: 1871, Benjamin Brierly, “Weaver of Wellbrook”, in William-Edward-Armitage Axon, editor, Folk-song and Folk-speech of Lancashire, page 53:
text: […] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]
ref: 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 41:
text: Plantit up agen t'wo
ref: 1884, Jack Robison, Aald Tales ower Agen, section 4:
text: Hoo's pluck of a lion an' faces her foe
Wi' calm in her e'en an' her beck agen t' wo;
Hoo's firm i' decision, stonds up for her reets
ref: 1936, G. Halstead Whittaker, A Lancashire Garland of Dialect Prose and Verse, page 221
roman: An' bravely withstonds o' t' misfortins hoo meets.
glosses: A wall.
wo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wo/
ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -o
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: waw
form: waugh
form: whoa
Etymology: From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.
Senses: examples: text: […] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]
ref: 1871, John Richardson, "Cummerland Talk": Being Short Tales and Rhymes, page 101:
text: It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent, […]
ref: 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 2:
glosses: To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).
water down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waters down
form: watering down
form: watered down
form: watered down
Senses: examples: text: You need to water down the lemonade a bit more to make it less sweet, dear.
glosses: To dilute with water; to add water to.
examples: text: "Scaling back its ambition further, at this stage, will just mean the economic and social benefit of HS2 for communities across the UK is further watered down. Our national infrastructure should not become a political football."
ref: 2023 February 8, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Hunt dismisses rumours that HS2 will not go to Euston”, in RAIL, number 976, page 25:
text: For example, Tory ministers are looking to water down key climate policies such as the ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030, phasing out gas boilers by 2035, and low traffic neighbourhoods.
ref: 2023 August 26, Phoebe Weston, “Weed-choked pavements anger residents as ‘rewilding’ divides UK towns and cities”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: In Germany, a law that would have mandated citizens to install costly clean-energy heating systems from January 2024 nearly toppled the German governing coalition, with the Greens’ approval rating plummeting. It was then watered down to allow a longer phase-in time.
ref: 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To make weaker, less effective.
examples: text: Near-synonym: dumb down
text: If you plan to teach this material to children, you may need to water it down.
glosses: To simplify or oversimplify; to make easier; to make less difficult.
glosses: To make less restrictive; to make more lenient.
Derived terms: watered-down
Related terms: dumb down
tone down
dilute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈljuːt/
ipa: /daɪˈlut/
ipa: /dɪˈlut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: dilutes
form: diluting
form: diluted
form: diluted
Etymology: From Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.
Senses: examples: text: Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
ref: 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem:
glosses: To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
examples: text: For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The First Book of Opticks. Part I.] ”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 36:
text: “Stay a little.”
“Not another second: language and discussion dilute thought; I will say no more.”
ref: 1856, L. S. Lavenu, chapter XXXIII, in Erlesmere; or, Contrasts of Character, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 336:
text: It's healthy to have people in the military who would perhaps rather be somewhere else; they can dilute the more gung-ho military types.
ref: 1980 August 30, Jil Clark, quoting Jane, “Gays Talk About Registration and the Draft”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
glosses: To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
examples: text: It dilutes easily.
glosses: To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
Derived terms: dilutee
diluteness
diluter
dilutive
haemodiluting
overdilute
predilute
semidilute
underdilute
undilute
Related terms: diluent
dilutable
dilutant
dilution
dilutory
diluvium
dilute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈljuːt/
ipa: /daɪˈlut/
ipa: /dɪˈlut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: more dilute
form: most dilute
Etymology: From Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.
Senses: examples: text: Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.
glosses: Having a low concentration.
glosses: Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
examples: text: a dilute calico
text: a cat with a dilute tortoiseshell coat
glosses: Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
Derived terms: dilute Russell's viper venom time
dilute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈljuːt/
ipa: /daɪˈlut/
ipa: /dɪˈlut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: dilutes
Etymology: From Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.
Senses: examples: text: On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
ref: 2000, Joe Stahlkuppe, American Pit Bull Terrier Handbook, page 131:
glosses: An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
Related terms: dilate
solvent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒlvənt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈsɔlvənt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈsɑlvənt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈsɒlvənt/
ipa: /ˈsɔlvənt/
ipa: /ˈsɒlvənt/
Forms: form: solvents
Etymology: From French solvent, from Latin solventem, accusative singular of solvens, present participle of solvō. By surface analysis, solv(e) + -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: solution
text: Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
synonyms: dissolver
antonyms: solute#Noun
related: word: solute
glosses: A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.
examples: text: It explains. And explanation is the true solvent of mystery.
ref: 1921, Anglo American Trade (volume 2? volume 17? page 270)
synonyms: resolver
solver
;
problemsolver
glosses: That which resolves.
Derived terms: cash solvent
solvent abuse
solvent abuser
solvent extraction
Stoddard solvent
universal solvent
solvent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒlvənt/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈsɔlvənt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈsɑlvənt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈsɒlvənt/
ipa: /ˈsɔlvənt/
ipa: /ˈsɒlvənt/
Etymology: From French solvent, from Latin solventem, accusative singular of solvens, present participle of solvō. By surface analysis, solv(e) + -ent.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: above water, in the black
topics: business
finance
antonyms: insolvent
in the red
glosses: Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.
examples: text: Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2017:
synonyms: dissolvent
glosses: Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
Related terms: acidic
watered-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watered-down
form: most watered-down
form: watered down
Senses: examples: text: Nobody likes watered-down scotch.
glosses: Diluted; containing extra water.
examples: text: They teach a watered-down calculus class for non-majors.
glosses: Weakened or simplified
Related terms: water down
software engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First attested in 1965 in service listings (in “systems software engineering”), partly popularized by American computer scientists Anthony Oettinger and Margaret Hamilton later in the decade. In a 1966 letter to the members of the Association for Computing Machinery, listed by the Oxford English Dictionary as the term’s first attestation, Oettinger wrote, “We must recognize ourselves […] as members of an engineering profession, be it hardware engineering or software engineering […]”.
Senses: glosses: The subfield of engineering concerned with applying a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.
wikipedia: Anthony Oettinger
Association for Computing Machinery
Computers and Automation
Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)
Oxford English Dictionary
Related terms: software engineer
lang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăng
ipa: /læŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: langs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of language
Derived terms: artlang
auxlang
conlang
engelang
jokelang
loglang
memelang
natlang
protolang
romlang
speedlang
worldlang
lang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lăng
ipa: /læŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: langer
form: langest
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English lang (“long”) (southern long).
Senses: glosses: long
Derived terms: lang may yer lum reek
lang syne
mechanical engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The subfield of engineering concerned with designing and building machines and mechanical systems.
chthonophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɑn.oʊˈfeɪ.d͡ʒi.ə/
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
Synonyms: chthonophagy
geophagia
geophagy
pica
Related terms: chthonic
chthonian
ASME
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
glosses: Initialism of American Society of Magazine Editors.
collective noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌlɛk.tɪv ˈnaʊn/
Forms: form: collective nouns
Senses: examples: text: A hundred, a thousand, few, many, are to be considered as collective nouns, and distinguished as such, by the singular article.
ref: 1775, John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, London: Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry; and R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster Row, →OCLC, page 23:
text: British English tends more than American English to have plural agreement with collective nouns.
ref: 2008, Ron Cowan, The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.
Synonyms: word: collective
word: of assemblage
word: of multitude
Hyponyms: english: animals
translation: animals
word: term of venery
Related terms: mass noun
Vater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vaters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Vater.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Vater-Pacini corpuscle
dangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæŋ.ɡl̩/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: dangles
Etymology: Uncertain, but likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish dingle, dangle, Swedish dangla (“to swing about”), Norwegian dangla, perhaps via North Frisian dangeln; all possibly related to Old Norse dengja (“to hit”).
Senses: examples: text: The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.
ref: 2017, Nancy Howell Lee, Peter Dale Scott, Bertram Gross, Forbidden Bookshelf's Resistance in America Collection:
glosses: An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
examples: text: That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lacrosse
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
examples: text: So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.
ref: 1941, Flora Thompson, Over to Candleford:
glosses: A dangling ornament or decoration.