cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
medication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: medications
Etymology: From Middle English medicacioun, from Middle French médication and its etymon Latin medicātiō, from medicārī (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medērī (“to heal”). Equivalent to medicate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Have you been taking your medication? [uncountable]
text: Have you been taking your medications? [countable]
text: Are you going to be be like this all day? It’s like I’ve not took^([sic – meaning taken]) my medication.
ref: 2019 March 19, The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off, season 2, episode 3, Michael Pennington (actor), via Channel 4:
glosses: A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
examples: text: Such behavior, if it doesn't abate, will necessitate medication and supervision.
glosses: The administration of medicine.
Derived terms: apomedication
automedication
comedication
demedication
electromedication
enzyme-inducing medication
enzyme-inhibiting medication
forget to take one's medication this morning
hypermedication
medicational
medication-assisted treatment
medication assisted treatment
mismedication
nonmedication
overmedication
polymedication
postmedication
premedication
self-medication
undermedication
Related terms: medic
medicament
medicate
medicinal
medicine
self-medicate
vaccination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: vaccinations
Etymology: From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca (“cow”). Coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1798. Jenner infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (vaccinia), to immunise them against smallpox. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: immunization (broadly synonymous)
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
text: It's^([sic]) spokesperson Leonie Howie did not want to be interviewed but said they "will do the mahi" when it comes to trying to both encourage vaccinations as well as managing any health risks to the community when visitors arrive.
ref: 2021 February 12, “Unvaccinated private boat owners a risk to Aotea's community - iwi”, in Radio NZ:
glosses: Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
Coordinate terms: sense: Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected
english: post-exposure prophylaxis
translation: post-exposure prophylaxis
word: PEP
sense: Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected
alt: pre-exposure prophylaxis
word: PrEP
Derived terms: antivaccination
anti-vaccination
hypervaccination
mass vaccination centre
provaccination
pro-vaccination
vaccination mark
Related terms: vaccinate
vaccinator
vax
vaccination mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccination marks
Senses: glosses: A small scar left on the skin by vaccination.
extrinsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈtɹɪn.zɪk/
ipa: /ɪksˈtɹɪn.zɪk/
Forms: form: more extrinsic
form: most extrinsic
form: extrinsick
Etymology: From French extrinsèque, from Latin extrinsecus (“from without, without, on the outside”), from *extrim, an assumed adverbial form of exter (“outer, outward”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Senses: glosses: External; separable from the thing itself; inessential.
examples: text: 1 Experimental set up for strength testing of the flexor hallucis muscle of the right foot To ensure accurate positioning of the hallux onto the load cell, and to minimise the influence of the extrinsic muscles of the foot (ankle plantarflexors and flexor hallucis longus) and the 2nd to 4th toes, a purpose-built wooden platform was constructed and positioned under the NWBB.
ref: 2015 September 9, June Quek et al., “Intra-rater reliability of hallux flexor strength measures using the Nintendo Wii Balance Board”, in Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: Not belonging to something; outside.
Synonyms: word: accidental
word: adscititious
word: external
word: extraneous
word: extrinsic
Hyponyms: word: additional
word: foreign
Derived terms: extrinsical
extrinsicality
extrinsically
extrinsicalness
extrinsicate
extrinsic motivation
extrinsicness
extrinsic protein
extrinsic reward
extrinsic value
nonextrinsic
unextrinsic
Related terms: word: extra
word: extrinsicality
extrinsic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈtɹɪn.zɪk/
ipa: /ɪksˈtɹɪn.zɪk/
Forms: form: extrinsics
form: extrinsick
Etymology: From French extrinsèque, from Latin extrinsecus (“from without, without, on the outside”), from *extrim, an assumed adverbial form of exter (“outer, outward”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Senses: glosses: An external factor.
intrinsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹɪn.zɪk/
Forms: form: more intrinsic
form: most intrinsic
form: intrinsick
Etymology: From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Senses: examples: text: the intrinsic value of gold or silver
text: the intrinsic merit of an action
text: He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement.
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: essential
word: inherent
word: innate
word: proper to
word: connate
word: connatural
word: congenital
word: congenite
word: genetous
word: inborn
word: inbred
word: indigenous
word: ingenite
word: innate
word: native
word: natural
word: to the manner born
word: unlearned
word: unlearnt
antonyms: extrinsic
glosses: Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.
raw_tags: of a body part
examples: text: In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.
ref: 1997, Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Martin, Brian T. Smith, Jerrold L. Wagener, Fortran 95 Handbook: Complete ISO/ANSI Reference, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 192:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Built-in.
raw_tags: of a function or operator
Synonyms: word: built-in
word: essential
word: immanent
word: inbuilt
word: infused
word: ingrained
word: inherent
word: instilled
word: integral
word: intrinsic
word: inwrought
word: radical
Hypernyms: word: necessary
word: requisite
Hyponyms: word: indwelling
word: innate
Derived terms: for all intrinsic purposes
intrinsicality
intrinsically
intrinsic brightness
intrinsic motivation
intrinsicness
intrinsicoid
intrinsic protein
intrinsic reward
intrinsic semiconductor
intrinsic tracer
intrinsic value
intrinsify
nonintrinsic
subintrinsic
unintrinsic
Related terms: word: integrated
intrinsic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹɪn.zɪk/
Forms: form: intrinsics
form: intrinsick
Etymology: From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).
Senses: examples: text: SIMD intrinics
text: Crappy loops, we got them: Use vector intrinsics¶ For troublesome loops that just don't vectorize even with hints, vector intrinsics are another option.
ref: 2021, Robert Robey, Yuliana Zamora, Parallel and High Performance Computing, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 190:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.
examples: text: You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.
topics: video-games
glosses: An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.
oatmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊtmil/
ipa: /ˈəʊtmiːl/
ipa: /ˈɒtmiːl/
Forms: form: oatmeals
form: otmeal
Etymology: From Middle English otemele, from ote (“oat”) + mele (“meal, coarse-ground grains”). Equivalent to oat + meal.
Senses: examples: text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Meal made from rolled or round oats.
synonyms: word: porridge
glosses: A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.
glosses: A light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.
Derived terms: oatmeal cake
oatmeal cookie
oatmealish
oatmeal paper
oatmealy
pinhead oatmeal
oatmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊtmil/
ipa: /ˈəʊtmiːl/
ipa: /ˈɒtmiːl/
Forms: form: otmeal
Etymology: From Middle English otemele, from ote (“oat”) + mele (“meal, coarse-ground grains”). Equivalent to oat + meal.
Senses: examples: text: Boldly patterned textiles in oatmeal tones with a woven design in a strongly contrasting colour can be used alike for upholstery and as a wall hanging […]
ref: 1929, Homes and Gardens:
glosses: Of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal
Derived terms: oatmeal drink
oatmeal porridge
Related terms: brose
flummery
gruel
mealie pudding
oatcake
oaten
parkin
porridge
rolled oats
skilly
stirabout
porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ
Forms: form: porridges
form: parritch
form: porage
form: porrige
Etymology: Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.
Senses: examples: text: Eat your porridge while it's hot!
text: There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
glosses: A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
Oat porridge; oatmeal.
glosses: A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
Rice porridge; congee.
examples: text: Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
glosses: A prison sentence.
glosses: A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
Derived terms: do porridge
keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
Laba porridge
pease porridge
pine nut porridge
plain as porridge
plum-porridge
porridge belly
porridge drawer
porridgeless
porridgelike
porridge pot
porridge-stick
porridge time
porridgy
pumpkin porridge
red bean porridge
rice porridge
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
Teochew porridge
water-porridge
Related terms: congee
gruel
oatmeal
stiff porridge
quintessence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭn-tĕsʹ-əns
enpr: kwĭn-tĕsʹ-ĭns
ipa: /kwɪnˈtɛs.əns/
ipa: /kwɪnˈtɛs.ɪns/
Forms: form: quintessences
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia (“fifth essence, aether”). "Essence" in this context is a synonym for "element". In pre-atomic/Aristotelian theory, there are four known elements or essences — Earth, Air, Fire and Water — and a putative fifth element (aether), which is considered to be of exceptional superior quality to the other four basic elements.
Senses: examples: text: As families and kindreds sometimes do; producing, after long ages of unnoted notability, some living quintescence of all the qualities they had, to flame forth as a man world-noted […]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
synonyms: word: archetype
word: epitome
word: example
word: exemplar
word: icon
word: model
word: paradigm
word: paragon
word: pattern
word: quintessence
word: template
glosses: A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.
synonyms: word: distillation
word: quintessence
word: simple
glosses: A pure substance.
examples: text: For vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A deathleſſe tincture, ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, […]
ref: 1599, T[homas] M[offett], The Silkewormes, and Their Flies: […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Nicholas Ling, […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:
text: Let ther be Light, ſaid God, and forthwith Light, / Ethereal, firſt of things, quinteſſence pure, / Sprung from the Deep, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 243–245:
synonyms: word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
glosses: The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
synonyms: aether
glosses: The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.
Derived terms: quintessential
quintessentially
quintessence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭn-tĕsʹ-əns
enpr: kwĭn-tĕsʹ-ĭns
ipa: /kwɪnˈtɛs.əns/
ipa: /kwɪnˈtɛs.ɪns/
Forms: form: quintessences
form: quintessencing
form: quintessenced
form: quintessenced
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia (“fifth essence, aether”). "Essence" in this context is a synonym for "element". In pre-atomic/Aristotelian theory, there are four known elements or essences — Earth, Air, Fire and Water — and a putative fifth element (aether), which is considered to be of exceptional superior quality to the other four basic elements.
Senses: glosses: To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.
quintessential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: more quintessential
form: most quintessential
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From quintessence + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The krogan evolved in a lethal ecology. Over millions of years, the grim struggle to survive larger predators, virulent disease, and resource scarcity on their homeworld, Tuchanka, turned the lizards into quintessential survivors.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Biology Codex entry:
text: Twin Tracks is the old-fashioned autobiography of a quintessential Englishman, evocative of an age when you took halibut oil for rickets and sportsmen were amateurs who trained in their lunch breaks.
ref: 2014 May 6, Nicholas Shakespeare, “Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister, review: Roger Bannister's memoir of a life in athletics recalls the moment 60 years ago when he broke the four-minute mile [print version: The quiet Englishman, 10 May 2014, p. R26]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
text: I live in a quintessential (Australian) building type myself - a high-set 'Queenslander' on Captain Cook's tropical Cape Tribulation coast - and some of the details I love most about it are its Deco influences - [...].
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
glosses: Of the nature of a quintessence (in all senses); being or relating to the ultimate essence of something.
Derived terms: quintessentialise
quintessentiality
quintessentialize
quintessentially
quintessentialness
quintessential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: quintessentials
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From quintessence + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A final aspect of the focus argument concerns the potential for integration to highlight the quintessentials of each subject.
ref: 2013, Léonie J. Rennie, Grady Venville, John Wallace, Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community, page 64:
glosses: The fundamental essence of something.
oarsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oarsmen
Etymology: From oar + -s- + -man.
Senses: synonyms: rower
glosses: A person who rows a boat, either alone or with others.
Derived terms: oarsmanship
cantheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantheists
Etymology: From cantheism + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of cantheism.
cantheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cantheism + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cantheism.
cantheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cannabis + theism.
Senses: glosses: An emergent religion that uses cannabis as a sacrament.
Derived terms: cantheist
spindle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪndəl/
rhymes: -ɪndəl
Forms: form: spindles
form: spindling
form: spindled
form: spindled
form: spindel
form: spinnel
Etymology: From Middle English spyndel, spindle, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinnilu (“spindle”), equivalent to spin + -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle”), Dutch spindel ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle”), Danish spindel (“spindle”), Swedish spindel (“spindle”).
The dragonfly sense (sense 13) is a calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle); this word was introduced by New Sweden settlers.
Senses: glosses: To make into a long tapered shape.
glosses: To take on a long tapered shape.
examples: text: Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.
glosses: To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
-ibility
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /-ɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/
Etymology: Equivalent to -ible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -ability. Forms a noun from a verb or an adjective by changing from -ible.
Derived terms: accendibility
accessibility
addibility
admissibility
affectibility
alibility
amissibility
appetibility
audibility
biocompatibility
cognoscibility
cohesibility
combustibility
compatibility
comprehensibility
compressibility
conceptibility
conducibility
conductibility
confluxibility
contemptibility
contractibility
convertibility
corrigibility
corrodibility
corrosibility
corruptibility
credibility
cullibility
deducibility
defectibility
defensibility
descendibility
destructibility
diffusibility
digestibility
distensibility
divisibility
docibility
edibility
eligibility
exhaustibility
expansibility
extensibility
fallibility
feasibility
flexibility
fluxibility
frangibility
fusibility
gullibility
histocompatibility
hypersensibility
illegibility
immiscibility
immobility
impartibility
impassibility
imperceptibility
imperdibility
imperfectibility
impertransibility
implausibility
impossibility
imprescriptibility
impressibility
inaccessibility
inadmissibility
inaudibility
incombustibility
incompatibility
incompetibility
incomprehensibility
incompressibility
incontrovertibility
inconvertibility
incorrigibility
incorruptibility
incredibility
indefeasibility
indefectibility
indefensibility
indelibility
indestructibility
indigestibility
indivisibility
indocibility
ineffervescibility
ineligibility
inexhaustibility
infallibility
infeasibility
inflexibility
infrangibility
infusibility
insensibility
insusceptibility
intangibility
intelligibility
invendibility
invincibility
invisibility
irascibility
irreducibility
irrefrangibility
irresistibility
irresponsibility
irreversibility
legibility
miscibility
ostensibility
partibility
passibility
perceptibility
perfectibility
permissibility
persuasibility
plausibility
ponibility
possibility
prescriptibility
producibility
productibility
receptibility
reducibility
reductibility
reflexibility
refrangibility
remissibility
resistibility
responsibility
reversibility
risibility
sensibility
solubility
suggestibility
susceptibility
tangibility
tensibility
transmissibility
unpossibility
untangibility
vendibility
vincibility
visibility
Related terms: word: -ability
word: -hood
word: -ia
word: -icity
word: -itas
word: -itia
word: -itude
word: -ity
word: -ness
word: -ose
word: -osity
word: -ous
word: -ship
word: -th
forklift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forklifts
Etymology: From fork + lift.
Senses: glosses: A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.
Synonyms: fork hoist
forklift truck
fork truck
hi-lo
jitney
lift truck
sideloader
stacker-truck
tow-motor
trailer loader
Derived terms: forklift driver
forklifter
forklift operator
forklift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forklifts
form: forklifting
form: forklifted
form: forklifted
Etymology: From fork + lift.
Senses: examples: text: With bouncerly finesse, Frank forklifted his arms under Gerald's & plucked him off his stool, dragging him towards the back & the source of that incessant voice.
ref: 2009, Garry Thomas Morse, Death in Vancouver, page 49:
glosses: To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle.
Derived terms: forkliftable
E=mc²
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː ˌiːkwəlz ɛm siː ˈskwɛːd/
ipa: /ˈi ˌikwəlz ɛm si ˈskwɛɹd/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Etymology: After the formula of mass–energy equivalence, an important principle discovered by the German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
The formula entered the popular consciousness after it was included in the opening pages of the Smyth Report (1945), a widely read document that explained the United States’ nuclear weapons program to the public for the first time. Its appearance alongside a portrait of the (already well known) Einstein on a Time magazine cover the following year consolidated its fame.
Senses: examples: text: "Beauty isn't about looking young." OK, so it's not E=mc² or even [Isaac] Newton's apple. But coming as it does from a top cosmetics company, it does represent an attitude readjustment that makes Saul's change of heart on the road to Damascus look like a passing fancy.
ref: 1999, Mary Lynn Damhorst, Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman, Susan O. Michelman, The Meanings of Dress, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →ISBN, page 351:
text: What counted most through the generations, far more than any other factor, regardless of our race, was how we treated those we loved and how well we loved. That seemed the transcendent lesson or moral that my search had revealed. And it held true whether the figure was my mother or Fredda on one side of our family tree, or Rita or Anna Beaumont on the other. Simple as it was, it was my E = mc².
ref: 2001, Neil Henry, “Tenth Man Classic”, in Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family (The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies), Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Discovery), page 282:
text: What Jacques Derrida is to literature, [Mark] Loizeaux is to [building] demolition: He's the philosopher king of demolition. […] Loizeaux's battle plan remains formidably elegant, the E = MC² of demolition.
ref: 2005, Jeff Byles, “Fragmentation at a Price”, in Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 70:
text: If conditioned arising was the e = mc² of Gotama [i.e., Siddhartha Gautama]'s vision, the eightfold path was his first move in translating that axiom from an abstract principle into a civilizing force.
ref: 2010, Stephen Batchelor, “Embrace Suffering”, in Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, New York, N.Y.: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: A formulation or realization that captures a profound thought in simple terms.
wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Smyth Report
cordially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹd͡ʒəli/
ipa: /ˈkɔːdɪəli/
Forms: form: more cordially
form: most cordially
Etymology: From cordial + -ly. Compare Middle English cordyally (“by heart”).
Senses: examples: text: I may ask you, then, cordially to thank Sir George Goldie for all that he has done for the Society.
ref: 1893, Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal, London:
text: Ever most cordially yours,
ref: 1898, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Tourguéneff and his French Circle My dear Monsieur Durand,—I am sending you[....]
roman: Iv. Tourguéneff.
text: In the thick of the railway controversies of his day, Francis naturally had his prejudices. It seems that he cordially disliked the aristocracy in general.
ref: 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
text: A rail tour on Sunday, March 12, in which non-members are cordially invited to participate, will leave St. Pancras at approximately 2 p.m. [...].
ref: 1961 February, “Society column: Branch Line Society”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii:
glosses: In a cordial, warm, friendly or heartfelt manner.
ousel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːzəl
Forms: form: ousels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ouzel.
Susan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.zən/
ipa: /ˈsuː.zɪn/
ipa: /ˈsjuː-/
rhymes: -uːzən
Forms: form: Susans
Etymology: English form of the biblical Susanna, from Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”), ultimately from Egyptian z:S:n-M9 (zšn).
Senses: examples: text: Susan and she - God rest all Christian souls! - / Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; / She was too good for me.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: "With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake.
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1855, page 382:
text: My own 'reaction' to the name Susan is a vision of a sturdy young woman garbed in 'print' and armed with a mop or other domestic implement, a picture compounded of a succession of domestic Susans passing before the eyes of early childhood. […] It is symptomatic of the game of general post now being played by the classes and the masses that Susan is taking refuge, with Betty, Peggy, Jane and Ann, among the aristocracy, while Gladys and Muriel reign below stairs,
ref: 1932, Ernest Weekley, Words and Names, J.Murray, page 84:
text: Susan, they called her. They chose a name that resembled the name she had come with, Sooki, and also it was a comfortable sound for Iranians to pronounce. "Su-san!" Maryam would sing when she went in to get her from her nap. "Su-Su-Su!"
Even on issues pertaining to their daughter, the Yazdans took a very different approach. Imagine changing that charming name, Sooki, part of her native heritage, to plain old Susan!
ref: 2006, Anne Tyler, Digging to America, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 10, 62:
text: Advertisers from both sides in the officially nonpartisan contest have already combined to spend more than $70 million on the 2025 race, according to data from the ad tracking firm AdImpact. Supporters of the liberal candidate, Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford, have outspent supporters of the conservative candidate, Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel, by about $40 million to $33 million.
ref: 2025 March 29, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, “Musk flexes influence as Wisconsin Supreme Court race smashes spending records”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: lazy Susan
Susanville
Related terms: sense: Variants
word: Susanna
sense: Variants
word: Susannah
sense: Variants
word: Susanne
sense: Variants
word: Suzanna
sense: Variants
word: Suzannah
sense: Variants
word: Suzanne
word: Sue
word: Susie
word: Susy
word: Suze
word: Suzi
word: Suzie
word: Suzy
word: Zan
sense: others
word: Susan B. Anthony
Susan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.zən/
ipa: /ˈsuː.zɪn/
ipa: /ˈsjuː-/
rhymes: -uːzən
Etymology: From Susa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Susa.
Susan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.zən/
ipa: /ˈsuː.zɪn/
ipa: /ˈsjuː-/
rhymes: -uːzən
Forms: form: Susans
Etymology: From Susa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from the ancient city of Susa.
pris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of price.
glosses: Obsolete form of prize.
Related terms: parti pris
Einstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: īn′stīn′
enpr: īn′shtīn′
ipa: /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/
ipa: /ˈaɪnˌʃtaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɑenˌstɑen/
ipa: /ˈɑenˌʃtɑen/
ipa: /ˈajnˌsʈajn/
ipa: /ˈajnˌʃʈajn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: Einsteins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Einstein.
* The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.
Senses: examples: text: Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.
EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS
Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.
A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MEN
No More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said Einstein When His Daring Publishers Accepted it.
ref: 1919 November 10, “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”, in New York Times:
text: Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space
ref: 1977, James Taylor, “Secret O' Life”, in JT, Columbia Records:
text: Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.
ref: 1993, Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile:
text: We're sitting in a coffee shop in Sunnyvale, California. It's late. I've had a few beers, and my dinner date has downed a few plum wines. I peer deep into his eyes, trying to figure out why so many people throughout the high tech universe think Henry Massalin could be the Einstein of our time.
ref: 1996 December, Gary Andrew Poole, “Qua”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored]
ref: 2000 January 22, Listener Limerick Challenge: Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, spoken by Carl Kasell, via National Public Radio:
glosses: Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: word: Albert Einstein
alt: BEC
word: Bose-Einstein condensate
word: Bose-Einstein statistics
word: einstein
word: Einstein-Bose statistics
word: Einstein cross
word: Einstein field equation
word: Einsteinian
word: Einsteinian relativity
word: einsteinium
alt: E-P-R paradox, EPR paradox, EPR
word: Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
word: Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone
word: Einstein radius
word: Einstein ring
alt: E-R bridge, ER bridge, ER
word: Einstein-Rosen bridge
word: Einstein's constant
word: Einstein syndrome
word: EPR=ER
word: ER=EPR
word: Stark-Einstein law
Einstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īn′stīn′
enpr: īn′shtīn′
ipa: /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/
ipa: /ˈaɪnˌʃtaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɑenˌstɑen/
ipa: /ˈɑenˌʃtɑen/
ipa: /ˈajnˌsʈajn/
ipa: /ˈajnˌʃʈajn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: Einsteins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Einstein.
* The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.
Senses: examples: text: Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family.
text: Good job, Einstein, thinking you could grab the wires with your pliers.
synonyms: word: Albert Einstein
word: ;
word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: An extremely clever or intelligent person.
hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: hints
form: hinting
form: hinted
form: hinted
Etymology: From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.
Senses: examples: text: She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
text: I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
examples: text: to hint a suspicion
text: VVilling to vvound, and yet afraid to ſtrike, / Juſt hint a fault and heſitate diſlike; […]
ref: 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 11, lines 198–199:
text: We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
examples: text: The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.
glosses: To develop and add hints to a font.
Derived terms: hintable
hinted
hinter
hintingly
hint
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Etymology: From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.
Senses: examples: text: And yes, as long as you are being a good coder and engaging in safe practices, nothing should go wrong. (Hint, hint.)
glosses: Signifies that something previously said should be taken as a hint or heeded closely.
hinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪntə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhɪntɚ/
ipa: [ˈhɪɾ̃ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hinters
Etymology: From hint + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of hint: someone who hints.
Related terms: hinder
wobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑbl̩/
ipa: /ˈwɒbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: wobbles
form: wabble
Etymology: From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).
Senses: examples: text: The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.
text: That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: jiggle
quiver
shake
tremble
glosses: An unsteady motion.
examples: text: There was a wobble on her high notes.
synonyms: quaver
tremble
tremolo
vibrato
glosses: A tremulous sound.
examples: text: “I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars. A dubstep wobble arrives about halfway through like a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms. Swift’s career.
ref: 2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid.
Derived terms: Chandler wobble
death wobble
head wobble
nanna wobble
speed wobble
wibble-wobble
wobble base pair
wobble bass
wobble board
wobble room
wobble shop
wobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑbl̩/
ipa: /ˈwɒbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: wobbles
form: wobbling
form: wobbled
form: wobbled
form: wabble
Etymology: From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).
Senses: examples: text: the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis
text: the jelly wobbled on the plate
text: The apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition. His mouth wobbled as well.
ref: 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
synonyms: judder
shake
shudder
tremble
glosses: To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
examples: text: The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.
synonyms: quaver
quiver
tremble
glosses: To tremble or quaver.
examples: text: I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.
synonyms: falter
vacillate
waffle
waver
glosses: To vacillate in one's opinions.
examples: text: The boy wobbled the girl's bike.
text: He said: “This front wheel wobbles.”
I said: “It doesn’t if you don’t wobble it.” It didn’t wobble, as a matter of fact—nothing worth calling a wobble.
ref: 1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel:
synonyms: jiggle
rock
shake
wiggle
glosses: To cause to wobble.
Derived terms: give your head a wobble
wobbler
wobblily
wobbliness
wobblingly
wobblish
wobbly
gobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɑbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: gobbles
form: gobbling
form: gobbled
form: gobbled
Etymology: From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.
Senses: examples: text: He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
glosses: To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
Synonyms: sense: eat quickly or greedily
word: hork
sense: eat quickly or greedily
word: scarf
sense: eat quickly or greedily
word: scoff
Derived terms: chobble
gobble down
gobble off
gobbler
gobblesome
gobble up
gobbly
ungobbled
gobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɑbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: gobbles
Etymology: From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.
ref: 2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer:
glosses: Fellatio; a blowjob.
examples: text: […] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.
ref: 1983, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin, page 53:
glosses: An act of eating hastily or greedily.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
Derived terms: gobble hole
gobble-pipe
gobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɑbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: gobbles
form: gobbling
form: gobbled
form: gobbled
Etymology: Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.
Senses: examples: text: Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72:
glosses: Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
examples: text: He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
ref: 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature:
glosses: To make the sound of a turkey.
gobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɑbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: gobbles
Etymology: Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.
Senses: examples: text: But while the hen continued her cackle he finished his first play, and had commenced the gobble of his second, when a twig cracked beneath my feet.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86:
glosses: The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
Related terms: cluck
gobbledegook
gobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑblɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒblə/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
rhymes: (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gobblers
Etymology: From gobble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Do you slip back to your truck and find another gobbler to hunt? Trying to outcall the other hunter could work, but it creates a competitive and possibly dangerous situation.
ref: 2009, Steve Hickoff, Turkey Calls & Calling:
glosses: One who gobbles:
A turkey.
glosses: One who gobbles:
A turkey.
Especially, a male turkey.
synonyms: tom
stag
jake
examples: text: My dog is such a gobbler: she can empty her food dish in less than a minute.
glosses: One who gobbles:
One who eats food very quickly, without decorum.
Derived terms: cock gobbler
knob-gobbler
solder gobbler
turkey gobbler
past historic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The past historic tense.
decorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɔːɹəm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɪˈkorəm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɛkɵrəm/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
Forms: form: decora
form: decorums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin decōrum, neuter form of decōrus (“proper, decent”).
Senses: examples: text: Everyone was assembled in the dining-room. Under the circumstances, we were naturally not a cheerful party. The reaction after a shock is always trying, and I think we were all suffering from it. Decorum and good breeding naturally enjoined that our demeanour should be much as usual, yet I could not help wondering if this self-control were really a matter of great difficulty. There were no red eyes, no signs of secretly indulged grief.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 57:
text: It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
ref: 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch (pseudonym; Raphael Simon), This Isn't What It Looks Like, ch. 4
synonyms: decency
courtesy
propriety
etiquette
glosses: Appropriate social behavior.
examples: text: In the architecture and embellishments of the chamber, the evident design was to dazzle and astound. Little attention had been paid to the decora of what is technically called “keeping,” or to the proprieties of nationality. The eye wandered from object to object, and rested upon none; neither the “Grotesques” of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egypt.
ref: 1834 January, [Edgar Allan Poe], “The Visionary”, in The Lady’s Book, page 41, column 2:
glosses: A convention of social behavior.
nobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
homophone: knobble
Forms: form: nobbles
form: nobbling
form: nobbled
form: nobbled
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: hobble, hamper, hinder, impede, embarrass, disable
text: After 12 successive league wins[…]Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life.
ref: 2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Their core belief, unsupported by evidence or logic, is that homes are unaffordable because investors drive up prices.[…]Australians for Affordable Housing appears to think that nobbling investors will strike a telling blow for first-time buyers: remove negative gearing and increase capital gains tax, and homes will be affordable.
ref: 2011 October 22, Terry Ryder, “Affordable-housing lobby out to nobble investments”, in The Australian:
text: Google has come out fighting after Twitter claimed that changes to its search engine nobble results to favour Google+, damaging the internet.
ref: 2012 January 11, Gavin Clarke, “Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim”, in The Register:
text: His main fear is that the fledgling technology could have its wings clipped by traditional manufacturers, who will doubtless view it as a threat to their livelihoods, and do all in their powers to nobble it.
ref: 2012 September 9, “3D printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again”, in The Economist:
glosses: To injure or obstruct intentionally.
examples: text: Unlike "noble" vigilantes, the police and court facilities which exist are said to be inefficient and corrupt, and juries are said to be easily "nobbled" or intimidated.
ref: 2000, Italo Pardo, Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and System, page 122:
text: For example jury trials were reformed to allow majority verdicts, so that criminals could less easily nobble them.
ref: 2002, Kevin Jefferys, Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown, page 107:
text: Here, though, Picot's overbearing power, and the fact that the bishop was an absentee, meant that the sheriff could use threats to "nobble" the judges.
ref: 2012, Mark Hagger, William: King and Conqueror, page 75:
glosses: To gain influence over by corrupt means or intimidation.
glosses: To steal.
examples: text: Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.
ref: 1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 8, page 110:
synonyms: cooper
glosses: To tamper with (typically a racehorse or greyhound) in order to prevent it from winning a race.
Derived terms: nobbler
nobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒbl̩/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
homophone: knobble
Forms: form: nobbles
Senses: glosses: A deliberate act of injury or obstruction.