cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sulfurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlfəɹəs/
ipa: /sʌlˈfjuɹəs/
Forms: form: more sulfurous
form: most sulfurous
form: sulphurous
Etymology: From Latin sulphurōsus. By surface analysis, sulfur + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It must be so—I will arise and waken
The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill,
Which on a sudden from its snows had shaken
The swoon of ages, it shall burst, and fill
The world with cleansing fire; it must, it will—
It may not be restrained!
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: Containing sulfur.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its lower oxidation state.
Synonyms: word: sulfureous
Derived terms: sulfurous acid
sulphurous acid
sulfurous chloride
sulphurous chloride
Related terms: sulfuric
sulphurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sulphurous
form: most sulphurous
Senses: examples: text: "The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfurous.
Derived terms: sulphurous acid
languidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more languidly
form: most languidly
Etymology: From languid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He languidly waved his limp wrist, glad to see us, but not wanting to expend the energy to let us know that.
text: Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: “It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry, languidly.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: In a languid manner, without force or effort, in a manner requiring little energy or exertion.
latecomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪtˌkʌm.ə/
ipa: /ˈleɪtˌkʌm.ɚ/
Forms: form: latecomers
Etymology: From late + comer.
Senses: examples: text: The old families in the neighborhood look down on him as a latecomer, his family only arrived in the 18th century, too nouveau for them.
glosses: One who has arrived comparatively recently.
examples: text: At the party the host made a point of greeting all the latecomers he missed in the first pass.
glosses: One who arrived late.
Related terms: Johnny-come-lately
late to the party
lateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪt.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈleɪt.nəs/
rhymes: -eɪtnəs
Forms: form: latenesses
Etymology: From late + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His chronic lateness will cost him a promotion if not his job.
text: A 40 m.p.h. slack at West Ruislip, quickly followed by a 30 m.p.h. slack at Gerrards Cross, increased our lateness to four minutes at High Wycombe.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
glosses: The state of being late.
Synonyms: word: belatedness
word: tardiness
word: behindhandness
word: lateness
word: tardity
Hypernyms: word: untimeliness
Derived terms: fashionable lateness
Related terms: word: overdue
word: belatedly
latish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From late + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat late
latish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From late + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We'll be home latish, perhaps not until 10 p.m.
glosses: Somewhat late
lavishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæv.ɪʃ.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈlæv.ɪʃ.nəs/
Forms: form: lavishnesses
Etymology: From lavish + -ness. Compare Dutch lafenis (“refreshment, lavishness”).
Senses: examples: text: No one could question the lavishness of his parties; good taste was a different matter.
glosses: The state or characteristic of being lavish.
laxness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laxnesses
Etymology: From lax + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was a certain laxness in safety preparations that made the fire worse.
glosses: The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
strictness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strictnesses
Etymology: From strict + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
text: I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: The state or quality of being strict.
glosses: The result or product of being strict.
leanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lenenesse, equivalent to lean + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being lean, without excess or fat.
leaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
homophone: lever
Forms: form: leavers
Etymology: From leave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This year's school leavers have excellent grades.
text: He's a leaver, not a stayer: he'll never be happy tied down in one place.
glosses: One who leaves.
examples: text: An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest, the Observer can reveal.
ref: 2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Leaver.
glosses: A schoolie.
Derived terms: bad leaver
careleaver
school-leaver
languidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From languid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was some languidness latent in the Nigerian atmosphere that made her forget the meaning of time passing.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 70:
synonyms: languidity
glosses: The property of being languid.
largehearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more largehearted
form: most largehearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of large-hearted.
Derived terms: largeheartedly
largeheartedness
lasciviousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lascivious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 7:21–23, column 1:
text: Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
glosses: The characteristic or state of being lascivious.
versificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːsɪfɪkeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈvɝsɪfɪkeɪtɚ/
Forms: form: versificators
Etymology: From Latin versificator.
Senses: glosses: Someone who writes verse; a poet.
legibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more legibly
form: most legibly
Etymology: From legible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is legible, in a manner that is readable, readably.
readably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more readably
form: most readably
Etymology: From readable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to be readable; legibly.
licitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more licitly
form: most licitly
Etymology: From licit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a licit manner, legally, in a manner compatible with law.
gargoylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gargoylisms
Etymology: From gargoyle + -ism.
Senses: glosses: the dysmorphic facial features found in Hurler's syndrome and Hunter syndrome, characterized by thickened gingiva (gums) and upturned nose
motion capture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motion captures
Senses: synonyms: mocap
glosses: The use of sensors to track and record the position, velocity, acceleration and impulse of a movement.
motion capture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: motion captures
form: motion capturing
form: motion captured
form: motion captured
Senses: glosses: to motion-capture
lyrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lyrically
form: most lyrically
Etymology: From lyrical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "There are no women like the Arab women," said Haji Zainal Abidin dreamily, lyrically.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 236:
glosses: In a manner that is pleasing to hear, as singing or speaking; in a lyrical manner.
examples: a lyrically unimaginative song
glosses: In terms of the lyrics.
Related terms: lyre
lyric
lyrical
naming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: namings
Senses: glosses: The process of giving names to things.
glosses: A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.
Derived terms: dead-naming
naming collision
naming convention
naming rights
rapid automatized naming
naming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of name
naming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Giving a name to a person or thing.
lyncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lynchers
Etymology: From lynch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Less than 1 percent of lynchers were ever convicted of a crime.”
ref: 2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 237:
glosses: One who lynches.
fecal matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːkəl ˈmætə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: faecal matter
form: fæcal matter
Senses: glosses: Feces.
Hypernyms: excrement
lymphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmfɔɪd/
Etymology: From lymph + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or found within the lymphatic system of the body
Derived terms: alymphoid
angiolymphoid
antilymphoid
extralymphoid
hematolymphoid
hemolymphoid
lymphanoid
neolymphoid
nonlymphoid
luxuriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹ.i.eɪt/
Forms: form: luxuriates
form: luxuriating
form: luxuriated
form: luxuriated
Etymology: First attested in 1621; borrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, perfect passive participle of lūxuriō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Luxuriate in the wonderful service of our five-star hotel.
text: He luxuriated in anger, and he kept accounts.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376:
text: But where the stage version luxuriated in the amount of time it could take to tell its story — in three one-act plays — its big-screen counterpart benefits from the need to economize in order to keep things moving.
ref: 1988 December 25, Christopher Wittke, “A Landmark In Gay Cinematic History”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:
text: But fundamentally I think it’s a sound framework, and it creates the right sense of urgency in that we can kind of luxuriate in a debate over what the right gear might be to do carbon targets, but scientifically the right time to do it was yesterday.
ref: 2019 March 20, Ryan Lizza, “The Esquire Interview: Mayor Peter Buttigieg”, in Esquire:
glosses: To enjoy luxury, to indulge.
glosses: To be luxuriant; to grow exuberantly.
lutenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutenists
form: lutanist
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lutanista, from lutana (“lute”), from Middle French lut.
Senses: examples: text: A group of composers, variously known as the madrigalists, the lutenists, or the virginalists (depending on the medium for which they were writing), produced vast quantities of attractive music, mostly for amateur consumption.
ref: 2003, Edward L. Kottick, A History of the Harpsichord, page 200:
text: And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
ref: 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who plays the lute, a lutist.
Synonyms: lutist
lutist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutists
Etymology: From lute + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the lute.
Synonyms: lutanist
lutenist
luter
lutanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutanists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lutenist.
Northern Sami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Northern Sámi
form: Northern Saami
form: North Sami
Senses: glosses: The most widely spoken Sami language; it is spoken in northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It includes three dialects: Torne, Finnmark and Sea Sami.
Related terms: Torne
Finnmark
Sea Sami
Wiktionary’s coverage of Northern Sami terms
lustily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lustily
form: most lustily
Etymology: From lusty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] I walked lustily in the park by moonshine till eight, to shake off my dinner and wine; […]
ref: 1711, Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift, Letter XXXVIII, p. 236:
text: As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room[.]
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
text: Then, while some of the others gathered around the girl played "Waiting for the Wagon," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party," and a number of other favorites, and these the crowd sang lustily.
ref: 1908, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys on the Farm, Ch. XIX, p. 151:
text: Momma, Monique, and Paula retreat to a corner of the kitchen while the main party, including old Johnny who has winked lustily at Momma's backside all night long, stays behind in the living room…
ref: 1991, Lee Maracle, Sundogs, page 34:
glosses: In a lusty manner: vigorously, loudly, enthusiastically.
lukewarmness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːkˈwɔːmnəs/
Forms: form: lukewarmnesses
Etymology: From lukewarm + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, Discourse II, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, London: A. Millar, 1744, Volume II, p. 246,
And indeed, there is scarce any quality, for whose differences we have fewer distinct names, having scarce any for the many degrees of coldness, that may be conceived to be intermediate, betwixt lukewarmness and the freezing degree of cold […]
text: Mr. Hale was disappointed in his pupil’s lukewarmness about Greek literature, which had but a short time ago so great an interest for him.
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 40, in North and South:
text: Sazonov was furious at the lukewarmness of the British and French reactions to Russia's protests.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 343:
glosses: The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
Synonyms: lukewarmth
unprovoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnpɹəˈvoʊkt/
Forms: form: more unprovoked
form: most unprovoked
Etymology: From un- + provoked.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: unmotivated
text: an unprovoked attack
text: A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.
ref: 2020 September 9, “Network News: Man jailed for Hillingdon murder”, in Rail, page 25:
text: Three unprovoked stabbings across Manhattan Monday morning that left two men and one woman dead show how the criminal justice and mental health systems fail New Yorkers, the city’s mayor said.
ref: 2024 November 18, Nic F. Anderson, Melissa Alonso, John Miller, Sabrina Shulman and Sabrina Souza, “3 unprovoked fatal stabbings across Manhattan show failures of criminal justice and mental health systems, city’s mayor says”, in CNN:
hypernyms: unprompted
unstimulated
;
unjustified
unjustifiable
coordinate_terms: random
senseless
pointless
;
inexplicable
glosses: Happening without provocation.
unprovoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnpɹəˈvoʊkt/
Forms: form: more unprovoked
form: most unprovoked
Etymology: From un- + provoked.
Senses: examples: text: He attacked me, suddenly, unprovoked.
text: 'He said, "I won't bugger you"? Really?' 'Yes, really.' 'God. That is a bit suspicious; coming out unprovoked.'
ref: 2011, Mil Millington ·, Love and Other Near Death Experiences:
text: The supernatural are so destructive that they have to create conditions to enable the continuous infliction of mental and physical injuries on others unprovoked.
ref: 2012, Lord Loveday Ememe, The Supernatural:
text: So when one of our own flouts our laws to attack my house unprovoked—”
ref: 2015, Mark E. Cooper, Way of the Wolf: Shifter Legacies 1:
coordinate_terms: randomly
senselessly
pointlessly
;
inexplicably
glosses: Without provocation or motivation.
unprovoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnpɹəˈvoʊkt/
Etymology: From un- + provoked.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unprovoke
luncheonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luncheonettes
Etymology: From luncheon + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: He talked up an acquaintance with a waitress in a luncheonette, made a date to take her driving in his Cadillac that afternoon, and came back to wake me with the news.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 8, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
synonyms: word: automat
word: beanery
word: buffet
word: cafeteria
word: caff
word: canteen
word: cookhouse
word: cookshack
word: diner
word: dining hall
word: eatery
word: hashery
word: hotel
word: luncheonette
word: lunchroom
word: noshery
word: restaurant
coordinate_terms: bruncheonette
glosses: A small diner or restaurant that serves lunch.
lumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpi/
rhymes: -ʌmpi
Forms: form: lumpier
form: lumpiest
Etymology: From lump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.
text: The film makes fun of the lumpiest and palest set of tourists ever to carry plastic shoulder bags. It makes fun of an upwardly mobile hotel manager, married to a lecherous blonde.
ref: 1976 May 20, Richard Eder, “Film: 'Smile Orange,' Jamaican Story”, in The New York Times:
text: The universe appears to be slightly lumpier, with bigger and more hot and cold spots in the northern half of the sky as seen from Earth than toward the south, for example. And there is a large, unexplained cool spot in the northern hemisphere.
ref: 2013 March 21, Dennis Overbye, “Universe as an Infant: Fatter Than Expected and Kind of Lumpy”, in The New York Times:
text: With the bathers, especially, bodies harden into things. Torsos like clay. Buttocks like pears. More classically proportioned figures could be paired, on the same page, with squatter, lumpier piles of flesh.
ref: 2021 June 27, Jason Farago, “The Cézanne We’ve Forgotten How to See”, in The New York Times:
text: The NIC warns that rail investment is being spread too thinly across too many projects, and calls for a proper long-term pipeline of projects, instead of the present stop-start policies dictated by the lumpy flow of money from HM Treasury.
ref: 2024 May 29, Howard Johnston, “Network News: NIC criticises Government's West Coast 'do nothing' policy”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 16:
coordinate_terms: bumpy
glosses: Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.
glosses: Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy.
Derived terms: lumpily
lumpiness
lumpy dick
lumpy jaw
lumpy jumper
lumpy skin disease
attested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attest
attested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛstɪd/
Forms: form: more attested
form: most attested
Senses: glosses: Proven; shown to be true with evidence.
glosses: Supported with testimony.
examples: text: A Contract of eternall bond of loue,
Confirm'd by mutuall ioynder of your hands,
Atteſted by the holy cloſe of lippes,
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Certified as good, correct, or pure.
examples: text: The word "slæpwerig" (sleep-weary) is attested in the Exeter Book in the form "slæpwerigne".
text: A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic.
ref: 2010, Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn, Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of words or languages, proven to have existed by records.
Derived terms: attestedly
nonattested
unattested
well-attested
Related terms: attest
attestable
attestation
attestative
attestive
attestment
approved
cited
documented
proven
supported
lucidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈluːsɪdli/
Forms: form: more lucidly
form: most lucidly
Etymology: From lucid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clear and easily understood way, in a lucid manner.
laminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The accident was also one of several since Clapham [...] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 42:
glosses: Made by lamination.
examples: text: A laminated arch is a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.
text: All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
ref: 1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
text: In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:
glosses: Consisting of many thin layers.
examples: text: Shale is laminated.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Splitting into thin layers parallel to bedding.
raw_tags: of rocks
Derived terms: biolaminated
delaminated
glulam
interlaminated
laminated glass
microlaminated
nonlaminated
prelaminated
unlaminated
laminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laminate
psionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈɒn.ɪk/
Senses: examples: text: He had honestly tried to understand the commander, but they came from different worlds. Although they could talk easily enough, with the tiny psionic translators they wore like hearing aids. Bowman’s hawknosed, black-pigmented face seemed as forbiddingly foreign as his life was strange.
ref: 1951, Jack Williamson, James Henry Schmitz, Astounding Science Fiction 1951-03: Volume 47, Issue 1, Penny Publications, page 130:
text: "So." Rod touched his pursed lips to his steepled fingertips. "Somebody overseas lends the beastmen a huge surge of psionic power— in electrical form, of course; we re assuming psionics is based on an electrical phenomenon. The beastmen channel the power into their own projective telepathy, throw it into the soldiers' minds— somehow, eye contact seems to be necessary there— and from the soldiers' minds, it flows into the witches, immediately knocking out anyone who's tuned in . . . only temporarily, thank Heaven."
ref: 1971, John Trevena, Heather, Ace Books, page 41:
text: Again the Krithian females struck against him, battering his shields again and again, smashing through them, tearing them down one after the other, forcing piercing lances of psionic force through them and into him.
ref: 1978, Richard Carlton Meredith, Vestiges of Time, Doubleday, page 447:
glosses: Of or relating to psionics.
leafless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In winter the leafless trees look cold.
text: One afternoon, when all the party from the house were riding, Adeline sauntered under the leafless, hazel hedges, which separated the pleasure domain from the park.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214:
text: Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 50:
text: For many times with the laughing girls and boys / Played I along the road and over the hills / When the sun was low and the air was cool, / Stopping to club the walnut tree / Standing leafless against a flaming west.
ref: 1915, Edgar Lee Masters, “Hare Drummer”, in Spoon River Anthology, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 27:
glosses: Of plants or trees, without leaves.
Derived terms: leaflessness
semileafless
lazily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lazily
form: most lazily
Etymology: From lazy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.
glosses: In a lazy manner.
examples: text: Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long eight-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:
text: Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
ref: 1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41:
glosses: In a slow manner.
leaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːki/
rhymes: -iːki
homophone: leeky
Forms: form: leakier
form: leakiest
Etymology: Likely a normalisation ( + -y) of earlier leak, leake, leke (“leaky”, adjective), from Middle English leke (“leaky”), from Old English hlec, *lec (“having cracks or rents; leaky”), from Proto-Germanic *lekaz (“leaking; leaky”). By surface analysis, leak + -y. Cognate with Scots lek, leck (“leaky”), Saterland Frisian läk (“leaky”), Dutch lek (“leaky”), German Low German leck (“leaky”), German leck (“leaky”), Swedish läck (“leaky”), Icelandic lekur (“leaky”).
Senses: examples: text: The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.
text: The ceiling was so leaky that someone had to fix it.
text: Nuclear reactors in Russian submarines are said to be so leaky that crews are often paid "sterility money".
ref: 1983, Michael Stephenson, Roger Hearn, The Nuclear Case Book:
glosses: Having leaks; not fully sealed.
Derived terms: leakily
leakiness
leaky abstraction
leaky brain syndrome
leaky bucket
leaky gut syndrome
leaky weir
nonleaky
unleaky
leakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leakinesses
Etymology: From leaky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being leaky.
leaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leapers
Etymology: From Middle English lepere, lepare, from Old English hlēapere (“runner, leaper, dancer, courier, vagrant”), equivalent to leap + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Lööper (“runner”), West Frisian ljepper (“leaper”), West Frisian loper (“runner”), Dutch loper (“runner”), German Läufer (“runner”), Swedish löpare (“runner”), Icelandic hlaupari (“runner”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I read in the Bulletin about some mad joker breaking into the little kangaroo and koala zoo in the suburbs and slaughtering seven adult leapers and three joeys.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 39, in Earthly Powers, New York: Avon, page 299:
text: In the winter—God knows why!—he liked basketball […] He played only in pickup games, to be sure—he could never have played on any of the teams—but he played with enthusiasm; he was quite a leaper, he had a jump shot that elevated him almost to eye level with the other players […]
ref: 1989, John Irving, chapter 6, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 271:
glosses: One who leaps.
glosses: A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
examples: text: Any combination of a piece with a free piece is obviously free. It can however happen that a two-pattern leaper is free even though its components are not. […] Many other two-pattern leapers are possible.
ref: 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 9, 10:
topics: board-games
chess
games
coordinate_terms: rider
glosses: A piece, like the knight, which moves a fixed distance, and ignores pieces in the way.
glosses: Synonym of jumper (“person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height”).
synonyms: word: jumper
extra: person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height
examples: text: I'm sick of getting coloring books and dollies for my birthdays, and other leapers are just as exasperated by their juvenile gifts. Another question we always get is, “When do you celebrate your birthday?” On February 29th, of course.
ref: 2003, Julietta Appleton, Clothing Optional: Sassy Essays from My First 50 Years, page 2:
glosses: A person whose birthday falls on 29 February, and thus only occurs in leap years.
Derived terms: landleaper
laze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: lase
homophone: lays
Forms: form: lazes
form: lazing
form: lazed
form: lazed
Etymology: Back-formation from lazy.
Senses: examples: text: Behold by millions how thy men do fall
Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?
ref: 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, act III:
text: And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.
ref: 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1:
text: But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.
ref: 1892, Israel Zangwill, chapter 13, in Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, volume 1, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, page 191:
text: “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”
ref: 1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 7, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 160:
glosses: To be lazy, waste time.
examples: text: The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
text: A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]
ref: 1939, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in The Lawless Roads, Penguin, published 1982, page 93:
glosses: To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
Synonyms: idle
loaf
take it easy
Derived terms: laze about
laze around
lazen
lazer
lazy
laze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: lase
homophone: lays
Forms: form: lazes
Etymology: Back-formation from lazy.
Senses: examples: text: I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
glosses: An instance of lazing.
examples: text: The laze is real.
glosses: Laziness.
laze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: lase
homophone: lays
Etymology: Blend of lava + haze.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, dense laze plumes are known to contain as much as 10 to 15ppm of HCl (USGS, 2008).
ref: 2010, Patricia Erfurt-Cooper, Malcolm Cooper, Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation:
glosses: Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
Related terms: fog
mist
haze and terms listed there
smaze
vog
laser beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laser beams
Senses: examples: text: Depending on whether the laser beam is defocused or focused, the CO₂ laser can perform two distinct therapeuteic functions.
ref: 1994, Stephen G. Brown, Medical Applications of Lasers II, page 2:
text: i hate old people man. “i was in the war” congratulations. i’m gonna be in the next one and they have laser beams now
ref: 2024 June 7, @coolmathgame_, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2024:
glosses: The light emitted by a laser.
examples: text: Ramirez hit a laser beam home run into the right center field seats leading the 10th inning off Boston closer Ken Ryan
ref: 1995, Russell Schneider, Glorious Indian Summer of 1995: Season of Dreams...Cleveland, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The batter hit a laser-beam to right field. A run for Cincinnati! Now the score was five to three.
ref: 2005, Dallas Woodburn, 3 A.m.: A Collection of Short Stories, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: When in doubt, so I threw my best fastball. Mantle hit a laser beam past my right knee.
ref: 2009, P.J. Dragseth, Eye for Talent: Interviews with Veteran Baseball Scouts, McFarland, →ISBN, page 37:
text: The way he warmed up his famous arm by throwing laser beams out of a sleepy, feline half-windup to some bullpen lackey armed with the added protection of a catcher's mitt.
ref: 2010, Josh Wilker, Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, Seven Footer Press, →ISBN:
text: Just as he finished that sentence, Evan Longoria hit a laser beam over the left field fence. The Red Sox season was over in a flash.
ref: 2012, Paul Kocak, Baseball's Starry Night: Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe, Digitature, →ISBN, page 152:
text: One reason the rookies weren't catching too many was that Bradshaw was throwing laser beams.
ref: 2013, Roy Blount Jr., About Three Bricks Shy...And the Load Filled Up, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: The Bloomer Girls played a respectable brand of baseball, to be sure, but they didn't throw 350-foot laser beams from deep center, or chew Red Man during ballgames.
ref: 2014, Scott Simkus, Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876–1950, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A low, hard-hit or -thrown ball.
Synonyms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: rocket
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: bullet
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: laser
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: frozen rope
launcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːntʃ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlɑnt͡ʃ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɔnt͡ʃ.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːntʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: launchers
Etymology: From launch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The catapult made a good launcher for the small projectile.
text: They shot down the helicopter with a rocket launcher.
text: This actually occurs in perception of non-colliding Michotte displays: Even though there is a gap between the launcher stopping and the launchee starting, the launchee's motion appears to have been caused, at a distance, by the approach of the launcher […]
ref: 2015, H. Clark Barrett, The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve, page 110:
glosses: One who or that which launches. A device that throws something or the person who initiates a launch.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An application that launches another or others, often holding icons or menus for frequently used programs.
Derived terms: custard launcher
grenade launcher
pig launcher
rocket launcher
laurels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Two mountain laurels were in bloom.
glosses: plural of laurel
laurels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.
Related terms: mountain laurel
rest on one's laurels
laureate
laurels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laurel
mountain laurel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain laurels
Senses: glosses: A flowering evergreen shrub, Kalmia latifolia, in the family Ericaceae, native to the eastern United States, all parts of which are toxic.
glosses: A flowering shrub, Dermatophyllum secundifolium, native to Texas and Mexico.
Synonyms: sense: Kalmia latifolia
word: calico bush
sense: Kalmia latifolia
word: clamoun
sense: Kalmia latifolia
word: ivybush
sense: Kalmia latifolia
word: lambkill
sense: Kalmia latifolia
word: sheep laurel
sense: Kalmia latifolia
word: spoonwood
law-abiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more law-abiding
form: most law-abiding
Senses: examples: text: The law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government surveillance... unless the government begins to break the law.
text: In all smuggling places ghost stories abound. Can it be that they were invented to keep law-abiding folk behind closed doors at night, when the deeds were being done?
ref: 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:
text: “For any decent, law-abiding citizen, there is no honour in this. None at all. You are a bad man, Mr Goodie. And, worst of all, a bad dad. A very bad dad.” That hit Gilbert like a ton of bricks. He looked over to his son with tears in his eyes, as the judge announced the sentence. “Gilbert Goodie, I sentence you to ten years in prison!”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.
lavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavages
Etymology: Borrowed from French lavage.
Senses: glosses: A washing.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A washing of a hollow organ.
lavage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lavages
form: lavaging
form: lavaged
form: lavaged
Etymology: Borrowed from French lavage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To wash a hollow organ
Derived terms: broncholavage
gastric lavage
gastrolavage
lavageable
unlavaged
whole lung lavage
lawlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lawlessly
form: most lawlessly
Etymology: From lawless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lawless manner.
laser beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laser beam
latency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tən.si/
Forms: form: latencies
form: latence
Etymology: From latent + -ency.
Senses: glosses: Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
glosses: Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
examples: text: network latency
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
examples: text: period of latency
text: The disease has a long period of latency.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
glosses: A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
Synonyms: sense: state of being latent
word: hiddenness
sense: state of being latent
word: invisibility
english: not physics- or electronic gaming-related
translation: not physics- or electronic gaming-related
word: lag
word: delay
Derived terms: antilatency
intravaginal ejaculation latency time
latency time
Cthulhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: widely used spelling pronunciation
ipa: /kəˈθuːlu/
ipa: /kəˈtuːlu/
rhymes: -uːlu
Forms: form: Ktulu
form: Kutulu
Etymology: Invented in 1926 by H.P. Lovecraft for his short story The Call of Cthulhu. Possibly based on chthonic (“dwelling under the earth”).
Senses: examples: text: Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency.
ref: 1928, H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu:
glosses: A gigantic fictional humanoid alien god being described with a head resembling an octopus and dragon wings and claws, around whom an insane cult developed.
wikipedia: H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu
Derived terms: Cthulhuesque
Cthulhian
Cthulhic
Related terms: Lovecraftian
latencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latency
lawbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: most lawbreaking
form: law-breaking
Etymology: From law + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: We have a place for lawbreaking citizens like you.
text: To make this penalty hang like a Sword of Damocles over every lawbreaking alien apprehended in this country
ref: 1994 April 19, “LETTERS TO THE EDITOR”, in San Francisco Chronicle, page A18:
text: Although church leaders argue they're trying to help the most vulnerable in society, some, including parishioners, argue they're helping the most lawbreaking.
ref: 2006 April 24, “Clergy stakes out key role in debate”, in San Bernardino (CA) Sun:
glosses: unlawful; illegal.
lawbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawbreakings
form: law-breaking
Etymology: From law + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: His lawbreaking ended only when he was hanged for it.
glosses: The commission of a criminal act, the violation or breaking of a law.
laxly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæks.li/
Forms: form: more laxly
form: most laxly
Etymology: From lax + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1913, Walter Ripman, The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., p. 56,
The letters e, i, and y in unstressed syllables represent a very laxly articulated sound, for which the sign [i] is used in this book.
text: A current of passion, which seemed to come from far outside them, ran through them both, and her hand which had lain so laxly on his shoulder tightened, and he turned toward her.
ref: 1945, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 45, in Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives:
text: The oil families, whatever their original condition, were too grand. So they searched among the families in soft drinks, the families in ice, the transport families, the cinema families, the families in filling stations. And at last, in a laxly Presbyterian family with one filling station, two lorries, a cinema and some land, they found a girl.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5:
text: Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan’s sometimes laxly enforced construction codes.
ref: 1999 October 4, Jeffrey Kluger, “Tears and Trembling”, in Time:
glosses: In a lax manner; without rigor or strictness.
layaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layaways
Etymology: Deverbal from lay away. The truly solidified verb (as contrasted with the merely misspelled one) is back-formed from the noun but is nonstandard.
Senses: glosses: A pit in which hides are stored.
examples: text: A chain of local gun shops advertised, as a “Father's Day Sale,” the semiautomatic Intratec TEC-9, with extra ammo clip, case, and flash suppressor, reduced from $347.80 to $249.95 and available on layaway.
ref: 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 24:
glosses: The system of accepting a deposit and holding for a customer to complete purchase.
glosses: An item which has been held in this way.
Derived terms: Firestone layaway
layaway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: layaways
form: layawaying
form: layawayed
form: layawayed
Etymology: Deverbal from lay away. The truly solidified verb (as contrasted with the merely misspelled one) is back-formed from the noun but is nonstandard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lay away.
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of lay away.
rei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reis
form: ree
Etymology: Incorrect back-formation of Portuguese plural réis. The correct singular is real.
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese real
Related terms: real
millrei