cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lazarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæzəɹəs/
Forms: form: Lazaruses
Etymology: From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical characters found in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.
Senses: examples: text: This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed.
ref: 1855, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 302:
text: 1870, Edmond de Pressensé, Annie Harwood Holmden (translator), The Early Years of the Christian Church, Book 3: First Century, page 462,
Those who hear the voice of the Son of man and live, are so many Lazaruses called to the life divine.
text: Finally, in whatever state or condition of life the faithful may find themselves, even if they cannot, like the apostles, assist the Lazaruses to rise from their tombs[…].
ref: 2010, Ippolito Desideri, translated by Michael J Sweet, Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri, page 598:
glosses: A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected.
examples: text: And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom?
ref: 1706, George Fox, Gospel Truth Demonstrated, in a Collection of Doctrinal Books, volume 2, published 1831, page 273:
text: These are the Lazaruses who lie prostrate at the gates of our cities and neighborhoods, and these are the needs that affluent Americans have conditioned themselves not to see because reaching out in any significant way would be far too costly.
ref: 2002, Stephen W. Plunkett, This We Believe: Eight Truths Presbyterians Affirm, page 109:
text: Do we respond to the poor Lazaruses in our midst with charity (scraps from our table), or do we seek to change the economic conditions that set up these extremes of rich and poor?
ref: 2008, Charles McCollough, The Art of Parables, page 126:
glosses: A poor person, a beggar.
Synonyms: sense: poor person
word: pauper
sense: beggar
word: beggar
Lazarus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæzəɹəs/
Forms: form: Lazaruses
form: Lazarusing
form: Lazarused
form: Lazarused
Etymology: From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical characters found in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To rescue a dying person.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To raise from the dead.
X-mas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: X-mases
form: X-masses
Senses: examples: text: A stunning example of ‘a phenomenon being too large to be perceived’ impressed the author during a performance of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Ford Theater in 1983, in Washington, D.C. The phenomenon in question was the Ghost of X-masses to come who appeared on the dimly lit stage as a huge, shadowy figure, obviously on stilts, enveloped in a flowing, enormous black cape.
ref: 2009, Othmar W. Winkler, “Developments in Socio-Economic Statistics”, in Interpreting Economic and Social Data: A Foundation of Descriptive Statistics, Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, note 29, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of Xmas.
eat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ēt out
ipa: /it aʊt/
Forms: form: eats out
form: eating out
form: ate out
form: eaten out
Senses: examples: text: Jacky wanted Korean barbecue, but his mom didn't want to eat out.
text: (Sandra) I'm hungry, Dad. When will you finally make dinner?
(Dad) Later. I have to finish this level first.
(Sandra) Daddy! I'm hungry now!
(Dad) Alright. here, Go eat out.
ref: 2008 November 24, Powree and Oliver Knörzer, “Video Game Addiction”, in Sandra and Woo (webcomic):
text: The whole region is dotted with restaurants very much like Taylor Grocery (once called fish camps) that sell only fried fish, and when I was growing up, the announcement that we were eating out meant we were going to the fish camp.
ref: 2009, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 124:
glosses: To dine at a restaurant or such public place.
glosses: To erode or encroach upon by gradually consuming.
examples: text: The lesbian couple ate each other out.
text: I mean, is it as bad as eating her pussy out? No, but it's the same fuckin' ballpark.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Vincent (John Travolta):
glosses: To perform cunnilingus or anilingus.
examples: text: He will eat me out if he hears I ate his girlfriend out.
glosses: To reprimand severely.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out.
Synonyms: sense: to dine at a restaurant
word: go out to eat
Related terms: eat one's heart out
halter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔltɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒltə/
ipa: /ˈhɔːltə/
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: halters
form: helter
Etymology: From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter.
Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).
Senses: synonyms: word: headstall
word: headpiece
word: headcollar
glosses: A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
examples: text: And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter [translating hart].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: “[…]No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.[…].”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
synonyms: word: collar
word: Bridport dagger
word: collar
word: halter
word: hangman's knot
word: hangman's noose
word: hempen collar
word: hempen cravat
glosses: A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
glosses: A halter top.
Derived terms: halterbreak
halterini
halterkini
halterless
halterneck
halter neck
halterpath
halter-sack
halter-top
riding halter
slip-halter
unhalter
wag-halter
halter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔltɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒltə/
ipa: /ˈhɔːltə/
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: halters
form: haltering
form: haltered
form: haltered
form: helter
Etymology: From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter.
Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).
Senses: examples: text: What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?
glosses: To place a halter on.
Derived terms: halter up
halter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔltɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒltə/
ipa: /ˈhɔːltə/
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: halters
Etymology: From halt + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who halts or limps; a cripple.
halter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔltɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒltə/
ipa: /ˈhɔːltə/
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: halteres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haltere.
harrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹəʊ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈhæɹoʊ/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈhɛɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Forms: form: harrows
Etymology: From Middle English harwe, harow, from Old English *hearwa (perhaps ultimately cognate with harvest), or from Old Norse harfr/herfi; compare Danish harve (“harrow”), Dutch hark (“rake”). Akin to Latin carpere. According to the OED, the verb senses are partly derived from the noun sense, partly from a by-form of the verb harry, itself from Old English hergian.
Senses: examples: text: He sent for the carpenter, who was under contract to be with the threshing-machine, but it turned out that he was mending the harrows, which should have been mended the week before Lent.
ref: 1918, Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, published 1998, page 153:
text: “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
text: Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.
ref: 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28:
glosses: A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
Derived terms: disc harrow
power harrow
restharrow
rest-harrow
ridge harrow
road harrow
Related terms: spring-tooth harrow
harrow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹəʊ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈhæɹoʊ/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈhɛɹoʊ/
rhymes: -æɹəʊ
Etymology: From Middle English harrow, harrowe, haro, from Old French haro, harou, harau, harol, from Frankish *harot, *hara (“here; hither”), from *hēr. Akin to Old Saxon herod, Old High German herot, Middle Dutch hare.
Senses: examples: text: Harrow, the flames, which me consume (said hee) / Ne can be quencht, within my secret bowels bee.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
hatchling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: hatchlings
Etymology: From hatch + -ling. Sense 2 in reference to the term crack one's egg (“realize one is transgender”).
Senses: examples: text: The hatchling alligator had just broken out of its shell but was already trying to follow its mother, who hunted hatchling birds.
text: Hatchling nautiluses emerge, after nearly a year's gestation, as miniature adults and then immediately start swimming around, searching for food in the depths.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: A person who has (especially recently) realized that they are transgender.
Derived terms: posthatchling
Related terms: fledgling
nestling
head linesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head linesmen
Senses: examples: text: The head linesman overruled the decision of the linesman.
glosses: The chief, senior or most authoritative of a group of linesmen officiating at a match.
officiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of officiate.
intercostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈkɒs.təl/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈkɔ.stəl/
rhymes: -ɒstəl
Etymology: From inter- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: extracostal
infracostal
intracostal
subcostal
supracostal
glosses: Between the ribs of an animal or person.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Between the ribs of a boat.
Derived terms: intercostally
intercostal space
intercostal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈkɒs.təl/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈkɔ.stəl/
rhymes: -ɒstəl
Forms: form: intercostals
Etymology: From inter- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: intercostalis#Noun
glosses: Any of the intercostal muscles.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Something that is between the ribs of an animal.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Hull reinforcing inserted between frames or bulkheads of a boat.
Related terms: entrecôte
MeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MeVs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of megaelectron volt, 10⁶ eV.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of million electron volts, 10⁶ eV.
Related terms: sense: metricate units
word: eV
sense: metricate units
word: GeV
sense: metricate units
word: keV
sense: metricate units
word: TeV
sense: US units
word: BeV
sense: US units
word: eV
sense: US units
word: TeV
GeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GeVs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of giga-electron volt, 10⁹ eV. A unit used for measuring the energy of subatomic particles.
Synonyms: english: U.S. unit
translation: U.S. unit
word: BeV
Related terms: eV
G-
keV
MeV
TeV
KeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KeV
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of kiloelectronvolt.
TeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TeVs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of teraelectronvolt, 10¹² eV.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of trillion electronvolts, 10¹² eV.
Related terms: sense: metricate units
word: eV
sense: metricate units
word: GeV
sense: metricate units
word: keV
sense: metricate units
word: MeV
sense: US units
word: BeV
sense: US units
word: eV
sense: US units
word: MeV
PeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of peta-electron volt, 10¹⁵ eV.
EeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of exa-electron volt, 10¹⁸ eV.
titrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of titrate
rudiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudiment
mosquitoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosquito.
mosquitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosquito
mosquitos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mosquito
in lieu
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪn.l(j)uː/
Etymology: Shortening of in lieu of (something)
Senses: examples: text: time off in lieu (of overtime pay)
text: paid in lieu as liquidated damages
glosses: instead; in place
Derived terms: word: in-lieu-fee
english: acronym of time off in lieu
translation: acronym of time off in lieu
word: TOIL
Related terms: english: payment in lieu of notice
translation: payment in lieu of notice
word: PILON
english: payment in lieu of taxes
translation: payment in lieu of taxes
word: PILOT
word: rather than
word: stand in
word: substitute
Barclay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.kli/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.kli/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.kleɪ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kli
Forms: form: Barclays
Etymology: Variant of Berkeley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Osage County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename from the surname:
A town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A placename from the surname:
A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland.
glosses: A placename from the surname:
A town in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: A placename from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Falls County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Barclayan
Barclaycard
Barclayite
hit and run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: hit and runs
form: hit-and-run
Senses: examples: text: But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet / And just lay her out in the darkest street / And by morning, she's just another hit and run
ref: 1978, Lou Reed, “Street Hassle”, in Street Hassle:
topics: law
glosses: The crime of causing a traffic collision, and leaving without acknowledging responsibility.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play where the baserunners leave their base before the batter hits the ball, assuming that the batter will in fact hit the ball and this will give them an advantage.
examples: text: It used it as a launching pad of its hit and run attacks against Yugoslavia with the full—though clandestine—support of the Bulgarian Ministry of War and Fascist Italy.
ref: 2002, Samuel Vaknin, Terrorists and Freedom Fighters:
text: In the city centre far from the stadium, what the mayor, Femke Halsema, has described as violent “hit and run” attacks on Israeli supporters by groups of local people took place.
ref: 2024 November 16, Dave Rich, “The violence in Amsterdam showed just how polarising – and radicalising – the Middle East conflict has been”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The tactic of attacking one place and then quickly moving to another before defenders can react.
glosses: Sexual intercourse followed by a prompt departure; a one-night stand.
Derived terms: hit-and-runner
Related terms: sense: military tactic
word: guerrilla warfare
hit and run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: hits and runs
form: hitting and running
form: hit and ran
form: hit and run
form: hit-and-run
Senses: synonyms: hit-skip
glosses: To hit something or someone with a vehicle and leave the scene of the incident.
examples: text: You can't hit and run / I've got to be number one / Better make up your mind / 'Cause you'll never find a love so divine
ref: 1977, Loleatta Holloway, “Hit and Run”, in Loleatta (1977 album):
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse followed by a prompt departure; to engage in a one-night stand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To join a poker game, quickly win several hands, then leave.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: Synonym of pick and pass.
synonyms: word: pick and pass
glosses: To download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g., BitTorrent) without seeding.
examples: text: This manager, in keeping with all other famous managers, believed that batting was the thing which won games. He developed a hard-hitting team. He kept everlastingly at them to hit and run, hit and run.
ref: 1920, Zane Grey, “The Manager of Madden's Hill”, in The Redheaded Outfield:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To leave the base before the batter hits the ball.
Related terms: snatch and run
drive-by
Great White North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great White North
Senses: examples: text: The rite of spring in eastern Canada has begun. Sweet and pure, maple syrup epitomizes the Great White North in all its unspoiled glory.
ref: 2007 March 26, Pamela Cuthbert, “The less sweet side of maple syrup”, in Macleans.ca, retrieved 15 Jun 2008:
qualifier: Michigan
glosses: Canada
inculpatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inculpatory
form: most inculpatory
Senses: glosses: that causes someone to be blamed for something
Synonyms: incriminating
Related terms: exculpatory
main sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main sequences
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A major grouping of stars represented on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram by a nearly uniform band of increasing luminosity with increasing surface temperature.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, sequence.
Derived terms: main-sequence star
pre-main-sequence star
greenstick fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenstick fractures
Senses: glosses: An incomplete fracture of a long bone in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent.
portefeuille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portefeuilles
Etymology: From French portefeuille.
Senses: glosses: An artist's portfolio.
blaccent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblak.sənt/
ipa: /-sɛnt/
enpr: blăkʹsĕnt
ipa: /ˈblæk.sɛnt/
rhymes: -æksɛnt
Forms: form: blaccents
form: blackcent
Etymology: Blend of black + accent
Senses: examples: text: He's black, but doesn't have a trace of a blaccent.
ref: 2003 January 5, Eric Stewart, “the people's kitchen”, in misc.activism.progressive (Usenet):
text: Timberlake has long sought to overcome his whiteness to perfect a "blaccent", as the kids call it these days, and the McDonald's ad campaign explicitly relies on a hiphop idiom.
ref: 2004 February 19, Ben Zimmer, “Is the slogan grammatical?”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
text: 2005 November 15, “Eli” of Michigan, “Lord of The Dance”, The Life of a Swordfish, at swordfish22.spaces.live.com http://swordfish22.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3E0970E9C37CD8E0!497.entry
She spoke with a very thick blaccent...as she screamed "C'mon B!, C'mon B! C'mon B!" (she was quite persistent with this phrase, and used the actual word) "I betta neva see yo A out eating sub sammiches eva again!".
text: 2006 February 8, “Drew” of Philadelphia, “The moral's I'm immortal ”, Trapper Juan, at trapperjuan.blogspot.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061027173921/http://trapperjuan.blogspot.com/2006/02/morals-im-immortal_08.html
Rothlisberger...speaks with a blaccent, which in reality is not that uncommon. The problem is his inconsistency. Sometimes, he lays it on thicker than J. Will haggling at a swap meet
text: The sad thing is that for many people, the blaccent connotes lack of intelligence.
ref: 2009, John McWhorter quoted on, The World:
text: (Mr. McClelland notes the existence of various Midwestern “blaccents,” though he doesn’t explore them.)
ref: 2016 December 4, Jennifer Schuessler, quoting Edward McClelland, “‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ a Heartland Dialect Guide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Black earnings decrease to the extent that one has a perceptible “blaccent.”
ref: 2020 July 21, John McWhorter, “The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The term is making headlines this week after comedian, actress and rapper Awkwafina addressed criticism that she’s used a “blaccent,” or Black accent, and other elements of African American language and mannerisms during her career.
ref: 2022 February 8, “What a ‘blaccent’ is, and why it's wrong”, in CNN:
glosses: An accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans).
Coordinate terms: alt: AAE
word: African-American English
word: African-American Vernacular English
word: Ebonics
anecdata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɪkdeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈænikdætə/
ipa: /-ɾə/
Forms: form: anecdatum
Etymology: Blend of anecdotal + data; also compare this to the plural of anecdote is not data, upon which this term likely plays.
Equally, analysable as a blend of anecdote + data.
Senses: examples: text: A handful of stores, just one mall, not what you'd call a statistically significant sample. In fact, the most recent government report was that retail sales rose in January, which just goes to show why the journalist's approach to reality, what you might call "anecdata," may be the flimsiest form of forecasting.
ref: 1992 March 6, “Guessing Game [show #4285]”, in The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Paul Solman (actor):
text: Anecodotal evidence strongly suggests that this is just the high profile expression of a much larger problem of misogynistic violence. / Ah, yes. Anecdata. Fortunately, real honest studies which are peer-reviewed and critiqued suggest otherwise.
ref: 1997 October 2, Chris Doherty, “Re: Take Back the Night 1997”, in uw.general (Usenet), message-ID <EHFr1r.CpH@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>:
text: That is one of those stories that I call “anecdata”—these horror stories over which we try to construct theories about how something is or is not working in IP law and policy.
ref: 2003, Justin Hughes, “Legal Pressures in Intellectual Property Law”, in Julie M. Esanu, Paul F. Uhlir, editors, The Role of Scientific and Technical Data in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 97:
text: I have read interviews with people (yeah, I know, anecdata) who have said that they wanted an apology for a mistake being made and ended up going to court over it. And invariably winning.
ref: 2005 July 18, Lindsay Endell, “Re: Roy Meadow”, in uk.misc (Usenet), message-ID <dbfuq1$29gg$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>:
text: Metcalfe notes the same general pattern, though he gives no anecdata to support his contention.
ref: 2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: Anecdotal evidence.
Related terms: the plural of anecdote is not data
guesstimate
quietude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪ.t(j)uːd/
enpr: kwī ' ĭ - to͞od
enpr: -tyo͞od
Forms: form: quietudes
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French quiétude, from Late Latin quiētūdō, from Latin quiētus, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“rest”).
Senses: examples: text: But the castle was not destined to remain long in its present quietude. One morning Lord Avonleigh received a packet from London, whose contents filled him with joy...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 169:
text: Stopping steam services on the West Coast line from Brighton are confined to the Horsham push-pull trains, which diverge at Shoreham to seek the rural quietude of Bramber, Steyning, Henfield, and Partridge Green, with a run by the banks of the Adur as a pleasant prelude.
ref: 1947 November and December, B. K. Cooper, “Steam Working in the Brighton District”, in Railway Magazine, page 381:
glosses: tranquility
Synonyms: sense: tranquility
word: peace
sense: tranquility
word: serenity
sense: tranquility
word: tranquility
Related terms: quiet
quietness
sullen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭlʹən
ipa: /ˈsʌlən/
rhymes: -ʌlən
Forms: form: sullens
Etymology: From Middle English soleyn, from Anglo-Norman soleyn (“alone”), from Old French sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: He sit neither with seint Johan, / Symond ne Jude, / Ne with maydenes ne with martires, / Confessours ne wydewes; / But by hymself as a soleyn, / And served on erthe.
ref: c. 1377, William Langland, Piers Plowman, lines 7830–7835:
synonyms: word: loner
word: shut-in
word: aloner
word: anchoret
word: anchorite
word: eremite
word: hermit
word: Miller of Dee
word: monk
word: recluse
word: shut-in
word: solitary
word: sullen
glosses: One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
examples: text: And let them die that age and sullens have;
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 2, scene 1], line 139:
text: If she be not sick of the sullens, I see not the least infirmity in her.
ref: 1632, Philip Massinger, “Act III. Scene IV.”, in The Emperor of the East:
text: [M]y brother […] charged my desire of being excused coming down to sullens, because a certain person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy ran.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 7, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
synonyms: glumps
mope
glosses: Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
sullen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭlʹən
ipa: /ˈsʌlən/
rhymes: -ʌlən
Forms: form: sullens
form: sullening
form: sullened
form: sullened
Etymology: From Middle English soleyn, from Anglo-Norman soleyn (“alone”), from Old French sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English.
Senses: examples: text: The idle man is like the dumb jack in a virginal: while all the other dance out a winning music, this, like a member out of joint, sullens the whole body, with an ill disturbing laziness.
ref: c. 1620, Owen Feltham, “XLVIII. Of Idleness.”, in Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political; republished as Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political, London: Whittaker & Co, 1840, page 128:
glosses: To make sullen.
derro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derros
Senses: examples: text: I sat in the derros′ park in Taylor Square. Knee-deep in drunks and drug addicts, it was called “Fantasy Island” by the cops.
ref: 1989, Kathy Lette, Girls′ Night Out, page 107:
text: He leaned back slightly, a small smile on his face. 'Who's gunna worry about an old derro found dead in the gutter, eh? Sure, someone will find out who you once were, that won't cut any ice neither, you're a nothing now, less than a nobody, a drunken derro, a homeless person.'
ref: 2002, Bryce Courtenay, Matthew Flinders' Cat, published 2006, unnumbered page:
text: “I was thinking of talking to the derro again. He pointed the place out to me to begin with. Perhaps he knows more about it.”[…]By ten-thirty I was down at Martin Plaza, but the derro wasn′t.
ref: 2010, Caroline Brem, Chloë Plays Detective, page 107:
glosses: Alternative form of dero (“homeless person; social derelict”).
margin call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margin calls
Senses: examples: text: In a liquidity crisis, as we have seen all too recently, a sudden tightening of credit sets off a vicious cycle of margin calls that lead to forced sales, which in turn cause asset prices to plunge, and so on.
ref: 2009 August 9, Mark Hulbert, “Buy and Hold, or Buy and Fold. But Don't Waver.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A request by a stockbroker or similar for a client to deposit more money in order to cover losses that have built up in open positions held on margin (rather than having been paid for in full).
Related terms: word: margin-call
once in a blue moon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌns ɪn ə bluː muːn/
Etymology: See blue moon. First use appears c. 1833. See citation below.
Senses: examples: text: We are no advocates for the eternal system of producing foreign operas to the exclusion of the works of English composers, but once in a blue moon such a thing may be allowed.
ref: 1833, J. Lection (publisher), The Athenæum, page 780:
text: [T]ime expanded and space contracted, and the name Blue Moon took on a symbolic meaning, as if the future, so delicately plausible, were of a kind that might happen once in a blue moon only.
ref: 1933, James Hilton, Lost Horizon, published 1973, page 133:
synonyms: word: rarely
word: seldom
word: infrequently
word: scarcely
word: seldomly
word: uncommonly
word: unoften
coordinate_terms: once in a purple moon
glosses: Very rarely; very infrequently.
Related terms: never event
once-in-a-lifetime
Ionian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/
ipa: /aɪˈoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: Ionia + -n
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Hellenic people of that name.
glosses: Synonym of Ionic.
Pertaining to Ionia, the ancient (ca 1100 BC) region including western Asia Minor and the adjacent Aegean Islands occupied by the Ionian people.
topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of Ionic.
Alternative form of Ionic.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating the Ionian mode or scale; the name of the major key in modal theory.
Derived terms: Ionian mode
Ionian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/
ipa: /aɪˈoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Ionians
Etymology: Ionia + -n
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.
Related terms: Ionic
Ionian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/
ipa: /aɪˈoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: the Ionian
Etymology: The origin of the sea’s name is uncertain. The Ionian Sea was believed in the Greek tradition to have been named after Io, who was said to have swum in it. The geological period was named after the Ionian Coast in Italy.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Ionian Sea: A sea in the central and east central part of the Mediterranean.
topics: biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A subdivision of the Pleistocene epoch.
Ionian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/
ipa: /aɪˈoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: The origin of the sea’s name is uncertain. The Ionian Sea was believed in the Greek tradition to have been named after Io, who was said to have swum in it. The geological period was named after the Ionian Coast in Italy.
Senses: glosses: Only used in Ionian Islands.
Ionian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/
ipa: /aɪˈoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Io (“moon of Jupiter”) + -n- + -ian.
Senses: examples: Bagenal, Dowling & McKinnon (2007), Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press, p. 313.
Despite the variations in Ionian vulcanism ...
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Relating to Io, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the asteroid (52) Io.
Ionian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈəʊni.ən/
ipa: /aɪˈoʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Ionians
Etymology: From Io (“moon of Jupiter”) + -n- + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter.
ring system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The combined system or structure formed by all of the rings orbiting a planet
sonic branding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The podcast's intro and outro music, jingles, and sound effects are all part of its sonic branding.
glosses: The design consideration of the sound aspect of a brand's identity.
flyboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps modeled on fly-tipping. See board.
Senses: glosses: Publicizing a real estate agent by putting up fake “sold” or “for sale” signs.
fly-posting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyposting
Senses: glosses: The act of posting posters in prohibited or illegal areas, especially for advertisement purposes
Related terms: flyboarding
fly-pitching
fly-tipping
fly-posting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flyposting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly-post
pulsar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulsars
Etymology: Blend of pulsating + (radio) star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph. By surface analysis, pulse + -ar
Senses: examples: text: Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses.
But a pulsar called PSR J1023+0038, located about 4,500 light-years away from Earth in the Sextans constellation, is even more unusual in that some of the pulses are brighter than others, almost like it’s switching between different modes.
ref: 2023 August 30, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers solve the puzzle of an unusual pulsing dead star”, in CNN:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.
wikipedia: Antony Hewish
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The Daily Telegraph
Synonyms: word: PSR
Hypernyms: neutron star
star
variable star
Hyponyms: word: accretion-powered pulsar
word: gamma pulsar
word: magnetar
word: millisecond pulsar
word: optical pulsar
word: rotation-powered pulsar
english: rotating radio transient
translation: rotating radio transient
word: RRAT
english: soft-gamma repeater
translation: soft-gamma repeater
word: SGR
Derived terms: word: accretion-powered pulsar
word: binary pulsar
word: double pulsar
word: gamma pulsar
word: millisecond pulsar
word: optical pulsar
word: PSR
word: pulsar clock
word: pulsar wind nebula
word: rotation-powered pulsar
word: X-ray pulsar
Related terms: astronomical object
astrophysical object
astrophysical source
celestial object
heavenly body
fly-pitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly-pitch
magnetar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetars
Etymology: Blend of magnet + pulsar. By surface analysis, magnet + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: This signal could be detected with Advanced LIGO-class detectors up to the distance of the Virgo cluster, where ≥ 1 yr⁻¹ magnetars are expected to form.
ref: 2007, S. Dall'Osso, L. Stella, “Newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of magnetar candidates”, in Silvia Zane, Roberto Turolla, Dany Page, editors, Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior, page 119:
text: 2008, W. Becker, F, Haberl, J Trümper, 14: Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193,
The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).
text: One of most mysterious feature[s] of magnetars is their X-ray luminosities, which always exceed the rotational energy loss. Thus, the energy source of the radiation of magnetars is a mysterious question.
ref: 2011, Yukikatsu Terada, Tadayasu Dotani, “The International X-ray Observatiry and other X-ray missions, expectations for pulsar physics”, in Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres, editors, High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and Their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, page 576:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes occur, thought to be the source of some gamma-ray bursts.
Related terms: gamma ray
fly-poster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly-posters
Senses: glosses: A poster, especially for advertisement purposes, put up illegally
glosses: One who posts such posters
Related terms: fly-posting
starquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starquakes
Etymology: Blend of star + earthquake.
Senses: examples: text: Astronomers call the sudden changes in the neutron star starquakes. The energy released in a starquake is enormous and flows out from the star into the space surrounding it. After the 1969 starquake on the Crab pulsar, a wave of energy was seen to flow outwards, rippling through the centre of the Crab Nebula.
ref: 1985, Paul Murdin, Lesley Murdin, New Astronomy, page 131:
text: 2000, Richard I. Epstein, Bennett Link, Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars, Kwong-Sang Cheng H, F, Chau, K. L. Chan, K. C. Leung (editors), Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference, page 96,
Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive matter toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape, and excite precession.
text: 2000, Carl Sagan, Jerome Agel, Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective [new edition of 1973, The Cosmic Connection], page 260,
Should the core be solid, starquakes are expected — a shifting of the matter under enormous stress in the interior of the star. Such starquakes should produce a discontinuous change in the period of rotation of the neutron star. Such changes, called "glitches," are observed.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.
Related terms: corequake
crustquake
earthquake
moonquake
sunquake
pole star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊl stɑː/
ipa: /ˈpoʊl ˌstɑɹ/
Forms: form: pole stars
form: polestar
form: pole-star
Etymology: From pole (“either of the two points on the Earth’s surface around which it rotates; similar points on any other rotating object”) + star, possibly a calque of Latin stēllam polārem (“the Pole Star”).
Senses: examples: text: Polaris is currently the pole star of planet Earth.
text: Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?
ref: 1837 August 31, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete Works; I), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 84:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: polar star
word: pole arctic
glosses: The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet.
examples: text: But it [our hotel] has one great advantage for a stranger, by being in the market place, and the next neighbour of the huge church of St. Nicholas: […] A better pole-star could scarcely be desired.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Satyrane’s Letters. Letter II. (To a Lady.)”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
text: Love was her pole-star. What was Jason's? Only the blankness of despair.
ref: 1889 June–November, Hall Caine, “Strong Knots of Love”, in The Bondman. A New Saga. […], volume II (The Book of Michael Sunlocks), London: William Heinemann, published January 1890, →OCLC, page 118:
synonyms: cynosure
guide star
guiding star
lodestar
glosses: A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre of attention.
Related terms: lodestar
north star
North Star
Damocloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damocloids
form: damocloid
Etymology: From the asteroid 5335 Damocles + -oid.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An asteroid (such as 5335 Damocles) that exhibits long-period, highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets without showing a coma.
Damocloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Damocloid
form: most Damocloid
form: damocloid
Etymology: From the asteroid 5335 Damocles + -oid.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a Damocloid asteroid.
long-period
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of non-periodic.
synonyms: word: non-periodic
Derived terms: longer-period
somber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑmbɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɒmbə/
Forms: form: somberer
form: somberest
Senses: examples: text: My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.
ref: 2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People:
text: Though I wore only a plain somber gray Brunswick gown unadorned by ribbon or lace, and my uncle was dressed in black, the people knew aristocrats on sight.
ref: 2019 October 1, Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
glosses: US standard spelling of sombre.
somber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑmbɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɒmbə/
Forms: form: sombers
form: sombering
form: sombered
form: sombered
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of sombre.
vulcanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanoids
Etymology: From Vulcan + -oid, from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the hypothetical population of small asteroids orbiting in the dynamically stable zone between 0.08 and 0.21 AU from the Sun
vulcanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Vulcan + -oid, from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a vulcanoid.
short-period
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an orbital period of less than 200 years, especially said of comets
Derived terms: shorter-period
jelly bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly beans
form: jellybean
Senses: examples: text: Ronalda had gotten these jelly beans special, from Lenox Square. They were all colors, pink with brown flecks, purple, orange. The flavors had exotic names like Piña Colada and Fig Leaf.
ref: 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 104:
glosses: A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.
Synonyms: jelly egg
Derived terms: word: gourmet jelly bean
word: gourmet jellybean
word: peachy keen jelly bean
word: jellybean
fight shy of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights shy of
form: fighting shy of
form: fought shy of
form: fought shy of
Senses: glosses: To avoid something.
Proverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Proverbs
form: the Proverbs
form: Proverb
form: Prov.
Senses: examples: text: The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study. If you study Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples.
ref: 2005, Greg Hinnant, “May I Recommend the Proverbs?”, in Precious Pearls from the Proverbs, Creation House, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Erman’s remark (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.
ref: 2008, Peter T.H. Hatton, “Unity and Diversity in Proverbs”, in Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs: The Deep Waters of Counsel (Society for Old Testament Study Series), Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
Derived terms: Proverbs woman
diacritical mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diacritical marks
Senses: examples: text: California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
ref: 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
typography
writing
synonyms: diacritic#Noun
diacritical#Noun
glosses: A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.