cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
poormouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poormouths
form: poormouthing
form: poormouthed
form: poormouthed
form: poor-mouth
form: poor mouth
Etymology: From poor + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand one does not want to arrive “poor-mouthing it” in some outrageous turtleneck and West Eighth Street bell-jean combination, as if one is “funky” and of “the people.”
ref: 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: To claim to be poor.
Related terms: cap in hand
pop-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of popeyed.
popeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more popeyed
form: most popeyed
form: pop-eyed
Etymology: From pop + eyed.
Senses: examples: 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K. Wilson, Sharpe, Chapter 4, p. 88,
From behind large and sinister-looking frames her popeyed gaze—it could be from hyperthyroidism—swept over us.
glosses: having bulging eyes
examples: text: Files of women passed balancing vegetable baskets on their heads, and pop-eyed children who stared at the Europeans.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 11”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: astonished
poppa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpə/
rhymes: -ɒpə
Forms: form: poppas
Etymology: Alteration of papa.
Senses: glosses: father, papa.
popularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popularizations
form: popularisation
Etymology: From popular + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something popular to the general public.
Derived terms: popularizational
Related terms: popularize
populism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: populisms
Etymology: From Latin populus + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.
examples: text: It is not crass populism or majoritanianism that ratifies the legitimacy of the polity or the administration.
ref: 2006, Prasanta Chakravarty, Like Parchment in the Fire, page 104:
glosses: The practice of appealing to the interests of the common people.
Derived terms: ecopopulism
left-wing populism
neopopulism
penal populism
pseudopopulism
punitive populism
right-wing populism
sadopopulism
technopopulism
Related terms: populist
demagoguery
people's party
porosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porosities
Etymology: From porous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
ref: 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
synonyms: porousness
glosses: The state of being porous.
glosses: A measure of how porous a material is; the ratio of the volume of pores to the total volume
Derived terms: imporosity
macroporosity
mesoporosity
microporosity
nanoporosity
nonporosity
porphyritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From porphyrite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to porphyry.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing large crystals in a fine mass of material.
Derived terms: nonporphyritic
semiporphyritic
throw dirt enough, and some will stick
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: This proverb dates from c1650, and was popularised by Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] in the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: 1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at https://web.archive.org/web/20060903061313/http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/letters/1766.htm on 14 Oct 06.
I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'
text: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,
But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.
text: Archbishop Whately used to say ‘Throw dirt enough, and some will stick;' well, will stick, but not, will stain. I think he used to mean ‘stain,' and I do not agree with him.
ref: 1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics, published 1994, page 10:
glosses: If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.
gids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gid
stupefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stupefy
stupefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stupefy
Derived terms: stupefyingly
stupefying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stupefying
form: most stupefying
Senses: examples: text: Detectives on Thursday arrested and charged a man and his girlfriend who they allege were running an illegal prostitution racket involving sexual slavery, the administration of "stupefying drugs" and secret filming of the girls with clients.
ref: 2021 February 6, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, page 4, column 1:
glosses: That causes stupefaction.
stupefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stupefy
stupefied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stupefied
form: most stupefied
Senses: examples: text: One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIII:
glosses: Experiencing stupefaction.
glosses: Experiencing the influence of an ingested mind-altering substance.
Synonyms: intoxicated
Related terms: stupefiedness
stupefyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stupefyingly
form: most stupefyingly
Etymology: From stupefying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stupefying manner.
stupefier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stupefiers
Etymology: From stupefy + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that stupefies.
stupefiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stupefier
stupefiedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stupefied + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being stupid.
the other place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.
glosses: Hell
examples: text: [W]e all trooped from our end of the building to the House of Lords - which I'm told, for some reason, we must never refer to by name. We have to call it 'another place' or 'the other place'[.]
ref: 1999, Gyles Brandreth, chapter 3, in Breaking the Code:
qualifier: parliamentary
glosses: the other house of a bicameral legislature (used by members of one house when speaking in their own house); in the UK, the House of Lords seen from the House of Commons or vice versa; in Canada, the Senate seen from the House of Commons or vice versa.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: University of Cambridge
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: University of Oxford
Related terms: another place
the other body
replying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reply
responsively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more responsively
form: most responsively
Etymology: From responsive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a responsive manner.
responsiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒnsɪvnɪs/
Forms: form: responsivenesses
Etymology: From responsive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Cell-mediated immunity is impaired after burn injury, including documented delays in allograft rejection, impairment in mitogenic and anogenic responsiveness of lymphocytes, burn-size-related suppression of graftversus-host activity, suppression of delayed cutaneous sensitivity tests, and diminution of peripheral lymphocytes and thoracic duct lymphocyte concentration.
ref: 1999, Seymour L. Schwartz, “Burns” (chapter 7), in Principles of Surgery, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, page 234:
text: Altogether, the present data show that the Toxoplasma-induced hypermigratory phenotype in a 3D matrix is consistent with integrin-independent amoeboid DC migration with maintained responsiveness to chemotactic and chemokinetic cues.
ref: 2015 September 26, “Infection by Toxoplasma gondii Induces Amoeboid-Like Migration of Dendritic Cells in a Three-Dimensional Collagen Matrix”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality or state of being responsive.
examples: text: The responsiveness of my old PC is nearly zero!
glosses: The ability of a machine to adjust to external influences.
Derived terms: bioresponsiveness
chemoresponsiveness
electroresponsiveness
hyperresponsiveness
hyporesponsiveness
mechanoresponsiveness
nonresponsiveness
photoresponsiveness
radioresponsiveness
thermoresponsiveness
Related terms: responsivity
sayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sayer
sayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sayers
Etymology: From say + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who says; one who makes announcements; a crier.
Derived terms: boomsayer
doomsayer
gainsayer
meh-sayer
naysayer
smooth-sayer
soothsayer
southsayer
withsayer
yeasayer
Sayer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sare
form: Sear
Etymology: Of multiple origins, including an occupational surname for a sawyer, or an assayer of metals, or a seller of serge cloth ( Middle English say), or a sewer.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation common in Sussex.
stottie cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stottie cake
scallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scally
glosses: plural of scallie
snecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneck
snecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sneck
step on a rake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps on a rake
form: stepping on a rake
form: stepped on a rake
form: stepped on a rake
Senses: glosses: To step on the tines of a garden rake, causing the handle of the rake to rise from the ground rapidly, striking the person walking in the face.
examples: text: Our President [Franklin Roosevelt] stepped on a rake last week, and the handle hopped up and hit him in the eye. He then blamed the press for leaving the rake lying around.
ref: 1939, Editor & Publisher, volume 72, page 3:
text: We passed this revolving door legislation here. We have done several things we thought were to tighten the system so that we would obviate any other scandals or improprieties. It was sort of like stepping on a rake here — this thing flies up and hits you in the face. We thought we had done a pretty good job.
ref: 1988 June 29, William L. Dickinson, Hearings before the full committee and the Acquisition Policy Panel, Committee on Armed Service (US House of Reps.), page 26:
text: Ever since Patrick Jenkin as Environment Secretary attempted a modest revision of Green Belt policy - and suffered on his own admission an experience equivalent to stepping on a rake in long grass - politicians have been wary of suggesting even minor modifications to this well established symbol of post-war British planning.
ref: 1990 April 27, “The rake awaits”, in The Planner: journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, volume 76, number 16, page 3:
text: But having seen Wall Street step on a rake time and time again when it comes to incriminating e-mails and villainous characters, you can be fairly confident that Liborgate is going to be just as big a hit in the U.S. as it was abroad.
ref: 2012 August 16, Kevin Roose, “The Libor Scandal Is About to Hit Home”, in Intelligencer:
text: Major League Baseball has displayed a unique ability to step on a rake in recent years, with a championship team marred by a cheating scandal and a sudden change in the performance of its baseballs that the league has been unable to explain.
ref: 2020 July 6, Scott Stinson, “Scott Stinson: The MLB could have come out on top of COVID-19. Instead, it's descending into chaos”, in National Post:
text: Looking at the team's schedule to this point reveals signs of progress followed immediately by stepping on a rake.
ref: 2023 March 9, Evan Michealson, What to make of a weird Timberwolves team, 20223, page 9:
glosses: To fall victim to an avoidable (usually self-caused) hazard or error.
Related terms: rake-stepping
rakestomping
fogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: foggers
Etymology: From fog + -er.
Senses: glosses: The outlet at the end of a hose which is designed to atomize, spray, or mist the contents flowing through the hose. Typical use includes gaseous materials such as nitrous oxide in automotive applications, as well as fuels for turbine engines.
glosses: A device that generates artificial fog or smoke for stage performances.
glosses: A device that releases an insecticidal mist.
examples: text: A beggarly fogger.
ref: 1614, Terence in English:
text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who fogs; a pettifogger.
Synonyms: sense: device that generates artificial fog or smoke
word: fog machine
sense: device that generates artificial fog or smoke
word: smoke machine
Derived terms: roach fogger
Related terms: fuel injection
fogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: foggers
Etymology: Perhaps from fodderer.
Senses: examples: text: Describing a fogger's (cattle feeder) work on a winter day, he concludes that […]
ref: 1953, William James Hyde, The English Peasantry in Contemporary Novels, 1815-1900, page 226:
glosses: A person employed to feed cattle.
precognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːkɒɡˈnɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌpɹikɑɡˈnɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹikɔɡˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: precognitions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French precognition or its source, Latin praecognitio, from praecognōscō (“to know beforehand”). Doublet of Germanic-based foreknowledge and Greek-based prognosis. Equivalent to pre- + cognition.
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.
examples: text: ‘But it seems there are some strong presumptuous proofs against you, and I came to warn you this day that a precognition is in progress, and that unless you are perfectly convinced, not only of your innocence, but of your ability to prove it, it will be the safest course for you to abscond, and let the trial go on without you.’
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.
Synonyms: word: clairvoyance
word: foreknowledge
word: anticipation
word: foresight
word: precognition
word: prescience
Derived terms: precognitive
Related terms: word: cognition
word: clairvoyance
word: gut feeling
word: intuition
word: sixth sense
word: divination
word: oracle
word: precognitive
word: predict
word: prediction
word: predictor
reverse discrimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In one instance, Title VII authorizes reverse discrimination. The act gives employers ranging from Minnesota wild-rice farmers to New Mexico electronics manufacturers the option of hiring only American Indians.
ref: 1965 July 9, “Statutes: Sex & VII”, in Time:
text: Alan Bakke at the University of California At Davis Medical School, Karen Hopwood at the law school of the University of Texas, and Jennifer Gratz at the University of Michigan all have argued successfully in court that they were the victims of reverse discrimination because blacks were given preferential treatment in the admissions process at these schools.
ref: 2002, “Why Affirmative Action Does Little Harm to White Students”, in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, number 36, page 21:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: The policy or practice of discriminating against members of a designated group which has in the past unfairly received preferential treatment in social, legal, educational, or employment situations, with the intention of benefiting one or more other groups (such as racial, disabled, or gender groups) that have previously been discriminated against.
Related terms: word: action
word: counterdiscrimination
word: positive discrimination
word: reverse bigotry
word: reverse racism
worsest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1868 "The Temptations of St Anthony" in "Bentley's Miscellany" - Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith
But a laughing woman, with two bright eyes, is the worsest devil of all.
glosses: superlative form of bad: most bad; worst.
Alecia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, one of the modern variants of Alicia.
Toltec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toltecs
form: Toltec
Etymology: From Spanish tolteca, from Nahuatl tōltēcah, plural of tōltēcatl (“inhabitant of Tollan”), from Tōllān + -catl.
Senses: glosses: A member of a pre-Columbian Native American people who dominated much of central Mexico between the 10th and 12th centuries AD.
Synonyms: Tolteca
Related terms: Tollan
Toltecan
Tula
ralphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ralphie
Tula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Tula, from Classical Nahuatl Tōllān (“place of bulrushes”), from tōllin (“bulrush”) + -tlān.
Senses: glosses: A city in Hidalgo, Mexico, near the remains of the Toltec city Tollan.
Related terms: Tollan
Tula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Ту́ла (Túla).
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia, 165 km south of Moscow.
glosses: An oblast in western Russia.
Derived terms: Tula metal
Tula work
if need be
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: if needs be
Etymology: Need is a noun, be a subjunctive. Perhaps an alteration of Old English phrases like ġif þearf bēo, literally “if need be.” That phrase would have been completely unidiomatic, equivalent to “if a need exists” or “if there is a need.” This is because (1) Old English had no indefinite article, (2) the word for "to be" was also the default word for "to exist" and translates the modern phrase "there is," and (3) the subjunctive mood was much more common and often translates the Modern English indicative.
Senses: glosses: If necessary; if there is a need.
wikipedia: Old English
Related terms: needs must
radgepackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radgepacket
get stuck into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets stuck into
form: getting stuck into
form: got stuck into
form: got stuck into
Senses: examples: text: 1998, Gary McKay, In Good Company
After pulling our boat up the beach there wasn’t much to do but collapse onto the sand and get stuck into some serious drinking.
text: But although some timber for the house was eventually delivered, he never got around to the building stage. ‘I′ll hire some help and we'll get stuck into it,’ he would say, but the only thing he ever got stuck into was his vodka.
ref: 2002, Gary Nash, The Tarasov Saga: From Russia through China to Australia, page 232:
text: 2005, David Else & Oliver Berry, Lonely Planet: England
If you really want to get stuck into a bit of archaeology, check out the Archaeological Resource Centre ...
glosses: Get busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.
examples: text: Dinner's ready! Quick, get stuck into it!
text: She took a big slurp of wine, and then we all got stuck into the food.
ref: 2007, Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, page 92:
text: ‘And get stuck into your breakfast, or I will be forced to relieve you of at least one of those splendid pork sausages.’
ref: 2009, Robert Rankin, Retromancer, unnumbered page:
text: Then get stuck into one of the char-grilled steaks, the sesame-encrusted tuna, or slow-cooked lamb shank.
ref: 2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer's South Africa, unnumbered page:
glosses: To start eating.
examples: text: Why are you getting stuck into me all of the sudden? I didn't do anything!
text: My dad′s getting stuck into me at the moment. He doesn′t think my English is good enough.
ref: 2003, Alasdair Duncan, Sushi Central, page 16:
text: Discussion, as Jackson notes, was lively, ‘with the union (through Cleary and Aarons) getting stuck into management and we getting stuck into them’.
ref: 2006, Kenneth Stanley Inglis, Whose ABC?: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983-2006, page 157:
text: 2009, James Roy, Town, Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 22,
Of course there are some kids who get stuck into him, and sometimes that′ll make him curl up like a poked snail. But they don't do that very much anymore, because most of the other kids get stuck into them when that happens.
glosses: To criticise someone; tell off; to get angry at; to attack.
annihilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annihilators
Etymology: From annihilate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who annihilates.
qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: That ideal of R whose elements yield zero when multiplied by the given element (or; by the elements of the given subset) of M.
raw_tags: of an element (or subset) of an R-module M
Derived terms: annihilator method
family annihilator
annotator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annotators
Etymology: From annotate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who annotates.
Coordinate terms: annotatrix
Derived terms: interannotator
annuitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annuitants
Senses: glosses: The recipient of an annuity.
Derived terms: nonannuitant
anointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anointments
Etymology: From anoint + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of anointing with oil or other liquids.
examples: text: French Socialists gathered recently in the Loire Valley for a weekend of debate that turned into the virtual anointment of Anne Hidalgo, the charismatic and divisive mayor of Paris, as their candidate for next year’s presidential election.
ref: 2021 September 2, Roger Cohen, “The French Left Is in Disarray, but Here Comes Anne Hidalgo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2021:
glosses: An official nomination.
Derived terms: reanointment
anorectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəˈɹɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more anorectic
form: most anorectic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνόρεκτος (anórektos, “without appetite”), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὀρέγω (orégō, “to desire”).
Senses: examples: text: […]cultural historians would trace the impact of the drug across a wide spectrum of popular culture, from the Mods of Britain to the new anorectic chic of the fashion world as exemplified by models like Twiggy.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “White Light, White Heat”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 160:
synonyms: anorexic
coordinate_terms: hyporexic
glosses: Characterised by a lack of appetite, especially as suffering from anorexia nervosa.
examples: text: anorectic agents
text: anorectic drugs
glosses: Causing a loss of appetite.
Derived terms: anorectically
nonanorectic
subanorectic
anorectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəˈɹɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: anorectics
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνόρεκτος (anórektos, “without appetite”), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὀρέγω (orégō, “to desire”).
Senses: glosses: A person suffering from anorexia nervosa; an anorexic.
examples: text: stimulants and anorectics
glosses: A drug or dietary supplement that reduces the appetite so as to promote weight loss.
antiabortion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiabortion
form: most antiabortion
form: anti-abortion
Etymology: From anti- + abortion.
Senses: examples: text: Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.
ref: 1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:
text: The news reporters tell us that conservatives are antiabortion, anti–gun control, antidiversity, antienvironment, antieverything.
ref: 2001, Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, page 182:
synonyms: pro-life
anti-choice
glosses: Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
Derived terms: antiabortionist
anti-abortionism
Related terms: proabortion
antiabortionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiabortionists
form: anti-abortionist
Etymology: From antiabortion + -ist or anti- + abortionist.
Senses: antonyms: abortionist
glosses: One who is opposed to the practice of abortion, or to it being legal.
Synonyms: word: antichoicer
word: fetus fetishist
word: forced-birther
word: pro-lifer
word: right-to-lifer
Related terms: proabortionist
sadder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæ.də/
ipa: /ˈsæ.dɚ/
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:
glosses: comparative form of sad: more sad
saddest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sad: most sad
antiaircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-aircraft.
antiaircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiaircraft
form: antiaircrafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-aircraft.
antipersonnel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-personnel
Etymology: From anti- + personnel.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Designed to kill soldiers.
Synonyms: word: AP
Derived terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: AP
Related terms: armor-piercing
armour-piercing
anti-tank
antitank
anywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛniˌwaɪz/
Etymology: From any + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In any case.
Synonyms: sense: in any case
word: anyway
aphasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈfeɪzək/
/əˈfeɪ̯zɪk/
Forms: form: more aphasic
form: most aphasic
Etymology: From aphasia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: ... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength ...
ref: 1954, Kingsley Amis, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim:
topics: medicine
sciences
speech-pathology
glosses: Affected by, or pertaining to, aphasia.
Derived terms: aphasically
aphasic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈfeɪzək/
/əˈfeɪ̯zɪk/
Forms: form: aphasics
Etymology: From aphasia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
speech-pathology
glosses: One who is afflicted by symptoms of aphasia.
astrophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: But many important astrophysical and atomic processes involving hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe and in stars, give off ultraviolet light.
ref: 2020 October 15, Dennis Overbye, “Stuart Bowyer, Astronomer Who Lent His Ear to the Cosmos, Dies at 86”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
Derived terms: astrophysically
geoastrophysical
massive astrophysical compact halo object
astronomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astronomic
form: most astronomic
form: astronomick
Senses: synonyms: astronomical
glosses: Pertaining or relating to astronomy.
glosses: Of very large or immense proportions; colossal.
Synonyms: astronomical
Derived terms: astronomically
astronomic refraction
Related terms: astronomy
astronautics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astronaut + -ics.
Senses: glosses: Navigation through space.
hypernyms: aerospace
glosses: The science and technology of space flight.
Derived terms: bioastronautics
Related terms: aeronautics
astronaut
astronautic
astronautical
cosmonautics
astronautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to astronautics.
Derived terms: astronautically
bioastronautic
Related terms: aeronautic
astronaut
astronautical
astronautics
astrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: astrologists
Etymology: From astrology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: So the king sent his painters to Moses and they brought back a picture of him. The king called his phrenologists and astrologists and asked them, "What kind of man is this?"
ref: 1971, David Rapaport, “The Autonomy of the Ego”, in Glenn T. Morris, editor, Dimensions of Psychology, page 5:
text: According to Accurso, there is evidence that advice from astrologists had no effect on Hitler's actions.
ref: 1982, The Jewish Digest, volume 28, page 37:
text: 2003, Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, The Islamic Ruling on Horoscopes, in The Friday Bulletin: The Muslim News Update, Issue 29, Part 184, Muslim Media Network, Kenya, page number not shown,
Not only is the practice of astrology Haram, but also visiting an astrologist and listening to his predictions, buying books on astrology or reading one's horoscope are also forbidden!
glosses: One who practices astrology; an astrologer.
astringency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹɪn.dʒən.si/
Forms: form: astringencies
form: astringence
Etymology: astringent + -cy
Senses: glosses: An astringent taste.
glosses: That which acts as an astringent, causing contraction of soft tissue to restrict the flow of blood.
Derived terms: deastringency
asphyxiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æsfɪksiˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: asphyxiations
Etymology: From asphyxiate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Death due to lack of oxygen.
glosses: An acute lack of oxygen.
Derived terms: autoasphyxiation
Related terms: asphyxia
ascendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascendent
form: most ascendent
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll true and frutefull Natvrall Philosophie, hath A double Scale or Ladder, Aſcendent and Deſcendent, aſcending from experiments to the Inuention of cauſes; and deſcending from cauſes, to the Inuention of nevve experiments; Therefore I iudge it moſt requiſite, that theſe tvvo parts be ſeuerally conſidered and handled.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 24, verso:
text: Without some power of persuading or confuting—of defending himself against accusation, or in case of need, accusing others—no man could possibly hold an ascendent position.
ref: 1850, George Grote, “The Drama—Rhetoric and Dialectics—The Sophists”, in History of Greece, volume VIII, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part II (Continuation of Historical Greece), page 463:
glosses: Archaic spelling of ascendant.
ascendent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascendents
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey ſay that Jeſus in his natiuitie, had for his aſcendent, the ſigne of Virgo in her firſt face, as they terme it, […]
ref: 1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “A Solution of the Obiections of the Heathen ageinst Iesus, the Sonne of God”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 619:
text: At my Nativity, my aſcendent vvas the earthly ſigne of Scorpius, I vvas borne in the Planetary houre of Saturne, and I think I have a piece of that Leaden Planet in me.
ref: 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The Second Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 11, page 164:
text: [T]here can be no reaſon yeilded neither in nature, nor in relation, vvherefore, if it have lavvfully mounted thus high, it ſhould not be a Lordly aſcendent in the horoſcope of the Church, from Primate to Patriarch, and ſo to Pope.
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Prelaty was Not Set Up for Prevention of Schisme, as is Pretended, or if It were, that It Performes Not what It was First Set Up for, but quite the Contrary”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 25:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Archaic spelling of ascendant.
ascertainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæsəˈteɪnəbl̩/
ipa: /ˌæsɚˈteɪnəbl̩/
Forms: form: more ascertainable
form: most ascertainable
Etymology: From ascertain + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For example, when regulation prevents a developer from building rental property, the value of existing or reasonably ascertainable leases represents an opportunity cost of the prohibition to the developer.
ref: 1990, Harold N. Skelton, “Houses on the Sand: Takings Issues Surrounding Statutory Restrictions on the Use of Oceanfront Property”, in Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, volume 18, number 1, page 144:
text: The easily ascertainable fact, they point out, is that what they feel is not anger toward parents speaking Lennon's name, but only contempt for the few so ignorant of cultural history that they think it was John Lennon, instead of Paul McCartney, who sang "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
ref: 1991 March 23, Russell Baker, “Facing the Music”, in The New York Times, page 23:
text: The real responsibility, the reasons behind the assassination, were still in dispute half a century later. But even events that are less crucial are still often incompletely ascertainable.
ref: 1991, Robert Conquest, “A Letter to a Soviet Historian”, in Academic Questions, volume 4, number 4, →DOI, page 38:
glosses: Able to be ascertained.
Derived terms: ascertainability
ascertainableness
ascertainably
nonascertainable
unascertainable
ascertainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascertainments
Etymology: From ascertain + -ment.
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Senses: examples: text: the ascertainment of facts
text: You have a great Worke to doe, to restore Religion and Law, upon which depends the Kings re-enthronement, and re-investure with his just rights, the Parliaments ascertainment of their just power and equall Priviledges, and the peoples restorement to their known Liberties and Properties […]
ref: 1647, anonymous author, A Letter Really Written by a Moderate Cavallier to an Intelligent and Moderate Independent of Trust and Credit in the Now Marching Army, London, page 6:
text: […] Mr. Pope himself appears to me […] now and then to have imagin’d Proprieties, or cover’d Defects with a seeming View rather to the Honour of his Author at all Events, than to the precise Ascertainment of Truth.
ref: 1758, William Hawkins, Tracts in Divinity, volume 2, Oxford, page 321:
text: […] I judged it proper that there should be an exact ascertainment of my legal rights by the decree of a court of justice,
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Bride of Lammermoor, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 15:
text: […] does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which shall bind the smallest things with the greatest?
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 151:
text: […] what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.
ref: 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 22, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 3, page 266:
text: The ascertainment of death takes place in the chapel, rather than in the room where he died, and his body is immediately placed inside the coffin.
ref: 2025 April 21, Devin Watkins, “Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88”, in Vatican News:
glosses: The act of ascertaining.
Derived terms: misascertainment
underascertainment
ascribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascribable
form: most ascribable
Etymology: From ascribe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]
ref: 1999, Felix Speiser, Ethnology of Vanuatu, page 211:
text: The Soviet Union apparently took the U.S.— Japanese political-military alliance quite seriously—probably more seriously than we might imagine. The Soviet Union’s reluctance to return the Northern Territories to Japan, even at the expense of the bilateral relationship, is ascribable to the global confrontation between the USSR and the United States.
ref: 2000, Hiroshi Kimura, “Basic Determinants of Japanese-Soviet Relations”, in Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: Able to be ascribed.
nyems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nyem
netties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netty
examples: text: The dissemination of information through this newsgroup is substantial, but most netties do not subscribe to alt.drugs, and they make up only a small fraction of the general public.
ref: 1991, al...@peg.pegasus.oz.au, “WoD: Disseminate the Facts”, in alt.activism (Usenet):
text: We are making a series about how the information revolution as they call it is revolutionising the way we live in Wales. We want to see people, either indivduals or communities who are turning the technology to their advantage.
ref: 1995, Donal Elsted, “Welsh netties for TV!!”, in alt.cd-rom (Usenet):
glosses: plural of nettie
Christianities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This book constitutes the record of an intellectual development over a decade that was crucial in my scholarship, a decade that... with arguing for the ongoing creative interaction of nascent Christianities and Judaisms throughout the late antique period, and even beyond.
ref: 2003, Daniel Boyarin, Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics, page vii:
text: This dichotomy represents the two different though intimately related Christianities that coexist uneasily within each other.
ref: 2001, Steven Fanning, Mystics of the Christian Tradition, page 1:
text: Few other system builders who focused upon the social order within the Judaisms and Christianities of the first three centuries of the common era sustainedly and systematically asked political questions at all.
ref: 1991, Jacob Neusner, Rabbinic Political Theory: Religion and Politics in the Mishnah, page 173:
glosses: plural of Christianity
handyman's special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handyman's specials
form: handyman special
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
real-estate
glosses: A house that is sold at a reduced price because it requires extensive repairs or renovations.
Related terms: fixer-upper
Judaisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Daniel Boyarin, Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics, (2003) p. vii.
This book constitutes the record of an intellectual development over a decade that was crucial in my scholarship, a decade that... with arguing for the ongoing creative interaction of nascent Christianities and Judaisms throughout the late antique period, and even beyond.
Jacob Neusner, Rabbinic Political Theory: Religion and Politics in the Mishnah (1991) p. 173.
Few other system builders who focused upon the social order within the Judaisms and Christianities of the first three centuries of the common era sustainedly and systematically asked political questions at all.
glosses: plural of Judaism
Hinduisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But it then follows that if Hindus think and say that there is Hinduism, and act to uphold it, then there is a Hinduism, or more probably several Hinduisms.
ref: 2003, Lloyd Ridgeon, Major World Religions, page 13:
text: There are so many Hinduisms that no single Hindu could speak for the entire tradition.
ref: 1995, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger, Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes, page 23:
text: It is no surprise then to find that Hinduism is really a sort of federation of Hinduisms.
ref: 1977, Ninian Smart, The Long Search, page 27:
glosses: plural of Hinduism
didi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दीदी (dīdī, literally “an elder sister, used as a form of respect”).
Senses: glosses: A respectful term of address to any familiar older female.
hyperpnea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpneas
form: hyperpnoea
form: hyperpnœa
Etymology: From hyper- + -pnea.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Deep and rapid respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders.
Synonyms: polypnea
Derived terms: hyperpneic
anti-imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antiimperialist
Etymology: From anti- + imperialist.
Senses: glosses: Against imperialist ideals and practices.
anti-imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-imperialists
form: antiimperialist
Etymology: From anti- + imperialist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes imperialism.
anti-imperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-imperialisms
Etymology: From anti- + imperialism.
Senses: glosses: Any belief or practice which opposes imperialism.
Coordinate terms: Third-Worldism
nationalism
anxiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anxiousnesses
Etymology: From anxious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being anxious.
glosses: A feeling of anxiety.
aphelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfiː.lɪ.ə/
ipa: /æpˈhiː.lɪ.ə/
ipa: /əˈfi.li.ə/
ipa: /əˈfil.jə/
ipa: /æpˈhi.li.ə/
ipa: /æpˈhil.jə/
homophone: Ophelia (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -iːliə
Etymology: From aphelion + -a (plural form of the suffix -on).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: plural of aphelion
apologia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæp.əˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ə/
Forms: form: apologias
form: apologiae
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “speech in defense of a position”). Doublet of apology.
Senses: examples: text: Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages.
ref: 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface:
text: “Gone With the Wind” was published in 1936, and despite heroic efforts over the last seven decades to transform it into something else, the novel stands as an apologia for the Old South — […]
ref: 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The apologia his [Gabriel García Márquez] sons contribute at the beginning of the book is unconvincing, and their final excuse is particularly hard to swallow:[…]
ref: 2024 March 16, Chris Power, “Unfinished business”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 11:
synonyms: apology
apologism
glosses: A written defense of a position or belief.
Related terms: apologeticism
apologetics
apologist
apologize
antiquarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiquarianisms
form: antiquitarianism
Etymology: From antiquarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Study or love of antiques.
glosses: Study or love of antiquity.
examples: text: We cannot tell if we're facing "nonsense" words that she's coining afresh or obsolete, Old English antiquarianisms from before the standardization of spelling.
ref: Jeffrey Jullich, Review of Bed Hangings by Susan Howe, Electronic Poetry Review #2. Retrieved on October 30, 2006
glosses: Archaism.
Synonyms: antiquarism
Related terms: antiquarianist
apelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apelike
form: most apelike
Etymology: From ape + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The Nomad has his very house set on wheels; the Nomad, and in a still higher degree the Ape, are all for “liberty;” the privilege to flit continually is indispensable for them. Alas, in how many ways, does our humour, in this swift-rolling self-abrading Time, shew itself nomadic, apelike; mournful enough to him that looks on it with eyes!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter V, Permanence”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
text: Nor, had he questioned himself, is it to be doubted that he would have admitted that he was far more closely allied to these people and their life than to the Parisian friends whose ways, apelike, he had successfully mimicked for a few short months.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 130:
text: "In heaven's name, what is it?" he asked. "We have been asked not to photograph it. Possibly the light would infuriate it. The command through the medium was definite. We can only say that it is either an ape-like man or a man-like ape."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Similar to an ape in appearance or behaviour.
glosses: Given to servile imitation.
bafflectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: bafflectomies
Etymology: Blend of baffle + vasectomy.
Senses: glosses: The removal of baffles from stock motorcycle exhaust canisters.
khurma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khurmas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ख़ुरमा (xurmā).
Senses: glosses: An Indian dessert made of fried dough coated in sugar.
Related terms: sheer khurma
non-governmental organisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-governmental organisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-governmental organization.
Related terms: Red Cross
Afeefa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic عَفِيفَة (ʕafīfa).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
anicteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + icteric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: without jaundice.
chavelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chavel