cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
asymptote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsɪmptoʊ̯t/
ipa: /ˈæsɪmtoʊ̯t/
ipa: /ˈeɪ̯sɪmtoʊ̯t/
ipa: /ˈæsɪmtɒt/
Forms: form: asymptotes
form: asymptoting
form: asymptoted
form: asymptoted
Etymology: circa 1650, from Ancient Greek ἀσύμπτωτη (asúmptōtē), the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' (circa 200 BC) Ancient Greek adjective ἀσύμπτωτος (asúmptōtos, “not falling together”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + συν- (sun-, “together”) + πτωτός (ptōtós, “fallen”).
Senses: examples: 2006: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance
As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.
Cartesian coordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian coordinates
form: Cartesian
form: coördinate
form: Cartesian
form: co-ordinate
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The coordinates of a point measured from an origin along a horizontal axis from left to right (the x-axis) and along a vertical axis from bottom to top (the y-axis). This can be extended to three-dimensions by the z-axis perpendicular to the x- and y-axes.
Synonyms: rectangular coordinates
Related terms: polar coordinates
Euclidian space
rectangular coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Cartesian coordinates.
polar coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar coordinate
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A system of coordinates using such measurements to indicate position.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin, the angle measured from the z-axis to a line joining the point to the origin, and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to this line.
Related terms: Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartesian coordinates
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The coordinates of a point measured as its perpendicular distance to the right of a vertical axis (the y-axis) and its perpendicular distance above a horizontal axis (the x-axis).
Synonyms: rectangular coordinates
goatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊˈtiː/
ipa: /ˌɡoʊˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: goatees
Etymology: From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix), referring to the tuft of hair on the chin of many domestic goats.
Senses: examples: text: One person sports a goatee, the hair refusing to grow on the sides of his physiognomy; the chin of another is as smooth as a baby's cheek,—he contents himself with a modest moustache and a faint attempt at an imperial; while a few of the upper classes rejoice in all the varieties.
ref: 1845 February, “Editors' Table”, in The Williams Monthly Miscellany, volume 1, number 8, page 367:
text: The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.
ref: 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 44:
text: "Yes, sir, behind you. He is a man of middle size, rather inclined to shortness. He is old, over sixty, with white hair, curved nose and a white, small beard of the variety that is called goatee."
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:
coordinate_terms: soul patch
glosses: A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
Derived terms: begoateed
goateed
triumvir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈʌm.və/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈʌm.vəɹ/
Forms: form: triumviri
form: triumvirs
Etymology: A Middle English back-formation from triumvirate.
Senses: glosses: One member of a triumvirate
Related terms: triumviral
decemvir
centumvir
Cascade concrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Because it is characteristic of the Cascades of the Northwestern United States, in particular the lower-elevation regions of Washington, such as Snoqualmie Pass.
Senses: synonyms: chunder
glosses: Wet, heavy and often sticky snow, which makes skiing and snowboarding difficult.
feudalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfju.də.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: [ˈfju.də.lɪ.zm̩]
Forms: form: feudalisms
Etymology: From feudal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.
ref: 1921, Emerson Hough, The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, page 34:
text: The re-emergence of empire was thwarted by immense topographical variety, coastal confolutions, and wide-openness to the east, which made Christendom difficult to organize and defend as a whole from Viking, barbarian and Islamic attacks round its perimeter; by natural temperateness, which rendered large-scale disasters needing widespread rescue of populations rare (Jones 1981); and by the very devolved political system represented by feudalism, which encouraged the fissipation of whatever larger units did develop.
ref: 2003, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, Companion Encyclopedia of Geography, page 212:
glosses: A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion.
Derived terms: antifeudalism
cyberfeudalism
neofeudalism
prefeudalism
protofeudalism
technofeudalism
Related terms: feudal
feudalistic
capitalism
communism
monarchy
peasant
serf
suzerain
vassal
Marxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹksɪzəm/
Forms: form: Marxisms
Etymology: From Marx + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: scientific socialism
glosses: The socialist and communist philosophy and political program founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
glosses: The socialist and communist theory of the followers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism.
glosses: Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
Derived terms: creative Marxism
cultural Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
racial Marxism
Related terms: Marxian
Marxist
capitalism
communism
feudalism
Marxism-Leninism
socialism
yew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /juː/
ipa: /jɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: you
homophone: eau
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
Forms: form: ew
Etymology: From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, assumed to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-.
See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo [both cognates of Old English īw, Old English ēow]; and Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”).
Senses: synonyms: yewen
glosses: Made from the wood of the yew tree.
yew
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /juː/
ipa: /jɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: you
homophone: eau
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
Senses: examples: text: A spinoff, “Major Crimes,” starring “Battlestar Galactica” veteran Mary McDonnell and a number of “Closer” cast members, premieres in August. Sedgwick won’t be among them, swapping Brenda’s syrupy “thank yew” for an upbeat “buh-bye now” to her co-workers.
ref: 2012 July 1, T.L. Stanley, “No more crimes for her to solve”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of you.
Derived terms: hold yew hard
Trotskyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trotsky + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The left-wing political philosophy named after and based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky that is characterized by international socialism, opposition to Stalinism, the theory of permanent revolution and the theory of the vanguard party.
Related terms: Trotskyist
Trotskyistic
Trotskyite
communist
Communist
communism
Communism
Leninism
Maoism
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
triste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪst/
homophone: trist
homophone: tryst
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: more triste
form: most triste
form: trist
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English trist, triste (-e form is less common), borrowed from Old French trist, triste, from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”). Re-borrowed late 18c. (as “dull, uninteresting”) as a French word in English and often spelled triste.
Senses: examples: text: He said, he wanted them to take us to Heraclea that we might be educated so that we would be always good, and could be present with him and mamma although absent in body, which would keep them from feeling sad and lonely. But we could see that mamma and he were very, very triste. This made us sorry. So he talked to us of all you had written of the happiness of the people here, because they were truly good and pure in their love toward each other, without selfish concealments; then we were glad and wanted to be with you.
ref: 1877, R. Elton Smilie, chapter XXIX, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derécho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 399–400:
text: Emmanuel Macron sounded like a man in grief. Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste.
ref: 2025 October 12, Simon Tisdall, “France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: miserable
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
Derived terms: tristeness
tristness
tristeful
tristful
rufous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːfəs/
homophone: Rufus
rhymes: -uːfəs
Etymology: From Latin rūfus (“red”).
Senses: glosses: of a reddish colour
Derived terms: rufous-backed antvireo
rufous-backed fantail
rufous-bellied kookaburra
rufous-bellied tit
rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
rufous bush chat
rufous bush robin
rufous-capped antshrike
rufous-chested sparrowhawk
rufous-collared sparrow
rufous-crowned bee-eater
rufous-crowned sparrow
rufous grasswren
rufous-naped bellbird
rufous-naped tit
rufous owl
rufous scrub robin
rufous-tailed hawk
rufous-tailed rock thrush
rufous-tailed scrub robin
rufous-vented ground-cuckoo
rufous-vented tit
rufous warbler
rufous-winged antshrike
rufous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːfəs/
homophone: Rufus
rhymes: -uːfəs
Forms: form: rufouses
Etymology: From Latin rūfus (“red”).
Senses: examples: text: Partners in Flight — a conservation group that tracks several species of birds, including hummingbirds — estimates that the rufous population is currently 62% smaller than it was in 1966. […] Rufouses are adapting, however, and becoming more willing to use urban feeders and gardens.
ref: 2021, Daniel I. Stein, Attracting Hummingbirds:
glosses: Ellipsis of rufous hummingbird.
glosses: A reddish-brown colour, as of rust.
reis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reises
form: rais
form: ras
Etymology: From Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs, “head, chief, leader”)
Senses: glosses: The holder of an Ottoman military rank akin to that of naval captain.
reis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real
Related terms: milreis
trist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: trists
Etymology: Apparently related to trust.
Senses: glosses: Trust, faith.
trist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: trists
form: tristing
form: tristed
form: tristed
Etymology: Apparently related to trust.
Senses: glosses: To trust, have faith in.
trist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: trists
Etymology: From Old French triste. Compare tryst.
Senses: glosses: A set station in hunting.
examples: text: George Douglas […] caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally.
ref: 1543, anonymous, Howard Papers, letter dated September 1543
qualifier: form of tryst
glosses: (secret meeting).
trist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: more trist
form: most trist
Senses: examples: text: A bitter ſorrow by the hart him bit, / Amas’d, aſham’d, diſgras’d, ſad, ſilent, triſt, [...]
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Thirteenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 29, page 240:
glosses: Alternative form of triste (“sad; sorrowful; gloomy”).
pate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: pates
Etymology: From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).
Senses: examples: text: He had a shiny, bald pate.
text: For his vnhappynes ſhall come vpon his owne heade, ⁊ his wickednes ſhall fall vpon his owne pate.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Psalm vij:[16], folio xiij, recto, column 2:
text: The whole benighted, blooming crew,
The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too,
Are being beaten black and blue
With bottles on the pate.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 167:
glosses: The head, particularly the top or crown.
examples: text: I am reſolued, tis but a thee yeeres faſt:
The minde ſhall banquet, though the body pine,
Fat paunches haue leane pates: and daynty bits
Make rich the ribbes, but banerout quite the wits.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: I thank thee for that ieſt; heer’s a garment for’t:
Wit ſhall not goe vn-rewarded while I am King of this
Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent paſſe
of pate: there’s another garment for’t.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:
glosses: Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
Derived terms: addle pate
baldpate
blockpate
clodpate
crackpot
dunderpate
featherpate
pated
rattlepate
rattlepated
shallowpate
Related terms: capital
pate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈpæt.eɪ/
ipa: /pæˈteɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /peɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: pates
Etymology: Attested since circa 1700, from French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée. Doublet of pâté and patty.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
glosses: The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
Related terms: pasta
paste
patty
patronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpætɹəˈnɪmɪk/
Forms: form: patronymick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) (a variant form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”)). Also patronym + -ic, from patri- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: Derived from one's father.
examples: text: a patronymic denomination
text: I proposed to her that we give our first-born baby a patronymic name.
glosses: Derived from one's ancestors.
Derived terms: patronymically
patronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpætɹəˈnɪmɪk/
Forms: form: patronymics
form: patronymick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) (a variant form of ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”)). Also patronym + -ic, from patri- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: A name acquired from one's father.
examples: text: The use of patronymics arose early in Russia, and they continue to be used down to the present day, through proper surnames came into use in the Middle Ages.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
text: According to the applicant, for many years she had been living as part of a family with her stepfather, mother and half-brother and wanted to associate herself more closely with them by taking the surname of her stepfather and also a patronymic derived from his forename.
On 24 March 2004 the applicant lodged a request with the Civil Status Registration Office in Bila Tserkva (hereinafter “the Registration Office”) seeking to change her patronymic from Volodymyrivna (Володимирівна) to Yuriyivna (Юріївна).
By a letter of 27 March 2004 the Registration Office refused the applicant’s request, referring to the Rules on Civil Status Registration in Ukraine, approved by the Ministry of Justice, which provided that the patronymic of a physical person could only be changed in the event of a change of forename by his or her father.
On 23 April 2004 the applicant challenged this refusal in the Bila Tserkva Local Court. She complained that her patronymic, along with her forename and family name, was part of her full name and she had the right to change it. She maintained that the refusal violated her constitutional rights, was unconstitutional and was not based on law. She further contended that she had good reasons for changing her patronymic - to disassociate herself from her biological father and associate herself more closely with her stepfather and half-brother.
ref: 2013 May 16, European Court of Human Rights, Garnaga v. Ukraine, number 20390/07, marginal 7–10:
glosses: A name acquired from the first name of one's father, grandfather or earlier (male) ancestor. Some cultures use a patronymic where other cultures use a surname or family name; other cultures (like Russia) use both a patronymic and a surname.
Synonyms: patronym
Coordinate terms: matronym
matronymic
metronym
metronymic
teknonym
teknonymic
Related terms: family name
first name
given name
papponymic
surname
autobus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/
ipa: /ˈɔtoʊˌbʌs/
ipa: [ˈɔɾə-]
ipa: /ˈɑtoʊˌbʌs/
ipa: [ˈɑɾə-]
Forms: form: autobuses
form: autobusses
Etymology: From auto- (prefix meaning ‘self’, in the sense of being self-propelled) + bus. Sense 2 (“large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton”) is borrowed from French autobus.
Senses: topics: road
transport
glosses: A motorbus, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
synonyms: groupetto
gruppetto
laughing group
qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
Mercurius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A homeopathic remedy involving mercury.
serene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹiːn/
ipa: /səˈɹin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: serenes
form: serening
form: serened
form: serened
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
Senses: examples: text: The Hoary Froſts, and Northern Blaſts take care / Thy muddy Bev'rage to ſerene, and drive / Præcipitant the baſer, ropy Lees.
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 68:
text: When heaven and earth, as if contending, vye / To raiſe his being, and ſerene his ſoul.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 34, lines 866–867:
glosses: To make serene.
serene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹiːn/
ipa: /səˈɹin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: serenes
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
Senses: examples: text: the serene of heaven
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
text: To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.
ref: 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality:
glosses: Serenity; clearness; calmness.
serene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹiːn/
ipa: /səˈɹin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: serenes
form: serein
form: serena
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French serein, from Old French serein (“evening”), from Vulgar Latin *serānum, from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus (“late”) + -ānus suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Some ſerene blaſt me, or dire lightning ſtrike / This my offending face.
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, Act III, scene vii, signatures H2, recto – H2, verso:
text: ... Nor unwholesome serene shall From the moon's moist influence fall.
ref: 1872 [1636], George Sandys, The Poetical Works of George Sandys: A paraphrase upon the Psalms, page 280:
text: ... to preserve the Brain from the Serenes that fall in hot Countries, and other Injuries of the Air, especially in the Night, […]
ref: 1749, John Lowthorp, THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS AND COLLECTIONS To the End of the Year MDCC: ABRIDGED, And Disposed Under GENERAL HEADS., page 861:
glosses: A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
Euclidean distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euclidean distances
form: euclidean distance
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The distance between two points defined as the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences between the corresponding coordinates of the points; for example, in two-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the Euclidean distance between two points a = (aₓ, a_y) and b = (bₓ, b_y) is defined as
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The distance between two points defined as the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences between the corresponding coordinates of the points; for example, in two-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the Euclidean distance between two points a = (aₓ, a_y) and b = (bₓ, b_y) is defined as:
 d( textbf a, textbf b)=√
d( textbf a, textbf b)=√
Synonyms: Cartesian distance
Related terms: Chebyshev distance
chessboard distance
Manhattan distance
taxicab distance
Cartesian distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian distances
form: cartesian distance
Senses: topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Euclidean distance.
cavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kāʹvē
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.vi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
homophone: cave stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: cavies
Etymology: From obsolete Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat, Makalata armate, Echimys armata”) (modern saviá, sauiá), from Old Tupi saujá.
Senses: synonyms: word: domestic cavy
word: domestic guinea pig
word: guinea pig
word: domestic guinea pig
glosses: Synonym of domestic guinea pig.
glosses: Any rodent in the Caviidae.
Derived terms: acrobatic cavy
caviary
mountain cavy
musk cavy
Patagonian cavy
restless cavy
rock cavy
water cavy
yellow-toothed cavy
chimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: chimps
Etymology: Clipping of chimpanzee.
Senses: examples: text: The chimps in the zoo were making a racket.
glosses: Clipping of chimpanzee.
glosses: A black person.
Derived terms: astrochimp
Chimpcago
Chimpcongo
Chimperor
chimphuman
chimpiness
chimpish
chimpkind
chimplike
chimpling
chimponaut
chimp out
chimpout
chimpy
Chimpy
chuman
hippie chimp
inner chimp
chimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: chimps
form: chimping
form: chimped
form: chimped
Etymology: Clipping of chimpanzee.
Senses: glosses: To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.
glosses: To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.
glosses: Clipping of chimp out.
raw_tags: of black people
chimpanzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪmˈpæn.zi/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pənˈziː/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɪm.pænˈziː/
Forms: form: chimpanzees
form: japanzee
Etymology: The first recorded use of the name chimpanzee dates to 1738.
The name is derived from an unspecified Bantu language of Angola (compare Vili ci-mpenzi), probably brought to the English language via French chimpanzé.
Senses: synonyms: chimp
hyponyms: blackback
silverback
holonyms: chimpkind
glosses: Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.
glosses: A member of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
Derived terms: antichimpanzee
central chimpanzee
ChHV
chimp
Chimpanese
chimpanzee fire
chimpanzeelike
chimpanzoid
chuman
dwarf chimpanzee
humanzee
manpanzee
pygmy chimpanzee
Trumpanzee
daff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: daffs
Etymology: From Middle English daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”), from Old Norse daufr (“deaf, stupid”), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf, stunned”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, whirl, smoke, be obscure”). Doublet of deaf, dof, and dowf. Cognate with Swedish döv (“deaf”), Danish døv (“deaf, stupid”). More at deaf.
Senses: glosses: A fool; an idiot; a blockhead.
Derived terms: bedaff
daffish
daffock
daffy
daff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: daffs
form: daffing
form: daffed
form: daffed
Etymology: From Middle English daffen (“to render foolish”), from daf, daffe (“fool, idiot”). See above.
Senses: examples: text: We'll hauld our court mid the roaring lins, And daff in the lashan' tide
ref: 1820 May, unknown author, “Marmaiden of Clyde”, in Edinburgh Magazine:
text: They admired and loved each other—enjoyed easy circumstances—had duties to discharge which they did not neglect; and, clear in conscience as light of heart, laughed, sung, danced, daffed the world aside, and bid it pass.
ref: 1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:
text: Left thus for long spaces in the company of Betty and the child, that daffed and croddled about her, and even became warmly friendly with me for the sake of my Paris watch and my glittering waistcoat buttons, I made many gallant attempts to get on my old easy footing.
ref: 1898 July, Neil Munro, “John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn”, in The Living Age, volume 218, page 185:
text: As the afternoon progressed, we become 'daffed' out.
ref: 2011, Kevan Manwaring, Turning the Wheel:
glosses: To be foolish; make sport; play; toy.
examples: text: Young Tam came up and eyed me quick With reddened cheek—Braw Tam was daffed like a chick—He could na speak—Ah Marie they are all gane hame
ref: 1818, John Keats, To Thomas Keats:
text: I made out—to put it clearly—that the Sultan had been far gone in his cups when Kiamil appeared before him; that he had called the Basha such 'daffing' names as 'renegade dog,' 'toothless old hound,' 'hound without scent, that could not smell out an intrigue under his nose;' which agreeable epithets doubtless were flung about because Lorimer, and not he, had got wind of the conspiracy of the notables.
ref: 1894, James MacLaren Cobban, The Red Sultan: A Story of Adventure, page 295:
text: "Perhaps, most Elysian of fair ladies, it would be, as one might say, more seemly if I, as a justice of the peace—" Brilliana daffed him down.
ref: 1904, Justin Huntly McCarthy, The Lady of Loyalty House, page 226:
glosses: To daunt.
Derived terms: daffing
daffle
daff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: daffs
form: daffing
form: daffed
form: daffed
Etymology: Variant of doff.
Senses: examples: text: DON PEDRO. I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Such is the record of Scripture. Nor can you daff it aside by saying that local and temporary conditions condemned women to silence and private life.
ref: 1948, CS Lewis, Notes on the Way:
glosses: To toss (aside); to dismiss.
glosses: To turn (someone) aside; divert.
daff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: daffs
Etymology: From daffodil.
Senses: examples: text: Get your daffs here - £2 a bunch.
text: You want a few more daffs on the decani side […]
ref: 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors:
text: Like spending money, it goes with the territory. So if he wants the price of the daffs and the Black Magic returned, why shouldn't we be compensated for having to put up with the less profitable side of romance?
ref: 1999 April 19, Victoria Coren, “I don't love you. PS: you owe me £2.50”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Clipping of daffodil.
daff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: daffs
Senses: examples: text: Thus, there is considerable debate going on among Chaush whether performing daff music is in accordance with Islamic law or not,
ref: 2008, Helene Basu, Journeys and Dwellings, page 299:
text: Some of my interviewees stated that they were surprised that pianists do not include daff parts on recordings of these pieces since the daff dramatically changes the sound of the music, while other interviewees said that they found the sound of the piano and daff together uninspiring.
ref: 2015, Johanna Petsche, Gurdjieff and Music, page 119:
glosses: Alternative form of daf (“type of drum”).
daff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæf/
rhymes: -æf
Senses: glosses: A preparation of gypsum once used to adulterate food products.
David
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪvɪd/
ipa: /ˈdeɪvəd/
Forms: form: Davids
Etymology: From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Latin David, Davidus, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”).
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: Goliath
text: But the essential forces were the American immigrant, the American missionary, the Declaration of Independence, and the ox-team. Those were the champions of America. They were the Davids against the Goliaths of British monopoly.
ref: 1909, William Denison Lyman, The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 185:
text: Will Microsoft rule the alternative to the mass media, the Net? Or, as always before in history, will local Davids arise to challenge the global Goliaths?
ref: 1997, Nathan Gardels, editor, The Changing Global Order: World Leaders Reflect, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, page 191:
text: In their quest for a villain, the media were assisted by politicians who wanted to avoid being put into the slot themselves. On the contrary, they wanted to be portrayed as the underdogs, the democratic Davids fighting the valiant but ultimately hopeless battle against the financial Goliaths.
ref: 2001, Adam Harmes, Unseen Power, Stoddart Publishing, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Our strategy to engage eBay in a war of words had created a lot of media buzz within China. Positioning ourselves as a local David fighting the US Goliath, we intended to educate the market about e-commerce and attract people to Taobao to give consumer e-commerce a chance.
ref: 2015, Porter Erisman, Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 104:
synonyms: little man
glosses: A person or group considered unlikely to prevail; an underdog.
BRB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: brb
Senses: examples: text: @Socrates
Got off lightly, all things considered. They just want me to drink this hemlock stuff. BRB.
8.11am, March 22, 399BC
ref: 2012, Kelvin MacKenzie, Chas Newkey-Burden, The Twitter History of the World, London: John Blake, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Initialism of be right back.
BRB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BRBs
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bevelled-rim bowl or bevel-rimmed bowl (“a small, undecorated, mass-produced clay bowl, most commonly from the 4th millennium B.C.”).
examples: text: To provide a more reliable source of energy dissipation, the concept of Buckling-Restrained Brace (BRB) was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s. Extensive research was since conducted in Japan and a variety of BRBs have been developed.
ref: 2014, Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan, Bridge Engineering Handbook, page 324:
text: Moreover, the outer casing is filled with concrete to ensure BRB components remain separated and prevent composite action. Then, BRB brace is submitted into a concentric braced frame, producing a BRBF system.
ref: 2018, Farzad Hejazi, Keyhan Karimzadeh, Analysis Procedure for Earthquake Resistant Structures, page 234:
text: The damper mega brace system adds an 8% supplemental damping that helps reduce both wind and seismic excitations. The system is made up of three braces in one (Fig. 6.31B): primary BRB brace and two external secondary BRB braces with viscous dampers at the ends (see Chapter 8, Section 8.1.10 for more details about this building).
ref: 2018, Alberto Lago, Dario Trabucco, Antony Wood, Damping Technologies for Tall Buildings, page 464:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of buckling-restrained brace: a structural brace in a building or other structure, designed to allow the building to withstand cyclical lateral loadings.
glosses: Initialism of big red button.
Related terms: sense: buckling-restrained brace
word: BRBF
BRB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: brb
Senses: examples: text: Oh, he can't message you right now. He's BRB.
glosses: The state of being away from one's device while meaning to come back soon.
des
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Desflurane.
des
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of de
ET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ETs
Senses: examples: text: CNN is seeking comment from legal representation for Martin. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET).
ref: 2022 April 4, Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, “All 6 victims killed in the Sacramento mass shooting are identified as police arrest a suspect”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Eastern Time (-5 hours to GMT).
glosses: Abbreviation of extraterrestrial.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of escape tone.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of electron tunneling.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of essential tremor.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of endotracheal or endotracheal tube.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of electronic ticket.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
qualifier: reservation system
glosses: Initialism of end transaction or end of transaction (with "transaction" meaning an amendment in the reservation system in this sense).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: especially drag racing
glosses: Initialism of elapsed time.
Synonyms: topics: time
english: Eastern Daylight Time
translation: Eastern Daylight Time
word: EDT
topics: time
english: Eastern Standard Time
translation: Eastern Standard Time
word: EST
synonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synonym
synonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synonym
granny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: grannies
form: grammy
form: granni
Etymology: From gran(nam) + -y
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to be a granny.
text: Good morning, Granny!
text: Travelling with their granny, who seems more interested in her crossword puzzle than them, they bicker and fight in a futile bid to get her attention. Oh, the joys of travelling during the school holidays!
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
synonyms: word: abuela
raw_tags: in Hispanic contexts
word: baba
word: babcia
raw_tags: in Polish contexts
word: babulya /babulia (chiefly in Eastern European (especially Russian) contexts)
word: babushka
raw_tags: in Russian contexts
word: babusia
raw_tags: in Polish contexts
word: babusya /babusia
raw_tags: in Ukrainian contexts
word: beldame
word: bubbe
raw_tags: in Jewish contexts
word: eldermother
word: eldmother
word: gammy
word: gram
word: gramma
word: grammy
word: gran
word: grandam
word: grandma
word: grandma'am
word: grandmamma
word: grandmammy
word: grandmaw
word: grandmom
word: grandmomma
word: grandmommy
word: grandmother
word: grandmum
word: grandmumma
word: grandmummy
word: Grandmummy
word: grannam
word: granny
word: granum
word: mamaw
word: mamgu
word: mammaw
word: meemaw
word: memaw
word: meme
word: mimi
word: mommom
word: nan
word: nana
word: Nana
word: nanna
word: nanny
word: nonna
raw_tags: in Italian contexts
word: oma
raw_tags: in German contexts
word: sitty
raw_tags: in Arabic contexts
glosses: A grandmother.
examples: text: That granny over there needs your assistance.
synonyms: old dear
glosses: Any elderly woman, regardless of if she has grandchildren.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.
examples: text: The suitcase was old. The brown leather was battered and scuffed. Two hanks of clothesline had been wrapped around it and tied in large, clownish grannies.
ref: 1977, Stephen King, Children of the Corn:
glosses: Ellipsis of granny knot.
Derived terms: granny annexe
granny-bashing
granny cart
granny chaser
granny chic
granny dress
granny dumping
granny farm
granny farming
granny flat
Grannygate
granny gear
granny glasses
grannyish
granny knob
granny knot
granny lane
granny panties
granny-pop-out-of-bed
granny room
granny shot
granny-sit
granny-sitter
granny specs
granny square
granny style
granny suite
granny tax
sun granny
granny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: grammy
form: granni
Etymology: From gran(nam) + -y
Senses: examples: text: granny dress; granny glasses
text: 1965, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Long brown fluffy hair, slightly curled on the ends, black coat, gold buttons, belt around the middle, bare legs, no socks, granny heels, also black, shoulder bag, black, transistor radio.
glosses: Typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women.
Derived terms: granny panties
granny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: grannies
form: grannying
form: grannied
form: grannied
form: grammy
form: granni
Etymology: From gran(nam) + -y
Senses: glosses: To be a grandmother.
glosses: To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.
granny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: grannies
Etymology: From gran(d) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: On the morning of the 'granny', the three Vizards would hop into Godfrey's Dodge and head off towards the MCG.
ref: 2007, Steve Bedwell, Vizard Uncut, Melbourne University Publish, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Jase was controversially suspended and prevented from playing in the granny.
ref: 2016, Brent Harvey, Boomer, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN:
text: "Dad, I got some good news and bad news. Good news is I'll be playing in the granny. Bad news is you'll have to hop on a plane.”
ref: 2020, Marlion Pickett, Dave Warner, Belief, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A grand final.
grannie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: grannies
Senses: examples: text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of granny.
tranny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăʹni
ipa: /ˈtɹæ.ni/
note: US, /æ/ tensing
ipa: /ˈtɹeə.ni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: trannies
form: trannie
Etymology: All are shortened forms of the indicated terms (most of which start with the prefix trans-) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Newton (1972) has indicated that they are professional performers, who carefully do not try to totally pass as women. This is seen as too 'tranny' (transvestite) and possibly offending an audience.
ref: 1976 [1974 April], Mike Brake, “I May Be A Queer, But At Least I am a Man”, in Diana Leonard Barker, Sheila Allen, editors, Sexual Divisions and Society: process and change (Explorations in Sociology), London: Tavistock Publications Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 188:
text: "This is the boys' corner – this block and the next," he says. "Everybody has their territory: males, females, queens, trannies (transvestites) [...]
ref: 1978 September 13, Alan Daniels, “Keeping tabs on the graduates of 52 Water: Teenage runaways”, in The Vancouver Sun, page D2:
text: When I spoke with lesbians, most would tell me, “I don't date trannies. […]
ref: 2018, Roddie Lee Kingsfield, M.Ed., Purple Passionflower: The Path to Becoming a Powerful Trans Peace Warrior, page 56:
glosses: A transgender person, especially a trans woman.
examples: text: He spent most of his time in his darkened storeroom with a tranny and an earplug while his kid ran riot in the classroom.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 135:
text: We talk, and I listen to Radio Luxembourg on my tranny – I have a little earplug, so if any teachers come in they won't hear it.
ref: 2012, Dave Thompson, To Major Tom:
glosses: A transistor radio.
examples: text: Other incidents where the tranny suddenly locks up in high gear and requires that the car be restarted to return to normal.
ref: 2012, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks 2012–2013:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A vehicle's transmission.
glosses: An electrical transformer.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A transition between moves.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A style of skateboarding based on transitioning from one move to the next.
examples: text: Oooh! Gotta go. Jenson Button's just streaked past in a white tranny. I think he's trying to smash the land speed record, bless him. And he's got a tail-light out. I think I might give him a tug.
ref: 2014, Sally Wainwright, 1:49 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Kirsten McAskill (Sophie Rundle):
glosses: A Ford Transit (type of van).
Derived terms: word: roidtranny
word: tranime
word: tranny chaser
word: trannydom
word: trannyism
comprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒm.pɹɪˈhɛn.sɪv/
ipa: /ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/
Forms: form: more comprehensive
form: most comprehensive
Etymology: Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō.
Senses: examples: text: When there are diametrically opposing views on a big issue that concerns millions of people, doing comprehensive research just makes sense.
text: Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.
ref: 2023 August 24, Batchimeg Togoobat, Nan Wu, Xifeng Wang, Mengji Cao, Zhongtian Xu, “Viromic approach reveals differences in the composition, diversity and relative abundance of pumpkin viruses across main growing regions of China”, in Virology, volume 585, →DOI, pages 61-71:
text: So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
glosses: Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
Synonyms: sense: broadly or completely covering
word: exhaustive
sense: broadly or completely covering
word: thorough
sense: broadly or completely covering
word: all-encompassing
sense: broadly or completely covering
word: wide-ranging
sense: broadly or completely covering
word: sweeping
word: across-the-board
word: all around
word: all-embracing
word: blanket
word: broad
word: comprehensive
word: overall
Derived terms: comprehensive distancing
comprehensively
comprehensiveness
comprehensivisation
comprehensivity
comprehensivization
comprehensivize
noncomprehensive
uncomprehensive
Related terms: word: comprehend
word: comprehensible
word: comprehension
word: generic