cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
illiberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illiberal
form: most illiberal
Etymology: From Middle French illibéral, from Latin illiberalis, equivalent to il- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: Behind Europe's commitment to liberal democracy lurks an illiberal tradition. Every time freedom has failed in Europe, it is to that tradition - of violent repression, totalitarianism, xenophobia, and intolerance - that Europeans have reverted.
ref: 2004 December 15, Emanuele Ottolenghi, “Illiberal Europe”, in The Jerusalem Post, →ISSN:
text: Unless the administration compels all workers to invest in life cycle accounts — an illiberal but nonetheless sensible idea — this particular danger cannot be eliminated.
ref: 2005 February 20, “The Risks in Personal Accounts”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, page B06:
glosses: Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
examples: text: Accordingly, that form of Popery, which prevailed in Scotland, was of the moſt bigotted and illiberal kind.
ref: 1781, William Robertson, The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James IV, volume II, page 141:
text: While they maintained a denominational character, they were in nowise illiberal, and set up no religious test for entrance.
ref: 1894, John Marshall Barker, “The Planting of Colleges in the New World”, in Colleges in America, page 29:
glosses: Narrow-minded; bigoted.
examples: text: ...the final offer made on the part of the King was that the Queen should have an allowance of 52,000 pounds a year— not, one would have thought, a very illiberal allowance for the daughter of a small German prince...
ref: 1901, Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy, A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, volume IV:
text: The few who are more fortunate are rendered illiberal by their unjust privileges, and oppressive through fear of the awakening indignation of the masses. From the highest to the lowest, almost all men are absorbed in the economic struggle: the struggle to acquire what is their due or to retain what is not their due.
ref: 1917, Bertrand Russell, “Chapter II: Capitalism and the Wage System”, in Political Ideals:
glosses: Ungenerous, stingy.
examples: text: In the general atmosphere of lawlessness and arbitrariness the final outcome may be less harsh and unpleasant than might at first have been expected — though it can be a lot worse if you are an Albanian "irredentist", for example, or a Croatian "separatist", or if you happen to be undergoing trial and sentence in an illiberal republic like Bosnia or Hercegovina.
ref: 1986, Encounter, volume 66, page 58:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Not adhering to either liberalism or neoliberalism.
Synonyms: sense: restricting freedom from authority
word: bossy
sense: narrow-minded
word: bigoted
sense: miserly
word: stingy
topics: economics
sciences
word: mercantilist
topics: economics
sciences
word: protectionist
topics: economics
sciences
word: procontrol
Derived terms: illiberalise
illiberality
illiberalize
illiberalness
Related terms: illiberally
illiberalism
illiberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illiberals
Etymology: From Middle French illibéral, from Latin illiberalis, equivalent to il- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, illiberals argue that Poorman's privation bestows upon him the inalienable right to receive assets (coercively expropriated from Richman). These same illiberals usually claim to believe that all tranquil citizens have equal rights.
ref: 2014, Stuart K. Hayashi, Life in the Market Ecosystem:
glosses: One opposed to liberal principles.
dead cert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead certs
Etymology: Clipping of dead certainty.
Senses: examples: text: It's a dead cert that United will beat City in the cup.
text: “Jockeys are bad tipsters. But that one was a cert, a dead cert.” A dead cert. The casual, everyday racing expression jabbed in my mind like a needle.
ref: 1962, Dick Francis, chapter 4, in Dead Cert, published 2004, page 46:
text: "Tees Valley is our first target. It's not a dead cert yet, but we are very hopeful.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Clifton, “A hydrogen solution to decarbonisation?”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: A practically guaranteed outcome.
Synonyms: sure thing
sarcastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːˈkæstɪk/
ipa: /sɑɹˈkæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more sarcastic
form: most sarcastic
form: sarcastick
Etymology: Either from sarcasm + -astic or from French sarcastique, from French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmus, ultimately from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós, “sarcasm”), itself from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, literally “meat, flesh”).
Senses: examples: text: a sarcastic quip
text: the teacher's sarcastic tone
text: The unhappy Jew eyed their countenances and that of Front-de-Bœuf, in hope of discovering some symptoms of relenting; but that of the Baron exhibited the same cold, half-sullen, half-sarcastic smile which had been the prelude to his cruelty; […]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The sarcastic bitterness of his conversation disgusted those who were more inclined to accuse his licentiousness than their own degeneracy, and who were unable to conceive the strength of those emotions which are concealed by the jests of the wretched, and by the follies of the wise.
ref: 1850, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Machiavelli:
text: He smiled to himself, and threw a glance of fine sarcastic meaning towards Hepzibah.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: In men’s clubs such celebrations were, though expiring, less uncommon; but either the natural shyness of the softer sex, or a sarcastic attitude on the part of male relatives, had denuded such women’s clubs as remained (if any other did) or this their glory and consummation.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Containing sarcasm.
examples: text: Her eyes slanted a little... and were sometimes full of fiery determination and sometimes dull and opaque. Her expression was never altogether amiable; was often, indeed, distinctly sullen, or, when she was animated, sarcastic.
ref: 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
glosses: Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: word: sarky
word: snarky
Derived terms: word: /s
word: sarcast
word: sarcastically
word: sarcastic fringehead
word: sarchotic
word: sarky
Related terms: ironic
sardonic
snide
banco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in banco, from Latin in banco.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.
Related terms: en banc
banco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bancos
Etymology: From Italian banco. Doublet of banc, bank, and bench.
Senses: examples: text: banco money
text: On account of the great confidence placed on them, payments in banco soon gained a premium on payments in current coin, so that speculation arose on the fluctuating premium.
ref: 1941, Sir John Harold Clapham, Eileen Edna Power, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe:
glosses: A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.
examples: text: Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: In baccarat or chemin de fer, a bet on the banker hand.
bastarda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of simplified Gothic script used primarily in continental Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Related terms: viola bastarda
year to date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: years to date
form: year-to-date
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
management
glosses: The period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.
Synonyms: YTD
Related terms: month to date
cento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centos
form: centones
Etymology: From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).
Senses: examples: text: But, Sʳ, I will no longer tire your patience wᵗʰ these monsters (the subject of every contemptuous pamphlet) then with the madness of the Anabaptists, Quakers, Fift Monarchy-men, and a cento of unheard of heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England, and approach so little to the pretended Reformation, which we in France have been made to believe, that there is nothing more heavenly wide.
ref: 1659, John Evelyn, “A Character of England, as It was Lately Presented in a Letter to a Nobleman of France. […] The Third Edition.”, in William Upcott, compiler, The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, […], London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1825, →OCLC, page 156:
text: Now look out in the Gradus for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus; for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these centos.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Motives of the Present Work—Reception of the Author’s First Publication—The Discipline of His Taste at School—The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 21:
text: And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."
ref: 1915 September 24, Charles A. Graves, “The Forged Letter of General Lee”, in Southern Historical Society Papers, New Series, number 40, page 124:
text: Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.
ref: 2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16:
glosses: A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
Derived terms: centoism
centoist
centonical
centonism
strata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈstɹætə/
ipa: /ˈstɹɑːtə/
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: -ætə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Senses: glosses: plural of stratum
glosses: A stratum.
Derived terms: stratabound
strata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈstɹætə/
ipa: /ˈstɹɑːtə/
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: -ætə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: stratas
Etymology: From strata title.
Senses: examples: text: Learn more about the renting in stratas; some stratas may have rental restriction bylaws. There are also legal requirements for buying and selling strata properties.
glosses: Condominium unit, condominium building, condominium title.
strata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈstɹætə/
ipa: /ˈstɹɑːtə/
rhymes: -eɪtə
rhymes: -ætə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: stratas
form: stratta
Etymology: The bread is layered with the filling to produce strata (layers).
Senses: examples: text: Egg dishes, stratas, and casserole recipes are delicious for breakfast and work well in the slow cooker.
ref: 2014, Slow Cooking for Two (Mendocino Press)
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of layered casserole dish in American cuisine.
Related terms: Strata Florida
centrale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centralia
Etymology: From New Latin centrāle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.
Synonyms: os centrale
cartilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑː.tɪˈlad͡ʒ.ɪn.əs/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹ.təˈlæd͡ʒ.ən.əs/
Forms: form: more cartilaginous
form: most cartilaginous
form: cartilagenous
form: cartilagineous
form: cartiliginous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cartilāginōsus (“full of cartilage, very gristly”), from cartilāgō (“cartilage, gristle”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”); compare French cartilagineux. Equivalent to cartilage + -ous, with modifications made to its morphology.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.
Related to or resembling cartilage.
examples: text: Cartilaginous fish such as the angler fish have a skeletal structure made up of cartilage.
text: [T]here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]
ref: 1692, John Ray, “Of Formed Stones, Sea-shells, and Other Marine-like Bodies Found at Great Distances from the Shores?”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 109:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.
Having a skeleton of cartilage.
raw_tags: of a vertebrate animal
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a tough or fibrous texture, usually in reference to a mushroom stipe.
Derived terms: cartilaginous fish
cartilaginously
fibrocartilaginous
intercartilaginous
intracartilaginous
membranocartilaginous
neocartilaginous
noncartilaginous
osseocartilaginous
osteocartilaginous
precartilaginous
semicartilaginous
subcartilaginous
ignite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭgnīt'
ipa: /ɪɡˈnaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: ignites
form: igniting
form: ignited
form: ignited
Etymology: From Latin ignītus, past participle of igniō, ignire (“to set on fire, ignite”), from Latin ignis (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis, and thus related to Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Lithuanian ugnis, and Russian ого́нь (ogónʹ).
Senses: synonyms: word: inflame
word: kindle
word: alight
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: fire up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: kindle
word: light
word: light up
word: set ablaze
word: set afire
word: set aflame
word: set alight
word: set fire
word: set on fire
word: torch
glosses: to set fire to (something), to light (something)
examples: text: ignite curiosity
text: ignite someone's interest
text: Our observations on the way up had been mixed but the deep, crisp cold of the Peruvian night followed by a crystal clear dawn re-ignited our enthusiasm and sent us scampering across the frozen snow bowl […]
ref: 2005, Mick Fowler, On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya:
synonyms: word: engender
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: to spark off (something), to trigger
synonyms: word: catch fire
word: combust
word: go up in flames
word: catch on fire
word: catch fire
word: combust
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: go up in flames
word: go up in smoke
word: ignite
word: light
word: spunk
word: take fire
glosses: to commence burning.
examples: text: to ignite iron or platinum
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.
Derived terms: ignaqueous
ignited
autoignite
autoigniting
ignitability
ignitable
igniter
ignitible
ignitor
ignitron
reignite
self-ignite
unignited
Related terms: ignition
ignitive
igneous
flog a dead horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flogs a dead horse
form: flogging a dead horse
form: flogged a dead horse
form: flogged a dead horse
form: beat a dead horse
form: flog a dead pony
Senses: glosses: To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period.
Synonyms: spit in the wind
Related terms: necrohippoflagellation
necrohipposadism
arse over tit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I missed the step and went arse over tit.
glosses: Tumbling; falling; upside-down, unstable or unbalanced.
Synonyms: arse over head
arse over teakettle
arse over tip
base over apex
head over heels
Related terms: topsy-turvy
acid house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First appears c. 1988, in the periodical New Musical Express. Likely a reference to acid (“LSD, psychedelic drugs”), influenced by earlier acid rock. See Acid House § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had finally made it into the living rooms of Britain. A nation, encountering for the first time a new music, fashion, and cultural phenomenon, flew into another drug-obsessed moral panic.
ref: 1989 January, Sean O'Hagan, “Acid House”, in SPIN, SPIN Media LLC, page 64:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: acid
hypernyms: house music
coordinate_terms: Hi-NRG
glosses: A style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.
wikipedia: Acid_house#Etymology
New Musical Express
Derived terms: acid jazz
flogging a dead horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flog a dead horse.
Bernoulli effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bernoulli effects
Etymology: After Daniel Bernoulli.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In a flowing fluid, the occurrence of what is stated by Bernoulli's principle.
wikipedia: Daniel Bernoulli
Bernoulli's principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), who published this principle.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The principle which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in static pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
wikipedia: Daniel Bernoulli
sloping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
Forms: form: more sloping
form: most sloping
Senses: examples: text: a sloping roof
text: The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return
ref: 1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Having a slope.
Derived terms: slopingly
slopingness
sloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slope
sloping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊpɪŋ
Forms: form: slopings
Senses: glosses: An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.
tanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more tanned
form: most tanned
Senses: examples: text: You're looking very tanned.
text: tanned bodies lying on the beach
text: Dressed always in jeans, a loose long sleeved top and large brimmed straw beach hat [...] she stood out from the tanned seasoned locals.
ref: 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 120:
glosses: Having a suntan.
glosses: Finished, made using tannic acid (as opposed to abrasion).
raw_tags: of leather
Derived terms: fake-tanned
permatanned
tanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tan
Synonyms: tan
lah-di-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɑːdiːˈdɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: more lah-di-dah
form: most lah-di-dah
form: la-di-da
form: lah-de-dah
form: la-de-da
form: lardy-dardy
Etymology: c. 1880s, with a comeback in the 1980s due to its use in Annie Hall (1977) by Woody Allen, although in a different context, spoken by the actress Diane Keaton.
Senses: glosses: Of or from the upper class of society.
examples: text: She was all la-di-da, with her nose in the air, and we were all struggling not to laugh because that would be gauche.
synonyms: word: pretentious
word: snooty
word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
glosses: Affecting upper-class or superior airs.
lah-di-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɑːdiːˈdɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: la-di-da
form: lah-de-dah
form: la-de-da
form: lardy-dardy
Etymology: c. 1880s, with a comeback in the 1980s due to its use in Annie Hall (1977) by Woody Allen, although in a different context, spoken by the actress Diane Keaton.
Senses: examples: text: Well, lah-di-dah, mister Park Avenue manicure.
glosses: Expression of disdain for pretension or haughtiness.
glosses: Not a care in the world. (used in a sing-song voice, for childhood rhymes)
Related terms: ooh la la
curved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːvd/
ipa: /kɝːvd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vd
Forms: form: more curved
form: most curved
Senses: examples: text: These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for newer airbraked wagons.
ref: 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37:
text: CREST - Out of a wreath or & azure, an Indian King's head in profile proper, crowned or, with high cap curved forward gules having at the point a small bell.
ref: 1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 110:
glosses: Having a curve or curves; curving.
Synonyms: sense: having a curve; for two-dimensional shapes
word: bent
sense: having a curve; for two-dimensional shapes
word: hooked
sense: having a curve; for three-dimensional shapes
word: rounded
sense: having curves
word: curvy
sense: having curves
word: sinuous
sense: having curves
word: tortuous
sense: having curves
word: wavy
Derived terms: curved edge
curvedly
curvedness
curved woodrush
decurved
downcurved
hypercurved
incurved
noncurved
precurved
procurved
retrocurved
uncurved
undercurved
upcurved
curved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːvd/
ipa: /kɝːvd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curve
lucre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈl(j)uː.kə/
ipa: /ˈluː.kɚ/
rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English lūcre, lucor, lucour, lucur (“gain in money, profit; money; wages; illicit gain; advantage, benefit”), from Old French lucre or Latin lucrum (“advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“gain, profit”) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).
Senses: examples: text: A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach; / Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous; […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 3:2–3:
text: By-ends and Silver-Demas both agree; / One calls, the other runs, that he may be / A ſharer in his lucre; ſo theſe two / Take up in this World, and no further go.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 145:
text: When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" for he, in such case, manifestly sells not only the use of his talents, but his sincerity into the bargain, and drives a traffic as nearly allied to soul-selling as any thing in this world can be; […]
ref: 1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14:
text: […] [I]t's only fair that you should pocket the lucre. I've had my share already.
ref: 1884 December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Body Snatcher”, in Pall Mall Christmas “Extra”, London, →OCLC; republished as “The Body-snatcher”, in The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: The Black Arrow; The Misadventures of John Nicholson; The Body-snatcher, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895, →OCLC, page 421:
glosses: Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Synonyms: mammon
Derived terms: filthy lucre
Related terms: lucrative
lucratively
lucrativeness
Lucretia
Lucretius
lucriferous
lucrific
pellucid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/
ipa: /pɛ-/
ipa: /pəˈlusɪd/
Forms: form: pellucids
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin pellūcidus, perlucidus (“transparent, pellucid; very bright; very understandable”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘through; throughout; completely, thoroughly’) + lūcidus (“clear; full of light, bright, shining; (figuratively) easily understood, clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; to become visible, show through; (figuratively) to be apparent, conspicuous, or evident”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Late Latin pellucidum (“transparent substance”)
* Middle French pellucide (modern French pellucide (“pellucid”))
Senses: examples: text: A Pellucid is not ſeen, but percieved^([sic]) by the privation of Colour. So vve ſee not Air in Air, VVater in VVater, Glaſs in Glaſs, and every Pellucid in an equal Pellucid; and becauſe vve knovv they are not coloured, vve count them to be diaphanous, viz. that may be ſeen, or ſhone thorough.
ref: 1729, [Johann Jacob Hainlin], “Of the Vision of Pellucidity or Shining through”, in Venterus Mandey, transl., Synopsis Mathematica Universalis: Or, A Brief System of Mathematics, […], [3rd] edition, London: […] A. Ward, […], →OCLC, paragraph 1, page 686:
text: The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light radiating from one certain point, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids.
ref: [1735?], Herman Boerhaave, “Being a Delineation of the Theory. [Of Stones.]”, in [anonymous], transl., Elements of Chemistry. Being the Annual Lectures of Hermann Boerhaave, M.D. […], volume I, London: […] J. Clarke […], and S. Austen […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Something which allows the passage of light; a translucent or transparent object.
Sahara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈhɑːɹə/
ipa: /səˈhɑɹə/
ipa: /səˈhɛɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
rhymes: -ɛəɹə
Forms: form: the Sahara
form: Zaara
Etymology: From Arabic صَحَارَى (ṣaḥārā, “deserts”).
Senses: synonyms: Zaara
coordinate_terms: Nubian Desert
glosses: A desert in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.
Derived terms: Saharan
Sahara pump theory
Saharo-
sub-Sahara
ace in the hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aces in the hole
Etymology: From stud poker in which there is one unknown card called the "hole card", referring to the optimum "hole card" being an ace.
Senses: examples: text: Our ace in the hole left our opponents stupefied; it isn't every day that an NBA star plays street basketball.
text: You didn't think I'd risk losing the battle for Gotham's soul in a fistfight with you? No. You need an ace in the hole. Mine's Harvey.
ref: 2008 July 14, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight, spoken by The Joker (Heath Ledger), Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Legendary Pictures:
glosses: Synonym of ace up one's sleeve.
synonyms: word: ace up one's sleeve
all the way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We're with you all the way on this issue.
text: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: The train was the 3 p.m. from Waterloo, which, doubtless because of the coal crisis, had been mercilessly pared down to no more than eight vehicles—[…]—and as a result of this drastic treatment passengers were standing all the way to Templecombe.
ref: 1951 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:
text: I'm a dyke (butch, all the way) and would like to correspond with a fem lesbian who is tender, fine, smart, witty and all the way into loving other women.
ref: 1981 April 4, Robin Jackson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
synonyms: in every way
coordinate_terms: in a way
to an extent
to some extent
glosses: Completely, as much as possible; in full; to the end or full extent.
examples: text: “Two dogs and a burger all the way, hold the onions on the burger; coming right up.”
ref: 2011, Al Thomas, Quiet Places of the Heart, page 35:
text: I wedged my way into the crowd and up to the counter. All I had to do was catch Janice's eye. She'd bring me the usual, two hot dogs all the way, and a steaming pack of artery-clogging fries.
ref: 2017, Jane Tesh, Baby, Take A Bow:
synonyms: with the works
glosses: With every typical condiment or topping; with every available one.
raw_tags: of food
Derived terms: go all the way
against all odds
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Against all odds, the inexperienced new player won the tournament.
text: But, against all the odds, one company is still alive and most definitely kicking.
ref: 2022 February 9, Ben Jones, “Batteries included for future shunters”, in RAIL, number 950, page 54:
glosses: Despite seemingly insurmountable opposition or probability.
Synonyms: against all expectations
contrary to all expectations
across the board
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: across-the-board
Etymology: Originated with horse racing, where an "across the board" bet was one which covered first, second and third on the betting board.
Senses: examples: text: […]in favor of a straight across-the-board salary increase[…]
ref: 1949, United States Congress Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Hearings:
text: A common technique (variously known as an emergency brake or meat axe budgeting) used by governments is across-the-board cuts;
ref: 1983, A. Premchard, Government Budgeting and Expenditure: Theory and Practice:
text: Chile provides the region's best example of a country that has successfully reformed its core public administration across the board.
ref: 1998, Shahid Javed Burki, Guillermo Perry, Beyond the Washington Consensus: Institutions Matter:
glosses: Pertaining to all categories or things.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Having an equal amount staked on a competitor placing first, second, or third.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Of a move or sequence of play, made in response to developments occurring in the game, as opposed to pre-planned or according to theory.
brrr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brr.
Derived terms: go brrr
all over hell's half acre
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We came back outside and the neat pile of leaves we had raked had been blown all over hell’s half acre.
glosses: All over the place; everywhere.
mucho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːt͡ʃoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish mucho. Unrelated to English much.
Senses: examples: text: Seemed like the real thing, only to find / Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
ref: 1978, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie, Chrysalis Records:
text: There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.
ref: 1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Much; a great deal of.
mucho
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːt͡ʃoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish mucho. Unrelated to English much.
Senses: examples: text: And this makes sense because, as with Burchill, Amis’s philosemitism is quasi-sexual and mucho ridiculous.
ref: 2014 November 7, Hadley Freeman, “God save us from the philosemitism of Burchill, Amis and Mensch”, in The Guardian:
glosses: very
walk of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walks of life
Senses: examples: text: Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.
text: Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.
ref: 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82:
glosses: An occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle.
Related terms: lifepath
way of life
gradient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/
rhymes: -eɪdiənt
Forms: form: gradients
Etymology: From Latin gradiēns, present participle of gradior (“to step, to walk”).
Senses: glosses: A slope or incline.
examples: text: Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.
ref: 1950 November, H. P. White, “The Furka-Oberalp Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 767:
glosses: A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.
raw_tags: of a function
topics: sciences
glosses: The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field φ: ∇φ
glosses: A gradual change in color; a color gradient; gradation.
Synonyms: sense: slope
word: hill
sense: slope
word: incline
sense: slope
word: ramp
sense: slope
word: slope
sense: slope
word: grade
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
sense: ratio of rates of change
english: of a line
translation: of a line
word: slope
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
sense: ratio of rates of change
word: angular coefficient
Coordinate terms: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
sense: differential operator
word: curl
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
sense: differential operator
word: divergence
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
sense: differential operator
word: viscid
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
sense: differential operator
word: viscous
Derived terms: chemogradient
countergradient
downgradient
electrogradient
enterogradient
extragradient
gradient descent
gradientless
gradiently
gradient post
gradient wind
intergradient
microgradient
multigradient
nanogradient
nongradient
pressure gradient
pressure gradient force
ruling gradient
subgradient
supergradient
temperature gradient
thermogradient
upgradient
gradient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/
rhymes: -eɪdiənt
Etymology: From Latin gradiēns, present participle of gradior (“to step, to walk”).
Senses: examples: text: movable and Gradient Automata
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: Moving by steps; walking.
examples: text: the gradient line of a railroad
glosses: Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
glosses: Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
homoepitaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From homoepitaxial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Having the same orientation.
homoepitaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoepitaxies
Etymology: From homo- + epitaxy.
Senses: glosses: The process of depositing an epitaxial layer on a substrate of the same kind of material.
aircrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aircrews
Etymology: From air + crew.
Senses: examples: text: The aircrew ran to the bomber.
glosses: A group of two or more trained individuals, formed as a team that operates an aircraft.
Derived terms: aircrewman
epitaxial layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitaxial layers
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that a high temperature anneal in Ar, H₂, or high vacuum is a well established pre-epitaxial growth step by which a native oxide film is removed to obtain a good quality epitaxial layer[…].
ref: 1994, D. M. Lee, D. Ruprecht, D. Hymes, W. Huber, “Surface Characterization of Heat Treated Silicon Wafers”, in H[oward] R. Huff, W. Bergholz, K[ōji] Sumino, editors, Semiconductor Silicon/1994: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Silicon Materials Science and Technology (Electronics Division Proceedings; 94-10), The Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 241:
glosses: In semiconductor fabrication: a single crystal layer formed on top of a single crystal substrate.
airdrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airdromes
Etymology: Alteration of aerodrome; by surface analysis, air + -drome.
Senses: examples: text: They landed at the airdrome.
text: Reports were common of a Sino-British agreement for British co-operation in the economic development of South China, including British financing of a railway in Hainan, the establishment of an airdrome on Tungsha Island southeast of Hongkong, an oil depot in the Sesha Islands southwest of Hainan, and the development of mines in South China.
ref: 1940, Irving S. Friedman, British Relations With China: 1931-1939, Institute of Pacific Relations, →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: A location where aircraft are operated, usually having a runway and maintenance facilities.
Synonyms: aerodrome
airfield
landing field
Related terms: word: airbase
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: air base
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: airport
word: helidrome
ingestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛstʃən
Forms: form: ingestions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ingestionem, accusative of ingestio (“a pouring in”), action noun of the perfect passive participle of ingerere (“pour in”), from in- (“in, into”) + gero (“to carry, to bear”).
Senses: glosses: The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
glosses: The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
examples: text: The common modes of ingestion in forensic settings are oral ingestion, injection, and smoking
ref: 2022, Suzanne Bell, Forensic Chemistry, page 339:
glosses: Any intake of a substance into an organism.
examples: text: Ingestion is the first step of your big data pipeline. You will have to onboard the data in your instance of Spark, whether it is in local mode or cluster mode.
ref: 2020, Jean-Georges Perrin, Rob Thomas, Spark in Action, Second edition, Shelter Island: Manning, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Intake of data into a computer system.
Derived terms: avian ingestion
bird ingestion
coingestion
ingestional
postingestion
preingestion
reingestion
erythema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɹɪˈθiːmə/
ipa: /ˌɛɹɪˈθimə/
ipa: /ˌɛɹəˈθimə/
ipa: /ˌeɹɪˈθiːmə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: erythemas
form: erythemata
Etymology: From New Latin erythēma, from Ancient Greek ἐρύθημα (erúthēma, “a redness or flush on the skin”), from ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Senses: glosses: Abnormal redness and inflammation of the skin, due to vasodilation.
glosses: Skin redness from sunburn or chemical irritation
Derived terms: erythema ab igne
erythema dyschromicum perstans
erythema infectiosum
erythemal
erythema migrans
erythema nodosum
erythemato-
erythematous
erythemic
Related terms: erysipelas
erythemogenic
erythrocyte
erythronium
erythrophobia
ulerythema
hyperemia
plethora
rash
secretagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkɹiː.təɡ.ɒɡ/
ipa: /sɪˈkɹiː.təˌɡɑɡ/
Forms: form: secretagogues
Etymology: From secrete + -agogue.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A substance which promotes secretion of another, such as a hormone (e.g., insulin), saliva, or lymph.
Hyponyms: insulinogogue
sialogogue
bail bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bail bonds
Senses: glosses: A surety, used to obtain the release of a criminal defendant who has been required to give bail.
Related terms: bail bondsman
just deserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒʌst dɪˈzɜːts/
ipa: /dʒʌst dəˈzɚts/
Senses: examples: text: It may appear that they're getting ahead by cheating, but they'll get their just deserts in the end.
glosses: A punishment or reward that is considered to be what the recipient deserved.
Synonyms: payback
poetic justice
comeuppance
just rewards
Related terms: desert principle
get one's fairing
get what's coming to one
have it coming
serve someone right
postal address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postal addresses
Senses: glosses: The address (of a person or business) to which mail is delivered, as distinct from the actual street address.
Related terms: PO box
post office box
RMB
street address
nouveau riche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/
ipa: /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/
ipa: /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: nouveaux riches
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
Senses: examples: text: You must find your opening at Paris. I wish you to spend a year in the capital, and live, not extravagantly, like a nouveau riche, but in a way not unsuited to your rank, and permitting you all the social advantages that belong to it.
ref: 1873, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter VII, in The Parisians, book III:
text: Twenty-four hours later we were both in the vast halls of the Winter Palace in full uniform, as bedizened with gold as a nouveau riche’s drawing-room.
ref: 1921, Lord Frederic Hamilton, Here, There And Everywhere:
synonyms: parvenu
arriviste
neo-rich
antonyms: vieux riche
nouveau pauvre
glosses: New money; wealthy persons whose fortunes are newly acquired, and who are therefore perceived to lack the refinement of those who were raised wealthy.
Derived terms: new nouveau riche
Related terms: nouveau
nouveau riche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnuː.vəʊ ˈɹiːʃ/
ipa: /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹiʃ/
ipa: /ˌnu.voʊ ˈɹɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French nouveau riche (literally “new rich”).
Senses: examples: text: Her supreme charm was the simplicity that comes of taking it for granted that people are born with carriages and country-places: it never occurred to her that such congenital attributes could be matter for self-consciousness, and she had none of the nouveau riche prudery which classes poverty with the nude in art and is not sure how to behave in the presence of either.
ref: 1899, Edith Wharton, “A Cup of Cold Water”, in The Greater Inclination:
glosses: Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.
coefficient of friction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coefficients of friction
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio between (1) the magnitude of the force of friction which a surface produces on an object (moving along the surface or being pressed statically against it) and (2) the magnitude of the normal force which is produced by the surface on the object and which is perpendicular to that surface.
Synonyms: word: COF
proteinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊtiːnˈjʊɹiə/
Forms: form: proteinurias
Etymology: From protein + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: hypoproteinuria
glosses: The presence of protein in the urine (which is always true in small amounts); and usually, more specifically, an excess (hyperproteinuria).
Related terms: hyperproteinemia
hypoproteinemia
microproteinemia
microproteinuria
normoproteinemia
normoproteinuria
proteinemia
albuminuria
aminoacidemia
aminoaciduria
hyperalbuminuria
hyperaminoacidemia
hyperaminoaciduria
microalbuminuria