cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eastward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈist.wɚd/
ipa: /ˈiːst.wəd/
Forms: form: more eastward
form: most eastward
Etymology: From Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Situated or directed towards the east.
Derived terms: eastwardmost
eastward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈist.wɚd/
ipa: /ˈiːst.wəd/
Forms: form: more eastward
form: most eastward
Etymology: From Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards the east.
Derived terms: eastwardly
eastwards
fleam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: fleams
form: phleam
Etymology: From Middle English fleme, fleom, from Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a Proto-Germanic source (compare Old Saxon flēma, Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, Old English flȳtme (“fleam, lancet”)), borrowed from Vulgar Latin fletoma, *fletomus, from Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon). Compare French flamme, Dutch vlijm, German Fliete, Danish flitte (“fleam”). Doublet of phlebotome.
Senses: examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein
glosses: A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
Hypernyms: sense: sharp instrument
word: lancet
Derived terms: fleam saw
fleam tooth
fleamy
fleam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: fleams
form: fleem
Etymology: From Middle English fleem, flem (“the rushing of water; current”), probably from Old English flēam (“fleeing; flight; rush”), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“stream; current; flood”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; flow; run”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk flaum (“flood”).
Senses: glosses: The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
glosses: A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it
Related terms: word: fleme
word: Flemish
eastwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From east + -wards.
Senses: glosses: eastward.
eastwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eastwardly
form: most eastwardly
Etymology: From eastward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Towards the east.
qualifier: Blowing
glosses: from the east.
eastwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eastwardly
form: most eastwardly
Etymology: From eastward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In or from an easterly direction.
cognizance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg'nĭzəns
ipa: /ˈkɒɡnɪzəns/
ipa: /ˈkɑɡnɪzəns/
ipa: /ˈkɔɡnɪzəns/
enpr: kŏ'nĭzəns
ipa: /ˈkɒnɪzəns/
Forms: form: cognizances
form: cognisance
form: cognizaunce
Etymology: From Middle English conysaunce, from Old French conysance (“recognition," later, "knowledge”), from Old French conoissance (“acquaintance, recognition; knowledge, wisdom”), from conoistre (“to know”), from Latin cognōscō (“know”), from con- (“with”) + gnōscō (“know”). By surface analysis, cogniz(e) (a back-formation) + -ance.
Senses: glosses: An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house.
examples: text: Poor Lady Rotheles was really so imprudent on the late occasion of her niece's elopement as to go into a passion, and to utter such a tirade against her, her lord was roused from his habitual, but not natural listlessness, and became, in consequence, master of sentiments and secrets hitherto most commendably concealed from his cognizance.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 244:
text: As soon as he had left, he rushed to the screen and drew it back. No; there was no further change in the picture. It had received the news of Sibyl Vane's death before he had known of it himself. It was conscious of the events of life as they occurred. The vicious cruelty that marred the fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared at the very moment that the girl had drunk the poison, whatever it was. Or was it indifferent to results? Did it merely take cognizance of what passed within the soul?
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 8, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
glosses: Notice or awareness.
glosses: Jurisdiction.
Derived terms: claircognizance
cognizant
cognize
incognizance
noncognizance
precognizance
gud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good.
Derived terms: git gud
keep shtum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːp ʃtʊm/
Forms: form: keeps shtum
form: keeping shtum
form: kept shtum
form: kept shtum
form: keep schtum
form: keep stumm
Senses: examples: text: If I tell you, you have to promise to keep shtum about it.
text: Charlie Blüthner is the shmatte king of Panama, and he wouldn't be where he is today if Benny hadn't kept shtum for him just like you did for me.
ref: 1996, John le Carré, The Tailor of Panama, London: Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0-340-68478-8; republished New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-345-42043-5, page 104
text: His only chance of survival was to keep schtum. His only way of saving the others was to keep schtum and the only chance of actually keeping schtum was not to be around to do any talking. He must escape. Now.
ref: 2010, M. T. McGuire, chapter 62, in Few Are Chosen (K'Barthan Series; part 1), United Kingdom: Hamgee University Press, →ISBN:
text: This evening, at a thinly attended meeting of the parliamentary party, Jim Sheridan demanded to know why ministers were interfering in the strike by the BA cabin crew – both Andrew Adonis and Gordon [Brown] denounced the strikers over the weekend. 'How have we got ourselves into this situation?' asked Ken Purchase, pointing out that there had been two ballots, the last of which came out 80 per cent in favour of strike action. 'We should either be keeping shtum or back the workers.'
ref: 2010, Chris Mullin, Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005–2010, London: Profile Books, →ISBN:
text: And I would plead that the situation is not unusual. It's just one of those things you're supposed to keep shtum about.
ref: 2012, Kevin Barry, Dark Lies the Island: Stories, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Reggie is another one who keeps shtum about things. But one Christmas, when I was over here and called in to wish them seasonal good cheer, we had a few whiskies and he got loquacious.
ref: 2013, Ann Granger, Bricks and Mortality (Campbell and Carter Mystery; 3), London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: Not tell anyone; especially, keep silent about something that may be sensitive or secret.
wikipedia: United States Office of War Information
Related terms: mum's the word
fucking A
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌ.kɪnˌeɪ/
Forms: form: fuckin' A
form: fuckin'-A
form: fuck an A
Etymology: The first attestation in print is from 1947, in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel The Naked and the Dead, wherein Mailer wrote "’You’re fuggin ay,’ Gallegher snorted.”, but the origin of the term certainly predates said usage; it is probable that Mailer was familiar with an extant phrase. The origin is thought to be a clipped form of fucking affirmative, a U.S. Army phrase from the early twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: A: "We won!"
text: B: "Fucking A!"
text: Here is an anecdote from the writer Patricia Highsmith: "Not so long ago I said to a friend of mine: 'If I saw a kitten and a little human baby sitting on the curb starving, I would feed the kitten first if nobody was looking.' My friend said: 'I would feed the kitten first if somebody was looking.'" I would too, Patricia.
Some people seem shocked and say, "You care more about animals than you do about humans!" Fuckin'-A well told!
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:
text: Amanda De Santa: You are such a fucking animal. A deranged animal! / Michael De Santa: You're fucking-A right I'm deranged!
ref: 2013 September 17, Rockstar North, w:Grand Theft Auto V, w:Rockstar Games, w:Playstation 3, level/area: Reuniting the Family:
glosses: An expression of triumph or joy, usually in response to unexpected good news. Upper Midwest usage differs, and is used in a negative respect.
wikipedia: The Naked and the Dead
classer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classers
Etymology: From class (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who classes or classifies
Derived terms: woolclasser
wool classer
classer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classers
Etymology: From class (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] although most black middle classers remain personally estranged from European "high art," theoretically they endorse it, and thus admire Marsalis's mastery of its forms.
ref: 1988 January 22, Salim Muwakkil, “Pop: I'm Bad, Therfore I Am”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A member of a particular class
secularism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkjʊləɹɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈsɛkjələɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: secularisms
Etymology: From secular + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: state secularism
text: The ancient quarians practiced ancestor worship. Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Religion Codex entry:
glosses: Neutrality towards all religions.
examples: text: And I have further to say, that I believe as much as Mr. Bradlaugh, or any other man in the room, in freethought; and I invite every Secularist to break off from him for ever the shackles that bind him in the superstition of his Secularism.
ref: 1870, Secularism. Report of a public discussion between the Rev. Alexander J. Harrison and Mr. Charles Bradlaugh held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Sept. 13 & 14, 1870, page 72:
glosses: The political belief in the separation of church and state, i.e. the position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions.
Synonyms: word: laicity
raw_tags: in France
word: statism
Related terms: secularist
secularity
secularization
secularize
agnosticism
atheism
humanism
laicism
bellicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellicists
Etymology: From Latin bellicus (“of or pertaining to war; warlike”), + -ist; possibly adapted from the French neologism belliciste (about Bismarck, 1871; in Émile Faguet, 1908).
Senses: examples: text: The bellicist was sure to advocate an end to the policy of appeasement.
text: Or, if you deem that that word connotes non-resistance, though to the immense bulk of Pacifists it does not, you would be an anti-Bellicist, to use a dreadful word coined by M. Emile Faguet in the discussion of this matter. [Refers to the book: Émile Faguet, Le Pacifisme (French), 1908.]
ref: 1912, Norman Angell, Peace Theories and the Balkan War, page 19:
text: As for what are called ‘war books,’ whether written from the pacifist or bellicist point of view, more or less brilliant reporting with emphatic or cynical anecdotes, surely there has been enough of them in the United States as well as in France and in England.
ref: 1919, The Living Age, vol. 303, Oct-Dec 1919, page 173:
text: It may be that this standard definition errs, in representing every state structure as essentially based on conflict: it involves, as the writer pointed out in an address delivered long ago in 1915, a “bellicist theory of state structure.” […] It may be well, therefore, to discard the “bellicist” idea of a state essentially based on conflict and involving a superior body which forcibly imposes its will on the mass. [Refers to the paper: Dr. Thomas Baty, "The Bellicist Theory of State Structure", 1915.]
ref: 1942, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs, vol. 11, No. 1, Jan 1942, page 220-221:
text: British historian Michael Howard introduced the term bellicist to refer to cultures “almost universal in the past, far from extinct in our own day, in which the setting of contentious issues by armed conflict is regarded as natural, inevitable and right.”
ref: 2008, David P. Barash, Charles P. Webel, Peace and Conflict Studies, page 31:
glosses: An adherent of bellicism; one who advocates war.
Synonyms: hawk
militarist
warmonger
warnik
bellicist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bellicist
form: most bellicist
Etymology: From Latin bellicus (“of or pertaining to war; warlike”), + -ist; possibly adapted from the French neologism belliciste (about Bismarck, 1871; in Émile Faguet, 1908).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to bellicism, a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.
Synonyms: bellicistic
bellicose
hawkish
militaristic
warhungry
Related terms: militarist
happify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: happifies
form: happifying
form: happified
form: happified
Etymology: From happy + -fy.
Senses: examples: 1898-1908: Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony
Now, Ladies, all we would do is to do all in our power, both individually and collectively, to harmonize and happify our Social system.
May 26, 1872: John Taylor, "Journal of Discourses"
That which is light, intelligence, intelligent, happifying and glorious to us, is confusion and darkness to them.
June 15, 1846: William B. Ide, Proclamation of the California Republic
The Commander in Chief of the Troops assembled at the Fortress of Sonoma...declares that he believes that a Government to be prosperous and happyfying in its tendency must originate with its people who are friendly to its existence.
synonyms: word: blissen
word: elate
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To make happy.
eclesiastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ecclesiastical.
trigamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -gamous.
Senses: glosses: Living in or involving trigamy.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three kinds of flowers — male, female, and hermaphrodite — in the same flower head.
trigamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigamists
Etymology: From trigamy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who has three spouses; someone who commits trigamy
glosses: A person who has a third marriage
precipitateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From precipitate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: At Khenchela, Ben Boulaid's men showed similar precipitateness.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 90:
glosses: The state of being precipitate; hastiness.
Synonyms: haste
precipitately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more precipitately
form: most precipitately
Etymology: From precipitate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215:
text: "That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper. "Now, Mr. Thomas Didymus, I leave you to your conclusions," and the enthusiast vanished out of the office as precipitately as he had entered.
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:
text: Nawnim rushed into the bedroom so precipitately that he nearly crashed into the bed.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 63:
text: Despite their pre-war pioneering work in diesel rail traction, the Germans did not precipitately dieselise their own national system as soon as post-war opportunity offered.
ref: 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 387:
synonyms: precipitantly
glosses: In a precipitate manner.
precipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precipitated
form: most precipitated
Senses: glosses: Hastened; hurried.
glosses: Deposited from a solution, vapour or state of suspension into gas.
precipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precipitate
precipitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪˌteɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: precipitators
Etymology: Latin praecipitator (“an overthrower”); equivalent to precipitate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: […] those of that sect […] that call’d themselves by that name of Zealots, and withal, took upon them to be the saviours and preservers of the City, but as it prov’d, the hastners & precipitators of the destruction of that Kingdom […]
ref: 1675, Henry Hammond, Sermons Preached by […] Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, Sermon 5, p. 65:
text: Even the most wanton precipitators of war always try to give it, in the eyes of the common people, a defensive character.
ref: 1918, Harold Goddard, chapter 3, in Morale, New York: George H. Doran, page 58:
text: Wherever one looks the rate of change on the international scene has achieved dizzying proportions, often with ominous overtones for United States interests. What is frequently overlooked, however, is that American behavior may be one of the greatest precipitators of this growing instability.
ref: 1975 April 11, Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., “Uncle Sam: No More Mr. Nice Guy”, in The New York Times:
text: […] the most common precipitator of workplace violence is a layoff or firing.
ref: 2002, Wayne F. Cascio, chapter 3, in Responsible Restructuring, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, page 34:
synonyms: agent
author
cause
glosses: One who or that which precipitates (causes something to happen or urges it on with vehemence or rashness).
glosses: A person who, or device that, carries out precipitation.
glosses: An apparatus which removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation.
Derived terms: electrostatic precipitator
thematize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thematizes
form: thematizing
form: thematized
form: thematized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thematise.
Derived terms: thematization
theomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: theomanias
Etymology: From theo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A religious mania.
glosses: A mental illness in which the patient believes him/herself to be a god or to be possessed by one.
Derived terms: theomaniac
thematise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːmətaɪz/
Forms: form: thematises
form: thematising
form: thematised
form: thematised
form: thematize
Etymology: From the stem of Ancient Greek θέμα (théma, “theme”) + -ise.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To convert (a sentence or a part of it) into a theme.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To modify (a word or stem) by adding a thematic vowel.
glosses: To make thematic; to organize by theme.
glosses: To bring attention to (a topic), e.g. by discussing it constructively.
Synonyms: sense: insert a vowel, make thematic
word: thematicise
Derived terms: thematisation
thematization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thematizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thematisation.
theomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: theomaniacs
Etymology: From theo- + -maniac.
Senses: glosses: A person who exhibits theomania.
thematisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thematisations
form: thematization
Etymology: From thematise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of making an experience or emotion the topic of interaction.
glosses: The action of thematising.
Synonyms: thematicisation
phylax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylakes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φύλαξ (phúlax, “watcher, guard, sentinel, guardian, keeper, protector”).
Senses: glosses: A guard in Ancient Greece
examples: text: The phylax was popular in Southern Italy. It was accompanied by music and indecent dances and transvestism - all intended to arouse sexual feelings in the audience.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 185:
glosses: A type of ancient Greek burlesque drama.
Derived terms: spermatophylax
transiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transiently
form: most transiently
Etymology: From transient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a transient manner; momentarily; briefly.
Synonyms: fleetingly
temporarily
transitorily
transientness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transient + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.
ref: 1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 81:
text: Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.
ref: 1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive Surgery:
text: The didactic portion of them consists of the Proverbs, a collection of sententious maxims and wise discourses; Ecclesiastes, an eloquent wail over the transientness of earthly things; and the book of Job, a philosophical poem upon Providence
ref: 2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache, Annotated edition:
glosses: The state of being transient.
Synonyms: ephemerality
impermanence
transience
transiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transiencies
Senses: glosses: Transience.
Synonyms: ephemerality
impermanence
transience
tussock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌs.ək/
rhymes: -ʌsək
Forms: form: tussocks
form: tussac
form: tussack
Etymology: Uncertain. Likely from or related to tusk + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle High German zūsach (“thicket”), a derivative of Middle High German zūse (“lock of hair”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dosag (“little tuft”).
Senses: examples: text: An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
ref: 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC:
text: Next morning I was off to Lochtully, which, as you know, is in the north of Perthshire. It stands three miles from the station, a great gray pinnacled house, with two towers cocking out above the fir woods, like a hare’s ears from a tussock of grass.
ref: 1895, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
examples: text: I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.
ref: 1985, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 401:
glosses: Tussock grass.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Poa poiformis
word: blue tussock
word: ficus tussock moth
taxonomic: Festuca novaezelandiae
word: hard tussock
taxonomic: Nassella tichotoma
word: nassella tussock
taxonomic: Arundo richardii
word: plumed tussock
taxonomic: Chionochloa rubra
word: red tussock
taxonomic: Nassella trichotoma
word: serrated tussock
taxonomic: Poa bulbosa
word: sweet tussock
taxonomic: Campanula carpatica
word: tussock bellflower
english: Lymantriinae
translation: Lymantriinae
word: tussock caterpillar
word: tussocked
word: tussocker
word: tussock grass
word: tussockgrass
english: Lymantriinae
translation: Lymantriinae
word: tussock moth
taxonomic: Carex stricta
word: tussock sedge
word: tussocky
taxonomic: Euproctis lutea
word: yellow tussock
tussocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tussocky
form: most tussocky
Etymology: From tussock + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered with tussocks.
tussocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tussock + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I turned back and soon chanced upon a caravan village, dug down into the tussocked dunes.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Covered with tussocks or tussock grass.
tussocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussockers
Etymology: From tussock + -er.
Senses: glosses: A sundowner.
sort out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sorts out
form: sorting out
form: sorted out
form: sorted out
Senses: examples: text: It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later.
glosses: To clarify by reviewing mentally.
examples: text: Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?
glosses: To arrange.
examples: text: The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?
glosses: To fix (a problem).
examples: text: Could you sort out your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?
glosses: To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
examples: text: We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't.
text: They've already sorted out the students in group A, so we just need to worry about groups B and C.
glosses: To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
examples: text: If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out.
text: Most of the babies and kids would be put to bed by one of the adults and left on their own. Every half an hour a bluecoat would walk around the aisles and if they heard crying from your chalet they would put your block and chalet number on a board to the right of the stage. The first few times I went to a proper church and saw the hymn order to the side of the pulpit I wondered why nobody was going to sort out those kids.
ref: 2016, Jon Bounds, Danny Smith, Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside:
glosses: To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
examples: text: Hey man, I want some weed. —I'll sort you out, mate.
text: We really need to sort Chris out with a girlfriend.
glosses: To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
Derived terms: sort oneself out
running therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running therapies
Senses: glosses: The use of running as a therapy for mild depression, or for heart exercise.
splitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: splittings
Senses: glosses: An instance where something splits.
examples: text: In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting’.
ref: 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin, published 2008, page 308:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cleavage of a covalent bond.
splitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more splitting
form: most splitting
Senses: glosses: Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
examples: text: They moved at a splitting pace.
glosses: Very rapid.
examples: text: I have a splitting headache.
glosses: Severely painful.
splitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of split
Derived terms: ear-splitting
fee splitting
fee-splitting
hair-splitting
heart-splitting
Heegaard splitting
side-splitting
splitting field
undelved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + delved.
Senses: examples: text: Why, all the undelved mines cannot buy An ounce of justice,
ref: 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy:
text: She looks worried that undelved depths of silly shit do exist, but she relents, because a tip is at stake and we profile loose with gratitude.
ref: 2000, Robert Wintner, The Modern Outlaws: A Road Saga, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Welcome, ye wild plains Unbroken by the plough, undelved by hand Of patient rustic; where for lowing herds, And for the music of the bleating flocks, Alone is heard the kangaroo's sad note, Deepening in distance.
ref: 2009, Peter Pierce, The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Not delved or dug.
undepraved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undepraved
form: most undepraved
Etymology: From un- + depraved.
Senses: glosses: Not morally depraved or corrupted.
scrofula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɒfjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈskɹɔfjələ/
Forms: form: scrofulas
form: scrofulae
form: scrofulæ
form: scrophula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scrōfulae, a diminutive form of scrōfa (“breeding sow”), because swine were supposed to be subject to the complaint; or by fanciful comparison of the glandular swellings to little pigs.
Senses: examples: 1970: R.H.C. Davis A History of Medieval Europe Longman: SBN 582482089. P298. "(In 1100) It (The Church) relied on the king (of France) for protection and in return gave him authority. It even ..gave support for the claim that by his royal touch, he could miraculously cure the scrofula. (A similar claim was made for the kings of England, and was exercised till the reign of Queen Anne; one of the last people to be cured in that way being Dr. Johnson.)
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: scrofulosis
king's evil
struma
hypernyms: adenopathy
lymphadenopathy
glosses: A form of tuberculosis, most common in women 30-40 years of age, tending to cause enlarged and degenerated lymph nodes, especially in the neck, and often chronic, intractable skin inflammation as well.
Derived terms: scrofulous
scrofulide
Related terms: scrofulo-tuberculous
military brat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military brats
Senses: glosses: a child who has one or more parents who serves or served full-time in the military
boldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊldnəs/
ipa: /ˈbəʊldnəs/
Forms: form: boldnesses
Etymology: From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold + -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).
Senses: examples: text: Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
glosses: The state of being bold; courage.
glosses: presumptuousness
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
Derived terms: overboldness
belongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlɒŋz/
ipa: /bɪˈlɔŋz/
ipa: /bɪˈlɑŋz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belong
attended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attend
attended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndɪd/
Forms: form: more attended
form: most attended
Senses: examples: text: A person using a coin-box gets just the same, if not more rapid service, than at an attended station because he calls central direct, instead of communicating his wishes first to the attendant and awaiting the result of her effort.
ref: 1918, Canadian Transport Commission. Transport Committee, Judgements, Orders, Regulations and Rulings - Volume 8, page 181:
text: Our question is whether the August meeting will constitute the "date of election" and will count as an attended meeting within the meaning of the above Article.
ref: 1964, Claude W. Brown, “Letters”, in Official Record of the International Union of Operating Engineers, page 10:
text: The task force suggested that type 3 studies performed in an attended in-laboratory environment may rule in or exclude OSAH in patients without significan comorbid conditions if the records are scored by a knowledgeable technician or clinician, and that a type 1 study (in-laboratory PSG) should be performed in symptomatic patients with a negative type 3 study.
ref: 2005, Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong, Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook, page 236:
text: When transferring a call, you will typically want to perform an attended transfer, where the application only disconnects from the call after the called party picks up .
ref: 2011, George Durzi, Michael Greenlee, Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, page 462:
text: In most countries, attended home delivery accounts for the largest share of last-mile delivery.
ref: 2019, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, Operations in an Omnichannel World, page 293:
glosses: Having a person or people present; with someone in attendance.
examples: text: An object in an attended spot is encoded by the winner neuron in the recognition map layer.
ref: 2004, Nikil R. Pal, Neural information processing, page 394:
text: Another important issue in the study of attention is how an attended stimulus is processed differently from an unattended stimulus, that is, the effects of attention.
ref: 2004, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Patrick R. Hof, Vision in Alzheimer's Disease, page 251:
text: The figure shows the ERP recorded at temporal-occipital electrodes in response to an attended stimulus that was preceded by either an attended stimulus at the same location or an unattended stimulus at a different location.
ref: 2014, Steven J. Luck, An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, page 77:
glosses: Being the focus of attention; receiving attention.
Derived terms: attendedness
overattended
unattended
underattended
adopted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɑptɪd/
ipa: /əˈdɒptɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adopt
acted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of act
Related terms: acted-out
unacted
wishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
homophone: whishes (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of wish
wishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
homophone: whishes (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wish
transferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tränsfûrdʹ
enpr: trănsfûrdʹ
enpr: trănzfûrdʹ
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɜːd/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɜːd/
ipa: /tɹænzˈfɜːd/
Forms: form: transfered
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transfer
Derived terms: transferred epithet
transferred sense
theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪəɹiz/
ipa: /ˈθiːəɹiz/
ipa: /ˈθiːəɹiz/
ipa: /ˈθɪɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of theory
substituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪtutɪd/
ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪtjuːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of substitute
writes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: rights
homophone: rites
homophone: wrights
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of write
writes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: rights
homophone: rites
homophone: wrights
Senses: glosses: plural of write
stealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːlɪŋ/
homophone: steeling
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: stealings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to steal, theft.
examples: text: The politicaster is looking for small opportunities – for such pickings and stealings as a careless public may leave for those of his kind. The great politician is looking for great opportunities.
ref: 2004 January 5, Samuel McChord Crothers, “In Praise of Politicians”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York:
glosses: That which is stolen; stolen property.
Derived terms: angle stealing
cap stealing
caught stealing
scene stealing
scene-stealing
show-stealing
stealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːlɪŋ/
homophone: steeling
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steal
sown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊn/
ipa: /səʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: Saône
homophone: sewn
homophone: sone
Etymology: Morphologically sow + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of sow
sown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊn/
ipa: /səʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: Saône
homophone: sewn
homophone: sone
Etymology: Morphologically sow + -n.
Senses: topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to the nomad pastoralists of the steppe or desert.
sources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹsɪz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈso(ː)ɹsɪz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈsoəsɪz/
homophone: sauces (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
rhymes: (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oːɹsɪz
rhymes: (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) -oəsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of source
sources
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹsɪz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈso(ː)ɹsɪz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈsoəsɪz/
homophone: sauces (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz
rhymes: (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oːɹsɪz
rhymes: (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) -oəsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of source
Wandering Jew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
ref: 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
glosses: A Jewish shoemaker who, in Christian tradition, taunted Jesus Christ on the way to his (Jesus') crucifixion and for that was condemned to wander the Earth until Jesus' return (ie. the second coming).
Wandering Jew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wandering Jews
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wandering Jew (“plant”).
't
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: He could not miſſe'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 II, scene i], page 6, column 2:
text: Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t:
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 217, column 1:
glosses: Contraction of it.
examples: text: What was all that about?
Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad.
't’s a bit sexist, isn't it?
Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes?
No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!"
ref: 2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:
glosses: Contraction of that.
Derived terms: by't
do't
for't
in't
into't
is't
on't
'tis
'tisn't
to't
'tshall
'twas
'twasn't
'twere
'tweren't
'twill
'twon't
'twou'd
'twou'dn't
'twould
'twouldn't
upon't
was't
with't
sylph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪlf/
rhymes: -ɪlf
Forms: form: sylphs
Etymology: First attested in 1657. From New Latin sylphes, coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”). Ultimately from the root silva (“woods, forest”). Related to sylvan.
More at Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: Her heart fluttered with expectation—her step was buoyant with hope, and she sprung into the carriage with the lightness of a sylph.
ref: 1811, Mary Brunton, Self-Control:
text: Necromancy meant originally the conjuring up the souls of the dead, and later included the conjuring of all sorts of inhuman spirits such as sylphs, giants, and djinn.
ref: 1941, Rupert Gleadow, Magic and Divination, page 125:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: sylphid
glosses: An invisible being of the air.
glosses: The elemental being of air, usually female.
glosses: A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.
Related terms: english: see for more terms
translation: see for more terms
word: sylvan
word: savage
word: Silvanus
pornocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pôr-nŏk-rə-sē
ipa: /pɔːˈnɒkɹəsɪ/
ipa: /pɔɹˈnɑkɹəsi/
rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: the Pornocracy
form: Pornocracy
Etymology: Probably borrowed from German Pornokratie, first found in the writings of Austrian-born Biblical scholar Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889), from Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “female prostitute”) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā, “-cracy”, suffix indicating “government, rule”); analysable as porno- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Under the pornocracy (government of harlots) in the first half of the 10th century, the Papacy was degraded and all Italy torn by factions.
ref: 1855, C. Ullmann, “[Second Book. John of Wesel, or The Necessity for the Reformation in Reference to Particular Things in the Church, Especially Indulgences, and the Corruption of the Clergy.] Introduction”, in Robert Menzies, transl., Reformers before the Reformation, Principally in Germany and the Netherlands (Clark's Foreign Theological Library, New Series; VI), volumes I (The Need of a Reformation in Reference to the General Spirit of the Church and Certain Particular Abuses), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38 George Street; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Ward and Co.; Jackson and Walford, etc.; Dublin: John Robertson, and Hodges and Smith, →OCLC, page 166:
text: Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century. This epoch deserves to be designated under the title of the Pornocracy; that is to say, the government of prostitutes, for Theodora, Marozia, and other ladies of rank at that time, placed on the pontifical throne their paramours and their sons, who were no better than themselves.
ref: 1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Art. VII.—Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility. The Council and Infallibility: An Address Delivered at Geneva, 10th December 1869, by M. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D. Paris: Michel Levy, 1870.”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscūrum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family.
caudillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɔˈdiː(j)oʊ/
/kaʊˈdiː(j)oʊ/
Forms: form: caudillos
Etymology: From Spanish caudillo, from Late Latin capitellum, based on Latin caput, capitis (“head”). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, and capitellum. More possible, from kaput and ili (iri, ür, uri: town), from Basque language. In Iberian ili is high point, high city.
Senses: examples: text: While an America in decline may throw up a more competent caudillo than Trump in time, it is difficult to reasonably conclude that it possesses the societal solidarity to wage a decades-long, global struggle against a near-competitor.
ref: 2020 June 1, Aris Roussinos, Covid has exposed America as a failed state:
glosses: A leader.
examples: text: For, despite all the debunking and cynicism in this generation, there still are, amazingly, trusting people around who need to believe in great helmsmen, dear leaders, fuhrers, presidents-for-life, generalissimos and charismatic caudillos.
ref: 1994 October 14, Dallas Morning News:
text: Then there’s Mexico’s outgoing populist and wannabe caudillo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is pushing a crowd-pleasing law to require all judges be elected by popular vote, including to the Supreme Court.
ref: 2024 August 13, Marc Margolis, Opinion: Want to reform the Supreme Court? These strongmen can show a thing or two, NPR:
glosses: A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America.
Derived terms: caudilloism
caudilloship
Related terms: caudillismo
totalitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totalitarianisms
Etymology: 1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).
Senses: examples: text: And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil.
ref: 1951, Hannah Arendt, “Preface to the First Edition”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, →ISBN, pages viii–ix:
text: The film Repentance caused a sensation across the Soviet Union not only because it publicly condemned the evil of totalitarianism but also because it encouraged tens of thousands of Soviet people to reflect upon the source and root cause of the evil.[…]
ref: 2020 October 31, Yiqing, “Why Is the Chinese Communist Party So Afraid of Intellectuals?”, in Minghui:
text: Mr. Yudin argues that Russia is moving out of authoritarianism – where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features – into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs.
ref: 2022 April 9, Sabrina Tavernise, “[Vladimir] Putin’s war in Ukraine shatters an illusion in Russia”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
wikipedia: Carl Schmitt
Franz Borkenau
Giovanni Amendola
The Concept of the Political
Derived terms: inverted totalitarianism
Related terms: totalism
totalistic
totalist