cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Theodore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiː.əˌdɔː/
ipa: /ˈθi.əˌdɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: Theodores
Etymology: From Latin Theodorus, from Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros), from Θεός (Theós, “God”) and θεός (theós, “god”) + δῶρον (dôron, “gift”). The name was popularized in reference to the prominent St Theodore of Amasea. Unrelated to Theodoric.
Senses: glosses: A fiador.
telekinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛləkɪˈniːsɪs/
Forms: form: telekineses
Etymology: From tele- + -kinesis.
Senses: examples: text: Telekinetic energy, which has been variously designated as psychic force (Sir William Crookes), ectenic force (Professor Thury), and telekinesis (Professor Cowes), is demonstrably a power or faculty of the subjective mind.
ref: 1899, Thomson Jay Hudson, The Divine Pedigree of Man, page 154:
text: And this brings me to a consideration of how the phenomena of telekinesis may conceivably be produced — granting that the phenomena are ever genuine at all.
ref: 1920, Hereward Carrington, The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, page 367:
text: He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61:
text: 'Venison' he declared, mentally lifting the animal through the air toward him without a second thought to the act, though telekinesis was a spell that hadn't been in the considerable repertoire of Morkai the Red.
ref: 1988, Robert Salvatore, The Crystal Shard, page 39:
text: She regards telekinesis as impossible and claims for it as generally fraudulent. For two years she worked in a university laboratory testing telekinesis,
ref: 2000, Fred M. Frohock, Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism, page 29:
text: Perhaps the most famous demonstrations of telekinesis came in the 1970s when a young psychic from Russia named Uri Geller came to prominence for his ability to bend spoons and other metal objects without any physical contact.
ref: 2002, Rita Berkowtiz with Deborah S. Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits, page 187:
text: And if voice-activated control isn't enough, we could someday use telekinesis to control lights with our thoughts.
ref: 2006, Richard Cadena, Automated Lighting, page 434:
glosses: The ability to move objects with the power of one's mind.
glosses: An instance of use of such power.
Derived terms: telekinetic
Related terms: psychokinesis
microkinesis
taxidermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæksɪdɚmi/
Forms: form: taxidermies
Etymology: Borrowed from French taxidermie, from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”, “order”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Analysable as taxi- + derm- + -y.
Senses: glosses: The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
Derived terms: taxidermal
taxidermic
taxidermied
taxidermist
taxidermize
taxidermy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæksɪdɚmi/
Forms: form: taxidermies
form: taxidermying
form: taxidermied
form: taxidermied
Etymology: Borrowed from French taxidermie, from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”, “order”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Analysable as taxi- + derm- + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Today's taxidermying is a combination of field work, calipers and Rodin. The hunters who get the animals for the leading museums of natural science bring 'em back dead, but measured within an inch of their lives […]
ref: 1945, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, page 26:
text: It is indeed true that in recent years the business of taxidermying cats and dogs for mourning owners has blossomed into some form of art, especially in the United States.
ref: 2012, Giovanni Aloi, Art and Animals:
text: Even when mounted in the context of animal-centric conferences or events, exhibits of “animal art” routinely display works consisting of animal parts or taxidermied animals—most of which can be viewed while people are eating their politically correct vegan lunch.
ref: 2017, Linda Kalof, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, page 434:
glosses: To stuff and mount the skin of a dead animal.
aspect ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspect ratios
Senses: glosses: The ratio of an object's longest dimension to its next-longest dimension.
glosses: The ratio of width to height in a flat surface or 2-dimensional abstract construction, such as an image, character, or pixel.
Related terms: letterbox
pan and scan
widescreen
ukulele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː.kəˈleɪ.li/
note: Standard Hawaiian English
ipa: /ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: ukuleles
form: eukaleli
form: ukelele
form: ukalele
form: ʻukulele
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small four-stringed guitar.
Derived terms: banjolele
banjo ukulele
guitalele
uke
ukelin
ukulelelike
ukulelist
luau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlu.aʊ/
Forms: form: luaus
form: luau
form: lūʻau
Etymology: From Hawaiian lūʻau. Replaced earlier paina (from pāʻina) and ahaaina (from ʻahaʻaina).
Senses: examples: text: Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, published 2012, page 13:
text: MM: No secrets for him because he's the king of Hawaii. And so he said, "Do you want to come to a luau with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Whoopi Goldberg?"
ref: 2014 July 7, Hermione Hoby, “Mike Myers: why I made a film about supermensch Shep Gordon”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
Related terms: hula
kahuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈhuːnə/
rhymes: -uːnə
Forms: form: kahunas
form: kahuna
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian kahuna (“shaman, wizard”).
Senses: examples: text: They were kāhuna, practitioners of the old Hawaiian religion, apparently offering themselves as sacrifices to appease the gods so that the queen would be restored.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 230:
glosses: A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A great surfer.
Derived terms: big kahuna
hula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːlə/
enpr: ho͞oʹlə
ipa: /ˈhulə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: hulas
form: hula-hula
form: hula hula
form: hura
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian hula.
Senses: examples: text: Under the rule of Kalākaua, they had revived the hula, which had been condemned by the missionaries.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 87:
glosses: A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
Derived terms: horizontal hula
hula hoop
hula skirt
hula
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːlə/
enpr: ho͞oʹlə
ipa: /ˈhulə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: hulas
form: hulaing
form: hulaed
form: hulaed
form: hula-hula
form: hula hula
form: hura
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian hula.
Senses: glosses: To dance the hula.
haole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haole
form: haoles
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian haole.
Senses: examples: text: I had never known any haoles except Elmer and Marks and they were ice cold affairs. Everyone was always glad when their twice-a-month visit was pau. The very island seemed to sigh with relief […]
ref: 1946, Armine Von Tempski, Bright Spurs, page 122:
text: And the white guy who ate Rice-A-Roni with butter was the haole who didn’t speak pidgin or eat real rice.
ref: 2009 January 18, Lois-ann Yamanaka, “This Man Is an Island”, in New York Times:
text: Commerce was flourishing in the kingdom and the rising merchant class was made up largely of haole rather than Hawaiians.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 27:
glosses: A non-Hawaiian, usually specifically a white.
Derived terms: haole time
hapa haole
Kill Haole Day
akamai
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian akamai (“smart”).
Senses: glosses: Smart, clever.
pahoehoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈhəʊihəʊi/
ipa: /pəˈhoʊ.i.hoʊ.i/
ipa: /pɑːˈhoʊ.eɪ.hoʊ.eɪ/
Forms: form: pahoehoes
Etymology: From Hawaiian pāhoehoe.
Senses: examples: text: We [...] saw ‘pahoihoi’ or solid lava forming, and also ‘aa’ or clinkers.
ref: 1859, R. C. Haskell, American journal of science and arts, series XXVIII:
text: The twisty, ropy kind that personifies flow – all congealed motion – is called pahoehoe.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 44:
glosses: A form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface. It is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the Hawaiian type, the other form being aa.
Related terms: aa
adiabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæd.ɪəˈbæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.daɪ.əˈbæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Etymology: 19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Senses: examples: text: The line drawn on the indicator diagram in the latter case has been named by Professor Rankine an Adiabatic line, because it is defined by the condition that heat is not allowed to pass through (διαβαίνειν) the vessel which confines the substance.
ref: 1871, James Clerk Maxwell, Theory of Heat, page 129:
text: Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 737:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
antonyms: diabatic
glosses: Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
raw_tags: of a process
examples: text: In this section we examine the limiting cases when T is very small (sudden change) and very large (adiabatic change).
ref: 1961, Albert Messiah, Quantum Mechanics, volume II, page 740:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: nonadiabatic
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Involving the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
raw_tags: of a process
Derived terms: adiabat
adiabatically
adiabatic cooling
adiabaticity
adiabatic lapse rate
adiabatic wall
antiadiabatic
moist-adiabatic
subadiabatic
superadiabatic
Related terms: diabatic
adiabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæd.ɪəˈbæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.daɪ.əˈbæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: adiabatics
Etymology: 19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Senses: glosses: An adiabatic curve or graph
æon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æons
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of aeon.
Derived terms: light æon
aerobatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Etymology: Blend of aeronautic + acrobatics
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.
Derived terms: aerobatic
aerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛəˈɹəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ɛəˈɹoʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /əˈɹoʊ.bɪk/
Forms: form: aërobic
Etymology: From French aérobie, coined in 1863 by Louis Pasteur, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + βίος (bíos, “life”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The bacteria require an aerobic environment to grow.
antonyms: anaerobic
glosses: Living or occurring only in the presence of oxygen e.g. aerobic bacteria.
examples: text: She does aerobic exercise three times a week.
text: He joined an aerobic fitness class at the gym.
glosses: Of or relating to aerobics.
Derived terms: aerobically
aerobicise
aerobicize
aerobicized
aerobicwear
aquaerobic
dysaerobic
exaerobic
microaerobic
nanoaerobic
nonaerobic
preaerobic
semiaerobic
subaerobic
Related terms: aerobe
aerobics
anaerobic
aerodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aërodynamics
Etymology: From French aérodynamique, from aero- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: The science of the dynamics of bodies moving relative to gases, especially the interaction of moving objects with the atmosphere.
examples: text: However, it can also make the aerodynamics more difficult to control, and it becomes much harder to stop the nose of the car scraping against the surface of the track.
ref: 2024 April 3, Joe Holding, Rebecca Braybrook, “What do DRS, black and white flag, porpoising and more mean? F1 terms explained”, in Autosport:
glosses: The aerodynamic properties of a particular object (typically a car).
Derived terms: electroaerodynamics
magneto-aerodynamics
superaerodynamics
Related terms: aerostatics
aeronautics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛə.ɹəʊˈnɔː.tɪks/
ipa: /ˌɛɚ.oʊˈnɔ.tɪks/
ipa: [ˌɛɚ.oʊˈnɔ.ɾɪks]
ipa: /ˌɛɚ.oʊˈnɑ.tɪks/
ipa: [ˌɛɚ.oʊˈnɑ.ɾɪks]
rhymes: -nɔːtɪks
Etymology: From French aéronautique or New Latin aeronauticus. Equivalent to aero- + -naut + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The design, construction, mathematics and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects
glosses: The theory and practice of aircraft navigation
Hypernyms: aerospace
Related terms: aeronaut
aeronautic
aeronautical
astronautics
avionics
aesthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēsʹthēt
ipa: /ˈiːs.θiːt/
enpr: ĕsʹthēt
ipa: /ˈɛs.θiːt/
Forms: form: aesthetes
form: esthete
form: æsthete
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs, “one who perceives”).
Senses: examples: text: I prefer to think of [literature] as providing a discipline of the sensibility—a special way of apprehending reality. But though I prefer such a conception, it gives rise to all sorts of misunderstandings […] To define literature in this fashion is to risk being called a mere aesthete and even an ecapist who refuses to face the harsh facts of life.
ref: a. 1994, Cleanth Brooks, “English Literature: A Subject Matter? A Discipline? A Special Amalgam?”, in Community, Religion, Literature, published 1995, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Because what the aesthete does is to say, “oh, I can transform any unpleasant experience into a moment of beauty.”
ref: 2000, Tom Huhn, “The Anatomy of Beauty”, in Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald, David Rothenberg, editors, A Parliament of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millennium, page 237:
text: Although Stanley was the political operator while Pick was the aesthete, it was Stanley who made the early running in Underground design.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Since the days of Søren Kierkegaard, aesthetics – by him termed the aesthetic that is worshipped by the aesthete – has been accused of subjectivism and relativism. An aesthete is allegedly characterized by finding sensuous pleasure in particular phenomena, and by being different from the ethicist or the religious person in being unable to recognize or commit himself to anything universal.
ref: 2015, Dorthe Jørgensen, “Sensoriness and Transcendence: On the Aesthetic Possibility of Experiencing Divinity”, in Svein Aage Christoffersen et al., editors, Transcendence and Sensoriness: Perceptions, Revelation, and the Arts, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, often in a manner perceived to prioritize beauty over other qualities such as virtue and utility.
Derived terms: anaesthete
synaesthete
Related terms: aesthetic
aether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.θə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈi.θɚ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.θɚ/
Forms: form: aethers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ether.
Derived terms: aetherometry
aether wave
luminiferous aether
aetiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iː.tɪˈɒ.lə.dʒi/
ipa: /i.tiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: aetiologies
form: ætiology
form: aitiology
form: etiology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiología), from αἰτία (aitía, “cause”). By surface analysis, aetio- + -logy; Doublet of aetiologia.
Senses: examples: text: I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [translating Traumätiologie].
ref: 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:
glosses: The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
glosses: The study of causes or causation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
Derived terms: aetiologic
aetiologics
aetiologist
aetiologize
etiologic
etiological
etiologically
etiologist
palaetiology
Related terms: entomology
ethnology
ethology
etymology
agaric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡəɹɪk/
ipa: /əˈɡɑːɹɪk/
ipa: /əˈɡæɹɪk/
Forms: form: agarics
form: agarick
Etymology: From Latin agaricum, from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “a tree fungus (Phellinus pomaceus”)), from the country of Agaria, in Sarmatia.
Senses: examples: text: […] these [commentators] were slight excrescences, mushrooms, champignons, that perished as the smoke of the dunghil evaporated, which reared them. A modern editor of Shakespeare is, on the contrary, a fungus attached to an oak; a male agaric of the most astringent kind, that, while it disfigures its form, may last for ages to disgrace the parent of its being.
ref: 1765, William Kenrick, A Review of Doctor Johnson’s New Edition of Shakespeare, London: J. Payne, page 88:
text: Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus: so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, any one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
ref: 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”, in Essays. Second Series, Boston: James Munroe, pages 24–25:
text: 1872, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, “Gareth and Lynette” in Gareth and Lynette, Etc. London: Strahan & Co., p. 47,
She thereat, as one / That smells a foul-flesh’d agaric in the holt, / And deems it carrion of some woodland thing, / Or shrew, or weasel, nipt her slender nose / With petulant thumb and finger,
text: […] I came to / Under a rainy ridge, in a goblin clump / Of agaric.
ref: 1989, Ted Hughes, “Slump Sundays”, in Wolfwatching, London: Faber and Faber, page 4:
glosses: Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath.
examples: text: Agarick to purge his flegme, lest he be too drowsie
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, London: Thomas Jones, Devotion 8, Meditation, page 179:
glosses: A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Laricifomes officinalis, formerly Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis).
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Amanita phalloides
word: deadly agaric
taxonomic: Amanita muscaria
word: fly agaric
taxonomic: Hygrophorus eburneus
word: ivory agaric
taxonomic: Coprinus comatus
word: horsetail agaric
taxonomic: Coprinus comatus
word: maned agaric
taxonomic: Amanita caesarea
word: royal agaric
Derived terms: word: agaric acid
taxonomic: Mycetophilidae spp.
word: agaric gnat
word: agaricic
word: agariciform
word: agaricin
word: agariclike
word: agaric mineral
word: agaricoid
word: agaricology
word: agarin
word: Caesar's agaric
word: euagaric
word: fairy ring agaric
Related terms: Agaricia
Agaricus
agarwood
agrochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrochemicals
Etymology: From agro- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: Villagers use the nematicides Furadan and Mocap mostly in banana cultivation, whereas Basudin and Sevin are the most frequently used agrochemicals applied exclusively on nonbanana crops.
ref: 1998, Lawrence S. Grossman, The Political Ecology of Bananas, page 197:
text: A review of Syngenta’s strategy shows that Dr. Cresswell’s experience fits in with practices used by American competitors like Monsanto and across the agrochemical industry.
ref: 2016 December 31, Danny Hakim, “Scientists Loved and Loathed by an Agrochemical Giant”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound, such as a hormone, fungicide, or insecticide, that improves the production of crops.
glosses: A compound or product derived from farmed plants.
Synonyms: agrichemical
Related terms: agribusiness
agrobusiness
agriscience
agroscience
agritechnology
agrotechnology
biochemical
agrochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agro- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to agrochemistry.
Derived terms: agrochemically
Related terms: agriscientific
agroscientific
agritechnological
agrotechnological
biochemical
anaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈɹoʊbɪk/
Forms: form: anaërobic
form: anerobic
Etymology: From French anaérobie, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + βίος (bíos, “life”) + -ic. By surface analysis, an- + aerobic.
Senses: glosses: Without oxygen; especially of an environment or organism.
glosses: Of exercise, involving glycolysis (the conversion of glucose to adenosine triphosphate) rather than using oxygen to supply bodily energy needs.
glosses: Of or relating to an anaerobe.
Derived terms: anaerobically
anaerobicidal
anaerobicide
anaerobicity
semianaerobic
thermoanaerobic
Anastasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æn.əˈsteɪ.ʒə/
ipa: /æn.əˈsteɪ.ʃə/
ipa: /æn.əˈsteɪ.ʒi.ə/
ipa: /æn.əˈstɑ.si.ə/
ipa: /ɑ.nəˈstɑ.si.ə/
ipa: /ɑ.nəˈstɑ.ʃə/
ipa: /æn.əˈsteɪ.ʃi.ə/
Etymology: From the name of a 4th-century martyr, Ancient Greek Ἀναστασία (Anastasía), from ἀνάστασις (anástasis, “resurrection”). The name, and its male counterpart Anastasius, were originally given to children who were born around Eastertime during the early years of Christianity.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Anastacia
Anastatia
Nastasia
Nastassia
Nastenka
Nastia
Stacee
Stacey
Stacy
Stasia
Statia
Tacha
Tasia
anemometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænɪˈmɒmətə/
ipa: /ænɪˈmɒmɪtə/
ipa: /ænɪˈmɑmətɚ/
Forms: form: anemometers
form: anemometre
Etymology: From anemo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: An anemometer constructed by the Soil Mechanics Laboratory of the Western Region, British Railways, has been installed at Dawlish Warren, near Exeter, to obtain a record of the velocity (speed and direction) of the wind. This information is used for the study of the effects of wind erosion on the sand dunes which protect the railway from the sea at that point.
ref: 1952 August, “Wind Velocity Records at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 545:
text: This anemometer was installed by the North Eastern Railway on Staithes Viaduct in 1884, to warn signallers of dangerously high winds.
ref: 2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in RAIL, page 57, photo caption:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument for measuring and recording the speed of the wind, a windmeter.
Synonyms: windmeter
wind-gauge
Derived terms: cup anemometer
Related terms: anemometry
anemograph
antipodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪp.əˌdiz/
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + πόδες (pódes), plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: examples: text: We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.
examples: text: […]a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The Southern Hemisphere.
glosses: Australia and New Zealand.
examples: text: The sleepy yet shrewd judge was the antipodes to confidence, but to Don Manuel he felt no hesitation in frankly stating his actions and their motives, from his first arrival in Spain to the present time.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 295:
glosses: The opposite of something.
glosses: plural of antipode
Derived terms: at antipodes
antipodean
anorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəˈɹɛksi.ə/
Forms: form: anorexias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνορεξία (anorexía), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: hyporexia
glosses: Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
raw_tags: in medicine
glosses: Clipping of anorexia nervosa.
raw_tags: in nonmedical usage
examples: text: intimacy anorexia; emotional anorexia
glosses: Any state of being psychologically starved or deprived of something.
Derived terms: word: ana
word: anorexia athletica
word: anorexia mirabilis
word: anorexiant
word: anorexic
word: anorexically
word: anorexigen
word: anorexigenic
word: antianorexia
word: bigorexia
word: bleachorexia
word: bulimarexia
word: bulimorexia
word: carborexia
word: corporate anorexia
word: drunkorexia
word: manorexia
word: preanorexic
word: pregorexia
word: pro-ana
word: reverse anorexia nervosa
word: sexual anorexia
word: sports anorexia
word: tanorexia
word: wannarexia
Related terms: word: anorectic
word: hyporexic
anthem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.θəm/
ipa: /ˈæn.təm/
rhymes: -ænθəm
Forms: form: anthems
Etymology: From Middle English anteme, from Old English antefn, antefen and Old French antiene, anteine, anteivne, from Latin antiphōna, from Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna), from ἀντί (antí, “over against”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Doublet of antiphon.
Senses: glosses: Antiphon.
examples: text: The school's anthem sang of its many outstanding qualities, and it was hard to keep a straight face while singing.
glosses: A choral or vocal composition, often with a religious or political lyric.
examples: text: The choir sang a selection of Christmas anthems at the service just before the big day.
glosses: A hymn of praise or loyalty.
examples: text: In May 2000, they even finally cracked the UK top ten when they teamed up with Paul Van Dyk on the trance anthem "The Riddle"...
ref: 2003, Peter Buckley, The rough guide to rock:
glosses: A very popular song or track.
Derived terms: anthemic
anthemless
anthemlike
anthemwise
apartheid anthem
flag anthem
national anthem
anthem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.θəm/
ipa: /ˈæn.təm/
rhymes: -ænθəm
Forms: form: anthems
form: antheming
form: anthemed
form: anthemed
Etymology: From Middle English anteme, from Old English antefn, antefen and Old French antiene, anteine, anteivne, from Latin antiphōna, from Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna), from ἀντί (antí, “over against”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Doublet of antiphon.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hou shalt hear / Distant harvest-carols clear; / Rustle of the reaped corn; / Sweet birds antheming the morn: [...]
ref: 1819 (date written), John Keats, “Fancy”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: To celebrate with anthems.
antiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪfən/
ipa: /ˈæntɪˌfɑn/
Forms: form: antiphons
Etymology: From French antiphone or Medieval Latin antiphōna, from Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna, “responses, musical accords”), neuter plural substantive of ἀντίφωνος (antíphōnos, “concordant”) from ἀντί (antí, “in return”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Doublet of anthem.
Senses: examples: text: Father Vaillant came back in his vestments, with his pyx and basin of holy water, and began sprinkling the bed and the watchers, repeating the antiphon, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor.
ref: 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book V, section 2, page 171-172:
glosses: A devotional chant; a piece of music sung responsively.
examples: text: The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’
ref: 2007, Barbara Everett, “Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances”, in London Review of Books, 29:6, page 20:
glosses: A response or reply.
Derived terms: antiphonal
antiphonary
antiphone
antiphoner
antiphonic
antiphonical
antiphony
O Antiphon
asthma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈasmə/
ipa: /ˈasθmə/
ipa: /ˈaθsmə/
ipa: /ˈæzmə/
ipa: /ˈæzðmə/
ipa: /ˈæðzmə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɑst̪ʰ(ə)mɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /as-/
ipa: /ˈæst.mə/
rhymes: (General American) -æzmə
Forms: form: asthmas
form: asthmata
Etymology: From Middle English asma, asme, from Medieval Latin asthma, asma, from Ancient Greek ἆσθμα (âsthma, “laborious breathing, asthma”). The spelling was changed to add -th- in the 16th century to match the Greek etymological roots.
Senses: examples: text: ...but rheumatism is a vulgar complaint, and would sink even a ducal coronet—the very lowest people have it. I question if there is a workhouse in Great Britain exempt from it. Neither is there one free from asthma, and yet all the world knows a royal duke suffers from it as much as a coalheaver might do;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74:
text: "He kind of spat," said Piggy. "My auntie wouldn't let me blow on account of my asthma. He said you blew from down here." Piggy laid a hand on his jutting abdomen.
ref: 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
text: Twiggs was in a wheelchair during her appearance and suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and diabetes, according to her sister, Anna Twiggs.
ref: 2018 April 23, Chuck Johnston, “Judge not allowed back to court after berating woman who died”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A long-term respiratory condition, in which the airways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.
Derived terms: antasthmatic
antiasthma
antiasthmatic
asthma attack
asthmalike
asthma paper
asthma-plant
asthma thunderstorm
asthmatic
asthmatically
asthma weed
asthmogenesis
grinder's asthma
hay-asthma
I have asthma
nonasthma
potter's asthma
thunderstorm asthma
Related terms: inhaler
phthisic
asphyxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphyxias
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”).
Senses: examples: text: Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.
text: The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly, “trapping her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base,” Chipperfield explained. “Unable to free herself, she died of positional asphyxia. One of the two gas-lift pistons was defective.”
ref: 2024 October 14, Issy Ronald, “Woman killed by malfunctioning ottoman bed”, in CNN:
glosses: Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
glosses: Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
examples: text: Hypoxaemia [...is] a deficient oxygenation of the blood; asphyxia from defective oxygenation of the blood.
ref: 1895, Robley Dunglison, Richard J. Dunglison, A Dictionary of Medical Science containing a full explanation of the various subjects and terms of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology, therapeutics, medicine, hygiene, dietetics, pathology, bacteriology, surgery, ophthalmology, otology, laryngology, dermatology, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, medical jurisprudence, dentistry, etc. 21 edition:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
Derived terms: acroasphyxia
asphyxial
asphyxiant
asphyxiate
asphyxiation
asphyxic
asphyxiophilia
autoasphyxia
positional asphyxia
postural asphyxia
Related terms: asphyxy
anoxemia
anoxia
hypercapnia
hypoxemia
hypoxia
suffocation
asparagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/
ipa: /əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/
ipa: /əˈspɛɹ.ə.ɡəs/
Forms: form: asparagus
form: asparaguses
form: asparagusses
form: asparagi
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin asparagus, sparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos). Displaced Old English eorþnafola. Later became an eggcorn in dialect as sparrowgrass.
Senses: synonyms: sparrowgrass
sparagus
sparagrass
glosses: Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.
glosses: The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.
glosses: A green colour, like that of an asparagus.
Derived terms: asparagine
asparagus bean
asparagus bed
asparagus beetle
asparagus fern
asparagus lettuce
asparagus-like
asparagus pea
asparagus peas
asparagus roll
asparagus root
aspartate
aspartic acid
poor man's asparagus
sea asparagus
sprue asparagus
wild asparagus
arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/
Forms: form: arsmetrike
form: arsmetryke
form: arithmetike
Etymology: From Middle English arsmetike, from Old French arismetique, from Latin arithmētica, from Ancient Greek ἀριθμητική (τέχνη) (arithmētikḗ (tékhnē), “(art of) counting”), feminine of ἀριθμητικός (arithmētikós, “arithmetical”), from ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of *h₂rey- (“to count, reason”). Used in English since 13th century.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: linear
text: Growth in the most mature markets is likely to be arithmetic; on what rational basis could one hope for exponential growth there?
coordinate_terms: geometric
exponential
;
parabolic
glosses: Increasing or decreasing by an arithmetic progression.
arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/
enpr: ărĭthmĕt'ĭk
ipa: /æɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌæɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/
Etymology: From French arithmétique, from Latin arithmēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós).
Senses: examples: text: arithmetic geometry
text: Moreover, the latest work of Katz, involving the so-called 'Larsen alternative', provides new criteria, of a very arithmetic nature, to (almost) determine the rational monodromy group
ref: 2008, Emmanuel Kowalski, The large sieve and its applications: arithmetic geometry, random ..., page 189:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.
examples: text: arithmetic progression
topics: arithmetic
glosses: Of a progression, mean, etc, computed solely using addition.
Coordinate terms: sense: computed solely using addition
word: geometric
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetically
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic average
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic combinatorics
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic density
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic function
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic-geometric mean
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic geometry
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic hierarchy
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic logic unit
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic mean
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic operation
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic operator
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic progression
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic sequence
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic series
sense: Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic
word: arithmetic spiral
Related terms: List of terms used in arithmetic in English
apophasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒf.ə.sɪs/
ipa: /əˈpɑf.ə.sɪs/
Forms: form: apophases
Etymology: Via Late Latin apophasis from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis, “denial, negation”) from ἀπο- (apo-, “away, from, off”) + φάσις (phásis, “statement, proposition”) from φημί (phēmí, “to speak”) from Proto-Hellenic *pʰā́mā from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂; whence Latin fārī, cognate to fame, fable.
Senses: examples: text: Apophasis, affecting to conceal;
What it would seem to hide, will yet reveal.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Apophasis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 63:
synonyms: paralipsis
parasiopesis
praeteritio
preterition
hypernyms: irony
coordinate_terms: antiphrasis
concessio
epitrope
mycterism
sarcasm
glosses: An allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned.
topics: Christianity
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
synonyms: apophatic theology
via negativa
antonyms: cataphasis
via affirmativa
glosses: A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.
Related terms: apo-
-phasis
apophatic
apophatically
not to mention
to say nothing of
aphrodisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æf.ɹoʊˈdi.zi.æk/
ipa: /æf.ɹoʊˈdɪ.zi.æk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφροδισιακός (aphrodisiakós, “venereal”), from Ἀφροδίσιος (Aphrodísios, “pertaining to Aphrodite”).
Senses: examples: text: Cognac, with the addition of a little paprika and the yolk of an egg, is considered an effective aphrodisiac aid.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
glosses: Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.
aphrodisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æf.ɹoʊˈdi.zi.æk/
ipa: /æf.ɹoʊˈdɪ.zi.æk/
Forms: form: aphrodisiacs
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφροδισιακός (aphrodisiakós, “venereal”), from Ἀφροδίσιος (Aphrodísios, “pertaining to Aphrodite”).
Senses: examples: text: Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
ref: c. 1970, Henry Kissinger, quoted in The New York Times (28 October 1973)
text: This brother told me a secret on how to get more chicks / Put a little Medina in your glass, and the girls'll come real quick / It's better than any alcohol or aphrodisiac
ref: 1989, “Funky Cold Medina”, in Lōc’ed After Dark, performed by Tone Lōc:
antonyms: word: aphrodisiac
glosses: Something, generally a food or drug, having such an effect.
Derived terms: anaphrodisiac
antiaphrodisiac
Related terms: aphrodisia
aphrodisiacal
aphrodisiomania
aphrodisiomaniacal
Butea superba
actinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈtɪn ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖν- (aktís, aktîn-, “ray”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Related to radiation; used most often in reference to light, especially in the ultraviolet range.
examples: text: He bounded over cresting waves that shone in the actinic glare.
ref: 1999, Jody Lynn Nye, School of Light:
text: And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out?
ref: 2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: Harsh and bright, especially blindingly so.
examples: text: In medicine, actinic keratoses usually occur in sundamaged skin and exhibit hyperkeratosis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Caused by extensive exposure to ultraviolet light.
examples: text: It should be borne in mind that the actinic power of the sun is subject to considerable variations, due to its elevation above the horizon.
ref: 1883, Abraham Cowley Malley, Micro-photography: Including a Description of the Wet Collodion and Gelatino-Bromide Processes, page 32:
text: I got my picture, and it turned out quite a good one, despite the rather poor light which at that time of day, 7 p.m., was lacking in actinic value.
ref: 1943 May and June, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:
topics: arts
chemistry
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to actinism, the range of photochemical effects produced by exposure to electromagnetic radiation, particularly sunlight.
glosses: Composed of actin.
Derived terms: actinically
actinic flux
actinize
diactinic
inactinic
isoactinic
nonactinic
photoactinic
unactinic
acromegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌækɹoʊˈmɛɡəli/
Forms: form: acromegalies
Etymology: From French acromégalie, from New Latin acromegalia, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “tip, extremity”) and μέγας (mégas, “large”). By surface analysis, acro- + -megaly.
Senses: examples: text: Tania is a fever, too—les voies urinaires, Café de la Liberté, Place des Vosges, bright neckties on the Boulevard Montpamasse, dark bathrooms, Porto Sec, Abdullah cigarettes, the adagio sonata Pathétique, aural amplificators, anecdotal seances, burnt sienna breasts, heavy garters, what time is it, golden pheasants stuffed with chestnuts, taffeta fingers, vaporish twilights turning to ilex, acromegaly, cancer and delirium, warm veils, poker chips, carpets of blood and soft thighs.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 5:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A chronic disease marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by over-activity of the pituitary gland.
Synonyms: acromegalia
acromegaloidism
Marie's disease
Derived terms: acromegaliac
acromegalic
acromegaloid
pseudoacromegaly
Related terms: gigantism
revitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈvaɪt(ə)laɪz/
ipa: /ɹiˈvaɪt(ə)ˌlaɪz/
ipa: [ɹiˈvaɪɾəˌlaɪz]
ipa: /ɹiˈvʌɪt(ə)ˌlaɪz/
ipa: [ɹiˈvʌɪɾəˌlaɪz]
ipa: /ɹiːˈvɑɪt(ə)lɑɪz/
ipa: [ɹiːˈvɑɪɾəlɑɪz]
Forms: form: revitalizes
form: revitalizing
form: revitalized
form: revitalized
form: revitalise
Etymology: From re- + vital + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Cumaratunga was so furious that he intensified his campaign for revitalizing the traditional practices of asweddumization, so that neglected arable land could be rehabilitated, and a degenerating economy restructured and rejuvenated.
ref: 1992, Alavattāgoḍa Pēmadāsa, Cumaratunga, the Unknown: Hidden Facets of His Scientific Profile, page 115:
text: Also, the city government’s Department of Urban Development proposed various redevelopment projects that showed concern for the preservation of traditional landscape and historical architecture. For example, two old and historically significant districts of Taipei city (Tihua Street and the Tatung District) are expected to be economically revitalized and to attract cultural tourism.
ref: 2002, Hsin-Huang Micahel Hsiao, Hwa-Jen Liu, “Collective Action toward a Sustainable City: Citizens' Movements and Environmental Politics in Taipei”, in Peter Evans, editor, Livable Cities? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
text: The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.
ref: 2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2019:
text: In 1975, China was emerging from the Cultural Revolution, its government’s effort to purify and revitalize society. Communist officials had set up indoctrination programs, broadcast propaganda over omnipresent loudspeakers, and sought to stamp out any evidence of China’s ancient history.
ref: 2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 22–23:
text: The presence of these languages and their speakers continually revitalizes the profound social experiment that is America. We can and should learn how to communicate with them.
ref: 2024 March 10, Ross Perlin, “America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2024:
glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of revitalise.
Sejm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sām
ipa: /seɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
homophone: same
Forms: form: Seym
Etymology: From Polish Sejm.
Senses: glosses: The lower house of the Polish parliament.
Sejm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sām
ipa: /seɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
homophone: same
Forms: form: Seym
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Seym (“river”).
rendzina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rendzinas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish rędzina.
Senses: glosses: A dark soil that sometimes develops under grass on limestone and chalk.
Szlachta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃlæxta/
Etymology: From Polish szlachta. See there for more.
Senses: glosses: Nobility of Poland, and Lithuania.
polka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒl.kə/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ(l)kə/
rhymes: -ɒlkə
rhymes: -əʊkə
Forms: form: polkas
Etymology: Via French and German from Czech polka, variant of půlka (“half”) as in "half-step"; see půl (“half”).
Senses: glosses: A lively dance originating in Bohemia.
glosses: The music for this dance.
glosses: A polka jacket.
Derived terms: horizontal polka
polkabilly
polka dot
polkalike
polka-like
polkamania
polka-mazurka
polkist
polka
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒl.kə/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ(l)kə/
rhymes: -ɒlkə
rhymes: -əʊkə
Forms: form: polkas
form: polkaing
form: polkaed
form: polkaed
Etymology: Via French and German from Czech polka, variant of půlka (“half”) as in "half-step"; see půl (“half”).
Senses: glosses: To dance the polka.