cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trustee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌsˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: trustees
Etymology: From trust + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The trust property is now managed by a trustee who holds formal title to the asset; the trustee can sell it, but only for the benefit of the beneficiary, and he must replace it with like assets.
ref: 2020, Katharina Pistor, “2: Coding Land”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: trust law
glosses: A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals (beneficiaries), or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another.
glosses: A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
Derived terms: board of trustees
cotrustee
estate trustee
executorial trustee
public trustee
trustee de son tort
trusteeship
trustee stock
Related terms: beneficiary
settlor
trustee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌsˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: trustees
form: trusteeing
form: trusteed
form: trusteed
Etymology: From trust + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: to trustee an estate
glosses: To commit (property) to the care of a trustee.
glosses: To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
tumbleweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌmbəlwiːd/
ipa: /ˈtʌmbəlˌwid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: tumbleweeds
Etymology: From tumble + weed.
Senses: synonyms: word: roly-poly
word: steppe-witch
word: wind-witch
glosses: Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
examples: text: Putting an ad in the local paper that Spock's Beard and Arena are in town will get you a tumbleweed response and some wasted revenue.
ref: 2000 January 21, Plsntgrn, “Re: SOAR Budget (A Long Guestimate)”, in alt.music.progressive:
text: “Why do families argue?” may only induce the tumbleweed response. (Could you answer that question out of the blue?)
ref: 2005, Trevor Wright, How to Be a Brilliant English Teacher, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
glosses: A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Salsola ryanii
word: monster tumbleweed
taxonomic: Salsola kali
word: Russian tumbleweed
word: tumbleweed moment
Related terms: tumble thistle
tutelage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈtuːtɪlɪd͡ʒ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈtjuːtələd͡ʒ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːtələd͡ʒ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈtuːtələd͡ʒ/
note: with syncope
ipa: /ˈtjuːtlɪd͡ʒ/
note: with syncope
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːtlɪd͡ʒ/
note: with syncope
ipa: /ˈtuːtlɪd͡ʒ/
note: with syncope
ipa: /-əd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: tutelages
Etymology: From Latin tūtēla (“a watching, guardianship, protection”) + -age, from tuērī (“to watch, guard”). See tuition.
Senses: examples: text: the king's right of seigniory and tutelage
text: The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy.
ref: 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, “Chapter”, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, page 23:
synonyms: guardianship
protection
glosses: The act of guarding, protecting, or guiding.
glosses: The state of being under a guardian or a tutor; care or protection enjoyed; being a ward or a tutee.
examples: text: Taught from their cradle-bed to know
The bitter tutelage of wo,
No idle fears in their bosoms glow,
But pride and wrath in their dark eyes glance,
As they lift their martyr'd fathers' lance.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Missolonghi, page 187:
text: Kirk has attempted to write the definitive explanation of myth, but he too has overlooked von Dechend and, therefore, cannot make much sense concerning "Inanna's Descent into the Nether World." But when from von Dechend's tutelage we realize that Inanna is identified with the planet Venus, then we understand that there is more going on in the myth than a dramatization of the empty storehouse in winter.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 174:
text: But when asked which of his achievements he is most proud of, he says: “Actually those of others hypermilers behind the wheel, thanks to my tutelage or simply inspiration.”
ref: 2016 July 21, Jacopo Prisco, “How ‘hypermiling’ can save you a lot of fuel (and the planet)”, in CNN:
text: The High Level station was quickly overwhelmed by the volume of traffic, and a full rebuild under the tutelage of architect James Miller was initiated just two years after opening.
ref: 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow: 144 years of Glasgow Central”, in RAIL, number 994, page 34:
synonyms: tutorage
tutorship
glosses: Instruction; teaching; guidance; being a tutor.
Related terms: tuition
tutee
tutelar
tutelary
tutor
tutorial
tweak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: tweaks
Etymology: From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.
Senses: examples: text: a tweak of the nose
glosses: A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
examples: text: He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
glosses: A slight adjustment or modification.
glosses: Trouble; distress; tweag.
examples: text: Thence to Bautree, as I came there,
 From the bushes near the lane, there
 Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting
 With a leering eye, and wanton:
 But my flesh I did subdue it
 Fearing lest my purse should rue it.
ref: 1638, Richard Brathwait, edited by Thomas Gent, Barnabae Itinerarium; or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England: In Latin and English metre, published 1852, page 113:
glosses: A prostitute.
glosses: Methamphetamine.
glosses: A single inhalation of cocaine.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.
Derived terms: tweak freak
tweak of the thumb
twine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: twines
form: twyne
Etymology: From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).
Senses: examples: text: Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:
ref: 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: A twist; a convolution.
examples: text: The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]
ref: 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, pages 120–121:
glosses: A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
examples: text: The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: The act of twining or winding round.
examples: 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.
The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …
glosses: Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
Coordinate terms: sense: threads or strands twisted together
word: sinew
Derived terms: baler twine
devil's twine
sea twine
settler's twine
turtle-twine
twine reeler
twine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: twines
form: twining
form: twined
form: twined
form: twyne
Etymology: From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *twīnian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”).
Senses: glosses: To weave together.
examples: text: Let me twine
Mine arms about that body […]
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: She was twining her fingers together.
ref: 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 10, in The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 199:
glosses: To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
examples: text: “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,”
The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto III:
glosses: To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
examples: text: Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
examples: text: As rivers, though they bend and twine,
Still to the sea their course incline:
ref: 1713, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa:
glosses: To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
examples: text: Many plants twine.
glosses: To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
examples: text: dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades
ref: 1598, George Chapman, Hero and Leander:
glosses: To turn round; to revolve.
examples: text: For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed,
He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,
ref: 1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, published 1581, Book 20, Stanza 38:
glosses: To change the direction of.
examples: text: As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine
Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.
ref: 1646, Richard Crashaw, M. Crashaw’s Answer for Hope, lines 29–30:
glosses: To mingle; to mix.
Derived terms: entwine
intertwine
twine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: twines
form: twining
form: twined
form: twined
form: twyne
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).
twofold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːfoʊld/
Forms: form: two-fold
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two + -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig.
Senses: examples: text: The wheat produced a twofold harvest.
glosses: Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.
examples: text: a twofold nature;  a twofold sense;  a twofold argument
text: 1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Pythian Ode III, page 65.
Had I but landed there and brought unto him a twofold joy, first golden health and next this my song of triumph to be a splendour in his Pythian crown […]
text: It is the tale of Ixion's twofold guilt, unnatural murder and unlawful love.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 7, page 107:
text: "Wallace's suggestion for overcoming the epistemological and solipsistic effects of innate selfishness is twofold."
ref: 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy:
glosses: Having two parts, especially two different parts.
Synonyms: sense: double
word: double
word: duplicate
sense: having two parts
word: twin
word: dual
word: duple
word: twissel
word: twofold
word: twosome
Hypernyms: word: manyfold
word: multiplied
Derived terms: twofoldness
twofold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːfoʊld/
Forms: form: two-fold
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two + -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig.
Senses: glosses: In a double degree; doubly.
Synonyms: double
twice
typo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪpəʊ
Forms: form: typos
form: typoes
Etymology: Clipping of typographical error.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ
text: Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.
text: His 14 singles titles still look like a typo even for those like me who have watched him build that probably unbreakable record, red brick by red brick.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: writo
;
clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
scanno
speako
spello
thinko
glosses: A typographical error.
Derived terms: tpyo
tyop
typo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪpəʊ
Forms: form: typos
form: typoing
form: typoed
form: typoed
form: typo'd
form: typo'd
Etymology: Clipping of typographical error.
Senses: examples: text: Tell your mother that that essay I wrote for THE WRITER, that mentions you, is now in print in the Aw-Ghost issue. But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist. I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.
ref: 1993, Piers Anthony, edited by Alan Riggs, Letters to Jenny, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: To make a typographical error.
typo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪpəʊ
Forms: form: typos
Etymology: Clipping of typographer.
Senses: examples: text: On the highest, rear seat was James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri, and his Bride.
Capitalise it, friend typo—that last word—word of words in the epiphany of life and love.
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Sisters of the Golden Circle”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:
text: “Ever since I was twelve,” she said, “I have worked in a printing office where a celebrated London morning journal is put in type and goes to press. […] I am attached to a man in our office, to whom I shall be married some day. […] I am nineteen now, and have carried on with my ‘typo’ for nearly three years now.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: A compositor; a typographer.
typo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪpəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪpəʊ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taipo.
unbend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈbɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: unbends
form: unbending
form: unbent
form: unbent
form: unbended
form: unbended
Etymology: From Middle English unbenden, equivalent to un- + bend.
Senses: examples: text: to unbend a bow
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:
glosses: To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
examples: text: to unbend the mind from study or care
text: You do unbend your noble strength.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use.
examples: text: Unbend the rope.
glosses: To cast loose or untie
glosses: To cease to be bent; to become straight.
examples: text: He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like
glosses: to enjoy oneself; to become affable and free from formality
unborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.
Senses: glosses: Not yet born; yet to come; future.
examples: text: Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.
ref: 2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN:
glosses: Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
glosses: Existing without birth or beginning.
Synonyms: sense: not born
word: coming
word: future
Derived terms: innocent as the babe unborn
innocent as the child unborn
unborn child
unborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: unborns
Etymology: From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
ref: 2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
examples: text: Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
glosses: Unborn offspring collectively.
uncanny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: uncannier
form: uncanniest
Etymology: From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919).
Senses: examples: text: He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.
text: An eerie feeling came over me. She seemed uncanny and fateful.
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 200:
text: These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: The new iPhone promises “next level” photography with push-button ease. But the results look odd and uncanny.
ref: 2022 March 18, Kyle Chayka, “Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
glosses: Careless.
Derived terms: uncanny valley
uncannily
uncanniness
uncanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkæni/
rhymes: -æni
Etymology: From un- + canny; thus “beyond one's ken,” or outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. Compare Middle English unkanne (“unknown”). In the noun sense a translation of Sigmund Freud's usage of German unheimlich (Das Unheimliche, 1919).
Senses: examples: text: This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.
ref: 1982, Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, page 20:
text: As is well known, Freud introduced the concept of the uncanny into psychoanalysis in 1919 and used The Sandman as a prime illustration for his definition.
ref: 1994, Sonu Shamdasani, Michael Münchow, Speculations after Freud, page 186:
text: In the preceding chapter, we saw that Freud linked the maternal body, death, and the afterlife with the uncanny in his famous essay "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche").
ref: 2001, Diane Jonte-Pace, Speaking the Unspeakable, page 81:
text: The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced.
ref: 2003, Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny, page 1:
text: Freud argued that the uncanny was particularly associated with feelings of horror aroused by the figure of the paternal castrator, neglecting the tropes of woman and animal as a source of the uncanny.
ref: 2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic, page vii:
text: [The uncanny is] something that was long familiar to the psyche and was estranged from it only through being repressed. The link with repression now illuminates Schelling′s definition of the uncanny as ‘something that should have remained hidden and has come into the open.’ (Freud: 2003, 147 f)
ref: 2011, Espen Dahl, Hans-Gunter Heimbrock, In Between: The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies, page 99:
text: Because the uncanny affects and haunts everything, it is in constant transformation and cannot be pinned down.
ref: 2011, Anneleen Masschelein, The Unconcept: The Freudian Uncanny in Late-Twentieth-Century Theory, page 2:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
qualifier: Freud
glosses: Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort.
uncap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: uncaps
form: uncapping
form: uncapped
form: uncapped
Etymology: From un- + cap.
Senses: examples: text: Then, with an opener, she uncapped both drinks.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 410:
glosses: To remove a physical cap or cover from.
examples: text: to uncap the frame rate of a game console emulator
glosses: To remove a cap or limit from.
glosses: To take off one's cap.
underlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: underlets
form: underletting
form: underlet
form: underlet
Etymology: From under- + let.
Senses: topics: business
real-estate
glosses: To let below the value.
topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublet
word: sublease
word: underlease
word: subtenant
word: sublet
glosses: Synonym of sublet.
underlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: underlets
Etymology: From under- + let.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublease
word: underlease
word: subtenancy
word: undertenancy
word: subletting
word: underletting
word: sublet
word: sublease
glosses: Synonym of sublease.
underplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From under- + play.
Senses: glosses: The act of underplaying.
underplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: underplays
form: underplaying
form: underplayed
form: underplayed
Etymology: From under- + play.
Senses: glosses: To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
examples: text: As a working-class person I want to tell Tucker and any other gay and lesbian activists who call themselves socialists and so should certainly know better, that when they underplay survival issues and don't acknowledge the faultline under their feet that is class in this society, it hurts me right in the gut.
ref: 1985 August 17, Pam Mitchell, “Don't Say Class Until You Mean It”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 4:
glosses: To make something seem less important than it really is.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
underset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: undersets
form: undersetting
form: underset
form: underset
form: under-set
Etymology: From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).
Senses: examples: text: How it was shaped up with proper foreway and under-set for dished wheels, or how iron "clouts" (with "clout-nails") were carefully fitted into it to take the wear — is all but gone from my memory, as indeed it was hardly worth storing [...]
ref: 1963, George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop:
glosses: To set under or beneath.
examples: text: being a company at that time , and well underset with rich men , and good order
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
text: Unless posts are underset in very steep mines they are apt to fall out before the pressure of the roof has tightened them. Posts are sometimes too much underset, owing to their being too long.
ref: 1887, Arthur Robert Sawyer, Accidents in mines in the North Staffordshire coalfield arising from falls of roof and sides:
glosses: To prop or support.
underset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: undersets
form: under-set
Etymology: From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).
Senses: glosses: undercurrent (of water)
uneasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈiːzi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: uneasier
form: uneasiest
Etymology: From Middle English unesy, equivalent to un- + easy. Merged with Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”). See uneath.
Senses: glosses: Not easy; difficult.
uneasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈiːzi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: more uneasy
form: uneasier
form: most uneasy
form: uneasiest
Etymology: From Middle English unesy, unaisie (“not comforting”), from un- + esy (“comfortable, at ease”). More at easy.
Senses: examples: text: I've been uneasy about your friend ever since I met him. Are you sure we can trust him?
text: Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!:
synonyms: word: angstful
word: apprehensive
word: anxious
word: careful
word: concerned
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: edgy
word: fraught
word: freaked out
word: hagridden
word: high-strung
word: jittery
word: jumpy
word: leery
word: nervous
word: nervy
word: on edge
word: perturbable
word: restless
word: skittish
word: spookish
word: squeamish
word: tied in knots
word: twitchy
word: uneasy
word: unquiet
word: verklempt
word: worried
word: worrisome
word: worryful
glosses: Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety.
examples: text: He was behaving in an uneasy way.
synonyms: stiff
awkward
ungraceful
glosses: Not easy in manner; constrained
glosses: Causing discomfort or constraint
Derived terms: uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Related terms: unease
unearth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɜː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: unearths
form: unearthing
form: unearthed
form: unearthed
Etymology: From Middle English unherthen, equivalent to un- + earth.
Senses: examples: text: to unearth a fox or a badger
glosses: To drive or draw from the earth.
examples: text: to unearth a secret
synonyms: bring to light
disclose
unfold
glosses: To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment
examples: text: Modern archaeological excavations have unearthed the remains of a large number of ancient cities that lay buried deep under the sands for more than a thousand years, along the trade route from Bactria to China passing between the Tien Shan mountains in the north and the desert of Taklamakan in the south.
ref: 1971, R. C. Majumdar, “Medicine”, in A Concise History of Science in India, New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, published 1989, →OCLC, page 261:
text: Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry:
glosses: To dig up.
unhand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: unhands
form: unhanding
form: unhanded
form: unhanded
Etymology: From un- + hand.
Senses: examples: text: He holds him with his skinny hand,
"There was a ship," quoth he.
"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12:
text: “Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer
ref: 1853, Oliver Optic, Hatchie, The Guardian Slave or The Heiress of Bellevue. A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west, B. B. Mussey and Company, and R. B. Fitts and Company, Chapter XXX, page 305:
text: As he dried the last toe, she said, “Thank you. You may now unhand my feet”
ref: 2008, Anne Gracie, The Stolen Princess, Berkley Books, →ISBN, Chapter Two, page 33:
glosses: To release from the hand; to let go.
unhealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlθ
Forms: form: unhealths
Etymology: From un- + health.
Senses: glosses: Lack or absence of health; unhealthiness; unsoundness; infirmity; disease.
unicellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈsɛljʊlə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From uni- + cellular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: single-celled
monocellular
antonyms: multicellular
glosses: Describing any microorganism that has a single cell.
unicellular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈsɛljʊlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: unicellulars
Etymology: From uni- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: Among unicellulars, the rate of increase is beyond belief.
ref: 1931, Ezra Bowen, An hypothesis of population growth:
text: In unicellulars the uncoupling of the various nutritional and energy sources is much more widely spread.
ref: 1986, Johan A J Metz, O Diekmann, The dynamics of physiologically structured populations:
text: More or less distinct specialisation of reproductive elements in some unicellulars.
ref: 2006, J Arthur Thomson, Heredity:
glosses: A single-celled organism; a unicell.
uniformitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˌfɔːmɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌjunɪˌfɔɹmɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more uniformitarian
form: most uniformitarian
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
uniformitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˌfɔːmɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌjunɪˌfɔɹmɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: uniformitarians
Senses: glosses: One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.
unlay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: unlays
form: unlaying
form: unlaid
form: unlaid
Etymology: From un- + lay.
Senses: examples: to unlay a rope
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To untwist.
unleash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈliʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: unleashes
form: unleashing
form: unleashed
form: unleashed
Etymology: From un- + leash.
Senses: examples: text: He unleashed his dog in the park.
text: Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
antonyms: leash
leash up
glosses: To free from a leash, or as from a leash.
examples: text: He unleashed his fury.
text: It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
ref: 1999, Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust:
text: As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.
ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:
text: In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its own version of freedom.
ref: 2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Storm Charlie had raged throught [sic] the night and was unleashing further gusts on the morning that RAIL was due to inspect a vegetation management project in Kent. Bit by bit, the train timetable unravelled. A trip beginning at Bradford-on-Avon belatedly reached Bath, but that turned out to be journey's end.
ref: 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: To let go; to release.
examples: text: Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
ref: 2009 July 11, Bob Herbert, “The Human Equation”, in The New York Times:
text: People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To precipitate; to bring about.
unlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: more unlike
form: most unlike
Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).
Senses: examples: text: The brothers are quite unlike each other.
text: It may be conjectured with some confidence that it is very unlike what is called the Wild and sometimes the Woolly West, which I did not see.
ref: 1927, G. K. Chesterton, What I saw in America, page 45:
glosses: Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike.
examples: text: They contributed in unlike amounts.
text: The earth is unlike the wire in size, resistance, and carrying capacity. Hence, telephone service calk for two wires of equal size, resistance, and carrying capacity.
ref: 1906, Railway master mechanic, volume 30, page 111:
text: Commodities utterly unlike each other in all apparent physical properties, such as color, weight, size, shape, substance,
ref: 1909, John Spargo, Socialism: a summary and interpretation of socialist principles, page 241:
text: Reduction in time makes possible more frequent steamship services, more rapid delivery and lower operating costs. The actual economy effected is different for vessels of unlike speed and types.
ref: 1928, Emory Richard Johnson with Grover Gerhardt Huebner and George Lloyd Wilson, Principles of transportation:
text: At the Bank of Zurich, Savoy deposited the fifteen million francs into two separate accounts in unlike amounts — so that authorities wouldn't see the same amount coming out of Bank Suisse and being deposited minutes later at the Bank of Zurich.
ref: 2005, Stephen Frey, The Insider:
text: Thus two objects of unlike size but equal weights are judged to differ in weight, the smaller being the heavier (size-weight illusion).
ref: 2006, George W. Hartmann with Albert T. Poffenberger, Gestalt Psychology: A Survey of Facts and Principles, page 86:
glosses: Unequal.
glosses: Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
Derived terms: unlike-minded
unlike
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).
Senses: examples: text: The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before.
text: Hal kept pace beside her in his ambling, arm-swinging way. He walked unlike other men she knew, like someone who had never carried a briefcase.
ref: 1995 Fall, Marcia Guthridge, “Henry V, Part 2”, in Paris Review, volume 37, number 136, page 176:
text: These drugs work unlike any medicine ever created.
ref: 1999 December, Joe Oldham, “Design & Engineering Awards 2000”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 176, number 12, page 67:
text: She goes to preschool, plays with dolls, and she loves to draw and paint. But Marla paints unlike any other four-year-old in the world.
ref: 2005 February 23, “Four-Year Old Abstract Artist Discussed, Jesse James Profiled”, in CBS Sixty Minutes:
glosses: Different from; not in a like or similar manner.
examples: text: Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home.
text: Canadians can not bring a "national" piece of litigation, unlike what can be done in the United States.
ref: 1999, Philip Spencer with Glenn M. Zakaib[b], “Product liability aspects of the risks of technological change - a Canadian perspective.”, in Canada-United States Law Journal, volume 25, page 125:
text: Unlike the elbows-out jostling in New York, there will be no campaigning:
ref: 2009 February 10, Nelson Pressley, “Signature Laps The Field With 39 Hayes Noms”, in Washington Post, page C01:
text: But unlike many other tunnels that lay idle and decaying, Catesby has now found a new use as an aerodynamic wind tunnel for the motor industry.
ref: 2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 56:
glosses: In contrast with; as opposed to.
examples: text: Being late is unlike him.
glosses: Not typical of one's character or personality.
unlike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: unlikes
Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).
Senses: examples: 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science
If the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes.
glosses: Something that is not like something else; something different.
unlike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: unlikes
form: unliking
form: unliked
form: unliked
Etymology: From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.
Senses: examples: text: The incounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge, so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the ground to nourish or raise this plant, but the ill season also of the weather, by which it hath been checked and blasted.
ref: 1603, Francis Bacon, “Of the Interpretation of Nature”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, translation of original by Valerius Terminus, page 136:
text: We are not insensible of the fact that these principles ever will be unliked by the men of tho world
ref: 1862, The Scottish Congregational Magazine, page 247:
text: "He doesn't seem to be unliked by anyone, no." Scott's lawyerly impulse was to dismiss any and all advice or speculation made by this woman who used "unliked" rather than "disliked"
ref: 2006, Steve Amick, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake, page 38:
text: Certainly nobody spoke to me, though plenty of them gave me an unliking look.
ref: 2007, Marvin Kaye, The Fair Folk:
glosses: To dislike.
examples: text: I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.
text: Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
ref: 2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8
qualifier: social media
glosses: To cancel a "like" action.
examples: text: My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.
ref: 2010 June 25, TheKorn, “Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):
qualifier: social media
glosses: To cancel a "like" action.
To withdraw support or enjoyment for.
unlike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: unlikes
Etymology: From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.
Senses: examples: text: Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.
ref: 2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans, page 552:
text: On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]
ref: 2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling, page 13:
glosses: The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.
unlikely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪkli/
Forms: form: unlikelier
form: more unlikely
form: unlikeliest
form: most unlikely
Etymology: From Middle English unlykely, unlikly, unlykly, unlicli, equivalent to un- + likely.
Senses: examples: text: It is pretty unlikely that you'll win, but I will pray that at least you do well.
text: In the highly unlikely event of landing in water, lifejackets are stored under the seat.
text: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets.
ref: 1964 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 70:
text: Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.
ref: 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN:
text: Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.
ref: 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash:
glosses: Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
examples: text: unlikely means
glosses: Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.
unlikely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪkli/
Forms: form: more unlikely
form: most unlikely
Etymology: From Middle English unlykely, unlikly, unlykly, unlicli, equivalent to un- + likely.
Senses: glosses: In an improbable manner.
unlikely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlaɪkli/
Forms: form: unlikelies
Etymology: From Middle English unlykely, unlikly, unlykly, unlicli, equivalent to un- + likely.
Senses: examples: text: The molecular ion candidates are divided by the testing phase into three categories: rejects, unlikelies, and probables. Differences between each candidate and the prominent peaks in the spectrum are computed.
ref: 1980, Robert K. Lindsay, Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry:
text: "Here is my every possible phone number, plus a few unlikelies. And I've also put down the numbers of Karin and Wade, in case you've lost them. Karin can come anytime; Wade, up until six in the morning."
ref: 1996, Laurie R. King, To Play the Fool:
text: Then the most unlikely of unlikelies happened. We got another phone call. Another woman wanted to give us a baby—a boy, born just that morning. We walked into a hospital, and he was placed into my arms.
ref: 2001, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Marci Shimoff, Chicken soup for the mother's soul 2, page 166:
glosses: Something or somebody considered unlikely.
unnerve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈnɜː(ɹ)v/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: unnerves
form: unnerving
form: unnerved
form: unnerved
Etymology: From un- + nerve.
Senses: examples: text: to unnerve the arm
glosses: To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
examples: text: I was greatly unnerved by the news that my attacker was back in the country.
text: But new immigration is no longer the primary driver of the growing racial, ethnic and religious diversity that unnerves much of the GOP coalition.
ref: 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:
glosses: To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.
Derived terms: unnervingly