cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: ditches
form: ditching
form: ditched
form: ditched
Etymology: From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deech.
ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: ditches
Etymology: From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deech.
discard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɑːd/
ipa: /dɪˈskɑːd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɑɹd/
ipa: /dɪˈskɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
ipa: /ˈdɪskɑːd/
ipa: /ˈdɪskɑɹd/
Forms: form: discards
form: discarding
form: discarded
form: discarded
Etymology: From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.
Senses: examples: text: A man discards the follies of boyhood.
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
text: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
synonyms: word: cast aside
word: cast away
word: dismiss
word: jettison
word: dispose of
word: eliminate
word: get rid of
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw down
word: junk
word: 86
word: bin
word: can
word: cast aside
word: cast off
word: cast away
word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: chuck out
word: discard
word: dispose of
word: ditch
word: dump
word: get rid of
word: jettison
word: pitch
word: scrap
word: shift
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw out
word: toss
word: trash
glosses: To throw away, to reject.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To make a discard; to throw out a card.
examples: text: […] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.
ref: 1711 December 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Jonathan Swift], The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War, 4th edition, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC, page 65:
synonyms: word: fire
word: let go
word: sack
word: axe
word: can
word: decruit
word: dehire
word: discard
word: remove
word: discharge
word: dismiss
word: downsize
word: fire
word: give the axe
word: give someone the boot
word: give someone their cards
word: give the chop
word: give the elbow
word: give someone the heave-ho
word: give someone the old heave-ho
word: lay off
word: let go
word: let someone go
word: make redundant
word: pink slip
word: promote to customer
word: retrench
word: sack
word: serve notice
word: shit-can
word: term
word: terminate
word: throw out
word: unhire
glosses: To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.
Derived terms: discardable
discarder
discardment
discardure
undiscarded
discard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɑːd/
ipa: /dɪˈskɑːd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɑɹd/
ipa: /dɪˈskɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
ipa: /ˈdɪskɑːd/
ipa: /ˈdɪskɑɹd/
Forms: form: discards
Etymology: From dis- + card. Compare Spanish descartar.
Senses: glosses: Anything discarded.
glosses: A discarded playing card in a card game.
examples: text: Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.
ref: 2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
discord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈdɪskɔːd/
ipa: /ˈdɪskɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈdɪskɔːd/
Forms: form: discords
Etymology: Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above.
Senses: examples: text: A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 6:19:
text: The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; […]
ref: 1775 March 22, Edmund Burke, “Speech on Moving Resolutions for Conciliation with America”, in [Walker King and French Laurence], editors, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume III, London: […] [T. Gillet] for F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], published 1803, →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.
glosses: Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
examples: text: […] For a Diſcord it ſelfe is but a Harſhneſſe of Diuers Sounds Meeting.
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 700, page 173:
glosses: Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Derived terms: apple of discord
discordful
Discordian
discordous
Related terms: discordant
Discordianism
discord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: discords
form: discording
form: discorded
form: discorded
Etymology: Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above.
Senses: examples: text: […] Sometimes the one Iarring and diſcording with the other, and making a Confuſion; […]
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 227, page 62:
glosses: To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
discord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔɹd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: discords
form: discording
form: discorded
form: discorded
Etymology: From dis- + cord (“tie, bind”).
Senses: glosses: To untie things which are connected by a cord.
discordant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɔːdn̩t/
ipa: /dɪsˈkoɹdənt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dənt
Forms: form: discordants
Etymology: From Late Middle English discordaunt (“(adjective) not in accord or harmony; dissonant; (noun) element not in accord or harmony”), from Anglo-Norman descorda(u)nt, discorda(u)nt, Middle French descordant, discordant, and Old French descordant, discordant (“of people: quarrelsome; of things: in disagreement, at variance”) (modern French discordant), an adjective use of the present participle of descorder, discorder (“to fail to agree or harmonize, clash, disagree, discord”), from Latin discordāre, the present active infinitive of discordō (“to disagree, quarrel with”), from discors (“discordant, different, inharmonious”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Discors is derived from dis- (“prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’”) + cor (“heart; (figurative) mind; soul”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”)). By surface analysis, discord (noun) + -ant (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘exhibiting [the condition or process described by the noun]’).
Senses: examples: text: In the process of dismemberment it must often happen that the true individuality of a soil is lost, so that schemes of laboratory classification sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants.
ref: 1910 November 17, “The International Agrogeological Congress at Stockholm”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 85, number 2142, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 89, column 1:
glosses: A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.
love child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love children
form: love-child
form: lovechild
Etymology: From love + child.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in The Old Curiosity Shop:
text: Love child, never meant to be / Love child, born in poverty
ref: 1968, “Love Child”, performed by The Supremes:
synonyms: word: bastard
word: bantling
word: bastard
word: bastardling
word: bastid
word: batchelor's son
word: by-blow
word: degenerate
word: fruit of adultery
word: haramzada
word: illegitimate
word: love child
word: mamzer
word: misbegotten
word: natural child
word: nullius filius
word: outside child
word: slink
word: whoreson
glosses: A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
lovechild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovechildren
Etymology: From love + child.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of love child.
matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mā'trĭsēz
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of matrix
matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mā'trĭsēz
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹɪsiːz/
enpr: mā'trĭsĭz
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹɪsɪz/
enpr: mā'trĭsēz
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of matrice
depict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: depicts
form: depicting
form: depicted
form: depicted
Etymology: From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
Senses: examples: text: And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 4, Chapter 12, p. 189:
text: The Spring, when all its beauties rise,
I see depicted in your eyes
ref: 1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, a Poem: A Familiar Epistle to a Friend, London: George Kearsly:
text: At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.
ref: 1851, George Borrow, chapter XXIV, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 212:
text: The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
ref: 1984, Lawrence Starr, “Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess”, in American Music, volume 2, number 2, page 27:
text: Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
ref: 1987, Niall O'Loughlin, “Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar”, in The Musical Times, volume 128, number 1734, page 443:
text: 1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.
synonyms: portray
express
exhibit
register
show
describe
bespeak
visualise
draw
render
depicture
glosses: To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
Derived terms: depictable
depictee
depicter
depictor
redepict
undepicted
Related terms: depiction
depictive
depict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Etymology: From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
Senses: examples: Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177,
I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal,
Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun,
The hed of thre ful solempne and roial,
Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;
glosses: Depicted.
depiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: depictions
Etymology: From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō. By surface analysis, depict + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
ref: 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
glosses: A drawing or painting.
glosses: A representation.
examples: text: It is nevertheless true that, whereas the teaching of music and literature is established on a scientific basis, the art of depiction is still taught in a primitive and inefficient way.
ref: 1950, Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearances, The Shepherd Press, page 12:
text: But since "realism" or representational depiction is itself a mode of art, it can never escape some degree of formal removal from the raw data of experience; […]
ref: 1973, Daniel W. Doerksen, Conflict and Resolution in George Herbert's The Temple, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 108:
text: As previously described, depiction is a unique type of visual representation defined by both seeing the activities/marks that constitute the depiction whilst also seeing the object of the depiction.
ref: 2017, Simon Grennan, “[[Drawing, Depicting and Imagining] Drawing’s Affordances] Depiction”, in A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels), Palgrave Macmillan, published 2019, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: The act of depicting.
Derived terms: depictional
redepiction
Related terms: depict
trace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪs/
ipa: [tʃɹeɪs]
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: more trace
form: most trace
form: tracest
Etymology: From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).
Senses: examples: text: Vena contracta is defined as the narrowest portion of the regurgitant jet, seen at its origin. In all of the cases, it was assumed that the MR severity was downgraded by general anesthesia because of reduced afterload conditions. In cases where MR was determined to be trace, mild, or moderate, the afterload was manipulated by bolus injections of phenylephrine to approximate the preanesthesia, awake blood pressure. The final MR grade was assigned after this maneuver was completed. If conflicting results were observed for different criteria, the reviewing anesthesiologist made a judgment as to the final grade of MR.
ref: 2005, Schroder JN, Williams ML, Hata JA, Muhlbaier LH, Swaminathan M, Mathew JP, Glower DD, O'Connor CM, Smith PK, Milano CA, Impact of Mitral Valve Regurgitation Evaluated by Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography on Long-Term Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting:
text: Through the above, it is clear that the students of the experimental group who studied the unit of similarity of triangles according to the model (4mat) have outperformed the students of the control group who studied the same unit in the traditional way in the results of the systemic thinking measurement. It was also found that the students of the experimental group have been developing their geometric tendencies more than the students of the control group, and this is due to the use of the (4mat) model. It provided the opportunity for students to overcome many difficulties by giving them the opportunity to discover data for themselves, because it allowed them to recognize similar triangles through their own thinking patterns and transition as the information discovered remains more trace than the information that is taught to students in the traditional way.
ref: 2024, Wafiq Hibi, Using The (4mat) Model in Teaching The Triangles Similarity Unit For The Ninth Grade:
text: As indicated in Chomsky (1982), the empty element in (26a) has an antecedent with an independent 0-role and is therefore PRO rather than trace. Subjacency is violated, but nevertheless PRO and its antecedent can be coindexed, as is generally possible for anaphors, apart from trace (in (26c), the coindexing of they and each other violates subjacency). In (26b), the antecedent of the empty element is in a non-0-position, so the empty element is trace. Subjacency is violated as in (26a), but in this case, the sentence is ungrammatical.⁹ Thus subjacency appears to be a property of the rule Move α, not of other indexing mechanisms. If this conclusion is correct, then clearly we will have to distinguish between the indexing mechanism at work in (25a) or (26b) -- i.e. Move α -- and the one at work in (25b-c) or (26a,c).
ref: 2025, Aoun, Joseph, The Status of Movement Rules:
glosses: Extremely small or insignificant (of an amount or quantity).
trace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪs/
ipa: [tʃɹeɪs]
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: traces
form: tracing
form: traced
form: traced
Etymology: From Middle English tracen, from Old French tracer, trasser (“to delineate, score, trace", also, "to follow, pursue”), probably a conflation of Vulgar Latin *tractiō (“to delineate, score, trace”), from Latin trahere (“to draw”); and Old French traquer (“to chase, hunt, pursue”), from trac (“a track, trace”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, expedition”). More at track.
Senses: examples: text: I feel thy power […] to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Happy the mortal, who has traced effects
To their first cause
ref: c. 1792, William Cowper, On a Similar Occasion for the Year 1792:
glosses: To follow the trail of.
examples: text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
text: They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
ref: 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Sticks insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC:
glosses: To follow the history of.
examples: text: He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
glosses: To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
glosses: To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
examples: text: That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word by word, and line by line.
ref: 1647, John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw:
glosses: To copy; to imitate.
examples: text: Not wont on foote with heavy armes to trace.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
glosses: To walk; to go; to travel.
examples: text: We do trace this alley up and down.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
Related terms: test and trace
tracing
track and trace
trace down
trace out
tracing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: tracings
Etymology: From Middle English tracyng; equivalent to trace + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
glosses: A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
glosses: The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
glosses: A regular path or track; a course.
Derived terms: beam tracing
cone tracing
contact tracing
contact-tracing
distributed ray tracing
path tracing
ray tracing
skip tracing
tracing paper
traitor tracing
Related terms: trace
tracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English tracyng; equivalent to trace + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trace
sketch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sket͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: sketches
form: sketching
form: sketched
form: sketched
form: scetch
Etymology: From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.
Senses: examples: text: I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
glosses: To make a brief, basic drawing.
examples: text: He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.
glosses: To describe briefly and with very few details.
Derived terms: sketch out
sketch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛt͡ʃ/
ipa: /sket͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: more sketch
form: most sketch
form: scetch
Etymology: From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.
Senses: examples: text: You call at 9 am on a Saturday, lucky I'm even awake. [...] Then expect me to pick you up at a gas station near a loony bin, that's sketch. I don't even want to ask what you're doing.
ref: 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 28:
glosses: Sketchy, shady, questionable.
sketchbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɛt͡ʃˌbʊk/
Forms: form: sketchbooks
Etymology: From sketch + book.
Senses: glosses: A book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketch pad.
examples: text: This compact sketchbook displays every style of blinds imaginable, from rollers to Romans and from London to Austrian blinds.
ref: 2005, Wendy Baker, Compact Sketchbook of Blinds, →ISBN:
text: Since writing the preface for my sketchbook, I have, of course, been involved in a number of more recent projects where I have sketched ideas for structural solutions.
ref: 2012, Tony Hunt, Sir Norman Foster, Tony Hunt's Second Sketchbook, →ISBN, page iv:
text: This sketchbook provides an artist's impression in watercolours and drawings of the city's varied past, linked to the buildings and neighbourhoods still here today, as well as a glimpse of some of the beautifully conserved historic settlements on nearby islands.
ref: 2013, Bahamas Sketchbook: Islands in the Sun, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A book of printed sketches.
glosses: A printed book of literary sketches or skits.
Synonyms: sense: book for sketching
word: visual diary
sketchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɛtʃi
Forms: form: sketchier
form: sketchiest
Etymology: From sketch + -y. Extension of "brief, imperfect, unfinished" notion.
Senses: examples: text: The first draft included a sketchy design.
glosses: Roughly or hastily laid out; intended for later refinement.
examples: text: This is still in the design stage, so details are sketchy.
ref: 2021 August 11, Paul Bigland, “Where HS2 will meet EWR”, in RAIL, number 937, page 39:
text: Bellos and Montagu offer a few sketchy alternatives, such as shorter post mortem protections or a curb on corporate rights capture, and call for a “broad debate” on copyright's future.
ref: 2024 January 13, Boyd Tonkin, “The culture of copyright creep”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
glosses: Not thorough or detailed.
glosses: Resembling a comedy sketch, of sketch quality.
examples: text: The sketchy repair job did not look like it would hold.
glosses: Of questionable or doubtful quality.
examples: text: Because he is so sketchy, I always think that he is up to something.
text: The downside of working with sketchy dudes on building sites and in greasy spoons was that they were sketchy, but they also knew shady things.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 201:
glosses: Suspected of taking part in illicit or dishonorable dealings.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Jack is so sketchy. I think he's stalking me.
glosses: Disturbing or unnerving, often in such a way that others may suspect them of intending physical or sexual harm or harassment.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: "We were a bit nervous about it, seeing heaps of surfers out there on the breaks," he said. "There were some nice breaks, but it looked pretty sketchy with the sharks, so yeah, we just tried to stay away from that beach."
ref: 2025 January 4, “Surfing community again in mourning after latest shark attack on SA coast”, in ABC News (Australia):
glosses: Disturbing, or indicating possible danger.
raw_tags: of a situation
Synonyms: dicey
dodgy
dubious
seedy
shady
Related terms: skeezy
toadstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊdˌstuːl/
enpr: tōdʹsto͞ol'
ipa: /ˈtoʊdˌstu(ə)l/
rhymes: -əʊdstuːl
rhymes: -oʊdstul
rhymes: -oʊdstuəl
Forms: form: toadstools
form: toadestoole
form: todestoole
Etymology: From Middle English tode-stole, tadstol, taddestol, equivalent to toad + stool. Compare dialectal English frogstool (“toadstool”), Saterland Frisian Poagestoul (“mushroom”, literally “frog's stool”).
Senses: glosses: Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.
Derived terms: toadstool disease
toadstool leather coral
Related terms: fungus
fungi
mushroom
rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɐbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʊbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌbəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrəbbə(r)/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Etymology: From rub + -er.
The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not having to do with rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.
Senses: glosses: Not covered by funds on account.
raw_tags: of a draft/check
Synonyms: word: I wouldn't take a check from him. They're pure rubber.
sense: of a draft/check
word: hot
sense: of a draft/check
word: bad
rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɐbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʊbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌbəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrəbbə(r)/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rubbers
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running.
ref: 1828, Robert Huish, The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on Fact, page 83:
text: […] an old lady's innocent rubber.
ref: 1907 May 25, in The Publishers' Weekly, number 1843, page 1608 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZCADAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22her%20grand-aunt%22&pg=PA1608#v=onepage&q=%22her%20grand-aunt%22&f=false
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:
The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
examples: text: Ladies matches shall consist of 6 rubbers. Each rubber shall consist of best of 3 games to 21 points.
ref: 2013 Cradley Heath Badminton League Rules as at 2013/2014
text: Montreal’s Francoise Abanda lost the first rubber of the tie 6-2, 6-4 to Karolina Pliskova on Saturday
ref: 2015 February 7, “Canada trails Czech Republic 2-0 in Fed Cup tie after singles losses”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:
An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
examples: text: "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting."
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League:
glosses: The game of rubber bridge.
Derived terms: dead rubber
rubber bridge
rubber match
rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɐbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʊbə/
ipa: /ˈɹʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹʌbəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrəbbə(r)/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rubbers
form: rubbering
form: rubbered
form: rubbered
Senses: examples: text: "There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...
ref: 1999, Los Angeles Times, "Party's Over for Rural Phone Customers in Green Mountain State," (Jan. 31, 1999)
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: To eavesdrop on a telephone call
examples: text: Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 17, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.
beli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bael (“Indian tree”).
Adi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India and Tibet.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Adrian, Aditya, or Adit, or other names beginning with Ad-.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adrienne, or Aditi, or other names beginning with Ad-.
Related terms: adi ⁠
apa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apas
Etymology: From Coptic ⲁⲡⲁ (apa).
Senses: glosses: A title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.
batis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batises
Etymology: From translingual Batis, the genus in question, itself likely from Ancient Greek βατίς (batís).
Senses: glosses: Any of several passerine birds in the genus Batis, related to wattle-eyes.
glosses: Any of the genus Batis of saltworts.
Derived terms: forest batis
yeh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: [jɛ]
[jɛː]
[jɛə]
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yeah; yes.
yeh
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: [jɛ]
ipa: [jɛː]
ipa: [jɛə]
ipa: /jə/
ipa: [jɛ]
ipa: [jɛ]
ipa: [jɛː]
ipa: [jɛə]
Senses: examples: text: ‘Budge up, yeh great lump,’ said the stranger.
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of you.
arti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aarti.
euphemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphemism
herpetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herpetologists
Etymology: From herpeto- (From Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “creeping animal, reptile, especially a snake”)) + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: Already, Griffith has observed several amphibian extinctions. Pretty much every herpetologist working out in the field has watched several.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
glosses: One who studies reptiles and amphibians; a reptile and amphibian specialist.
Derived terms: herpie
Related terms: herp
herper
herpetology
gene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēn
ipa: /d͡ʒiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: Gene
homophone: Jean
Forms: form: genes
Etymology: From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Coined by Danish botanist Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen in 1909, in a German-language publication, from the last syllable of pangene.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: cistron (often synonymous)
text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: phene
glosses: A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms which may take several values and (in principle) predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
examples: text: Holonym: locus
text: A change in a gene is reflected in the protein or RNA molecule that it codes for.
text: A length of DNA is divided into segments called chromosomes and shorter individual units called genes.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 7:
text: One way to define a gene (there are many, and they are not all equivalent) is as the bit of DNA that contains the information needed to make a specific protein or a functional RNA molecule.
ref: 2025, The Economist staff, “Primer 1: Nucleic acids and proteins”, in The Economist (Biology Primers series), retrieved 18 Oct 2025:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, such as (often) the structure of a protein.
Derived terms: algeny
antigene
aristogene
atrogene
cene
cisgene
control gene
cream gene
cytogene
eigengene
electrochemogene
electrogene
endogene
gene-altered
gene bank
gene cassette
genechip
gene complex
gene drive
gene-engineered
gene expression
gene family
geneflow
gene flow
gene frequency
gene gun
geneless
genelet
genelike
gene-manipulated
gene-modified
gene-napper
gene pool
gene product
generich
geneset
gene silencing
gene splicing
genet
gene therapy
genetic
geneticist
genetics
gene transcription
gene transfer
gene trap
genewise
genic
genism
genome
genometastasis
genomics
gerontogene
glycogene
histocompatibility gene
homeobox gene
horizontal gene transfer
hox gene
immunogene
intergene
intragene
jumping gene
lateral gene transfer
lethal gene
marker gene
metagene
minigene
morphogene
multigene
oligogene
osmogene
pangene
pharmacogene
photogene
polygene
proxygene
pseudogene
retrogene
selenogene
selfish gene
subgene
suicide gene
supergene
toll gene
transgene
unigene
virogene
X-linked gene
Related terms: allele
locus
dominant
recessive
philately
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlæt.ə.li/
Forms: form: philatelies
Etymology: First use appears c. 1865. Borrowed from French philatélie, coined by French stamp collector Georges Herpin (in Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste, Nov. 15, 1864) from Ancient Greek φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἀτέλεια (atéleia), the closest word he could find in Ancient Greek to the concept of “postage stamp”, from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + τέλος (télos, “tax”). This word serves as a reminder of the original function of postage stamps, now often forgotten: the cost of letter-carrying formerly was paid by the recipient; stamps indicated it had been pre-paid by the sender, thus the letters were “carriage-free”.
Senses: glosses: Stamp collecting.
glosses: The study of postage stamps, postal routes, postal history, etc.
Derived terms: aerophilately
astrophilately
bibliophilately
biophilately
marcophily
paraphilately
philatelic
philatelical
philatelically
philatelics
philatelism
philatelist
prephilately
numismatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjuː.mɪzˈma.tɪks/
ipa: /ˌnuː.məzˈmæ.tɪks/
rhymes: -ætɪks
Etymology: From French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma, “current coin, custom”), from νομίζω (nomízō, “I hold or own as a custom, usage, I use customarily, practise, I am used to”), from νόμος (nómos, “usage, custom”), from νέμω (némō, “I keep, hold, watch”).
Senses: glosses: The study of coins, tokens, medals and paper money.
glosses: The study of coins.
glosses: The collecting of coins, tokens, medals and paper money.
glosses: The collecting of coins.
Derived terms: numismatic
numismatical
numismatician
Related terms: exonumia
numismatist
numismatography
numismatologist
numismatology
paranumismatica
numismatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːˈmɪzmətɪst/
Forms: form: numismatists
Etymology: From numismatics + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In comments to Hyperallergic, ancient historian and classical numismatist Liv Yarrow noted the absence of SPQR coins during the period of the Republic and its later use as a means of justifying autocracy while harkening back to an earlier age:
ref: 2018 August 30, Sarah E. Bond, “The Misuse of an Ancient Roman Acronym by White Nationalist Groups”, in Hyperallergic:
text: With seasoned numismatists eager to fill gaps in their collections, prices are already rising.
ref: 2022 September 21, Julie Gordon, “Collectors clamor for rare Queen Elizabeth coins and notes”, in Reuters:
glosses: One who studies and/or collects coins and/or currencies.
Synonyms: numismat
numismatician
Related terms: numismatic
numismatics
Inuktitut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnʊktɪtʊt/
Etymology: Transliteration of Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot, “like the Inuit”).
Senses: examples: text: I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.
ref: 2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 46:
text: In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.
ref: 2025, Marie-Ève Hudon, Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories, Ottawa, Canada: Library of Parliament, page 30:
glosses: The language of the Inuit people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Inuktitut terms
katakana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætəˈkænə/
ipa: /ˌkætəˈkɑːnə/
ipa: /ˌkɑtəˈkɑːnə/
rhymes: -ænə
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: katakana
form: katakanas
form: katagana
Etymology: From Japanese 片(かた)仮(か)名(な) (katakana).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.
glosses: A character thereof.
Related terms: hentaigana
hiragana
man'yōgana
Kongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Bakongo
glosses: A Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo.
Kongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language (or family of languages) of Central Africa.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Congo (“place in Africa”).
Synonyms: Kikongo
Related terms: Ibinda
Kongo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kongo
form: most Kongo
Senses: examples: text: In addition, an initial analysis of Kongo cosmology, cosmogony, and mythology allows us to see and appreciate the conceptual parallels between Kongo culture in Central Africa and in Cuba.
ref: 2013, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign:
glosses: Of or related to the Kongo languages or Kikongo-speaking peoples
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kongo terms
outstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtˈstæn.dɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌʌʊtˈstæn.dɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌæɔtˈstæn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Etymology: From outstand, equivalent to out- + standing or outstand + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstand
Lombard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒmbɑːd/
ipa: /ˈlɑmbɑɹd/
Forms: form: Lombards
form: Lumbard
form: Lumbar
form: lombard
Etymology: From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic *langabardaz from elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard and longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).
Senses: synonyms: Langobard
glosses: A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: A banker or moneylender.
examples: text: a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A Lombard house.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century.
Related terms: Lombardi
Lombard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒmbɑːd/
ipa: /ˈlɑmbɑɹd/
Forms: form: Lombards
form: Lumbard
form: Lumbar
form: lombard
Etymology: From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic *langabardaz from elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard and longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).
Senses: glosses: A Romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.
glosses: A surname originating as an ethnonym.
glosses: A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.
Derived terms: Lombard house
Lombardism
Lombard rate
Lombardstown
Lombard Street
Related terms: Lombardy
Lombard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒmbɑːd/
ipa: /ˈlɑmbɑɹd/
Forms: form: more Lombard
form: most Lombard
form: Lumbard
form: Lumbar
form: lombard
Etymology: From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic *langabardaz from elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard and longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Lombardy, Italy.
Luganda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈɡændə/
ipa: /luːˈɡɑːndə/
Etymology: Luganda Oluganda (“Luganda”)
Senses: examples: text: Then it dawned on her. He did not know any Luganda. All along he had not understood a word she had said.
ref: 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 48:
synonyms: Ganda
glosses: A Bantu language spoken mostly in Uganda.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Luganda terms
Luganda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈɡændə/
ipa: /luːˈɡɑːndə/
Etymology: Portmanteau of Ukrainian Луга́нськ (Luhánsʹk) or Russian Луганск (Lugansk) + Uganda. Alternatively borrowed directly from either Russian Луга́нда (Lugánda) or Ukrainian Луга́нда (Luhánda).
Senses: examples: text: A novel abusive word for a resident of Lugansk "Lugan-don/Lugansk-condom" can be explained as either an agglutination of the two words "Lugansk" + "condom" or as a reference to a mythological country "Luganda" whose name comprises component "Lugansk" and "Uganda".
ref: 2019, Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff, Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, →ISBN, Chapter 11, page 285:
coordinate_terms: Donbabwe
glosses: Luhansk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Luhansk People's Republic.
Derived terms: Lugandan