cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zephyr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛfə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈzɛfɚ/
rhymes: -ɛfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zephyrs
form: zephyring
form: zephyred
form: zephyred
form: zephir
Etymology: From Latin zephyrus (“west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros). Doublet of zefir, zéphire, Zephyr, and Zephyrus. The confectionery sense is a semantic loan from Russian зефи́р (zefír).
Senses: examples: text: There was a time
When the soft zephyring spring came joyfully,
Like a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—
ref: 1879, Robert Stephen Hawker, “An Inscription for an Aged Oak”, in The Poetical Works, London: The Bodley Head, page 171:
text: There was a sudden scrambling and thumping overhead and hot exclamations zephyred down to them.
ref: 1908, Clarence E. Mulford, chapter 4, in The Coming of Hopalong Cassidy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 60:
text: But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Experience”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 111:
glosses: To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.
examples: 1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361,
He was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city.
1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76,
Ah, but the skies are joyous in the spring,
From dawn to dusk exuberantly blue;
White-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do
But wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!
1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49,
Oh, graciously she led my soul within
Where ever and forever went a wind
In zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet
About the place, and waves of poppy heat
About us there.
glosses: To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.
zigzag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Forms: form: zigzags
form: zig-zag
Etymology: Attested from 1712. Borrowed from French zigzag (attested from 1662), possibly from a Germanic source via Walloon ziczac (although German Zickzack is attested only from 1703). Also, possibly from the shape of the letter Z, which appears twice in the word. Sense “drunk” from the zigzag movements of a drunk person.
Senses: examples: text: She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: […].
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 70:
text: And still, high in front, arose the precipitous barrier of the mountain, greened over where it seemed that scarce a harebell could find root, barred with the zigzags of a human road where it seemed that not a goat could scramble.
ref: 1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC:
glosses: A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
glosses: One of these sharp turns.
Derived terms: zigzag railway
zigzag salamander
zigzag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Forms: form: zig-zag
Etymology: Attested from 1712. Borrowed from French zigzag (attested from 1662), possibly from a Germanic source via Walloon ziczac (although German Zickzack is attested only from 1703). Also, possibly from the shape of the letter Z, which appears twice in the word. Sense “drunk” from the zigzag movements of a drunk person.
Senses: examples: text: The entrance to this ancient place of devotion was under a very low round arch, ornamented by several courses of that zig-zag moulding, resembling shark's teeth, which appears so often in the more ancient Saxon churches.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 20:
text: His thoughts were fixed on one subject, and it was an effort to him to follow the zigzag remarks of his children—an effort which he did not make.
ref: 1854 September – 1855 January, [Elizabeth Gaskell], chapter 6, in North and South. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1855, →OCLC, pages 78–79:
text: There, by dint of looking closely about me, I found a rough zig-zag descending path notched out: which I followed.
ref: 1866 December 10, Charles Dickens, “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signal-Man.”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Mugby Junction. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, volume XVI, London: Published at No. 26, Wellington Street; and by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
text: Right and left ranked the toothed and zigzag line of storm-torn heights, forming the series which culminated in the one beneath their feet.
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:
text: We followed the mule-road, a zigzag course, now to the right, now to the left, but always up, and always crowded and incommoded by going and coming files of reckless tourists who were never, in a single instance, tied together.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Then he addressed a keen-sighted, remembering gaze to the rim-wall above. It was serrated, and between two spears of rock, directly in line with his position, showed a zigzag crack that at night would let through the gleam of sky.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, “Surprise Valley”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 102:
glosses: Moving in, or having a zigzag.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Drunk.
zigzag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Forms: form: zigzags
form: zigzagging
form: zigzagged
form: zigzagged
form: zig-zag
Etymology: Attested from 1712. Borrowed from French zigzag (attested from 1662), possibly from a Germanic source via Walloon ziczac (although German Zickzack is attested only from 1703). Also, possibly from the shape of the letter Z, which appears twice in the word. Sense “drunk” from the zigzag movements of a drunk person.
Senses: examples: text: […] she saw them as we see the throngs which cover the canvases of Sallaert, Van Alsloot, and others of that school—vast masses of beings, jostling, zigzagging, and processioning in definite directions, but whose features are indistinguishable by the very comprehensiveness of the view.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:
text: At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust. It zigzagged so that he could not see ahead more than a few yards at a time.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, “Surprise Valley”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 98:
text: If the first two novels created a new genre — Peakean fantasy — then this third volume zigzags between several: the Bildungsroman, science fiction, social satire, morality tale and dystopian prophecy.
ref: 2002, Malcolm Yorke, Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold: A Life, page 298:
synonyms: zig and zag
glosses: To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
Synonyms: weave
Related terms: zig when one should zag
zigzag
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Forms: form: more zigzag
form: most zigzag
form: zig-zag
Etymology: Attested from 1712. Borrowed from French zigzag (attested from 1662), possibly from a Germanic source via Walloon ziczac (although German Zickzack is attested only from 1703). Also, possibly from the shape of the letter Z, which appears twice in the word. Sense “drunk” from the zigzag movements of a drunk person.
Senses: glosses: in a zigzag manner or pattern
baro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), from βαρύς (barús, “heavy”).
Senses: glosses: pressure
related: word: bary-
glosses: weight
glosses: blood pressure
zimarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zimarras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zimarra. Doublet of simar.
Senses: glosses: a cassock with a small cape attached
zinco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋkəʊ
Forms: form: zincos
Senses: glosses: A line or half-tone block etched on zinc plate, used in zincography.
zingaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zingaros
form: zingari
Etymology: From Italian. Doublet of tzigane.
Senses: examples: text: Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
ref: 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:
glosses: A Gypsy.
Related terms: Zincalo
improbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɑbəbl̩/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɒbəbl̩/
Forms: form: more improbable
form: most improbable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French improbable, from im- + probable.
Senses: examples: text: It's highly improbable that aliens abducted you.
text: Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.
ref: 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Positiveness”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 197:
text: It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.
ref: 1955 December, “Notes and News: An Old Midland Railway Bridge Notice”, in Railway Magazine, page 877:
glosses: Not likely to be true.
examples: text: Due to the loss of power, it is improbable that we will begin on time.
glosses: Not likely to happen.
Derived terms: improbability
improbableness
improbably
statistically improbable phrase
superimprobable
Related terms: probability
probably
impossible
amino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈminoʊ ˈæsɪd/
Forms: form: amino acids
Etymology: See amine and acid. Likely a calque of German Aminosäure, which is attested earlier.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.
Synonyms: word: amino acid
Hypernyms: word: organic compound
word: chemical compound
word: zwitterion
Hyponyms: word: essential amino acid
word: nonessential amino acid
word: histidine
word: isoleucine
word: leucine
word: lysine
word: methionine
word: phenylalanine
word: threonine
word: tryptophan
word: valine
word: alanine
word: aspargine
word: aspartic acid
word: cysteine
word: glutamic acid
word: glutamine
word: glycine
word: proline
word: serine
word: tyrosine
Coordinate terms: sense: amino acids
word: alanine
sense: amino acids
word: arginine
sense: amino acids
word: asparagine
sense: amino acids
word: aspartic acid
sense: amino acids
word: cysteine
sense: amino acids
word: glutamic acid
sense: amino acids
word: glutamine
sense: amino acids
word: glycine
sense: amino acids
word: histidine
sense: amino acids
word: isoleucine
sense: amino acids
word: leucine
sense: amino acids
word: lysine
sense: amino acids
word: methionine
sense: amino acids
word: phenylalanine
sense: amino acids
word: proline
sense: amino acids
word: serine
sense: amino acids
word: threonine
sense: amino acids
word: tryptophan
sense: amino acids
word: tyrosine
sense: amino acids
word: valine
Derived terms: alpha-amino acid
aminoacidemia
aminoacidopathy
aminoaciduria
beta-amino acid
bisamino acid
casamino acid
deduced amino acid sequence
essential amino acid
glyco-amino-acid
glycosyl-amino-acid
hyperaminoacidemia
hypoaminoacidemia
lipoamino acid
nonessential amino acid
non-essential amino acid
selenoamino acid
β-amino acid
Related terms: word: imino acid
word: :Category:Amino acids
essential amino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essential amino acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: nonessential amino acid
glosses: One of the nine naturally occurring amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize, and so must be provided by dietary protein.
Hyponyms: phenylalanine
valine
threonine
tryptophan
methionine
leucine
isoleucine
lysine
histidine
nonessential amino acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonessential amino acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Those of the naturally occurring amino acids that the human body can synthesize for itself, and so need not be provided by dietary protein.
Hyponyms: alanine
aspargine
aspartic acid
cysteine
glutamic acid
glutamine
glycine
proline
serine
tyrosine
Related terms: conditionally essential amino acid
essential amino acid
biochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪəʊˈkɛmɪstɹi/
Forms: form: biochemistries
Etymology: From bio- + chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: My aunt has a degree in biochemistry.
related: word: biochem
glosses: The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism; the study of such chemistry.
examples: text: The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.
text: They [viruses] use more varied biochemistry than cellular life, storing their genetic information as both single- and double-stranded DNA as well as RNA.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 146:
glosses: The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism.
examples: text: Our study compared the biochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.
text: The biochemistry of NO differs from that of NO₂.
glosses: The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition.
Derived terms: autobiochemistry
clinical biochemistry
geobiochemistry
glycobiochemistry
metallobiochemistry
neurobiochemistry
photobiochemistry
physiobiochemistry
soil biochemistry
xenobiochemistry
Related terms: biochemical
biochemically
biochemist
bioscience
biotech
biotechnology
mbio
microbiology
molbio
molecular biology
orgo
organic chemistry
physiology
organic chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: Orgo
word: O-chem
glosses: The chemistry of organic compounds (that is, chemical compounds with carbon atoms in a covalent bond).
Related terms: biochemistry
carbochemistry
inorganic chemistry
inorganic chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inorganic chemistries
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemistry of the elements (including carbon), and those compounds that do not contain carbon.
Coordinate terms: organic chemistry
carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: käʹbənət
ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.nət/
enpr: kärʹbənət
ipa: /ˈkɑɹbənət/
enpr: käʹbənət
ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.nət/
enpr: kärʹbənət
ipa: /ˈkɑɹbənət/
Forms: form: carbonates
Etymology: From French carbonate, equivalent of carbon + -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).
Senses: examples: text: A sample of carbon removed from the ocean in the solid form of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from UCLA's SeaChange program -- now known as Equatic -- in 2023.
ref: 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN:
text: McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.
ref: 2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say”, in CNN:
glosses: Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
Hyponyms: ammonium carbonate
barium carbonate
bicarbonate
bismuth carbonate
cadmium carbonate
calcium carbonate
calcium magnesium carbonate
cap carbonate
carbonate of lime
copper carbonate
cupric carbonate
dicarbonate
diethyl carbonate
dimethyl carbonate
fluocarbonate
hydrocarbonate
hydrogen carbonate
hydrogen potassium carbonate
lead carbonate
lithium carbonate
magnesium carbonate
manganese carbonate
metacarbonate
oxycarbonate
percarbonate
potassic carbonate
potassium acid carbonate
potassium carbonate
potassium hydrogen carbonate
silver carbonate
sodium carbonate
sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate
sodium hydrogen carbonate
strontium carbonate
sulfocarbonate
sulphocarbonate
thorium carbonate
urano-ammonic carbonate
uranoso-ammonic carbonate
uranyl carbonate
zinc carbonate
Derived terms: biscarbonate
borocarbonate
carbonate-apatite
carbonate ion
carbonate of potash
carbonate of potassa
carbonate of potassium
carbonate-orthopyroxenite
carbonate strontianite
carbonatian
carbonatic
carbonatite
carbonatization
carbonatize
carbonatogenesis
carbonatogenic
decacarbonate
decarbonate
dithiocarbonate
dodecacarbonate
ethylene carbonate
fluorocarbonate
heptacarbonate
hexacarbonate
hydrogen carbonate ion
hydroxycarbonate
monocarbonate
noncarbonate
octacarbonate
orthocarbonate
paleocarbonate
pentacarbonate
polycarbonate
protocarbonate
pyrocarbonate
recarbonate
sesquicarbonate
subcarbonate
supercarbonate
tetracarbonate
thiocarbonate
tricarbonate
carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: käʹbənāt
ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/
enpr: kärʹbənāt
ipa: /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/
enpr: käʹbənāt
ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/
enpr: kärʹbənāt
ipa: /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/
Forms: form: carbonates
form: carbonating
form: carbonated
form: carbonated
Etymology: From carbon + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To charge (often a beverage) with carbon dioxide.
Derived terms: carbonatable
carbonatation
carbonated
carbonation
carbonator
intransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹænsətɪv/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹænzətɪv/
Etymology: From in- + transitive.
Senses: examples: text: The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
raw_tags: of a verb
examples: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further.
glosses: Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
glosses: Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
Synonyms: neuter
nontransitive
Derived terms: intransitively
intransitiveness
intransitive preposition
intransitive verb
intransitivity
intransitivization
intransitivize
Related terms: ergative
intransitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹænsətɪv/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹænzətɪv/
Forms: form: intransitives
Etymology: From in- + transitive.
Senses: examples: text: This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
ref: 2011, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, The Syntax of Romanian: Comparative Studies in Romance, page 136:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An intransitive verb.
silicone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/
Forms: form: silicones
Etymology: From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.
ref: 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 93:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.
Derived terms: siliconed
silicone grease
silicone rubber
silicone spray
siliconing
silicone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/
Forms: form: silicones
form: siliconing
form: siliconed
form: siliconed
Etymology: From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Senses: examples: text: silicone the bathtub to the tile
text: Structural glazing or siliconing of window units is, according to Donald F. Kelly, Jr., president of AMPAT, the bonding of glass to a metal frame.
ref: 1984, United States National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 963:
glosses: To join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.
examples: text: The next girl, with huge, perfectly spherical, siliconed breasts perched high on her slender chest, got the loudest roar. ‘Oh, there are two things I like about her!’ shouted the DJ. ‘How about you, boys?’
ref: 2011, Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, page 27:
glosses: To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.
silicone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/
Etymology: From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through.
ref: 2006 09, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L. A., Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: They want to see men covered in sweat, lying in bed with some unknown, blank, silicone actresses — they want sculpted bodies, they don't give a shit about performance.
ref: 2009, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Anonymous Celebrity, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 152:
text: Nowadays it is a cliché to associate silicone women with narco aesthetics, overdrawn Pamela Anderson clones popularized by telenovelas.
ref: 2020 March 18, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Having had cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement.
Related terms: silicon
reperfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reperfusions
Etymology: From re- + perfusion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The restoration of blood flow to an organ, after it was cut off (e.g. in an operation).
Related terms: revascularization
social marginality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the larger world and the place of human society within it.
social conflict paradigm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A theory according to which society is based on conflict and change arising from inequality.
macro-level orientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The part of sociology that characterizes society as a whole
micro-level orientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-level orientations
Senses: glosses: That part of sociology that studies specific situations.
nonmaterial culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A component of culture that consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs, and values) that influence people’s behavior.
ladino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈdiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ləˈdinoʊ/
Forms: form: ladinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized; crafty”).
Senses: examples: text: In the production of the ladino the white element has almost always been represented by the father […]
ref: 1879, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volume , page 89:
text: Yolanda's fluctuation between mestizo and ladino is symptomatic of this analytical dilemma. Her inclination to embrace mestizaje signals a deep process of social change underway, in which critical ladino / mestizo self-making has played [a part...]
ref: 2006, Charles R. Hale, More Than an Indian, School for Advanced Research on the, →ISBN:
text: Differentiated from both mulat(t)o and ladino, mestizo/mestico references specifically the mixing of white and Indian, whether phenotypically (simply in terms of the offspring of mixed intercourse) or culturally, and even linguistically.
ref: 2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”).
glosses: A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.
ladino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈdiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ləˈdinoʊ/
Forms: form: ladinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.
Senses: glosses: Trifolium repens (white clover).
inert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɜːt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɜːt/
ipa: /ɪnˈɝt/
ipa: /ənˈɝt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more inert
form: most inert
Etymology: From French inerte, from Latin iners (“inactive, inert”).
Senses: examples: text: "As for the other forms of magic, previous systems of magic are now accessible if one knows how to do so, though no human alive should know how. This does mean some magical objects and wands rendered inert by previous changes will work again."
ref: 2018 February 21, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Feb 21, 2018:
synonyms: word: dormant
word: immovable
word: abeyant
word: at rest
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: dull
word: fallow
word: idle
word: inactive
word: inert
word: languid
word: latent
word: nonactive
word: quiescent
word: silent
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: slow
word: suspended
word: torpid
word: unactive
word: unbusy
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
glosses: Unable to move or act; inanimate.
synonyms: word: ponderous
word: slothful
word: lazy
word: fainéant
word: bone-idle
word: idle
word: indolent
word: inert
word: lackadaisical
word: lither
word: slothful
word: work-shy
word: sluggish
word: swear
word: torpid
word: crawling
word: languid
word: languorous
word: draggy
word: creeping
word: dreich
word: gastropodous
word: glacial
word: heavy-footed
word: inching
word: inert
word: labored
word: leaden
word: lead-footed
word: lethargic
word: low-speed
word: lumbering
word: plodding
word: pokey
word: ponderous
word: slothlike
word: slow
word: slow as a snail
word: slow as Christmas
word: slow as molasses
word: slow as molasses in January
word: slowfooted
word: sluggish
word: stately
word: steady
word: subglacial
word: sullen
word: tardigrade
word: tedious
word: testudineous
word: torpid
word: unspeedy
glosses: Sluggish or lethargic.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: unreactive
glosses: Not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
glosses: Having no therapeutic action.
Derived terms: anti-inert-neutrino
bioinert
inert antineutrino
inert gas
inertitude
inertly
inertness
inert neutrino
inert pair effect
mucoinert
noninert
practico-inert
Related terms: inertia
inert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɜːt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɜːt/
ipa: /ɪnˈɝt/
ipa: /ənˈɝt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: inerts
Etymology: From French inerte, from Latin iners (“inactive, inert”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that does not react chemically.
inert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɜːt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɜːt/
ipa: /ɪnˈɝt/
ipa: /ənˈɝt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: inerts
form: inerting
form: inerted
form: inerted
Etymology: From French inerte, from Latin iners (“inactive, inert”).
Senses: glosses: To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.
c-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c-words
form: C-word
Senses: examples: text: The c-word (cunt) is delivered here with a kind of despairing calm, as if the cuntishness of the British c-words (cunts) was just a sad matter of fact.
ref: c. 2017, Stewart Lee, March of the Lemmings:
glosses: The word cunt, regarded as vulgar and a swear word.
glosses: The word crap, often considered mildly vulgar.
glosses: Less frequently, a word like cock or cock-sucker, camel-jockey, Chink, ching chong, or cracker, regarded as taboo or offensive.
examples: text: Nor can federal AIDS educators bring themselves to mention the c''' word, condom, a strange reticence not shared by any other Western government except that of Catholic Ireland. The CDC has gone through bizarre contortions to avoid naming the, uh, latex device.
ref: 1990 Jan., “Condom Conundrum: How the World is Selling Safe Sex”, in Mother Jones Magazine, page 42:
text: So, the term craft is now tainted. It’s association with weird beer imbibed by stuck up people is going to be hard one to shake. Anyone with that connection in their mind is instantly going to shut down when the c-word is mentioned.
ref: 2017 March 9, “Why I don’t Use the Word ‘Craft’ and Why You Shouldn’t Either”, in Brews and Bacon, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2017:
glosses: Any word beginning with c that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, like clitoris, condom, cancer, or communism.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
s-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: s-words
Senses: glosses: The word shit, regarded as a vulgar word.
glosses: The word slut, regarded as a vulgar word.
glosses: The word spastic, regarded as an offensive word.
glosses: The word spic, regarded as a vulgar word.
glosses: Any word beginning with s that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context; for example, socialism.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
noble gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noble gases
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: aerogen
rare gas
hypernyms: inert gas
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glosses: Any of the elements of group 18 of the periodic table, being monatomic, usually inert (with very limited exceptions), and gaseous at familiar temperatures.
Related terms: sense: noble gases
word: argon
sense: noble gases
word: helium
sense: noble gases
word: krypton
sense: noble gases
word: neon
sense: noble gases
word: radon
sense: noble gases
word: xenon
inert gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inert gases
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas which does not undergo chemical reactions or does so only under rare circumstances.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas which does not undergo chemical reactions or does so only under rare circumstances.
A noble gas.
Derived terms: inert gas narcosis
monatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mon- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of an element, consisting of a single atom in the molecule, for example, the noble gases. Note: Strictly speaking, a molecule has at least two atoms.
Derived terms: monatomically
nonmonatomic
smaller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɔː.lə/
ipa: /ˈsmɔ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈsmɑ.lɚ/
ipa: /smoː.lə/
rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: The worse things get, the smaller your focus should be.
glosses: comparative form of small: more small
smaller
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɔː.lə/
ipa: /ˈsmɔ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈsmɑ.lɚ/
ipa: /smoː.lə/
rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of small: more small
smallest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɔː.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈsmɔ.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈsmɑ.lɪst/
ipa: /smoː.lɪst/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪst
Senses: glosses: superlative form of small: most small
Related terms: smallest room
smallest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɔː.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈsmɔ.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈsmɑ.lɪst/
ipa: /smoː.lɪst/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪst
Senses: glosses: superlative form of small: most small
smallest room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallest rooms
Etymology: Variant of small room (“lavatory”).
Senses: examples: text: "Aliens used up our bog roll?"
"Just because they're aliens, it doesn't mean they don't have to visit the smallest room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque; like it comes out of the top of their heads, or something."
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf:
glosses: The lavatory: the room intended for urination and defecation.
Synonyms: bathroom
Related terms: little house
small room
lesser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɛsə/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Etymology: From less + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of little: more little
lesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɛsə/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lessers
Etymology: From less + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The greater sand hills increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lessers do.
glosses: a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
Related terms: less
lesser of two evils
fewer
surly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːli/
ipa: /ˈsɝli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: surlier
form: surliest
Etymology: 16th-century alteration of sirly, from sir + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Irritated, bad-tempered, unfriendly.
examples: text: The surly weather put us all in a bad mood.
glosses: Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
glosses: Lordly, arrogant, supercilious.
Derived terms: surlily
surliness
surly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːli/
ipa: /ˈsɝli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: surlier
form: surliest
Etymology: 16th-century alteration of sirly, from sir + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Against the Capitol I met a lion / Who glazed upon me, and went surly by / Without annoying me […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: In an arrogant or supercilious manner.
Krishna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪʃnə/
rhymes: -ɪʃnə
Forms: form: Krishnas
form: Kṛṣṇa
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa).
Senses: glosses: A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.
glosses: A river in southern India.
glosses: A district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
examples: text: Fittingly, I enjoyed those warm and crunchy-tender Korean rice cakes beneath slightly salty ham and a drizzle of floral honey with my colleague Priya Krishna, who first put me on to the rice-cake fundido at Haenyeo in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2019.
ref: 2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname from Sanskrit.
Derived terms: Krishnacore
Krishnaism
Krishna Janmashtami
Krishnology
Related terms: Hare Krishna
offensive foul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive fouls
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A foul committed by a member of the team with possession of the ball.
Related terms: charging
charging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃaɹd͡ʒɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃaːd͡ʒɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of charge
Derived terms: charging case
chargingly
charging the mound
hard-charging
noncharging
charging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃaɹd͡ʒɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃaːd͡ʒɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Forms: form: chargings
Senses: glosses: An act or process of charging (as of a battery).
examples: text: Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
Derived terms: charging point
charging station
congestion charging
forsooth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹˈsuθ/
enpr: fôr-sōōth′
rhymes: -uːθ
Etymology: From Middle English forsothe, forsoþe, for sothe, from Old English for sōþ (“truly, for certain, forsooth”), equivalent to for (“for, by”) + sooth (“truth”).
Senses: examples: text: A fit man, forsooth, to governe a realme!
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
text: [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
text: ‘Saint forsooth!’ said ill-natured Mrs. Brady.
ref: 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC:
text: The four boys pumped up their hate to hissing steam. Harmless, quotha. Innocent, forsooth.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 596:
text: Her eyes widened. She squeaked a bit. "Don't tell me she caught you bending again?" "Bending is right. I was half-way under the dressing-table. You and your singing," I said, and I'm not sure I didn't add the word "Forsooth!" Her eyes widened a bit further, and she squeaked another squeak.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: in point of fact
word: in truth
word: to tell the truth
word: actually
word: all things considered
word: as a matter of fact
word: by right
word: come to think of it
word: fact is
word: forsooth
word: frankly
word: honestly
word: in actuality
word: in fact
word: in faith
word: in point of fact
word: in reality
word: in truth
word: indeed
word: literally
word: properly
word: really
word: right
word: simply
word: soothfast
word: soothly
word: to tell the truth
word: truly
word: truthfully
word: verily
word: wis
glosses: Used as an intensifier, often ironic: indeed, really, truthfully.
brass rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass rats
Senses: glosses: A class ring bearing the image of a beaver, worn by graduates of MIT.
MIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of monoiodotyrosine.
MIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”
ref: 2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
glosses: Initialism of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ellipsis of MIT License.
glosses: Initialism of Manukau Institute of Technology.
Derived terms: MIThenge
MIT License
MIT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of market if touched.
seduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈdjuːs/
ipa: /sɪˈd(j)uːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: seduces
form: seducing
form: seduced
form: seduced
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sēdūcō (“to lead apart or astray”), from sē- (“aside, away, astray”) + dūcō (“to lead”); see duct. Compare adduce, conduce, deduce, etc. and Middle English seduct.
Senses: examples: text: […] they alledged, That becauſe I had ſome Rudiments of Reaſon, added to the natural pravity of thoſe Animals, it was to be feared, I might be able to ſeduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the Country, and bring them in Troops by night to deſtroy the Houyhnhnms Cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averſe from Labour.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 308:
text: Your father was seduced by the dark side of The Force.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi:
glosses: To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
examples: text: "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?"
"Do you want me to seduce you?"
ref: 1967, Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, The Graduate:
glosses: To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship.
examples: text: He had repeatedly seduced the girl in his car, hotels and his home.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
examples: text: He was seduced by the bright lights and glamour of the city.
glosses: To win over or attract.
Synonyms: sense: to lure away from duty
word: corrupt
sense: to lure away from duty
word: lead astray
sense: to lure away from duty
word: misguide
sense: to lure away from duty
word: bribe
sense: to induce a sexual relationship
word: debauch
sense: to induce a sexual relationship
word: forlead
sense: to induce a sexual relationship
word: pick up
sense: to induce a sexual relationship
word: vamp
sense: to have sexual intercourse with
word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
sense: to win over or attract
word: beguile
word: entrance
word: pull in
word: allure
Related terms: seduction
seductive
seducement
seducer
seductress
peddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdlə/
ipa: /ˈpɛdləɹ/
Forms: form: peddlers
form: pedlar
form: pedler
Etymology: From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin pedārius, from Latin pedāre (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).
Senses: synonyms: word: hawker
word: chapman
word: huckster
word: monger
word: colporteur
word: solicitor
glosses: An itinerant seller of small goods.
examples: text: Here's a cure for all your troubles
 Here's an end to all distress
 It's the old dope peddler
 With his powdered happiness
ref: 1953, Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”, in Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, published 1981, page 18:
glosses: A drug dealer.
glosses: A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
Derived terms: word: essence peddler
english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: peddle
word: peddleress
word: peddlery
continue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-tĭnʹyo͞o
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuː/
ipa: /-(j)ɪu̯/
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjʉu/
note: Dublin
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuː/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵɳʈɪˈn(j)u/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɲu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: continues
Etymology: From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Middle English thurghwonen, from Old English þurhwunian.
Senses: examples: text: So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.
ref: 2008, Jeannie Novak, Luis Levy, Play the Game: The Parent's Guide to Video Games, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.
ref: 2012, James A. Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, →ISBN, page 128:
topics: video-games
glosses: An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
Inuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɛt/
Forms: form: Inuit
form: Inuits
form: Innuit
Etymology: First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.
Senses: glosses: A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
Derived terms: Polar Inuit
Inuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnuːɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnjuːɛt/
Forms: form: Innuit
Etymology: First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.
Senses: glosses: plural of Inuk
Synonyms: english: proper singular form, uncommon outside Canada
translation: proper singular form, uncommon outside Canada
word: Inuk
english: somewhat improper plural
translation: somewhat improper plural
word: Inuits
word: Skraeling
Hypernyms: english: potentially offensive in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, neutral elsewhere
translation: potentially offensive in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, neutral elsewhere
word: Eskimo
Hyponyms: english: Greenland
translation: Greenland
word: Greenlander
Derived terms: Canadian Inuit Dog
Inuit Dog
Related terms: Inukshuk