cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
empty set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty sets
Senses: examples: text: Start with the empty set. We define it as “the set of all objects not equal to themselves,” since there are no such objects. All empty sets have the same members—no members at all! Therefore, as sets they're identical, by definition of identity of sets. In other words, there's only one empty set. This unique empty set is our building block. Next comes the set whose only member is—the empty set. This set is not empty.
ref: 1997, Reuben Hersh, What Is Mathematics, Really?, Oxford University Press, page 257:
text: The existence of the empty set is entailed, in the presence of the axiom scheme of separation, by the existence of any set whatever.
ref: 2004, Michael Potter, Set Theory and its Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 58:
text: A topological space may be very sparsely endowed with open sets. As we know, some spaces have only two, the empty set and the full space.
ref: 2007, A. K. Sharma, Measure Theory, Discovery Publishing House, page 1:
text: Their existence can be generated on the basis of the empty set, since one is simply the set of the empty set, two is simply that set plus the empty set and so forth.
ref: 2008, Sam Gillespie, The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics, re.press, page 57:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The unique set that contains no elements, denoted ∅ or {}.
Synonyms: sense: set containing no elements
word: null set
Related terms: singleton set
home computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home computers
Senses: examples: text: This last section is meant to draw your attention to a further sphere of potential use for your home computer, namely letting it monitor and control some activity directly, without your own participation […]
ref: 1983, Using Your Home Computer, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: personal computer
glosses: A computer intended for use in the home.
cardinality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːdɪˈnælɪti/
ipa: /kɑɹdɪˈnælɪti/
Forms: form: cardinalities
Etymology: From cardinal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The empty set has a cardinality of zero.
text: The cardinality of a set A is the least ordinal α such that there exists a bijection between A and α. We sometimes use the notation #92;alpha#61;#124;A#124; to indicate this.
ref: 2005, Johan de Jong, “Set Theory”, in The Stacks Project, retrieved 26 Feb 2018:
text: For fuzzy sets, the concept of set size or cardinality is both richer and more problematic than it is for crisp sets. It is richer because, as we shall see, we may use more than one kind of cardinality.
ref: 2006, Michael Smithson, Jay Verkuilen, Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences, SAGE Publications, page 37:
text: Clearly, in this example, the sensitivity to the cardinalities takes the weaker form F#91;M(A)#93;#61;#92;overset#123;#61;#125;#123;A#125; of a single-valued function from the measure to the cardinality rather than the stronger form M(A)#61;f(#92;overset#123;#61;#125;#123;A#125;) of a function from the cardinality to the measure.
ref: 2012, Adolf Grünbaum, Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 2nd edition, Springer, page 487:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
synonyms: power
glosses: The number of elements a given set contains.
raw_tags: of a set
examples: text: For many types, such as String, the set of possible values is unlimited. Such types have an infinite cardinality.
ref: 2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima, →ISBN:
qualifier: type theory
glosses: The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: data modeling
glosses: The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The status of being cardinalitial
Related terms: cardinal
aleph
cardinal number
multiplicity
peace and quiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps a reformation of the Old English phrase sibb and stilnes (literally “peace and quiet”).
Senses: glosses: Tranquility; freedom from stress or interruptions.
wikipedia: Old English
cerebrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəm/
ipa: /səˈɹi.bɹəm/
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.əb.ɹəm/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪbɹəm
rhymes: -iːbɹəm
Forms: form: cerebra
form: cerebrums
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cerebrum, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain; a skull”); see there for more.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: telencephalon
holonyms: forebrain
glosses: The principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, which is located in the front area of the skull and divided into two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for the integration of complex sensory functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.
Derived terms: cerebral
cerebrin
cerebritis
cerebro-
cerebr-
cerebroid
cerebrology
cerebropathy
cerebrose
deutocerebrum
hemicerebrum
mesocerebrum
procerebrum
protocerebrum
tritocerebrum
Related terms: cerebellum
power set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power sets
form: power-set
form: powerset
Senses: examples: text: The power set of #92;#123;1,2#92;#125; is #92;left#92;#123;#92;empty,#92;#123;1#92;#125;,#92;#123;2#92;#125;,#92;#123;1,2#92;#125;#92;right#92;#125;.
text: Moreover, for notational convenience, we write the cardinality of a denumerable set as #92;aleph#95;0. Cardinality of the power set of a denumerable set is written as #92;aleph#95;1. We may thus extend this notation further by taking cardinality of the power set of the power set of a denumerable set as #92;aleph#95;2, etc. but we do not have the need for it right now.
ref: 2009, Arindama Singh, Elements of Computation Theory, Springer, page 16:
text: Theorem 4.1. A complete Boolean algebra B has a set of (complete and atomic) ca-free generators iff B is isomorphic to the power set of a power set.
ref: 2013, A. Carsetti, Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction, Springer, page 94:
text: Exponentiation is essentially a move to the power set—the set of all subsets of a given set. This is one of the reasons why Bertrand Russell's paradox is indeed a paradox: We cannot find a universal set because no set can contain its own power set!
ref: 2015, Amir D. Aczel, Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers, Palgrave MacMillan, page 147:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set whose elements comprise all the subsets of S (including the empty set and S itself).
raw_tags: of a set S
wikipedia: Weierstrass p
Derived terms: hyper-power set
Related terms: axiom of power set
admissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪsəbəl/
Forms: form: more admissible
form: most admissible
form: admissable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French admissible. Equivalent to admit + -ible
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the term [...] is well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards, while the earliest Anglo-Indian evidence only extends as far back as 1865 and so does not hold precedence. Thus, deriving the term from Hindustani is not chronologically admissible on present evidence.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
glosses: Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal.
Derived terms: admissibleness
admissibly
nonadmissible
unadmissible
Related terms: admissibility
admission
admit
tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: tilts
Etymology: From Middle English telte, tield, teld, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Low German telt, or Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.
Senses: examples: text: The tilt hooding the spring-cart was insecure - even the jolt from the down-and-up curving river bend near the house had brought it down twice.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253:
glosses: A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
examples: text: But the rain made an ass
Of tilt and canvas
ref: a. 1669, John Denham, To Sir John Mennis, being invited from Calais to Boulogne, to eat a Pig:
glosses: Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: tilts
form: tilting
form: tilted
form: tilted
Etymology: From Middle English telte, tield, teld, from Old English teld (“tent”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”). Perhaps influenced by Middle Low German telt, or Danish telt. Cognates include German Zelt (“tent”), Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence also archaic Danish tjæld (“tent”)). More at teld.
Senses: glosses: To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Derived terms: at full tilt
atilt
axial tilt
Dutch tilt
full tilt
full-tilt boogie
full tilt boogie
non-tilt
on tilt
pelvic tilt
tilt-and-turn
tilt at windmills
tilt barrier
tilt fan
tiltmeter
tilt rail
tilt-shift
tilt switch
tilt table test
tilt-turn
tilt-yard
at full tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Recorded c. 1600, perhaps from the interpretation of tilt (“a joust”) as derived from "leaning" into an attack, presumably a folk etymology, as tilt in late Middle English meant “a covering of coarse cloth, an awning” and referred to the barrier separating the combatants in a joust.
Senses: examples: text: Don't go racing around corners at full tilt or you'll hit someone.
glosses: At full speed; very quickly.
Synonyms: full tilt boogie
nit-picky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nit-picky
form: most nit-picky
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nitpicky.
hylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪlɪk/
rhymes: -aɪlɪk
Etymology: 1820s, from earlier German use; earlier hylical (1708). From Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “matter”) + -ic (“of or pertaining to”).
Senses: examples: ref: 1828, “a part of mankind were by original constitution altogether hylic or material”, in The New Jerusalem magazine and theological inspector, page 155:
text: three orders of beings,—the spiritual, physical and hylic natures.
ref: 1840, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, translated by Edward Cox, A History of the Church Volume 1, page 133:
glosses: Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter.
Synonyms: hyletic
material
Related terms: hylism
hylicism
hylicist
hylic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪlɪk/
rhymes: -aɪlɪk
Forms: form: hylics
Etymology: 1820s, from earlier German use; earlier hylical (1708). From Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “matter”) + -ic (“of or pertaining to”).
Senses: topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.
encrimson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encrimsons
form: encrimsoning
form: encrimsoned
form: encrimsoned
Etymology: From en- + crimson.
Senses: glosses: To make crimson or redden.
countrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌn.tɹɪ.fʌɪ/
ipa: /ˈkən.tɹəˌfaɪ/
ipa: /-tɹi-/
Forms: form: countrifies
form: countrifying
form: countrified
form: countrified
Etymology: From country + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: LOVEL. When I am properly habited, you ſhall get me introduced to Philip as one of your Tenant's Sons, who wants to be made a good Servant of. / FREEMAN. They will certainly diſcover you. / LOVEL. Never fear, I'll be ſo countrify'd that you ſhall not know me.
ref: 1759, James Townley, High Life below Stairs. A Farce of Two Acts. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, 3rd edition, London: Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard; R. Bailye, at Litchfield; J. Leake and W. Frederick, at Bath; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and S. Stabler, at York, →OCLC, page 7:
text: This tendency to move away from crowded centers of population, with their congested apartment life, to the country and small towns where the laborer and his family may have cheap breathing space—in other words, this countrifying of industries—is growing more and more evident.
ref: 1916, Albert Shaw, editor, The American Review of Reviews, volume 54, New York, N.Y.: Review of Reviews, →OCLC, page 69:
text: Even whitebread folk-rockers like the Byrds were, thanks to Gram Parsons, countrifying soul hits like "You Don't Miss Your Water."
ref: 2004, Gene Santoro, “Buffalo Springfield”, in Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 183:
antonyms: citify
glosses: To make rural or rustic.
coordinate_terms: jazzify
jazz up
rockify
glosses: To make more like country music.
raw_tags: of a cover version
Related terms: countryish
countrylike
go country
friseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friseurs
Etymology: From French friseur, from friser (“to curl, frizz”).
Senses: examples: text: As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning's labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: A hairdresser.
Related terms: frizz
Cde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cdes
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of comrade A title used before a person's name, e.g. Cde Robert Mugabe.
looker-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookers-on
form: on-looker
Senses: examples: text: After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth’s marrying Miss Bertram.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: A spectator, onlooker.
fribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪbəl/
Forms: form: fribbles
form: fribbling
form: fribbled
form: fribbled
Etymology: Perhaps related to frivol.
Senses: glosses: To waste or fritter.
examples: text: The parish districts--and especially their lady visitors--declared that they were neglected; the rector never got a quiet cup of tea in his own house, nor even a quiet placid moment; for the sounds of young people laughing and, as Mrs. Fretchett called it, "fribbling" upstairs would float down to him working in his study, and then he would pish and pshaw, and move his chair impatiently.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “Archdeacon Hodden's Tribulation”, in For the Cause:
text: We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later.
ref: 1984, Guy Davenport, Apples and Pears:
glosses: To behave in a frivolous way.
glosses: To totter.
Derived terms: fribbledom
fribbleism
fribbler
fribblish
fribble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪbəl/
Forms: form: more fribble
form: most fribble
Etymology: Perhaps related to frivol.
Senses: glosses: Of little or no importance, frivolous.
fribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪbəl/
Forms: form: fribbles
Etymology: Perhaps related to frivol.
Senses: glosses: A trifling action.
glosses: A trifler.
examples: text: The plot of the piece was quite a new one. A young woman was repreſented with a great number of ſuitors, ſelecting a pert fribble of a peer, in place of the hero; […]
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Paper out of The Spectator”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 68:
synonyms: word: dandyling
word: popinjay
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
rampageous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹamˈpeɪdʒəs/
rhymes: -eɪdʒəs
Forms: form: more rampageous
form: most rampageous
form: rampagious
Etymology: From rampage + -ous. Originally Scottish.
Senses: glosses: Violent and boisterous; unruly.
taxicab geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the distance travelled by a taxicab in a grid of streets that cross at right angles to each other.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A non-Euclidean geometry in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates.
en passant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ̃ pæˈsɒ̃/
ipa: /ˌɑn pəˈsɑnt/
ipa: /ˌɑn pæˈsɑnt/
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Of a capture, performed by a pawn on an enemy pawn that has just passed over its attack zone.
en passant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ̃ pæˈsɒ̃/
ipa: /ˌɑn pəˈsɑnt/
ipa: /ˌɑn pæˈsɑnt/
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.
Senses: examples: text: Turtle doves have long been celebrated for their fidelity; and this turtle dove, though he flirts, en paſſant, with a ſky-lark, a jay, and a quail, does not materially diſcredit the famed conſtancy of his ſpecies, theſe birds being all coquettes: but when he meets (as he fortunately does) with an amiable dove-mate, he is as faithful as any turtle, of any grove.
ref: 1791 January, “[Miscellaneous.] Art. 65. The Turtle Dove. A Tale, from the French of M. de Florian. 8vo. pp. 25. 1s. Printed at Caen in Normandy; and Sold in London by Payne [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume IV, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, →OCLC, page 113:
text: Mr. William Poole called in, and examined […] I spoke to sheriff Thorpe, en passant, one day in Sackville-street, saying, "I should wish to be on the next commission jury;" and he said, it should be so.
ref: 1823 May 6, “Sheriff of Dublin—Inquiry into His Conduct”, in T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, editor, The Parliamentary Debates: Forming a Continuation of the Work Entitled “The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803.” (New Series; Commencing with the Accession of George IV), volume IX (Comprising the Period from the First Day of May, to the Nineteenth Day of July, 1823), London: Printed by T. C. Hansard at the Pater-noster-Row Press; for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [et al.], published 1824, →OCLC, columns 71–72:
text: [H]e [the newly elected Pope] is placed on the altar, where all the cardinals, according to their rank, pay their reverence to him, and kiss his feet, hands, and mouth. I should observe, en passant, that cardinals only have the right to kiss the Pope's hand.
ref: 1825, [Victor-Joseph Étienne] de Jouy, “The Conclave”, in The Hermit in Italy, or Observations on the Manners and Customs of Italy; being a Continuation of the Sketches of French Manners, … In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Geo[rge] B[yrom] Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane, →OCLC, pages 170–171:
glosses: In passing, by the way, incidentally.
examples: text: [I]f the opponent chooses to make this capture, he must do it immediately on his next move – if he makes any other move on his next move, he forever loses the chance to capture that pawn en passant, though he still retains the right to capture another pawn en passant should a similar situation arise elsewhere.
ref: 2007, Mark A. Borders, “The Rules”, in The Self-Improvement of Chess: Why the Game's Basics Apply to Daily Living, [Raleigh, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Of a capture of an enemy pawn, by moving one's pawn to the square that the enemy pawn has just passed over.
en passant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ̃ pæˈsɒ̃/
ipa: /ˌɑn pəˈsɑnt/
ipa: /ˌɑn pæˈsɑnt/
Forms: form: en passants
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French en passant.
Senses: examples: text: Spectators are privy to awe inspiring castles, baffling forks, and breathtaking en passants.
ref: 1998 December 11, Glenn Kaplan, “Chess: not just for losers, but also Trekkies”, in The Oberlin Review, volume 127, number 12, Oberlin, Oh.: The Union Library Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2017:
text: En passant is the rarest of moves. It is a French phrase that means "in passing." This occurs when one player moves a pawn two spaces forward, on its first move, to try to avoid a capture by an opponent pawn. When this happens, the opponent may move his pawn diagonally to the square that the first player passed over (i.e., as if he only moved one space forward). The pawn from the first player is then considered captured and removed from the board.
ref: 2007, Mark A. Borders, “The Rules”, in The Self-Improvement of Chess: Why the Game's Basics Apply to Daily Living, [Raleigh, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Before he returns to performing some castles and en passants, [Kendall] Williams has to determine his endgame in the tourney.
ref: 2012 March 17, Ben Watanabe, “New Mexico Point Guard Kendall Williams Puts Chess Match on Hold During Tournament”, in New England Sports Network, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: Grande Prairie's Sandman Hotel will be the scene of some castling, en passants and checkmate action this weekend when the 29th Trumpeter Classic Chess Tournament gets underway.
ref: 2012 May 31, Greg Amos, “Trumpeter Classic chess tournament begins today”, in Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune, Grande Prairie, Alta.: Sun Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game, as if it had moved forward only one square.
besmear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: besmears
form: besmearing
form: besmeared
form: besmeared
Etymology: From Middle English *bismerwen, from Old English besmirwan, besmierwan (“to besmear”), equivalent to be- + smear. Cognate with Dutch besmeren (“to besmear”), German beschmieren (“to besmear”).
Senses: examples: text: I long to ſee thee backe returne from thence,
That I may view theſe milk-white ſteeds of mine.
All loden with the heads of killed men,
And from their knees, euen to their hoofes below,
Beſmer’d with blood, that makes a dainty ſhow.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
text: […] carters and coachmen, who make in imitation thereof a composition of grease and tar, with which they besmear the inside of the naves of wheels and the extremitys of the axis upon which they move.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 57:
glosses: To smear over, to smear all over, to daub.
examples: text: Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […]
ref: 1740, Colley Cibber, chapter I, in An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, […], London: […] John Watts for the author, →OCLC, page 3:
text: His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, […]
ref: 2012 January 26, Mike Allen Jim Vandehei, “Drudge, conservative media criticize Newt Gingrich”, in Politico:
glosses: To damage the reputation of, to tarnish, to sully.
Derived terms: besmearer
en suite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French en suite.
Senses: glosses: Connected to a bedroom.
raw_tags: of a bathroom etc.
glosses: Connected to an ensuite bathroom.
raw_tags: of a bedroom etc.
examples: text: The Dress Cap and Under-Sleeves are en suite.
ref: 1858 March, G. Brodie, “Fashions for March”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XVI, number XCIV, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 576, column 2:
glosses: Forming part of a cohesively themed or matching set or series.
en suite
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From French en suite.
Senses: examples: text: […] the boudoir of Mme de Saint-Ange. This architectural type, a small, furnished and ornate feminine aristocratic space dedicated to bathing and dressing, located en suite with bedroom and salon or dining room, and used by the lady of the house to withdraw or to receive private guests for intimate conversation (or more), is the setting for both exclusion and excess, chosen by de Sade[…]
ref: 2016 November 10, Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, George Themistokleous, This Thing Called Theory, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Adjoining and connected (to a bedroom or bathroom).
examples: text: The burgonet was decorated en suite, the sides of the bowl embossed with acanthus scrolls flanking a central palmette and with swagged ribbons at the peak and nape, the hinged cheekpieces embossed in the center with a leafy mask with foliate diadem[…]
ref: 1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Filippo Negroli, José-A. Godoy, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 262:
text: The grips of these hilts […] were of solid metal which was decorated en suite with the rest of the hilt.
ref: 2012, Ewart Oakeshott, European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 249:
text: […] we can see that each room was decorated en suite, with wallpapers and drapery in matching colours.
ref: 2015 April 29, J. Raven, Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: So as to form cohesively themed or matching set.
en suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: en suites
Etymology: From French en suite.
Senses: examples: text: He got out of bed and went to wash his hands in the en suite, a small pink-tiled room with a potted plant in the corner and little jars of face cream and perfume everywhere.
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Months Later (April 2012)”, in Normal People:
glosses: Alternative form of ensuite.
ligate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭ'gāt
ipa: /ˈlɪɡeɪt/
Forms: form: ligates
form: ligating
form: ligated
form: ligated
Etymology: First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligō (“to bind”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of legato. Compare league.
Senses: glosses: To bind with a ligature or bandage.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To connect text characters with a ligature.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To join by ligation.
Derived terms: autoligate
autoligating
ligatable
ligative
ligator
religate
vasoligate
Related terms: ligase
ligation
colligate
pith helmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪθ ˈhɛlmɪt/
Forms: form: pith helmets
Etymology: From pith and helmet.
Senses: synonyms: topee
sola topi
solar topee
glosses: A lightweight helmet-shaped hat made of the pith of the sola or shola (Indian spongewood) plant covered with white cotton and faced with green cloth.
glosses: A hat of similar appearance, but made of different materials.
flawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔːd/
ipa: /flɔd/
ipa: /flɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: more flawed
form: most flawed
Etymology: From Middle English flaued, equivalent to flaw + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
text: His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.
text: He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.
ref: 2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times:
text: Yet he was correct on every point, meaning that the Plan was deeply flawed from the start.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:
antonyms: word: perfect
word: flawless
word: defective
word: faulty
word: flawed
glosses: Having a flaw or imperfection.
Derived terms: unflawed
foolproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːl ˌpɹuːf/
Forms: form: more foolproof
form: most foolproof
Etymology: From fool + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Protected against, or designed to be proof against, misuse or error.
raw_tags: of a device
glosses: Certain to succeed in all eventualities, or claimed to be so; infallible.
raw_tags: of an idea or plan
Derived terms: foolproofly
foolproofness
Related terms: bulletproof
dummy-proof
idiot-proof
foolproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːl ˌpɹuːf/
Forms: form: foolproofs
form: foolproofing
form: foolproofed
form: foolproofed
Etymology: From fool + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: We foolproofed the operations.
glosses: To render foolproof.
manta ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæntə ɹeɪ/
Forms: form: manta rays
Etymology: From Spanish manta (“blanket”); according to Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, so called “for being broad and long like a quilt”.
Senses: examples: text: My favorite are the manta rays. We watch them wing past. The have the largest brain of any fish, I remember.
ref: 2020, Jenny Offill, Weather, Granta Books (2021), page 181:
synonyms: manta
sea pancake
majestic flap-flap
majestic sea flap-flap
glosses: Any of several very large pelagic rays formerly of the genus Manta, now placed in genus Mobula, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.
wikipedia: Antonio de Ulloa
Jorge Juan y Santacilia
WW2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: WWII
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of World War II.
workstation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/
Forms: form: workstations
Etymology: From work + station.
Senses: examples: text: All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.
examples: text: Holonyms: workplace, workstead
text: Near-synonym: workspace
text: Lamb ignored her, surveying her team instead, who were at their own or each other's workstations, and engrossed in their current tasks, and studying every move he made.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 299:
hypernyms: station#Noun
area#Noun
place#Noun
glosses: An area, at a workplace, for a single worker.
Synonyms: sense: workplace
word: workstead
Derived terms: digital audio workstation
utopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/
ipa: /juˈtoʊ.pi.ən/
rhymes: -əʊpiən
Forms: form: more utopian
form: most utopian
form: Utopian
Etymology: From utopia + -an.
Senses: examples: utopian happiness
glosses: Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.
examples: text: a utopian project
text: The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
synonyms: utopic
antonyms: dystopian
glosses: Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
Synonyms: unrealistic
Derived terms: antiutopian
cyberutopian
nonutopian
techno-utopian
utopianise
utopianize
utopianism
utopianist
utopianistic
utopianly
utopian socialism
utopian socialist
Related terms: utopic
utopian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/
ipa: /juˈtoʊ.pi.ən/
rhymes: -əʊpiən
Forms: form: utopians
form: Utopian
Etymology: From utopia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”
ref: 1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:
text: Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 […] ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees.
ref: 2007 June 29, Michiko Kakutani, “The Cult of the Amateur”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.
Derived terms: techno-utopian
shola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: sholas
form: sola
form: solah
Etymology: From Bengali শোলা (śōla).
Senses: glosses: A wild plant of species Aeschynomene aspera, found in Bengal and Assam, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artifacts.
Related terms: sola topi
solar topee
shola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: sholas
Etymology: From Tamil [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: At daylight […] we left the Sisipara bungalow, and rode for several miles through a valley interspersed with sholas of rhododendron trees.
ref: 1862, Markham, Peru and India, page 356:
text: Here and there in the hollows were little jungles; sholas, as they are called.
ref: 1876, Sir M. E. Grant-Duff, Notes of Indian Journey, page 202:
glosses: A wooded ravine; a thicket.
sola topi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the shola or sola plant (Aeschynomene aspera)—whose pith is used—and topi or tope, Hindi for "hat", popularised by the British colonials who wore them while inspecting farms or travelling.
Senses: examples: text: In some Charles appeared, in shorts and sola topi, flanked by robed, shock-headed men of intense blackness.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: A pith helmet
grouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊti
Forms: form: groutier
form: groutiest
Etymology: From grout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Wash of the Dung runs into this Pond, and thickens it to that degree, that many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty, black, stinking Water, full of Lice, Worms, Bugs, and other Insects.
ref: 1746, William Ellis, Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd, page 74:
text: Stew no longer than the meat is thoroughly done to eat, and you will obtain excellent broth, without depriving the meat of its nutritious succulence : to boil it to rags, as is the common practice, will not enrich your broths, but make them thick and grouty.
ref: 1830, William Kitchiner, The Cook's Oracle and Housekeeper's Manual, page 193:
glosses: Full of grout(s), that is, sediment.
grouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊti
Forms: form: groutier
form: groutiest
Etymology: Uncertain; compare grouchy.
Senses: examples: text: How easy to be kind and pleasant: how uncomfortable to be rude and grouty!
ref: 1888, New Englander and Yale Review, volume 48, page 33:
text: You better go down to your company, or that long-nosed Englishwoman'll get even groutier than she is.
ref: 1948, Anya Seton, The Hearth and Eagle:
text: Amanda was fuming. […] But then, the telltale grappling and stumble step backward—thump—against the wall, which braced them through the ensuing make-out moment, however brief, until the grouty girl could be heard cooing with pleasure.
ref: 2003, Diane Ayres, Other Girls, page 390:
text: Though I suppose if you've no one to love but a grouty old mother, you don't have the worry and fear for your menfolk heavy on you, Mercy conceded.
ref: 2005, Evelyn Richardson, Desired Haven, page 3:
glosses: Angry or surly, sulky.
glosses: Lowering; threatening to rain or storm.
glosses: Turbid as with liquor.
topee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊ.pi/
Forms: form: topees
form: topi
Etymology: From Hindi टोपी (ṭopī)/Urdu ٹوپی (ṭōpī).
Senses: examples: text: I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.
ref: 1933, Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon, published 2011, page 203:
text: There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee.
ref: 1968, Paul Scott, “The Day of the Scorpion”, in The Raj Quartet, volume 2, published 1998, page 444:
text: 'Not a drop of perspiration on his face,' Ned had commented, 'and in the tropics now no one wears a topee, except certain regiments, and Peter the Planter's type of topee blows off in anything over a five-knot breeze.'
ref: 1979, Dudley Pope, Convoy, published 2001, page 138:
glosses: A pith helmet.
Synonyms: sense: pith helmet
word: sola topee
sense: pith helmet
word: solar topee
solar topee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar topees
Etymology: From Hindi सोला टोपी (solā ṭopī), from Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera, used to make pith helmets”) + Hindi टोपी (ṭopī, “hat”). The spelling solar is a Hobson-Jobsonism from English solar (“relating to the sun”), as the hat provided shade from the sun.
Senses: glosses: A pith helmet.
dieseled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diesel (noun) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Powered by a diesel engine.
dieseled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diesel
Related terms: diesel
dieseling
premunire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premunires
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praemunire.
premunire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premunires
form: premuniring
form: premunired
form: premunired
Senses: examples: text: But instead of receiving any manner of Justice, most rediculously and impertinantly was the Oath of Allegiance, imposed as a Snare upon them; for refusal whereof they were forthwith premunired, and their Estates and Liberties in this horrid manner rap’d from them.
ref: 1664, [Edward Billing], A Faithful Testimony for God & My Country, or, a Retro-Spective Glass for the Legislators and the Rest of the Sons of the Church of England (So Called), Who Are Found Persecuting the Innocent, London: […] the author, page 8:
text: A Thief having ſtoln two Beaſts from one of thoſe called Quakers, was impriſoned: But ſome body having informed the Judge that the Man that proſecuted was a Quaker, and he (the Judge) perceiving that he would not ſwear, would not hear what the Man could ſay, but tender'd him the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, which the ſaid Quaker refuſing, the Judge premunired him, and let the thief go free.
ref: 1722, William Sewel, The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers, Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. Written Originally in Low-Dutch by William Sewel, and by Himself Translated into English. Now Revis'd and Publish'd, with some Amendments, rev. edition, London: Printed by the Assigns of J. Sowle, at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, →OCLC, page 476:
text: Besides in this case of our premunired friends, if the king had not re-conveyed their estates as he did, by his letters patent – under the great seal of England, – from him and his heirs, to them and their heirs, they had remained forfeited, and liable to future claims, and the proper owners to be dispossessed thereof […]
ref: 1844, William Evans, Thomas Evans, editors, The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends, volume VIII, Philadelphia, Penn.: Printed for William and Thomas Evans, by Joseph Rakestraw, →OCLC, page 352:
glosses: Alternative form of praemunire.
hypoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɔk.si.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.pɔk.si.ə/
Forms: form: hypoxias
Etymology: By surface analysis, hyp- + ox- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: hyperoxia
hypernyms: underoxygenation
coordinate_terms: normoxia
pseudohypoxia
glosses: A condition in which tissues are deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen .
antonyms: hyperoxia
hypernyms: underoxygenation
coordinate_terms: normoxia
glosses: A reduced concentration of dissolved oxygen in an aquatic environment.
Derived terms: word: diffusion hypoxia
word: hypoxial
word: hypoxic
Related terms: hyperoxemia
hypoxemia
normoxemia
altitude sickness
anoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈɒk.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /æˈnɒk-/
ipa: /ænˈɑk.si.ə/
ipa: /æˈnɑk-/
Forms: form: anoxias
Etymology: From an- (prefix meaning ‘lacking, without’) + ox- (meaning ‘oxygen’) + -ia (suffix forming names of diseases).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: eumoxia
hyperoxia
hypoxia
normoxia
physoxia
glosses: A condition in which a body tissue or an environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen; severe hypoxia.
Hyponyms: superanoxia
Derived terms: anoxic
anoxically
anoxic event
postanoxic
superanoxia
superanoxic
Related terms: anoxemia
eumoxia
eumoxic
hyperoxemia
hyperoxia
hyperoxic
hypoxemia
hypoxia
hypoxic
normoxia
normoxic
physoxia
reoxia
asphyxia
hyperoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, hyper- + ox- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: hypoxia
coordinate_terms: normoxia
glosses: A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues; the excess itself.
Derived terms: word: hyperoxic
pathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæθ.əˈlɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌpæθ.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: more pathological
form: most pathological
Etymology: From pathology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
ref: 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to pathology.
examples: text: Paul Canning's performance as Julian gives the character an emotional center that is not in the script: He is vulnerable without being pathological, needy without being pathetic.
ref: 1981 April 18, Michael Bronski, “Good Production -- Bad Play”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, amounting to, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
Synonyms: topics: medicine
sciences
sense: of a physical or mental disorder
word: pathologic
Derived terms: anatomicopathological
antipathological
biopathological
cardiopathological
clinicopathological
cytopathological
dermatopathological
ecopathological
embryopathological
fetopathological
gynecopathological
hematopathological
hemopathological
hepatopathological
histolopathological
histopathological
ichthyopathological
immunopathological
kinesiopathological
macropathological
meteoropathological
micropathological
morphopathological
multipathological
myopathological
nanopathological
nephropathological
nonpathological
ophthalmopathological
organopathological
osteopathological
otopathological
palaeopathological
paleopathological
pathological coupling
pathological histology
pathological liar
pathologically
pathological science
pharmacopathological
phytopathological
postpathological
prepathological
pseudopathological
psychopathological
rheopathological
sociopathological
suprapathological
thermopathological
toxicopathological
zoopathological
a/c
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of antecubital.
a/c
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a/cs
Senses: examples: a cheque marked a/c payee may not be deposited in a bank account which does not belong to the named payee
glosses: Abbreviation of account.
glosses: Initialism of air conditioning.
glosses: Initialism of air conditioner.
qualifier: aeronautical jargon
glosses: Initialism of aircraft.
bank account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank accounts
Etymology: Originally referring merely to the registry of transactions (deposits, withdrawals) for a fund held by a bank, the sense came to encompass the fund being held.
Senses: glosses: A fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.
Derived terms: Swiss bank account
Related terms: current account
checking account
deposit account
savings account
bank statement
Japonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæˈpəʊniə/
Forms: form: Iaponia
Etymology: From New Latin Japō̆nia, also spelled Iapō̆nia, through Japon + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: In Japonia, 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.VI:
text: THE Tyrants of Japonia invented a ſtrange Torment for thoſe who confeſſed Chriſt
ref: 1702, Jeremy Taylor, Contemplations of the State of Man in this Life, And in That which is to come, 6th edition, page 193:
glosses: Japan: A country and archipelago of East Asia.