cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fē
enpr: fī
ipa: /fiː/
ipa: /faɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: fee or fie
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the fourth note of a major scale.
fi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fē
enpr: fī
ipa: /fiː/
ipa: /faɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: fee or fie
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fidelity (e.g. in hi-fi, lo-fi, or wi-fi).
glosses: Abbreviation of fiction (e.g. in sci-fi).
Related terms: cli-fi
psych-fi
spy-fi
fi
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: fē
enpr: fī
ipa: /fiː/
ipa: /faɪ/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: fee or fie
Senses: examples: text: We shoulda try fi produce more and market the things we have better so we can buy the things we need fi buy
ref: 2004, Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hul, Modern Blackness Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica:
text: I got the right temperature fi shelter you from the storm
ref: 2005, Sean Paul, “Temperature”:
text: After the funeral you need fi find somewhere else fi live
ref: 2021, Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of to.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: fee-fi-fo-fum
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: fi fa
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: fi-fi
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: semper fi
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: ych a fi
Fiona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiˈoʊnə/
ipa: /fiːˈəʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: From Irish fionn (“fair, white”). In use before 1713. Popularized by James Macpherson (see 1765 quotation), and perhaps by the 19th-century Scottish writer William Sharp, who chose “Fiona Macleod” as his pen name.
Senses: examples: text: Let the sighs of Fiona rise on the dark heaths of her lovely Ardan.
ref: 1765, James Macpherson, The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal:
glosses: A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, in regular use since the 20th century, first in Scotland, then in England.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Sara Duterte, 15ᵗʰ vice president of the Philippines.
Related terms: word: Fionna
word: Feona
word: Feonna
word: Ffyona
word: Pheona
hang out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋ ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: hangs out
form: hanging out
form: hung out
form: hung out
Senses: examples: text: After the film, do you want to go hang out?
text: He hung out with his friends all day yesterday.
text: "I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go."
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxiii. 177:
text: The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: socialize
hang with
roll with
glosses: To spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with somebody.
raw_tags: with with
examples: text: Mr Bob Sawyer... inquired: I say, old boy, where do you hang out? Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture.
ref: 1836-37, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Pickwick Papers:
glosses: To lodge or reside; to exist.
examples: text: The juryman hangs out against an agreement.
glosses: To be unyielding; to hold out.
glosses: To crave or desperately want (something).
glosses: To endure or delay.
examples: text: When a dog pants, its tongue often hangs out of its mouth.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out.
Synonyms: word: lepak
word: relax
Derived terms: hangout
Related terms: hang around
hang with
hang out one's shingle
hang out to dry
Ethan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːθən/
rhymes: -iːθən
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew אֵיתָן (ʾêṯān, literally “firmness, strong, or long-lived”).
Senses: examples: text: For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 4:31:
text: There have been Ethan Allen mills, Ethan Allen stock companies, Ethan Allen fire companies and Ethan Allen streets. The name of the daring partisan leader has been used in Vermont much as that of Washington throughout the Union.
ref: 1889, John Langdon Heaton, The Story of Vermont: p.90:
text: They would have named him something dignified: Ethan, or Tristram. Something that couldn't easily be shortened.
ref: 2001, Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 88:
text: The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
ref: 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, of mostly American usage since the 18th century; popular in the 2000s.
glosses: A town in South Dakota, United States.
Related terms: Ethanim
payee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payees
Etymology: From pay + -ee (“object of action”).
Senses: glosses: one to whom money is paid.
Derived terms: nonpayee
payeeship
Steven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːvən/
rhymes: -iːvən
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Stevene, Steven, from Anglo-Norman Estievne, Estievene, from Latin Stephanus, from Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos), from στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown, wreath”), from στέφω (stéphō, “to put round, to surround”).
Senses: examples: text: His first name was probably Steve or Ed. No, there were no more Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.
ref: 1989, Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, Random House., →ISBN, page 67:
text: That's why the people of this world believe in... Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl, and Steven!
ref: 2013 Steven Universe (theme song)
text: The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Stephen.
Derived terms: Steven Cay
paper clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper clips
form: paperclip
Senses: glosses: A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.
Related terms: binder clip
bulldog clip
gem clip
lightbulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightbulbs
Senses: examples: text: A young orangutan in the San Diego Zoo became famous for unbolting the screening of his crib, removing the wires, and moving through the zoo nursery, unscrewing lightbulbs.
ref: 2003 June 7, Edward Tenner, “'Our Own Devices'”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of light bulb.
Derived terms: lightbulb joke
lightbulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtˌbʌlb/
Forms: form: lightbulbs
Etymology: Calque from Cantonese 電燈泡／电灯泡 (din6 dang1 paau1), as though the third person is a light bulb in the background.
Senses: examples: text: You two go ahead lah, I don't want to be lightbulb.
ref: 2011 October 23, Heidy The Traveler, Learn Singlish a Bit!:
text: When she finally came out her friend joined us. Damn lightbulb leh!
ref: 2014 August 3, Chris Soh, 20 Words That Mean Something Completely Different to Singaporeans:
text: Being an extra big light bulb and eating with two cousins and their husband and fiance.
ref: 2014, carolcraves, "https://twitter.com/carolcraves/status/429233427863183360", Twitter, 31 January 2014
glosses: An uninvited third person joining a couple's date who prevents or hinders romantic interactions.
Synonyms: gooseberry
third wheel
constable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌnstəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒnstəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑnstəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkanstəbəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔnsʈəbɪl/
Forms: form: constables
Etymology: From Middle English constable, cunstable, constabil, connestable, cunestable, from Old French conestable, from Latin comes stabulī (“officer of the stables”). For the sense-development; compare marshal. Doublet of connétable.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
topics: law
glosses: A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
glosses: An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
glosses: The warden of a castle.
glosses: An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
glosses: A large butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus, family Nymphalidae, of Asia.
Synonyms: police officer
Derived terms: word: assistant chief constable
word: Burton Constable
word: Constable Burton
word: constablery
word: constableship
word: constabless
word: constablewick
word: constabulary
word: cst.
word: CST
word: deputy chief constable
word: hog constable
word: Melton Constable
word: outrun the constable
word: overrun the constable
word: police constable
word: special constable
word: subconstable
word: underconstable
constable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌnstəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒnstəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑnstəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkanstəbəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔnsʈəbɪl/
Forms: form: constables
form: constabling
form: constabled
form: constabled
Etymology: From Middle English constable, cunstable, constabil, connestable, cunestable, from Old French conestable, from Latin comes stabulī (“officer of the stables”). For the sense-development; compare marshal. Doublet of connétable.
Senses: glosses: To act as a constable or policeman.
estuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛstjʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɛst͡ʃʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɛst͡ʃəɹi/
ipa: /ˈɛst͡ʃuˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: estuaries
form: æstuary
Etymology: From Latin aestuarium (“creek”, “estuary of a river”).
Senses: examples: text: The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud.
ref: 1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
text: There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
glosses: An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
Derived terms: estuarial
estuarian
estuaried
Estuary English
estuary seahorse
palaeoestuary
subestuary
Related terms: ecotone
self-fulfilling prophecy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-fulfilling prophecies
Etymology: Coined by sociologist Robert K. Merton.
Senses: examples: text: Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians? If so, then in a self-fulfilling prophecy they may have been organizing their lives according to a religious belief system, and not simply an economic or ecological one.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
text: Operator Abellio ScotRail doubled the Mon-Sat service from one train in each direction to two from May 2019 - it being something of a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you lay on trains, people might use them.
ref: 2022 January 26, Stephen Roberts, “Top of the stops: our least used stations”, in RAIL, number 949, page 56:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
coordinate_terms: self-defeating prophecy
glosses: A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true.
Related terms: fake it till one makes it
nominative determinism
Pygmalion effect
nontrinitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒn.tɹɪnɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌnɑn.tɹɪnɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: nontrinitarians
Etymology: From non- + trinitarian.
Senses: coordinate_terms: antitrinitarian#Noun
trinitarian#Noun
glosses: One who rejects or does not subscribe to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Such a person may be Christian or non-Christian; most Christian denominations are trinitarian.
nontrinitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒn.tɹɪnɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌnɑn.tɹɪnɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more nontrinitarian
form: most nontrinitarian
Etymology: From non- + trinitarian.
Senses: coordinate_terms: antitrinitarian#Adjective
trinitarian#Adjective
glosses: Rejecting or not ascribing to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
rock and roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɹɑk ən(d)ˈɹoʊl/
Forms: form: rock-and-roll
form: rock'n'roll
form: rock 'n' roll
form: rock n roll
form: rock 'n roll
form: rock-n-roll
form: rock-'n'-roll
form: rock & roll
Etymology: From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was an euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
examples: text: rock and roll lifestyle
glosses: An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
examples: text: I'm back on rock and roll
translation: I'm back on the dole.
english: I'm back on the dole.
glosses: Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
examples: text: The dubbing theatre is a viewing theatre equipped for running the picture with a great many tracks interlocked to run synchronously. Once laced up, they can be run forwards or backwards remaining in synch; when it was first introduced this system was given the name 'rock and roll'.
ref: 2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 56:
text: It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take. If you need to stop for some reason — the performance isn't quite right, there's a rustle of papers, etc — you can always go back on the recording and pick it up from the point at which it went wrong. This is known as rock and roll.
ref: 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 196:
text: An alternative method is the use of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), which consists basically of a high speed rock and roll dubbing system and a programmable locating device.
ref: 2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book, pages 38–7:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
Derived terms: death 'n' roll
rock and roller
un-rock and roll
steric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ster(eo)- (“3D”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to or involving the arrangement of atoms in space.
glosses: of the repulsion of atoms due to closeness or arrangement
Derived terms: electrosteric
heterosteric
homosteric
sterically
steric hindrance
Related terms: topics: sciences
word: isosteric
topics: biochemistry
microbiology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
biology
word: allosteric
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: intrasteric
word: halosteric
word: holosteric
neutrophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutrophil
Kwanzaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɑnzə/
Forms: form: Kwanzaas
Etymology: Coined by Maulana Karenga from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza (“first fruits”). The additional “a” was added to “Kwanza” so that the word would have seven letters, one for each of the Seven Principles of Blackness.
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.
ref: 1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page B7:
text: But now, WASP's want their place in the multicultural sun. Social rituals are social rituals. If there is Kwanzaa, why not cotillions?
ref: 1997 January 5, Maureen Dowd, “WASP's Bite Back”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2022:
text: Spying a way to use her son’s enthusiasm for video games to teach him about investing, Jaydyn’s mother, Nina Carr, decided to invest in 10 shares of GameStop at $6.19 a share for a Kwanzaa gift.
ref: 2021 January 30, Christina Morales, “A 10-Year-Old GameStop Investor Cashed In. His Return? Over 5,000%”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2021:
glosses: A week-long African-American cultural holiday held between December 26 and January 1.
Coordinate terms: kente
kinara
ujamaa
umoja
Derived terms: happy Kwanzaa
cordial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.di.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɔː.dʒəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.di.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.d͡ʒəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.djəl/
Forms: form: cordials
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cordial, from Old French cordial, from Medieval Latin cordiālis (“of the heart”), from cor (“heart”).
Senses: examples: text: Both supplement and taste-matched placebo were consumed in 70 ml of fruit cordial and 150 ml of water, which were drunk within a 5-min period.
ref: 2024 May 31, Andrew John Chappell, Adrien Parry, Trevor Simper, “The Acute Effect of Citrulline Malate Loading in Resistance Trained Males on: Anaerobic Muscular Endurance, Force Recovery and Muscle Soreness”, in Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise, →DOI:
synonyms: word: squash
word: high juice
glosses: A concentrated non-carbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking.
glosses: An individual serving of such a diluted drink.
glosses: A pleasant-tasting medicine.
examples: text: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act III, Scene 1, in 1828, British Theatre, Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, 827,
Lucy. But, miss Polly—in the way of friendship, will you give me leave to propose a glass of cordial to you ?
Polly. Strong waters are apt to give me the headache.—I hope, madam, you will excuse me?
text: [Marilla] had put the bottle of raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the closet [...].
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, L. C. Page & Co.:
glosses: A liqueur prepared using the infusion process.
glosses: A candy (or bonbon) usually made of milk chocolate, filled with small fruits (often maraschino cherries) and syrup or fondant.
examples: text: Never had Fanny more wanted a cordial. Never had she felt such a one as this letter contained.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 288:
glosses: Anything that revives or comforts, a stimulant.
Hypernyms: liqueur
Derived terms: ginger cordial
liqueur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈkjʊə/
ipa: /lɪˈkjɔː/
ipa: /lɪˈk(j)ɝ/
ipa: /lɪˈk(j)ɔɹ/
ipa: /lɪˈkjuɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: liqueurs
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.
Senses: glosses: A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.
Derived terms: cassis liqueur
cream liqueur
Related terms: liquid
liquidate
liquidation
liquidator
liquidity
liquidizer
liquor
cordial
ratafia
liqueur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈkjʊə/
ipa: /lɪˈkjɔː/
ipa: /lɪˈk(j)ɝ/
ipa: /lɪˈk(j)ɔɹ/
ipa: /lɪˈkjuɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: liqueurs
form: liqueuring
form: liqueured
form: liqueured
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.
Senses: glosses: to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
examples: text: Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.
glosses: to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution
meld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: melds
form: melding
form: melded
form: melded
Etymology: The verb is probably derived:
* from a blend of melt + weld; or
* from melled (“blended; mingled”), the past participle of mell.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Compare also melting pot.
Senses: examples: text: One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
text: Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like – we can all be proud of our young country.
ref: 2018 June 5, Michael Wines, “Song awakens injured pride of Afrikaners”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023:
text: Users can upload an unlimited number of voice messages, text prompts, photographs and videos of themselves, and in return an algorithm melds together memories and media and spits out a “virtual you” – an avatar that can speak to loved ones on phone calls and through text messages “so that children, grandchildren and beyond can know what you’re really like”.
ref: 2025 March 5, Patricia Clarke, “You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least”, in The Observer:
synonyms: conflate
merge
glosses: To combine (multiple things) together; to blend, to fuse.
glosses: To combine, to blend, to fuse.
Derived terms: word: meldable
word: melded
word: melder
word: melding
word: mindmeld
word: unmelded
Related terms: word: meldometer
word: melt
word: weld
meld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: melds
Etymology: The verb is probably derived:
* from a blend of melt + weld; or
* from melled (“blended; mingled”), the past participle of mell.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Compare also melting pot.
Senses: synonyms: combination
glosses: The result of multiple things being combined together; a blend.
Derived terms: mind meld
meld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: melds
form: melding
form: melded
form: melded
Etymology: The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Dutch melden
* Old English meldian (“to announce, declare; to inform, notify”) (Middle English melden (“to accuse, inform against; to announce, declare”))
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Especially in games of the rummy family:
To announce or play (a combination of playing cards) and thus score points.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Especially in games of the rummy family:
To announce or play a combination of playing cards and thus score points.
meld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: melds
Etymology: The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
* Dutch melden
* Old English meldian (“to announce, declare; to inform, notify”) (Middle English melden (“to accuse, inform against; to announce, declare”))
Senses: examples: text: The realization that Istra was in the room made him forget most of his melds at pinochle; […]
ref: 1914 February, Sinclair Lewis, “He is Blown by the Whirlwind”, in Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 231:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points.
callow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: callows
Etymology: From Middle English calwe (“(adjective) bald; (noun) bald person”), from Old English calu, caluw (“without hair, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bald; bare, naked”), and then either:
* from Proto-Indo-European *gol(H)-wo- (“bald; bare, naked”), from *gelH- (“head; naked”); or
* from Latin calvus (“bald”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H- (“bald; naked”).
If not borrowed from Latin, Grimm’s law indicates that the Latin word is likely a false cognate, along with Persian کل (kal) and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá). Finnish kalju (“bald”), from Proto-Finnic *kaljama, may be borrowed from an unrelated Germanic word meaning “slippery”.
cognates
* Dutch kaal (“bald”)
* German kahl (“bald”)
* German Low German kahl (“bald”)
* Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”)
* Swedish kal, kalka (“bald”)
* West Frisian keal (“bald”)
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of teneral (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”).
synonyms: word: teneral
extra: (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”)
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An alluvial flat.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
A person lacking life experience; an immature or naive person.
glosses: Synonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).
synonyms: word: topsoil
extra: upper layer of soil
callow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: more callow
form: most callow
Etymology: From Irish caladh (“meadow by a riverbank; land, shore (as opposed to the sea); landing place; port”), from Old Irish calad (“shore; landing place; port”), probably a noun use of calad (“hard”, adjective), from Proto-Celtic *kaletos (“cruel; hard; strong”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlH-eto- (“cold”) (in the sense of something frozen and thus hard), from an unclear root *ḱl(H)- or *kl(H)- (“hard”); or related to Proto-Germanic *halluz (“boulder, rock, stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to cut, hew”).
Senses: examples: text: The Bogs that extend along the western part of this District do not lie close to the Shannon, as those on the east side do along the banks of the Inny; they are separated from the river by a long tract of high, dry, callow land, subject, immediately near the river, to being overflowed in winter, but affording meadow, pasture, and in some places good arable land.
ref: 1811 February 26 (date written), Thomas Townsend, “Appendix, No. 7. The Report of Mr. Thomas Townsend; in District No. 6. [No. 5. Details of Particular Bogs.]”, in J. Leslie Foster [et al.], The Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland, and the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating them. […], [Dublin]: […] [Graisberry and Campbell?], published 1 April 1811, →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
callow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæloʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: callows
Etymology: From Irish caladh (“meadow by a riverbank; land, shore (as opposed to the sea); landing place; port”), from Old Irish calad (“shore; landing place; port”), probably a noun use of calad (“hard”, adjective), from Proto-Celtic *kaletos (“cruel; hard; strong”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlH-eto- (“cold”) (in the sense of something frozen and thus hard), from an unclear root *ḱl(H)- or *kl(H)- (“hard”); or related to Proto-Germanic *halluz (“boulder, rock, stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to cut, hew”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: bog, fen, marsh, swamp, mire, moor, slough
text: The crops of hay carried off by the floods, or rendered utterly valueless, were not the only losses sustained by the landholders. The extensive callows upon which they grazed their cattle during the autumn and early winter, were unavailable this season.
ref: 1862, Henry Coulter, chapter I, in The West of Ireland: Its Existing Condition, and Prospects, Dublin: Hodges & Smith, […]; London: Hurst & Blackett, […]; Edinburgh; London: W[illia]m Blackwood & Sons, →OCLC, page 6:
synonyms: flood meadow
water meadow
glosses: A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.
missive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪv/
Forms: form: missives
Etymology: 15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 346, column 1:
text: The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
text: The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.
ref: 25 October 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian:
text: "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 71, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A written message; a letter, note or memo.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
examples: text: Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: One who is sent; a messenger.
missive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪv/
Etymology: 15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).
Senses: examples: text: a letter missive
text: Delivery of the Letters Missive
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
examples: text: In vain with Darts a diſtant War they try, / Short, and more ſhort the miſſive weapons fly.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 564:
glosses: Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
Derived terms: letter missive
Related terms: mission for terms etymologically related to send
hornet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔː.nɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹ.nɪt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪt
Forms: form: hornets
Etymology: From Middle English hernet, from Old English hyrnetu, hyrnete, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hurznutō (compare German Hornisse), alteration of Proto-Germanic *hursulǭ (compare Dutch horzel), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂sro- (“hornet”, literally “the one with horns (antennae)”), from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (compare Welsh creyryn (“gadfly”), Latin crābrō (“hornet”), Lithuanian širšė (“wasp”), Proto-Slavic *sьrxy (whence Old Church Slavonic сръшень (srŭšenĭ, “hornet”) and many others), Albanian grerë, grenzë (“wasp, hornet”)).
Senses: glosses: A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
glosses: A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Vespa mandarinia
word: Asian giant hornet
taxonomic: Vespa velutina
word: Asian hornet
taxonomic: Abispa ephippium
word: Australian hornet
word: bald-faced hornet
taxonomic: Dolichovespula maculata
word: bald hornet
taxonomic: Vespa basalis
word: black-bellied hornet
taxonomic: Vespa ducalis
word: black-tailed hornet
taxonomic: Vespa crabro
word: European hornet
taxonomic: Vespa crabro germana
word: giant hornet
taxonomic: Vespa tropica
word: greater banded hornet
word: green hornet
taxonomic: Sesia apiformis
word: hornet clearwing
taxonomic: Asilus spp.
word: hornet fly
word: hornetlike
taxonomic: Sesia apiformis
word: hornet moth
taxonomic: Asilus crabroniformis
word: hornet robberfly
word: hornety
word: Japanese giant hornet
taxonomic: Vespa simillima
word: Japanese hornet
taxonomic: Vespa simillima xanthptera
word: Japanese yellow hornet
taxonomic: Vespa affinis
word: lesser banded hornet
word: mad as a hornet
word: murder hornet
word: oriental hornet
word: Oriental hornet
taxonomic: Dolichovespula maculata
word: paper hornet
taxonomic: Sphecius speciosus
word: sand hornet
word: white-faced hornet
taxonomic: Dolichovespula maculata
word: white-tailed hornet
taxonomic: Vespa simillima xanthoptera
word: yellow hornet
taxonomic: Vespa velutina
word: yellow-legged hornet
Related terms: bee
wasp
malum prohibitum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mala prohibita
Etymology: From Latin directly. Literally translated as "wrong because prohibited", or "bad because against the law".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An action that is not inherently evil, but is nevertheless illegal only because prohibited, as opposed to malum in se. A malum prohibitum offense is something that is wrong only because a statute makes it so, or by consensus that society agrees to prohibit the act, and is typically regulatory in nature and often result in no direct injury or danger to the person, entity, or property but only merely create the danger or probability of it which the statute attempts to minimize. Used to develop consensual crimes.
Related terms: consensual crime
public order crime
victimless crime
a posteriori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more a posteriori
form: most a posteriori
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.
Senses: examples: text: What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge".
ref: 1988, R. S. Woolhouse, The empiricists, Oxford University Press:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: inductive[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous outside of philosophic arcanity>
antonyms: a priori
;
deductive
glosses: Involving induction of theories from facts.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
raw_tags: of a constructed language
Synonyms: sense: involving induction of theories from facts
word: empirical
Related terms: a fortiori
a posteriori
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more a posteriori
form: most a posteriori
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.
Senses: examples: text: FALLACIES of the modern worldview have to do with the conception of the world as substance or machinery, mistaking abstractions for reality, confusing origins and truth, failing to attribute feeling to things that feel, recognising ethics as exclusively anthropocentric, thinking a posteriori, objectifying facts as separated from values, reducing the complex to the simple and dividing knowledge into distinct disciplines that produce experts who are often wrong.
ref: 1991, New Scientist:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: inductively[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous outside of philosophic arcanity>
antonyms: a priori
deductively
glosses: In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
Related terms: ex post
first violin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first violins
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The lead or primary violin role in an orchestra or other ensemble, or in a musical composition, that typically contains the melody and is often more technically demanding than the second violin role. The first violin role is played by a first violinist, typically the best violinist in the orchestra.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The leader of the violin section of a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
Synonyms: concertmaster
first violinist
Related terms: second violin
first fiddle
lead fiddle
warlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔɹlɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈwɔːlɔːd/
Forms: form: warlords
form: war lord
form: war-lord
Etymology: From war + lord.
Senses: examples: text: Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended tonight when the soldiers of the warlord besieging this strategic city south of Kabul ran out of ammunition and fled the battlefront in clouds of dust, cursing the warlord to his face for his callousness in committing them to a fight they were doomed to lose.
ref: 2002 February 1, John F. Burns, “Warlord Fends Off Warlord, Echoing Afghans' Bitter Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: “I’m not a warlord … I’m a liberator of the people,” he said. That’s the problem: So are they all. More than four million people have died in Congo’s wars since 1998, making it the most lethal conflict since World War II.
ref: 2007 June 18, Nicholas Kristof, quoting Laurent Nkunda, “Dinner With a Warlord”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.
Derived terms: warlording
warlordism
Related terms: militia
warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒɹiə/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹiɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹjɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɑɹiə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɑɹjə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈʋɔɾɪə(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɒɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: warriors
form: warriour
Etymology: From Middle English werreour, from Anglo-Norman werreur, Old French guerroiier (“fighter, combattant”), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Displaced native Old English cempa and many others.
Senses: examples: text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: [Link:] Gee, it sure is boring around here.
 [King Harkinian:] My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.
ref: 1993 October 10, Animation Magic, Link: The Faces of Evil, Philips Interactive Media, scene: Intro:
glosses: A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
glosses: A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
Derived terms: Black Warrior
bloody-warrior
bloody warrior
class warrior
cold warrior
corridor warrior
culture warrior
eco-warrior
edit warrior
Indian warrior
keyboard warrior
people's warrior
road warrior
social-justice warrior
social justice warrior
status quo warrior
urban warrior
warrior ant
warrioress
warriorhood
warrior wasp
weekend warrior
Wi-Fi warrior
wolf warrior
workout warrior
Related terms: war
KISS principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the KISS principle
Etymology: KISS is an acronym for keep it simple, stupid.
Senses: glosses: The empirical principle that most systems will work best if they are kept simple rather than made complex.
coco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: kōʹkō
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
homophone: cocoa
Forms: form: cocos
form: cocoes
form: cocoa
Etymology: From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.
Senses: examples: text: I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.
ref: 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, page 52:
glosses: Coconut palm.
examples: text: They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. … The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:
text: The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]
ref: 1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, page 355:
text: You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.
ref: 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, →ISBN, page 468:
glosses: Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
Derived terms: cocamide
cocamidopropyl
coco bread
cocomat
coconut
coco palm
cocopeat
coco peat
coco plum
cocoyam
I should coco
malanga coco
Related terms: word: coco-de-mer
english: cacao, altered by confusion with coco
translation: cacao, altered by confusion with coco
word: cocoa