cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bipartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /baɪˈpɑːtaɪt/
Etymology: From Latin bipartītus (“bisected”), perfect passive participle of bipartiō (“I divide into two parts, bisect”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: bifid, bilobar, bilobular, split, forked
coordinate_terms: tripartite
quadripartite
quinquepartite
sexpartite
octopartite
decempartite
multipartite
glosses: Having two parts (two principal or main parts).
glosses: Having two participants; joint.
raw_tags: of an agreement or contract
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Divided into two at the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having vertices that can be divided into two independent sets (see bigraph)
raw_tags: of a graph
Derived terms: bipartitely
bipartiteness
bipartitism
complete bipartite graph
equibipartite
nonbipartite
cleaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Forms: form: more cleaved
form: most cleaved
Senses: glosses: Cleft or cloven.
Related terms: cleave
cleaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cleave
Derived terms: autocleaved
noncleaved
precleaved
uncleaved
cloven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊvən
rhymes: -uːvən
Senses: glosses: past participle of cleave
cloven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊvən
rhymes: -uːvən
Senses: examples: text: All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness—[...]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Split, sundered, or divided.
Derived terms: cloven foot
cloven-footed
show the cloven foot
cloven hoof
cloven-hoofed
cloven-hooved
clovenness
uncloven
whoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍʊʃ/
ipa: /wʊʃ/
ipa: /ʍuːʃ/
ipa: /wuːʃ/
ipa: /ʍʉʃ/
ipa: /wʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: whooshes
form: woosh
Etymology: Of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!”
ref: 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
glosses: A homicide by shooting.
glosses: A gun.
whoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍʊʃ/
ipa: /wʊʃ/
ipa: /ʍuːʃ/
ipa: /wuːʃ/
ipa: /ʍʉʃ/
ipa: /wʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: whooshes
form: whooshing
form: whooshed
form: whooshed
form: woosh
Etymology: Of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
glosses: To pass by quickly.
glosses: To pass by quickly.
To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
examples: text: Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.
ref: 2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter:
glosses: To cause to pass quickly.
examples: text: Man do it for the team
Kick him and swing him on landing
The olders are whooshed
Brass and bruck
I promise all of them has been (dun out 'ere)
ref: 2019 September 29, Moscow17, “All For The Cause”:
text: How many man got whooshed like Jackson?
ref: 2020 August 27, A.M, “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally:
text: How many man's been whooshed with the stick?
ref: 2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby, “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022):
glosses: To kill by gun, to shoot.
whoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍʊʃ/
ipa: /wʊʃ/
ipa: /ʍuːʃ/
ipa: /wuːʃ/
ipa: /ʍʉʃ/
ipa: /wʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: woosh
Etymology: Of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92:
glosses: Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
glosses: Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).
Derived terms: argle-bargle morble whoosh
whooshka
essive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essive cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Noun case used to indicate a temporary state of being, such as the site of an action or the time at which it took place.
Synonyms: similaris case
pre-mechanization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + mechanization.
Senses: glosses: Referring to a period before the mechanization of farming or some other human activity.
nerve-racking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerve-racking
form: most nerve-racking
form: nerve-wracking
Etymology: 1812.
Senses: examples: text: His own greeting was equally cordial. "Still exploring!" he cried, as he shook them by the hand. "We will hope your new experiences will not be so nerve-racking as our last."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves.
Synonyms: gut-wrenching
Derived terms: nerve-rackingly
Related terms: pain-racked
emissary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɛmɪˌsɛɹi/
Forms: form: emissaries
Etymology: From French émissaire, from Latin emissarius (“agent, scout, spy”).
Senses: examples: text: The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary—Chang Kuo-t’ao—to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.
ref: 1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927, number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
examples: Near-synonym: missionary
glosses: An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
Such an agent spreading a gospel.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A venous channel in the skull.
glosses: An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.
Hyponyms: english: divine
translation: divine
word: interpreter
Derived terms: emissarial
emissaryship
emissary vein
Related terms: emission
emit
missionary
not the end of the world
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Don't worry; it's not the end of the world if he doesn't attend.
glosses: (It's of) minor importance, at least not as important as it first seemed.
Synonyms: don't make a mountain out of a molehill
nerve-wracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerve-wracking
form: most nerve-wracking
Etymology: 1867, following earlier nerve-racking (1812).
Senses: examples: text: To thrust this grating, screeching, nerve wracking, heart-rending, worse than Pandemonial howling, upon such an occasion, is the climax of cruelty.
ref: 1867 June 24, “Marriage Sermons and Serenades”, in The Guardian, page 172:
text: One could hardly commend any of these nerve-wracking exploits; [...].
ref: 1960 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 368:
glosses: Alternative form of nerve-racking.
Burg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burgs
Etymology: Clipping of Burgundy.
Senses: examples: text: Many 2006 Burgundy reds are drinking well now, the better 2007s, especially Chambolles, have been beautiful for a while, and the 2008s could be left alone for a year or so to resolve their tannins. I find many 2011 and 2012 Burgs seductive, and irresistible, just bursting with fruit.
ref: 2018, Joel Berman, “Rhône Vintages”, in So You Want to Be a Wine Merchant?, Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Burgundy wine.
Synthol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A synthetic preparation proposed as a substitute for alcohol.
Synthol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An oil that is injected directly into muscle to artificially increase its size.
Burgenland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡənlænd/
Etymology: From the German Burgenland. Literally, “land of castles”.
Senses: glosses: The easternmost and least populous federal state of Austria.
Augustinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪniən
Senses: examples: text: What does Freud oppose to the view that the future is already written? It is in so far as chance does exist in the physical, as opposed to mental world, that Freud distinguishes himself from a superstitious person. Yet the analyst never takes a chance event at face value. Everything mental — that is speakable — is determined. This sense of determination, the famous determinism that Freud is rebuked for, is in truth more of a parody of nineteenth century Laplacean determinism than its extension. From the dream in The interpretation of dreams, we derive the simple formula that dreams foretell the future insofar as the future is a perfect likeness of the past. This model seems to be akin to the Laplacean determinism of the nineteenth century, the view that, given knowledge of initial conditions, of the present state of forces and elements in the universe, the entire history of a system can be predicted, both forward, into the future, and backwards, into the past. This determinism is broken up, we are told, by twentieth-century physics. But this Laplacean future is the future invoked by the dream; the real future, if such a thing can be allowed to escape the clutches of the Augustinian paradoxes, is a very different thing. One simple index of Freud's avoidance of the Laplacean denial of a difference between past and future is the fact that the question of chance and coincidence bulks so large in discussions of foretelling the future. In a sense, the future is the privileged domain of the miraculous for psychoanalysis. And yet, psychoanalysis itself essays to enter into the domain of the future by undoing the Laplacean determinations the patient constructs for him or herself.
ref: 1991 [1990], John Forrester, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: I do not subscribe to any Augustinian type split of the world/universe into good or bad, one Godly, one absent of God.
ref: 1995 February 1, Momabee, “Petitions, Acceptance, and Moshiach”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
glosses: Of, or relating to St Augustine of Hippo or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
glosses: Of, or relating to several religious orders influenced by him.
Augustinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪniən
Forms: form: Augustinians
Senses: glosses: A follower of St Augustine or his doctrines, especially on predestination and grace.
glosses: A friar or monk of any Augustinian order.
Derived terms: Augustinian of the Assumption
lanternfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanternfish
form: lanternfishes
Etymology: From lantern + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of small, deep sea fish of the large family Myctophidae, named after their conspicuous use of bioluminescence.
Synonyms: myctophid
Related terms: lantern
fish
anglerfish
anglerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋɡlɚˌfɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæŋɡləˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: anglerfish
form: anglerfishes
Etymology: From angler + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the bony fish order Lophiiformes, which have an outgrowth they wiggle to lure and catch their prey.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Lophius spp.
word: monkfish
taxonomic: Lophiidae spp.
word: goosefish
taxonomic: Lophius piscatorius
word: fishing frog
taxonomic: Lophius piscatorius
word: frog-fish
taxonomic: Lophius piscatorius
word: sea-devil
Derived terms: taxonomic: Caulophrynidae spp.
word: hairy anglerfish
word: humpback anglerfish
lantern beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lantern beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of several kinds of planthoppers with a protrusion on the head resembling a lantern.
Synonyms: lanternfly
dunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dunk
dunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunkings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
razer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: razor
Forms: form: razers
Etymology: From raze + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who razes.
ficus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪkəs/
rhymes: -aɪkəs
Forms: form: ficuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fīcus (“fig”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant, of species Ficus elastica.
Derived terms: ficus tussock moth
blue-winged grasshopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-winged grasshoppers
Senses: glosses: Oedipoda caerulescens, a grasshopper species that lives in regions with sparse vegetation.
gut reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut reactions
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: knee-jerk reaction
text: When he saw that lion leaping towards him, his gut reaction was to run.
coordinate_terms: gut feeling
gut instinct
gut decision
glosses: A visceral reaction that arises with little accompanying thought or even (sometimes) no thought.
out of phase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: not in phase
glosses: out of synchronization
Synonyms: out of sync
eddress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-ddress
form: e-dress
Etymology: Blend of e- + address
Senses: examples: text: They've been dropping electronic tracts on anyone they can get an eddress for.
ref: 2000, Ian Douglas, Europa Strike:
text: The extraordinary growth of the global Internet makes it essential to have more addresses (or “eddresses”) available to accommodate everyone who will be on the Internet in just a few years. IPv4 allowed for 4 billion eddresses—but there are 6 billion people, and many more computers, appliances, vehicles, and other devices that will soon be assigned IP eddresses as well!
ref: 2001, Joan Van Tassel, Digital TV Over Broadband:
text: The Wine Dark Sea
by Alex Epstein
[my address]
[my phone number]
[my eddress]
ref: 2002, Alex Epstein, Crafty Screenwriting:
text: In college I use my eddress more then [sic] my regular address.
ref: 2004, Xin-An Lu, editor, Concise Collection of College Students' Slang:
glosses: An electronic address; in particular, an e-mail address.
eddresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eddress
Schober
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schobers
form: Shober
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schober.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
lenition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈnɪʃən/
ipa: /liːˈnɪʃən/
ipa: /ləˈnɪʃən/
ipa: /liˈnɪʃən/
Forms: form: lenitions
Etymology: Analyzable as lenis + -ition, or as if from Latin lēnīt(us) + -ion, or Latin lēnītiō (“softening”) from lēniō (“soften”) + -tiō (action noun suffix) (attested since at least the 1500s, the same timeframe lenition is first attested in English with the sense "assuaging"). Modelled on German Lenierung.
Senses: examples: text: One of these processes, the process of T-Lenition, is extremely common, even though it takes place only when the input consonant is adjacent to a small number of affixes. In this change, a stopped consonant, [p t k b d g], becomes a fricative, [s, z, š, ž]. This process is called lenition, or weakening.
ref: 2001, Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova, English Words: History and Structure, page 104:
text: Environments are an essential part of any discussion of lenition. Textbooks often describe lenition as occurring in the weak intervocalic or word-final environments. The canonical examples of lenition given earlier in (1) through (3) all occur either between vowels or between sonorants.
ref: 2001, Lisa M. Lavoie, Consonant Strength: Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations, page 7:
text: 2008, Krzysztof Jaskula, Celtic, Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral (editors), Lenition and Fortition, Studies in Generative Grammar: 99, page 347,
As for Goidelic languages, the situation is clearer because Lenition III in this subfamily consisted in losing the same property as the first two lenitions, namely stopness.
text: 2011, Naomi Gurevich, 66: Lenition, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume, Keren Rice (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Volume III: Phonological Processes, page 1573,
Five general patterns of lenitions – all based to some extent on empirical data – are identified.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: fortition
coordinate_terms: assimilation
glosses: A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
Derived terms: delenition
lenite
lenis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lē'nəs
enpr: lā'nəs
ipa: /ˈliːnɪs/
ipa: /ˈleɪnɪs/
rhymes: -iːnɪs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēnis (“soft, smooth”).
Senses: examples: text: All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).
ref: 2004, Stephan Gramley, Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: lax
antonyms: fortis
glosses: Weakly articulated, hence voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants.
raw_tags: of a consonant
Derived terms: lenition
lenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lē'nəs
enpr: lā'nəs
ipa: /ˈliːnɪs/
ipa: /ˈleɪnɪs/
rhymes: -iːnɪs
Forms: form: lenes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēnis (“soft, smooth”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A lenis consonant.
chomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɒmp/
enpr: chŏmp
ipa: /t͡ʃɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: chomps
form: chump
Etymology: U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.
Senses: glosses: The act of chomping (see below)
examples: text: An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
text: The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.
ref: 2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: hextet
glosses: A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
Derived terms: chompy
midchomp
chomp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɒmp/
enpr: chŏmp
ipa: /t͡ʃɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: chomps
form: chomping
form: chomped
form: chomped
form: chump
Etymology: U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.
Senses: examples: text: The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
glosses: To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: chop
glosses: To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
Derived terms: chomp at the bit
chomp down on
chomper
cigar-chomping
heavy metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛv.i ˌmɛt.əl/
Forms: form: heavy metals
Etymology: According to the Oxford World's Classics edition of Anthony Trollope's Rachel Ray (1863), "big guns," as on a warship.
The origin of the music genre sense is often disputed; it was used by William S. Burroughs in Soft Machine and Nova Express and various music critics claim to have coined it: Sandy Pearlman, Lester Bangs and Mike Saunders.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Any metal that has a specific gravity greater than about 5, especially one, such as lead, that is poisonous and may be a hazard in the environment. (There are many different definitions of what counts as a heavy metal; see Heavy metals for a discussion.)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: metal
glosses: A genre descended from rock music, characterized by the use of emphatic drumbeats, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness; often featuring extended instrumental solos and powerful vocals.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: metal
glosses: A genre descended from rock music, characterized by the use of emphatic drumbeats, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness; often featuring extended instrumental solos and powerful vocals.
The first form of metal music, which arose in the late 1960s and the 1970s, and is closer to the rock music of the time than most other subgenres of metal.
glosses: guns or shot of large size.
glosses: Great influence or power.
Hyponyms: alternative metal
blackgaze
black metal
Celtic metal
Christian metal
deathcore
death metal
djent
doom metal
drone metal
electronicore
extreme metal
folk metal
funeral doom
funk metal
glam metal
gothic metal
grindcore
groove metal
industrial metal
kawaii metal
mathcore
melodic metal
metalcore
neoclassical metal
nu metal
pagan metal
pirate metal
post-metal
power metal
progressive metal
sludge metal
speed metal
stoner metal
symphonic metal
thrash metal
Viking metal
Derived terms: heavy metally
heavy metal umlaut
Related terms: acid rock
eagerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiɡɚnəs/
ipa: /ˈiːɡənəs/
Forms: form: eagernesses
form: eagreness
Etymology: From Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The things he had to tell about...were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement, when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working.
ref: 1910 November – 1911 August, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 20, in The Secret Garden, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, published 1911, →OCLC:
text: Meanwhile the larger company was showing no great eagerness to yield to the pressure of South Wales interests to convert its gauge, and with a view to forcing the pace, the Llynvi & Ogmore in 1871 promoted a remarkable railway from an extension of its system already authorised near Blackmill, eastward across country to join the Rhymney Railway at Nantgarw, in the Vale of Taff, above Cardiff.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 447:
glosses: The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
examples: text: Senvie, which is of a most biting and stinging tast, of a fierie effect,[…]serveth also to make a pretie dish of meat to be eaten, being boiled or stewed between too^([sic – meaning two]) little dishes in some convenient liquor, in such sort, as a man shall not feele it to bite at the tongues end, nor complaine of any eagernesse that it hath.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XIX.] Of Garden herbes which serue for to season our meats.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Presently the balsamick body is wounded, and turns sour sooner or later according to the degree of the motion; for this fierce motion or working wastes the pure spirituous Balsam, and awakens the original Qualities of Saturn and Mars, viz. an astringent Eagerness, or sour hard Quality, that would not have been manifested, if this irregular Motion had not excited it.
ref: 1691, Thomas Tryon, The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness […] , 2nd edition, page 121:
text: To this I answer that Beer nor Ale can be drawed off so fine from the Mash-Tun or Cooler, as to want a sufficient Sediment to feed it, as may be easily proved by an Observation when the Drink is drawn off, that never yet appeared to me without rather too much of this filthy Compound, which by its earthy and saline Parts naturally induces Hardness and Eagerness in the Liquor.
ref: 1744, William Ellis, The London and Country Brewer, 5th edition, volume 2, page 148:
glosses: Tartness, sourness.
elevated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elevate
elevated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dəd/
Forms: form: more elevated
form: most elevated
Senses: glosses: Raised, usually above ground level.
examples: text: the elevated language of poetry
text: The patient presented with elevated blood pressure.
glosses: Increased, particularly above a normal level.
glosses: Of a higher rank or status.
examples: text: Install all the required tools from an elevated console.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Running with administrator rights.
examples: text: ‘I hope,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.’
‘Oh dear, no,’ replied Ben Allen. ‘Except when he’s elevated, Bob’s the quietest creature breathing.’
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: Intoxicated; drunk.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a higher register or style.
Derived terms: coelevated
elevated line
elevatedly
elevatedness
elevated railway
hyperelevated
mobile elevated work platform
nonelevated
unelevated
elevated
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛl.əˌveɪ.dəd/
Forms: form: elevateds
Senses: examples: text: the Washington Street Elevated
text: Mr. Nunheim's home was on the fourth floor of a dark, damp, and smelly building made noisy by the Sixth Avenue elevated.
ref: 1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 16, in The Thin Man, New York: Knopf:
text: While the New York, Fordham, and Bronx Railway never built any elevateds, its franchise rights were valuable.
ref: 2012, Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone, The Wheels That Drove New York:
glosses: An elevated railway.
Derived terms: el
reckoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkənd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reckon
sampan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæm.pæn/
Forms: form: sampans
form: champan
form: champana
form: champane
Etymology: From Sinitic, likely Cantonese 三板 (saam¹ baan²) or Hokkien 舢板 (sam-pán).
Senses: examples: text: We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.
ref: 1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:
text: Freedom-fighter Lin Chun-hwei reports his escape from the mainland at the Free China Relief Association. Lin escaped by sampan from Putien in Fukien province to one of the islets near Kinmen Oct. 27.
ref: 1975 November 16, L. Chen, “Maoist showcase of big troubles”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 45, Taipei, page 3:
glosses: A Chinese flat-bottomed wooden boat propelled by two oars.
sampan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæm.pæn/
Forms: form: sampans
Senses: examples: text: ... by these central poles the litter, or as it is here called, the Sampan, is supported on the shoulders of four men.
ref: 1785, George Forster, Journey from Bengal..., page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of jampan.
encoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊdɪŋ
Forms: form: encodings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: codification
glosses: The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
antonyms: decoding#Noun
glosses: A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
Derived terms: autoencoding
character encoding
Church encoding
font encoding
input encoding
Manchester encoding
run-length encoding
Related terms: Unicode
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-7
iso-8859-1
cp-1252
encoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.
ref: 1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron, →DOI, page 73:
glosses: present participle and gerund of encode
white-lipped snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-lipped snails
Senses: glosses: A snail of species Cepaea hortensis, very similar to the grove snail, but with a white band at the lip of the shell.
grove snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grove snails
Senses: glosses: A snail of species Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.
moray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.ɹeɪ/
ipa: /məˈɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.eɪ/
rhymes: -ɒɹeɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: morays
form: maray
form: muray
Etymology: From Portuguese moreia, from Latin murēna (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek σμύραινα (smúraina), from σμύρος (smúros, “sea eel”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
Synonyms: moray eel
Derived terms: conger moray
goldentail moray
green moray
honeycomb moray
laced moray
leopard moray
leopard moray eel
snowflake moray
tessellate moray
yellow moray
faculties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæ.kəl.tiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of faculty
rejoiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rejoice
rejoiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Forms: form: more rejoiced
form: most rejoiced
Senses: examples: text: Laura was rejoiced at the favourable alteration in her mother […].
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 201:
glosses: Joyful, delighted.
terribly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ɪ.bli/
Forms: form: more terribly
form: most terribly
Etymology: From terrible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The lion roared terribly.
text: The mere sensuous impact of trumpet or saxophone, whatever it happened to be playing, was an echo, even though a faint echo, of that excitement and abandon. He wanted to taste, smell, hear: his senses were terribly alive.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 519:
glosses: So as to cause terror or awe.
examples: text: He's terribly busy and you really shouldn't bother him.
text: The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
ref: 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
glosses: Very; extremely.
examples: text: She took part in the karaoke, but sang terribly.
glosses: Very badly.
Synonyms: sense: causing terror or awe
word: grisly
sense: very
word: very
sense: very
word: extremely
sense: very
word: awfully
sense: very
word: horribly
forgetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛtɪŋ/
ipa: /fɚˈɡɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forget
forgetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛtɪŋ/
ipa: /fɚˈɡɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: forgettings
Senses: examples: text: Jelliffe […] asks again and again […] how it was possible for an illness which had been described unmistakably innumerable times to be 'forgotten' anew by each generation. Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are mysterious, for they give us an unwarranted sense of security.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: This inability to articulate a complete description can be thought of as of a "piece" with human finitude; the limits, deaths, and forgettings, the "off switches" that also comprise the human narrative.
ref: 1997, Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living, page 108:
glosses: The mental act by which something is forgotten.
Derived terms: catastrophic forgetting
forgettingly
forgettingness
unforgetting
rubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbd/
ipa: [ˈɹʌˑb̚d̥]
rhymes: -ʌbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rub
rubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbd/
ipa: [ˈɹʌˑb̚d̥]
rhymes: -ʌbd
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Having had a substance applied through rubbing.
Related terms: rubbed out
rubbed work
behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈheɪvd/
ipa: /biːˈheɪvd/
ipa: /bɪˈheɪvd/
ipa: /bi-/
ipa: /bə-/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behave
behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈheɪvd/
ipa: /biːˈheɪvd/
ipa: /bɪˈheɪvd/
ipa: /bi-/
ipa: /bə-/
Senses: examples: text: a rudely-behaved child
glosses: Exhibiting the specified kind of behaviour.
Derived terms: ill-behaved
well-behaved
pierced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɹst/
ipa: /pɪəɹst/
ipa: /pɪə(ɹ)st/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)st
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pierce
pierced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɹst/
ipa: /pɪəɹst/
ipa: /pɪə(ɹ)st/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)st
Forms: form: more pierced
form: most pierced
Senses: glosses: Cut through; perforated.
glosses: Having one or more body piercings.
Derived terms: lip-pierced
nonpierced
pierced earring
square-pierced
unpierced
workmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝkmən/
note: careful pronunciation to distinguish the plural from the singular
ipa: /ˈwɝkmɛn/
ipa: /ˈwɜːkmən/
note: careful pronunciation to distinguish the plural from the singular
ipa: /ˈwɜːkmɛn/
Senses: glosses: plural of workman
welcomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕlʹkəmd
ipa: /ˈwɛlkəmd/
Forms: form: more welcomed
form: most welcomed
Senses: examples: text: I felt so welcomed at your party last night.
glosses: Having received a warm welcome.
welcomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕlʹkəmd
ipa: /ˈwɛlkəmd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of welcome
endured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʊɹd/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɝd/
ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊəd/
ipa: /ɪnˈdjɔːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endure
suppressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suppress
ceremonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛɹɪˌmoʊniz/
ipa: /ˈsɛɹɪm(ə)niz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ceremony
brows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaʊz/
rhymes: -aʊz
homophone: browse
Senses: glosses: plural of brow
wiser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪzɚ/
ipa: /ˈwaɪzə/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: It was stolen with nobody being any the wiser.
glosses: comparative form of wise: more wise
visions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪʒənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of vision
visions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪʒənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vision
constituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnstɪtutɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of constitute
neoteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/
Forms: form: neoterical
form: neoterick
Etymology: From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
Senses: examples: text: Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.
ref: 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, page 294:
glosses: Modern, new-fangled.
examples: text: Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?
ref: 1998 August 21, The Toronto Star:
text: A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order.
ref: 1997, Espen Aarseth, Cybertext:
glosses: New; recent.
Derived terms: neoterically
neoteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/
Forms: form: neoterics
form: neoterical
form: neoterick
Etymology: From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
Senses: examples: text: Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
ref: , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140
glosses: A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
glosses: Someone with new or modern ideas.
glosses: any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
constitute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnstɪt(j)uːt/
ipa: /ˈkɔnstɪtjʉːt/
Forms: form: constitutes
form: constituting
form: constituted
form: constituted
Etymology: From Middle English constituten, from Latin cōnstitūtum, neuter of cōnstitūtus, past participle of Latin cōnstituō (“to put in place; set up; establish”), from con- (“with”) + statuō (“to put up; establish”).
Senses: examples: text: Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: To set up; to establish; to enact.
examples: text: 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Abraham Cowley" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
text: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288:
glosses: To make up; to compose; to form.
examples: text: Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
ref: 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:
glosses: To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
Synonyms: sense: set up
word: establish
sense: set up
word: enact
sense: make up
word: make up
word: compose
word: form
Derived terms: coconstitute
constitutability
constitutable
constituter
constitutory
preconstitute
reconstitute
unconstituted
Related terms: constituency
constituent
constitution
constitutional
constitutionalization
constitutive
constitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnstɪt(j)uːt/
ipa: /ˈkɔnstɪtjʉːt/
Forms: form: constitutes
Etymology: From Middle English constituten, from Latin cōnstitūtum, neuter of cōnstitūtus, past participle of Latin cōnstituō (“to put in place; set up; establish”), from con- (“with”) + statuō (“to put up; establish”).
Senses: examples: text: A naughty man that will not obey the kings constitute.
ref: 1569, Thomas Preston, Cambyses:
glosses: An established law.
organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɡənz/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.ɡənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of organ
organs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɡənz/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.ɡənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of organ
startling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹ.tl̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹt.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑː.tl̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑːt.lɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of startle
startling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹ.tl̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹt.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑː.tl̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑːt.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: more startling
form: most startling
Senses: examples: text: That startling admission capped a miserable night for City as they arrived in Germany following an unbeaten start to the season.
ref: 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: alarming
glosses: Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.
Derived terms: startlingly
startling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹ.tl̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹt.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑː.tl̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɑːt.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: startlings
Senses: examples: text: Soon the formications and muscular debility returned, not alone, but accompanied with painful cramps and startlings in the feet and calves of the legs.
ref: 1853, The Scottish Review:
glosses: A startle; a sudden motion or shock.
astonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɒnɪʃɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: more astonishing
form: most astonishing
Senses: examples: text: astonishing display
text: astonishing performance
text: astonishing result
text: astonishing weather
glosses: Causing astonishment.
Derived terms: astonishingly
astonishingness
nonastonishing
unastonishing
astonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɒnɪʃɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of astonish
crowds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊdz/
rhymes: -aʊdz
Senses: glosses: plural of crowd
crowds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊdz/
rhymes: -aʊdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crowd
ethical dative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethical datives
form: ethic dative
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of the dative case applied to pronouns; used (in Latin and some other languages, but rare in English) to show a certain interest felt by the person indicated.
Synonyms: dativus ethicus
Related terms: dative of reference
dative of advantage
conferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɝd/
ipa: /kənˈfɜːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confer
beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːtiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty
beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːtiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beauty
kneeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Etymology: From kneel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kneel
Derived terms: kneelingly
unkneeling
kneeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: kneelings
Etymology: From Middle English knelinge, kneweling, kneolunge, equivalent to kneel + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A whole symbolic sexual order is obviously manifested in kneelings as positions of subordination[…]
ref: 2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The queer God, page 11:
glosses: The act by which someone kneels.
resembled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɛmbl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resemble
courtier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹtiɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɔːtɪə/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈko(ː)ɹtiɚ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈkoətɪə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: courtiers
Etymology: From Middle English courteour, from Anglo-Norman corteour, Old French cortoiier, from cort (“court”).
Senses: examples: text: By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A person in attendance at a royal court.
examples: text: People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber. Around her her courtiers started like pheasants.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump’s inner circle — and his ultimate influence remains an open question.
ref: 2024 November 22, Theodore Schleifer, “Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.
Derived terms: anticourtier
courtierdom
courtieress
courtierism
courtierlike
courtierly
courtiership
Related terms: court
courtesan
spaghetti code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The descriptive name for logically snarled program statements is spaghetti code, because the logic is as hard to follow as one noodle through a plate of spaghetti. Not only is spaghetti code confusing, but also the programs that contain it are prone to error, difficult to reuse, and hard to use as building blocks for larger applications.
ref: 2017, Joyce Farrell, Programming Logic & Design, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: spaghetti
coordinate_terms: lasagna code
ravioli code
glosses: Unstructured or poorly structured program source code; especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent.
Related terms: cable spaghetti
rat's nest
structured programming
tag soup
bullying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊ.li.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: bullyings
Etymology: From bully + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."
ref: 2025 March 13, Scott Neuman, Willem Marx, “https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325949/greenland-elections-trump-independence”, in NPR:
glosses: An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
examples: text: Bullying is a punishable offense in schools.
glosses: Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
Derived terms: antibullying
bullyingly
counterbullying
cyberbullying
e-bullying
nonbullying
prebullying
unbullying