cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stethoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛθəskəʊp/
ipa: /ˈstɛθəsˌkoʊp/
Forms: form: stethoscopes
form: stethoscoping
form: stethoscoped
form: stethoscoped
Etymology: Borrowed from French stéthoscope, a word coined by its inventor, physician René Laennec, equivalent to stetho- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: you wish me to submit to be stethoscoped; if so, you shall be gratified, although the prospect of undergoing that, or any other operation at Mr. Pigwidgeon's hands, is not the most agreeable
ref: 1852, Marmion Wilme Savage, Reuben Medlicott; or, the Coming Man:
glosses: To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
Sophie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊfi/
rhymes: -əʊfi
Senses: examples: text: Wilt thou be a nun, Sophie? / Nothing but a nun? / Is it not a better thing / With thy friends to laugh and sing?
ref: 1832 Barry Cornwall, English Songs, 1851, LXXXV ("To Sophie")
text: No, like a small child, my daughter, Sophie Anne Louise. We gave her three names, all of which exist in English as well as in French, so she can change her name just by changing her accent. - - -
Sophie Anne Louise. It is a bit pretentious, do you not find? Maybe it is better in English. Sophie Anne Louise. No, it still sounds like one of Queen Victoria's grandchildren.
ref: 1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, →ISBN, pages 241, 252:
glosses: A female given name from French Sophie, equivalent to English Sophia of Ancient Greek origin.
examples: text: Sophia landed on her behind on the soft moss that lined the river bank. "Besides, you don't win yet, Sophie," he said. "I have one more stone still."
ref: 1995, Marilyn Seguin, The Bell Keeper: The story of Sophia and the Massacre of the Indians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, in 1782, page 8:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sophia.
glosses: A village in Ouest department, Haiti.
Derived terms: Sophie's choice
Sophie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊfi/
rhymes: -əʊfi
Forms: form: Sophies
Etymology: See Sophy.
Senses: examples: text: The Prince of Morocco:
[…]By this Symitare,
That ſlew the Sophie, and a Perſian Prince[…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167, columns 1–2:
text: The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.
ref: 1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Safavi.
stichomythia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪkəˈmɪθɪə/
Forms: form: stichomythias
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek στιχομυθία (stikhomuthía), from στίχος (stíkhos, “line of verse”) (see sticho-) + μῦθος (mûthos, “speech”).
Senses: examples: text: The trial in the great hall under its high vaults, dusty sunlight shafting in, full of murmurers and growlers quietened by beadles and bailiffs, with howlers in the street held back with pikes, was by way of being a play without plot or exercise in what the Senecans term stichomythia.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:
text: The stichomythias are just as necessary in Sophocles' tragedies as are his choruses.
ref: 2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept, page 297:
text: The two modes have different effects: while a rhesis allows the speaker to give an account of himself, attempt to persuade his hearers, or move freely across a range of emotions or types of argument, stichomythia is better suited to swift exchange of information through question and answer, though it can also be used for spicy polemic, aggressive interrogation, or accusation and defence.
ref: 2012, R. B. Rutherford, Greek Tragic Style: Form, Language and Interpretation, page 165:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities.
Related terms: stichomythic
rhesis
strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæt.ə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: strategies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρατηγία (stratēgía, “office of general, command, generalship”), from στρατηγός (stratēgós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from στρατός (stratós, “army”) + ἄγω (ágō, “I lead, I conduct”).
Senses: examples: text: “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
examples: text: Oftentimes, the very simple strategies pay very great dividends.
text: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
glosses: A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
glosses: The act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.
Synonyms: generalship
Coordinate terms: sense: an art of using similar techniques in politics or business
word: tactics
Derived terms: basic strategy
coping strategy
counter-strategy
counter strategy
e-strategy
evolutionarily stable strategy
exit strategy
fifty-state strategy
investment strategy
mating strategy
real-time strategy
sneaky fucker strategy
sprinkler strategy
strap strategy
strategic
strategics
strategist
strategy game
strategy guide
strategy of tension
strategy pattern
strip strategy
Related terms: stratagem
strategus
long game
stoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈstoʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: stomata
form: stomas
Etymology: From New Latin stoma, from Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: stomate
glosses: One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
examples: text: From a large tote bag sat beside her, she takes out a Victoria Beckham makeup bag, which contains her urostomy night bag, which plugs into the bag on the stoma.
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.
glosses: An artificial anus.
Derived terms: acephalostomia
ancylostoma
esophagostoma
lipostomy
macrostomia
malacostomous
microstomia
pseudostoma
stoma bag
stomaplasty
stomatiferous
stomatous
tracheostoma
xerostomia
Related terms: ostomy
stomal
-stomy
stygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ən/
Forms: form: more stygian
form: most stygian
Etymology: From Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).
glosses: Infernal or hellish.
examples: text: The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye […]
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: Dark and gloomy.
qualifier: color theory
glosses: Having a luminosity below 0%.
raw_tags: of a perceived color
Hypernyms: chimerical
Coordinate terms: hyperbolic
self-luminous
symbiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmbaɪˈoʊsɪs/
ipa: /sɪmbiˈoʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: symbioses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συμβίωσις (sumbíōsis, “living together”). By surface analysis, sym- + -biosis.
Senses: glosses: A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
hyponyms: mutualism
commensalism
parasitism
ectosymbiosis
endosymbiosis
glosses: The close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species in which at least one of the organisms benefit.
examples: text: Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
hyponyms: mutualism
commensalism
parasitism
ectosymbiosis
endosymbiosis
glosses: The close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species in which at least one of the organisms benefit.
The close and long-tern relationship or interaction between two or more different species in which all organisms benefit; mutualism.
glosses: The state of people of different types, races, cultures, communities, etc., living together.
examples: text: In this peculiar and deadly symbiosis the presence of warfare stimulates trade and the presence of trade stimulates warfare.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:
glosses: The occurrence of two different or opposing things in the same time and place.
Derived terms: aposymbiosis
asymbiosis
chemosymbiosis
contingent symbiosis
ectosymbiosis
endosymbiosis
episymbiosis
exosymbiosis
parasymbiosis
photosymbiosis
phylosymbiosis
presymbiosis
symbiology
Symbionese
symbiosism
symbiosome
symbiotic
Related terms: semiosis
symbiont
symbiote
symphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪm.fə.ni/
ipa: [ˈsɪɱ.fə.ni]
Forms: form: symphonies
Etymology: From Middle English symphonye, from Old French simphonie, from Latin symphonia, from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). By surface analysis, sym- + -phony. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and zampogna.
Senses: examples: text: classical symphony
text: compose a symphony
text: full symphony orchestra
text: The orchestra performed Beethoven’s Fifth symphony.
glosses: An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.
examples: text: She described the city at night as a symphony of lights and sounds.
glosses: Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.
glosses: A symphony orchestra.
Derived terms: city symphony
pocket symphony
symphonist
synoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synoptic
form: most synoptic
Etymology: From New Latin synopticus, from Ancient Greek συνοπτικός (sunoptikós, “seeing the whole together or at a glance”), from σύνοψις (súnopsis, “a general view, synopsis”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a synopsis.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Obtained simultaneously over a wide area, for presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere.
raw_tags: of data
topics: Christianity
glosses: Pertaining to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Derived terms: synoptic climatology
Related terms: synopsis
synoptically
blintz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blintzes
form: blintse
form: blintze
Etymology: From Yiddish בלינצע (blintse).
Senses: examples: text: He carries his tray of blintzes filled with cottage cheese to the coffee urns and drains off a mug’s worth.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 147:
glosses: A thin blin (pancake), filled (often with sweet cheese) and folded, then fried and often served with sour cream, fruit, or a sweet sauce.
Related terms: blinchik
blini
blintsi
bris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: brises
form: brisses
form: britot
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).
Senses: examples: text: The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.
ref: 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, page 129:
text: Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155:
text: However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)
ref: 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 109:
glosses: Ritual male circumcision.
Synonyms: sense: circumcision
word: bris milah
sense: circumcision
word: brit milah
Derived terms: bris periah
chutzpah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈxʊts.pə/
ipa: [ˈχʊts.pə]
ipa: [ˈhʊts.pə]
Forms: form: chutzpahs
form: hutzpah
form: khutzpah
form: khutspah
form: chutspa
form: chutspah
form: chutzpa
form: khutspe
Etymology: Originated 1890–95 from Yiddish חוצפּה (khutspe), which was either borrowed via Medieval Hebrew or directly came from Aramaic חוּצְפָּא (ḥuṣpā, “audacity, boldness”), derived from חֲצַף (ḥăṣap̄, “to be impudent, arrogant”).
Senses: examples: text: If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
ref: 2007 January 22, Philip Howard, “Modern Manners”, in The Times:
text: But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah.
ref: 2007 December 11, John Scalzi, “Your Creation Museum Report”, in Whatever:
text: Okay, okay, okay… First of all, “shutspah” is actually pronounced “khootspah”. But, but-but-but the idea, the idea that daily fantasy sites are using this law to claim they’re not gambling is not chutzpah, it’s khorseshit!
ref: 2015, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Daily Fantasy Sports”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 34, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
synonyms: balls
cheek
gall
nerve
boldness
audacity
insolence
glosses: Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.
wikipedia: Medieval Hebrew
Derived terms: chutzpadik
Related terms: word: cheek
word: cheekiness
word: cheeky
word: immortal rind
dybbuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪbʊk/
/ˈdɪbək/
Forms: form: dybbuks
form: dybbukim
form: dibbuk
Etymology: From Yiddish דיבוק (dibek), from Hebrew דבק (dovek, “cling”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
gelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: gelts
Etymology: From Irish geilt.
Senses: examples: text: She […] like a ghastly Gelt whose wits are reaved, / Ran forth in hast with hideous outcry […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A lunatic.
gelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: gelts
Etymology: Variation of gilt.
Senses: glosses: Gilding; gilt.
gelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Etymology: See geld.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geld
gelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: gelts
Etymology: See geld.
Senses: examples: text: spay'd Gelts
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: A gelding.
kibosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪˌbɒʃ/
ipa: /kɪˈbɑʃ/
ipa: /ˈkaɪˌbɑʃ/
ipa: /kaɪˈbɑʃ/
ipa: /kɪ-/
rhymes: -aɪbɒʃ
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: cabosh
form: kaibosh
form: kibbosh
form: kiebosh
form: kybosh
form: kyebosh
Etymology: Possibly a variant of bosh (“nonsense”).
Senses: examples: text: Still I wish you a 'Appy New Year, if you care for the kibosh, old Chappie, / Though 'taint 'Igh Art Cards full o' gush and green paint 'll make you and me 'appy. / Wot we want is lucre and larks, love and lotion as much as you'll carry!
ref: 1885 January 3, ’Arry [pseudonym], “’Arry on ’Appiness”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume LXXXVIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 4, column 1:
text: Gar'n! Gives me the 'ump, all this kibosh 'bout morals, and taste, and all that.
ref: 1887 April 9, ’Arry [pseudonym], “Studies from Mr. Punch’s Studio. No. XXIV.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XCII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 172, column 2:
glosses: Bosh, nonsense.
kibosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪˌbɒʃ/
ipa: /kɪˈbɑʃ/
ipa: /ˈkaɪˌbɑʃ/
ipa: /kaɪˈbɑʃ/
ipa: /kɪ-/
rhymes: -aɪbɒʃ
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: cabosh
form: kaibosh
form: kibbosh
form: kiebosh
form: kybosh
form: kyebosh
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: She was, in very Sooth, among the highest of the Rollers, but Hiram stood for the Bills with nary a Whimper. He was proud to be the Husband of the Lady Ki-Bosh of the Local Knickerbockers.
ref: 1904 March, George Ade, “Rugged Hiram and Hiram’s Giddy Wife”, in Breaking into Society, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: Chiefly preceded by the: fashion, style.
klutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klŭts
ipa: /klʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: klutzes
form: clutz
Etymology: From Yiddish קלאָץ (klots, literally “wooden beam”); cognate to German Klotz (“block, lump”). Doublet of clot and clod.
Senses: examples: text: Well, that's all right, then, Brian. Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home. You klutz!
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Reg (John Cleese):
text: "Out of [one abortion doctor's] first six months of work, there are nine malpractice suits ... After it was apparent the guy was a klutz, they kept using him, and trying to cover for him, because they couldn't find another provider."
ref: 1990 June 3, Dr. Robert Crist, abortion doctor, quotee, St. Petersburg Times:
text: "Mel, back home we'd call you a klutz." / Melissa: "Use a lot of Yiddish back in Texas, do you?"
ref: 2003, Greg Rucka, Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra:
text: I bumped into the coffee table. "Sorry about that table. Don't worry, you should see me, Qanta. I am the klutz! I am always doing that!" She giggled at her clumsiness while I giggled at a Saudi using idiomatic Yiddish.
ref: 2008, Qanta A. Ahmed, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom:
glosses: A clumsy or stupid person.
Derived terms: klutzhood
klutzish
klutzy
minyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.jən/
rhymes: -ɪnjən
homophone: minion
Forms: form: minyanim
form: minyans
form: minyen
form: minyon
Etymology: From Hebrew מִנְיָן (minyán, “number, count, quorum”).
Senses: examples: text: So without my visit, if Simon didn't attend, a minyan would be hard to come by.
ref: 2009, Charles London, Far from Zion, page 256:
text: As mourners cannot attend synagogue during shiva, a minyan gathers for morning, afternoon, and evening services in their home.
ref: 2010, Ari Goldman, Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir, page 27:
glosses: The minimum number of ten (male) adult Jews required for a communal religious service.
examples: text: New people assume leadership positions as required and stay around for as long as the minyan meets their needs.
ref: 2009, Charles Simon, Building a Successful Volunteer Culture, page 137:
text: Tefillin are not used on Sabbaths and holidays, so unless you attend a minyan on weekday mornings or grew up in a home where men prayed daily, this practice may be unfamiliar to you.
ref: 2012, Andrea Lieber, The Essential Guide to Jewish Prayer and Practices:
glosses: A Jewish prayer service.
lox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒks/
ipa: /lɑks/
homophone: locks
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish לאַקס (laks, “salmon”). Doublet of lax.
Senses: synonyms: cold-smoked salmon
glosses: Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.
Hyponyms: Nova
Derived terms: loxism
loxist
lox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒks/
ipa: /lɑks/
homophone: locks
Forms: form: LOX
form: LOx
form: lOx
Etymology: Abbreviation of liquid oxygen.
Senses: examples: text: [Man]: Lox tanking secured? / [Man 2]: Lox tanking secured.
ref: 1959, “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (0:45 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 15:
synonyms: word: LO2
word: O2
alt: l
word: loxygen
coordinate_terms: word: gox
english: gaseous oxygen
translation: gaseous oxygen
glosses: Acronym of Liquid oxygen, molecular oxygen in liquid form.
Derived terms: flox
hydrolox
kerolox
methalox
methilox
lox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒks/
ipa: /lɑks/
homophone: locks
Forms: form: loxes
form: loxing
form: loxed
form: loxed
form: LOX
form: LOx
form: lOx
Etymology: Abbreviation of liquid oxygen.
Senses: examples: text: Fumes coming from the booster at the pad indicate that loxing has begun -- that is, the liquid oxygen has begun to be poured into its tank aboard the Atlas.
ref: 2002 February 20, Walter Cronkite, “Cronkite Essay on 40th Anniversary of Glenn Orbit”, in NPR:
text: The crew chiefs refer to the process as "LOXing the fleet."
ref: 2012 August 2, Daniel Heaton, “LOXing the fleet: a cold, cold day in the Air National Guard”, in National Guard:
glosses: To supply with liquid oxygen.
Related terms: english: liquid hydrogen
translation: liquid hydrogen
word: LH2
english: liquid helium
translation: liquid helium
word: LHe
english: liquid nitrogen
translation: liquid nitrogen
word: LN2
english: liquified natural gas
translation: liquified natural gas
word: LNG
english: liquified petroleum gas
translation: liquified petroleum gas
word: LPG
schmaltz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmɒlts/
ipa: /ʃmɔːlts/
ipa: /ʃmɔlts/
ipa: /ʃmɑlts/
ipa: /ʃmɑlts/
rhymes: -ɒlts
rhymes: -ɔːlts
Forms: form: schmalz
form: shmaltz
form: shmalz
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שמאַלץ (shmalts) or German Schmalz. Doublet of smalt, smalto, and enamel.
Senses: examples: text: Even now, as medical science has given a nod to the moderate consumption of saturated animal fats, and the culinary elite has fallen hard for the likes of lard, tallow and duck fat, poor schmaltz remains the babushka-clad cousin not invited to the table. This is a shame, because schmaltz is one the most versatile and flavorful fats you can use.
ref: 2014 December 9, Melissa Clark, “Schmaltz Finds a New, Younger Audience”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2014:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Rendered chicken or goose fat.
examples: text: Are you moved because the disco soundscape of “Moon Crystal” reminds you of TV shows from long ago, or because those high, whining violins over funk guitar are eternally gorgeous? […] Schmaltz is schmaltz, and it can make life worth living.
ref: 2016 April 8, Spencer Kornhaber, “M83's ‘Junk’ Revels in the Joy of Schmaltz”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2016:
text: The cost, for [George] Saunders, of moving beyond the stylized violence of his early stories seems to be the transmutation of a portion of his violence into schmaltz.
ref: 2017 February 7, Caleb Crain, “The Sentimental Sadist”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2021:
glosses: Excessively sentimental art or music.
Derived terms: schmaltz up
schmaltzy
schmear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schmears
form: shmear
form: schmeer
form: shmeer
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שמיר (shmir, “smear, spread”); compare German schmieren. Doublet of smear, smearcase. By surface analysis, schm- + smear.
Senses: glosses: A spread that goes on a bagel.
examples: text: So you can buy a la carte programming, or you can buy the whole schmear.
ref: 1994, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Field Hearing: Defense Conversion: Hearing..., page 21:
glosses: A batch of things that go together.
glosses: An aggregate.
schmear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃmɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schmears
form: schmearing
form: schmeared
form: schmeared
form: shmear
form: schmeer
form: shmeer
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שמיר (shmir, “smear, spread”); compare German schmieren. Doublet of smear, smearcase. By surface analysis, schm- + smear.
Senses: glosses: To spread something, often a bagel spread.
examples: text: "What happened?"
"Nothing."
"How could nothing happen if you're not with her? Listen, did you grease that d.j.?"
"No."
"You didn't schmear him? You think the world owes you a living?"
ref: 1969, Morris Renek, Siam Miami, page 131:
text: […] I slipped the guy a hundred dollars."
"You had to schmear him to sell you a patch?"
ref: 2003, Lawrence Block, Small Town, page 638:
glosses: To bribe.
schmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃməʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: schmos
form: schmoes
form: schmoe
form: shmo
form: shmoe
Etymology: See Joe Schmoe § Etymology; schmo in this sense may well be homonymic to schmo in the sense above.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just an average schmo
text: Of his early childhood, he told the Deseret News of Salt Lake City: “I'm a schmo. My family never made more than $25,000 a year. We're all bakers for generations.”
ref: 2010, Dana Milbank, Tears of a Clown, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Any average Joe; any Joe Schmoe.
schmooze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shmo͞oz
ipa: /ʃmuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: schmoozes
form: schmoozing
form: schmoozed
form: schmoozed
form: schmoose
form: schmooz
form: shmooze
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שמועס (shmues), from Hebrew שְׁמוּעוֹת (sh'mu'ót), plural of שְׁמוּעָה (sh'mu'á, “report, piece of news, rumor”). Cognate with German schmusen (“to cuddle”, older “to flirt, flatter, schmooze”).
Senses: examples: text: I wish he could do his job as well as he schmoozes with the boss.
text: Until about 4 A.M. there were almost no patients to be seen, and I enjoyed the chance to schmooze with my brother.
ref: 1996, Mark Brown, M.D., Emergency!, page xiii:
text: But the issue goes beyond that, to a willful ignorance of history. No one schmoozed more or better with legislators in both parties than Clinton.
ref: 2013 May 9, Norm Ornstein, “Obama's Hill Slump Has Nothing to Do With a Failure of Leadership”, in The Atlantic:
text: On Thursday he was back in the capitalist hot hub, this time in the company of Goldsmith for a hustings at the home of KPMG organised by the LCCI and other business groups. Who would schmooze the suits to best effect?
ref: 2016 March 11, Dave Hill, “London mayor race: Goldsmith, Khan and co schmooze the business suits”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: On election night, Trump campaign staff set up a war room in Trump’s office at Mar-a-Lago, poring over incoming returns as the candidate schmoozed in the club’s ballroom with Musk and UFC chief Dana White.
ref: 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2024:
glosses: To talk casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
Derived terms: schmooseoisie
schmooze-athon
schmoozefest
schmoozer
schmoozy
schmooze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shmo͞oz
ipa: /ʃmuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: schmoozes
form: schmoose
form: schmooz
form: shmooze
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שמועס (shmues), from Hebrew שְׁמוּעוֹת (sh'mu'ót), plural of שְׁמוּעָה (sh'mu'á, “report, piece of news, rumor”). Cognate with German schmusen (“to cuddle”, older “to flirt, flatter, schmooze”).
Senses: glosses: A casual conversation, especially one held in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
schnoz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schnozzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schnozz.
shammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːmɪs/
Forms: form: shammosim
form: shammeses
form: shames
Etymology: From Yiddish שמשׂ (shames), from Hebrew שמש (shamásh). Doublet of shamash.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shamash (“sexton in a synagogue”).
glosses: Alternative form of shamash (“candle used to light other candles of a Hanukkah menorah”).
shlep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: shleps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlep.
shlep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: shleps
form: shlepping
form: shlepped
form: shlepped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlep.
shlong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlong.
spiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃpiːl/
ipa: /spiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: spiels
form: shpeal
form: schpeal
form: shpiel
form: schpiel
form: schpeel
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil.
Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.
Senses: examples: text: I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel
ref: 1910, Irving Berlin, “Dear Mayme, I Love You”:
text: The spiel ran on; the sale was brief and brisk; / The bargains fell to bidders, one by one. / Hope flushed my cheekbones with a scarlet disk.
ref: 1939 May, Theodore Roethke, “The Auction”, in Poetry Magazine:
text: An Air Force recruiter (Gino Anania) visits her school and delivers a spiel about anti-terrorist successes in Iraq; she contradicts him with the plain facts of the 2001 attacks.
ref: 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
examples: text: Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."
ref: 1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Howell Book House, →ISBN:
text: A typical Last Poets song consisted of a "spiel," an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.
ref: 2007, Jocelyne Cesari, Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, Greenwood Pub Group, →ISBN:
text: Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]
ref: 2007, Mickey Hess, Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early form of rap music.
spiel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃpiːl/
ipa: /spiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: spiels
form: spieling
form: spieled
form: spieled
form: shpeal
form: schpeal
form: shpiel
form: schpiel
form: schpeel
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil.
Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.
Senses: examples: text: For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile, then he spieled again.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 433:
text: […] Oedipa spotted among searchlights and staring crowds a KCUF mobile unit, with her husband Mucho inside it, spieling into a microphone.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: To talk at length.
glosses: To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.
Derived terms: Purim spiel
Related terms: spieler
spiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃpiːl/
ipa: /spiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
rhymes: -iːl
ipa: /ʃpiːl/
ipa: /spiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: spiels
Etymology: From the Scots spiel (“game, play; curling match”) from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spel.
Senses: examples: text: The portion of ice set apart for a curling spiel was called the lead, rank, or rink (by which last name it is still described), and as it was then shorter than it is now — its ordinary length being 30 yards
ref: 1890, John Kerr, History of curling ... and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian curling club:
text: On the Dock and Greensands the classical discus, or quoit, has in season due its modicum of disciples, (b) When the Nith is frozen over its surface becomes the scene of many a curling spiel
ref: 1972, William M'Dowall, A. E. Truckell, History of the burgh of Dumfries:
text: A few organizational difficulties marred this spiel and the next, but thereafter most of the wrinkles were ironed out.
ref: 1989, Morris Kenneth Mott, John Allardyce, Curling Capital, Univ. of Manitoba Press, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A game of curling.
Derived terms: carspiel
cashspiel
Related terms: bonspiel
Barbara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹb(ə)ɹə/
ipa: /ˈbɑːb(ə)ɹə/
Forms: form: Barbaras
form: Barbra
Etymology: * From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara.
* (logic): From the given name; chosen because it has three A's in it representing universal affirmatives.
Senses: examples: text: My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]
ref: Scene 3
text: All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.
ref: 17th century or before: English folk song: Barbara Allen: 1839 version by Thomas Percy
text: "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.
ref: 1860, Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), East Lynne, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 29:
text: "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara."
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3), page 76:
text: 'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.
ref: 2007, Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 299:
text: Among Soloway’s congregants injured in the attack was Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become one of the most poignant symbols of the attack.
ref: 2025 June 5, Grace Gilson, “Boulder’s ‘shocked and traumatized’ Jewish community takes stock of losses and strengths”, in The Times of Israel:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
examples: If you see a girl you like, prove it to her by Barbara and Celarent all the way to Fresison or whatever the logician's Omega is — I forget.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".
Derived terms: sense: Pet forms
word: Babs
sense: Pet forms
word: Barb
sense: Pet forms
word: Barbie
taxonomic: Barbarea vulgaris
word: herb Barbara
word: Santa Barbara shelled slug
barometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/
ipa: [bəˈɹɑ.mə.ɾɚ]
ipa: /bəˈɹɔm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: [bəˈɹɔm.ɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: barometers
Etymology: From baro- + -meter. Coined in 1665 by Robert Boyle as a name for the instrument invented by Torricelli some 20 years earlier; soon thereafter borrowed from English into various languages.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
ref: 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
glosses: An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
examples: text: "An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
ref: 1916 Jun, Michigan Law Review, volume 14, number 8, pp. 661-665:
text: The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.
ref: 2006, Anthony Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 152:
text: Italy’s 10-year yield spread versus Germany, considered a barometer of political and economic risks in the euro area, climbed as high as 1.9 percentage points on Tuesday, its widest since the early stages of the pandemic when investors dumped riskier eurozone government debt.
ref: 2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, in Financial Times:
text: Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as a barometer of public sentiment for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.
ref: 2023 August 10, “Owners of ‘LGBT’ Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Anything used as a gauge or indicator.
Derived terms: aneroid barometer
Eurobarometer
Fitzroy barometer
Fortin barometer
geobarometer
geothermobarometer
hydrobarometer
mercury barometer
telebarometer
thermobarometer
Torricellian barometer
water barometer
wheel barometer
Related terms: bathometer
brachistochrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachistochrones
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βράχιστος (brákhistos, “shortest”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). The term was coined by Johann Bernoulli.
Senses: examples: text: Let A and B be two fixed points. Then the time it takes a particle to slide under the influence of gravity along some path joining A and B depends on the choice of the path (curve), and hence is a functional. The curve such that the particle takes the least time to go from A to B is called the brachistochrone.
ref: 1963, Gelfand, I.M. and S.V. Fomin, Calculus of Variations, Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 3:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A cycloid; the curve of fastest descent between two points.
Gaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪə/
ipa: /d͡ʒiːə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: Gaia
form: Gæa
form: Gea
form: Ge
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gaia.
Related terms: Pangaea
Tellus
Terra
gloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒs/
ipa: /ɡlɔs/
ipa: /ɡlɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: glosses
Etymology: Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.
Senses: synonyms: brilliance
gleam
luster
sheen
shine
glosses: A surface shine or luster.
examples: text: .
text: To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
text: Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
ref: 2013 September 7, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: façade
front
veneer
glosses: A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
Derived terms: degloss
ethnic gloss
glossism
glossist
glossless
glossmeter
glossography
gloss paper
glossy
glost
high-gloss
isogloss
nongloss
semigloss
ungloss
Related terms: glow
gloss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒs/
ipa: /ɡlɔs/
ipa: /ɡlɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: glosses
form: glossing
form: glossed
form: glossed
Etymology: Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.
Senses: synonyms: polish
shine
glosses: To give a gloss or sheen to.
examples: text: You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
ref: 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton:
glosses: To make (something) attractive by deception
glosses: To become shiny.
glosses: Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
Derived terms: misgloss
overgloss
regloss
gloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒs/
ipa: /ɡlɔs/
ipa: /ɡlɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: glosses
Etymology: From Middle English glosse, glose, from Late Latin glōssa (“obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”), from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “language”). Doublet of glossa.
Senses: examples: text: All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
ref: 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
text: He was a prolific annotator - writing around fifty thousand glosses in as many as twenty manuscripts.
ref: 2021, Mary Wellesley, The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts, page 9:
synonyms: gloze
annotation
hypernyms: explanation
note
marginalia
glosses: A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
glosses: Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
synonyms: word: glossary
extra: a collection of such notes
glosses: An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
synonyms: commentary
discourse
discussion
glosses: An extensive commentary on some text.
examples: text: This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.
ref: 1979, American Bar Foundation., Annotated code of professional responsibility, page ix:
text: Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]
ref: 2007, Bruce R. Hopkins., The law of tax-exempt organizations., page 76:
topics: law
glosses: An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
examples: ref: 2007, Martin Rajman, Speech and Language Engineering, pages 244 text=For instance the concept {cat, true cat} has the following gloss: / "feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar".:
text: Dictionary entries comprise two essential parts, the headword ('lemma') and the author's explanation ('gloss').
ref: 2011, Gabriele Stein, “The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot's Dictionary (1538)”, in Olga Timoleeva, Tanja Saily, editor, Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in Honour of R. W. McConchie:
text: Therefore, for many of the Hebrew words in this book, I have provided more than one gloss (using a slash to separate alternatives, or double slashes when a single slash would be ambiguous), in order to give you a sense of the possible meanings of nuances […].
ref: 2019, Jonathan Kline, A Proverb a Day in Biblical Hebrew, page xi:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A definition or explanation of a word sense.
Derived terms: beglossed
Related terms: glossarium
glossary
glossator
glossology
gloss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒs/
ipa: /ɡlɔs/
ipa: /ɡlɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: glosses
form: glossing
form: glossed
form: glossed
Etymology: From Middle English glossen, glosen, from Old French gloser and Medieval Latin glossāre.
Senses: synonyms: annotate
mark up
glosses: To add a gloss to (a text).
Derived terms: gloss over
Gnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /ˈnɑstɪk/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒstɪk
Forms: form: Gnostick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γνωστικός (gnōstikós, “relating to knowledge or knowing”), from the root of verb γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to come to know, to learn”) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós) or from γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge, knowing”) + -κός (-kós, adjective suffix), depending upon the analysis.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, intellectual or spiritual knowledge
glosses: Of, or relating to Gnosticism
Gnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /ˈnɑstɪk/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒstɪk
Forms: form: Gnostics
form: Gnostick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γνωστικός (gnōstikós, “relating to knowledge or knowing”), from the root of verb γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to come to know, to learn”) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós) or from γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge, knowing”) + -κός (-kós, adjective suffix), depending upon the analysis.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Gnosticism