cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
IMSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmzi/
Forms: form: IMSIs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Acronym of International Mobile Subscriber Identity.
Synonyms: sense: International Mobile Subscriber Identity
word: international mobile subscriber identity
Derived terms: sense: mobile telecom
alt: stingray
word: IMSI catcher
nanosecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoseconds
Etymology: From nano- + second.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
text: Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond
text: Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.
ref: 2007 September 11, John Markoff, “Redefining the Architecture of Memory”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
text: “We were heavily involved in also trading: people on Wall Street were buying our stuff to save a few nanoseconds on the wire, the banks were doing crazy things like pulling the fibres under the Hudson taut to make them a little big shorter, to save a few nanoseconds between their datacentre and the stock exchange,” he said.
ref: 2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: metrology
related: word: mul:ns
glosses: An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁹ seconds. Symbol: ns
Derived terms: light-nanosecond
subnanosecond
EAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Article Numbering: a barcode symbology whose main variant, EAN-13, encodes thirteen digits, differing from UPC-A in that three of the digits in the left half are reversed so as to encode an additional digit.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Acronym of enriched air nitrox.
Related terms: GTIN
UPC
barcode
barcode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.kəʊd/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.koʊd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊd
Forms: form: barcodes
form: bar code
Etymology: Compound of bar + code. First attested in 1963 for sense 1.
Senses: glosses: Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
qualifier: self-harm
glosses: An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.
Derived terms: barcoded
barcoder
barcode reader
barcode scanner
barcoding
biobarcode
metabarcode
minibarcode
nanobarcode
Related terms: UPC
QR code
QR
UPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UPCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Unified Patent Court.
glosses: Initialism of Universal Product Code.
UPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Uganda People's Congress.
ci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 詞／词 (cí).
Senses: glosses: One of the Classical Chinese poetry forms
um
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm (when stressed, or as a verb)
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Um, I don’t know.
text: Let’s see... um... how about this?
text: It's a great test of the claims of open-source gurus, who say that a self-motivated community can outcode any team working for a single employer—like, um, Microsoft.
ref: 2002, “Newsweek”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, page lxxx:
text: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
text: Um And I don't know um what to say to the court other than, I don't know how we could get through 1/5 of that.
ref: 2024 June 24, “Baldwin Judge on FIRE!”, in Law of Self Defense, page 2:
synonyms: er
hmm
uh
eh
glosses: Expression of hesitation, uncertainty or space filler in conversation.
examples: text: "About the same, wherever you go," he agreed.
"Um," I said.
ref: 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., page 65:
glosses: Dated spelling of mmm.
examples: text: Um, excuse me!
glosses: An expression to forcefully call attention to something wrong.
examples: text: While I was in her room, Sam walked by and said, “Um, I'm telling!”
“You're telling what?” I asked.
“You're reading Tori's journal,” she said.
ref: 2011, Kimberly Willis Holt, Piper Reed: Clubhouse Queen, page 83:
text: Mair used to look after Laura. If anyone threatened to tease her, Mair would stand up straight, point her finger at the enemy and shout, 'Um! I'm telling on you!'
ref: 2021, Sarah Strangeways, The Gingerbread House, page 13:
glosses: An expression of shocked disapproval used by a child who witnesses forbidden behavior.
um
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm (when stressed, or as a verb)
Forms: form: ums
form: umming
form: ummed
form: ummed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, in the popular mind umming was simply a bad habit, akin to spitting or picking one’s nose.
ref: 2007, Michael Erard, Um... Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, page 136:
glosses: To make the um sound to express uncertainty or hesitancy.
um
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm (when stressed, or as a verb)
Forms: form: ums
form: ahm
form: ehm
form: em
form: erm
form: hum
form: uhm
form: umm
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
glosses: An occurrence of the interjection "um".
um
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm (when stressed, or as a verb)
Etymology: Variant form of -um.
Senses: examples: text: Me be Injun. Him um Growling Bear. Him um heap big chief.
text: “me heap brave—me talk to um white man so[…] me good injun, like um white man, mebbe so, ugh!”
ref: 1871, “Grand camp meeting on Bear River”, in The Keepapitchinin, volume III, page 3:
glosses: An undifferentiated determiner or article; a miscellaneous linking word, or filler with nonspecific meaning; representation of broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans.
Related terms: um-hum
consent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: consents
form: consenting
form: consented
form: consented
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: consent
form: consent
form: consented
form: consent
form: consentest
form: consented
form: consentedst
form: consents
form: consenteth
form: consented
form: consent
form: consented
form: consent
form: consented
form: consent
form: -
form: consenting
form: consented
Etymology: Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”)
Senses: examples: text: After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.
text: My poverty, but not my will, consents.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To express willingness, to give permission.
examples: text: When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
ref: 2002, T Usmani with KD O'Brien, HV Worthington, S Derwent, et al., “A randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of canine lacebacks with reference to canine tip”, in Journal of Orthodontics, volume 29, number 4, →DOI, →PMID:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To cause to sign a consent form.
examples: text: Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To grant; to allow; to assent to.
examples: text: And Saul was consenting unto his death.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 8:1:
text: Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
Synonyms: word: acquiesce
word: agree
word: approve
word: assent
word: concur
word: yes
word: connive
Derived terms: consentability
consentee
consenter
consentor
consent or pay
disconsent
preconsent
reconsent
consent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: consents
Etymology: Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”)
Senses: examples: text: All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Voluntary agreement or permission.
examples: text: And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 14:18:
glosses: Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
glosses: Advice; counsel.
Synonyms: sense: voluntary agreement
word: agreement
sense: voluntary agreement
word: approval
sense: voluntary agreement
word: assent
sense: voluntary agreement
word: consensualness
sense: voluntary agreement
word: permission
sense: voluntary agreement
word: willingness
sense: voluntary agreement
word: yes
Derived terms: advice and consent
age of consent
by common consent
consensual non-consent
consentaneous
consent decree
consentful
consentless
consent of the governed
consent search
consentual
disconsent
e-consent
implied consent
informed consent
manufacture of consent
nonconsent
preconsent
silence is consent
unconsent
with one consent
age of consent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ages of consent
Senses: examples: text: In France the age of consent is 15 years of age.
topics: law
glosses: The age at which a person is legally considered to be mature enough to engage willingly in sexual intercourse, so that it is not a crime for someone else to have sex with the person.
Related terms: age of majority
have sex
statutory rape
jailbait
statutory rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statutory rapes
Senses: examples: text: Historically, statutory rape laws were enacted to protect the chastity and morality of young women. These statutes made it a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a young woman under a certain age (usually eighteen), even if the young woman consented to the act. (Today of, course, statuory rape provisions protect minors of both genders.)
ref: 1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: law
glosses: An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of intellectual disability.
Related terms: rape
jailbait
molest
careful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛːfl̩/
ipa: [ˈkɛːfɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈkɛɹfl̩/
ipa: [ˈkɛɹfɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɛːfəl
rhymes: -ɛəɹfəl
Forms: form: more careful
form: most careful
form: carefull
Etymology: From Middle English careful, from Old English carful; equivalent to care + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He was a slow and careful driver.
text: Be very careful while trekking through the jungle.
glosses: Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
examples: text: They made a careful search of the crime scene.
text: At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7:
glosses: Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
glosses: Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
examples: text: Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
Synonyms: deliberate
Derived terms: be careful
be careful what you wish for
carefully
carefulness
noncareful
overcareful
ultracareful
uncareful
ROI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROIs
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of return on investment.
qualifier: imaging
glosses: Initialism of region of interest, in digital images, microscopy: in 3-dim-specimen reconstructions by consecutive sectioning.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of region of interest.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of radius of influence.
qualifier: social service
glosses: Initialism of release of information.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of route of administration.
Related terms: topics: finance
business
word: EROI
topics: finance
business
word: ROCE
topics: finance
business
word: ROE
topics: finance
business
word: RONA
topics: finance
business
word: ROR
topics: photography
hobbies
arts
lifestyle
word: ROB
ROI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Republic of Ireland.
incorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔːpəɹeɪtɪd/
enpr: ĭnkôrʹpərātĭd
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpəɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkɔɹpəɹeɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkɔɹpɹeɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ɪŋˈkoːpəɹæɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkoːpəɹæɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ɪŋˈkoːpɹæɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkoːpɹæɪɾɪd]
Senses: examples: text: incorporated body
text: incorporated association
glosses: Being a type of company, a legal entity where the ownership has been arranged into shares. A shareholder has no responsibilities to the company and the potential losses of the shareholder are limited to the value of the stock turning to zero in the case of a bankruptcy.
Derived terms: incorporated company
incorporatedness
incorporated place
misincorporated
nonincorporated
Related terms: word: incorporate
word: Inc
word: Ltd.
incorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔːpəɹeɪtɪd/
enpr: ĭnkôrʹpərātĭd
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpəɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkɔɹpəɹeɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkɔɹpɹeɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ɪŋˈkoːpəɹæɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkoːpəɹæɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ɪŋˈkoːpɹæɪtɪd/
ipa: [ɪŋˈkoːpɹæɪɾɪd]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incorporate
Related terms: word: public limited liability company
word: PLC
word: limited liability company
word: LLC
sole trader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sole traders
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A type of enterprise or proprietorship which is owned by one person who is fully liable for the company's debts and fulfilment of contracts using their personal wealth unless incorporated.
Related terms: sole proprietor
legal entity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal entities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An organization such as a company or trust fund that the law treats as if it were a person, capable of entering into contracts and of being sued.
Synonyms: legal person
mobile station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobile stations
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: All the user equipment (mobile phone, SIM card etc) and software needed for communication with a GSM network.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
coordinate_terms: base station
glosses: A radio transceiver installed in a vehicle.
BSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Business Support System (components used by Telecom Service Providers)
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Bulgarian Split Squat
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Bernard-Soulier Syndrome
qualifier: mobile data
glosses: Initialism of Base Station Subsystem
base station subsystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base station subsystems
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: that section of a GSM network which is responsible for transmitting radio signals to and receiving radio signals from a mobile phone
network subsystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: network subsystems
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The central subsystem of a particular mobile phone operating company in a GSM network.
Synonyms: network and switching subsystem
NSS
GSM core network
FDMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of frequency division multiple access.
Related terms: CDMA
TDMA
time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tīm
ipa: /taɪm/
ipa: [tʰaɪ̯m]
ipa: /tɑɪm/
ipa: [tʰɑe̯m]
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /təɪm/
ipa: /taɪm/
ipa: /tʌɪm/
ipa: [təi̯m]
homophone: thyme (most accent)
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: times
form: timing
form: timed
form: timed
form: tyme
Etymology: From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
Cognates
*Scots tym, tyme (“time”)
*Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”)
*Danish time (“hour, lesson”)
*Elfdalian taime (“hour”)
*Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”)
*Icelandic tími (“time, season”)
*Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”)
*Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).
Senses: examples: text: I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
glosses: To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
examples: text: The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
text: The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
text: There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To choose when something commences or its duration.
examples: text: With oar strokes timing to their song.
ref: 1861, John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal:
glosses: To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
glosses: To pass time; to delay.
examples: text: Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
ref: 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses:
text: He was a thing of blood, whose every motion / Was timed with dying cries.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
glosses: To measure, as in music or harmony.
Synonyms: sense: to measure time
word: clock
sense: to choose the time for
word: set
Derived terms: mistime
over-time
overtime
retime
timeable
timed
time it out
time out
timer
timing
time
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: tīm
ipa: /taɪm/
ipa: [tʰaɪ̯m]
ipa: /tɑɪm/
ipa: [tʰɑe̯m]
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /təɪm/
ipa: /taɪm/
ipa: /tʌɪm/
ipa: [təi̯m]
homophone: thyme (most accent)
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: tyme
Etymology: From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide”). Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus.
Cognates
*Scots tym, tyme (“time”)
*Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”)
*Danish time (“hour, lesson”)
*Elfdalian taime (“hour”)
*Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”)
*Icelandic tími (“time, season”)
*Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”)
*Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
glosses: The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
examples: text: Time gentlemen please!
glosses: A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
Related terms: calendar
temporal
Timese
RPE-LPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of regular pulse excited-linear predictive coder.
FSK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of frequency-shift keying.
shadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shadow
shadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadowings
Senses: glosses: The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
glosses: The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
examples: text: There are […] in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity.
ref: 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:
glosses: A faint representation; an adumbration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
topics: education
glosses: A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.
Derived terms: work shadowing
PCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of personal communication system.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of permanent change of station.
qualifier: project management
glosses: Initialism of project control system.
glosses: Initialism of postcholecystectomy syndrome.
Related terms: GSM
GPRS
deceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛp.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɛptɪv
Forms: form: more deceptive
form: most deceptive
Etymology: From Middle French déceptif, from Latin dēceptīvus, from dēcipiō (“I deceive”).
Senses: examples: text: deceptive practices
text: Appearances can be deceptive.
text: […] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;
ref: 1653, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, London: William Hunt, Scene 24, page 521:
text: […] at the opening of the campaign, the French, after various deceptive attempts on different places, suddenly invested Tournay.
ref: 1789, Frederick the Great, translated by Thomas Holcroft, The History of My Own Times, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 163:
text: 1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, London: John W. Parker, 2nd ed., 1847, Preliminary Essay, Chapter 2, p. 10,
language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes
text: […] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.
ref: 1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 2, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13:
synonyms: misleading
glosses: Likely or attempting to deceive.
Synonyms: word: beguiling
word: deceitful
word: deceptious
word: deceptive
word: deceptory
word: fallacious
word: fraudful
word: fraudulent
Derived terms: appearances are deceptive
deceptive advertising
deceptive cadence
deceptive cognate
deceptively
deceptiveness
deceptivity
nondeceptive
self-deceptive
undeceptive
Related terms: word: deceit
word: deceive
word: deception
word: collusive
word: covinous
word: dishonest
word: misinforming
word: misleading
word: delusive
word: delusory
word: illusive
word: illusory
word: elusive
word: insidious
word: untrue
word: hallucinatory
word: tricky
word: insincere
word: guileful
word: treacherous
word: duplicitous
word: disingenuous
word:  + -ing
word: r
word: on
word: false
word: wily
CLL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLLs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of command line language.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
YHA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Youth Hostels Association.
shrink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: shrinks
Etymology: From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).
The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.
Senses: examples: text: Yet almost with, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
ref: 1818, Leigh Hunt, “To T** L** H**, Six Years Old, During a Sickness.”, in Foliage; […], London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street, page xlvii:
glosses: Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
examples: text: You need to see a shrink, you crazy fool.
text: My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
text: I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams / She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
ref: 1994 August, Green Day, “Basket Case” (track 7), in Dookie, Reprise Records:
text: "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
ref: 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:
synonyms: head-shrinker
shrinker
coordinate_terms: shrinkette
glosses: A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
examples: text: Assuming the retailer's shrink is average or below, and the owner is comfortable with the level of shrink, perhaps nothing more need be done except to maintain vigilance and to monitor the shrink for signs of emerging problems.
ref: 2011, Charles Sennewald, John Christman, Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference, page 227:
topics: business
glosses: Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
Derived terms: grocery shrink ray
heat shrink
shrink rate
shrink ray
shrink-swell
shrinkwrap license
shrink-wrapped
thou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: thous
Etymology: Clipping of thou(sandth).
Senses: examples: text: We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.
text: But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in 'thous.,' though apparently some of their work was to the nearest half-inch. […]."
ref: 1946 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 344:
text: All these methods remove metal and can, in fact, remove a few thou from the surface. For accurately machined parts, therefore, none of these methods are suitable but wet blasting with a fine alumina which gives a polishing–cleaning action may be operated within the required tolerances.
ref: 1984, Robert D. Adams, William C. Wake, “Surface Preparation”, in Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering, Barking, Essex: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, published 1986, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 220–221:
text: Make no mistake, we’re talking about some major repositioning; the rear ends of the cones didn’t move just a few thou’ or even 1/4 or 1/2 inch in one direction. These beauties moved around big time.
ref: 2000, Mike Bishop, Vern Tardel, “Bells and Whistles”, in How to Build a Traditional Ford Hot Rod, revised edition, Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 131, column 2:
synonyms: mil
mill
glosses: A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
thou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: thous
form: thou
Etymology: Clipping of thou(sand).
Senses: examples: text: Whoa there, big spender — that'll cost you a few thou. Are you sure you can afford it?
text: Butch [Cassidy] gave him 3 thous in cash 1 thous for the lawyer another thous if the lawyer wins & 1 thous for Tom O'Day.
ref: 1977, Larry Pointer, “Belle Fourche”, in In Search of Butch Cassidy (Red River Books), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 132:
text: He has a few thou in the account, enough to make your everyday living expenses, not enough to keep current with the bigger bills.
ref: 1999, Don Winslow, chapter 58, in California Fire and Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN; 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, September 2007, →ISBN, page 169:
text: Well, we'll need a few thou, Carlos. Got to get together a few thou first. For rent, you know. Rent and making contacts with artists, all that.
ref: 2000 November, Sheri S[tewart] Tepper, “Benita”, in The Fresco, New York, N.Y.: Eos, HarperCollins, →ISBN; 1st Eos paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Eos, HarperCollins, February 2002, →ISBN, page 17:
synonyms: grand#Noun
G#Noun
;
large
;
K#Noun
k#Noun
glosses: A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).
thou
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: thō
ipa: /ðəʊ/
enpr: thō
ipa: /ðoʊ/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: See though.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of though.
thou
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: thō
ipa: /ðəʊ/
enpr: thō
ipa: /ðoʊ/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /ðuː/
enpr: thou
ipa: /ðaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
ipa: /θaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: See though.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of though.
Andorra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈdɔː.ɹə/
ipa: /ænˈdoɹ.ə/
ipa: [ænˈdo̞ɹ.ə]
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ænˈdɔː.ɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Andorra, probably of Paleo-Hispanic or Vasconic origin. Compare Ancient Greek Ἀνδοσῖνοι (Andosînoi), the name of a tribe in Hispania Tarraconensis near the Pyrenees mentioned by Polybius.
Senses: glosses: A microstate in Southern Europe, between Spain and France. Official name: Principality of Andorra. Capital and largest city: Andorra la Vella.
wikipedia: Polybius
Related terms: Andorra la Vella
Andorran
Principality of Andorra
Afghanistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æfˈɡɑːn.ɪˌstɑːn/
ipa: /æfˈɡæn.ɪˌstɑːn/
ipa: /æfˈɡæn.ɪˌstæn/
Forms: form: Affghanistan
form: Affghanisthan
form: Affghaunistan
form: Afghanisthan
form: Afghaunistan
form: Afganistan
Etymology: From Classical Persian اَفْغَانِسْتَان (afġānistān), from اَفْغَان (afġān, “Afghan”) + ـِسْتَان (-istān, “-istan: land of”), equivalent to Afghan + -i- + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: But Shahab ul dien Mahummud, brother to the Prince of Ghor, invaded the kingdom of Ghizni, which he conquered, and not ſatisfied with that, marched an army into Hindoſtan, overrunning Piſhawir, Afghaniſtan, Moultan and Sind.
ref: 1768, Mahummud Casim Ferishta, translated by Alexander Dow, “The Reign of Chusero Malleck, ben Chusero Shaw”, in The History of Hindostan; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of Akbar; […], volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: This Timoor Shah is the ſon of the famous Ahmed Shah Abdalee, who was formerly in the ſervice of Nadir Shah, and upon the aſſaſſination of that monarch, ſeized the vaſl treaſures which had been depoſited in the Caſtle Herat, and carried them off into the mountains of Afghaniſtan, where his ſtandard was preſently joined by numbers of needy followers, and with this army he ſoon founded an independent kingdom to the eaſtward of Perſia.
ref: 1781 October 22, “From the Delhi Gazette, Calcutta”, in The Remembrancer; or, Impartial Repository of Public Events. For the Year 1782., part II, London: […] J[ohn] Debrett, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:
text: I am now arranging, and endeavouring to render worthy of the notice of the public, a ſecond volume, which contains a relation of my journey from Kaſhmire to England, through Afghaniſtan, Perſia, and Ruſſia.
ref: 1790, George Forster, “Preface”, in A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia; and into Russia, by the Caspian Sea. […], volume I, Calcutta: […] Press of Cooper and Upjohn, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
ref: 2008 February 19, John F[isher] Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
synonyms: Graveyard of Empires
hypernyms: Central Asia
glosses: A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul.
Derived terms: Afghanistani
Afghanistanism
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Emirate of Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Kingdom of Afghanistan
Related terms: Afghan
Afghani
Afghania
Afghanistani
Antigua and Barbuda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˌtiː.ɡə ən(d)bɑːˈb(j)uː.də/
ipa: /ænˌti.ɡ(w)ə ənd bɑɹˈbju.də/
rhymes: -uːdə
Etymology: From Antigua + and + Barbuda.
Senses: glosses: A country consisting of two islands in the Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda, and numerous other small islands. Largest city: St. John's.
Synonyms: word: Ant. & Barb.
Derived terms: Antiguan and Barbudan
Antigua and Barbudan
Related terms: Antiguan
Albania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈbeɪ.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /ælˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ælˈbeɪn.jə/
ipa: /ɔlˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ɔlˈbeɪn.jə/
ipa: /ɑlˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ɑlˈbeɪn.jə/
ipa: /alˈban̪.ja/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Albānia, from Byzantine Greek Ἄλβανον (Álbanon) + Medieval Latin -ia.
Senses: examples: text: However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
ref: 2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI:
glosses: A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana.
Derived terms: Albanian
Caucasian Albania
People's Republic of Albania
Republic of Albania
Albania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈbeɪ.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /ælˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ælˈbeɪn.jə/
ipa: /ɔlˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ɔlˈbeɪn.jə/
ipa: /ɑlˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ɑlˈbeɪn.jə/
ipa: /alˈban̪.ja/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀλβανία (Albanía).
Senses: examples: text: Albania (now Zuiria) lieth North and Eaſt betwixt Iberia and the ſea
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 291:
glosses: Caucasian Albania.
Armenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈmiː.ni.ə/
ipa: /ɑɹˈmi.ni.ə/
ipa: [ɑɹˈmi.njə]
ipa: /aɹˈmen.ja/
rhymes: -iːniə
Etymology: From Latin Armenia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρμενία (Armenía) (early 5th century BC), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴 (a-r-mi-i-n /⁠Armina⁠/) (late 6th century BC); see it for more. The Old Persian name is an exonym: see հայ (hay) for the native name. Attested in English since late 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: Trump’s authority has stretched internationally, so far unsuccessfully, to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while claiming success in stopping conflicts between India and Pakistan and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
ref: 2025 September 8, Harlan Ullman, “Will America survive another 250 years?”, in The Hill:
glosses: A country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe. Official name: Republic of Armenia. Capital: Yerevan.
examples: text: In the Caucasian republics, 100,000 Azerbaijanis, 30,000 Georgians, and tens of thousands of Armenians were imprisoned, tortured, or killed under Stalin, with Armenia's prisons so full at some points that basements of government buildings were converted into makeshift jails.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: Ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highland southeast of Black Sea and southwest of Caspian Sea; area now divided between Turkey, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.
glosses: A town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Uson, Masbate, Philippines.
glosses: The capital city of Quindío department, Colombia.
Derived terms: Eastern Armenia
Greater Armenia
Lesser Armenia
Little Armenia
Republic of Armenia
Western Armenia
Related terms: Armenian
Armenian SSR
Meds Yeghern
Angola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡəʊlə/
ipa: /æŋˈɡoʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology: From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”).
First attested in c. 1595.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.
Senses: examples: text: Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, or FCI, and the Social Protection and Jobs engagements in Angola have come together to advance the agenda on payments digitization.
ref: 2022 March 15, “Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments: How is Angola Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable During COVID-19?”, in World Bank, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025:
glosses: A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
glosses: A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
A former colony of Portugal, Portuguese Angola, also known as Portuguese West Africa and officially the State of West Africa, from 1575 to 1975.
glosses: A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
The People's Republic of Angola, from 1975 to 1992.
examples: text: “Who wanna get stuck in Angola with Lana Lee? She was bad enough on the outside. Shit.”
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:
text: In 2021, a judge found that Angola was providing inadequate medical care to its incarcerated population.
ref: 2025 September 3, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devon M. Sayers, “Trump administration to open new ICE facility at notorious Louisiana prison”, in CNN:
glosses: The Louisiana State Penitentiary.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A village in Erie County, New York, United States.
Hypernyms: sense: country in south Africa
word: Subsahara
Derived terms: Angolan
Angola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡəʊlə/
ipa: /æŋˈɡoʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: Angolas
Etymology: From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”).
First attested in c. 1595.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angora (cat).
synonyms: word: angora
extra: cat
Related terms: Countries of the world
Argentina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.d͡ʒənˈtiː.nə/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.d͡ʒənˈti.nə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ərdʒəɳˈʈinɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ərˈdʒɛɳʈɪnɑ/
rhymes: -iːnə
rhymes: (Indic, also) -ɪnə
Etymology: From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus; in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river").
Senses: examples: text: To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts.
ref: 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: Argentine Confederation
Argentine Nation
Argentine Republic
United Provinces of the River Plate
glosses: A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.
wikipedia: Río de la Plata
Related terms: Argentine
Argentinean
Argentinian
Azerbaijan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæz.ə.baɪˈdʒɑːn/
ipa: /ˌæz.əɹ.baɪˈdʒɑn/
ipa: /ˌɑ.zəɹ.baɪˈdʒɑn/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˌæz.ə(ɹ).baɪˈʒɑːn/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˌɑ.zə(ɹ).baɪˈʒɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: Azarbaijan
form: Azarbayjan
form: Adharbaijan
form: Adharbayjan
form: Azerbaidzhan
form: Azerbaydzhan
form: Adherbeijan
form: Adherbijan
form: Azerbeijan
form: Azerbeyjan
form: Azerbijan
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آذربایجان (azerbaycan), from Classical Persian آذَرْبَایْجَان (āzarbāyjān), from Early New Persian آذَرْبَایْگَان (āḏarbāygān) / آذَرْبَادْگَان (āḏarbādgān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾtwrpʾtkʾn) / [script needed] (ʾtwrpʾtkn /⁠āturpātakān, ādurbādagān⁠/), from [script needed] (ʾtwrpʾt' /⁠āturpāt, ādurbād⁠⁠/, “Atropates (the Persian nobleman who founded the kingdom of Atropatene)”) [whose name descends from Old Persian *Ātr̥pātah (literally “protected by fire”)] + -kʾn' (whence Classical Persian ـگَان (-gān)).
Compare Old Armenian Ատրպատական (Atrpatakan), Ատրապատական (Atrapatakan), Ատրպայական (Atrpayakan), Armenian Ադրբեջան (Adrbeǰan), Byzantine Greek Ἀδαρβιγάνων (Adarbigánōn), Classical Syriac ܐܕܘܪܒܝܓܐܢ (ʾĀḏōrbêḡān), Coptic ⲁⲇⲟⲩⲣⲃⲁⲇⲁⲅⲁⲛ (adourbadagan).
Senses: examples: text: Tahmâsb Coli Khân went to Azerbâïjân, and having liberated its capital, Tabriz, […]
ref: 1830, The life of Sheikh Mohammad Ali Hazin, page 206:
text: Among these were Azerbaijan and Shirvan, where disorders had freshly broken out, […]
ref: 1886, Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, page clxi:
synonyms: Iranian Azerbaijan
South Azerbaijan
glosses: A region in northwestern Iran, where ancient Atropatene was located, encompassing the modern provinces of Ardabil, East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan.
examples: text: Trump’s authority has stretched internationally, so far unsuccessfully, to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while claiming success in stopping conflicts between India and Pakistan and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
ref: 2025 September 8, Harlan Ullman, “Will America survive another 250 years?”, in The Hill:
synonyms: Caucasian Azerbaijan
North Azerbaijan
glosses: A country in the South Caucasus in Asia and Europe. Official name: Republic of Azerbaijan. Capital: Baku.
Derived terms: Azerbaijanese
Azerbaijani
Azerbaijanian
Azerbaijan SSR
Caucasian Azerbaijan
East Azerbaijan
North Azerbaijan
South Azerbaijan
West Azerbaijan
Related terms: Azeri
Bangladesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæŋ.ɡləˈdɛʃ/
ipa: /ˌbɑːŋ.ɡləˈdɛʃ/
ipa: /ˌbæŋ.ləˈdɛʃ/
ipa: /ˌbɑːŋ.ləˈdɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: Bangla Desh
Etymology: From Bengali বাংলাদেশ (baṅladeś), from বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengali”) + দেশ (deś, “country”).
Senses: glosses: A country in South Asia. Official name: People's Republic of Bangladesh. Capital: Dhaka.
Derived terms: Bangladeshi
Related terms: Dhaka