cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
furbelow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəː.bɪ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈfəː.bə.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɚ.bə.loʊ/
Forms: form: furbelows
Etymology: Corruption of falbala; first attested in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Not related to fur.
Senses: examples: text: I do not think that from the blissful time when I was sixteen, up to my present solemn five-and-thirty, I could ever have been tempted to look a second time at any miss under the chaperonship of such a dame as that feather and furbelow lady.
ref: 1839, Frances Trollope, chapter I, in The Widow Barnaby. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
text: All the other furbelows, and portions of this one^([this Medusa]) that lay below the expansion, floated as usual through the water, except that on some occasions an accessory power was obtained by pressing a portion of another furbelow to the side of the glass and making it adhere just like the portion that was exposed to the surface of the air.
ref: 1863, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History, page 745:
text: “Well, I don’t know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.”
ref: 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Winterbourne stood looking after her; and as she moved away, drawing her muslin furbelows over the gravel, said to himself that she had the tournure of a princess.
ref: 1879, Henry James, Daisy Miller, London: Harper & Brothers:
text: Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they’re all you’ll get this summer.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: Each plant has several oarweed fronds on the top of a flat stem, well adapted to swaying in one direction but rigid in the other; along the rigid edges, where the water flows and eddies, develop the wavy furbelows.
ref: 1964, E. J. H. Corner, The Life of Plants, University of Chicago Press, published 2002, page 76:
glosses: A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
examples: text: Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount.
ref: 1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
text: The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur:
glosses: A small, showy ornamentation.
Derived terms: befurbelow
furbelow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəː.bɪ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈfəː.bə.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɚ.bɪ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɚ.bə.loʊ/
Forms: form: furbelows
form: furbelowing
form: furbelowed
form: furbelowed
Etymology: Corruption of falbala; first attested in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Not related to fur.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 224–225:
glosses: To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.
Derived terms: unfurbelowed
Related terms: befurbelowed
favus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪvəs/
rhymes: -eɪvəs
Forms: form: favi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin favus (“honeycomb”).
Senses: examples: text: The first signs of an attack of favus are small, pale, irregular, cup-like spots on the comb or wattles, generally appearing on the comb first.
ref: 1901 July 19, “Favus in Poultry”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 317:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: honeycomb ringworm
honeycomb scall
honeycomb tetter
glosses: A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.
glosses: A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.
Derived terms: favose
acapella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a cappella.
acapella
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a cappella.
a capella
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækəˈpɛlə/
ipa: /ˌɑːkəˈpɛlə/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a cappella.
a capella
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækəˈpɛlə/
ipa: /ˌɑːkəˈpɛlə/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of a cappella.
barbershop quartet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbershop quartets
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of four musicians who sing barbershop music. Usually contains high and lead tenors, baritone and bass.
invented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/
Forms: form: more invented
form: most invented
Senses: examples: text: The invented alibi didn't stand up long.
glosses: fictional, made up, imaginary.
Derived terms: uninvented
invented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Job’s Wife ➤ God, who invented earth?
Job ➤ What, still awake?
God ➤ Any originality it showed
Was of the Devil. He invented Hell,
False premises that are the original
Of all originality, the sin
That felled the angels, Wolsey should have said.
ref: 1945, Robert Frost, A Masque of Reason:
glosses: simple past and past participle of invent
glacé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæseɪ/
rhymes: -æseɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from French glacé, past participle of glacer (“to glaze or freeze”).
Senses: examples: text: glacé silk
glosses: having a glossy surface
glosses: coated with sugar; candied or crystallised
Derived terms: glacé fruit
Related terms: meringue glacé
glacé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæseɪ/
rhymes: -æseɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: glacés
form: glacéing
form: glacéed
form: glacéed
Etymology: Borrowed from French glacé, past participle of glacer (“to glaze or freeze”).
Senses: glosses: To give a glossy surface to; to glaze.
come out in the wash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes out in the wash
form: coming out in the wash
form: came out in the wash
form: come out in the wash
Senses: examples: text: It may look like a huge mess now, but I expect that it will all come out in the wash as time goes on.
glosses: Of problems or difficulties, to work out, resolve, or become understood eventually and naturally.
examples: text: You can do everything you can to hide this, but everything comes out in the wash.
glosses: Used to say that the truth will be revealed in the future.
manas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit मनस् (manas, “mind”). Doublet of mind.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: chiefly theosophy
glosses: The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.
Derived terms: manasic
manas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See mana.
Senses: glosses: plural of mana.
manasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manas + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to manas.
caramelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: caramelisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caramelization.
deliberative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deliberative
form: most deliberative
Etymology: From Middle French délibératif, from Latin deliberativus.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: A good system would have been a consummate work of deliberative wisdom
ref: 1854, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume VI (The American Revolution. Epoch Second. […]), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 74:
text: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref: 2012 January 24, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012, page 74:
glosses: That deliberates, considers carefully.
Derived terms: deliberative body
deliberatively
deliberativeness
nondeliberative
undeliberative
deliberative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliberatives
Etymology: From Middle French délibératif, from Latin deliberativus.
Senses: examples: text: A conclusion in a deliberative
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
glosses: A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
activism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.tɪ.vɪ.zəm/
ipa: [ˈæk.tɪ.vɪ.zm̩]
Forms: form: activisms
Etymology: From active + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
Derived terms: artivism
clicktivism
craftivism
cyberactivism
e-activism
ecoactivism
hacktivism
hactivism
hashtivism
hyperactivism
inactivism
intactivism
judicial activism
kayaktivism
lactivism
leaktivism
microactivism
nonactivism
proactivism
slacktivism
transactivism
Related terms: activist
activistic
despotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /disˈpɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /dɛsˈpɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /dəˈspɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /dɛsˈpɑt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more despotic
form: most despotic
form: despotick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσποτικός (despotikós) via French despotique, equivalent to despot + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
examples: text: The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.
glosses: Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
Synonyms: sense: acting like or ruling as a despot
word: bossy and arrogant
Derived terms: adespotic
nondespotic
ultradespotic
undespotic
Related terms: despot
despotate
despotical
despotically
despotism
despotist
despotize
demagnetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demagnetizations
Etymology: From de- + magnetization or from demagnetize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
demagnetisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demagnetisations
Etymology: From de- + magnetisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demagnetization.
the Lord's Anointed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lord's anointed
Etymology: Compare Ancient Greek χριστός (khristós, “[the] anointed [one]”).
Senses: examples: text: And Dauid sayd to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed, and be guiltlesse?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 26:9:
text: Yes, he wanted power—he wanted to know himself to be the Lord's anointed, His well-beloved, and worthy, nearly, of that snow-white dove which had been sent down from Heaven to testify that Jesus was the Son of God.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 94:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Christ or the Messiah.
glosses: A Jewish or other king by divine right.
suttee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌti
Forms: form: suttees
form: sati
Etymology: From Sanskrit सती (satī́, “good and virtuous or faithful wife”), from सत् (sát, “true, good, right etc.”). In English usage since 1786. Doublet of sin.
Senses: glosses: The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion.
Macon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈmɑːkɒ̃/
ipa: /mɑˈkɔn/
Forms: form: Mâcon
Etymology: An anglicized form of French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mâcon, a city in France.
Macon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈmɑːkɒ̃/
ipa: /mɑˈkɔn/
Forms: form: Macons
form: Mâcon
Etymology: An anglicized form of French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).
Senses: glosses: A dry red or white burgundy wine produced around Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines.
Synonyms: word: Maconnais
word: Mascon
Macon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈmɑːkɒ̃/
ipa: /mɑˈkɔn/
ipa: /ˈmeɪkən/
ipa: /ˈmakɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈmɑːkɒ̃/
ipa: /mɑˈkɔn/
Etymology: Named in honor of Nathaniel Macon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Bibb County, Georgia, United States, with which it is now consolidated as Macon-Bibb County.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Noxubee County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Macon County, Missouri, United States.
Derived terms: Macon County
Maconite
nocent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.sənt/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.sənt/
rhymes: -əʊsənt
Forms: form: more nocent
form: most nocent
Etymology: From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.
Senses: examples: text: […] [Satan] held on
His midnight search, where soonest he might finde
The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found
In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,
His head the midst, well stor’d with suttle wiles:
Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den,
Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie Herbe
Fearless unfeard he slept […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 180-187:
text: They consider the various known Effects of particular Herbs or Drugs, they meditate what will be the Effect of their Composition, and whether the Virtues of the one will exalt or diminish the Force of the other, or correct any of its nocent Qualities.
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, chapter 19, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC, pages 313-314:
glosses: Causing injury; harmful.
examples: text: Nocent, not innocent he is, that seeketh to deface,
By word the thing, that he by deed hat taught men to imbrace;
Which being now a Bishop old, doth study to destroy
The thing, which he a young man once did covet to injoy.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “King John”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book II, page [330]:
text: He is not innocent, whom the kinge iudgeth nocent.
ref: 1571, Richard Edwards, Damon and Pythias:
glosses: guilty; not innocent
Derived terms: nocently
nocent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.sənt/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.sənt/
rhymes: -əʊsənt
Forms: form: nocents
Etymology: From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is no reason that the innocents and nocents sufferings should be alike, for then punishments would not be so effectuall to terrifie others, nor to give future security to innocence.
ref: 1649, Anthony Ascham, Of the Confusions and Revolutions of Governments, Part 3, Chapter 4, p. 190:
text: […] no nocent is absolved by the verdict of himself.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 32:
glosses: Guilty person.
Related terms: nocency
nocence
monicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monickers
Senses: examples: text: "Kid, you've outgrown 'Young Blood' as a monicker".
ref: 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing:
text: "I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."
ref: 2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407:
glosses: Alternative spelling of moniker.
tookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tookies
form: tooky
Etymology: Possibly tuchus + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: [1958], 1996, Terry Southern, Candy
It had wetted the tip of the Buddha’s nose, which did seem, thus lubricated, to be undeniable as it moved slowly into Candy’s coyly arched tooky—the warm wet nose of Buddha, the beloved spot of her meditation!
text: Gosh, I hate to say this, but my tookie sure does pain me from sitting so much for nothing, waiting for something real to pop.
ref: 1983, Michael Seide, Common Wilderness:
text: Before I left my seat on the bench and went back into the ward, I recognized that I would have to pass the bar exam in the same way: take an intensive bar-review course and work my tookie off!
ref: 2002, Forrest Winfred Ellis, Love Lights My Way:
glosses: The buttocks.
yack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yak
Forms: form: yacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).
yack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yak
Forms: form: yacks
form: yacking
form: yacked
form: yacked
Senses: examples: text: I moved to another carriage on the train because the first one was full of people yacking on mobile phones.
text: You rode the blimp here, didn't you? Boy, I envy you. I'm dying to ride that thing, but air travel makes me yack.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
text: “If we do a deal, no one ever hears about it. Others yack but Iwan never does. It is very Swiss.”
ref: 2024 March 2, John Gapper, “Planet Wirth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”).
Derived terms: yack on
yack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yak
ipa: /jak/
ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yak
Forms: form: yacks
Etymology: Dialectal form.
Senses: examples: text: If 't ash tree buds before 't yack, […]
ref: 1877, Gibson, Leg. and Notes 50
text: Awd stiff yack nut eeasy bended, […]
ref: 1878, John Castillo, Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect, section 25:
glosses: An oak.
yack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: yak
ipa: /jak/
Forms: form: yacks
Senses: examples: text: I have got the Yacks, so do not come it. Fight cocum.
ref: 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 498:
text: […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
ref: 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:
qualifier: thieves slang
glosses: A watch (timepiece).
yuletide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuletides
Etymology: From Yule (“Germanic Winter Festival”) + -tide (“period around a festival, season”); compare Swedish juletid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Yuletide (“Christmas or the Christmas season”).
glosses: The flower Camellia sasanqua, native to Japan and nearby islands.
Synonyms: sense: Christmas season
word: Christmastide
sense: Camellia sasanqua
word: sasanqua
Christmastide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmastides
form: Christmas-tide
Etymology: From Christmas + -tide (“period around a festival”).
Senses: glosses: The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany.
glosses: The Christmas season.
Synonyms: sense: Christmas season
word: yuletide
Related terms: Advent
unfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li/
Forms: form: unfriendlier
form: more unfriendly
form: unfriendliest
form: most unfriendly
Etymology: From Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfrēondlīċ (suggested by derivative unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner; unfriendly”, adverb)), equivalent to un- + friendly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk (“unfriendly”), West Frisian ûnfreonlik (“unfriendly”), Dutch onvriendelijk (“unfriendly”), German Low German unfrünnelk (“unfriendly”), German unfreundlich (“unfriendly”), Faroese ófryntligur (“unfriendly”), Icelandic ófrýnilegur (“ugly; disturbing”).
Senses: examples: text: Shrekkies will notice that the musical is going off-piste from the film right from the start when the curtain rises to reveal a seven-year-old Shrek turfed out into an unfriendly world by his parents.
ref: 2008 November 3, Tom Leonard, “Will Shrek be a monster hit on Broadway?”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,718, page 29:
text: The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.
ref: 2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian:
text: I thought of him as a young man in Washington for the first time, first job with McCarthy, and that that was probably one of the unfriendliest spaces at the time for a gay person.
ref: 2020 June 17, Charles Bramesco, “Bully, coward, victim? Inside the sinister world of Trump mentor Roy Cohn”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: dour
glosses: Not friendly; hostile; mean.
synonyms: chilly
glosses: Unfavourable.
Derived terms: eco-unfriendly
user-unfriendly
Related terms: unfriend
unfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li/
Forms: form: unfriendlies
Etymology: From Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfrēondlīċ (suggested by derivative unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner; unfriendly”, adverb)), equivalent to un- + friendly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk (“unfriendly”), West Frisian ûnfreonlik (“unfriendly”), Dutch onvriendelijk (“unfriendly”), German Low German unfrünnelk (“unfriendly”), German unfreundlich (“unfriendly”), Faroese ófryntligur (“unfriendly”), Icelandic ófrýnilegur (“ugly; disturbing”).
Senses: examples: text: Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
ref: 2005, Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven, page 217:
text: You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).
ref: 2008, Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity, page 44:
glosses: An enemy.
unfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li/
Forms: form: unfriendlier
form: more unfriendly
form: unfriendliest
form: most unfriendly
Etymology: From Middle English unfrendli, from Old English unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner”), equivalent to unfriend + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend
tinder box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tinderbox.
Sylvia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Feminine form of a Medieval form of Silvius, from Latin silva (“forest”). In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.
Senses: examples: text: What lovely names for girls there are!
There's Stella like the Evening Star,
And Sylvia like a rustling tree, […]
ref: 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:
text: In the brouhaha over the reappointment of Superior Court Judge Sylvia Pressler, we organized massive support - telegramming, telephoning and writing to encourage the State Senate to exercise its advise and consent function responsibly.
ref: 1984 August 5, “Women Lawyers Unit Describes Its Role”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, a popular spelling variant of Silvia.
glosses: A minor city in Reno County, Kansas, United States.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Short for Princess Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 87 Sylvia, a main belt asteroid; named for Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus.
Related terms: word: Mount Sylvia
word: Silvanus
word: Silvius
english: see for more terms
translation: see for more terms
word: sylvan
word: Sylvester
Silvia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlvi.ə/
Forms: form: Sylvia
Etymology: Feminine form of Silvius, from Latin silva (“forest”). In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.
Senses: examples: text: Who is Silvia? what is she? / That all our swains commend her? / Holy, fair and wise is she; / The heaven such grace did lend her, / That she might admired be.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Silvanus
sylvan
Silvius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Silvius, from silva (“forest”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The son of Ascanius and his wife.
glosses: A male given name from Latin, of mostly historical use in English.
Related terms: word: Silvia
english: see for more terms
translation: see for more terms
word: sylvan
Amelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-mēʹlē-ə
enpr: ə-mēʹlyə
ipa: /əˈmiːli.ə/
ipa: /əˈmiːljə/
rhymes: -iːliə
Etymology: A variant of Amalia, derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amal, "vigor, bravery". The name and its variants have been confused with the Latin name Aemilia (whence Emilia, Emily) and the French Aimée (whence Amy).
Senses: examples: text: By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
ref: 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam, The World of Adam Fitz-Adam, Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756
text: We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia Earhart, lost over the ocean. […] Air Heart, I saw it spelled, Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.
ref: 1982 Carol Fenner, Saving Amelia Earhart,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction page 66
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: The alternative name for Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia, US.
Derived terms: Amelia County
Amelia Courthouse
Amelia Island
Related terms: Alma
Amy
Emily
Sylvie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sylvies
Etymology: Derived from Latin silva (forest).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Amalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈmɑli.ə/
Etymology: Derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amala-, a word of unknown meaning, like Ostrogothic Amalaberga and Amalafrida.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia.
wikipedia: Amalaberga
Amalafrida
neighbourhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
Forms: form: neighbourhoods
Etymology: From neighbour + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: These developments, most of which have taken place during the past 30 years, are remarkable in view of the low traffic density, except in the neighbourhood of Oslo, and the very extensive undeveloped areas of mountain and virgin forest.
ref: 1952 January, “Electrification Progress in Norway”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:
text: Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
text: Another key event was the spontaneous mobilization of the Tiantongyuan neighbourhood in greater Beijing in 2008, which was an effort to modify the route plan of line no.5 of the Beijing subway system so that the neighbourhood could be more conveniently connected.
ref: 2011, Chunrong Liu, “Contested ground: community and neighbourhood”, in Xiaowei Zang, editor, Understanding Chinese Society, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: British standard spelling of neighborhood.
Derived terms: gaybourhood
gay neighbourhood
in the neighbourhood of
Margolus neighbourhood
microneighbourhood
Moore neighbourhood
there goes the neighbourhood
von Neumann neighbourhood
Tristan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪstən/
rhymes: -ɪstən
enpr: trĭstən
enpr: trĭstän
enpr: trĭstăn
Etymology: Old French, the name of a knight, lover of Iseult in medieval romance Tristan and Iseult, from Celtic Drystan derived from drest meaning "riot" or "tumult".
Senses: examples: text: After the first son had been properly named after the grandfather, the second caught the brunt of her few impulses, being named "Tristan", gleaned from medieval lore from her years at Wellesley.
ref: 1978, Jim Harrison, Legends of the Fall, Dell, published 1994, →ISBN, page 201:
text: 'His name is Tristan, by the way.' 'Tristan?' 'Yes. Oh, I should have told you. You must have wondered about my own queer name. It was my father. Great Wagnerian. It nearly ruled his life. It was music all the time – mainly Wagner.'
ref: 2012 May 17, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages.
glosses: A knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: Ellipsis of Tristan da Cunha.
Synonyms: word: Tristram
english: Arthurian hero
translation: Arthurian hero
word: Tristam
Theo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːəʊ/
ipa: /ˈθioʊ/
rhymes: -iːəʊ
Forms: form: Theos
Etymology: Short form of Theodore, or of the rare given names Theobald, Theophilus or Theodoric, or of Theodora.
Senses: examples: text: He has three teeth and two names: Theodore, which is what health visitors call him, and Theo, which is what I call him.
ref: 2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 341:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek and nickname.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Theodora.
Theobald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθiːoʊbɔɫd/
/ˈtɪbəɫd/
Etymology: From Old French Theobald, Tibaut; both ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *Þeudubalþ. Common in the Middle Ages under various spellings in the archaic pronunciation. After it became obsolete a spelling pronunciation took over. Doublet of Theudebald. Compare Old English Þēodbald.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: word: Dibben
word: Dibbens
word: Dibbins
word: Dibble
word: Dible
word: Diboll
word: Dipple
word: Dyball
word: Dybell
word: Dyble
word: Tebb
word: Tebbet
word: Tebbett
word: Tebbit
word: Tebbitt
word: Tebboth
word: Tebbs
word: Tebbut
word: Tebbutt
word: Theobalds
word: Theobold
word: Tibb
word: Tibballs
word: Tibbatts
word: Tibbets
word: Tibbett
word: Tibbetts
word: Tibbey
word: Tibbins
word: Tibbits
word: Tibbitts
word: Tibble
word: Tibbles
word: Tibbott
word: Tibbotts
word: Tibbs
word: Tibby
word: Tidball
word: Tidboald
word: Tipp
word: Tippell
word: Tippett
word: Tippins
word: Tipple
word: Tipples
word: Tipson
word: Tudball
word: Tybalt
Theodoric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θiˈɒdəɹɪk/
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Þeudōrīks. Doublet of Theoderic; piecewise doublet of Tudor.
Unrelated to Theodore, of Greek origin.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by two kings of the Visigoths.
Related terms: Theoderic
Derek
rocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rock
accident-prone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accident-prone
form: most accident-prone
Senses: examples: text: It was an epic night, filled with so many different storylines, and unfortunately for Liverpool’s accident-prone goalkeeper, Loris Karius, he will have to live with the fact that his part will be remembered for just as long as, or possibly longer than, Gareth Bale’s spectacular bicycle kick or the tears from Mohamed Salah.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Susceptible to accidents or mishaps.
mucositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucositides
Etymology: From mucosa + -itis.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a mucosa (mucous membrane), or of multiple mucosae; as
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a mucosa (mucous membrane), or of multiple mucosae; as:
A complication of some cancer therapies in which the lining of the digestive system becomes inflamed. Often seen as sores in the mouth.
Coordinate terms: serositis
Derived terms: oral mucositis
oversleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversleep
oral mucositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: oral (of the mouth) + mucositis (inflammation of the mucosa)
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of the mucus membranes of the mouth.
misunderstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsʌndəˈstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌmɪsʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Forms: form: misunderstandings
Etymology: From Middle English mys undirstonding, equivalent to misunderstand + -ing. Compare Dutch misverstand (“misunderstanding”), German Missverständnis (“misunderstanding”), Swedish missförstånd (“misunderstanding”).
Senses: examples: text: Because of misunderstandings among certain member states of the Organization of African Unity's voices have been occasionally raised recently against the convocation of the Assembly in Accra. Nonetheless, the regular Assembly of the Heads of State and Government was, in the first place, designed to find peaceful solutions, through deliberations and frank exchange of views to such misunderstandings among member-states.
ref: 1965, Haile Selassie, African Liberation Day speech:
glosses: A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.
examples: text: It was only months and months afterwards, when I made the attempt to recover what was left of the body, that I heard the original quarrel arose from a misunderstanding about some hens.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:
glosses: A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
misunderstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsʌndəˈstændɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌmɪsʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English mys undirstonding, equivalent to misunderstand + -ing. Compare Dutch misverstand (“misunderstanding”), German Missverständnis (“misunderstanding”), Swedish missförstånd (“misunderstanding”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misunderstand
Mâcon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈmɑːkɒ̃/
ipa: /mɑˈkɔn/
Forms: form: Macon
Etymology: Borrowed from French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)), and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).
Senses: examples: text: It was not until after the waiter came with the bill that Scott decided that we have the hotel make us a picnic lunch. I tried to argue him out of this as I was sure we could get a bottle of Mâcon in Mâcon and we could buy something to make sandwiches in a charcuterie.
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:
glosses: A city and commune, the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
Synonyms: word: Mascon
Related terms: macon
Mâconnais
Mâcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakɒ̃/
ipa: /ˈmɑːkɒ̃/
ipa: /mɑˈkɔn/
Forms: form: Mâcons
form: Macon
Etymology: Borrowed from French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)), and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Macon, red or white burgundy wine from Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines.
triturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triturates
form: triturating
form: triturated
form: triturated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin triturare (“thresh”).
Senses: glosses: To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
glosses: To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
examples: text: Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 10, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
Derived terms: triturable
Related terms: tritorium
triturable
triturated
trituration
triturator
triture
silicon photonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here's a better way: replace the copper with optical fiber and the electrons with photons. That's the promise of silicon photonics: affordable optical communications for everything. It will let manufacturers build optical components using the same semiconductor equipment and methods they use now for ordinary integrated circuits, thereby dramatically lowering the cost of photonics.
ref: 2005 October 24, Mario Paniccia, Sean Koehl, “The Silicon Solution”, in IEEE Spectrum, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2006:
glosses: The technology discipline related to production of optical switching electronic devices using integrated circuit manufacturing technology
light spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light spectrums
form: light spectra
Etymology: From light (“visible”) + spectrum (“range of electromagnetic wavelengths”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to humans.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an extension of the human-visible spectrum to include near-visible wavelengths, primarily near infrared.
Synonyms: sense: visible to humans
word: visible light
angry fruit salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angry fruit salads
Etymology: From the bright colors associated with anger, and the unnaturally bright colors of many canned "fruit cocktail" mixtures.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A web page or user interface that is poorly designed and overuses color.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Las Vegas effect
glosses: Such a design in general.
near infrared
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Because the near infrared is not as well suited to qualitative determinations as is the mid infrared, most modern NIRA instruments have centered on quantitative applications.
ref: 1984, David E. Honigs, Improvements of the Near-infrared Diffuse-reflectance Technique, Indiana University, page 19:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Infrared light closest in wavelength to visible light, from .7–1.4 µm.
photonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /foʊˈtɑnɪks/
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: From photon + -ics.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The science and technology of generating and controlling photons, particularly in the visible and near infrared light spectrum.
Hyponyms: nanophotonics
Derived terms: astrophotonics
biophotonics
nanobiophotonics
neurophotonics
silicon photonics
cryptid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪp.tɪd/
Forms: form: cryptids
Etymology: From crypt + -id. English usage 1983; coined by John E. Wall in the ISC Newsletter (vol. 2, no. 2, p. 10) published by the International Society of Cryptozoology.
Senses: examples: text: Now comes perhaps the cleverest tag of all: cryptozoology. It refers to the search for new animals, animals dwelling in unexpected places, and most importantly for "X-Files" scriptwriters, "cryptids"—legendary creatures such as the yeti.
ref: 1999 August 16, Steve Burgess, “Loren Coleman, Loch Ness snowman of cryptozoology”, in salon.com:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A creature known only from folklore or legend, the existence of which is not proven by scientific observation.
wikipedia: cryptid
unbiunium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Systematic element name from un- + bi- + un- + -ium.
Senses: glosses: The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 121 (symbol Ubu).
wikipedia: Systematic element name
Synonyms: eka-actinium
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: unbinilium Ubn
sense: Next
word: unbibium Ubb
movable feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movable feasts
form: moveable feast
Senses: examples: text: The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.
ref: 2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317:
glosses: A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.
Hyponyms: Ash Wednesday
Ascension
Corpus Christi
Easter
of note
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Forest, who lost striker Kris Boyd to injury seconds before half-time, produced little after the break, with a Tyson sliced shot from 12 yards their only opportunity of note.
ref: 2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: worthy of being remembered mentally or in writing.
Synonyms: notable
noteworthy
special
Martinmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martinmases
form: Martlemas
Etymology: From Martin + -mas.
Senses: glosses: St Martin's Day, 11th November. A Scottish quarter day.
Childermas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Childermases
form: Childermas-Day
Etymology: From Childermas-Day, from Middle English Childermasse day, from Old English Ċildamæsse dæg, equivalent to ċilda (“children's”) + mæsse (“mass, religious service”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A religious service and holiday commemorating the supposed Massacre of the Innocents in Judea around the time of the birth of Christ, typically observed on 28 December in Western Christianity and 29 December in Eastern Christianity; in Spanish and Latin American contexts, the day is frequently filled with light-hearted pranks similar to April Fools' Day.
Synonyms: Holy Innocents' Day
Innocents' Day
Related terms: Massacre of the Innocents
intercalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɜː.kəl.eɪt/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tə.kəˈleɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝ.kəˌleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: intercalates
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1614, the noun in 1964; borrowed from Latin intercalātus, perfect passive participle of intercalō (“to proclaim that a day, an event, etc. has been intercalated; to insert”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from inter- (“between, among”) + calō (“to call; to proclaim”).
Senses: examples: text: Entry of intercalate molecules from the edge of basal planes of crystallites must be kept sufficiently slow to mitigate mechanical strains..before the intercalate has spread uniformly through any layer.
ref: 1968, Proceedings of the Royal Society, series A, volume 304. 26:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atom or molecule, or a substance, that enters between the layers of the crystal lattice of another substance, especially that of graphite.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound formed by foreign atoms or molecules entering between the layers of a crystal lattice, especially that of graphite.
synchronise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synchronises
form: synchronising
form: synchronised
form: synchronised
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of synchronize.
Derived terms: desynchronise
synchronisation
synchrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronies
Etymology: By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -y; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
Derived terms: dys-synchrony
menstrual synchrony