cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decriminalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɹɪmɪnəlaɪz/
Forms: form: decriminalizes
form: decriminalizing
form: decriminalized
form: decriminalized
form: decriminalise
Etymology: Back-formation from decriminalization, equivalent to de- + criminalize.
Senses: examples: text: The march to decriminalize drugs moved further across the nation on Tuesday despite continued federal prohibition.
ref: 2020 April 11, Thomas Fuller, “Oregon Decriminalizes Small Amounts of Heroin and Cocaine; Four States Legalize Marijuana”, in The New York Times:
text: The House of Representatives approved decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level on Friday in the first time Congress has acted on the issue.
ref: 2020 April 12, Deirdre Walsh, “House Approves Decriminalizing Marijuana; Bill To Stall In Senate”, in NPR:
text: Last fall Oregon voters decriminalized possession of small amounts of almost all hard drugs, taking a groundbreaking step away from the arrest, charge and jail model for possession that's been a centerpiece of American drug policy since President Richard Nixon declared his War on Drugs 50 years ago this week.
ref: 2021 June 18, Eric Westervelt, “Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test”, in NPR:
text: The court’s decision decriminalizes abortions in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and means that any woman should be able to seek the procedure from a health professional without fear of criminal prosecution.
ref: 2022 February 22, Julie Turkewitz, “Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion, Bolstering Trend Across Region”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: legalize
antonyms: criminalize
glosses: To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
Derived terms: decriminalization
decriminalizer
criminalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: criminalizes
form: criminalizing
form: criminalized
form: criminalized
form: criminalise
Etymology: From criminal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: "Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."
ref: 2015, Gregg Barak, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful:
text: The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
ref: 2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine:
text: Advocates for homeless people, the American Psychiatric Association and several left-leaning states, including New York, Illinois and Minnesota, argue that criminalizing homelessness only worsens the problem.
ref: 2024 April 22, Shawn Hubler, “Homelessness Case Draws Unusual Alliances: Conservatives and California Democrats”, in The New York Times:
text: A group of homeless residents sued the city, challenging the ordinances and contending that the local laws essentially criminalized homelessness.
ref: 2024 June 28, Abbie VanSickle, “Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case”, in The New York Times:
text: Italy passed a law on Wednesday that criminalizes seeking surrogacy abroad, a move the country’s conservative government said would protect women’s dignity, while critics see it as yet another crackdown by the government on L.G.B.T. families, as the law will make it virtually impossible for gay fathers to have children.
ref: 2024 October 16, Emma Bubela, “Italy Criminalizes Surrogacy From Abroad, a Blow to Gay and Infertile Couples”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
glosses: To treat as a criminal.
Derived terms: criminalizable
criminalization
criminalizer
decriminalize
overcriminalization
recriminalize
Related terms: felonize
misdemeanorize
illegalize
outlaw
legalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: legalizations
form: legalisation
Etymology: From legalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The hippies marched for the legalization of marijuana.
glosses: The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.
Hypernyms: legal reclassification
Derived terms: antilegalization
overlegalization
relegalization
hippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hippie
glosses: plural of hippy
letter-perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more letter-perfect
form: most letter-perfect
form: letter perfect
Senses: examples: text: He was able to write out the speeches of Hamlet, letter perfect. It was impressive to see how exactly he knew the wording.
text: "Can you quote it?" "I know my New Testament pretty well, but I am not letter-perfect."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
antonyms: unscrupulous
glosses: Exactly correct, correct in every letter; word-perfect.
Related terms: picture-perfect
pitch-perfect
to the letter
lifeblood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌblʌd/
Forms: form: lifebloods
form: life blood
form: life's blood
Etymology: From life + blood. Compare English heart-blood (“lifeblood”).
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou desire his mana, yet you respect his tabu, for in you and him alike runs the common life-blood.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 62:
text: You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy.
ref: circa 1980, George Spelvin, Petticoat Loose, Act II, Scene 1, published in George Spelvin's theatre book, volume 3
text: Beowulf's body
was wet with his life-blood: it came welling out.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 85:
text: It was she who stopped the lifeblood flow when Karl misswung an axe until Herta could come.
ref: 2014, Andre Norton, Tales from High Hallack:
hypernyms: blood
glosses: Blood that is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.
examples: text: Gasoline is the lifeblood of the modern city.
text: Information is the lifeblood of the United States and the world.
ref: 1991, Winn Schwartau, Terminal Compromise:
text: The road brought invaders who left them hungry and dug up the dead. The road took living children away and made them dead to home. It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.
ref: 2006, James E. Kibler, Memory's Keep, page 55:
text: 'We want to be able to market some of these small stations and the lifeblood lines where we currently have short trains in service.'
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 56:
text: Like most Victorian Railways, freight was the line's lifeblood.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, page 46:
text: The companies’ actions illustrate how online information — news stories, fictional works, message board posts, Wikipedia articles, computer programs, photos, podcasts and movie clips — has increasingly become the lifeblood of the booming A.I. industry.
ref: 2024 April 6, Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, Nico Grant, “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: essence
glosses: That which is required for continued existence or function.
lifelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪf.lɔːŋ/
Forms: form: life-long
form: life long
Etymology: From life + -long.
Senses: examples: text: They were lifelong friends; they met in elementary school and ended their lives in the same rest home.
text: He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and developed a lifelong interest in medieval history as a result of reading Chaucer.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.
ref: 2021 October 20, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 942, page 71:
text: A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
ref: 2025 March 30, Scottie Andrew, “Queer and trans homesteaders are conquering the social media frontier”, in CNN:
glosses: Extending for the entire duration of life.
Related terms: decadeslong
yearslong
for life
lifespan
lifetime
livelong
tienda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiˈɛndə/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Forms: form: tiendas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tienda (“shop, store, tent”).
Senses: glosses: In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.
life-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lifesized
form: life-size
Senses: examples: text: The life-sized statue was the same size as the subject, and since he had never fit in that chair, neither did the statue.
text: The boy made a life-sized dummy of himself by stuffing scrunched- up newspapers into some old pyjamas.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.
lifesize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of life-size.
life-threatening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more life-threatening
form: most life-threatening
Senses: examples: text: The life-threatening illness caused him to be rushed to the hospital, where doctors worked around the clock to save his life.
text: The MoD said the injured men received immediate medical attention and were evacuated by air to the military hospital at Camp Bastion, but three could not be saved. Next of kin have been informed. The other soldiers hurt are not thought to have life-threatening injures.
ref: 2013 May 1, Nicholas Watt, Nick Hopkins, “Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles”, in The Guardian:
text: Prosser's focus on mental health in particular also led him to the (sometimes) life-threatening ways this can affect all of us, whether we work on the railway or not. In 2020-21, there were 247 suicides or suspected suicides on the national network - that's one every 35 hours.
ref: 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 36:
glosses: Potentially fatal.
Derived terms: non-life-threatening
lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪftə/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lifters
Etymology: From lift + -er.
Senses: examples: text: heavy lifters
text: While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.
ref: 2010, Eric Velazquez, “Power Pairings”, in Reps!, 17:83:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
A weightlifter.
examples: text: solid lifters
text: hydraulic lifters
glosses: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
A tappet.
examples: text: When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]
ref: 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 148:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
A delivery that bounces well off the pitch.
glosses: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
A spatula.
examples: text: an inveterate lifter
text: Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 2, line 118:
glosses: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
A thief.
synonyms: word: abstractor
word: appropriator
word: bagger
word: booster
word: borrower
word: cribber
word: faker
word: filcher
word: flogger
word: heister
word: larcener
word: larcenist
word: liberator
word: lifter
word: misappropriator
word: nicker
word: pincher
word: purloiner
word: snitch
word: stealer
word: tea leaf
word: thief
word: thiever
glosses: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
An ionocraft.
Synonyms: word: fish slice
word: spatula
word: turner
sense: thief
word: thief
Derived terms: asslifter
bit lifter
cake lifter
chemise lifter
child lifter
ego lifter
foot lifter
lid-lifter
mortgage lifter
powerlifter
shirt lifter
shoplifter
sneck lifter
stain lifter
tack lifter
tacklifter
weightlifter
lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪftə/
rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lifters
Etymology: From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A filter that operates on a cepstrum.
lidded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lid
lidded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The lidded box was much more useful than the one without the cover which allowed all the dust in.
text: Nowadays, coal is no longer king - biomass is! In October 2017, GB Railfreight began running trains from Liverpool Docks to Drax power station via the Calder Valley, using a fleet of specially-built, high-capacity lidded wagons.
ref: 2021 July 28, Paul Bigland, “Calder line captures picturesque Pennines”, in RAIL, number 936, page 68:
glosses: Having a cover like a lid.
glosses: Having a certain type of eyelids
raw_tags: used in combinations
Derived terms: heavy-lidded
unlidded
lieutenancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lieutenancies
Senses: glosses: The role, position, or domain of a lieutenant.
Synonyms: lieutenantship
lieutenantry
Derived terms: sublieutenancy
lieutenancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lieutenancy
lamebrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamebrain
limpidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more limpidly
form: most limpidly
Etymology: From limpid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a limpid manner.
limply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more limply
form: most limply
Etymology: From limp + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The flag hung limply in the still air.
text: Ah, but someone was raising her, so they were going to lay her on the trestles, and she not dead. She opened her eyes, took a deep breath, then limply and contritely placed both arms round Andrew's neck.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 181:
text: He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 122:
glosses: In a limp manner, without support or resistance.
lily-livered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lily-livered
form: most lily-livered
Etymology: The first known uses of lily-livered are in William Shakespeare’s works written c. 1603–1606; see quotations below. From the medieval belief that the liver was the seat of courage, and the pale color of the lily flower. A person who had no blood in their liver would have no courage and would thus be a coward. Equivalent to lily + livered.
Senses: examples: text: Stew[ard], What doſt thou know me for? / Kent. […] [A] lilly lyuer'd action taking knaue, […] one that would'ſt bee a baud in way of good ſeruice, and art nothing but the compoſition of a knaue, begger, coward, pander, and the ſonne and heire of a mungrell bitch, […]
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signature E, recto:
text: Go pricke thy face, and ouer-red thy feare / Thou Lilly-liuer'd Boy.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 149, column 1:
text: But as for that lily-livered sneak—that poor lyin' swindlin' cringin' cur of a Clavering—who stands in my shoes—stands in my shoes, hang him!
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Ho! Then you do your best, Lillie. No one could call you lily-livered!
ref: 2016, Pokémon Sun and Moon, Hapu to Lillie
glosses: Cowardly, lacking courage.
wikipedia: William Shakespeare
Synonyms: white-livered
Derived terms: lily-liveredly
lisper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪspə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lispers
Etymology: From lisp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the lisper, the burrer, the infant prattler, and the foreign stumbler over our speech […]
ref: 1889, Voice Magazine, Werner, page 10:
text: ‘What a word for a lisper to deal with!’
ref: 2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 157:
glosses: One who has a lisp.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lisper (“Lisp programmer”).
LISP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: LISPs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lisp.
limpid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmpɪd/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪd
Forms: form: more limpid
form: most limpid
Etymology: From French limpide, from Latin limpidus.
Senses: examples: text: The limpid glass doors reveal the living room clearly from the dining room.
text: He had a soft honey-coloured moustache and the limpid gaze of an entirely stupid man.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Clear, transparent or bright.
Related terms: limpidity
limpidly
limpidness
intertwined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more intertwined
form: most intertwined
Senses: examples: text: Intertwined threads of cotton
text: The lovers' limbs were intertwined.
synonyms: braided
qualifier: literal
glosses: Twined or twisted together; entwined.
examples: text: The problems of criminality and of corruption of law enforcement are intertwined.
text: The horrific streak of violence reflected a convergence of intertwined crises — homelessness and mental illness — that the pandemic has exacerbated and made more difficult to address
ref: 2021 February 24, Ashley Southall, Edgar Sandoval, Christina Goldbaum, “Four Subway Stabbings and a Young Man’s Downward Spiral”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Musk wrote in his post that “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined.”
ref: 2025 March 28, Kate Conger, Lauren Hirsch, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Inextricably related or relevant.
intertwined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intertwine
EROS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Earth Resources Observation Satellite.
brinded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪndɪd/
Forms: form: more brinded
form: most brinded
Etymology: From Middle English brended (“burnt, branded”), from bren (“burned, branded”), from the past participle of brennen (“to burn”), from Old English bærnan (“to burn”). Also compare Old Norse brǫndóttr, Icelandic bröndóttr (“brindled”).
Senses: examples: text: Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:
text: It is well known that the only wool susceptible of acquiring delicate and brilliant colours by the process of dyeing, is white wool: for this reason the Cachemirians separate all those lambs which are black or brinded.
ref: 1804, Alexander le. Goux de Flaix, “Memoir on the Wool and Sheep of Cachemire and Boutam”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 240:
text: Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]
ref: 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 30, lines 1–3:
synonyms: mottled
tabby
glosses: Especially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled.
examples: text: Lawks, doant be clummed by Babbin Enapp,
'Sa bibbling, boostering, brinded chap,
 A dinderhead hadge-boar!
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By a Devonshire Man:
glosses: Frowning, looking sour or angry.
dhobying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi [script needed] (dhobi, “washerman”) + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The washing of clothes; laundry
pudgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌdʒi
Forms: form: pudgier
form: pudgiest
form: pudsy
Etymology: From pudge + -y, or an alteration of pudsy.
Senses: examples: text: The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.
text: She's also the pudgiest girl in our class, but not in our grade.
ref: 1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times:
text: My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.
ref: 2007 September 9, Sara Dickerman, “Olympic Dinners”, in New York Times:
text: Censored photos included one of Winnie the Pooh in a car (Internet users in China have long likened Mr. Xi to images of the pudgy bear) and another of the Obama family purportedly watching the parade on television.
ref: 2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “Trending on Chinese Social Media: Xi’s Salute, an Autocrat’s Son and Winnie the Pooh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2024, World:
synonyms: podgy
glosses: Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.
Derived terms: pudgily
pudginess
pudgy wudgy
Related terms: podgy
glans penis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡlænz ˈpiːnɪs/
Forms: form: glans penises
form: glandes penis
form: glandes penium
form: glans penes
form: glandes penes
Etymology: From New Latin glāns pēnis (“glans of the penis”), pēnis being a genitive.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: glans clitoridis
text: The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality. Its protruding head, probably because of a resemblance to the glans penis, was looked upon as a phallic symbol.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: penile glans
hypernyms: glans
holonyms: penis
meronyms: corona glandis penis
related: word: corpus cavernosum penis
word: praeputium penis
glosses: A conical vascularized body forming the extremity of the penis.
Synonyms: word: bell-end
word: cockhead
word: cue ball
word: dickhead
word: dome
word: head
word: helmet
word: knob
word: knobhead
word: little head
word: mushroom tip
word: other head
word: plum
word: purple helmet
word: skull
word: tip
word: warhead
Related terms: word: glans
word: clitoral glans
word: penis
word: clitoris
versification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versifications
Etymology: From verse + -ification.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses
Related terms: verse
versificator
versificatrix
versifier
versify
lineation
legation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: legations
Etymology: From Latin lēgātiō.
Senses: glosses: The purpose for which a legate is sent; a legate's mission or commission. Now rare (cf. OED)
glosses: The post or office of a legate; a legateship.
glosses: A diplomatic mission.
glosses: The official residence of a diplomat.
Derived terms: legationary
liturgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪk
Etymology: From Latin lītūrgicus, from Ancient Greek λειτουργικός (leitourgikós). By surface analysis, liturgy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: liturgical
Derived terms: aliturgic
liturgician
petitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɪʃənɚ/
Forms: form: petitioners
Etymology: From petition + -er. Doublet of petitionary.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who presents a petition to a court.
examples: text: Ethel was in mourning: they had judged it the most fitting habit for a petitioner; it was certainly one most becoming to the wearer.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 229–230:
glosses: Someone who presents a petition to some person in authority.
Derived terms: copetitioner
counterpetitioner
Permic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪk
Etymology: From Perm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in the northwest Urals, including Komi and Udmurt.
thermal lithosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal lithospheres
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The thermal boundary layer between the surface of the Earth (cooled by conduction) and the asthenosphere (cooled by convection).
asthenosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /asˈθɛnə(ʊ)sfɪə/
Forms: form: asthenospheres
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσθενής (asthenḗs, “weak”) + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: To say that the lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere suggests a degree of easy buoyancy that isn't quite right.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 192:
text: The asthenosphere that underlies the surface plates is not liquid in any vernacular sense, although it is relatively plastic.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 79:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The zone of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.
Derived terms: asthenospheric
seismic lithosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic lithospheres
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the region between the surface of the Earth and the asthenosphere characterized by the efficient propagation of seismic waves
mechanical lithosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanical lithospheres
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a mechanical analogue of the seismic lithosphere, used to simulate the flexural deformations of the Earth
rheological lithosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheological lithospheres
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of the Earth's crust and mantle over which the flow properties of rock are insufficient to relieve stress.
chemical lithosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical lithospheres
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the chemical boundary layer between the surface of the Earth and the asthenosphere that contains the material differentiated or extracted from the mantle
Local Group
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by American astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1936.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The small cluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way Galaxy; includes Andromeda, Triangulum, the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud and others.
Hypernyms: group
Coordinate terms: word: Local Arm
word: Local Bubble
word: Local Fluff
alt: LSC / LS
word: Local Supercluster
word: Local Void
word: Local Wall
Meronyms: Andromeda Galaxy
Large Magellanic Cloud
M110
M32
Milky Way
Small Magellanic Cloud
Triangulum Galaxy
liberated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liberated
form: most liberated
Senses: examples: text: a newly liberated prisoner
text: His is a very liberated lifestyle.
text: She is sexually liberated.
text: Even in the relatively liberated Scandinavian countries that permit a form of same-sex marriage, the legislation creating the right to marry explicitly states that such couples will not be permitted to adopt children.
ref: 1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
text: In private, Marilyn was perhaps more sexually liberated than most women were generally during her lifetime.
ref: 2014 November 2, “Did Marilyn Start the Sexual Revolution”, in Everlasting Star, archived from the original on 19 May 2019:
glosses: Freed, especially from traditional ideas in social and sexual matters.
Derived terms: libfix
nonliberated
photoliberated
unliberated
liberated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The army liberated the POWs as they captured the camp.
glosses: simple past and past participle of liberate
lifelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lifelessly
form: most lifelessly
Etymology: From lifeless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without life or appearing to be without life.
lifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lifers
Etymology: From life + -er.
Senses: glosses: A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
examples: text: They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer. They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
examples: text: "[…]The Top's not a lifer; he's a career Marine. Lifers are a breed. A lifer is anybody who abuses authority he doesn't deserve to have. There are plenty of civilian lifers."
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 63:
text: LRRP planned to become “career” Army, i.e., a lifer, you kept that quiet. Basic LRRP theology said the Army sucked and that philosophy kept one from going crazy because, at the bottom, nothing about the war seemed to make sense anyway. The LRRP's considered a lifer a loser. Being a lifer implied one had no other options available. Every LRRP had his own stories about back home: about family, friends, lovers, opportunities, dreams and a future. These were mostly fantasy, but […]
ref: 2002, Paul Newman, Nine From The Ninth, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 17:
text: In the early years of EMS, the term lifer was an entitlement pinned to anyone who had worked the road for ten years or longer with no real plans of seeking a replacement trade. It was a term that was generally delivered in a respectful and lighthearted teasing manner by someone who by all definitions could have easily been described as a lifer himself—with the exception of one drawback. So far, the crews didn't know anyone who had worked in the field for ten years, much less longer […]
ref: 2005, J. M. Coutts, As the Beacon Turns, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 392:
text: He was a baseball lifer, a seamhead through and through, who just absolutely liked nothing better than sitting down and talking baseball.
ref: 2018, Adrian Dater, 100 Things Rockies Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die:
glosses: A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
examples: text: We have concurred that it was clearly Problema byssus, the byssus skipper: a lifer for me.
ref: 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
text: I saw six species of honeyeaters new to me and went home with 16 lifers and some bad sandfly bites.
ref: 2013, Sue Taylor, Best 100 Birdwatching Sites in Australia:
synonyms: life bird
glosses: A species seen for the first time by a naturalist who is keeping a list of all the species they have seen.
Derived terms: nonlifer
Related terms: sense: bird species
word: life list
liftoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liftoffs
form: lift-off
Etymology: Deverbal from lift off.
Senses: examples: text: we have liftoff [in narration of launches]
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.
examples: text: As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.
ref: 2011, Robert Strauss, Daddy's Little Goalie, page 53:
glosses: The point at which a person or animal leaves the ground, as for example when jumping.
examples: text: Ederson was booked and received lengthy treatment, meaning that Mac Allister had to wait and wait. His penalty, though, bristled with assurance. Liverpool had liftoff. The home crowd sensed that this was their moment.
ref: 2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The point of launching into success or action.
Synonyms: takeoff
Related terms: word: lift
word: liftup
word: uplift
lightheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lightheaded
form: most lightheaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of light-headed.
lighthearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lighthearted
form: most lighthearted
form: light-hearted
Etymology: From Middle English lyght hertyd, liȝt-hertid, from light (adjective) + herted, hertid (“having a disposition”, adjective) (equivalent to light + hearted), from the noun herte. See more at light, heart, -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The lighthearted young lovers ran over the hills.
text: On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” and in a lighthearted moment, explained — as she did during the last presidential election cycle — that in her blended family, her stepchildren affectionately call her Momala.
ref: 2024 May 1, Charles M. Blow, “Kamala Harris Isn’t Americans’ ‘Momala.’ She’s Our Vice President.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 May 2024:
synonyms: word: gladsome
word: joyous
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: orgasmic
word: on cloud nine
word: over the moon
word: overjoyed
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
glosses: Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad.
examples: text: His lighthearted banjo performance was appreciated because it relieved the tension in tight situations.
synonyms: word: easygoing
word: laid-back
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
glosses: Enjoyably lacking of seriousness, not grave.
Derived terms: word: lightheartedly
word: lightheartedness
Related terms: lightheaded
lightproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lightproof
form: most lightproof
Etymology: From light + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Unexposed photographic film must be kept in a lightproof container or it will be exposed and ruined.
glosses: Sealed so that no light can enter.
likeliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: likelinesses
Etymology: From Middle English liklinesse, lyklinesse; equivalent to likely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
examples: text: The proposed HEA is based on the assumption that each specific error has a certain impact on a system/aircraft state whilst the crew's likeliness to commit this error is decreasing with an increasing number of safeguards against it.
ref: 2004, Klaus-Martin Goeters, Aviation psychology: practice and research:
text: To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.
ref: 2006, David W. Embley, A. Olivé, Sudha Ram, Conceptual modeling:
glosses: Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
examples: text: A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
ref: 2004, Peter Lipton, Inference to the best explanation:
glosses: Suitability; agreeableness.
examples: text: No surely, Reason is both the Gift and Image of God, and every Degree of its Improvement is a farther Degree of Likeliness to him.
ref: 1727, Robert South, Twelve Sermons:
glosses: Likeness; similarity.
Related terms: likelihood
limbless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From limb + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It hurt the general to see the limbless veterans who had sacrificed their arms and legs to a senseless war.
text: We cut down the limbless tree for firewood, it was dead anyways.
text: […] wert not thou to blame,
To counsel me to give the Reins to Cyrus?
Pleas’d me with Hopes, and fed my longing Ears
With cunning Tales of this ambitious Boy,
And when myself wou’d fain have led my Armies,
Made me lie down in Sloth, yielding to him
These Hands, these Feet, my Legions, and my Strength,
And left me then a weak and limbless Body,
Drench’d in Delights, and drown’d in studies Pleasures.
ref: 1696, John Banks, Cyrus the Great; or, The Tragedy of Love, London: W. Feales, published 1735, act I, scene 1:
text: And then as to this beautiful tree, with which Mr. Serjeant has ornamented his ſpot—No, gentlemen, no ſuch matter at all; I am inſtructed to ſay quite the reverſe; a ſtunted tree, a blighted, blaſted tree; a tree not only limbleſs, and leafleſs, but very near lifeleſs; that was the true ſtate of the tree: […]
ref: 1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 61:
text: It was n't finished. It was purely an experiment. It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion.
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Doctor Moreau Explains”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC, page 142:
text: The squat, limbless growth of the prickly pear was not like the green growths of home, springing on light stalks to lovely flowers like butterflies captured out of air. It was more like the dead blind bubbling of some green, squalid slime: a world of plants that were as plain and flat as stones.
ref: 1930, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Moderate Murderer”, in Four Faultless Felons, London; Toronto, Ont.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, chapter 3 (The Man Who Could Not Hate), page 50:
glosses: Lacking limbs.
Derived terms: limblessly
limblessness
limiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: limiters
Etymology: From limit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The limiter automatically put on the brakes to keep the machine from going too fast.
glosses: That which limits or confines.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.
glosses: A friar who had a license to beg within certain bounds.
Derived terms: brick-wall limiter
rate limiter
speed limiter
linguini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguinis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of linguine.
Derived terms: linguinilike
lionhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lionhearted
form: most lionhearted
form: lion-hearted
Etymology: From lion + hearted.
Senses: synonyms: word: adventurous
word: aweless
word: bad
word: bold
word: brass-balled
word: chivalrous
word: courageous
word: daredevil
word: daring
word: dauntless
word: doughty
word: fearless
word: fortitudinous
word: gallant
word: gutsy
word: heroic
word: intrepid
word: lionhearted
word: orped
word: plucky
word: stalwart
word: stalworth
word: stouthearted
word: unafraid
word: undaunted
word: valiant
word: valorous
word: venturesome
antonyms: word: chickenhearted
word: brave
glosses: Brave, courageous; very brave; brave and magnanimous.
Derived terms: lionheartedly
lionheartedness
Related terms: word: lionheart
word: Richard Cœur de Lion
word: Richard the Lionhearted commonly refers to Richard I of England
lobotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lobotomizes
form: lobotomizing
form: lobotomized
form: lobotomized
form: lobotomise
Etymology: From lobotomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To perform a lobotomy upon.
examples: text: Eventually, though, the committee found that, in the name of prudent management, they had, essentially, “lobotomized” the firm. Devoid of its personality, and constipated in its decision making, the office muddled its way into mediocrity.
ref: 2003, Peter Piven, Bradford Perkins, Architect's Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm:
glosses: To remove the vitality or intelligence from.
Derived terms: lobotomization
lobotomizer
nonlobotomized
locoweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locoweeds
form: loco weed
form: loco-weed
Etymology: From Spanish loco (“mad, insane”) + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.
Synonyms: word: crazyweed
word: loco
sense: Astragalus genus only
word: astragal
sense: Astragalus genus only
word: astragalus
sense: Oxytropis genus only
word: oxytrope
Derived terms: fish locoweed
locoed
locoism
locoweed disease
loco disease
loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loaf
loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loave
Chad Basin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The area surrounding Lake Chad and constituting the largest inland drainage area in Africa, with three major streams, the Komadugu Yobe, Logone, and Chari.
elegiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪəkəl/
rhymes: -aɪəkəl
Forms: form: more elegiacal
form: most elegiacal
Senses: examples: text: He gratefully sings unto God—yet follows this up with an elegiacal lamentation of his own suffering, not unmixed perhaps with the sorrows of afflicted patriotism.
ref: 1848, Thomas Chalmers, Posthumous Works of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers: Daily Scripture Readings, volume 3, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 373:
text: It is an exquisite addition to a branch of English literature, which is already very rich, the poetry of elegiacal regret.
ref: 1891, Edmund Gosse, Gossip in a Library, Lovell, →OCLC, page 311:
text: Shakespeare antagonized the queen by permitting his play to be performed on the eve of the Essex rebellion, and he persisted in his contempt for her by refusing to write any elegiacal verses on Elizabeth's death.
ref: 1988, Jay Roberts, Richard II: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Shakespeare bibliographies), volume 1, Garland, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: elegiac; expressing sorrow.
Derived terms: elegiacally
sitatunga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪtəˈtʌŋɡə/
Forms: form: sitatungas
form: situtunga
Etymology: From Swahili.
Senses: examples: text: ‘There's plenty here,’ he grunts, nodding at the bloated carcasses of two hartebeests and a sitatunga.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 148:
glosses: The marsh buck, Tragelaphus spekeii.
bobbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobar
Senses: glosses: Excrement.
glosses: Something that is rubbish, useless, nonsense.
glosses: Something of poor quality.
bobbar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bobbars
form: bobbaring
form: bobbared
form: bobbared
form: bobar
Senses: glosses: To defecate.
by the by
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: by the bye
form: by-the-by
form: by-the-bye
Etymology: The second "by" is a noun meaning "a secondary issue". Phrase used since the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: Now, Mrs. Clarke was one of those to whom caps and crape were the very morality of mourning—she was not the only one, by the by, with whom propriety stands for principle,...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 70-71:
text: She could not get it open, and after all my display, I had to take the Curate (whose name, by-the-by, I did not catch) round the side entrance.
ref: 1892, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, chapter 1, in The Diary of a Nobody:
text: Well, I lay it down, first, that a book quite unornamented can look actually and positively beautiful, and not merely un-ugly, if it be, so to say, architecturally good, which, by the by, need not add much to its price […]
ref: 1893, William Morris, The Ideal Book:
text: By the by, I like Worcester's Shrub Hill station, a three-platform affair of 1850 which may look tired but has character and a splendid frontage on a sunny day.
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 58:
glosses: Used to introduce a new topic; incidentally, by the way.