cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
meritocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more meritocratic
form: most meritocratic
Etymology: From merit + -o- + -cratic or meritocrat + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Sixty years on from Young’s book, a pure product of meritocratic training has emerged to write what he hopes will be the epitaph for his class.
ref: 2019 September 5, Sarah Leonard, “The Fall of the Meritocracy”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2019:
text: And now Mr. Markovits is taking his message to the masses, with a big new book arguing that the meritocratic ideal has not only fed rampant inequality and hollowed out the middle class, but also threatens democracy itself.
ref: 2019 September 9, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2019:
text: But while the meritocratic system was intended to democratize American society, argues Yale Law School’s Daniel Markovits in his book The Meritocracy Trap, it has instead contributed to increasing inequality and the decline of the middle class.
ref: 2020 January 9, Daniel Markovits, “How Meritocracy Worsens Inequality—and Makes Even the Rich Miserable”, in Yale Insights, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2020:
glosses: Pertaining to a meritocracy.
Derived terms: antimeritocratic
meritocratically
nonmeritocratic
unmeritocratic
roue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roues
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roué.
kakuro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːˈkʊəɹəʊ/
ipa: /kɑˈkʊɹoʊ/
Forms: form: kakuros
Etymology: From Japanese カックロ (kakkuro), in turn derived from English Cross Sums.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A type of number puzzle, similar to a crossword but with numbers. Each "clue" is the sum of the digits to be placed in its group of squares, and no digit can be repeated within a group.
Related terms: sudoku
criminal negligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal negligences
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Failure to use reasonable care, and thus put someone at risk of injury or death.
hemodialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: careful
ipa: /ˌhi.moʊ.daɪˈæ.lɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌhi.mə.daɪˈæ.lə.sɪs/
Forms: form: hemodialyses
form: haemodialysis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) + διάλυσις (diálusis, “separation, dissolution”), from διαλύω (dialúō, “I separate”), from διά (diá, “through”) + λύω (lúō, “I loose”). By surface analysis, hemo- + dialysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dialysis that uses an extracorporeal apparatus to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
Related terms: hemodialysate
hemodialyse
peritoneal dialysis
gemellology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin gemellologiae, from Latin gemellus - twin-born, and Greek λόγος (logos) - study.
Senses: glosses: the scientific study of twins and twinning.
Derived terms: gemellological
geminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin gemini (“twins”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of twins; gemellology.
beavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaver
beavers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beaver
megaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡ.əˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɡəˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: megaphones
Etymology: From mega- + -phone.
Senses: synonyms: word: bullhorn
word: speaking trumpet
glosses: A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
examples: text: If Pack does become head of the BBG, critics fear that he will turn Voice of America and the other BBG networks into a megaphone for Trump.
ref: 2018 June 6, Arwa Mahdawi, “Michael Pack: the Bannon ally critics fear will become Trump's global propagandist”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
Hypernyms: loudhailer
blowhorn
Derived terms: megaphonic
megaphonist
pissaphone
megaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡ.əˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɡəˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: megaphones
form: megaphoning
form: megaphoned
form: megaphoned
Etymology: From mega- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.
megaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡ.əˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛɡəˌfoʊn/
Etymology: Named for the root Aniba megaphylla + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla.
gins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin
gins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gin
incinerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/
Forms: form: incinerates
form: incinerating
form: incinerated
form: incinerated
Etymology: From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).
Senses: examples: text: His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.
ref: 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: To destroy by burning.
glosses: To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).
Derived terms: incinerable
incineration
incinerator
microincinerate
incinerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/
Etymology: From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).
Senses: examples: text: FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
pyronomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The science of heat; thermodynamics.
praises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹeɪzɪz/
rhymes: -eɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of praise
praises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹeɪzɪz/
rhymes: -eɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of praise
monumental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnjʊˈmɛntəl/
Forms: form: more monumental
form: most monumental
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin monumentālis, from Latin monumentum; equivalent to monument + -al.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a monument.
glosses: Large, grand and imposing.
examples: text: Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
ref: 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
text: a monumental task
glosses: Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.
examples: text: Monumental construction.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to monuments.
Derived terms: monumentalise
monumentalism
monumentality
monumentalization
monumentalize
monumentally
monumental mason
monumental masonry
premonumental
unmonumental
honored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honored
form: most honored
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of honoured.
Derived terms: unhonored
honored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honor
rosebuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosebud
honoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑnɚd/
ipa: /ˈɒnəd/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnə(ɹ)d
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒnəd
Forms: form: more honoured
form: most honoured
form: honored
form: honor'd
form: honour'd
Senses: examples: text: One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 229e:
glosses: Respected, having received honour.
Derived terms: time-honoured
honoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑnɚd/
ipa: /ˈɒnəd/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑnə(ɹ)d
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒnəd
Forms: form: honored
form: honor'd
form: honour'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of honour
survey monument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survey monuments
Senses: glosses: A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker.
Peachtree City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Georgia, United States.
darters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darter
sweatsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweatsuit
autocatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + catalytic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: catalyzed by one of its own products
raw_tags: of a reaction
Derived terms: autocatalytically
Related terms: autocatalysis
motor oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor oils
Senses: synonyms: engine oil
hypernyms: lubricating oil#Noun
<
oil#Noun
coordinate_terms: heating oil
bunker oil
<
fuel oil
glosses: Oil for lubricating an internal-combustion engine.
Related terms: oil change
oil filter
oil pan
autocatalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + catalysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: catalysis of a reaction by one of its products
Synonyms: autoactivation
Related terms: autocatalytic
Lawson criterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From John D. Lawson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the achievement of sustained release of energy from a nuclear fusion reactor; that the heating effect of the reaction should exceed the losses.
Related terms: Lawson comfort criterion
recompense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: recompenses
form: recompence
Etymology: From Middle English recompense, borrowed from Old French recompense or Medieval Latin recompensa.
Senses: glosses: An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
examples: text: He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted was an apology.
text: O let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love and look for recompense
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 23:
glosses: That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
Synonyms: meed
payback
recompence
restitution
Related terms: compensate
recompensate
recompense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: recompenses
form: recompensing
form: recompensed
form: recompensed
form: recompence
Etymology: From Middle English recompensen, borrowed from Old French recompenser, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”).
Senses: examples: text: She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
text: He cannot recompense me better.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
examples: text: The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
glosses: To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
examples: text: Recompense to no man evil for evil.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:17:
glosses: To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
Synonyms: recompensate
Derived terms: recompensation
compensates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compensate
predicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪktɪd/
Senses: examples: text: There are two commonly used definitions of "prediction", the predicted value and the forecast. The predicted value estimates the average value of the dependent variable for given values of the regressors.
ref: 2006, Christopher Baum, chapter 4, in An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata, page 104:
text: The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref: 2012, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
glosses: simple past and past participle of predict
lawsonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawsonites
Etymology: From Lawson + -ite, after geologist Andrew Lawson.
Senses: glosses: A metamorphic silicate mineral related to the epidotes; it is a sorosilicate, based on the dimeric anion Si₂O₇⁶⁻
wikipedia: Andrew Lawson
epidote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛp.ɪˌdoʊt/
Forms: form: epidotes
Etymology: Borrowed from French épidote.
Senses: examples: text: A little higher is an outcrop of epidote schist with quartz, carbonate, and magnetite.
ref: 1915, George Curtis Martin, Bertrand Leroy Johnson, Ulysses Sherman Grant, “Bulletin 587: Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska”, in United States Geological Survey, page 23:
text: 1990, Andrew P. Barth, Chapter 3: Mid-crustal emplacement of Mesozoic plutons, San Gabriel Mountains, California, and implications for the geologic history of the San Gabriel terrane, J. Lawford Anderson (editor), The Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Magmatism, Memoir 174: The Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Magmatism, The Geological Society of America, page 36,
Available compositional data for magmatic epidotes (Naney, 1983; Zen and Hammarstrom, 1984; Barth, unpublished data) suggest no significant solid solution beyond the epidote-clinozoisite binary.
text: Epidote is found in greenstone belts and many metamorphic rocks such as gneiss and schist, and is hence fairly widespread.
ref: 2004, Bruce Cairncross, Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Southern Africa, page 96:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamorphic rocks.
Derived terms: epidotic
epidotize
knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪvz/
enpr: nīvz
ipa: /nɑɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of knife
knives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪvz/
enpr: nīvz
ipa: /nɑɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knive
Aidan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪdən/
ipa: /ˈæɪ.dən/
rhymes: -eɪdən
Forms: form: Aden
form: Aiden
form: Ayden
form: Aydan
Etymology: Name of an Irish saint, Anglicized from Irish Aodhán and Scottish Gaelic Aodhan, diminutives of Aodh (literally "fire", the name of a Celtic sun god).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A female given name from Irish of modern usage.
Related terms: Keegan
panatella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panatellas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panatela (“type of cigar”).
stickum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkəm/
rhymes: -ɪkəm
Forms: form: stickums
Etymology: From stick + variant of 'em, him.
Senses: examples: text: A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 16:
text: He had sat next to Cindy returning from the Y and smelled the chlorine on her. A sodden Band-Aid had clung by a few lingering bits of stickum to her knee.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance.
breath of fresh air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaths of fresh air
Senses: examples: text: After all those old policies and procedures, the new management approach is a breath of fresh air around here.
text: Harper's speech was a breath of fresh air and offers a new beginning.
ref: 2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:
glosses: Something relieving, refreshing, or new.
Related terms: change of air
airfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airfares
Etymology: From air + fare.
Senses: examples: text: I'd love to visit Paris, but I can't afford the airfare.
glosses: The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.
drop-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dropdown.
drop-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dropdown.
tunnel rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel rats
Senses: examples: text: He had been serving as a tunnel rat with the 1st Engineer Battalion's team of “Diehard Tunnel Rats.” This group was based in Lai Khe and flew by helicopter to tunnel sites within the division's area of operations.
ref: 2006, Douglas Bey, Wizard 6: A Combat Psychiatrist in Vietnam, Texas A & M University Press:
glosses: A soldier trained to enter enclosed enemy spaces like tunnel systems to search them and eliminate and/or capture any occupants.
coincident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)nt/
ipa: /koʊˈɪnsəd(ə)nt/
ipa: /-ˌdɛnt/
Forms: form: coincidents
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French coïncident, from Medieval Latin coincidentem, an accusative singular form of Latin coincidēns (“coinciding”), the present active participle of coincidō (“to coincide”), from co- (variant of con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects)) + incidō (“to fall into any condition”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: In truth, vve thought it (coming immediately from an infected place) an hazardous incivilitie, to put our ſelves upon them; for if any ſiniſter accident had fallen out about the ſame time (for Coincidents are not alvvaies Cauſes) vve ſhould have rued it for ever.
ref: a. 1639 (date written), Henry Wotton, “[Letters, &c. and Characters of Sundry Personages, […].] My Deare Nic. Pey.”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 507:
text: […] I despayre of ever living to see a man truely noble indeede: they may be called "My Lord;" titles and sounds and inferior trifles; but when Virtue and blood are coincidents, they both add lustre and mutual excellencys.
ref: 1658 November 18 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Epistolary Correspondence.] To Edward Thurland, Esq.”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, part I, page 126:
text: When I was in London I was shocked at the alteration in our friend Tobin's looks and appearance. Those who always interpret two coincidents into cause and effect would surmise that marriage has been less conducive to his health than to his moral comfort. It would give me serious pleasure to have a more cheerful account of him.
ref: 1808 December 14, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “From the Same [letter from Coleridge to Humphry Davy]”, in Humphry Davy, edited by John Davy, Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, […], London: John Churchill, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: One of multiple incidents or things which coincide with each other; a concomitant.
monkey-shine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey-shines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monkeyshine.
Benghazi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnˈɡɑ.zi/
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بنغازی (Bingâzi) and Arabic بِنْغَازِي (Binḡāzī), apparently from earlier مرسى بني غازي (“port of ibn Ghazi”) first attested on a 1579 map by Ali al-Sharfi. Possibly a reference to a Muslim holy man Sidi ibn Ghazi. "Ibn Ghazi" itself can literally be translated as "son of the ghazi (warrior)".
Senses: examples: text: Their frustration has surfaced in protests in several Libyan cities over the last few days, most notably in Benghazi, the seat of the revolution, where Libyans stormed the National Transitional Council building.
ref: 2012 January 26, Moni Basu, “Libyans face tough challenges in building a new nation”, in CNN:
glosses: A port city in eastern Libya.
Derived terms: Benghazi boiler
Benghazi Handicap
-ghazi
induced abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdust əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ɪnˈdjust əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: induced abortions
Senses: glosses: A surgical or medicinal procedure that terminates a pregnancy by removing the fetus; a therapeutic abortion. It is a non-contraceptive form of birth control.
Synonyms: sense: therapeutic abortion
english: non-technical
translation: non-technical
word: abortion
Lady Campbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Echium plantagineum.
Synonyms: Patterson's curse
Riverina bluebell
salvation Jane
Paterson's curse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since these conditions do not obtain in our Southwestern districts it is scarcely necessary to speak well of the weed on this account, and it should always be remembered that if other feed will grow, Paterson′s Curse is an undesirable weed
ref: 1934, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, page 379:
text: The specimen bore no flowers or seeds, but has been recognised as Blue Weed or Paterson′s Curse (Echium plantagineum).
ref: 1945, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 60:
text: In Colin′s opinion Paterson′s curse is superbly adapted to southern Australia.
ref: 2000, David Floyd Smith, Natural Gain In The Grazing Lands Of Southern Australia, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of Patterson's curse.
perentie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perenties
form: perenty
Etymology: From Dieri pirrinthi (or other Karnic language).
Senses: examples: text: Joshua stuck his tongue in and out like a lizard's and, twisting his fingers into claws, dug them crabwise into the sand to imitate the perenty’s walk.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 153:
glosses: The largest Australian monitor lizard or goanna, Varanus giganteus.
utility program
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility programs
form: utility programme
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a large range of software, often included with the operating system, that runs specific tasks associated with the computer or its environment.
drunk as Chloe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Possibly a reference to the Chloe mentioned in the poetry of Matthew Prior.
* Australian vernacular usage (reported by Partridge and others) is influenced by, and often thought to refer to, the well-known nude painting Chloé, which was hung briefly (in 1883) at the National Gallery of Victoria, and later (from 1908) at the Young and Jacksons hotel, Melbourne.
Senses: examples: text: 1823, Drink, entry in Jon Badcock, Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, or Bon-Ton, page 71,
Drunk''' as Chloe; she must have been an uproarious lass.
text: Sorry to observe that Seymour had ‘been at his tricks,’ and was as drunk as Chloe ! — as the saying is ; but as to who Chloe was, my reading never informed me.
ref: 1840, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, “The Journal of Old Barnes, the Pantaloon: On a trip to Paris, in 1830”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 5, page 466:
text: They were all as drunk as Chloe, and I being a little in a sympathetic condition, they took me into their confidence.
ref: 1859, Melbourne Punch, volume 8, page 40:
text: They passed many merry-makers homeward bound, many of them following a tortuous course, for the Scottish toper gives way first in the legs, the Southron in the other extremity, and thus between them could be constructed a man wholly sober and another as drunk as Chloe.
ref: 1896, J. M. Barrie, Sentimental Tommy, The Echo Library, published 2007, page 99:
text: It was a regular thing for many of the clergy to be as drunk as Chloe on Saturday night, get through their sermon on Sunday morning, and get drunk and sober again before the evening.
ref: 1904, New Zealand House of Representatives, chapter L, in Parliamentary Debates, page 53:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: drunk as a cunt
drunk as a fiddler
drunk as a fiddler's bitch
drunk as a lord
drunk as a piper
drunk as a skunk
drunk as a sow
drunk as a wheelbarrow
drunk as an owl
drunk as David's sow
full as a goog
pissed as a fart
pissed as a newt
tight as a tick
drunk
sorosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorosilicates
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”) + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: disilicate
glosses: Any silicate based on the dimeric anion Si₂O₇⁶⁻.
Hypernyms: silicate
petted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more petted
form: most petted
Derived terms: pettedness
unpetted
petted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of pet
glosses: simple past of pet
dimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dimer + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or being a dimer
Derived terms: dimerically
heterodimeric
interdimeric
intradimeric
pseudodimeric
layered intrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layered intrusions
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a large body of igneous rock within which distinct stratification continues over many miles
layered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɚd/
Forms: form: more layered
form: most layered
Senses: glosses: Formed of layers.
Derived terms: bilayered
colayered
layered intrusion
layeredness
monolayered
multi-layered
multilayered
nanolayered
nonlayered
overlayered
sublayered
trilayered
unlayered
layered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of layer
King Billy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 1901, Henry Lawson, A Bush Publican's Lament, republished in Children of the Bush, Gutenberg eBook #7065,
An' supposen Ole King Billy an' his ole black gin comes round at holiday time and squats on the verander, […] .
glosses: Imaginary king of the Australian aboriginal people.
glosses: Tasmanian aboriginal man William Lanne (c.1835-1869) believed to have been the last Tasmanian aboriginal man.
glosses: Any one of various other aboriginal men at times referred to as King Billy.
glosses: King William III of England.
Derived terms: King Billy pine
teabags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teabag
teabags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teabag
dexterously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkst(ə)ɹəsli/
Forms: form: more dexterously
form: most dexterously
Etymology: From dexterous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He ducked dexterously, and the stool crashed to its own detriment against the wall.
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 264:
text: Very interested, Dr Grimsby watched the saw follow the fine pencil line on the white pearwood as Peter dexterously twirled the veneers on the fretwork table, timing the movement of both hands precisely to put no strain on either the saw or the wood.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
glosses: In a dexterous manner; skillfully; with precision.
Reg Grundys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reg Grundies
Etymology: Rhyming slang from the name of Australian businessman and media mogul Reg Grundy.
Senses: examples: text: If this kept up, I′d get dizzy and pass out. And then Ken would start to go through my pockets and find what I had in my Reg Grundys.
ref: 2001, Shane Maloney, chapter I, in The Brush-Off, page 286:
text: But Lasjoz kept his T-shirts, sox, Reg Grundys and hankies folded tidily and separated from each other.
ref: 2007, Robert G Barrett, Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust, HarperCollins Australia, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: What makes my children′s faces blaze hotter than crimson French knickers and matching suspender belt, is catching their parents walking around the house dressed only in their Reg Grundys.
ref: 2009, Sonia Neale, Death by Teenager, HarperCollins Australia, published 2011, unnumbered page:
glosses: Undies.
Synonyms: reginalds
flax-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flax-sticks
form: flax stick
Senses: examples: text: Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.
ref: 1869, W. Lauder Lindsay, On the Economical Value and Applications of the Leaf-Fibre of New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax, Forst.): The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 7, page 46:
glosses: The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum).
examples: text: "I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick.
ref: 1896, Henry Lawson, “His Country–After All”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: A New Zealander.
desert rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert rats
Senses: glosses: One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts:
A gerbil (subfamily Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia
glosses: One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts:
A kangaroo rat (genus Dipodomys) from North America
glosses: One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts:
A Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) from Africa
glosses: One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts:
A jerboa, including those of species Jaculus orientalis and Jaculus jaculus (lesser Egyptian jerboa), which inhabit the desert regions of North Africa.
glosses: A British or Australian soldier who served in North Africa with the British 7th Armoured Division in 1941-42.
desert soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert soils
Senses: glosses: A soil variety typically found in arid climates, usually with little leaching and minimal humus content. Referred to as an "aridisol" in the nomenclature of the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.
cilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.li.ə/
homophone: sillier (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɪliə
Senses: glosses: plural of cilium
Derived terms: ciliferous
ciliform
ciliome
desert soils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert soil
cilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪl.i.əm/
rhymes: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: cilia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cilium (“eyelid”).
Senses: examples: text: It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
ref: 1892, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, edited by F. G. Heathcote, Elementary Text-book of Zoology:
text: The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]
ref: 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An eyelash.
Hyponyms: ciliolum
Derived terms: ciliary
ciliate
Ciliate
cilio-
kinocilium
macrocilium
monociliate
monocilium
stereocilium
uniciliate
Related terms: supercilium
flagellum
cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: examples: text: Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.
ref: 1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, volume 74, page 66:
glosses: plural of cut
cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: examples: text: ‘I′ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts.
ref: 1995, Bill Marsh, Ape: Old Yanconian Daze, page 110:
text: He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn′t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
ref: 2001, Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town, page 55:
text: My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts.
ref: 2008, Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate, page 250:
glosses: Corporal punishment at school.
cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut
delirium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭlĭʹrēəm
ipa: /dɪˈlɪ.ɹi.əm/
ipa: /dɪˈlɪɹ.i.əm/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: deliriums
form: deliria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium (“derangement, madness”).
Senses: examples: text: The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
text: Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: The evening wore away, and the long grass was silvery with dew; the consequence was what might have been expected,—next day, he was laid up with a violent cold; and the fever soon ran so high, that delirium came on; and before three days were past, his life hung upon a thread.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 149:
text: the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)
ref: 1879, John Morley, Burke:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
glosses: Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.
Derived terms: agitated delirium
deliriogen
excited delirium
nocturnal delirium
Related terms: deliracy
delirament
delirancy
delirant
delirate
delirating
deliration
delire
delirement
deliriant
deliriate
delirifacient
deliring
delirious
deliriously
deliriousness
delirium tremens
delirous
delirousness
deliry
deliria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiə
Forms: form: deliriums
Senses: glosses: plural of delirium
crutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: crutches
Etymology: From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
text: I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
glosses: A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
examples: text: Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
text: Rhyme[…]is […] at best a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
ref: 1710, Edmund Smith, A poem on the death of Mr. John Philips:
glosses: Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
glosses: A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
glosses: A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A knee, or piece of knee timber.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
glosses: An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.
Derived terms: Christ on a crutch
could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
crutch cross
crutchless
crutchlike
crutch word
forearm crutch
underarm crutch
crutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: crutches
form: crutching
form: crutched
form: crutched
Etymology: From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: [I'll] haſten Og and Doeg to rehearſe, / Two Fools that Crutch their Feeble Senſe on Verſe; / Who by my Muſe to all ſucceeding times, / Shall live in ſpight of their own Dogrell Rhimes.
ref: 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: To support on crutches; to prop up.
glosses: To move on crutches.
examples: text: After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.
ref: 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, “Richie Foster a cut above the rest”, in Stock Journal:
glosses: To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
glosses: to stir with a crutch.
raw_tags: in soap-making
Derived terms: crutcher
charmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɑːmd/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹmd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
Forms: form: more charmed
form: most charmed
Senses: glosses: Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.
examples: text: Draw forth thy ſword, thou mightie man at armes,
Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin:
And Ioue himſelfe will ſtretch his hand from heauen,
To ward the blow, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: ‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’
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 218:
glosses: Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.
examples: text: You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.
glosses: Impressed by the pleasantness of something.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a particle: having nonzero charm.
Derived terms: charmed life
charmedly
charmed quark
semi-charmed
uncharmed
charmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɑːmd/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹmd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of charm
eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪˌbɹaʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of eyebrow
eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪˌbɹaʊz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eyebrow
females
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.meɪlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of female
subjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English subiugat(e), subjugat(e) (“made submissive; obedient”), the past participle of subiugaten, subjugaten (“to conquer; to subdue”), from Latin subiugātus, subjugātus (“subjugated”), the perfect passive participle of subiugō, subjugō (“to make subject, subjugate”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’) + iugō, jugō (“to join; to yoke”) (from iugum (“collar for a horse; yoke for cattle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Doublet of yoke.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: For al their hye mynde they be now ſubiugate: […]
ref: 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccclxxix, recto, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
text: After the Romans, the Saxons brought it [Lancashire] vnder their protection, and held it for a part of their Northumbrian Kingdome, till it vvas firſt made ſubiugate to the Inuaſion of the Danes, and then conquered by the victorious Normans, vvhoſe poſterities from thence are branched further into England.
ref: 1612 (indicated as 1611), Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Lanca-shire”, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine: Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Iles Adioyning: […], London: […] [William Hall] and are to be solde by John Sudbury & Georg[e] Humble, […], →OCLC, book I (The British Ilands, […]), paragraph 5, page 75, column 1:
text: […] Could it be, that the whole earthly course of one so gentle, good, and self-denying, was subjugate to such a wretch as that!
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “The Old Woman”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Sowing), page 96:
text: Her heart was so black and tangled in the teaching, her personal self was shut in prison, abolished, she was subjugate to a bad, destructive will.
ref: 1915 September 30, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Man’s World”, in The Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1915, →OCLC, page 362:
text: Each nationalist struggle assumed the complexion of a Communist versus non-Communist conflict rather than one between a colonial imperium and a subjugate indigenous population intent on their independence.
ref: 2010, James M. Volo, A History of War Resistance in America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Forced into submission; subjugated.
subjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
Forms: form: subjugates
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English subiugat(e), subjugat(e) (“made submissive; obedient”), the past participle of subiugaten, subjugaten (“to conquer; to subdue”), from Latin subiugātus, subjugātus (“subjugated”), the perfect passive participle of subiugō, subjugō (“to make subject, subjugate”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’) + iugō, jugō (“to join; to yoke”) (from iugum (“collar for a horse; yoke for cattle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Doublet of yoke.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he home-loving Phillipino succumbed—the independent agent, under the influence of the "final cry," became the subjugate.
ref: 1907, John J[ames] Van Nostrand, chapter 3, in Prefatory Lessons in a Mechanical Philosophy (Nature’s Legal Code): The Philosophy of the Home, Chicago, Ill.: [T]he author […], →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: A person forced into submission; a subject.
Clifton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪftən/
Etymology: Calque of terms meaning cliff+town
Senses: glosses: A townland in County Cavan, Ireland. An anglicization of its Irish name (Clochán).
nursing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Forms: form: more nursing
form: most nursing
Senses: examples: text: The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.
glosses: In the state of suckling young, lactating.
examples: text: The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.
glosses: Referring to nurses.
Derived terms: nonnursing
nursingly
nursing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Forms: form: nursings
Senses: glosses: Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
examples: text: She went into nursing as a career.
text: Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]
ref: 1871, Florence Nightingale, Una and the Lion, page 6:
glosses: The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
Derived terms: nursingwear
paranursing
prenursing