cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nases
form: nase
Etymology: From German Nase.
Senses: examples: text: […] “With respect to fishes,” says Professor Rütimeyer, “many species were found which are now the most abundant in our lakes and rivers.” The following are mentioned:— The salmon (Salmo salar, Lin.), the pike (Esox lucius. Lin.), the perch (Perca fluviatilis, Lin.), the carp (Cyprinus carpio, Lin.), the dace (Cyprinus leuciscus, Lin.), the chub (Cyprinus dobula, Nilss.), the nase (Chondrostoma nasus, [Lin.] Agass.), the burbot (Lita vulgaris, Jen.), and the rud (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, [Lin.] Bon.).
ref: 1885, Charles Rau, Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North America. Archæological Researches in Nicaragua (Smithsonian contributions to knowledge; XXV), City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, pages 45–46:
glosses: Any of the genus Chondrostoma of freshwater potamodromous fishes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Chondrostoma nasus
word: common nase
alt: Pseudochondrostoma polylepis
word: Iberian nase
alt: Parachondrostoma toxostoma
word: southwest European nase
nase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nases
Senses: examples: text: Alton Park, near the sea, was the Park made by Richard de Belmeis, Bishop of London, and he enclosed with it the wood then belonging to the Canons of St. Paul, and called [it] "Edulvesnase""—so that there was evidently a "nase" or promontory on this spot.
ref: 1877, Joseph Yelloly Watson, The Tendring Hundred in the Olden Time: A Series of Sketches ..., page 134:
text: The upper and Lower Nases, two promontories nearly dividing the lake, beyond which […]
ref: 1889, Lafayette Charles Loomis, The Index Guide to Travel and Art-study in Europe: A Compendium of Geographical, Historical, and Artistic Information for the Use of Americans, page 533:
glosses: Rare form of naze.
sneck lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneck lifters
Senses: glosses: One who goes from door to door, first footing, on New Year's Eve.
glosses: A burglar.
glosses: A ghost.
whisht
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: wheesht
form: weesht
form: whish
form: whist
Etymology: From Middle English qwyst, whisht, whist, imitative, though perhaps influenced by other verbs in wh- used in the imperative or by hust (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: “You must have loved him very much,” she said.
“Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […]”
ref: 1952, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:
glosses: Shush, silence, be quiet!
glosses: A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.
Related terms: wisht
rinde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rindes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rind.
showbusiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌbɪznɪs/
Forms: form: show business
form: showbiz
Etymology: Compound of show + business.
Senses: glosses: The entertainment industry.
Derived terms: Shoah business
there's no business like show business
squits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squit
squits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the squits
Etymology: Likely a portmanteau of squirt and shit.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Caroline Graham said you couldn’t make it back upstairs. She laid it on as thick as anything for Gibson―said you’d been taken by surprise by something. Now word’s gone round you’ve got the squits.’
ref: 2006, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Virago Press, page 290:
glosses: diarrhoea.
Synonyms: word: the runs
word: the shits
word: the squirts
word: the trots
word: the huckleberry two-steps
tamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
homophone: Tampa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: tampers
Etymology: From tamp + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that tamps.
A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
hypernyms: tool#Noun
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A person or thing that tamps.
A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
synonyms: ballast tamper
tamping machine
glosses: A person or thing that tamps.
An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
Related terms: sense: component that attenuates
word: damper
capsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæps(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈkæpsjuːl/
ipa: /ˈkæpʃuːl/
Forms: form: capsules
Etymology: Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A membranous envelope.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
examples: text: The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A small container containing a dose of medicine.
examples: text: If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
ref: 1962, John F. Kennedy, We choose to go to the moon:
glosses: in a brief, condensed or compact form
qualifier: winemaking
glosses: The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
glosses: A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
glosses: A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
synonyms: pod
glosses: One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
Derived terms: baby capsule
biocapsule
Bowman's capsule
caplet
capsular
capsulate
capsulation
capsulectomy
capsule hotel
capsule of lens
capsuler
capsule review
capsuliferous
capsuliform
capsuligenous
capsulise
capsulitis
capsulize
capsulogenesis
capsulogenic
capsuloligamentous
capsulorhexis
capsulotomy
egg capsule
egg-capsule
encapsule
Glissonian capsule
glomerular capsule
intercapsule
macrocapsule
microcapsule
nanocapsule
nasal capsule
pseudocapsule
renal capsule
sense capsule
space capsule
Spansule
subcapsule
synovial capsule
tabsule
Tenonian capsule
Tenon's capsule
time capsule
capsule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæps(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈkæpsjuːl/
ipa: /ˈkæpʃuːl/
Forms: form: capsules
form: capsuling
form: capsuled
form: capsuled
Etymology: Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).
Senses: glosses: To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
glosses: To encapsulate or summarize.
membranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛm.bɹən.əs/
rhymes: -ɛmbɹənəs
Forms: form: more membranous
form: most membranous
form: membraneous
Etymology: From Middle French membraneux; equivalent to membrane + -ous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a membrane.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Accompanying the formation of a usually abnormal membrane or membranous layer.
examples: text: The microcannon starts with a membranous polymer film.
ref: 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
glosses: Thin, pliable, and often transparent.
Derived terms: acute membranous gingivitis
cartilagino-membranous
cytomembranous
endomembranous
extramembranous
intermembranous
intramembranous
juxtamembranous
membrano-
membran-
membranously
multimembranous
musculomembranous
nonmembranous
paramembranous
perimembranous
polymembranous
semimembranous
submembranous
transmembranous
Related terms: nanomembranous
pseudomembranous
brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: brigades
Etymology: Borrowed from French brigade.
Senses: examples: text: a work brigade; a fire brigade
glosses: A group of people organized for a common purpose.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
examples: text: More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade!
text: I wouldn't even want to be seen dead with those nerds of the bowl-cut brigade.
glosses: A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic.
examples: text: We've definitely seen an increase in abusive content since certain areas began COVID lockdowns and stay home orders, we suspect because of the growth of people having time to waste doing these sorts of brigades.
ref: 2020, “Comments of Reddit, Inc., before the Federal Communications Commission, Washington DC”, in fcc.gov:
glosses: Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
Derived terms: blue-rinse brigade
brigade major
brigade system
bucket brigade
demibrigade
fire brigade
green-ink brigade
green ink brigade
green welly brigade
interbrigade
internet brigade
mackintosh brigade
naval brigade
prawn sandwich brigade
production brigade
raincoat brigade
Red Brigades
subbrigade
unbrigaded
Related terms: brigadier
brigadier general
brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: brigades
form: brigading
form: brigaded
form: brigaded
Etymology: Borrowed from French brigade.
Senses: examples: text: This is, however, a classic case where speech is brigaded with action.
ref: 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio
glosses: To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
glosses: To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner.
supervolcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervolcanoes
form: supervolcanos
Etymology: From super- + volcano.
Senses: examples: text: Mosaic of Olympus Mons on Mars. The supervolcano is nearly 600 kilometers wide at the base and 25 kilometers high and is capped by a crater 65 kilometers in diameter. It is about five times larger than the most massive volcanic cone on earth, Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
ref: 1983, Louis Berman, John C. Evans, Exploring the Cosmos, →ISBN, page 178:
text: The stone went dark, and instantly the supervolcano burst with an unthinkable blast. A miles-deep plug of dark and hot earth flew upward, followed by a tremendous expanding cloud. Swirling, dense substance spread and thickened [...]
ref: 1984, Richard Monaco, Runes, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Sytau is rabidly volcanic; a dozen "supervolcanoes" 50-120 kilometers wide are erupting across the planet. Sytau's carbon content and constant volcanism make natural diamonds plentiful, if extremely costly and dangerous to recover.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Sytau:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
synonyms: word: hypervolcano
glosses: A powerful volcano, often having an explosive or cataclysmic eruption.
Hypernyms: volcano
Derived terms: supervolcanic
shell out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shells out
form: shelling out
form: shelled out
form: shelled out
Senses: examples: text: Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package?
text: TAXPAYERS are shelling out more than €2m annually to pay for the salaries of 10 high-profile CEOs employed in commercial semi-state bodies.
ref: 2007 October 29, Patricia McDonagh, “Top 10 bosses in semi-state firms cost total of €2m a year”, in Irish Independent:
text: Then, after shelling out significant cash on sufficient 44-gallon drums of polyester and epoxy resin and massive rolls of specific density fibreglass material, we proceeded to wax down and lay up the hull.
ref: 2010, Robyn Catchlove, Somewhere Down a Crazy River, page 18:
text: BT shelled out almost £1bn for the Champions League over the same period, while the FA has just brought in around £820m over six seasons for the international rights to the FA Cup alone.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
text: Here's an interesting effect of a global pandemic that has forced Americans to stay home for nearly 10 months: with less vacation and dine-out options, folks have more money saved up then usual and, given the virtually endless amount of time spent staring at their own four walls, they seem to be more willing than usual to shell out some extra cash to spruce up their abodes.
ref: 2020 December 3, Anna Rahmanan, “Christmas trees are, indeed, more expensive this year than last”, in Time Out:
text: With the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinding on, drivers will have to shell out a lot more to fill up their cars as the summer travel season begins this Memorial Day weekend.
ref: 2022 May 27, Clifford Krauss, “Gas Prices Hit New Highs as Summer Driving Season Starts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: "While their rhetoric continues, this is merely a diversion to the very real financial challenge the industry is facing, with taxpayers still shelling out up to an extra £175 million a month to keep trains running by making up the 20% shortfall in revenue post-COVID.
ref: 2023 June 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: One year on: rail strikes still at a stalemate”, in RAIL, number 985, pages 10–11:
synonyms: cough up
fork out
fork over
glosses: To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
shell out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
ref: 1875, George Worsley, Advice to the Young!, page 32:
glosses: A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.
affirm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɝm/
ipa: /əˈfɜːm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: affirms
form: affirming
form: affirmed
form: affirmed
Etymology: From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).
Senses: examples: text: She affirmed that she would go when I asked her.
glosses: To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
examples: text: Jesus, […] whom Paul affirmed to be alive
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 25:19:
text: However, as anyone who knew Adrian Shooter would affirm, he very rarely took no for an answer.
ref: 2024 August 21, Peter Plisner, “The changing role of our railway stations”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 62:
synonyms: protest
glosses: To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
examples: raw_tags: LGBTQ+
text: gender-affirming; trans-affirming
text: They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence.
text: Kate pointed out that these similarities between the various accounts of parents with trans children attracts criticism from those commentators who argue that trans children do not exist or should not be affirmed in their gender.
ref: 2021 August 24, Shon Faye, “‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To support or encourage.
glosses: To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
topics: law
glosses: To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
Synonyms: validate
Derived terms: affirmability
affirmable
affirmance
affirmer
affirming the consequent
gender-affirming
life-affirming
misaffirm
open and affirming
reaffirm
unaffirmed
Related terms: affirmation
affirmative
affirm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɝm/
ipa: /əˈfɜːm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Etymology: From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Yes; true; correct.
Related terms: word: action
word: confirm
affirmative action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affirmative actions
Senses: examples: text: Several proponents of affirmative action who were interviewed cited the scandal to dismiss the notion, advanced by some opponents of the policy, that America has moved beyond racial discrimination.
ref: 1996 November 10, Sam Howe Verhovek, “Vote in California is Motivating Foes of Anti-Bias Plans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: California's decision in 1996 to outlaw the use of race in public college admissions was widely viewed as the beginning of the end for affirmative action at public universities all over the United States. But in the four years since Californians passed Proposition 209, most states have agreed that killing affirmative action outright would deepen social inequality by denying minority citizens access to higher education.
ref: 2000 May 20, “After Affirmative Action”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Justice Ginsburg has long argued that percentage plans are just as race-conscious as traditional affirmative action: They seek to increase enrollment among minorities, and they work because the high schools are segregated.
ref: 2016 June 23, Richard Primus, “Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Here to Stay”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: positive discrimination
reverse discrimination
glosses: A set of policies or programs providing advantages for people of a group who are seen to have traditionally been the target of discrimination.
examples: text: The debate on specific affirmative actions has similarly been reduced to mean quotas and preferential treatment of minorities and white women at the expense of white males.
ref: 1995, Gene A. Lew, Perspectives on Affirmative Action and Its Impact on Asian Pacific Americans:
glosses: A specific policy with such a goal.
Derived terms: apefirmative action
Cambyses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καμβῡ́σης (Kambū́sēs).
Senses: glosses: An Old Persian male given name, particularly borne by Achaemenid kings of Persia.
in the works
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They always have some wonderful new project in the works.
synonyms: in the hopper
on the anvil
coordinate_terms: on the cards
in the cards
in the offing
impending
;
underway
glosses: Being planned or worked upon.
examples: text: Be careful not to get any debris in the works.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: In a mechanism or machine.
Derived terms: spanner in the works
jiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: jiggles
Etymology: From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens.
glosses: A relatively weak shaking movement.
jiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: jiggles
form: jiggling
form: jiggled
form: jiggled
Etymology: From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops.
glosses: To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
examples: text: The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.
glosses: To shake, rattle, or wiggle.
Derived terms: jiggle key
jiggle mode
jiggle physics
jiggler
jigglesome
jiggle television
jigglingly
jiggly
rejiggle
cambio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambios
Senses: glosses: bureau de change; currency exchange
cold case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold cases
Senses: examples: text: ‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’
ref: 2015, Peter James, You Are Dead, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A criminal investigation that has not been solved after a considerable time but remains on the books and may be reopened when new evidence appears.
examples: text: We'd each grab a twenty-ounce Coke from the cold case, and at the end of the movie, Kate would still have a nearly full bottle.
ref: 2015, Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: A refrigerated display case used for selling items that are kept cold.
Related terms: open problem
refresher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈfɹɛʃə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃɚ/
Forms: form: refreshers
Etymology: From refresh + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The nap was a welcome refresher.
text: It said the refreshers, targeting Gen Z and Millennials, are punched up by adding Starbucks’ spicy chili powder blend to the concoctions.
ref: 2024 June 2, Parija Kavilanz, “‘Swicy’ is the hottest trend in food right now”, in CNN:
synonyms: refreshant
glosses: Something that refreshes.
examples: text: They recommend a refresher class every few years.
text: Zoë [Kravitz] posts a rare pic of the couple on Instagram alongside the caption, “#BLINKTWICE in theaters august 23rd 🌴.” A lil refresher that Blink Twice is the actor’s highly anticipated upcoming directorial debut, which was renamed after initially being called Pussy Island. The more you know!
ref: 2024 August 20, Mehera Bonner, “Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum’s 3-Year Relationship Timeline: a Retrospective”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2024:
glosses: A review to refresh or renew knowledge.
topics: law
glosses: A fee paid to counsel to continue with a case, especially one that was adjourned.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An equity grant given by a company to an existing employee, as opposed to an initial grant given to new employees.
Derived terms: air refresher
refresher course
hand-waving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So when we're discussing thought and conscious processes, talking about minds is precise, and even measurable (what else do public opinion pollsters do?) while talking about brains is just hand-waving.
ref: 2011 June 17, Andrew Brown, “Minds, brains and woo”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hand waving.
hand-waving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hand-waving
form: most hand-waving
Senses: examples: text: For years much of this has been explained with hand-waving references to body types and metabolism—broadly accurate, but cold comfort to the estimated 61% of Americans who are overweight or obese and want to have their weight controlled, not merely explained.
ref: 2001 January 15, Jeffrey Kluger, “Obesity”, in Time:
text: You, me and everything in the universe are holograms. This may seem very vague and hand-waving. However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.
ref: 2018, Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand […] , Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of handwaving.
hand-waving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hand-wave
collegiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/
ipa: /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/
Forms: form: more collegiate
form: most collegiate
Etymology: From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
Senses: examples: text: In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.
ref: 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
glosses: Collegial.
examples: text: To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.
ref: 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:
qualifier: Russian Empire
glosses: Of or relating to a collegium.
Derived terms: collegiate church
collegiately
collegiateness
extracollegiate
intercollegiate
intracollegiate
multicollegiate
noncollegiate
postcollegiate
precollegiate
pseudocollegiate
semicollegiate
subcollegiate
uncollegiate
collegiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/
ipa: /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/
Forms: form: collegiates
Etymology: From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
Senses: glosses: A high school.
glosses: A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
examples: text: those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
glosses: A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
glosses: An inmate of a prison.
heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: heals
Senses: glosses: plural of heel
heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: heals
Senses: examples: text: She wore a short skirt and heels.
text: I'm taller than you when I don't wear heels.
ref: 2019, Caravan Palace, “About You”, in Chronologic:
glosses: High-heeled shoes.
Related terms: english: very near
translation: very near
word: close on the heels of
english: wait impatiently
translation: wait impatiently
word: cool one's heels
english: firmly or stubbornly keep ideas when opposed
translation: firmly or stubbornly keep ideas when opposed
word: dig in one's heels
word: drag one's heels
english: procrastinate
translation: procrastinate
word: drag one's feet
english: tumbling upside down
translation: tumbling upside down
word: head over heels
english: close behind
translation: close behind
word: hot on somebody's heels
english: wait impatiently
translation: wait impatiently
word: kick one's heels
topics: dance
dancing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: kick up one's heels
english: following behind
translation: following behind
word: on the heels of
english: flee
translation: flee
word: take to one's heels
english: suddenly turn away to leave
translation: suddenly turn away to leave
word: turn on one's heel
Head Start
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In the United States, a government-funded preschool program for impoverished children.
heads-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads-up
form: heads-ups
form: heads up
Senses: examples: text: Send everyone a heads-up about the inspection tomorrow.
glosses: A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler.
examples: text: There were only two of us, so we started playing heads-up.
text: There are seven players on the table. Five folded, the remaining two played heads-up until the showdown.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Involving two players. (usually said when there are only two players in the table; or, when all players except two folded)
Related terms: alarm
alert
wake-up call
warning
notice
notification
heads-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heads-up
form: most heads-up
form: heads up
Senses: examples: text: A heads-up posture meant the pilot couldn't pay attention to his instruments.
glosses: With head directly above the neck, eyes front.
examples: text: Getting those marbles off the red carpet was a real heads-up move.
glosses: Alert; vigilant
Derived terms: heads-up digitizing
heads-up display
insolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɒlvəbəl/
Forms: form: more insolvable
form: most insolvable
Etymology: From in- + solvable. Piecewise doublet of insoluble and unsolvable.
Senses: examples: text: insolvable difficulties
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Impossible to solve; insoluble.
examples: text: an insolvable debt
glosses: Incapable of being paid or discharged.
examples: text: Bands insolvable.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book VIII”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: insoluble
sense: all senses
word: unsolvable
Derived terms: insolvably
lacrimal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The smallest and most fragile bone of the face, situated near the eye.
Synonyms: os lacrimale
lachrymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/
ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/
ipa: /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/
rhymes: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: lacrimal
form: lacrymal
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lachrymālis, from lachryma (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lacrimal.
Senses: glosses: Connected with weeping or tears.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of lacrimal.
Derived terms: lachrymal bone
lachrymal gland
lachrymally
lachrymal sac
lachrymal urn
lachrymal vase
lachrymary
lachrymatory
lachrymose
nasolachrymal
lachrymal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/
ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/
ipa: /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/
rhymes: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: lachrymals
form: lacrimal
form: lacrymal
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lachrymālis, from lachryma (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lacrimal.
Senses: glosses: A lachrymatory (vase intended for collecting tears).
examples: text: It is truly melancholy to see so many minds employed in catering for the risibles and lachrymals of weak men and silly women
ref: 1843, “Habits of Reading”, in The Mother's Magazine:
glosses: Lachrymal feelings or organs.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of lacrimal.
palatine bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatine bones
form: palatine
form: os palatinum
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.
lacrimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/
ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/
ipa: /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/
rhymes: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: lachrymal
form: lacrymal
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacrimālis, from lacrima (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lachrymal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to tears or the tear-secreting organs.
glosses: Alternative spelling of lachrymal.
Derived terms: acro-dermato-ungual-lacrimal-tooth syndrome
frontolacrimal
lacrimal apparatus
lacrimal artery
lacrimal bone
lacrimal canal
lacrimal canaliculus
lacrimal caruncle
lacrimal duct
lacrimal fluid
lacrimal gland
lacrimal lake
lacrimal nerve
lacrimal point
lacrimal punctum
lacrimal sac
lacrimo-
maxillolacrimal
nasolacrimal
sublacrimal
lacrimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/
ipa: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/
ipa: /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/
rhymes: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: lacrimals
form: lachrymal
form: lacrymal
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacrimālis, from lacrima (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lachrymal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of lacrimal bone.
glosses: Ellipsis of lacrimal vase.
snow angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow angels
Senses: glosses: A design made in fresh snow by lying on one's back and moving the arms up and down and the legs from side to side.
palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/
note: fur cape or stole
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtin/
rhymes: -ælətaɪn
rhymes: -ælətɪn
Etymology: From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin.
Senses: glosses: (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
glosses: (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
glosses: Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
glosses: Synonym of palatial.
synonyms: word: palatial
Related terms: palace
palatial
palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/
note: fur cape or stole
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtin/
rhymes: -ælətaɪn
rhymes: -ælətɪn
Forms: form: palatines
Etymology: From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
synonyms: chief minister
glosses: A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
synonyms: palatinate
glosses: Ellipsis of county palatine.
synonyms: praetorians
glosses: The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
Derived terms: count palatine
county palatine
palatinate
palatineship
Related terms: count palatinate
county palatinate
palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/
note: fur cape or stole
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtin/
rhymes: -ælətaɪn
rhymes: -ælətɪn
Forms: form: palatines
Etymology: Borrowing from French palatine, named after German Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte (1652–1722).
Senses: glosses: A fur cape or stole for women which covers the neck and shoulders.
palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/
note: fur cape or stole
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtin/
rhymes: -ælətaɪn
rhymes: -ælətɪn
Etymology: Borrowing from French palatin, from New Latin palātīnus, from palātum (“the palate”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to palate + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: They strive to astonish the most sophisticated taste, the only applause they seek is the thick sound of the satisfied tongue clapping the palatine papillae.
ref: 1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 10:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
Derived terms: ascending palatine artery
autopalatine
craniopalatine
dermopalatine
ethmopalatine
glossopalatine
greater palatine artery
hyopalatine
interpalatine
maxillopalatine
nasopalatine
palatine aponeurosis
palatine artery
palatine bone
palatine gland
palatine nerve
palatine tonsil
palatine uvula
palato-
pharyngopalatine
postpalatine
pterygopalatine
rhinopalatine
sphenopalatine
transpalatine
vomeropalatine
palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/
note: fur cape or stole
ipa: /ˈpæl.əˌtin/
rhymes: -ælətaɪn
rhymes: -ælətɪn
Forms: form: palatines
Etymology: Borrowing from French palatin, from New Latin palātīnus, from palātum (“the palate”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to palate + -ine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of palatine bone.
proper adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper adjectives
Senses: examples: text: These two general classes of adjectives may also be divided into several others, of which the following are the most important: — 1. A proper adjective is one that is derived from a proper name; as, American . . .
ref: 1859, William Harvey Wells, A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective derived from a proper noun, such as British derived from Britain.
Palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Etymology: From Latin Palātīnus, from Palātium.
Senses: glosses: One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement.
glosses: A placename.
A village in Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename.
A hamlet in County Carlow, Ireland.
glosses: A placename.
A town in Montgomery County, New York.
glosses: The Rhine Franconian dialect spoken in the Palatinate.
Related terms: palace
palatial
palatine
palatium
Palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Etymology: From Latin Palātīnus, from Palātium.
Senses: examples: text: Internally, the Palatine government remained dominated by Calvinists who bullied the largely Lutheran population, persecuted Jews and refused dialogue with Catholics.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History, Penguin, page 122:
glosses: Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people.
Palatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: Palatines
Etymology: From Latin Palātīnus, from Palātium.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.
pelvic arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelvic arches
Senses: glosses: The pelvis.
pelvic girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelvic girdles
Senses: glosses: The pelvis.
karl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karls
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse karl. Doublet of carl, ceorl, and churl.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever its object the runrig system was not udal tenure, and therefore it appears to me to show a settlement of the unfree. Whether these were the karls or the thralls is the only problem, and I incline to think that there is little room for doubt that these were the karls. The thrall may have had a scrap of ground and kept pigs, but there is no evidence that he had agricultural land. In short the modern cottar is the descendent of the thrall and the crofter of the karl.
ref: a. 1936, Ian B[ernard] Stoughton Holbourn, “Udal Property and the Kings of Foula”, in The Isle of Foula: A Series of Articles on Britain’s Loneliest Inhabited Isle, Edinburgh: Birlinn, published 2001, →ISBN, page 76:
text: The largest group in Viking society were the karls, who were free men and women. Many karls owned their own farmsteads; others rented land from rich landowners.
ref: 1993, Philippa Wingate, Anne Millard, “Viking society and government”, in The Viking World (Usborne Illustrated World History), Tulsa, Okla.: EDC Publishing, published 1994, page 20, column 2:
text: There were three kinds of Viking: thralls, karls and jarls. Thralls were the slaves. They were owned by karls and jarls. They did most of the hard work and the worst, dirtiest jobs. The karls were ordinary folk like farmers, craftsmen, blacksmiths and hunters.
ref: 2016, Louise Spilsbury, “Powerful Kings and Suffering Slaves”, in The Vikings: Dig Up the Secrets of the Dead (History Hunters), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Raintree, →ISBN, page 18:
coordinate_terms: jarl
thrall
glosses: A medieval Scandinavian freeman.
Related terms: hot karl
shreddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).
Senses: examples: 1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN,
As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ ‘Hey Mark, have you got my shreddies?’
2001, Irvine Welsh, Glue, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 40,
As ah stand up n pill oan ma shreddies, then ma jeans in T-shirt, she's staring oaf intae space, then wrappin her clathes roond her.
2004, Harry Foxley, Marking Time: A Soldier's Story, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 165,
So adept did I become, in fact, that I could shower, shave and wash out socks and shreddies on as little as three penn’orth remaining on the meter (which had not yet been decimalized).
2004, Toby Bishop, Cry Havoc: A Trip to Hell for a Group of Ageing Mercenaries Who Should Have Known Better, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 43,
Their luggage was minimal, as he would have expected—shirts, Shreddies, socks, trousers and the rest of the basics of self-maintenance.
2006, Brian Carlin, Boy Entrant, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 61,
“Drawers, cellular, six”—that was six pairs of loose-legged underwear that would come down to mid-thigh made from a cellular cotton fabric. We would later learn that the RAF slang name for these garments was “shreddies” because of their tendency to become threadbare and shred at the crotch where they rubbed against the harsh worsted material of our trousers.
glosses: Underwear.
Related terms: sense: brand of breakfast cereal
word: Shreddies
Good Samaritan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Good Samaritan
Etymology: From Luke 10:30-37, in which in a Jesus' parable, a Samaritan helped a half-dead Jew ignored by others.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The subject of a particular New Testament parable, who helps a wounded man ignored by others.
Good Samaritan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Good Samaritans
Etymology: From Luke 10:30-37, in which in a Jesus' parable, a Samaritan helped a half-dead Jew ignored by others.
Senses: examples: text: America as the dynamic center of ever-widening spheres of enterprise, America as the training center of the skillfull servants of mankind, America as the Good Samaritan, really believing again that it is more blessed to give than to receive, […]
ref: 1941 February 17, Henry Luce, “The American Century”, in LIFE, page 65:
text: Respirited for the moment, he hopped down from the wagon and attempted to pay the good Samaritan for the ride.
ref: 2022, Keith Bryant, Bluefire - Fight Back or Perish:
glosses: A person who helps someone in distress out of their own good nature.
Derived terms: Good Samaritan law
gimel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪ.məl/
rhymes: -ɪməl
Forms: form: gimels
Etymology: From Hebrew גימל (gimel); ultimately from Proto-Semitic word for a weapon which was debatably either a staff sling or a throwing stick. Doublet of gamma.
Senses: glosses: The third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac).
Samaritan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmæɹɪtən/
ipa: /səˈmɛɹɪtən/
Forms: form: Samaritans
Etymology: From Latin Samarītānus, from Ancient Greek Σαμαρείτης (Samareítēs), from Σαμαρεία (Samareía, “Samaria”), derived from Biblical Hebrew שֹׁמְרוֹנִים (Šōmərôním) and שֹׁמְרוֹן (Šōmərôn) respectively. Attested in Old English.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these despised people built a rival temple on Mount Gerizim in the central Palestinian territory known as Samaria, and hence they were called Samaritans (a word of contempt to Jews); in very reduced numbers, they still live round their sacred mountain now.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 62:
glosses: A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising certain ethnoreligious traditions indigenous to that region.
glosses: A charitable person, one who helps others (from the Bible story in Luke 10:30–37).
glosses: A person who works for the Samaritans telephone helpline, taking calls from suicidal members of the public.
Derived terms: Good Samaritan
Samaritanism
Samaritan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmæɹɪtən/
ipa: /səˈmɛɹɪtən/
Etymology: From Latin Samarītānus, from Ancient Greek Σαμαρείτης (Samareítēs), from Σαμαρεία (Samareía, “Samaria”), derived from Biblical Hebrew שֹׁמְרוֹנִים (Šōmərôním) and שֹׁמְרוֹן (Šōmərôn) respectively. Attested in Old English.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to Samaria or Samaritans.
Samaritan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmæɹɪtən/
ipa: /səˈmɛɹɪtən/
Etymology: From Latin Samarītānus, from Ancient Greek Σαμαρείτης (Samareítēs), from Σαμαρεία (Samareía, “Samaria”), derived from Biblical Hebrew שֹׁמְרוֹנִים (Šōmərôním) and שֹׁמְרוֹן (Šōmərôn) respectively. Attested in Old English.
Senses: glosses: The ancient language of Samaria: a dialect of Hebrew.
samaritan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samaritans
Senses: glosses: a Good Samaritan
Samaria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɑːɹi.ə/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /səˈmɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /səˈmɛəɹi.ə/
homophone: Sumeria stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑːɹi.ə
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From Latin Samaria, from Ancient Greek Σαμάρεια (Samáreia), partial calque of Biblical Hebrew שֹׁמְרוֹן (Šōmərôn). Attested in Akkadian as 𒆳𒊓𒈨𒊑𒈾 (Sāmerīna).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Sebastia: a city in the West Bank, Palestine; the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel.
examples: text: Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, Yoav Gallant said Israel was “coming under attack from seven theatres: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria [an Israeli term for the West Bank]^([sic]), Iraq, Yemen and Iran”.
ref: 2023 December 26, Bethan McKernan, quoting Yoav Gallant, “Fears of regional escalation as Israel warns of ‘multi-front’ war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An ancient region of the region of Palestine, mostly in the northern part of the modern West Bank.
Derived terms: Samaritan
Good Samaritan
arctangent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctangents
Etymology: From arc- + tangent.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹
Synonyms: antitangent
inverse tangent
single-valued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a function, associating a unique value of its range with each value of its domain.
multivalued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + valued.
Senses: examples: text: The inverse sine function is multivalued unless it is restricted to a suitable range.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a function, associating one or more values of its range with each value of its domain.
Derived terms: multivaluedness
arabic numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabic numerals
Senses: coordinate_terms: roman numeral
qualifier: chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that; chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Arabic numeral.