cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
notable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊtəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈnoʊɾəbl̩/
Forms: form: notables
form: nottable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English notable (“worthy of note, profitable, useful”), in some senses from Anglo-Norman notable (“noteworthy”), from Latin notābilis (“noteworthy, extraordinary”), from notō (“to note, mark”); in some senses from Middle English note (“benefit, profit, use, advantage”), from Old English notu (“t-use, profit, advantage, employment”) + -able; equivalent to note + -able. Compare English noteful (“useful”).
Senses: examples: July 16 1875, Carl Schurz, letter to W. M. Grosvenor
What we ought to have, in my opinion, is a meeting of notables—men whose names will be of weight with the country and who can be depended upon to agree to an independent course.
glosses: A person or thing of distinction.
Related terms: notability
notably
note
noted
noteful
of note
forehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)hɛd/
ipa: /ˈfɔːɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈfɒɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɒɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)hɛd
rhymes: -ɒɹɪd
rhymes: -ɔɹɪd
rhymes: -ɑɹɪd
Forms: form: foreheads
form: for'ead
form: forrad
form: forread
form: forred
form: forrid
Etymology: From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English forehēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *forēhaubid, corresponding to fore- + head. Cognate with Scots foreheid (“forehead”), Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).
Senses: examples: text: 'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
ref: 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan:
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
examples: text: Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility
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], lines 691-93:
glosses: confidence; audacity; impudence.
glosses: The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.
Synonyms: brow
Derived terms: fivehead
foreheaded
forehead thermometer
midforehead
uppercase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From upper + case.
Senses: examples: text: In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.
ref: 2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz:
glosses: Written in upper case; capital.
Derived terms: uppercase letter
uppercase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upper + case.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upper case.
uppercase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uppercases
form: uppercasing
form: uppercased
form: uppercased
Etymology: From upper + case.
Senses: glosses: To convert (text) to upper case.
lowercase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/
ipa: /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/
ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: lower case
form: lower-case
Etymology: From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lower case.
lowercase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/
ipa: /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/
ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: lower case
form: lower-case
Etymology: From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Senses: glosses: In lower case.
Synonyms: lowercased
minuscule
lowercase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/
ipa: /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/
ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/
Forms: form: lowercases
form: lowercasing
form: lowercased
form: lowercased
form: lower case
form: lower-case
Etymology: From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Senses: examples: text: Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)
ref: 1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.
ref: 2000, Tom Miller, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: To convert (text) to lower case.
queue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuː/
enpr: kyo͞o
ipa: /kju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: cue
homophone: Kew
homophone: kyu
homophone: Q
homophone: que
Forms: form: queues
form: queueing
form: queuing
form: queued
form: queued
Etymology: From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda and cola.
Senses: examples: text: Although there is a spacious circulating area beyond the platforms at Clacton, there is severe overcrowding on peak Saturdays; at times of pressure passengers have to queue out into the street [...]
ref: 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 189:
glosses: To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
glosses: To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
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sciences
glosses: To add to a queue data structure.
examples: text: Though Monroe the man has become a vague anachronistic figure in knee breeches and with queued, powdered hair, his name is perpetuated in the Monroe Doctrine, evoked by him as a temporary response to an immediate crisis.
ref: 1968, Francis Russell, The American Heritage History of the Making of the Nation:
text: The sons, in short square skirted coats with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, especially if they could procure an eel skin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
glosses: To fasten the hair into a queue.
Synonyms: sense: place itself at the end of a queue
word: join a queue
sense: place itself at the end of a queue
word: join the queue
sense: place itself at the end of a queue
word: line up
Derived terms: dequeue
enqueue
queue up
Related terms: FIFO
LIFO
cue
xor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈo(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈzo(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkso(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: xors
Senses: glosses: The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.
xor
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈo(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈzo(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkso(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: The argument leads to the conclusion that an omnipotent being could rationally be able to do one xor the other and still be omnipotent.
ref: 2002, Rob Janssen, “The rock argument”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: Or (but not both).
Synonyms: either ... or
eor
Related terms: and
or
nand
nor
not
XNOR
nand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of NAND.
hail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hāl
ipa: /heɪl/
ipa: [heɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: hale
Forms: form: hails
Etymology: From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, hawel, haghil, haȝel, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or alternatively from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hail (“hail”), West Frisian heil (“hail”), Dutch hagel (“hail”), Low German Hagel (“hail”), German Hagel (“hail”), Danish hagl (“hail”), Swedish hagel (“hail”), Icelandic hagl (“hail”). Compare also Old Norse héla (“frost”). Doublet of haglaz, if the second etymology (“cold”) is correct.
Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, “pebble”), or alternatively Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”), possibly also Lithuanian šešėlis (“shade, shadow”), depending on the etymology.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
examples: text: Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 40:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
Derived terms: word: hailfall
word: haillike
word: hailproof
alt: hailshaft
word: hail shaft
word: hailshot
word: hailstone
english: hailstorm
translation: hailstorm
word: hail storm
word: hail sugar
word: haily
word: rail hail
hail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hāl
ipa: /heɪl/
ipa: [heɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: hale
Forms: form: hails
form: hailing
form: hailed
form: hailed
Etymology: From Middle English haylen, haulien, hawelien, from Old English hagolian, hagalian (“to hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglōn, from Proto-Germanic *haglōną (“to hail”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hailje (“to hail”), West Frisian heilje (“to hail”), Dutch hagelen (“to hail”), German Low German hageln (“to hail”), German hageln (“to hail”), Danish hagle (“to hail”), Swedish hagla (“to hail”), Norwegian Nynorsk hagle, hagla (“to hail”), Faroese hegla (“to hail”), Icelandic hagla (“to hail”).
Senses: examples: text: They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
glosses: To have hailstones fall from the sky.
examples: text: The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
glosses: To send or release hail.
glosses: To pour down in rapid succession.
Derived terms: hail down
hail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hāl
ipa: /heɪl/
ipa: [heɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: hale
Forms: form: hailer
form: hailest
Etymology: From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.
Senses: glosses: Healthy, whole, safe.
hail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hāl
ipa: /heɪl/
ipa: [heɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: hale
Forms: form: hails
form: hailing
form: hailed
form: hailed
Etymology: From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.
Senses: examples: text: […] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 249–252:
glosses: To greet; give salutation to; salute.
examples: text: Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 28:
text: He was hailed as a hero.
glosses: To name; to designate; to call.
examples: text: Hail a taxi.
text: 'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket / And the other one is hailin' a taxi cab
ref: 1995, Alanis Morissette, “Hand In My Pocket”, in Jagged Little Pill:
glosses: To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
examples: text: In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop.
glosses: To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
glosses: To signal in order to initiate communication with.
glosses: In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.
qualifier: from
glosses: to originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)
Derived terms: drink hail
e-hail
hailable
hail and ride
hailer
hail-fellow
hail from
unhailed
Related terms: wassail
hail
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hāl
ipa: /heɪl/
ipa: [heɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: hale
Etymology: From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.
Senses: examples: text: Hail, brave friend.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
Derived terms: all hail
Hail Mary
sleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: sleets
Etymology: From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
Senses: synonyms: ice pellets
glosses: Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
glosses: Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
synonyms: black ice
glaze
glosses: A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Derived terms: sleetless
sleetlike
sleety
thunder sleet
Related terms: freezing rain
graupel
sleet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: sleets
form: sleeting
form: sleeted
form: sleeted
Etymology: From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
Senses: examples: text: I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
text: It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38:
glosses: To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
raw_tags: of the weather
first person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first persons
form: first-person
form: 1st person
form: Ist person
Etymology: Calque of Latin prīma persōna, itself a calque of Ancient Greek πρῶτον πρόσωπον (prôton prósōpon).
Senses: examples: text: "Am" is the first person singular of "to be".
text: All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry:
topics: grammar
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glosses: Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
glosses: A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.
Hypernyms: grammatical person
Coordinate terms: second person
third person
Derived terms: first-person dual
first-person plural
first-person shooter
first-person singular
second person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second persons
form: 2nd person
form: IInd person
Senses: examples: text: “Are” is the second person of “to be”.
text: “Hast” is the second person singular of the German verb “haben”.
text: “Habt” is the second person plural of the German verb “haben”.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.
glosses: A form of narrative writing using verbs in the second person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the reader.
Derived terms: second-person dual
second-person plural
second-person singular
Related terms: first person
third person
rusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: rustier
form: rustiest
Etymology: From Middle English rusty, from Old English rūstiġ (“rusty”), from Proto-Germanic *rustagaz (“rusty”), equivalent to rust + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rusterch (“rusty”), West Frisian rustich, roastich (“rusty”), Dutch roestig (“rusty”), German Low German rusterig, rüsterig (“rusty”), German rostig (“rusty”), Swedish rostig (“rusty”).
Senses: glosses: Marked or corroded by rust.
examples: text: Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIV:
text: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:
glosses: Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
examples: text: Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
glosses: Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
examples: text: He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.
glosses: Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
Hyponyms: aeruginous
Derived terms: word: better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail
word: ride rusty
word: rustily
word: rustiness
english: nickname
translation: nickname
word: Rusty
word: rusty blackbird
word: rusty dusty
word: rusty guts
word: rusty-margined guan
word: rusty nail
word: rusty pitohui
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: rusty-spotted cat
word: rusty tinamou
word: rusty trombone
word: turn rusty
rusty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Etymology: Ellipsis of rusty one more often used for this, or from the general epithet rusty given to various particular firearm names—earlier both were applied in Cockney rhyming slang for other machines, including swords in their day, but the present coinage has not more than a loose connection to this and is from the preference for used or antique firearms due to their being easier or cheaper to obtain.
Senses: examples: text: My angles dusty, two black hands on the rusty
And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty
ref: 2014 August 25, Dimzy of 67, “Outside”, 1:29–1:35:
glosses: A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
rusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: more rusty
form: most rusty
Etymology: Variant form of resty; compare also reasty.
Senses: examples: text: rusty bacon
glosses: Discolored and rancid; reasty.
third person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third persons
form: 3rd person
form: IIIrd person
Senses: examples: text: In English, the third person consists of pronouns such as he, she, it, and they, verbs such as is and has, and most nouns.
text: “Yes,” said Dr Fairbairn. “Very. And then there’s the interesting question of those who use the third person about themselves.”
“Oh,” said Irene, vaguely. It occurred to her that she used the third person on occasion when talking to Bertie. She said things such as: “Mummy is watching, Bertie. Mummy is watching Bertie very closely.” That was using the third person, was it not? In fact, it was a double use of the third person; first (I, mother figure) became third, as did second (you, son). What did this reveal about Irene? she asked herself. No, deliberate play; what does that reveal about me?
ref: 2006, Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland, Random House Digital, published 2007, →ISBN, pages 243–4:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.
examples: text: “Is” is the third-person singular of “to be”.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is not the audience or the one making the statement. In English, pronouns used with the third person include he, she, it, one, they, and who.
glosses: A form of narrative writing using verbs in the third person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to another person.
topics: video-games
glosses: A form of video game in which the graphical view depicts the player character, rather than the view through the character's eyes.
examples: text: The plaintiffs here are third persons, and cannot be made responsible for the inadequate judgment or the improper exercise of power by the defendant's wife.
ref: 1828, Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, and Common Pleas, from 1822 to 1835: and Law Journal Reports divided into Equity and Bankruptcy Cases. Common Law Cases 1836-1858, page 11:
topics: law
glosses: Someone not associated with a particular matter; a third party.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, person.
Derived terms: third-person dual
third-person effect
third person limited
third-person plural
third-person shooter
third-person singular
Related terms: first person
second person
fourth person
first-person
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
video-games
glosses: Visual presentation through the protagonist or principal character's own eyes.
Derived terms: word: first-person shooter
alt: FPV
word: first-person view
Related terms: firsthand
third person
first-person plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-person plurals
form: first person plural
Senses: examples: "Are" is the first-person plural of the verb "to be".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The plural of the first-person form of a verb or pronoun, which in some languages can either be inclusive ("you and I") or exclusive ("them and I"). In other languages, there is no distinction.
Related terms: first person
first-person singular
second-person singular
third-person singular
first-person dual
second-person dual
third-person dual
second-person plural
third-person plural
first-person singular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-person singulars
form: first person singular
Senses: examples: text: "Am" is the first-person singular of the verb "to be".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of a verb used with the pronoun I (or its equivalent in other languages).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The pronoun I (or its equivalent in other languages).
Related terms: first person
first-person dual
first-person plural
second-person singular
third-person singular
second-person plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-person plurals
Senses: examples: text: "Are" is the second-person plural of the verb "to be".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of a verb used with the pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, youse, yinz, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The possessive adjectives your (addressing a plural audience), y'all's, you guys', etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
Related terms: second person
second-person dual
second-person singular
first-person plural
third-person plural
second-person singular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-person singulars
Senses: examples: text: The second-person singular of "to be" is "art" or "are".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of a verb used with the pronouns thou and you (singular), or their equivalents in other languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The pronouns thou and you (singular), or their equivalents in other languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The possessive adjectives thy and your (singular), or their equivalents in other languages.
Related terms: second person
second-person dual
second-person plural
first-person singular
third-person singular
third-person plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-person plurals
Senses: examples: "Are" is the third-person plural of the verb "to be".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with plural nouns and with the pronoun they (or its equivalents in other languages).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The pronoun they (or its equivalents in other languages).
Related terms: third person
third-person dual
third-person singular
first-person plural
second-person plural
third-person singular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-person singulars
Senses: examples: "Is" is the third-person singular of "to be".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of a verb used (in English and other languages) with singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, it and one (or their equivalents in other languages).
glosses: The pronouns he, she, it and one (or their equivalents in other languages).
Related terms: third person
third-person dual
third-person plural
first-person singular
second-person singular
freezing rain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: sleet
snow
glosses: Rain which freezes upon contact.
Related terms: black frost
black ice
rime
shepherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛpəd/
ipa: /ˈʃɛpəɹd/
Forms: form: shepherds
Etymology: From Middle English schepherde, from Old English sċēaphierde, a compound of sċēap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep + herd (“herder”).
Senses: examples: text: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
ref: 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
synonyms: word: pastor
alt: now rare
glosses: A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
synonyms: word: pastor
alt: now rare
glosses: A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
A male sheep tender
coordinate_terms: word: shepherdess
alt: f.
examples: text: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
ref: 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James), Psalms 23:1
glosses: Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
glosses: Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader
coordinate_terms: word: shepherdess
alt: f.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
A male pastor
coordinate_terms: word: shepherdess
alt: f.
glosses: A swain; a rustic male lover.
examples: text: The dirt floor, low ceiling and unfinished stone walls were barely illuminated by candles and a dim string of green decorative lights. A nervous shepherd mix barked at me as a woman tried to calm it. When my eyes adjusted, I saw people in corners.
ref: 2022 May 19, James Verini, “Surviving the Siege of Kharkiv”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: A German Shepherd.
Coordinate terms: goatherd
herder
herdsman
herdswoman
shepherdess
Derived terms: archshepherd
Australian Shepherd
Carpathian Shepherd
Catalan Shepherd
Caucasian shepherd
Caucasian shepherd dog
chief shepherd
German shepherd
idol shepherd
pack-shepherd
Shepherd
shepherd dog
shepherder
shepherdess
shepherdish
shepherdism
shepherd king
shepherd kings
shepherdless
shepherdlike
shepherdly
shepherd moon
shepherd satellite
Shepherd's Bush
shepherd's crook
shepherdship
shepherd's knot
shepherd's needle
shepherd spider
shepherd's pie
shepherd's pipe
shepherd's pouch
shepherd's purse
shepherd tree
Shepperton
undershepherd
Related terms: word: bearherd
word: cowherd
word: goatherd
word: gooseherd
word: herd
word: herder
word: herding dog
word: herd instinct
word: herd's grass
word: herdsman
alt: the constellation Boötes
word: Herdsman
word: herdswoman
word: hogherd
word: horseherd
word: neatherd
word: oxherd
word: swanherd
word: swineherd
shepherd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛpəd/
ipa: /ˈʃɛpəɹd/
Forms: form: shepherds
form: shepherding
form: shepherded
form: shepherded
Etymology: From Middle English schepherde, from Old English sċēaphierde, a compound of sċēap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep + herd (“herder”).
Senses: examples: text: For me has Pain, the sentinel, / Been vigilant / To pace my plot and dwell / Within my tent; / Oft in the night with small alarms / Has stirred me out of rest, / Alert, oppressed, / Till shepherded within thine arms / And on thy breast, / O loving Lady, in the curse of Pain / I have been blest— / […]
ref: 1893, Norman Gale, “In Pain”, in Orchard Songs, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews & John Lane; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
text: Each entry in this volume was assigned to a different preeminent scholar who was responsible for shepherding that specific entry, and that specific entry alone, into being.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page viii:
glosses: To watch over; to guide.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
accretion disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accretion disks
form: accretion disc
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: A structure formed by matter falling into a gravitational source such as a galaxy, black hole, or protostar.
Hyponyms: MAD
SANE
Coordinate terms: debris disk
planetary disk
planetary ring
protoplanetary disk
accretion disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accretion discs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of accretion disk.
panic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: panics
form: panicking
form: panicked
form: panicked
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).
Senses: examples: text: He told us he'd almost stepped on Ellen's body that night—dead and stiffening. Then I'd come round the corner and hailed him, and that panicked him.
ref: 1927 October, Rudyard Kipling, “Fairy-Kist”, in Limits and Renewals, Dominions edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1932, →OCLC, page 169:
glosses: To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
examples: text: If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic. The system will continue the cycle of panic, reboot, and panic as it attempts to reload the faulty driver every time it reboots after panic.
ref: 2010, Solaris system engineers, “Managing Devices”, in Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials (Solaris System Administration Series), Santa Clara, Calif.: Sun Microsystems Press, →ISBN, section 9.3.4.2 (Avoiding Recurring Panic):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause (a computer system) to crash.
glosses: To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
examples: text: I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day and then I want you to act.
ref: 2019 January 25, 5:22 from the start, in Our House is on Fire, spoken by Greta Thunberg, Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland: World Economic Forum:
glosses: To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a computer system: to crash.
Derived terms: word: panic-buy
word: panic-buyer
word: panic buying
word: panicked
word: panicker
word: panicking
word: panickingly
word: panic-sell
word: panic selling
GenAm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of General American.
Related terms: RP
Standard English
adiaphoron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædiˈæfəɹən/
Forms: form: adiaphora
Etymology: Neuter of Ancient Greek ἀδιάφορος (adiáphoros, “indifferent”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An indifferent matter.
A matter that is morally neutral.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: An indifferent matter.
Something neither forbidden nor commanded by scripture.
Derived terms: adiaphorization
Related terms: adiaphoral
adiaphoristic
adiaphoric
adiaphorous
adiaphorism
adiaphorist
adiaphora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adiaphoron
adiaphora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Adiaphora being the theological tool which was developed during the controversies of the Reformation, is the baptism not an adiaphora?
ref: 2003, P. Solomon Raj, The New Wine-Skins: The Story of the Indigenous Missions in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, →ISBN, chapter i: “The Quest”, 13:
text: Spener thought it should have been considered an adiaphora, or at worst, a moderate institution of spiritual life; Loescher thought its privatized nature competed directly with public and corporate worship.
ref: 2008 May, Timothy M. Salo, An Orthodox Lutheran View of Ecclesiology: A Doctrinal and Practical Exchange between Valentin Ernst Loescher (1673–1749) and Joachim Lange (1670–1744), ProQuest, UMI №: 3352196, chapter iii: “Lutheran Orthodox Ecclesiology and the Challenge of Pietism”, § 3.4: ‘Loescher’s Explicit View of Ecclesiology’, sub-§ 3.4.2: «Summary», pages 197–198
text: Second, Roman Catholicism in India dilly-dallied on the caste question, treating ‘caste’ as an adiaphora which was not significant in matters relating to salvation.
ref: 2015, Ankur Barua, Debating ‘Conversion’ in Hinduism and Christianity (Routledge Hindu Studies Series) (hardback) (e-book), chapter v: “Preaching the kingdom: ‘Caste’ and ‘conversion’”
glosses: Synonym of adiaphoron.
synonyms: word: adiaphoron
adiaphoristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adiaphoristic
form: most adiaphoristic
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Theologically indifferent.
adiaphorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin adiaphorus or Ancient Greek ἀδιάφορος (adiáphoros).
Senses: glosses: neither harmful nor beneficial
adiaphorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The belief that certain religious doctrines or ceremonies are indifferent, i.e. do not matter.
adiaphorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiaphorists
Senses: glosses: One who believes in adiaphorism.
Related terms: adiaphoron
London moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: London moments
Etymology: Named for the physical scientist Fritz London, and moment as in magnetic moment.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum-mechanical phenomenon whereby a spinning superconductive metal sphere generates a magnetic field whose axis lines up exactly with the spin axis.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The magnetic moment of any rotation of any superconductor, caused by the electrons lagging behind the rotation of the object.
author
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.θə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈoː.θə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈɔ(ː)θ(ə)ɹ]
ipa: /ˈɔ.θɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑ.θɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒː.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɔːθə(ɹ)
Forms: form: authors
form: authoring
form: authored
form: authored
form: aucthor
form: aucthour
form: auctor
form: auctour
form: auctoure
form: authour
form: authoure
form: autor
form: autour
form: autoure
Etymology: From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur.
Senses: glosses: To create a work as its author.
Derived terms: authorable
T-shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːʃɜːt/
ipa: /ˈtiːʃɚt/
Forms: form: T-shirts
form: t-shirt
form: tee shirt
form: tee-shirt
form: teeshirt
form: tshirt
Etymology: From its shape, 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets.
text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: tee
glosses: A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.
glosses: An undershirt.
Derived terms: been there, done that, bought the T-shirt
concert T-shirt
pocket T-shirt
ringer T-shirt
T-shirtable
T-shirt bra
T-shirt dress
T-shirted
wet t-shirt competition
wet t-shirt contest
sunstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: sunstrokes
Etymology: From sun + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that of the annual seasons of greatest change in the weather elements, namely, the spring and autumn, and moreover, with a periodicity corresponding, at least in the Punjab, for which province the statistics have been tabulated, with the triennial cycles of rainfall -- a peculiarity in which they coincide with cholera -- whilst sun-fever or sunstroke is found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with the season of highest temperature.
ref: 1885, Henry Walter Bellew, The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881, page 815:
text: Idiopathic non-septic periencephalitis may be produced by profound grief, protracted anxiety, especially when accompanied by great overwork, partial starvation combined with the gnawing anxiety of deep poverty, and also, it is affirmed, by sunstroke.
ref: 1896, Horatio C. Wood, The Practice of Medicine, page 513:
text: Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.
ref: 1904, Upton Sinclair, chapter 10, in The Jungle:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.
Related terms: sunburn
sun poisoning
sunblock
sunhat
sunscreen
sun umbrella
dass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: dasses
form: dassing
form: dassed
form: dassed
Etymology: Compare dare, darest, dast.
Senses: examples: text: We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face.
ref: 1890, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest, page 58:
text: Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off
ref: 1904, Henry A. Shute, Sequil Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, page 8:
text: "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law. I hain't got much money, Mr. Burberry, an' there's the missils an' kiddies to house an' dress an' feed.
ref: 1907, Lawrence Mott, To the credit of the sea, page 72:
text: You weren't smart to refuse; you could have had a peep inside the General's house, maybe, and I don't believe she'd dassed said a word about birds on hats, with one of the company wearing 'em!
ref: 1907, Mabel Osgood Wright, Gray lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, page 41:
text: "If anyone dasses to risk my fist, it's Boff! and it's Wham! Understand?"
ref: 1933, Sammy Lerner, theme from, Popeye the Sailor::
glosses: To dare.
Related terms: dassn't
dast
salable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salable
form: most salable
Senses: examples: text: The landlord [...] stripped the plumbing and electrics, anything salable.
ref: 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 219:
glosses: Alternative spelling of saleable.
Derived terms: salability
salableness
salably
salable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salables
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saleable.
skirt chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skirt chasers
form: skirt-chaser
Senses: examples: text: Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age.
ref: 1943 July 19, “The New Pictures”, in Time, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2008:
text: That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.
ref: 1958, Robert Bloch, That Hell-Bound Train:
text: He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three women at a time.
ref: 2008 March 31, Anand Giridharadas, “Flirting by Text Message, Indians Test Social Limits”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2012:
synonyms: word: womanizer
word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
glosses: A man with amorous intentions who habitually seeks out female companionship.