cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intersect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˈsɛkt/
ipa: /ɪntɚˈsɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: intersects
form: intersecting
form: intersected
form: intersected
Etymology: From Latin intersecare (“to cut between, cut off”), from inter (“between”) + secare (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: Parallel lines don't intersect.
text: Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
text: Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
Derived terms: intersectin
intersectingly
intersector
nonintersecting
unintersected
Related terms: intersection
intersectional
intersectionalism
intersectionalist
intersectionalistic
intersectionality
intersectionally
authorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authority
authorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The bodies that have political or administrative power and control in a particular sphere.
examples: text: ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25, as part of the agency’s effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with the town and police department have said federal authorities previously told them Evans was legally authorized to work in the U.S.
ref: 2025 August 18, Patrick Whittle, “Maine police officer arrested by ICE agrees to voluntarily leave the country”, in AP News:
glosses: The bodies that enforce law and order or provide a public service.
Derived terms: public authorities
entitle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ənˈtaɪtəl/
ipa: /ənˈtaɪ.təl/
ipa: /ɛnˈtaɪ.təl/
rhymes: -aɪtəl
Forms: form: entitles
form: entitling
form: entitled
form: entitled
form: entitule
form: intitle
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman entitler, from Old French entiteler, (French intituler), from Late Latin intitulāre.
Senses: examples: text: The deed entitled her to an undivided interest in the property.
glosses: To give a title to.
glosses: To dignify by an honorary designation.
examples: text: A passport entitles the bearer to travel to other countries.
glosses: To give power or authority (to do something).
glosses: To give rightful ownership.
examples: text: His autobiography, entitled Life of a Driver, was a best-seller.
glosses: To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
Synonyms: sense: give a title to
word: designate
word: name
word: denominate
sense: dignify by an honorary designation
word: elevate
sense: dignify by an honorary designation
word: ennoble
sense: dignify by an honorary designation
word: invest
sense: give power, authority
word: empower
sense: give power, authority
word: enable
sense: give power, authority
word: qualify
word: give a title to a book
Derived terms: disentitle
entitlee
entitlement
misentitle
entitled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/
Forms: form: 'titled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entitle
exterminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈstəː.mɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪkˈstəː.mɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɝ.mɪ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɝ.mɪ.neɪt/
Forms: form: exterminates
form: exterminating
form: exterminated
form: exterminated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exterminātus, perfect passive participle of exterminō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“thoroughly”) + terminō (“to finish, close, end”), from terminus (“limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
text: The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry:
text: Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
examples: text: The public school failed to exterminate truancy.
glosses: To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.
Synonyms: sense: to kill all
word: annihilate
sense: to kill all
word: eradicate
sense: to kill all
word: extermine
sense: to kill all
word: uproot
sense: to bring an end to
word: stamp out
Derived terms: exterminatable
extermination
exterminative
exterminator
exterminatory
exterminatrix
exterminism
Related terms: terminate
termination
terminator
tassel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæsəl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: tassels
form: tossel
Etymology: From Middle English tassel, from Old French tassel, from Latin taxillus (“small cube”), from tālus (“ankle”).
Senses: glosses: A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
glosses: The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
glosses: A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
topics: architecture
glosses: A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
glosses: A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
glosses: A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
Derived terms: tassel-eared squirrel
tasselweed
Related terms: sword knot
tassel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæsəl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: tassels
form: tasseling
form: tasselling
form: tasseled
form: tasseled
form: tasselled
form: tasselled
form: tossel
Etymology: From Middle English tassel, from Old French tassel, from Latin taxillus (“small cube”), from tālus (“ankle”).
Senses: examples: text: […] gauzes of silver mist;
Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light,
And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act V, scene V, verses 37-39:
synonyms: betassel
glosses: To adorn with tassels.
examples: text: Maize is a crop that tassels.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To put forth a tassel or flower.
tassel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæsəl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: tassels
form: tossel
Etymology: See tassell.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tassell.
baddest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bad + -est.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bad: most bad, worst.
raw_tags: for non-slang definitions
examples: text: I'm going down in history / As the baddest rapper there ever could be
ref: 1979, “Rapper's Delight”, performed by Sugarhill Gang:
text: The president of Royal Caribbean, Jason Liberty, told reporters it was the “biggest, baddest ship on the planet”, though it quickly became known on social media as “human lasagne”.
ref: 2024 January 26, Karen McVeigh, “‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sail”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: superlative form of bad: most bad
raw_tags: for slang definitions
Related terms: bad
badder
infection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: infections
Etymology: From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: colonization
glosses: The act or process of infecting.
examples: text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
coordinate_terms: colonization
glosses: An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
examples: text: As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
ref: 1944, Cedric C. Carpenter, “Failure of penicillin to prevent syphilis”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 2, pages 389–390:
text: And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
text: It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
ref: 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: colonization
glosses: A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
glosses: A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
Hyponyms: See: List of infectious diseases
Derived terms: agroinfection
antiinfection
anti-infection
autoinfection
bladder infection
coinfection
cross-infection
disinfection
hydrofection
hyperinfection
infectiology
infectional
infectionism
infectionist
lytic infection
microinfection
monoinfection
neuroinfection
noninfection
opportunistic infection
parainfection
postinfection
preinfection
pseudoinfection
reinfection
retroinfection
secondary infection
self-infection
sexually transmitted infection
spinfection
spurious infection
subinfection
superinfection
suprainfection
toxicoinfection
transfection
transinfection
urinary tract infection
urinary-tract infection
Vincent's infection
xenoinfection
yeast infection
Related terms: word: infect
word: infected
word: infectable
word: infectious disease
english: infection control
translation: infection control
word: infection prevention and control
word: infective
word: exfection
dekko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛk.əʊ/
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
homophone: deco (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: dekkos
form: decko
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani देखो / دیکھو (dekho), imperative of देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā, “to see, to look”).
Senses: examples: text: But now there was a listlessness about her, not the listlessness of the cat Augustus but more that of the female in the picture in the Louvre, of whom Jeeves, on the occasion when he lugged me there to take a dekko at her, said that here was the head upon which all the ends of the world are come.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”
ref: 2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A look; a glance.
massive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmasɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɑsɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /-z-/
rhymes: -æsɪv
rhymes: -ɑːsɪv
Forms: form: massives
Etymology: From Middle English massif, from Middle French massif, equivalent to mass + -ive. The Irish sense is possibly derived from Irish mas (“fine, handsome”).
Senses: examples: karst massives in western Georgia
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure.
examples: text: Big up to the Croydon massive!
synonyms: clique
gang
set
glosses: A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc.
laryngology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laryngo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The branch of physiology dealing with the larynx and its disorders.
Derived terms: rhinolaryngology
Related terms: laryngeal
laryngological
laryngologist
larynx
vocology
vocologist
laryngologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngologists
Etymology: From laryngo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
Related terms: laryngeal
laryngological
laryngology
larynx
laryngological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laryngo- + -logical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to laryngology.
Derived terms: laryngologically
otolaryngological
rhinolaryngological
éminence grise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: of éminences grises
ipa: /ˌɛmɪnɒns ˈɡɹiːz/
ipa: /ˌeɪ-/
note: of éminences grises
ipa: /ˌɛmɪnɑns ˈɡɹiz/
ipa: /ˌeɪ-/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: éminences grises
form: éminence grises
form: eminence grise
Etymology: Borrowed from French éminence grise (literally “grey eminence”), originally applied to François Leclerc du Tremblay (1577–1638), also known as Père Joseph, a French Capuchin friar who was the confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), the chief minister of France under Louis XIII (1601–1643). The term refers to du Tremblay’s influence over the Cardinal (who bore the honorific of Eminence), and the colour of his habit (grey, rather than the red of a cardinal).
Senses: examples: text: But Harry Hopkins was no mere manipulator of people and ideas, no eminence grise masterminding the actions of figureheads.
ref: 1987 July 12, John A[rthur] Garraty, “Harry’s Luck [book review of Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy by George McJimsey]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2020, page 28:
text: [Ichirō] Ozawa is the Secretary-General of [Yukio] Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) and the éminence grise of the electoral campaign that catapulted the new Prime Minister to power.
ref: 2009 September 16, Coco Masters, “Japan’s New Prime Minister—and New Shadow Shogun”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2017:
synonyms: power behind the throne
gray eminence
glosses: A secret or unofficial decision-maker.
wikipedia: Cardinal Richelieu
François Leclerc du Tremblay
Louis XIII
Related terms: puppet master
svengali
pokie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pō'kē
ipa: /ˈpəʊki/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊki
homophone: pokey
Forms: form: pokies
Etymology: From clipping of poker machine + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.
ref: 2004, Bernard Salt, The Big Shift, page 77:
text: 2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148,
In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
text: None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
ref: 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 171:
text: I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.
ref: 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
glosses: Synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines.
synonyms: word: poker machine
extra: an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines
Derived terms: pokie machine
pokie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pō'kē
ipa: /ˈpəʊki/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊki
homophone: pokey
Forms: form: pokies
Etymology: Shortening of a mispronunciation of genus name Poecilotheria
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.
sheet rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally a trade name.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: drywall
wall board
glosses: Prehardened plaster of Paris (gypsum) sold in large panels and used as a wall surface in building construction.
jerrybuild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jerrybuilds
form: jerrybuilding
form: jerrybuilt
form: jerrybuilt
Senses: examples: text: It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 154–5:
text: If we look at some of the stories of R. D. Laing's patients in The Politics of Experience it looks as if schizophrenia jerrybuilds a shaky structure of passion and freedom which depends for existence on negation of control and conscious scruple.
ref: 1968, Barbara Hardy, chapter 2, in Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination, London: Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 49:
text: Evolution, for example, isn't rational—and it jerry-builds our bodies.
ref: 1999, John Vernon, chapter III, in A Book of Reasons, New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 110:
text: Little wonder that corners were cut, bad materials made do for good and jerry-building was one of the curses of the age.
ref: 2012, Jerry White, A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century, Harvard University Press, published 2013, Part One, Chapter I, p. 28:
glosses: To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.
glosses: To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
glosses: To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.
Related terms: jerryrig
retro future
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retro futures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of retrofuture
properly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.li/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒp.ə.li/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒp.li/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒpəli
Forms: form: more properly
form: most properly
Etymology: From proper + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Does she think the repairs have been properly done?
text: I know that I am spoiling your life that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant[sic] even write this properly.
ref: 1941, Virginia Woolf, suicide note:
text: Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably
glosses: individually; in one's own manner.
examples: text: I was properly tired after that party.
glosses: Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.
Synonyms: sense: suitably
word: duly
Samuel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmjuːəl/
Etymology: From Latin Samuēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl, literally “name of God”) https://www.etymonline.com/word/samuel. It is also taken to mean "heard by God" or "asked of God."
According to 1 Samuel 1:20, the Biblical judge and prophet was given this name due to its similarity to a Hebrew word that means "heard by God."
Senses: examples: text: It was quite unnecessary to call Samuel Weller; for Samuel Weller stepped briskly into the box the instant his name was pronounced; and placing his hat on the floor, and his arms on the rail, took a bird’s–eye view of the Bar, and a comprehensive survey of the Bench, with a remarkably cheerful and lively aspect. ‘What’s your name, sir?’ inquired the judge. / ‘Sam Weller, my Lord,’ replied that gentleman. / ‘Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. / ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord,’ replied Sam; ‘I never had occasion to spell it more than once or twice in my life, but I spells it with a “V.” ’ / Here a voice in the gallery exclaimed aloud, ‘Quite right too, Samivel, quite right. Put it down a “we,” my Lord, put it down a “we.”’
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 34”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: I went down the dark road between the hawthorn hedges puzzling over the why of like, repeating SAMUEL to myself and aloud and listening to the rolling wonder in its sound that had charmed her soul and led her life in tragic places. SAMUEL! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Aye, there was!
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Strength of the Strong/Samuel:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
synonyms: word: Sam.
glosses: One of two books of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
examples: text: Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 1:20:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The primary author and central character of the first book of Samuel.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: sense: pet forms
word: Sam
sense: pet forms
word: Sammie
sense: pet forms
word: Sammy
english: this etymology is speculative
translation: this etymology is speculative
word: Samantha
Sam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæm/
ipa: /ˈsæːm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: Sams
Senses: examples: text: While the plane is “perfectly capable” of making the trip without these modifications, Zara’s father Sam Rutherford says these changes have given both him and Zara an extra sense of security.
ref: 2021 August 18, Rebecca Cairns, “This teenage aviator hopes to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Samuel or Samson.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
glosses: A surname from Cantonese, a romanization of 岑 (cén) or 沈 (shěn).
glosses: A town in Alibori department, Benin.
glosses: A town in Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso.
glosses: A town in Bourzanga department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
glosses: A village in Kongoussi department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
glosses: A Trans-New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea.
glosses: A surname from Khmer
glosses: The Sam Maguire Cup awarded to the All-Ireland GAA football winning team.
Derived terms: Sam Scratch
Slippery Sam
Sam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæm/
ipa: /ˈsæːm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: Sams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dicky Sam (“a man from Liverpool”)
synonyms: word: Dicky Sam
extra: a man from Liverpool
Derived terms: Silent Sam
Related terms: Sammy
Sam Sawet
tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.di/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: tidier
form: tidiest
Etymology: From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).
Senses: examples: text: She always kept her desk immaculately tidy; nothing was ever out of place.
glosses: Arranged neatly and in order.
examples: text: Keep Britain tidy by picking up litter.
glosses: Not messy; neat and controlled.
glosses: Satisfactory; comfortable.
examples: text: The scheme made a tidy profit.
text: Two hundred thousand people! Miss Glory, that's a tidy lot. Not bad.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
glosses: Generous, considerable.
examples: text: if weather be fair and tidy
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry:
glosses: In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
glosses: Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
glosses: Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
qualifier: data science
glosses: Normalized in a certain way that optimizes for data analysis.
raw_tags: of data in a dataset
Synonyms: sense: arranged neatly
word: neat
word: orderly
word: presentable
word: spick and span
word: clean
sense: at the right time
word: opportune
word: seasonable
word: timely
sense: appropriate or suitable
word: apt
word: fit
word: suitable
Derived terms: neat and tidy
Related terms: tidily
tidiness
tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.di/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: tidies
form: tidying
form: tidied
form: tidied
Etymology: From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).
Senses: glosses: To make tidy; to neaten.
Derived terms: tidy one's sock drawer
tidy up
tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.di/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: tidies
Etymology: From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).
Senses: examples: text: desk tidy; sink tidy; cable tidy
text: It was in the days when[…]every scrap of cotton or linen found its way into the ‘tidy’.
ref: 1863, William Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of distress, in refuges and homes of charity, London, page 207:
text: NORRIS'S SINK TIDY. J NORRIS AND SONS, Sunningdale, near Ascot, the inventors of the "Little Friend" soap-tray, have extended the usefulness of this utensil by designing a sink-tidy for carrying three of the trays in the manner shown in the engraving. The tidy is formed by a strip of light wood[…]The price at which the tidy is offered virtually places it within the reach of everyone.
ref: 1895 July 6, The Ironmonger: Builders Merchant and Hardwareman, page 13:
text: Inside there it was, the 1337 Revolving Desk Tidy.[…]The round "tidy" was divided into six segments "for all types of small sundries," and looked a bit like a grapefruit cut across the middle.
ref: 2020, James Ward, The Perfection of the Paperclip, page 11:
glosses: A container or other device for storing or organizing loose items in a tidy fashion.
raw_tags: with a modifier
glosses: A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
examples: text: A much coarser cotton, according to the fancy of the worker, may be used for the trimmings of night dresses, petticoats, D'Oyleys, tidies, etc.
ref: 1846, Miss Lambert, The Handbook of Needlework:
glosses: A child's pinafore.
examples: text: The Tydie for her notes as delicate as they
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 13, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The wren.
Derived terms: cable tidy
desk tidy
hair-tidy
sink tidy
tidy-up
tidy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.di/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Etymology: From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).
Senses: glosses: Expression of agreement or positive acknowledgement, usually in reply to a question; great, fine.
disagree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹiː/
ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: disagrees
form: disagreeing
form: disagreed
form: disagreed
Etymology: From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”), from Anglo-Norman disagreer, disagrer, desagreer (“to refuse assent”), from Old French desagreer, desagrëer (“to be disagreeable; to be unpleasant”) (modern French désagréer (“to displease”)); the English word is analysable as dis- + agree.
Senses: examples: text: John disagreed with Mary frequently.
text: Bob says cats are friendlier than dogs, but I disagree.
text: Not only did I oppose President George H.W. Bush on his China policy, I strenuously disagreed with Democratic President Bill Clinton on his trade and human rights policies toward China and Tibet as well. This was difficult because I otherwise greatly supported and admired his leadership.
ref: 2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 96–97:
text: You might think you look great in the full, body-hugging Lycra gimp suit, but chances are your girlfriend disagrees – according to the poll only 7% of the women asked found it a good look.
ref: 2009 October 9, Peter Walker, The Guardian:
text: If her manner of opposing the debate was deemed objectionable (she scoffed a little, saying that the lack of female parity in society was more of an issue), there were ways for people to disagree without resorting to lurid terrorisations.
ref: 2015 November 1, Barbara Ellen, “Let’s never get inured to online rape threats”, in The Observer:
text: Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.
ref: 2024 March 4, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: beg to differ
quarrel
dispute
glosses: To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
examples: text: My results in the laboratory consistently disagree with yours.
glosses: To fail to conform or correspond with.
Derived terms: agree to disagree
disagreeable
disagreeableness
disagreeably
disagreeance
disagreement
disagreer
disagree with
disagrees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disagree
disagreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disagree
disagreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disagree
disagreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disagreeings
Senses: examples: text: I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
ref: 1845, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 18, page 7:
glosses: Disagreement.
squalid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒlɪd/
rhymes: -ɒlɪd
Forms: form: squalider
form: squalidest
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin squalidus, from squalere (“to be rough or dirty”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who was the God of Speech) with the upper part like a man, and the lower like a beast, to signifie that Truth is fair and comely, but a Lye squalid and Deformed.
ref: 1686, The Refin'd Courtier, or a Correction of several indecencies crept into civil conversation., London: Matthew Gilliflower:
glosses: Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
examples: text: A squalid attempt to buy votes.
text: Minister, I hardly think that we can exploit our Sovereign by involving her in some might call a squalid vote-grubbing exercise.
ref: 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):
glosses: Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.
Derived terms: squalider
squalidly
squalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒlɪd/
rhymes: -ɒlɪd
Forms: form: squalids
Senses: examples: text: Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods[…]
ref: 2008, David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates, page 126:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.
deletia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delete + -ia.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In an email reply, material omitted from the quoted original.
deconstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/
ipa: /diːkənˈstɹʊkʃən/
Forms: form: deconstructions
Etymology: From de- + construction or deconstruct + -ion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
literature
media
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.
examples: text: He shall be empowered to require the immediate deconstruction and re-execution to his satisfaction of any such work as may appear to him to have been executed improperly […]
ref: 1865, John Blenkarn, Practical specifications of works executed in architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, page 47:
text: A group of men demand a reform the beginning of which must be a work of deconstruction, if I may use such a word.
ref: 1882 June 24, “Home Rule”, in The Nineteenth Century, page 859:
glosses: The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.
Derived terms: deconstructional
deconstructionism
deconstructionist
Related terms: deconstruct
wad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏd
ipa: /wɒd/
enpr: wŏd
ipa: /wɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: wads
form: wadding
form: wadded
form: wadded
form: wadde
Etymology: Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.
Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.
Senses: examples: text: She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
text: […] if you lay any fearnbrakes or other trash about them to entertain the moisture, and skreen it from the heat, let it not be wadded so close, or suffer’d to lie so long, as to contract any mustiness, but rather loose and easie, that the Air may have free intercourse, and to break the more intense ardours of the scorching Sun-beams.
ref: 1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, page 181:
text: She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […]
ref: 1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122:
text: Mitch wadded the note, and tossed it over the cliff.
ref: 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 10, column 1:
text: She wadded Marian into her chair, which was lumpy with garments in progressive stages of dirtiness, and tucked a towel around her neck.
ref: 1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 25, in The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 228:
glosses: To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
glosses: To wager.
examples: to wad a gun
glosses: To insert or force a wad into.
examples: text: to wad a cloak
text: […] upon his Body were several Flannel Wastcoats, a Cassock of thick Cloth, with a thick wadded Gown, and about his Shoulders the Quilt which he had taken from off the Bed.
ref: 1721, John Midriff, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours, London: J. Roberts, pages 7–8:
text: Could you believe it possible that through such a night as this they choose to sleep under those wadded cotton coverlets, and dread not instantaneous asphixiation?
ref: 1851, Richard Francis Burton, chapter 1, in Goa, and the Blue Mountains, London: Richard Bentley, page 11:
text: If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
ref: 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 2, Chapter 20:
glosses: To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
wad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏd
ipa: /wɒd/
enpr: wŏd
ipa: /wɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: wads
form: wadd
Senses: examples: text: Wad was worth the equivalent of £1,300 a tonne, and some people felt it was worth risking a whipping to smuggle it out.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox, Sceptre, published 2003, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Plumbago, graphite.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
muffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌfl̩/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: muffles
form: muffling
form: muffled
form: muffled
Etymology: From Middle English muflen (“to muffle”), aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler (“to wrap up, muffle”), from moufle (“mitten”), from Medieval Latin muffula (“a muff”), of Germanic origin (—first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 C.E.), from Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) from *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) (from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”)) + *vël (“skin, hide”) (from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”). Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”), English mulch) + *fell (“hide, skin”).
Senses: examples: text: The face lies muffled up within the garment.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: It is much to the Honour of our Engliſh VVives, that they have never given up that fundamental Point [the "right of cuckoldom"]; and that tho' in former Ages they vvere muffled up in Darkneſs and Superſtition, yet that Notion ſeem'd engraven on their Minds, and the Impreſſion ſo ſtrong, that nothing could impair it.
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Mrs. Bull’s Vindication of the Indispensable Duty of Cuckoldom, Incumbent upon Wives, incase of the Tyranny, Infidelity, or Insufficiency of Husbands: Being a Full Answer to the Doctor’s Sermon against Adultery”, in John Bull in His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], Edinburgh: […] James Watson, […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.
examples: text: to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock
text: I intend to muffle the sweeps and row the schooner up to the head of the creek there, from which point we can command the pile of sandal-wood with our gun.
ref: 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
glosses: To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.
examples: text: The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 397:
glosses: To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
glosses: To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
glosses: To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
Derived terms: muffler
muffle up
unmuffle
rhinotillexomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹaɪnəʊtɪˌlɛksəˈmeɪniə/
ipa: /ˌɹaɪnəʊtɪˌlɛksəˈmeɪnjə/
Etymology: From rhino- (“nose, nasal”) + Latin tillexis (“habit of plucking”, see below) + -o- + -mania (“obsession”). The tillexis stem is seemingly a New Latin borrowing from Ancient Greek τίλλω (tíllō, “I pluck or pull”). There is a divergence regarding the exo affix. It is suggested it may derive from ἔξω (éxō, “out”) or έξη (éxē, “habit”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Compulsive nose-picking; the insertion of a finger into one's nose.
Derived terms: rhinotillexomaniac
Related terms: rhinotillexis
innit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.ɪt/
ipa: [ˈɪn.ɪʔ]
ipa: /ˈɪ(n).nɪt/
ipa: [ˈɪnɪʔ]
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Senses: examples: text: Innit your birthday today?
text: It's your birthday today, innit?
synonyms: word: ain't it
glosses: Contraction of isn't it.
examples: text: Innit dolphins are a type of whale?
text: You were dissing my girl, innit?
glosses: Used as a replacement for any other negative tag question, irrespective of person, number, or verb. May precede the statement.
examples: text: I like pop music, innit.
glosses: Used as a replacement for any other negative tag question, irrespective of person, number, or verb. May precede the statement.
Used as a discourse marker.
Related terms: dunnit
perdu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəːˈdjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: perdue
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French perdu, originally after sentinelle perdue.
Senses: examples: text: a perdue captain
ref: c. 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subiect”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Stationed in an exposed or hazardous position; hidden in ambush. Originally as sentinel perdu.
examples: text: Among certain grizzled sea-gossips of the gun decks and forecastle went a rumor perdue […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: In a dangerous situation; lost, desperate.
examples: text: He should lie Perdue who is to walk the round.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
text: I stood perdu behind Mr Grimbold; a tall personage, whose broad shoulders, however, just permitted me to peep over at the Major, who had not yet espied me.
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 346:
glosses: Hidden; concealed from sight. Chiefly with lie.
Related terms: cire perdue
pierre perdu
profil perdu
recherche du temps perdu
perdu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəːˈdjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: perdus
form: perdue
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French perdu, originally after sentinelle perdue.
Senses: glosses: One placed on watch, or in ambush.
examples: text: To watch, poor perdu, / With this thin helm?
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 35:
glosses: A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.
hairdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛəˌduː/
Forms: form: hairdos
form: hairdoo
Etymology: From hair + do.
Senses: examples: text: Jennifer Garner is a star of many talents and now many hairdos.
ref: 2023 September 5, Michelle Lee, “Jennifer Garner Recreates Her 'Alias' Character's Red Hair 20 Years Later”, in People:
text: Between an asymmetrical bob and pixie cut, Houston paired her short hairdo with a glazed red lip, tonal purple eyeshadow, and chocolate blush.
ref: 2024 September 8, India Espy-Jones, “17 Of Whitney Houston's Most Iconic Beauty Moments”, in ESSENCE:
glosses: A hairstyle.
glosses: A haircut.
Derived terms: hairdoed
hairdon't
fáinne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fáinnes
form: fáinni
Senses: examples: text: The Dublin Gaels with their golden fáinnes
ref: 2000, Michael O'Sullivan, Brendan Behan: A Life, page 158:
glosses: Alternative form of fainne.
wilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: wilts
form: wilting
form: wilted
form: wilted
Etymology: Recorded since 1691, probably an alteration of welk, itself from Middle English welken, presumed from Middle Dutch (preserved in modern inchoative verwelken) or Middle Low German welken (“to wither”), cognate with Old High German irwelhen (“to become soft”).
Senses: glosses: To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
examples: text: Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.
ref: 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
text: Caught between hails of 5″/38 fire and working Mk 14 torpedoes, on the one hand, and 16-inch batteries backed up by even more 5″/38 guns, on the other, the Japanese cruisers rapidly began to wilt under the sustained bombardment; firing off any remaining torpedoes they had at any targets that they could find and bring to bear, the survivors wheeled about and began to beat a retreat.
ref: 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 40:43 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
glosses: To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.
examples: text: Peer pressure on both partners, even from within the lesbian community, can help to wilt a budding intergenerational romance.
ref: 1982 February 6, Mary E. O'Shaughnessy, “Younger And Older Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 4:
glosses: To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).
glosses: To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.
wilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: wilts
Etymology: Recorded since 1691, probably an alteration of welk, itself from Middle English welken, presumed from Middle Dutch (preserved in modern inchoative verwelken) or Middle Low German welken (“to wither”), cognate with Old High German irwelhen (“to become soft”).
Senses: glosses: The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.
Derived terms: koa wilt
oak wilt
pineapple wilt
Stewart's wilt