cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Babylonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Babylonish
form: most Babylonish
Etymology: From Babylon + -ish. Compare Old English babilōnisċ.
Senses: examples: text: I ſawe amõge yͤ ſpoiles a coſtly Babiloniſh garment, and two hũdꝛeth Sycles of ſyluer and a tunge of golde, woꝛth fiftye Sycles in weight, […]
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Josua vij:[21], folio iiij, verso, column 2:
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
glosses: Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.
examples: text: the […] injurious nickname of Babylonish
ref: a. 1656, Thomas Gage, Voyages […] :
glosses: Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
glosses: Confused; Babel-like.
babyroussa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyroussas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babiroussa.
babyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyships
Etymology: From baby + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.
Related terms: babyhood
bac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacs
Etymology: Borrowed from French bac.
Senses: glosses: A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
glosses: A vat or cistern.
bac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of baccalaureate.
Derived terms: post-bac
baccalaureate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækəˈlɔːɹɪət/
Forms: form: baccalaureates
form: bacc
form: bac
Etymology: First attested in 1625; borrowed from French baccalauréat, from Medieval Latin baccalaureātus, from Medieval Latin baccalaureus, an alteration made to baccalārius (“young man aspiring to knighthood, apprentice, bachelor”) for it to resemble bacca lauri (“laurel berry”) (the ancient symbol of victory). See bachelor and -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: A bachelor's degree.
glosses: A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to go on to higher education.
glosses: A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
glosses: The International Baccalaureate.
Synonyms: sense: first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities
word: bachelor's degree
Derived terms: postbaccalaureate
Related terms: advanced degree
doctorate
master's degree
baccara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.əˌɹɑː/
/ˈbɑːk-/
Etymology: From French baccara.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baccarat (“French card game”).
baccare
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: backare
Etymology: back and Latin -āre. A cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
Senses: examples: text: Baccare! you are marvelous forward.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Stand back! give place!
bacchanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækənəl/
Forms: form: more bacchanal
form: most bacchanal
form: Bacchanal
Etymology: From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.
Senses: examples: text: Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes / In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, / Purple and gushing […]
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
glosses: Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Derived terms: bacchanalize
bacchanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækənəl/
Forms: form: bacchanals
form: Bacchanal
Etymology: From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.
Senses: glosses: A devotee of Bacchus.
examples: text: The riot of the tipsie Bachanals
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
glosses: The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
glosses: Drunken revelry; an orgy.
glosses: A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
glosses: drama, ruckus, fiasco
Bacchanalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbækəˈneɪli.ə/
Etymology: From Latin Bacchānālia (“feast of Bacchus”), plural of Bacchānal (“a place devoted to Bacchus”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bacchanalia; a drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.
Bacchanalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbækəˈneɪli.ən/
Forms: form: bacchanalian
Etymology: From Bacchanalia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: bacchic, bacchian; Dionysiac, Dionysian; dionysiac, dionysian
text: Even Bacchanalian madness has its charms.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus, relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Bacchanalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbækəˈneɪli.ən/
Forms: form: Bacchanalians
form: bacchanalian
Etymology: From Bacchanalia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
ref: 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
bacchanalianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacchanalianisms
Etymology: From bacchanalian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
unlimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlɪmɪtɪd/
Etymology: From unlimit + -ed or un- + limited.
Senses: examples: text: The Scottish Region is issuing a Day Rail-Rover Ticket, available at 12 hours' notice, permitting unlimited travel in an area bounded by Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Dundee, Perth, Comrie, Callander, Stirling and Falkirk for 25s. (children, 12s. 6d.). . . .
ref: 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 523:
glosses: limitless or without bounds; unrestricted
Synonyms: sense: without bounds
word: infinite
word: endless
word: everlasting
word: eternal
word: infinite
word: unrestricted
Derived terms: unlimited company
unlimitedly
unlimitedness
unlimited pump
unlimited register machine
additament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: additaments
Etymology: From Latin additāmentum, from the past participle stem of addere (“to add”).
Senses: examples: text: Whenever any menstruum or other additament is employed, together with the fire, to obtain a sulphur or a salt from a body, we may well take the freedom to examine, whether or no the menstruum do barely help to separate the principle obtained by it...
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:
text: Nature has furnish'd his foot with another additament much more curious and admirable, and that is, with a couple of Palms, Patterns or Soles […]
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVII:
text: 15 March 1806, Charles Lamb, letter to Mr. Hazlitt
And there are you perverting Nature in lying landscapes, filched from old rusty Titians, such as I can scrape up here to send you, with an additament from Shropshire nature thrown in to make the whole look unnatural.
glosses: An addition; something added.
additionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɪʃənəɹi/
ipa: /əˈdɪʃənɹi/
ipa: /əˈdɪʃənɛɹi/
Forms: form: more additionary
form: most additionary
Etymology: From addition + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The countrey parson […] stands fast in 'the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free' [Galatians v. 1]. This liberty he compasseth by one distinction, and that is of what is necessary and what is additionary.
ref: a. 1634 (date written; published 1652), George Herbert, “A Priest to the Temple, or The Countrey Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert. […] (The Fuller Worthies’ Library), volume III (Prose), London: […] [Robson and Sons] for private circulation, published 1874, →OCLC, chapter XXXI (The Parson in Liberty), page 193:
glosses: Synonym of additional.
synonyms: word: additional
addititious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin addititius, from addere.
Senses: examples: text: This force is called the addititious part of the disturbing force.
ref: 1834, John Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy:
glosses: Additive; Increasing.
periwinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl/
Forms: form: periwinkles
Etymology: Diminutive of Middle English perwinke, from Old English perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca).
Senses: examples: text: The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose if some of the leaves be chewed.
ref: 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC:
text: He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 137:
text: Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 115:
glosses: Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
glosses: Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
examples: text: And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.
ref: 2025 February 21, Leah Dolan, “How the Superman ‘S’ became fashion’s favorite logo”, in CNN:
glosses: A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
Synonyms: sense: Vinca
word: myrtle
sense: Vinca
word: vinca
sense: Vinca
word: creeping myrtle
Derived terms: taxonomic: Vinca major
word: bigleaf periwinkle
taxonomic: Vinca major
word: blue periwinkle
taxonomic: Vinca minor
word: common periwinkle
taxonomic: Vinca major
word: greater periwinkle
taxonomic: Vinca herbacea
word: herbaceous periwinkle
taxonomic: Vinca major
word: large periwinkle
taxonomic: Catharanthus roseus
word: Madagascar periwinkle
word: periwinkled
word: periwinkler
word: periwinkling
word: rose periwinkle
taxonomic: Catharanthus roseus
word: rosy periwinkle
periwinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl/
Forms: form: more periwinkle
form: most periwinkle
Etymology: Diminutive of Middle English perwinke, from Old English perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca).
Senses: glosses: Of pale bluish purple colour.
Related terms: vinblastine
vincristine
periwinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl/
Forms: form: periwinkles
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], alteration of *pinewinkle (compare English dialectal pennywinkle), from Old English pīnewincle, compound of Latin pīna (“kind of mussel”), itself from Ancient Greek πίνη (pínē), variant of πίννα (pínna, “mussel”)) and Old English wincel (“corner”) (compare dialectal Danish vinkel (“snail shell”)). More at winch and wink.
Senses: examples: text: He was working a pin into a periwinkle shell, turning it to extract the toothsome morsel of meat.
ref: 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 217:
glosses: A mollusk of family Littorinidae.
Synonyms: sense: mollusk
word: winkle
Derived terms: taxonomic: Littorina scutulata
word: checkered periwinkle
taxonomic: Littorina littorea
word: common periwinkle
taxonomic: Littorina obtusata
word: flat periwinkle
taxonomic: Turbo sarmaticus
word: giant periwinkle
taxonomic: Littorina saxatilis
word: rough periwinkle
adducent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adducent
form: most adducent
Etymology: From Latin adducens, present participle of adducere.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: adducting
antonyms: abducent
glosses: Related to the muscles of the body which pull one part towards another.
adduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd(j)uːs/
ipa: /əˈdjuːs/
ipa: /əˈdʒuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: adduces
form: adducing
form: adduced
form: adduced
Etymology: From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
Senses: examples: text: Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
ref: 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
text: For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 2:
text: But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.
ref: 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
text: Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To produce in proof.
Synonyms: advance
allege
assign
cite
mention
name
plead
point out
present
quote
urge
Derived terms: adduceable
adducer
adducible
readduce
mini-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭnʹ-ē
ipa: /ˈmɪn.i/
Etymology: Shortened from miniature, ultimately from Latin minium (“red lead”). Influenced by similarity to minimum and minus.
Senses: glosses: Smaller version of an item than usual.
glosses: With the hemline well above the knee.
Synonyms: word: micro-
word: nano-
word: -ette
word: -ee
word: -y
word: -icle
word: -cule
word: -ule
word: -ole
miniskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnɪskəːt/
Forms: form: miniskirts
form: mini-skirt
form: mini skirt
Etymology: From mini- + skirt.
Senses: examples: text: People who are “switched-on” and can twitch to prove it. And now–the latest—the chest toupee and the mini-skirt. […] For the benefit of those who are neither switched-on nor gear, the mini-skirt is actually a semi-skirt.
ref: 1966 May 29, Russell Baker, “Observer: London Is I-Cumen In, Sing Cu-Cu”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A short skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level.
Derived terms: miniskirted
Related terms: minidress
sundress
hot pants
rah-rah
Daisy Dukes
microskirt
miniature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭn′ĭchər
note: non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, General Australian
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃəɹ/
enpr: mĭn′ē-əchər
enpr: mĭn′ē-əcho͝or
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
enpr: mĭn′ē-āchər
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪjetʃə(r)/
Forms: form: miniatures
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).
Senses: glosses: Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
examples: text: There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.
text: The twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany are conceived as a miniature of the whole year, the character of each particular day answering to the character of a particular month.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 324:
glosses: A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
examples: text: The miniature was a picture of Leo's Greek mother - a lovely, dark-eyed creature.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
glosses: The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
glosses: An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
examples: text: Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.
glosses: A musical composition which is short in duration.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
examples: text: Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.
qualifier: roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games
glosses: A token in a game representing a unit or character.
glosses: Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
examples: text: There's no miniature / In her fair face, but is a copious theme / Which would, discoursed at large of, make a volume.
ref: 1627, Philip Massinger, “The Great Duke of Florence”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 5, scene 3, page 221:
glosses: A particular feature or trait.
Derived terms: in miniature
mini
mini-
miniaturism
miniaturist
miniaturization
miniaturisation
miniaturize
miniaturise
miniature
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭn′ĭchər
note: non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, General Australian
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃəɹ/
enpr: mĭn′ē-əchər
enpr: mĭn′ē-əcho͝or
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
enpr: mĭn′ē-āchər
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪjetʃə(r)/
Forms: form: more miniature
form: most miniature
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).
Senses: examples: text: I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.
text: Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. ¶ Just a few millimetres across, the "cerebral organoids" are built up of layers of brain cells with defined regions that resemble those seen in immature, embryonic brains.
ref: 2013 September 6, Alok Jha, “Miniature brains grown in lab”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 39:
glosses: Smaller than normal.
Derived terms: bigature
microminiature
microminiaturize
miniac
miniature donkey
miniature golf
miniature poodle
miniature scarlet fever
miniature sheet
miniaturistic
subminiature
ultraminiature
miniature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭn′ĭchər
note: non-rhotic, Received Pronunciation, General Australian
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃəɹ/
enpr: mĭn′ē-əchər
enpr: mĭn′ē-əcho͝or
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃəɹ/
enpr: mĭn′ē-āchər
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪjetʃə(r)/
Forms: form: miniatures
form: miniaturing
form: miniatured
form: miniatured
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).
Senses: examples: text: If it be ever so little removed, or seen thro’ the miniaturing End of the Perspective Glass, it either wholly escapes their Sight, or appears to them a mere Minutity.
ref: 1755, John Shebbeare, An Answer to a Pamphlet, called A Second Letter to the People, London: M. Cooper, page 29:
text: The smile of the babe was in my eye, and in my heart. I saw miniatur’d forth, the features of the murdered Edward.
ref: 1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett, Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 2, Letter 67, p. ,101:
text: c. 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Joseph Cottle, cited in Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman, Rees, 1837, Volume 2, p. 131,
Now what the globe is in geography, miniaturing in order to manifest the truth, such is a poem to that image of God, which we were created into […]
text: […] a moon holds its gray glories miniatured in rock and dust.
ref: 1968, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 5, in Nova, New York: Doubleday:
text: Dad had had Lily’s Haiti photos developed, and […] among them was a sunset miniatured in purple […]
ref: 2009, Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching, New York: Nan A. Talese, pages 98-99:
glosses: To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.
minicomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicomputers
Etymology: From mini- + computer.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer smaller than a mainframe, but larger than a microcomputer.
Synonyms: midrange computer
mini
deskside computer
pedestal computer
Derived terms: superminicomputer
Related terms: microcomputer
server computer
pedestal server
deskside server
adelocodonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄδηλος (ádēlos, “invisible”) + κώδων (kṓdōn, “bell”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: phanerocodonic
glosses: Applied to hydroids' sexual zooids that have a saclike form and do not become free.
adelopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈdɛləpɒd/
Forms: form: adelopods
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄδηλος (ádēlos, “invisible”) + -pod.
Senses: examples: text: […] adelopods, such as clams, quahaugs, and shell-skids.
ref: 1871, The Illustrated Police News, volume 11, page 2:
text: Maiden, gliding o'er the sod, / As by the Graces' sandal shod, / Art thou an adelopod?
ref: 1878, William Tucker Washburn, Poems, page 227:
text: The adelopod, we should think, might walk upon the cream of time without disturbing it
ref: 1878, Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, page 275:
glosses: An animal having feet that are not apparent.
adelphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adelphias
Etymology: From translingual Adelphia.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Adelphia, of Latin America.
adempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adempts
form: adempting
form: adempted
form: adempted
Etymology: From Latin ademptum, past participle of adimo (“I take away”).
Senses: examples: text: without any sinister suspicion of any thing in the same being added or adempt
ref: 1549, Hugh Latimer, “To the reader”, in The Second Sermon preached at Westminster, 15 March 1549:
glosses: To take away.
ademption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ademptions
Etymology: From Latin adēmptiō (“a taking away”), from adēmptus, perfect passive participle of adimō (“take away”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + emō (“buy; obtain, take”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of wills, the determination of what happens when property left under a will is no longer in the testator's estate when the testator dies.
Related terms: adeem
adenalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aden- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pain in a gland.
adeniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adeno- (from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”)) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: adeniform carcinoma
text: adeniform structure
text: adeniform tissue
synonyms: adenoid
glosses: Shaped like a gland
adenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From adeno- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The division of anatomy describing the glands
Derived terms: adenographic
Related terms: endocrinology
adenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈad.ɪn.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈæd.əˌnɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈædˌnɔɪd/
Etymology: Late 19th century borrowing from French adénoïde, from New Latin adenoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓δενοειδής (ădenoeidḗs, “glandular”), from ᾰ̓δήν (ădḗn, “gland”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-oid, -like”); equivalent to aden- + -oid. The noun is derived from ellipsis of tumeur adénoïde (“glandular tumor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: lymphoid
glosses: Of or relating to lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: adenoidal
glosses: Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, affected with, or associated with abnormally enlarged adenoids.
adenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈad.ɪn.ɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈæd.əˌnɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈædˌnɔɪd/
Forms: form: adenoids
Etymology: Late 19th century borrowing from French adénoïde, from New Latin adenoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓δενοειδής (ădenoeidḗs, “glandular”), from ᾰ̓δήν (ădḗn, “gland”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-oid, -like”); equivalent to aden- + -oid. The noun is derived from ellipsis of tumeur adénoïde (“glandular tumor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an abnormally enlarged mass of lymphatic tissue at the back of the pharynx, often obstructing the nasal and ear passages and hindering speaking and breathing in young children.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Luschka's tonsil
nasopharyngeal tonsil
pharyngeal tonsil
third tonsil
tonsilla adenoidea
tonsilla pharyngealis
hypernyms: tonsil
coordinate_terms: lingual tonsil
palatine tonsil
glosses: Such a mass when not abnormally enlarged, covered by ciliated epithelium and located in the roof and posterior wall of the nasopharynx at the back of the throat behind the uvula.
Synonyms: pharyngeal tonsil
Derived terms: adenoidal
adenoid cystic carcinoma
adenoidectomy
adenoidism
adenoiditis
adenoid organ
adenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adenological
form: most adenological
Etymology: From adenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to adenology (the study of glands).
adenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adeno- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The part of physiology that deals with the glands.
Related terms: adenological
endocrinology
adenophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adeno- + -phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing glands on the leaves.
addibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From addible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 2, Chapter 28 “Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas,” p. 168,
[…] we have no more a clear Idea of infinite Parts in Matter, then we have a clear Idea of an infinite Number, by being able still to add new Numbers to any assigned Number we have: endless Divisibility giving us no more a clear and distinct Idea of actually infinite Parts, than endless Addibility (if I may so speak) gives us a clear and distinct Idea of an actually infinite Number:
text: 1731, Edmund Law, Notes in his translation of An Essay on the Origin of Evil by William King, Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, Chapter 1, Section 3, p. 58,
The generally receiv’d Notion of Eternity, as consisting in a continual addibility of successive Duration, is, I think, the very same thing as an infinite Series, and consequently liable to the same objections:
text: Late 18th–early 19th century, Jeremy Bentham, manuscript cited in Élie Halévy, La Formation du radicalisme philosophique, Paris: Félix Alcan, Volume 3, 1904, note 55, p. 481,
’Tis vain to talk of adding quantities which after the addition will continue distinct as they were before, one man’s happiness will never be another man’s happiness: a gain to one man is no gain to another: you might as well pretend to add 20 apples to 20 pears, after which you had done that could not be 40 of any one thing but 20 of each just as there was before. This addibility of happiness of different subjects, however when considered rigorously it may appear fictitious, is a postulation without the allowance of which all political reasoning is at a stand:
text: A magnified and non-natural man does not satisfy our idea of God: we cannot take the qualities of a limited individual, and supposing the qualities enormously exaggerated, flatter ourselves with the notion that we have imagined the Deity. In just the same way we cannot take an infinite addibility of moments to be the equivalent of eternity.
ref: 1886, William Leonard Courtney, Constructive Ethics, London: Chapman & Hall, Part 2, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 206:
synonyms: increasability
increasableness
antonyms: inaddibility
glosses: Capability of addition; capability of being added to or added together.
addice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addices
Senses: glosses: An adze.
adderwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adderworts
form: adder's wort
Etymology: adder + wort, as it was reputed to cure snakebite.
Senses: glosses: Common bistort (Bistorta officinalis, syn. Persicaria bistorta) or snakeweed.
Related terms: adder's grass
mammoth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæməθ/
rhymes: -æməθ
Forms: form: more mammoth
form: most mammoth
Etymology: From obsolete Russian ма́мант (mámant), modern ма́монт (mámont), probably from a Uralic word, such as Proto-Mansi *mān-oŋt (“earth horn”). Possibly influenced by behemoth.
Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.
Senses: examples: text: I recieved [sic] from the persons to whom the inclosed is directed, a present of a quarter of a Mammoth-veal which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb.
ref: 1801, Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian Parks Boyd, The papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 August to 30 November 1801, volume 35, Princeton University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 479:
text: A baker in this city offers Mammoth bread for sale. We suppose that his gigantic loaves were baked at a Salt Lick, and perhaps […]
ref: 1802, Richard Hopwood Thornton, edited by Louise Wardell Hanley, An American Glossary: Being an Attempt to Illustrate Certain Americanisms Upon Historical Principles, volume 2, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, published 1912, page 571:
text: “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”
ref: 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, “The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull”, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine):
text: “[…] The task is mammoth but not hopeless and slowly we keep things going until this transition period is past.”
ref: 1999, Albert Isaac Slomovitz, The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History, New York University Press, page 103:
text: The governor of the region said that all of the 13 missing were safe after a mammoth search and rescue operation.
ref: 2018 July 2, Samuel Osborne, “Thai cave search: All 12 boys and football coach found alive after nine days missing, governor says”, in independent.co.uk, Independent, retrieved 02 Jul 2018:
text: Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
Synonyms: sense: very large
word: colossal
sense: very large
word: enormous
sense: very large
word: gigantic
sense: very large
word: huge
sense: very large
word: titanic
Derived terms: mammoth powder
mammoth steppe
mammoth tree
mammoth-wise
apolaustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəˈlɔːstɪk/
rhymes: -ɔːstɪk
Forms: form: more apolaustic
form: most apolaustic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπολαυστικός (apolaustikós, “enjoyable”).
Senses: examples: text: When Trinity put him up in college—within four years he became a Fellow—there was no ‘Alan St. Aubyn’ apolausticity for him at all.
ref: 1967 C. P. Snow, Foreword to G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology, Cambridge University Press
glosses: Dedicated to enjoyment.
recidivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪdɪvɪst/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪdəvɪst/
Forms: form: recidivists
Etymology: From French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.
ref: 1914, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 2, in The Uttermost Farthing:
text: Persistent recidivists are "accidentally" left on the next habitable world. This practice of abandoning criminals on other people's planets is a point of friction between the quarians and the systems they pass through. Captains rarely have another choice; with space and resources at a premium, supporting a non-productive prison population is not an option.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Law and Defense Codex entry:
synonyms: repeat offender
glosses: One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
Derived terms: recidivistic
recidivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪdɪvɪst/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪdəvɪst/
Forms: form: more recidivist
form: most recidivist
Etymology: From French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To return to Macbeth, I should like to note another psychological intuition of [William] Shakespeare’s, which is that women commit fewer crimes than men; but when they commit them they are more cruel and more obstinately recidivist than men. Lady Macbeth, for example, is more inhumanly ferocious than her husband.
ref: 1897 August, Enrico Ferri, “The Delinquent in Art and in Literature”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXXX, number CCCCLXXVIII, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 237, column 1:
text: Court programs, a comparatively recent innovation in the rehabilitation of drunkenness offenders, originally stemmed from the interest of individual judges and magistrates concerned about the treadmill of waste among recidivist alcoholics.
ref: 1971, J. George Strachan, “Legal and Law Enforcement”, in Practical Alcoholism Programming: An Honorable Approach to Man’s Alcoholism Problem, Vancouver, B.C.: Mitchell Press Limited, →OCLC, part I (Programming Defined), chapter 3 (An Overall Approach to Programming), page 74:
text: Although there is no single factor underlying aggressive behavior in children, my own 30-plus years looking into the relationship between excessive parental discipline and delinquency has convinced me that the violent, recidivist, male juvenile delinquent who was not raised on the belt, board, cord, or fist is nonexistent.
ref: 2006 August 5, Ralph S. Welsh, “Rod is the spoiler”, in Science News, volume 170, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Society for Science, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025, “Letters” section:
synonyms: recidive
recidivous
glosses: Tending to fall back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
aspirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/
ipa: /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈæs.pə.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: aspirates
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
examples: text: We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
ref: 1972, Leonard R. Palmer, Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, page 50:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sound produced by such a puff of air.
examples: a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. Mead
But we must correct then twenty authors who have it in the compound ἀπηθεῖν and ἀπήθημα ; and not (as the aspirate would require it) ἀφηθεῖν and αφήθημα
glosses: A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
glosses: A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
aspirate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/
ipa: /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈæs.pə.ɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈæs.pəɹ.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæs.pə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹeɪt/
rhymes: -æspəɹeɪt
Forms: form: aspirates
form: aspirating
form: aspirated
form: aspirated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.
Senses: examples: text: Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
ref: 2003, Miep H. Helfrich et al., editors, Bone Research Protocols, page 430:
glosses: To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
glosses: To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
examples: text: There is no doubt that the uncertainty about the letter H, which much defaces English in some classes of the community, is due entirely to Norman influence, for Frenchmen could not aspirate. Three words—hour, honor, heir, with compounds of them such as hourly, honourable, heirship, and the like, are quite enough to puzzle people who find H sometimes sounded, sometimes not.
ref: 1887, James Frederick Hodgetts, Greater England, page 33:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
Synonyms: sense: inhale
word: breathe in
sense: inhale
word: inhale
sense: inhale
word: inspire
Derived terms: bronchoaspirate
deaspirate
lipoaspirate
microaspirate
reaspirate
aspirate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/
ipa: /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈæs.pə.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: more aspirate
form: most aspirate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.
Senses: examples: text: […]and there was in Late Middle Bengali a tendency to drop aspiration of non-initial aspirate stops.
ref: 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, volume 1, Calcutta University Press, page 261:
glosses: Synonym of aspirated.
synonyms: word: aspirated
Related terms: aspiration
aspirational
aspirator
aspire
nonaspirate
unaspirate
asperate
GATT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: According to a WTO panel, China’s additional duties were “inconsistent” with provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994. ¶ The panel also recommended that “China bring its WTO inconsistent measure into conformity with its obligations” under GATT.
ref: 2023 August 16, Amber Wang, “WTO finds China acted ‘inconsistently’ by imposing additional duties on certain US imports”, in South China Morning Post:
coordinate_terms: WTO
glosses: Initialism of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (superseded by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)).
Odin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.dɪn/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.dɪn/
rhymes: -əʊdɪn
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse Óðinn (whence Icelandic Óðinn, Norwegian Nynorsk Oden), akin to Old High German Wodan and Old English Wōden. From Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“rage, manic inspiration, furor poeticus”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“to be excited”). Compare Old Norse óðr (“rage”) and Dutch woede (“rage”) and woeden (“to rage”), Irish fáidh, Latin vātēs. Doublet of Woden and Wotan. Related to English wode.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
paganism
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A major Germanic god, often described as chief of the pantheon, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica.
glosses: A mountain on Baffin Island, Canada.
Synonyms: word: All-Father
word: Wotan
word: Woden
word: Odhin
word: Odhinn
alt: anglicizations, as is Odin
word: Othinn
word: Wodan
Derived terms: Odinian
Odinic
Odinism
Odinist
odinite
Odinsman
Odinswoman
allright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That was allright, that still left 20¢ for the shoepolish, and he wasnt going to eat in the messhall anyway, and reading the comic book kept him from feeling embarrassed like he always did in the PX restaurant, and he still had the 20¢ for shoepolish. […] “I’m allright,” Pete said strangledly.
ref: 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 526 and 756:
glosses: Misspelling of all right.
upto
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of up to.
definately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of definitely.
glosses: Misspelling of defiantly.
buisness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of business.
befor
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of before.
definate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of definite.
pronounciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌnaʊn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pronunciation.
examples: text: And nowe as touchying the ſeconde poynte whiche is to be bꝛefe and ſodayne without any maner of harſheneſſe in theyꝛ ꝓnoũciation / what conſonantes ſo euer they wꝛite in any woꝛde foꝛ the kepying of trewe oꝛthographie […]
ref: 1530, Johan Palſgrave [i.e., John Palsgrave], Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse: […], Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, published 1972, unnumbered page:
glosses: Obsolete form of pronunciation.
downto
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of down to.
none the less
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: For beauty and picturesqueness and sheer thrill these discoveries remain unmatched by those of any subsequent year. None the less, no one, not even Mr. Evans himself, ever expected that so much was to follow.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 4:
text: I none the less hold that [John Maynard Keynes'] insights were several orders more profound and realistic than those of his recent critics.
ref: 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi:
glosses: Alternative form of nonetheless.
examples: text: These tales are written in an English dialect—none the less a dialect for that it lacks uniformity in the misplacement of aspirates, and lacks, too, strange words misunderstanded of the reader.
ref: 1896 March, E[dith] Nesbit, In Homespun, London: John Lane, […]; Boston, Mass.: Roberts Bros., page v:
text: One likes him none the less—rather, one likes him the more; since its faults are due to his very virtues.
ref: 1903, William Macdonald, “[Notes to “Critical Essays”] Recollections of a Late Royal Academician (“Englishman’s Magazine,” September 1831)”, in Charles Lamb, Critical Essays, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co., page 319:
text: His favorite toys were pencils and brushes, for he early learned to paint. But he was none the less a boy for being an artist, and so Edwin and his brothers had fun together, as a picture he painted in these play-days suggests.
ref: 1909 April, Louise Fanshawe Gregory, ““The Little Dog-Boy””, in St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXXVI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Frederick Warne & Co., page 497:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see none, the, less.
addenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɛn.də/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Senses: glosses: plural of addendum
-in'
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -in
Etymology: Alternate pronunciation of -ing with /n/ instead of /ŋ/. It is derived from two sources:
* the Old English present participle suffix -ende;
* the Old English verbal noun suffix -ung/-ing.
The two Old English suffixes became confused in Modern English, due at least partly to the practice of spelling them both as -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of -ing.
Related terms: -ed
-'d
social conservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social conservatives
Senses: glosses: One who favors a specific set of social policies, generally including opposition to birth control, abortion rights, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and sexual permissiveness, often based on a particular reading of Christian values.
Synonyms: socon
traditionalist
Related terms: conservative
social
Republican
Tory
Conservative party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Conservative party
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of Conservative Party.
fiscal conservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiscal conservatives
Senses: glosses: One who favors a balanced budget, preferring spending cuts or tax increases to borrowing, and wants to decrease government size, and promote a free market.
red state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red states
Etymology: From the color red representing the Republican Party of the United States, and being a state (“subnational division, province”) that votes Republican.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A state of the United States voting Republican in a given election, tending to vote Republican in general, or having a typically conservative mindset.
Related terms: blue state
green state
purple state