cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
annul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌl
ipa: /əˈnʌl/
ipa: /əˈnɐl/
homophone: Anal stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: annuls
form: annulling
form: annulled
form: annulled
Etymology: From Middle English annullen, from Old French anuller, from Latin annullō (“annihilate, annul”), from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“none, not any”).
Senses: examples: text: If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
antonyms: uphold
glosses: To formally revoke the validity of.
glosses: To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
Derived terms: annullability
annullable
annuller
annulment
disannul
Related terms: sense: formally revoke the validity of
word: make
sense: formally revoke the validity of
word: render null and void
sense: formally revoke the validity of
word: null
sense: formally revoke the validity of
word: nullify
sense: dissolve (a marital union)
word: dissolve
allegretto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To be played rather fast and lively.
Related terms: allegrissimo
allegro
allegretto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegrettos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.
Senses: examples: text: It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played for the first time, and the idea of them was from that moment alive and abroad in the world.
ref: 1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A movement in this time.
allegrissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrow from Italian allegrissimo, the superlative form of allegro.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played very fast and lively.
augmentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English augmentatif, from Middle French augmentatif, from Late Latin augmentāt-, stem of augmentāre.
Senses: glosses: that which augments; augmentary
Derived terms: augmentatively
bioaugmentative
nonaugmentative
augmentative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augmentatives
Etymology: From Middle English augmentatif, from Middle French augmentatif, from Late Latin augmentāt-, stem of augmentāre.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of word that expresses large size, intensity, or seniority
Related terms: augment
augmentation
in the flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref: 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: in person
face to face
IRL
glosses: Present in a physical body; in person.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: incarnate (of God or a deity: having assumed an earthly body)
in person
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in-person
Senses: examples: text: Have you ever seen a celebrity in person?
text: He had seen the burger on TV, but in person it looked so much juicier.
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:
synonyms: face to face
in the flesh
vis-à-vis
glosses: With one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.
Related terms: in personam
Islamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪsləmɪst/
ipa: /ˈɪzləmɪst/
ipa: /-ˈlɑːmɪst/
ipa: /-ˈlæmɪst/
Forms: form: Islamists
Etymology: From Islam + -ist. Compare Islamicist.
Senses: glosses: A Muslim.
glosses: A scholastic Muslim who specializes in Muslim academics.
glosses: A Muslim who espouses Islamic fundamentalist beliefs.
Synonyms: word: Mohammedan
word: Muslimist
sense: Islamic studies specialist
word: Islamicist
sense: Islamic fundamentalist
word: Quran thumper
sense: Islamic fundamentalist
word: Koran thumper
sense: Islamic fundamentalist
word: Koran basher
sense: Islamic fundamentalist
word: namazi
sense: Islamic fundamentalist
word: jihadi
sense: Islamic fundamentalist
word: jihadist
Derived terms: Pan-Islamist
Islamist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪsləmɪst/
ipa: /ˈɪzləmɪst/
ipa: /-ˈlɑːmɪst/
ipa: /-ˈlæmɪst/
Forms: form: more Islamist
form: most Islamist
Etymology: From Islam + -ist. Compare Islamicist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Islam; Islamic, Muslim.
examples: text: I hope you good, loyal Americans understand that in the long run the Islamist extremists are going to win. Because you can't beat numbers, and you can't beat fanaticism—the willingness to die for an idea.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “THE FANATICS WILL WIN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 134:
text: In January, Boko Haram struck Fotokol, a Cameroonian town separated by only a bridge from Gambarou, Nigeria, a stronghold of the Islamist extremists. The attackers killed more than 400 people.
ref: 2015 March 3, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram”, in CNN:
glosses: Motivated by fundamentalist Muslim beliefs, particularly in the political sphere.
Synonyms: Muslimistic
Related terms: Islamic fundamentalism
Islamicism
Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪsˈlɑːmɪk/
ipa: /ɪzˈlɑːmɪk/
ipa: /ɪzˈlæmɪk/
Forms: form: more Islamic
form: most Islamic
form: Islāmic
Etymology: From Islam + -ic, probably after New Latin islāmicus or French islamique.
Senses: examples: text: Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
ref: 2008 February 19, John F. Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, originating in, characteristic of, or deriving from Muslims or Islam.
Synonyms: Muslim
Muslimistic
Muslimic
Muslimish
Muslimly
Muslamic
Derived terms: word: Islamicate
word: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
word: Islamicness
word: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
word: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
english: IS
translation: IS
word: Islamic State
word: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
word: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
word: Pan-Islam
Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪsˈlɑːmɪk/
ipa: /ɪzˈlɑːmɪk/
ipa: /ɪzˈlæmɪk/
Forms: form: Islamics
form: Islāmic
Etymology: From Islam + -ic, probably after New Latin islāmicus or French islamique.
Senses: examples: text: This war is between the democracies of the free world and radical Islamics.
ref: 2008, John Hagee, Financial Armageddon, Frontline, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: An Islamist.
mozzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒz.i/
rhymes: -ɒzi
Forms: form: mozzies
Senses: examples: 2012, John Basham, Caravan Survival Guide, Explore Australia Publishing, unnumbered page,
As they can carry some dreadful diseases, mozzie defence is very important. It seems the types of mozzies and midges change from area to area.
glosses: Alternative form of mossie (“mosquito”).
get lucky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets lucky
form: getting lucky
form: got lucky
form: got lucky
form: gotten lucky
Senses: glosses: To have good luck.
examples: text: He got lucky in the past week with two different women.
text: Pinto: I was thinking, maybe we could get some beer.
Clorette De Pasto: Nah, not tonight. Besides, you might get lucky without it.
ref: 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), Universal Pictures:
text: Right now she's probably saying "I'm drunk" / And he's a thinking that he's gonna get lucky
ref: 2005, Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins, “Before He Cheats”, in Some Hearts, performed by Carrie Underwood:
text: She's up all night for good fun / I'm up all night to get lucky
ref: 2013, “Get Lucky”, in Random Access Memories, performed by Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams:
text: Tonight you might get lucky / I don't wait, keep talking
ref: 2019, “Tonight You Might”, performed by Synthia ft. Lady Wray:
glosses: To have a desired sexual opportunity fulfilled.
raw_tags: said of a man
Ecclesiastical Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ecclesiastical Latin
Senses: glosses: The Latin language as spoken, written, and used in the Christian church and in church services.
Synonyms: Church Latin
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Latin terms
Vulgar Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Latin language as spoken by the Roman people, as opposed to Classical Latin as written in formal literature. Developed into Proto-Romance and descendant languages in the Early Middle Ages.
Related terms: Vulgate
Wiktionary’s coverage of Vulgar Latin
Martha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹθə/
ipa: /ˈmɑːθə/
Etymology: * From Latin Martha, from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā, “mistress”), feminine of מרא (mārā). Doublet of Marfa.
* (humidity chamber): From the use of Martha Stewart-branded storage closets in the construction of early units.
Senses: examples: text: They wanted to call her Helen, but I did put my foot down there. Knowing what her mother and father looked like! I tried hard for Martha or Dorcas or something sensible - but it was no good - waste of breath.
ref: 1947, Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules:
glosses: A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.
examples: text: But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful.
ref: Luke 10: 40-42
glosses: The sister of Lazarus and Mary in the New Testament.
Derived terms: Martha's Vineyard
Martha Washington chair
St Martha
Martha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹθə/
ipa: /ˈmɑːθə/
Forms: form: Marthas
Etymology: * From Latin Martha, from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מָרְתָא (mārtā, “mistress”), feminine of מרא (mārā). Doublet of Marfa.
* (humidity chamber): From the use of Martha Stewart-branded storage closets in the construction of early units.
Senses: glosses: A miniature greenhouse with a humidifier, used for growing mushrooms.
smart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɑɹt/
ipa: /smɑːt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: smarts
form: smarting
form: smarted
form: smort
form: smarted
form: smort
form: smorten
Etymology: From Middle English smerten, from Old English *smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta.
Senses: examples: text: After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
text: He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: When the thrashing stopped, Fina used the pipe to roll the first woman's corpse over. She bent down, feeling a curious distance between the sudden serenity in her mind and the actions of her limbs, and beat the flames off the jacket with her bare hands. They were sooty and smarting as she used them to pry the garment off the woman's slack shoulders, and threw it over her own.
ref: 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: To hurt or sting.
examples: text: A goad that […] smarts the flesh.
ref: a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Faith’s Encouragement:
glosses: To cause a smart or sting in.
examples: text: You think this cruel? take it for a rule, / No creature ſmarts ſo little as a Fool.
ref: 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 81–82:
text: He that is ſurety for a ſtranger ſhall ſmart for it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 11:15:
text: Meanvvhile the Abate exulted in ſucceſsful vengeance, and the marquis ſmarted beneath the ſtings of diſappointment.
ref: 1790, [Ann Radcliffe], chapter XI, in A Sicilian Romance. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Hookham, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: Tiresias. I say that you are living with your next of kin in unimagined shame.
Oedipus. Do you think you can say such things and never smart for it?
Tiresias. Yes, if there be strength in truth.
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
Derived terms: arsesmart
besmart
nosesmart
smartful
smarting
smartweed
bogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ɡi/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɡi/
homophone: bogey
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogies
form: boagie
Etymology: Possibly from bogart (“to selfishly take or keep something, to hog; especially to hold a joint (marijuana cigarette) dangling between the lips instead of passing it on”) + -ie (suffix forming colloquial nouns). Bogart is derived from the surname of the American actor Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), who was frequently shown smoking (tobacco) cigarettes in his films. The verb was popularized by its use in the song “Don’t Bogart Me” (1968) by the rock group Fraternity of Man which appeared in the soundtrack of the film Easy Rider (1969); the song has the lines “Don’t bogart that joint my friend. / Pass it over to me.”
Senses: examples: text: bogies: marijuana cigarettes.
ref: [2002 November, Alonzo Westbrook, “bogies”, in Hip Hoptionary: The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology (Harlem Moon), New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 15:
text: We normally dropped off at Shooters Billiards where we'd play pool and arcades, but sometimes left to do other shit. Shooters was a good lie to our parents when we came home smelling like smoke, because people smoked in the place, so we'd get away with smoking bogies or weed.
ref: 2008, Eric James, “Suburbia Life”, in Shades of the Moon: Brawls before Laws, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53:
text: If i was the hulk i would smash you bite you like a cashew, then i smoke a bogie if i have to
ref: 2019, Joseph Anthony Torres, The World of Koolassjoe, New York, N.Y.: Koolassjoe Entertainment/USZ United, →ISBN:
text: I ain't got no trees for sale but I got some personal shit for me. Ima fuck with you 'cause you seem like an a'ight nigga. You smoke bogies?
ref: 2020 August 19, Levi John Gladstone, chapter 7, in The Royal Family, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
glosses: A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
bogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.ɡi/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɡi/
homophone: bogey
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogies
Etymology: A variant of bogey.
Senses: examples: text: All of a sudden he heard a terrible scream ahead, and he thought it must be the bogie singing his dirge.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 47:
text: They could not, it was said, keep Scandinavian bogies and the Scriptures separate in their puzzled brains.
ref: 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogey.
A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogey.
A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogey.
An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogey.
A score of one over par on a hole.
examples: text: Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogey.
A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊɡi/
ipa: /boʊɡi/
homophone: bogie
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogeys
form: bogeying
form: bogeyed
form: bogeyed
form: bogied
form: bogied
form: bogie
form: bogy
Etymology: Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence bug), itself of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”), but perhaps the root was borrowed from Germanic. Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”).
See also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), Old English pūca (“goblin, mischievous spirit”), Icelandic púki Swedish puke (“small devil, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger.
The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player. The sometimes proscribed conflation with bandit was popularized by the 1986 film Top Gun.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a bogey on (a particular hole).
bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊɡi/
ipa: /boʊɡi/
homophone: bogie
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogeys
form: bogie
form: bogy
Etymology: Clipping of bog-standard + -ey (diminutive suffix).
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊɡi/
ipa: /boʊɡi/
homophone: bogie
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogeys
form: bogeying
form: bogeyed
form: bogeyed
form: bogie
form: bogy
Etymology: From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).
Senses: glosses: To swim; to bathe.
bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊɡi/
ipa: /boʊɡi/
homophone: bogie
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogeys
form: bogie
form: bogy
Etymology: From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).
Senses: examples: text: My mother would use leaves from trees to make soap for washing our bodies with, and unfortunately for us kids there was no excuse not to take a bogey.
ref: 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151
glosses: A swim or bathe; a bath.
bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊɡi/
ipa: /boʊɡi/
homophone: bogie
homophone: bogy
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: bogeys
form: bogie
form: bogy
Etymology: A variant of bogie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogie (“hand-operated truck or trolley”).
examples: text: Upgrading the tram bogeys to air-conditioned bogeys costs the State Government approximately INR 25,00,000/- per bogey.
ref: 2020 January 30, “Upgrading Kolkata's Tram Network”, in C40 Cities, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2024:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogie (“railway carriage”).
consist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kənsĭst'
ipa: /kənˈsɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: consists
form: consisting
form: consisted
form: consisted
Etymology: From Middle French consister, from Latin consistō (“stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist”), from com- (“together”) + sistō (“I cause to stand, stand”).
Senses: examples: text: Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth [translating loge] our pleasure and theirs?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: District number twenty-five (25) shall consist the counties of Tompkins, Seneca and Yates.
ref: 1846, District School Journal for the State of New-York - Volume 7, page 183:
glosses: To be.
examples: text: [Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book VI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, footnote:
text: First, because it is granted by all divines, that hypothetical necessity, or necessity upon a supposition, may consist with liberty.
ref: 1841, “The” Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance:
text: All things do not consist by Christ today, and all the way back to Adam all things have not consisted by Christ.
ref: 2010, Michael O'Buck, Eternal Life: A Question of Honor, →ISBN:
glosses: To exist or be compatible.
Derived terms: consist in
consist of
inconsisting
Related terms: consistence
consistency
consistent
consistory
consist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kənsĭst'
ipa: /kənˈsɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
ipa: /ˈkɒn.sɪst/
enpr: kənsĭst'
ipa: /kənˈsɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: consists
Etymology: From consist (verb).
Senses: examples: text: The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
Synonyms: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: rake
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: formation
rheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: rheologies
Etymology: Coined by American scientist Eugene C. Bingham in 1920, following a suggestion by a colleague, Markus Reiner; inspired by aphorism πάντα ῥεῖ (pánta rheî, “everything flows”) by Simplicius of Cilicia. Formed from Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”) + -logy (“study of”, suffix ultimately from Ancient Greek). See also rheo-.
Senses: examples: text: Curious as to whether other had explored the connection between Oreos and rheology, Owens found mention of a 2016 Princeton University study in which physicists first reported that indeed, when twisting Oreos by hand, the cream almost always came off on one wafer.
ref: 2022 April 19, Jennifer Chu, “MIT Engineers Introduce the Oreometer”, in MIT News:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter.
wikipedia: Markus Reiner
Panta rhei (Heraclitus)
Simplicius of Cilicia
Derived terms: chemorheology
psychorheology
Related terms: alt: further -rrhea/-rrhoea terms there
word: diarrhea
word: rheogoniometer
word: rheometer
word: rheometric
word: rheometry
rebarbative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭbärʹbətĭv
ipa: /ɹɪˈbɑːbətɪv/
enpr: rĭbärʹbətĭv
ipa: /ɹɪˈbɑɹbətɪv/
Forms: form: more rebarbative
form: most rebarbative
Etymology: From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent, disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarber (“to oppose”), ultimately from Latin barba (“beard”), literally “to stand beard to beard against”.
Senses: examples: text: Poliziano took great pleasure in incorporating the new myths, facts, and variant readings he uncovered as a scholar in his own Latin poems and letters — and in pointing out that he had done so in his most rebarbative technical monographs.
ref: 1991, Anthony Grafton, Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450—1800, paperback edition, page 42:
text: […]A mystery (1990), for instance, the first book he wrote after arriving in America, stunned critics; for some it was an ambitious and remarkable book, for others it was rebarbative and wilfully obscure.
ref: 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: 2009 August 31, Nicholas Lezard, Down and out in London (column), New Statesman, page 54,
I know there are few things more rebarbative than parents who insist, usually against all the evidence, that their children are the bees’ knees, but something seems to have turned out fine.
text: They wished to transcend it—an astounding political innovation whose inner meaning has been so swathed in rebarbative academic jargon and even more rebarbative officialese that only a tiny minority of the Union′s citizens understand how it works.
ref: 2011, David Marquand, The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, page 31:
text: Central to the story was Steve Eisman, an eccentric and rebarbative hedge-funder who was one of the earliest to see through the subprime lies.
ref: 2014 April 5, Alex Preston, “Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code by Michael Lewis, review: Michael Lewis tells the compelling true story of one man’s mission to tame Wall Street [print version: Capital ventures]”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2014, page R26:
text: Houellebecq doesn’t like experts[…]and rebarbative acronyms are the language that experts use to put the rest of us in our place.
ref: 2024 October 24, Judith Shulevitz, “Michel Houellebecq Has Some Fresh Predictions. Be Afraid.”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Irritating, repellent.
Derived terms: rebarbatively
rebarbativeness
rebarbativity
phrenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: phrenologies
Etymology: From phreno- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
text: MR. BURNS: Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal.
 MR. SMITHERS: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.
ref: 1995 November 19, Richard Appel, “Mother Simpson”, in The Simpsons, Harry Shearer (actor):
text: Phrenology was the practice of correlating bumps on a skull with mental powers and attributes of character.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 86:
text: One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.
ref: 2020 October 5, Paul Turnbull, “Thinking About Craniometry- The Racial Turn”, in Paul Turnbull:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Synonyms: cranioscopy
Derived terms: phrenological
phrenologist
phrenologize
Related terms: cephalomancy
have one's head read
physiognomy
President's Daily Briefing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: President's Daily Briefings
form: PDB
Etymology: From president's + daily + briefing.
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Intelligence information from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided to the President of the United States (POTUS) every morning, to bring attention to pertinent information about international affairs.
Synonyms: President's Daily Brief
President's Daily Bulletin
PDB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PDBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of protein data bank.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of President's Daily Briefing or President's Daily Brief or President's Daily Bulletin.
entrepreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
ipa: /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
ipa: /ˌɑ̃.tɹə.pɹəˈnœ˞/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: entrepreneurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French entrepreneur (“one who undertakes or manages”), from Middle French entrepreneur, from entreprendre (“to undertake”) + -eur.
Senses: examples: text: Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.
ref: 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:
glosses: A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
glosses: A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.
examples: text: Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.
ref: 1938, Federal Writers' Project, “Market Place for Words”, in New York Panorama: A Comprehensive View of the Metropolis …, New York: Random House, page 172:
glosses: A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.
glosses: A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.
Derived terms: agripreneur
artpreneur
bioentrepreneur
ecopreneur
enterprise
entreporneur
entreprenerd
entreprenertia
entrepreneurial
entrepreneurial customer
entrepreneurialism
entrepreneurially
entrepreneuring
entrepreneurism
entrepreneurship
fakepreneur
fantrepreneur
ganjapreneur
homepreneur
infopreneur
interprender
intrapreneur
microentrepreneur
momtrepreneur
mumpreneur
pastorpreneur
philanthropreneur
-preneur
regulatory entrepreneur
seniorpreneur
social entrepreneur
technopreneur
teenpreneur
tenderpreneur
unorthodox entrepreneur
wantrepreneur
webpreneur
Related terms: entrepreneuse
pop group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop groups
Senses: examples: text: Despite their artistic ambitions, they were never able to escape the label of a pop group.
synonyms: word: popular beat combo
glosses: A musical group specializing in pop music.
pop music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop musics
Etymology: Shortened form of popular music.
Senses: examples: text: Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.
glosses: Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.
Related terms: pop
pop culture
soda pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soda pops
Senses: examples: text: On a hot day, there's nothing I like more than soda pop.
text: Could you bring me a soda pop? I'm parched!
glosses: Any of several sweetened, carbonated beverages.
Synonyms: coke
fizzy
fizzy drink
lemonade
pop
soda
soft drink
tonic
Related terms: ice cream soda
seltzer water
padlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpadˌlɒk/
Forms: form: padlocks
Etymology: From earlier pad lock (19th c.); Middle English padlock, padlokke, from pad-, of unknown origin, + lok (“lock”). Perhaps originally a lock for a pad (“gate”), or a gate opening to a path, or a lock for a basket or pannier, from UK dialect pad (“a pannier”).
Senses: glosses: A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle
Hypernyms: lock
Derived terms: love padlock
padlockable
Scandinavian padlock
spring padlock
unpadlock
Related terms: combination lock
padlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpadˌlɒk/
Forms: form: padlocks
form: padlocking
form: padlocked
form: padlocked
Etymology: From earlier pad lock (19th c.); Middle English padlock, padlokke, from pad-, of unknown origin, + lok (“lock”). Perhaps originally a lock for a pad (“gate”), or a gate opening to a path, or a lock for a basket or pannier, from UK dialect pad (“a pannier”).
Senses: examples: text: Janitors padlock the gates.
ref: 1989, Del Amitri, “Nothing Ever Happens” (song)
glosses: To lock using a padlock.
dust devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌst ˈdɛvəl/
Forms: form: dust devils
form: dustdevil
form: dust-devil
Etymology: Compound of dust + devil.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: whirlwind, whirl, sandspout, sand pillar, willy willy (Australia)
text: A dust devil may look harmless, but a large one can overturn a car.
synonyms: dirt devil#Noun
hypernyms: spout#Noun
vortex#Noun
coordinate_terms: landspout#Noun
;
waterspout#Noun
;
thermal#Noun
;
tornado#Noun
glosses: A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust (or dirt or sand) picked up from the ground.
wikipedia: dust devil
Related terms: devil
dust bowl
duststorm
fire devil
steam devil
cyclone
hurricane
funnel cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel clouds
Senses: examples: text: When we saw the funnel cloud, we headed for the basement.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tapering, rapidly rotating cloud descending from a larger storm cloud, indicating the presence of an intense vortex. A tornado is a funnel cloud which reaches the ground.
Synonyms: cumulonimbus tuba
willy-willy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willy-willies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of willy willy.
pop tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop tarts
form: Pop Tart
form: poptart
form: pop-tart
Etymology: A genericization of the brand name Pop-Tarts.
Senses: examples: 2000 January 29, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Carl Kasell will come to their house and cook his signature dish, breakfast à la Edwards, which is two pop tarts and a Benson and Hedges.
glosses: A toaster pastry.
pop tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop tarts
form: poptart
form: pop-tart
Etymology: From pop for “popular” and tart for a sexualized woman; a word play on the brand name.
Senses: examples: text: After much effort, she was able to overcome the pop tart label and be taken seriously as a musician.
glosses: A female pop music performer famed more for her sexuality than for her music.
devil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕvʹəl
ipa: /ˈdɛvəl/
enpr: dĕvʹîl
ipa: /ˈdɛvɪl/
rhymes: -ɛvəl
Forms: form: the devil
form: Devil
form: davil
form: debbil
form: diuel
form: divel
form: deuill
form: devel
form: devell
form: devill
form: diuell
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Ancient Greek βᾰ́λλω (bắllō)
Ancient Greek διαβάλλω (diabállō)
Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)bor.
Latin diabolusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *diubul
Old English dēofol
Middle English devel
English devil
From Middle English devil, devel, deovel, from Old English dēofol, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Latin diabolus, ultimately from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “false accuser, slanderer”), also as "Satan" (in Jewish/Christian usage, translating Biblical Hebrew שָׂטָן (śātān)), from διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”), literally “to throw across”, from διά (diá, “through, across”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”). The Old English word was probably adopted under influence of Latin diabolus (itself from the Greek). Other Germanic languages adopted the word independently: compare Saterland Frisian Düüwel (“devil”), West Frisian duvel (“devil”), Dutch duivel, duvel (“devil”), German Low German Düvel (“devil”), German Teufel (“devil”), Bavarian Teifl (“devil”), Danish djævel (“devil”), Swedish djävul (“devil”) (older: djefvul, Old Swedish diævul, Old Norse djǫfull). Doublet of diable, diablo, and diabolus.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
antonyms: God
glosses: The chief devil; Satan.
subversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈvɝsɪv/
ipa: /sʌb-/
ipa: /-vɚsɪv/
ipa: [səbˈβɝsɪv]
ipa: [səb̪ˈvɝsɪv]
ipa: /səbˈvɜːsɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more subversive
form: most subversive
Etymology: See subvert and -ive.
Senses: glosses: Intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.
Synonyms: insurgent
seditious
Derived terms: antisubversive
countersubversive
nonsubversive
subversive basics
subversively
subversiveness
subversivism
subversive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈvɝsɪv/
ipa: /sʌb-/
ipa: /-vɚsɪv/
ipa: [səbˈβɝsɪv]
ipa: [səb̪ˈvɝsɪv]
ipa: /səbˈvɜːsɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: subversives
Etymology: See subvert and -ive.
Senses: glosses: A radical supporter of political or social revolution.
glosses: One who subverts, a saboteur, provocateur, or propagandist.
Synonyms: revolutionist
revolutionary
subverter
Derived terms: antisubversive
countersubversive
nonsubversive
PRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: P.R.C.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: PRCA
glosses: Initialism of Protestant Reformed Church.
glosses: Initialism of Pesticide Residues Committee.
examples: text: Near-synonym: China
text: (c) Ratification: It falls outside the scope of this calendar to describe the process of ratification for each agreement. Under the 1954 Constitution of the PRC the function of ratification is to be exercised jointly by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Chairman of the Government. Ratification is mandatory for treaties of peace, mutual non-aggression, friendship, alliance and assistance, and all other treaties which expressly provide for ratification. All other agreements may be submitted for approval by the State Council.
ref: 1968, Douglas M. Johnston, Hungdah Chiu, Agreements of the People's Republic of China 1949-1967: A Calendar, Harvard University Press, page x:
text: Since the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) established diplomatic relations in 1979, United States policy toward the PRC was largely premised on a hope that deepening engagement would spur fundamental economic and political opening in the PRC and lead to its emergence as a constructive and responsible global stakeholder, with a more open society.
ref: 2020, “United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China”, in whitehouse.gov, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021, page 1:
coordinate_terms: ROC[Republic of China#English:_Q865|Republic of China]]>
glosses: Initialism of People's Republic of China.
glosses: Initialism of People's Republic of the Congo, the predecessor state of the Republic of the Congo.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Palm Resource Code, the file format for Palm OS applications.
glosses: Initialism of Professional Regulatory Commission, a commission of the Philippine government.
glosses: Initialism of Philippine Red Cross.
PRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PRCs
form: P.R.C.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of planning review committee.
glosses: Initialism of protocol Review Committee.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Preschool Referral Committee.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Private Commercial Organisation.
topics: communication
communications
glosses: Initialism of personal radio communications, e.g. the PRC-77 portable secure FM radio set.
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Police Record Check.
examples: text: "It doesn't matter," she said. "They may still think you're a PRC who obtained a British passport."
ref: 2014 May 1, Helier Cheung, “'No Indians No PRCs': Singapore's rental discrimination problem”, in BBC:
glosses: A person from the People's Republic of China, especially in contrast to native-born Singaporean Chinese.
rugby football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugby footballs
Senses: glosses: The sport of rugby: either rugby league or rugby union.
glosses: A rugby ball.
Derived terms: rugby footballer
Travers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector.
In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
glosses: A place name:
A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.
Related terms: Travis
wise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪz/
homophone: whys
homophone: wyes
homophone: Ys
homophone: why's
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: wises
form: wising
form: wised
form: wised
Etymology: From Middle English wis, wys, from Old English wīs (“wise”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos, *weydtos, a participle form of *weyd-.
Cognate with Dutch wijs, German weise, Norwegian vis and Swedish vis. Compare wit.
Senses: glosses: To become wise.
examples: text: Mo wised him up about his situation.
text: After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.
glosses: Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
wise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪz/
homophone: whys
homophone: wyes
homophone: Ys
homophone: why's
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: wises
Etymology: From Middle English wise, from Old English wīse, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Cognate with Dutch wijze, German Weise, Norwegian vis, Swedish visa, vis, Italian guisa, Spanish guisa. Compare -wise. Doublet of guise.
Senses: examples: text: In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox.
ref: 1481, William Caxton, The History of Reynard the Fox^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Historye_of_Reynard_the_Foxe/capitulo_.primo._(2)):
text: Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18:
text: […] the prize
Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —
Her Art for ever in fresh wise
From hour to hour rejoicing me.
ref: 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh, lines 2–5:
text: A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;
The token of him being upon this wise
Made for a sign of Lust.
ref: 1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Life, lines 28–30:
text: And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.
ref: 1926, J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog, page 308:
text: Meantime a serious question came up for discussion.[…]The discussion arose somewhat in this wise. The President of the Society was Mr. Hills, proprietor of the Thames Iron Works. He was a puritan. […]
ref: 1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVIII, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
text: Then, at least, we shall be able to program consciousness in such wise that it cannot be numbed nor distracted by the Narcissus illusions of the entertainment world that beset mankind when he encounters himself extended in his own gimmickry.
ref: 1964, Marshall McLuhan, chapter 6, in Understanding Media, 2nd edition:
glosses: Way, manner, or method.
Derived terms: -wise
alwise
nowise
wise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪz/
homophone: whys
homophone: wyes
homophone: Ys
homophone: why's
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: wises
form: wising
form: wised
form: wised
Etymology: From Middle English wisen (“to advise, direct”), from Old English wisian (“to show the way, guide, direct”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīsōn, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną (“to show the way, dispense knowledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).
Compare Dutch wijzen (“to indicate, point out”), German weisen (“to show, indicate”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål vise (“to show”), Norwegian Nynorsk visa (“to show”).
Senses: glosses: To instruct.
glosses: To advise; induce.
glosses: To show the way, guide.
glosses: To direct the course of, pilot.
glosses: To cause to turn.
plurale tantum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplʊɚ.ə.leɪ ˈtæn.təm/
ipa: /ˌplɝ.ə.leɪ -/
Forms: form: pluralia tantum
Etymology: From Latin plūrāle tantum (“plural as such; plural only”), from plūrāle + tantum.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun (either in certain of its senses or in all its senses) that does not generally have a singular form.
Related terms: duale tantum
singulare tantum
uncountable