cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alienate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English alienat(e) (“deranged; uncertain; sequestred, secluded”), from Latin aliēnātus, perfect passive participle of aliēnō (“to estrange, alienate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from aliēnus. by surface analysis, alien + -ate. See alien, and compare aliene.
Senses: examples: text: O alienate from God.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 4643:
glosses: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
raw_tags: followed by "from"
alienate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
Forms: form: alienates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French aliéner (“a crazed, mad man, lunatic”).
Senses: glosses: A stranger; an alien.
alienate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
Forms: form: alienates
form: alienating
form: alienated
form: alienated
Etymology: Either from the above adjective or directly borrowed from Latin alienātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French aliéner.
Senses: glosses: To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
examples: text: The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, 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: The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
text: The Communists had considerable influence in the Labour Party in the years 1920–26 and 1935–9. Their chief importance, and that of the whole left wing of the Labour movement, was the part they played in alienating the middle classes from Socialism.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
text: In April and early May, the NUR and ASLEF threatened a three-day strike. Opinion on this was divided, both within the unions and among the public. Commentators saw the strike as likely to alienate the public and unlikely to win significant changes in terms of closures and job losses.
ref: 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:
glosses: To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
glosses: To cause one to feel unable to relate.
Synonyms: sense: estrange
word: estrange
sense: estrange
word: antagonize
sense: estrange
word: isolate
sense: estrange
word: marginalize
Derived terms: abalienate
realienate
unalienate
Danny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dăn'i
ipa: /ˈdæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: Dannies
Etymology: From Daniel and Danielle, from Hebrew דן, and -y.
Senses: examples: text: Maisie says that Danny entered the manosphere through the realm of self-help, which Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociology professor at American University who specializes in extremism, says is “a great example of how radicalization works.”
ref: 2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue:
glosses: A unisex given name
A diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
coordinate_terms: Dan
Dannie
glosses: A unisex given name
A diminutive of the female given names Danielle, Daniella, or Daniela.
coordinate_terms: Dani
Danni
Dannie
Derived terms: Jack and Danny
Related terms: Dany
clammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: clammier
form: clammiest
Etymology: From Middle English clam (“viscous, sticky; slimy”) + -y, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Compare German klamm (“clammy”) and klemmen (“to be stuck, stick”). See also clam.
Senses: examples: text: His hands were clammy from fright.
text: The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 171:
text: Jenny Lee reached out and took hold of the man’s hand. It was cold and clammy, a deadlike feeling.
ref: 2010 December 24, Sharon Orsack, “Chapter One”, in Bobby & Me: A Novel, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
Derived terms: clammily
clamminess
clammy goosefoot
clammyweed
unclammy
Pammy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Etymology: From Pam + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Pamela.
Sammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: Sammys
form: Sammies
Etymology: From Sam + -y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Samoyed (breed of dog)
synonyms: word: Samoyed
extra: breed of dog
Sammy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Etymology: From Sam + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Samuel.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
Synonyms: Sam
jammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæːm.i/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: jammier
form: jammiest
form: jammie
Etymology: From jam + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
examples: text: a child's jammy fingers
glosses: Covered in jam.
examples: text: a jammy dodger biscuit
glosses: Containing jam.
examples: text: jammy bastard
text: jammy sod
glosses: Lucky; especially undeservedly so.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: jammily
jamminess
jammy Arab
jammy dodger
jammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæːm.i/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: jammies
Etymology: From jam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I got the jammy loaded in one hand.
ref: 2025, Ghostface Killah, “Metaphysics”:
glosses: A gun.
examples: text: I felt on her big fat fanny / Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
ref: 1992, Ice Cube, “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:
glosses: A penis.
Derived terms: eye jammy
jammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæːm.i/
rhymes: -æmi
Senses: examples: text: “[…]I start pleading, ‘Come here.... Please put your jammy top on.... Let me finish dressing you.’ “At last, I’ve got the pajama top over his head, and he starts yelling, ‘Ouch! ouch!’
ref: 2002, Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau, “Time-Busters: Sleep Deprivation, Separation Difficulties, and Other Problems That Steal Hours from Your Day”, in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, Random House, section “To Catch a Thief: Neil’s Story”, pages 243–244:
text: In the bedroom Elaine would have fixed the pillows and sat up, tugging open her jammy top.
ref: 2009, Liam McIlvanney, All the Colours of the Town, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Blue cotton jammy bottoms poked out beneath a fastidious white terry robe.
ref: 2009, Nicole Young, chapter 12, in Kiss Me If You Dare: A Patricia Amble Mystery, Revell, page 103:
glosses: Attributive form of jammies.
hanky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: hankies
form: hankie
Senses: examples: text: I saw the Lone Ranger get shot in the heart and shove a hanky in the hole before stopping a train from falling off a bridge.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 128:
glosses: Diminutive of handkerchief.
Derived terms: hanky code
hanky-twist
Related terms: hanky-panky
handkerchieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handkerchief
exacerbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭg-zăs'ər-bāt
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪt/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæsəˌbeɪt/
ipa: /ɪkˈsæs-/
Forms: form: exacerbates
form: exacerbating
form: exacerbated
form: exacerbated
Etymology: First attested in 1660; borrowed from Latin exacerbātus, perfect passive participle of Latin exacerbō (“to provoke”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out of; thoroughly”) + acerbō (“to embitter, harshen or worsen”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: worsen
text: The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
text: Sino-Soviet relations were exacerbated by a border incident on May 9. Beijing charged that thirty Soviet troops, supported by a helicopter and navy boats, crossed the Ussuri River into the Hulin area of Heilongjiang province.
ref: 1986, Peter P. Cheng, “1978: The Four Modernizations on the March”, in Chronology of The People's Republic of China, 1970-1979, Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 395:
text: Liz: It's just with Ed here, it's no wonder I always bring my flat-mates out and then that only exacerbates things.
Shaun: What do you mean?
Liz: Well you guys hardly get on, do you?
Shaun: No, what does "exacerbate" mean?
ref: 2004, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead:
text: The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
ref: 2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: aggravate
coordinate_terms: intensify
deteriorate
glosses: To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.).
Derived terms: exacerbatingly
exacerbation
exacerbator
exacerbatory
unexacerbated
Related terms: acerbate
exacervation
exasperate
brie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: bree
Forms: form: bries
Etymology: Borrowed from French brie, after the region of Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of Brie; see also Bourgogne.
Senses: examples: text: And your socks smell of angels / But your life smells of brie
ref: 1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Don't Marry Her”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:
text: Up it goes to Instagram with the caption “I can’t brie-leave how good this is!!!”. There is no brie in this sandwich.
ref: 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE:
glosses: An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.
Related terms: camembert
Brian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪən/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: Bryan
form: Bryon
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Brian. Doublet of Brendan.
Senses: examples: text: "What the deuce is their fancy for calling the young beggar Brian?" he inquired."Is it Brian Boroimhe they have gone back to, or is it some of her people, or what?"
"There was a good Drewitt once," answered Wilhelmina, "- - - and his name was Brian. - - - And Nannie told her, too, how a child always strains after the person it is called after, and how luck follows names, and worked her up to such a pit finally, that nothing would do her but the young gentleman must be called Brian and accordingly Brian he is - Brian Archibald. It is not an easy name to make fun out of; so all I can do is to call him Brin Baldy.
ref: 1865, Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell, Maxwell Drewitt, London: Tinsley Brothers, pages 255–256:
text: Why oh why had his parents even considered Brian? Brian is someone who works in a hardware shop or fixes the U bend. What chance did Sir Lovesdaslutalot have in life with a name like Brian? You can't even shorten Brian to Bri without it sounding like a kind of cheese!
ref: 2008, Phill Young, FarArc, Author House, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer).
ref: 2025 March 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Chili’s is opening a retro restaurant in Scranton that celebrates ‘The Office’”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2025:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: word: Bri
word: Bryant
word: O'Brian
word: O'Brien
sense: feminine forms
word: Briana
sense: feminine forms
word: Brianna
sense: feminine forms
word: Brianne
word: Brendan
word: Bridget
word: Bragança
word: Bregenz
word: Brianza
word: Burgundy
misspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misspellings
form: mis-spelling
form: mispelling
Etymology: From mis- + spelling.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect spelling.
examples: text: Accomodation is a common misspelling of accommodation.
text: My own Chinese name might conceivably be written in no fewer than four different ways in Unicode: 井作恆, 井作恒, 丼作恆, and 丼作恒. I would personally consider all but the first misspellings, just as I would the spelling of my English name as Jon Jenkins or John Jenkyns.
ref: 2005 September, John H. Jenkins, The Dao of Unihan, International & Text Group, Apple Computer, Inc.
synonyms: heterography
glosses: A misspelled word.
misspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mis-spelling
form: mispelling
Etymology: From mis- + spelling.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misspell
Related terms: word: misspelled
word: misspelt
Braille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Louis Braille
Braille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of braille.
Braille
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of braille.
bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blēch
ipa: /bliːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [blit͡ʃ]
ipa: [bliːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: bleaches
Etymology: From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak).
Senses: glosses: A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
glosses: A variety of bleach.
Derived terms: biobleach
bleach bypass
bleachery
bleachfield
bleach job
bleachless
bleachlike
bleachorexia
bleach weed
bleachworks
bleachy
blix
brain bleach
eye bleach
mind bleach
nonbleach
overbleach
photobleach
postbleach
prebleach
skip bleach
bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blēch
ipa: /bliːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [blit͡ʃ]
ipa: [bliːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: bleaches
form: bleaching
form: bleached
form: bleached
Etymology: From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak).
Senses: examples: text: Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole.
ref: 1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet:
text: The destruction of the colouring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid.
ref: 1830, Andrew Ure, “BLEACHING”, in A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, page 128:
synonyms: whitewash
glosses: To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
examples: text: The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: […] when Mrs. Giddy-gaddy came to take out her clothes, deep green stains appeared on every thing, for she had forgotten the green silk lining of a certain cape, and its color had soaked nicely into the pink and blue gowns, the little chemises, and even the best ruffled petticoat. […] “Lay them on the grass to bleach,” said Daisy, with an air of experience.
ref: 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 15, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands.
ref: 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1920, Part 2, p. 198:
glosses: To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
examples: text: Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
raw_tags: of corals
examples: text: semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
glosses: To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
Synonyms: blanch
Derived terms: bleachability
bleachable
bleacher
rebleach
bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blēch
ipa: /bliːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [blit͡ʃ]
ipa: [bliːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: bleaches
Etymology: From Middle English bleche, from Old English blǣċu, blǣċo (“paleness, pallor”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikį̄ (“paleness”). See Etymology 1 above.
Senses: glosses: An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: blēch
ipa: /bliːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [blit͡ʃ]
ipa: [bliːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: bleacher
form: more bleach
form: bleachest
form: most bleach
Etymology: From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English blǣċ, blǣc, variants of blāc (“bright, shining, glittering”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). More at bleak.
Senses: glosses: Pale; bleak.
bleach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blēch
ipa: /bliːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [blit͡ʃ]
ipa: [bliːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: bleaches
Etymology: From Middle English bleche, from Old English blǣċe (“irritation of the skin, leprosy; psoriasis”).
Senses: glosses: A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.
bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblædə/
ipa: /ˈblædɚ/
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bladders
form: blather
form: blether
Etymology: From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: vesica
glosses: A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: vesica
glosses: Specifically, the urinary bladder.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
glosses: The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
examples: text: a fuel bladder
glosses: A container in the form of a flexible bag.
glosses: A container in the form of a flexible bag.
A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
examples: text: to swim with bladders of philosophy
ref: 1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “Sensus Communis”, in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times:
glosses: Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
Hypernyms: urogenital sinus - embryological precursor
Derived terms: air bladder
bald as a bladder of lard
bashful bladder
bladderball
bladder campion
bladder cancer
bladder cherry
bladder cicada
bladder desperation
bladdered
bladderet
bladder fern
bladderful
bladder infection
bladder kelp
bladderless
bladderlike
bladdernut
bladder plum
bladderpod
bladder senna
bladderworm
bladder worm
bladderwort
bladder wrack
bladderwrack
bladdery
cackle-bladder
cackle bladder
gallbladder
gall bladder
gas bladder
megabladder
neobladder
nonbladder
overactive bladder
painful bladder syndrome
shy bladder
swim bladder
swim-bladder
urinary bladder
bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblædə/
ipa: /ˈblædɚ/
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bladders
form: bladdering
form: bladdered
form: bladdered
form: blather
form: blether
Etymology: From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).
Senses: examples: text: bladder'd up with pride of his own mcrit
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:
glosses: To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
examples: text: bladdered lard
glosses: To store or put up in bladders.
baggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: baggier
form: baggiest
Etymology: From bag + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: When the YSL designer finally got to present Sunday, after the show tent pitched on a race course had been deemed unsafe, he had a surprise in store: the longest, bell-bottom pants since the start of the 1970s — and the baggiest since rapper chic.
ref: 2002 January 29, Suzy Menkes, “PARIS FASHION : Wind of Change:New Formality With a Rugged Edge”, in The New York Times:
text: The only way to safely avoid looking like a hipster, so far as I can tell, is to dress in oversize mesh jerseys bearing the logos of sports teams. Or to wear the blandest, baggiest, beige-est clothes possible, like a middle-aged tourist.
ref: 2013 September 14, Steven Kurutz, “Caught in the Hipster Trap”, in The New York Times:
text: He’d made some of the company’s baggiest-ever pants in response, and even baggier ones were in the works.
ref: 2024 March 3, Jonah Weiner, “Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: word: loose
word: saggy
word: baggy
word: full
word: loose
word: loose-fitting
word: pouchy
word: saggy
word: slack
glosses: Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
examples: text: Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlists
ref: 2011 October 18, Jon Savage, “Stone Roses reunion: three baggy playlists”, in The Guardian:
text: The Birmingham band – now a five-piece after multi-instrumentalist James Balmont joined them – have ditched the loose and baggy guitar pop of 2013’s Where the Heaven Are We? in favour of psych-pop that contorts itself into pulsing Balearic acid house and motorik rhythms.
ref: 2015 October 1, Tshepo Mokoena, “Swim Deep: Mothers review – baggy indie kids embrace psych-pop”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
examples: text: a baggy book
glosses: Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
Derived terms: baggily
bagginess
baggy green
baggy green cap
baggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: baggies
Etymology: From bag + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I said dad you're a shabby / You run around and groove like a baggy / You're only here just out of habit
ref: 1990, “Kinky Afro”, in Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, performed by Happy Mondays:
glosses: A member of the 1980/90s British music and fashion movement.
baggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: baggies
form: baggie
Etymology: Presumably a back-formation from baggies (the plural), presumably a genericization of the brand name Baggies. Also analyzable as bag + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: 2008 March 6, Kristen Hinmen, "News Real: Seeing Red", Riverfront Times volume 32 number 10, page 10,
In an accompanying affidavit, Apazeller reported that Onstott "has entered the kitchen with a handful of cocaine and asked for a plastic baggy."
glosses: A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.
glosses: Such a bag filled with marijuana.
Related terms: bag
baker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bakers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).
Senses: examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
glosses: A portable oven for baking.
examples: text: Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.
ref: 1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:
glosses: An apple suitable for baking.
Synonyms: sense: person who bakes
word: baxter
sense: person who bakes
word: dougher
Derived terms: bakerdom
bakeress
baker foot
bakerless
bakerly
baker's
baker's ammonia
baker's chocolate
baker's dozen
baker's half dozen
bakership
baker's itch
baker's percentage
baker's salt
baker's yeast
bakery
cakebaker
fly baker
sergeant baker
sugar baker
beep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēp
ipa: /biːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: beeps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
synonyms: bleep
glosses: A short, electronically produced tone.
examples: text: I got a beep from Kym, and she can fuck all night.
ref: 1992, Ice Cube, “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:
glosses: A message sent to a pager device.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
synonyms: word: bell
extra: bell character
Synonyms: word: beep
word: bleep
word: blip
word: boop
word: chirp
word: meep
word: peep
word: pip
word: ping
word: queep
word: tweep
word: zap
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: downchirp
word: upchirp
Derived terms: beep out
beep test
beepy
roger beep
Related terms: word: bang
word: tap
word: snap
beep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bēp
ipa: /biːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: beeps
form: beeping
form: beeped
form: beeped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
synonyms: honk
hoot
toot
coordinate_terms: boop
bop
glosses: To produce a beep sound.
examples: text: Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts.
examples: text: Burkat told him on the evening of Sunday, July 1, that Kritch “would have to terminate Mr. Waugaman on Monday when he came in, for not answering the beeper.” […] However, when considered in light of[…] Justak’s assertion in Waugaman’s termination notice that Respondent had unsuccessfully tried to “beep” him at 6 p.m.[…]
ref: 1981, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (U.S.), volume 253, page 1060:
text: His first notion was to call her on her mobile phone device. After all, she had neither called nor beeped him to tell him any plans in advance.
ref: 2013, Tonshea Carroll Moore, Lanette Zavala, Wedding Vows Under Fire, page 138:
glosses: To contact (someone) via a pager device.
examples: text: Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
text: He should have been here at two-fifteen the way he drove. I beeped him, but he didn't ring back.
ref: 2008, Deborah Eden, The Destroyer, page 157:
synonyms: flash
glosses: To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
Derived terms: beeper
Related terms: pip
beep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēp
ipa: /biːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: beeps
Etymology: Blend of big + jeep. From being bigger versions of the general purpose superlight truck, the Willys MB "Jeep".
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A 1/2-ton general purpose military light truck
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A 3/4-ton general purpose military medium truck
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: Especially, the Dodge WC series U.S. Army WWII military trucks, in 1/2-ton 3/4-ton 1-ton variants
Synonyms: word: beep
word: bleep
word: blip
word: boop
word: chirp
word: meep
word: peep
word: pip
word: ping
word: queep
word: tweep
word: zap
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: downchirp
word: upchirp
Coordinate terms: duck
jeep
seep
Related terms: word: bang
word: tap
word: snap
Schomburgk's deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schomburgk's deer
Etymology: Named after Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, British consul in Bangkok from 1857 to 1864.
Senses: glosses: An extinct deer (†Rucervus schomburgki) once native to south-east Asia, having a dark brown coat and lighter belly, a short mane and basket-like antlers in the male.
bean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bēn
ipa: /biːn/
homophone: been (in some dialects)
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: beans
form: beaning
form: beaned
form: beaned
Etymology: From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), North Frisian buan (“bean”), Saterland Frisian Boone (“bean”), West Frisian bean, beanne (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Luxembourgish Boun (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Faroese bøn, bøna (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Norwegian Bokmål bønne (“bean”), Norwegian Nynorsk bauna, baune, bogna, bønne, Swedish böna (“bean”), Irish pónaire (“bean”), Manx poanrey (“bean”), Scottish Gaelic pònair (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.
Senses: examples: text: The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.
text: Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker.
[...]
 dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX and XI:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit with a projectile, especially a deliberately aimed blow to the head.
beak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: beek
Forms: form: beaks
form: beaking
form: beaked
form: beaked
form: beck
Etymology: From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”).
Senses: glosses: To strike with the beak.
glosses: To seize with the beak.
examples: text: Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment.
ref: 2008 January 11, jemmy hope (username), “Re: Sandy Row”, in Belfast Forum:
text: I was living at home at her age, by and large doing what my parents told me, apart from beaking school.
ref: 2017, Paddy Armstrong, Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir:
synonyms: word: beak
word: bob
word: bug out
word: bump off
word: bunk
word: bunk off
word: cut class
word: dip
word: ditch
word: dob
word: dog
word: go on the hop
word: go on the lang
word: go on the mitch
word: hop the wag
word: jig
word: kid
word: mitch
word: pip
word: play hooky
word: play the wag
word: play truant
word: plunk
word: sag off
word: scull
word: skip
word: skive
word: skive off
word: sluff
word: twag
word: wag
word: wag it
glosses: To play truant.
Derived terms: beak off
beak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: beek
Forms: form: beaks
Etymology: Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".
Senses: examples: text: They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter XXXVIII, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak.
ref: 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers:
text: Thus does history repeat itself, and that foolish beak, with Tom Linden before him, was but Felix judging Paul.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: That an unnamed 22-year-old will be up before the Colchester beak in March under the Road Traffic Act's recherché section 3 – covering inconsiderate driving and with a maximum fine of £5,000 – may at first sight seem a facetious use of court resources.
ref: 2014 January 24, Matthew Norman, “Hercules of the Yard can fix boorish Britain: There's a long list of possible miscreants for the Essex PC who made a splash over a puddle [print version: 25 January 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 27:
text: In 1854, ill health forced Henry [Fielding] to stop running the organisation that later became the Bow Street Runners, London's first professional police force, and John [Fielding] took over. This despite having lost his sight in a naval accident at the age of 19. He was known as the Blind Beak, and was said to be able to recognise as many as 3,000 criminals by their voices alone.
ref: 2014 April 12, Christopher Middleton, “Dream home: one of Chelsea's most historic houses is for sale: We deliver our verdict on a London landmark that comes with an impeccable legal pedigree [print version: What price justice? In this case, a cool £14.5m]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), London, page P9:
glosses: A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
examples: text: It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]
qualifier: British public schools
glosses: A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
demonstrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmənstɹeɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖᵻˈmɔnsʈreʈ/
Forms: form: demonstrates
form: demonstrating
form: demonstrated
form: demonstrated
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: demonstrate
form: demonstrate
form: demonstrated
form: demonstrate
form: demonstratest
form: demonstrated
form: demonstratedst
form: demonstrates
form: demonstrateth
form: demonstrated
form: demonstrate
form: demonstrated
form: demonstrate
form: demonstrated
form: demonstrate
form: -
form: demonstrating
form: demonstrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēmonstrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēmonstrō (“to show, point at”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French démontrer.
Senses: examples: text: Can you demonstrate the new tools for us?
text: In this tape, a velvet-voiced narrator provides a stroke-by-stroke guide to massaging your partner. As she speaks, comely nude couples demonstrate.
ref: 1987 February 8, Richard Zachs, “Candy is dandy (though maybe not liquor) - so for this Valentine's Day, video may be a whole lot more fun”, in The New York Daily News:
glosses: To show how to use (something).
glosses: To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
examples: text: Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results.
glosses: To participate in or organize a demonstration.
examples: text: The debate was not long on policy, as questions about the Affordable Care Act and the war in Syria demonstrated.
ref: 2016, David A. Graham, “Donald Trump's Disastrous Debate”, in The Atlantic, page http://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2016/10/second-presidential-debate-clinton-trump/503495/:
text: "What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […]"
ref: 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:
glosses: To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
Derived terms: counterdemonstrate
demonstratable
demonstratedly
demonstrative
demonstrator
demonstratory
nondemonstrating
redemonstrate
undemonstrated
Related terms: demo
demonstrable
demonstratedly
demonstration
monster
monstrance
remonstrate
show
prove
beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēch
ipa: /biːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
homophone: beach
Forms: form: beeches
Etymology: From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā (“beech”). Doublet of buky.
Senses: examples: text: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.
glosses: The wood of the beech tree.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: beech tree
sense: wood
word: beechwood
Derived terms: American beech
Antarctic beech
beech bark disease
beech-de-mer
beechdrops
beechen
Beech Forest
Beech Grove
beechlike
beech marten
beechmast
beech mast
beechnut
beech nut
beech oil
beech snap
Beechtree
beechy
blue beech
Bough Beech
Carshalton Beeches
common beech
copper beech
Dombey's beech
dwarf beech
European beech
High Beech
Japanese beech
lenga beech
Magellan's beech
Mexican beech
myrtle beech
parasol beech
Siebold's beech
southern beech
twisted beech
water beech
white beech
biodegradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: biodegradations
Etymology: From bio- + degradation.
Senses: glosses: The decomposition of any material by microorganisms.
Related terms: biodegradable
biodegrade
bruising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Etymology: From bruise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bruise
bruising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Forms: form: more bruising
form: most bruising
Etymology: From bruise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That bruises.
examples: text: Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
ref: 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Wearisome, arduous.
Derived terms: bruisingly
bruising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Forms: form: bruisings
Etymology: From bruise + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.
glosses: A violent physical attack on a person.
examples: text: […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.
ref: 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, pages 251–252:
glosses: Bruises on a person's skin.
Derived terms: cruising for a bruising
medieval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmiː.diˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /mɪdˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /mɪdˈi.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛdiˈi.vəl/
rhymes: -iːvəl
Forms: form: more medieval
form: most medieval
form: mediaeval
form: mediæval
form: medieveal
Etymology: From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).
Senses: examples: text: The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
glosses: Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
glosses: Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
Archaic.
examples: text: Brute force can get you into any apartment if you want to get medieval about it.
ref: 1969 March 24, New York Magazine, page 58:
text: "Oh, what a nifty idea," Collins said dryly. "Get a bunch of angry brothers with a blowtorch and some pliers and get medieval on his ass."
ref: 2003, Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive, page 579:
glosses: Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
Brutal.
Derived terms: antimedieval
get medieval
Medieval Climate Anomaly
Medieval Climate Optimum
medievaldom
medieval embroidery
medievalesque
medieval guipure
medievalish
medievalism
medievalist
medievalistic
medievalistics
medievality
medievalize
Medieval Latin
medieval literature
medievally
medievalness
medievaloid
medieval studies
medieval synthesis
Medieval Warm Period
medievistics
medireview
neomedieval
nonmedieval
post-medieval
postmedieval
premedieval
pseudomedieval
unmedieval
medieval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmiː.diˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /mɪdˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /mɪdˈi.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛdiˈi.vəl/
rhymes: -iːvəl
Forms: form: medievals
form: mediaeval
form: mediæval
form: medieveal
Etymology: From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).
Senses: glosses: Someone living in the Middle Ages.
examples: text: Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.
glosses: A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
discriminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discriminants
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An expression that gives information about the roots of a polynomial; for example, the expression D = b² - 4ac determines whether the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0 are real and distinct (D > 0), real and equal (D = 0) or complex (D < 0).
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The invariant (on the vector space of forms of degree d in n variables) that vanishes exactly when the corresponding hypersurface in Pⁿ⁻¹ is singular.
Derived terms: discriminantal
discriminant function
discriminantly
multidiscriminant
nondiscriminant
discriminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discriminant
form: most discriminant
Senses: glosses: Serving to discriminate.
asymptote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsɪmptoʊ̯t/
ipa: /ˈæsɪmtoʊ̯t/
ipa: /ˈeɪ̯sɪmtoʊ̯t/
ipa: /ˈæsɪmtɒt/
Forms: form: asymptotes
Etymology: circa 1650, from Ancient Greek ἀσύμπτωτη (asúmptōtē), the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' (circa 200 BC) Ancient Greek adjective ἀσύμπτωτος (asúmptōtos, “not falling together”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + συν- (sun-, “together”) + πτωτός (ptōtós, “fallen”).
Senses: examples: text: The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F₁) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore.
ref: 1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
examples: text: Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote.
ref: 1860, Frederic William Farrar, An Essay on the Origin of Language, page 117:
glosses: Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
Derived terms: asymptotia
asymptotic
asymptotical
asymptotically
asymptotics