cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /alˈviː.əl.ə/
ipa: /ˌal.viˈəʊ.lə/
ipa: /ælˈvi.əl.ɚ/
ipa: /ælˈvi.lɚ/
rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From alveolus + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the jaw ridge containing the tooth sockets.
examples: text: In the case of the Wubuy alveolar versus retroflex contrast for instance, we argue that the phonetic overlap is so great that native listeners can behave as if this were an instance of a good and a 'less good' instance of a single category (CG).
ref: 2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Formed with the tongue touching or approaching the inner ridge of the gums of the upper front teeth.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the glands with secretory cells about a central space.
Derived terms: alveolar artery
alveolar bed
alveolar bone
alveolar dead space
alveolarisation
alveolarization
alveolarize
alveolarly
alveolar nerve
alveolar process
alveolar ridge
alveolar socket
apico-alveolar
apicoalveolar
basialveolar
bialveolar
bronchioalveolar
bronchioloalveolar
bronchoalveolar
dentialveolar
dentoalveolar
inferior alveolar artery
inferior alveolar nerve
interalveolar
intraalveolar
labioalveolar
lobuloalveolar
microalveolar
monoalveolar
nasoalveolar
nonalveolar
palatoalveolar
palato-alveolar
parietoalveolar
perialveolar
postalveolar
post-alveolar
posterior superior alveolar artery
retroalveolar
subalveolar
transalveolar
tubuloalveolar
zygomaticoalveolar
Related terms: alveolary
alveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /alˈviː.əl.ə/
ipa: /ˌal.viˈəʊ.lə/
ipa: /ælˈvi.əl.ɚ/
ipa: /ælˈvi.lɚ/
rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: alveolars
Etymology: From alveolus + -ar.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: word: gingival
glosses: An alveolar consonant.
gonzo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏnʹzō
ipa: /ˈɡɑnzoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒnzəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒnzəʊ
homophone: gone-zo
Forms: form: more gonzo
form: most gonzo
Etymology: Coined in 1971 by Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso. Of uncertain origin; OED proposes Italian gonzo (“dolt”) and / or Spanish ganso (“dolt, goose”). The etymology supplied by Cardoso himself (French gonzeaux) is spurious.
Senses: examples: text: I ask Hunter to explain ... Just what is Gonzo Journalism? ... “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa ^([sic]), ... after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's ... the first time I realized you could write different. And ... I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure gonzo journalism!’ ... Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”
ref: 1972, Richard Pollack, chapter VI, in Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.
examples: text: Nicholson’s Torrance is an evil clown ... Appropriately, pop culture has embraced him as a gonzo antihero: Ads for T-shirts emblazoned with the “Here’s Johnny” Nicholson
ref: 2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American culture on the brink, page 121:
glosses: Unconventional, bizarre, crazy.
Derived terms: gone-zo
gonzoism
gonzo journalism
gonzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏnʹzō
ipa: /ˈɡɑnzoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒnzəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒnzəʊ
homophone: gone-zo
Forms: form: gonzos
Etymology: Coined in 1971 by Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso. Of uncertain origin; OED proposes Italian gonzo (“dolt”) and / or Spanish ganso (“dolt, goose”). The etymology supplied by Cardoso himself (French gonzeaux) is spurious.
Senses: examples: text: “Unstable” indeed! Those swine: Next year we should demand a gonzo category – or maybe R S should give it. Of course: “The first annual Rolling Stone award for the year's finest example of pure gonzo journalism.”
ref: 2000, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, Fear and Loathing in America: The brutal odyssey of an outlaw Journalist, 1968–1976:
glosses: Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism.
glosses: A wild or crazy person.
gonzo journalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both Carey Schofield's Jagger and Chet Flippo's On the Road with the Rolling Stones: Twenty Years of Lipstick, Handcuffs and Chemicals are glib, gonzo journalism about the world's favorite musical sex purveyors.
ref: 1985 August 24, Michael Bronski, “Titles of Interest from the Mainstream Press”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 11:
text: It was Boris Johnson who possesses the confidence and creative genius to inject gonzo journalism into mainstream British political reporting.
ref: 2021, Peter Oborne, The Assault on Truth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A form of journalism in which facts are deemed to be less important than the writer's perception of the underlying truth (especially where deliberately altered consciousness is involved).
gossamer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒ.sə.mə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.sə.mɚ/
Forms: form: more gossamer
form: most gossamer
Etymology: From Middle English gossomer, gosesomer, gossummer (attested since around 1300, and only in reference to webs or other light things), usually thought to derive from gos (“goose”) + somer (“summer”) and to have initially referred to a period of warm weather in late autumn when geese were eaten — compare Middle Scots goesomer, goe-summer (“summery weather in late autumn; St Martin's summer”) and dialectal English go-harvest, both later connected in folk-etymology to go — and to have been transferred to cobwebs because they were frequent then or because they were likened to goose-down. Skeat says that in Craven the webs were called summer-goose, and compares Scots and dialectal English use of summer-colt in reference to "exhalations seen rising from the ground in hot weather". Weekley notes that both the webs and the weather have fantastical names in most European languages: compare German Altweibersommer (“Indian summer; cobwebs, gossamer”, literally “old wives' summer”) and other terms listed there.
Senses: examples: text: There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
ref: 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”, in Tales, New York: Wiley and Putnam, page 37:
text: The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
ref: 1857, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Daisy's Necklace: And What Came of It:
text: He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: His two previous novels, though much celebrated, I found too ethereal, the style as gossamer and sticky as cotton candy.
ref: 1982 December 4, Mitzel, “A Sissy's Revenge”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:
text: A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic.
ref: 1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 83:
glosses: Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
Synonyms: gossamery
gossamer-thin
soapbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊpbɒks/
Forms: form: soapboxes
form: soap box
form: soap-box
Etymology: From soap + box. The figurative use of the word derives from the fact that soap products in the US used to be commonly transported to stores in large wooden boxes. It used to be common for individuals to give impromptu rally speeches to their neighbors by finding something to stand on like a soapbox.
Senses: glosses: A crate for packing soap.
examples: text: The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophecy of the end of the world.
text: The one image which the word “Socialist” brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
glosses: A small platform, being or resembling a literal soapbox, on which a person stands in order to give an impromptu speech or espouse his or her views.
examples: text: The politician used Twitter as his soapbox.
text: Please stop using council meetings as your own personal soapbox.
text: Bernhard's last appearance on a late-night talk show was a handy soapbox to expound on his political message of patriotism, nationalism, and populism.
ref: 2013, Robert F. Ely, Candidate for President, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express his or her opinions.
examples: text: He's been on his soapbox all day about the new football coach.
glosses: A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
raw_tags: in phrases such as 'on/off one's soapbox'
examples: text: His soapbox is the lack of public toilets in the city.
glosses: A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
The topic itself.
raw_tags: in phrases such as 'on/off one's soapbox'
glosses: A soapbox car.
Derived terms: soapboxer
soapboxy
soapbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊpbɒks/
Forms: form: soapboxes
form: soapboxing
form: soapboxed
form: soapboxed
form: soap box
form: soap-box
Etymology: From soap + box. The figurative use of the word derives from the fact that soap products in the US used to be commonly transported to stores in large wooden boxes. It used to be common for individuals to give impromptu rally speeches to their neighbors by finding something to stand on like a soapbox.
Senses: examples: text: He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.
ref: 2011, Phil Wolfson, Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
text: […] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.
ref: 2015, Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.
Evil One
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Evil One
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the assistance of the Devil or his demons was sought without the magician wishing to go so far as to give up his soul to the Evil One.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 149:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Devil; Satan; Lucifer.
Synonyms: Wicked One
served
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɝvd/
ipa: /sɜːvd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serve
Derived terms: word: time-served
word: time served
formed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːmd/
ipa: /fɔɹmd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of form
formed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːmd/
ipa: /fɔɹmd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Derived terms: beamformed
biformed
electroformed
explosively formed penetrator
formedness
hydroformed
ill-formed
informed
malformed
neoformed
newly-formed
self-formed
semiformed
twiformed
well-formed
well-formed formula
developed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɛləpt/
Forms: form: more developed
form: most developed
Senses: examples: text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
glosses: wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
raw_tags: said of a country
glosses: Mature.
glosses: Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
examples: text: Access to finance is deeper and wider under better institutions (more transparency, better property rights) in more developed financial markets, and in an environment less distorted by taxes, unnecessary regulations, and other avoidable costs.
ref: 2007, Lev Ratnovski, Aditya Narain, Public Financial Institutions in Developed Countries, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
examples: text: We shall, however, obtain a clearer view of the question if we consider the superstitions of those races which have a rudimentary religion, and endeavour to trace these ideas up into a more developed condition.
ref: 2014, John Lubbock, The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Advanced, fully formed.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Processed and fixed; containing a visible negative (or positive for slide film) image
raw_tags: of film
Synonyms: sense: of a country
word: advanced
sense: of a country
word: first-world
sense: of a country
word: industrialised
sense: mature
word: big
word: adult
word: full-grown
Derived terms: developed country
developedness
ESA-developed
hyperdeveloped
maldeveloped
NASA-developed
overdeveloped
semideveloped
underdeveloped
well-developed
developed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɛləpt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of develop
received
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsiːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Forms: form: receiv'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of receive
received
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsiːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Forms: form: receiv'd
Senses: examples: text: And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish.
ref: 2012 October 30, Robin Wilkinson, Western Mail:
glosses: Generally accepted as correct or true.
Derived terms: ill-received
Received Pronunciation
received wisdom
well-received
metropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: [-tn̩]
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/
note: of Canada
ipa: [-ɾən]
note: of Canada
ipa: [-ɾn̩]
note: of the US
ipa: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
note: of the US
ipa: [-ɾən]
note: of the US
ipa: [-ɾn̩]
ipa: /ˌmetɹəˈpɔlɪtən/
ipa: /ˌmetɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: [-ɾən]
ipa: [-ɾn̩]
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Forms: form: metropolitans
Etymology: From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
Senses: examples: text: I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:
text: Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: metropolitan bishop
glosses: A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
glosses: The inhabitant of a metropolis.
metropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: [-tn̩]
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/
note: of Canada
ipa: [-ɾən]
note: of Canada
ipa: [-ɾn̩]
note: of the US
ipa: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
note: of the US
ipa: [-ɾən]
note: of the US
ipa: [-ɾn̩]
ipa: /ˌmetɹəˈpɔlɪtən/
ipa: /ˌmetɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
ipa: [-ɾən]
ipa: [-ɾn̩]
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Forms: form: more metropolitan
form: most metropolitan
Etymology: From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
coordinate_terms: micropolitan
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
examples: text: Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.
ref: 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:
text: the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.
ref: 2015, Wouter Veenendaal, The Dutch Caribbean municipalities in comparative perspective. Island Studies Journal 10(1): 15–30
glosses: Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
Derived terms: extrametropolitan
metroplex
metropolitan area
metropolitan area network
metropolitanate
metropolitan borough
metropolitan city
metropolitan core
metropolitan county
metropolitan elite
metropolitanise
metropolitanism
metropolitanize
metropolitanly
metropolitanship
metrosexual
micropolitan
nonmetropolitan
perimetropolitan
ruralpolitan
Santiago Metropolitan Region
submetropolitan
unmetropolitan
voluntary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.ən.tɹi/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈvɒl.ən.t(ɛ)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɔl.ən.tɹi/
note: Ghana
ipa: [voˈlɔn.t̠ɹ̠̊ɹ̩.ri]
ipa: /ˌvo.lɔnˈtɛ.ri/
Forms: form: more voluntary
form: most voluntary
Etymology: From Middle English *voluntarie, from Old French volontaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, of free will”), from voluntās (“will, choice, desire”), from volēns, present participle of volo (“to will”). Displaced native Old English selfwille (literally “self-willed”).
Senses: examples: text: September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College
That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
text: She fell, to lust a voluntary prey.
ref: 1726, Alexander, transl. Pope, “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 345; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 540:
glosses: Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
examples: text: If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
glosses: Done by design or intention; intentional.
examples: text: Wikimedia is a voluntary service.
glosses: Working or done without payment.
examples: text: […] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5:
glosses: Endowed with the power of willing.
examples: a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church
glosses: Of or relating to voluntarism.
Synonyms: topics: acting
film
theater
entertainment
lifestyle
television
broadcasting
media
word: discretionary
raw_tags: of one's own free will
word: optional
word: volitional
sense: done by design or intention
word: intentional
word: willful
word: intentional
sense: done without payment
word: honorary
sense: done without payment
word: pro bono
sense: done without payment
word: unpaid
sense: done without payment
word: unsalaried
sense: done without payment
word: unwaged
sense: endowed with the power of willing
word: autonomous
sense: endowed with the power of willing
word: spontaneous
Derived terms: individual voluntary arrangement
voluntarily
voluntary agent
voluntary aided school
voluntary controlled school
voluntary jurisdiction
voluntary manslaughter
voluntary movement
voluntary muscle
voluntary waste
voluntary work
Related terms: voluntarism
voluntarist
voluntary
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.ən.tɹi/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈvɒl.ən.t(ɛ)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɔl.ən.tɹi/
note: Ghana
ipa: [voˈlɔn.t̠ɹ̠̊ɹ̩.ri]
ipa: /ˌvo.lɔnˈtɛ.ri/
Forms: form: more voluntary
form: most voluntary
Etymology: From Middle English *voluntarie, from Old French volontaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, of free will”), from voluntās (“will, choice, desire”), from volēns, present participle of volo (“to will”). Displaced native Old English selfwille (literally “self-willed”).
Senses: examples: text: And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Voluntarily.
voluntary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.ən.tɹi/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈvɒl.ən.t(ɛ)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɔl.ən.tɹi/
note: Ghana
ipa: [voˈlɔn.t̠ɹ̠̊ɹ̩.ri]
ipa: /ˌvo.lɔnˈtɛ.ri/
Forms: form: voluntaries
Etymology: From Middle English *voluntarie, from Old French volontaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, of free will”), from voluntās (“will, choice, desire”), from volēns, present participle of volo (“to will”). Displaced native Old English selfwille (literally “self-willed”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.
glosses: A volunteer.
glosses: A supporter of voluntarism; a voluntarist.
field restriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field restrictions
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rule governing the placement of fielders (within an oval drawn on the pitch) at certain times during the innings of a one-day match.
restriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: restrictions
Etymology: From Middle English restriccioun, from Anglo-Norman restriction, Middle French restriction, and their source, Late Latin restrictiō, from Latin restringō.
Morphologically restrict + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
examples: text: In the year 1819, Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill, and which finally passed both houses, and received the royal assent on the 2nd July, for continuing the restrictions contained in several acts of parliament, on payments in cash by the bank of England, until the 1st day of May, 1823, and to provide for the gradual resumption of cash payments: [...] VIII. After the first day of May, 1822, the bank of England, if they shall think fit, may pay or exchange the lawful coin of the realm, for any of their own notes, payable on demand.
ref: 1835, Thomas Stephen, “The Rise, Progress, and Gradual Improvement of the Laws of England”, in The Book of the Constitution of Great Britain: […], Glasgow; Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, […]; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun., & Co.; London: Simpkin & Marshall, →OCLC, pages 275–276:
glosses: A regulation or limitation that restricts.
examples: text: Echinorhagata is likewise supported by typical echinoderid autapomorphies, inclusive the number of trichoscalids that is reduced from 14 to 6; restriction of lateral accessory spines to females only; and an apparent restriction of the middorsal spines to appear only on segments 4 to 8.
ref: 2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
Derived terms: field restriction
restriction enzyme
value restriction
width restriction
Related terms: restrict
restrain
restraint
constriction
Black Death
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Black Death
Senses: examples: text: Following the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century, and the weakening of Mongol rule, the closing of overland routes between Europe and Asia once again created a bottleneck that flowed through the Middle East, trade flows that were largely controlled by Venice and Egypt.
ref: 2013, Al Gore, “Earth Inc.”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.
Synonyms: the plague
the bubonic plague
the Black Plague
outbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtbɹeɪk/
Forms: form: outbreaks
Etymology: From Middle English outbreken, oute-breken, from Old English ūtābrecan (“to break out”), equivalent to out- + break. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutbreeke (“to break out; burst out”), West Frisian útbrekke (“to break out”), Dutch uitbreken (“to break out, burst out”), German ausbrechen (“to break out, erupt”).
Senses: examples: text: Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic.
glosses: An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
examples: text: There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
glosses: A sudden increase.
examples: text: There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
glosses: An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
glosses: Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”).
synonyms: word: breakout
extra: escape from prison
Synonyms: sense: figurative outburst
word: outburst
sense: figurative outburst
word: tumult
Derived terms: interoutbreak
intraoutbreak
postoutbreak
preoutbreak
sun outage
outbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtbɹeɪk/
Forms: form: outbreaks
form: outbreaking
form: outbroke
form: outbroken
Etymology: From Middle English outbreken, oute-breken, from Old English ūtābrecan (“to break out”), equivalent to out- + break. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutbreeke (“to break out; burst out”), West Frisian útbrekke (“to break out”), Dutch uitbreken (“to break out, burst out”), German ausbrechen (“to break out, erupt”).
Senses: glosses: To burst out or break forth.
Related terms: breakout
orgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈɔɹd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒi
Forms: form: orgies
Etymology: Originally in plural from French orgies, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”).
Senses: examples: text: Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order took place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 39:
qualifier: originally
glosses: A secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
synonyms: word: fuckfest
glosses: A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
examples: text: Gorea 07: 'OUR DEFENSES WERE USELESS AGAINST GOREA AS IT SWEPT THROUGH OUR EMPIRE IN AN ORGY OF ANNIHILATION.'
ref: 2006 March 20, Nintendo Software Technology, Metroid Prime Hunters, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Logbook – Lore
text: It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry series always promised but never delivered.
ref: 2010 January 16, Nick Gillett, “This week's games reviews”, in The Guardian:
text: The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604:
glosses: An instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
Hyponyms: cuntfest
gangbang
suckfest
Derived terms: couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel
fourgie
love orgy
orgiast
orgiastic
orgic
orgygoer
orgy-goer
orgylike
Related terms: group sex
hooray
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: hurray
form: hurrah
form: huzzah
form: hoorah
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies:
* Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable.
* From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.
Senses: examples: text: Lizzie has broken a world record, and she is now an Olympic medallist! – Hooray!
glosses: Used to express approval, joy or victory.
Synonyms: sense: expression of approval
word: well done
sense: expression of joy
word: yay
Derived terms: boo-hooray
hip hip hooray
hooray for Hollywood
hooray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: hoorays
form: hurray
form: hurrah
form: huzzah
form: hoorah
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies:
* Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable.
* From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.
Senses: glosses: A shout to signify victory.
glosses: An expression of excitement.
examples: text: The Caribbean isn’t just for minor royals and hedge-fund hoorays. […] But the hurricanes had not struck the southern Caribbean (they rarely do), and the hedge fund hoorays were clearly confined to Mustique.
ref: 2017 November 26, Kevin Rushby, “Caribbean dream: mixing it up in the Grenadines”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Ellipsis of Hooray Henry.
hooray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: hoorays
form: hooraying
form: hoorayed
form: hoorayed
form: hurray
form: hurrah
form: huzzah
form: hoorah
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies:
* Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable.
* From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.
Senses: glosses: To shout an expression of excitement.
Synonyms: hurrah
hurley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurleys
Etymology: From hurl.
Senses: glosses: A stick used in the game of hurling.
glosses: The game of hurling.
hurling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurlings
Senses: examples: text: In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.
ref: Edmund Yates (1884), “A Dickens Chapter”, in Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 111:
glosses: The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
glosses: An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
glosses: A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
Derived terms: Cornish hurling
hurling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hurl
Derived terms: senior hurling
Hooray Henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hooray Henrys
form: Hooray Henries
form: hooray Henry
Etymology: Coined by American writer Damon Runyon in 1936.
Senses: examples: text: It was a nice pub, down by the river, but full of Hooray Henrys.
text: Most of us probably thought that the Hooray Henrys of the 80s were as bad as it was ever going to get, but at least those braying City boys had jobs.
ref: 2003 August 3, Barbara Ellen, “Stupidly rich”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: hooray
hoorah
coordinate_terms: Hooray Henrietta
glosses: An offensively loudmouthed upper-class man.
Related terms: HENRY
Sloane Ranger
open mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open minds
Senses: examples: text: I'm not convinced that there's extraterrestrial life out there, but I'm keeping an open mind.
glosses: A mind willing to consider new ideas.
Derived terms: word: open-minded
open-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open-minded
form: most open-minded
Etymology: From open + minded.
Senses: glosses: Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.
Synonyms: accepting
broad-minded
impartial
persuadable
tolerant
unbiased
understanding
Derived terms: open-mindedly
open-mindedness
nonconformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconformists
form: non-conformist
Etymology: From non- + conformist.
Senses: glosses: A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
glosses: Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
glosses: Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
glosses: A noctuid moth (Lithophane lamda).
Synonyms: sense: someone who does not conform
word: free spirit
word: heteroclite
word: individualist
word: maverick
Derived terms: nonconformist register
nonconformist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonconformist
form: most nonconformist
form: non-conformist
Etymology: From non- + conformist.
Senses: examples: text: One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate:
glosses: Not conforming to established customs, etc.
Related terms: Nonconformist
nonconformity
nonconformist register
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconformist registers
Senses: glosses: The parish register of a nonconformist church or chapel.
opiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹpē-ət
ipa: /ˈəʊpi.ət/
enpr: ōʹpē-āt'
ipa: /ˈəʊpiˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈoʊpi.ət/
enpr: ōʹpē-āt
ipa: /ˈoʊpiˌeɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
glosses: Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
glosses: Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.
opiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹpē-ət
ipa: /ˈəʊpi.ət/
enpr: ōʹpē-āt'
ipa: /ˈəʊpiˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈoʊpi.ət/
enpr: ōʹpē-āt
ipa: /ˈoʊpiˌeɪt/
Forms: form: opiates
Etymology: From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
examples: text: They chose atheism as an opiate.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
text: The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense of past dangers and present security—operated on Beatrice like the first and delicious stage of an opiate.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 230:
glosses: Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
Hypernyms: opioid
Derived terms: antiopiate
opiatelike
opiatic
utopiate
opiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹpē-ət
ipa: /ˈəʊpi.ət/
enpr: ōʹpē-āt'
ipa: /ˈəʊpiˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈoʊpi.ət/
enpr: ōʹpē-āt
ipa: /ˈoʊpiˌeɪt/
Forms: form: opiates
form: opiating
form: opiated
form: opiated
Etymology: From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.
Senses: glosses: To treat with an opiate drug.
Related terms: codeine
morphine
papaverine
thebaine
morphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.fiːn/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹˌfin/
ipa: /ˈmoː.fiːn/
Forms: form: morphines
form: morphin
form: morphina
Etymology: Borrowed from French morphine or German Morphin, from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús, “the god and personification of dreams”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.
Synonyms: morphia
Derived terms: amorphinism
apomorphine
benzylmorphine
demorphinization
demorphinize
desomorphine
diacetylmorphine
dihydromorphine
ethylmorphine
hydromorphinol
methyldihydromorphine
methylmorphine
morphinate
morphined
morphinelike
morphinergic
morphinic
morphinism
morphinist
morphinization
morphinize
morphinomane
morphinomania
morphinomaniac
morphinomimetic
morphinone
neomorphine
nicomorphine
normorphine
paramorphine
pseudomorphine
Related terms: codeine
heroin
codeine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.diːn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊˌdiːn/
Forms: form: codeines
Etymology: From French codéine, from Ancient Greek κώδεια (kṓdeia, “capsule of the poppy, poppy head”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.
Derived terms: apocodeine
codeined
codeinelike
codeinone
cuprofen
dihydrocodeinone
dihydroheterocodeine
heterocodeine
hydrocodone
norcodeine
oxycodone
paracodeine
Related terms: morphine
thebaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thebain
form: thebaia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai, “Thebes”)
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A poisonous alkaloid, paramorphine, obtained from opium; not used in medicine.
Derived terms: thebaism
Related terms: morphine
codeine
papaverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papaverines
Etymology: From Latin papāver (“poppy”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.
Derived terms: word: cinnamaverine
word: ethaverine
word: moxaverine
word: pinaverium
word: tetrahydropapaverine
english: spasmolytic
translation: spasmolytic
word: -verine
vasodilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasodilators
Etymology: From vaso- + dilator.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A drug or chemical agent that causes dilation of the blood vessels thereby reducing blood pressure.
Derived terms: dil-
-dil-
-dil
-dyl
nitrovasodilator
vasodilatory
Related terms: vasoactive § Related terms
ACE inhibitor
blood pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌd ˌpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: blood pressures
Senses: examples: text: the great majority of people who have serious conditions from high blood pressure suffer debilitating illness
text: The nurse spent all day taking blood pressures at the hospital.
text: She threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.” “Never you mind my blood pressure. You let it alone, and it'll leave you alone. UPJOHN!”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVII, XVIII, AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: The pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries and veins; it varies during the heartbeat cycle, and according to a person's age, health and physical condition.
Derived terms: diastolic blood pressure
high blood pressure
systolic blood pressure
heartbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtˌbiːt/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtˌbit/
ipa: [ˈhɑɹʔbiʔ]
Forms: form: heartbeats
Etymology: From heart + beat.
Senses: examples: text: The policeman waited for a heartbeat in vain.
text: He alone gives me such heartbeats.
text: Both CRT-Ds and ICDs are implanted under the skin, in the patient’s upper chest area. The devices have wires called leads that attach to the heart and regulate the rhythm of the muscle. Defibrillators help patients with bradycardia – a slow heartbeat – by pacing the heartbeat and those with tachycardia – a fast heartbeat – by delivering shocks that reset heartbeats to normal.
ref: 2016 October 11, Hailey Middlebrook, “After 2 deaths, patients warned about heart defibrillators’ failed batteries”, in CNN:
glosses: One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
examples: text: If your heartbeat doesn't normalize soon, consult a doctor!
synonyms: pulse
glosses: The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
examples: text: Music is the heartbeat of the people.
text: Dream Body Recovery is just one of countless recovery houses that have cropped up in Miami, which has become the heartbeat of the B.B.L. boom in the United States. The average price of a B.B.L. nationwide is around $5,000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
glosses: A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
examples: text: The ambulance arrived in a heartbeat.
text: Cause I love you more than life Take a bullet for you I swear, I swear In a heartbeat
ref: 2014, “Bullet”, Robbie Williams et al. (lyrics):
glosses: A very short space of time; an instant.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
Derived terms: heartbeat bill
heartbeat law
heartbeatlike
Heartbleed
in a heartbeat
pulsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlˈseɪʃn̩/
ipa: /pəlˈseɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: pulsations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pulsacion, and its source, Latin pulsātiō (“a beating or striking”).
Senses: examples: text: Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
glosses: The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
examples: text: Lo! as a dove when up she springs
⁠To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe,
⁠Some dolorous message knit below
The wild pulsation of her wings;
Like her I go; I cannot stay;
⁠I leave this mortal ark behind […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.
examples: text: By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Physical striking; a blow.
glosses: A single beat, throb or vibration.
throb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thrŏb
ipa: /θɹɒb/
ipa: /θɹɑb/
ipa: /θɹɔb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: throbs
form: throbbing
form: throbbed
form: throbbed
Etymology: From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: Her heart began to throb faster as the moment approached.
glosses: To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
glosses: To vibrate or pulsate with a steady rhythm.
examples: I have a throbbing headache.
glosses: To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
raw_tags: of a body part
examples: text: The bass in the song made the entire room throb with energy.
text: Having been married and divorced, Suzanne throbs with attitudes of strength, liberation and equality.
ref: 1977 April 23, Arlene Silva, “Suzanne Fox's Silent Stories”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
raw_tags: with "with"
Derived terms: heart-throbbing
throbbingly
throb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thrŏb
ipa: /θɹɒb/
ipa: /θɹɑb/
ipa: /θɹɔb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: throbs
Etymology: From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: He could feel a dull throb in his head from the tension.
text: My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs, presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: A beating, vibration or palpitation.
Derived terms: throbber
throbby
heartthrob
wind throb
heartthrob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtˌθɹɒb/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtˌθɹɑb/
ipa: /ˈhɑːtˌθɹɔb/
rhymes: -ɒb
rhymes: -ɑb
rhymes: -ɔb
Forms: form: heartthrobs
form: heart throb
form: heart-throb
Etymology: From heart + throb.
Senses: glosses: A heartbeat.
glosses: The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart.
examples: text: And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
glosses: A handsome male celebrity.
illogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illogical
form: most illogical
Etymology: From il- + logical.
Senses: examples: text: I received an illogical reply and that left me standing there feeling confused.
text: Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical.
ref: 1967 November 10, “Metamorphosis”, in Star Trek, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
text: 'Cause I was feeling so illogical, d-d-d-igital
ref: 1979, “The Logical Song”, in Roger Hodgson (lyrics), Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp:
synonyms: absurd
irrational
unreasoning
unsound
antonyms: logical
glosses: Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.
Derived terms: illogicality
illogically
illogicalness
Related terms: illogic