cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
proceeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: proceedings
form: proceding
Etymology: By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
examples: text: He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.
ref: 1919, Rita Wellman, The Wings of Desire:
text: It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of ‘Sawyer, late Nockemorf,’ that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters—the which, being an unusual and an unbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 50, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: befalling
word: incident
word: affair
word: befalling
word: episode
word: event
word: goings-on
word: happening
word: hap
word: incident
word: occasion
word: occurrence
word: proceeding
glosses: An event or happening; something that happens.
qualifier: always in plural
glosses: A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
examples: text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: procedure
glosses: Progress or movement from one thing to another.
examples: text: an illegal proceeding
text: a cautious or a violent proceeding
text: The proceedings of the high commission.
ref: 1848, Lord Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
synonyms: measure
step
transaction
glosses: A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
examples: December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner
Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.
topics: law
glosses: Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
Derived terms: special proceeding
title of proceeding
goglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goglets
form: gogglet
form: gorgolet
form: gugglet
form: guglet
form: gurglet
form: gurgulet
Etymology: From Portuguese gorgoleta. Compare French gargoulette.
Senses: glosses: A jar or vase of porous pottery for keeping water cool by evaporation.
stately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtli/
Forms: form: more stately
form: most stately
Etymology: From Middle English stately, statli, equivalent to state + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: glosses: In a stately manner.
delightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈlaɪt.fl̩/
Forms: form: more delightful
form: delightfuler
form: delightfuller
form: most delightful
form: delightfulest
form: delightfullest
form: delightfull
Etymology: From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!
ref: 1853, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Two Brothers”, in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, editor, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1899, →OCLC, page 22:
text: O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!
ref: 1888, Venier Voldo, “Memoria in Eterna”, in Poems from the Pacific: The West’s Reply to England’s Laureate, 2nd edition, San Francisco, Calif.: The Bancroft Company, →OCLC, page 134:
text: Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.
ref: Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith, editors (2015), “Explanatory Notes”, in Autobiography of Mark Twain (The Mark Twain Papers), volume 3, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 599
text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed 'to save notepaper') and enter into the delightful pastime of 'a chicken from Mr Whiteley's'.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.
ref: 2013 December 11, Megan Garber, quoting Marissa Mayer, “Is ‘Delightful’ the New ‘Cool’?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
Synonyms: delectable
delicious
Derived terms: delightfully
delightfulness
undelightful
stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛəz/
ipa: /ˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /steːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /stiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /steəz/
ipa: /steɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: stares
homophone: steers (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: stirs (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of stair
stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛəz/
ipa: /ˈstɛɹz/
ipa: /steːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /stiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /steəz/
ipa: /steɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: stares
homophone: steers (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: stirs (fair–fur merger)
Senses: examples: text: There're two cats at the top of the stairs.
text: At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
ref: 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
text: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
Synonyms: sense: contiguous set of steps
word: stairway
sense: contiguous set of steps
word: staircase
Derived terms: above stairs
above-stairs
back stairs
below stairs
cyclopean stairs
disappearing stairs
emergency stairs
fire stairs
I'll go to the foot of my stairs
I'll go to the foot of our stairs
I'll go to the foot of the stairs
pair of stairs
Penrose stairs
riot stairs
trap stairs
witches' stairs
lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of light
lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: examples: text: But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: […] / hard puffing breasts and dance-o'erwearied lungs. / And truly had the crier will'd to shout / The doughty Piper's name through polish's trump, / His breath had not suffic'd to twang it out, / So did the poor man's lights puff, pant, and jump: / Wherefore to rest them from that dancing-bout, / […]
ref: 1838, William Tennant, Anster fair, a poem, page 22:
text: A hog's lights (or lungs), spleen, and brain found their way into dishes, as did the heart, liver, kidneys, and head, all considered delicacies. Even the feet, ears, and tail were eaten. The hooves were boiled to make glue.
ref: 2013, Dean King, The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
glosses: The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
Derived terms: according to one's lights
by one's lights
rising of the lights
lights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light
softly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔftli/
ipa: /ˈsɑftli/
ipa: /ˈsɒftli/
Forms: form: softlier
form: more softly
form: softliest
form: most softly
Etymology: From Middle English softely, softeliche, equivalent to soft + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The masseuse was rubbing my back too softly for my liking, so I asked her to go harder.
text: He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth. […] They would give up ideas of gentle living, of soft raiment, and delicate feeding.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
glosses: In a soft manner; gently.
examples: text: whisper softly in someone's ear
text: play music softly
glosses: Not loudly; nearly inaudibly.
examples: text: And they sat very still, the two of them, and looked out over that great, beautiful desert—away to the home mesa that they could see, softly blue, in the distance.
ref: 1928, Grace Moon, “VII. The Tale of the Sacred Eagle”, in The Runaway Papoose:
glosses: With subdued color; faded or misty with distance.
Derived terms: softly softly
speak softly and carry a big stick
talk softly and carry a big stick
tread softly
tread-softly
walk softly and carry a big stick
quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːtəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter.
quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːtəz/
Senses: examples: text: “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
text: "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
"My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
"Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
ref: 2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
glosses: Housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space.
examples: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
The local pet trade thrives on captured or orphaned baby macaques—often malnourished and kept in tight quarters.
glosses: The place where someone or something lives.
glosses: A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
glosses: Quarterfinals.
Derived terms: beat to quarters
close quarters
cross-quarters
general quarters
living quarters
servants' quarters
sleeping quarters
three quarters
winter quarters
quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːtəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quarter
prayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛɹz/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪ.ɚz/
ipa: /pɹɛəz/
rhymes: -ɛɹz
rhymes: -ɛəz
Senses: glosses: plural of prayer
slightest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪtɪst/
Senses: examples: text: The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Over the past few months, RAIL has frequently condemned the Department for Transport for its growing contempt for rail customers - by obsessing on cost, caring nothing for service, and not having the slightest interest in growth.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: superlative form of slight: most slight.
slightest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪtɪst/
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of slight
shadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃædoʊz/
ipa: /ˈʃædəʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow
shadows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃædoʊz/
ipa: /ˈʃædəʊz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shadow
instructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of instruction
inveil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inveils
form: inveiling
form: inveiled
form: inveiled
form: enveil
Etymology: From in- + veil.
Senses: glosses: To cover with a veil.
stair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛɚ/
ipa: /stɛə/
ipa: /steː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /stiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /steə/
ipa: /steɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /stɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: stare
homophone: steer (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: stir (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: stairs
Etymology: From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”).
Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.
Senses: synonyms: step
glosses: A single step in a staircase.
examples: text: Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
ref: 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:
glosses: A series of steps; a staircase.
Synonyms: word: apples and pears
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: above-stairs
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: downstairs
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: forestair
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: missing stair
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: screw stair
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: staircase
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stairgate
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair gate
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair glider
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair hall
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair lift
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stairmaster
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair railings
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair rod
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stairs
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair-step
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair-stepping
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stairway
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stairwell
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair-wire
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: stair wire
sense: Terms derived from stair (noun)
word: upstairs
Related terms: ladder
landing
scaffold
distich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪstɪk/
Forms: form: distichs
Etymology: From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).
Senses: examples: text: Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.
ref: 2012, Christer Henriksén, A Commentary on Martial, Epigrams Book 9, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 282:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
coordinate_terms: monostich
glosses: A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
glosses: Any couplet.
Derived terms: chronodistich
distich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪstɪk/
Etymology: From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).
Senses: glosses: Distichous.
cavatina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavatinas
Etymology: From Italian cavatina, diminutive of cavata.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2.
Related terms: aria
dupery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duperies
Etymology: From dupe + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions.
ref: 1840, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 1, in Heroes and Hero Worship:
text: Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire.
ref: 1930 February 17, “Dishonesty”, in Time:
text: Mr. Abel, who lives in Westport, Conn., has earned his bread as a writer and lecturer on problem-solving tactics, and he has earned a reputation as a duke of dupery since 1959, when he masterminded the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.
ref: 2003 December 21, Joseph P. Fried, “The Duke of Dupery, Still Pulling the Wool”, in New York Times, page N51:
glosses: The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.
Synonyms: deception
trickery
Related terms: dupe
pluviometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluviometers
form: pluviameter
Etymology: From Latin pluvius (“rain”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: rain gauge
udometer
glosses: A scientific instrument for measuring the amount of rainfall.
Derived terms: pluviometric
Related terms: pluviograph
abatage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abatages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abattage.
elegist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elegists
Etymology: From elegy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse
exquisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛkskwɪzɪt/
Forms: form: more exquisite
form: most exquisite
Etymology: From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“I outseek”).
Senses: examples: text: They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
text: Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.
text: For us the bee gathers, from the leaves of flowers, that exquisite honey destined for our use. For us the ox is put to the plough, and desires no other reward than a little food. It is also for us that the forests, the fields, and the gardens, abound in riches; the greatest part of which would be lost, if they were not of use to us. For us also are designed the treasures the mountains contain. It is true, that we have, beyond comparison, more wants than the brute creation ; but we have also, many more faculties, talents, and industry, to make every thing around us serve for our use and pleasure. Millions of creatures contribute towards our food, clothes, and habitations, and furnish us with innumerable conveniences and enjoyments.
ref: 1800, Christoph Christian Sturm, Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout all Nature, D. Schaw and Company, page 77:
text: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: YINGKO – This small township in the southwest of Taipei county is not known for its beautiful scenery or historic relics. Yet every week it attracts hundreds of visitors. They all come to appreciate the exquisite pottery made in the town, for Yingko is the ceramics capital of Taiwan.
ref: 1983 February 5, “Yingko -- Taiwan's ceramics capital”, in Arab News, volume VIII, number 69, Saudi Arabia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 4:
glosses: Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
glosses: Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
glosses: Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
glosses: Of special beauty or rare excellence.
examples: text: exquisite pain or pleasure
glosses: Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
examples: text: exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
text: his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
Synonyms: beautiful
delicate
discriminating
perfect
Derived terms: exquisite corpse
exquisitely
exquisiteness
overexquisite
superexquisite
exquisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛkskwɪzɪt/
Forms: form: exquisites
Etymology: From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“I outseek”).
Senses: examples: text: It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.
ref: 1849, Alexander Mackay, The western world; or, travels in the United States in 1846-87, page 93:
text: When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287:
text: 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.
synonyms: word: macaroni
word: popinjay
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: Fop, dandy.
malpais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malpaises
form: malpaís
Etymology: From Spanish malpaís, from mal (“bad”) + país (“land”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.
passions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of passion
passions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of passion
paries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹi.iːz/
/ˈpɛəɹi.iːz/
/ˈpɛəɹiːz/
Forms: form: parietes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pariēs (“wall of a house or room”). Compare French paroi (“wall”), Italian parete (“wall”), Portuguese parede (“wall”) Spanish pared (“wall”) and Romanian perete (“wall”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The wall of any cavity or organ.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
Related terms: parietal
opportunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒpəˈtjuːnɪtiz/
ipa: /-ˈt͡ʃuː-/
enpr: ä'pər-to͞oʹnə-tēz
ipa: /ˌɑpɚˈtunətiz/
ipa: /-t̬iz/
ipa: [-ɾiz]
Senses: glosses: plural of opportunity
blanched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blanched
form: most blanched
Senses: examples: text: BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
ref: 1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus
text: The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 4, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: lacking complexion or color
glosses: bleached
Synonyms: sense: lacking color
word: pale
word: pallid
sense: bleached
word: decoloured
Derived terms: unblanched
blanched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blanch
sentiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɪ.mənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of sentiment
lanose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.noʊs/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.nəʊs/
Etymology: From Latin lānōsus (“woolly”).
Senses: glosses: Woolly, resembling wool.
Derived terms: sublanose
gelatinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jə-lăt′ĭn-əs
enpr: jĕl′ə-tĭn-əs
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlat.ɪn.əs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.tɪn.əs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒel.ə.tɪn.əs/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈlɛt.ən.əs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒel.ə.tən.əs/
ipa: /d͡ʒeˈlæʈ.in.us/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒel.a.ʈin.us/
rhymes: -ætɪnəs
rhymes: -atɪnəs
rhymes: (nonstandard) -ɛlətɪnəs
Forms: form: more gelatinous
form: most gelatinous
form: gelatineous
form: gelatinose
Etymology: From gelatine + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux.
Senses: examples: text: In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, and this projects outwardly with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.
ref: 1866, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 216:
text: Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
text: Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 165:
glosses: Jelly-like.
glosses: Of or referring to gelatin.
Synonyms: word: gelatinous
word: jellylike
word: tremellose
Hypernyms: word: semifluid
word: semiliquid
word: semisolid
word: thick
Derived terms: gelatinously
gelatinousness
nongelatinous
semigelatinous
subgelatinous
Related terms: word: viscous
heeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heezes
form: heezing
form: heezed
form: heezed
Etymology: From Middle English hissa! (a cry used by sailors in pulling or hauling). Compare Dutch hijsen.
Senses: glosses: To hoist.
wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of wife
examples: text: […] beautie in his wiues face, will féede his heart with a thouſand delights: […]
ref: 1582 February 3, George Whetstone, An Heptameron of Ciuill Discourses. […], London: […] Richard Iones, […]:
text: […] where Hercules and Omphale having changed garments, he lying in his wives clothes, and ſhe in his Lions skin, made the luſtfull God mistake ſo unluckily, […]
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; or, A True and Faithfull Representation of the Everlasting Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Onely Begotten Son of God and Sovereign over Men and Angels, London: […] J. Flesher, for W. Morden […], page 80:
text: He found a freſh Subject for his Admiration, when he ſaw the Prickles on that which bore his Wives Name, and the two others without any.
ref: 1711, [Laurent] B[ordelon], translated by [unknown], A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle; […], London: […] J. Morphew, […], page 43:
glosses: genitive of wife
firmly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝmli/
ipa: /ˈfɜːmli/
Forms: form: firmlier
form: more firmly
form: firmliest
form: most firmly
Etymology: From Middle English fermely; equivalent to firm + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She corrected him firmly but gently.
topics: manner
glosses: In a firm or definite or strong manner.
examples: text: Tie the rope firmly to the post.
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
topics: manner
glosses: Securely.
examples: text: This was widely interpreted to mean that slavery was once more firmly illegal in England.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 3:21 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: Definitively.
Derived terms: tongue firmly in cheek
fadge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ædʒ
Forms: form: fadges
form: fadging
form: fadged
form: fadged
Etymology: Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fēġan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”). Compare also Old English feċġan (“to seize, take hold, bring to”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, Sir, how fadges the new deſign; have you not the luck of all your Brother Projectors, to deceive only your ſelf at laſt?
ref: 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, page 45:
glosses: To be suitable (with or to something).
examples: text: They shall be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To agree, to get along (with).
examples: text: I can never fadge well: for I am at such a stay, that except for health and life, there is nothing I will take the paines to fret my selfe about, or will purchase at so high a rate as to trouble my wits for it, or be constrained thereunto.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
glosses: To eat together.
glosses: To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
raw_tags: of a horse
fadge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ædʒ
Forms: form: fadges
Etymology: Uncertain, but potentially from or related to Old English faċġ (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).
Senses: glosses: Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
glosses: A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
glosses: A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
glosses: A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
fadge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ædʒ
Forms: form: fadges
Senses: examples: text: "Here's a fadge (farthing) or a button," I said, taking my pocket knife and cutting a few of the stitches holding the cloth and lining together, […]
ref: 1868, Thomas Wright, Johnny Robinson, page 173:
glosses: A farthing (old coin).
fadge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ædʒ
Forms: form: fadges
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: A vagina.
first and foremost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly," I said, sententiously. "First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?"
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: First and foremost, there is currently lacking any single text which comes close to cataloguing the great variety of terms in use.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
text: That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Primarily; most importantly.
Synonyms: above all
crummock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crummocks
Senses: glosses: A staff with a crooked head or stem.
glosses: skirret, a root vegetable
filters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filter
filters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of filter
go against the grain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes against the grain
form: going against the grain
form: went against the grain
form: gone against the grain
Senses: examples: text: His method certainly goes against the grain, but it is unquestionably effective.
text: Blondes do have more fun, Mrs. [Kelly] Rowland!! Go against the grain this fall and opt for a fully opaque, bright-as-hell platinum dye job. Although it’s unexpected for a season filled with dark colors, the cool undertones are a masterful way to manipulate your way into a fall ’do while going lighter.
ref: 2024 September 5, Beth Gillette, “24 Fall Hair Colors Every Celebrity Is Asking for Rn”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To defy convention or norms; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary.
Synonyms: run counter
Related terms: against the grain
air-conditioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə kənˌdɪʃn̩ə/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ kənˌdɪʃ(ə)nɚ/
Forms: form: air-conditioners
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air conditioner.
hunky-dory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hunky dory.
HAND
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of have a nice day.
royalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royalty
intellectual property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intellectual properties
Etymology: First use appears c. 1769.
Senses: examples: text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
text: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
synonyms: word: IP
glosses: A kind of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
examples: One area of current change concerns intellectual properties and intellectual property rights.
"Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture"
For technology companies, a well-constructed system for managing intellectual properties is fundamental to being able to extract full value from the properties
"Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation" By Patrick H. Sullivan
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Any individual work that is protected under intellectual property law.
natural resource
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural resources
Senses: examples: text: There’s so much Trump in Joe: the overbearing and vainglorious rhetoric, the hogging of all natural resources, the willingness to treat people like property, the disappointing offspring.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
hypernyms: resource#Noun
resources#Noun
glosses: Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially surface water, groundwater, minerals, fossil fuels, timber, wild game, soil quality, and air quality.
Related terms: conservation
environment
environmental protection
stewardship
human capital
human resources
capital
conifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnɪfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: conifers
Etymology: From Latin cōnifer (“bearing cones”), by surface analysis, Latin cōnus (“cone”) + -fer.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
Synonyms: word: conifer
Hypernyms: word: plant
Hyponyms: word: spruce
word: pine
word: larch
word: sequoia
word: cedar
word: fir
word: cypress
word: hemlock
Derived terms: conifered
coniferin
coniferization
coniferophagous
coniferophyte
coniferous
Related terms: word: tree
Earthshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of earthshine.
earthlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthlights
Etymology: From Earth + light.
Senses: glosses: Sunlight that is reflected from the Earth's surface.
Related terms: earthshine
earthshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː(ɹ)θʃaɪn/
Forms: form: earthshines
form: Earthshine
Etymology: From Earth + shine.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Reflected earthlight visible on the Moon's night side.
Related terms: moonshine
ringshine
albedo
buoy up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buoys up
form: buoying up
form: buoyed up
form: buoyed up
Senses: examples: text: I have supported with very great zeal, and I am told with some degree of success, those opinions, or if his Grace likes another expression better, those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, A letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a noble lord: on the attacks made upon him and his pension, London: J. Owen and F. & C. Rivington:
text: With this training complete, and the crews of his cruisers and destroyers somewhat buoyed up by the experience, he then headed into the seas around Guadalcanal on the 9th[…]
ref: 2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 7:05 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: To uplift, hearten, inspire, or raise the spirits of.
glosses: To keep afloat; to provide with buoyancy.
advocacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.və.kə.si/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖˈvɔ~o.kəsi/
note: Ghana
ipa: /ædˈvokəsi/
ipa: /ædˈvoʊkəsi/
Forms: form: advocacies
Etymology: From Middle English advocacie, advocacye, advocatye, from Middle French advocacie, advocatie, avocacie and Medieval Latin advocātia; equivalent to advocate + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The profession of an advocate.
examples: text: “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.
ref: 2024 December 24, Aaron Pellish, “Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’”, in CNN:
glosses: The act of arguing in favour of, or supporting someone or something.
glosses: The practice of supporting someone to make their voice heard.
Derived terms: advocacy group
advocacy planning
advocacy research
badvocacy
cyberadvocacy
devil's advocacy
hyperadvocacy
media advocacy
nonadvocacy
self-advocacy
guesswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guessworks
form: guess-work
Etymology: From guess + work. Compare Dutch giswerk (“guesswork”).
Senses: examples: text: By a careful study of the figure we might suspect that when the rectangle becomes a square its area would be the greatest, but this would at best be mere guesswork. A better way would evidently be to plot the graph of the function (1) and note its behavior.
ref: 1911, William Anthony Granville, Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus:
glosses: An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
Synonyms: conjecture
Related terms: guesstimate
dead reckoning
toerag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊɹæɡ/
Forms: form: toerags
Etymology: From toe + rag.
Senses: glosses: A tramp or vagrant.
examples: text: "I know James Potter's an arrogant toerag," she said, cutting across Snape.
ref: 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, USA: Arthur A. Levine Books, page 674:
text: “I’m not racist; I don’t mind people coming in if they respect Irish people. But the likes of the toerags coming into this country – they’re not vetted and are causing havoc.”
ref: 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A worthless or despicable person.
glosses: Alternative form of toe-rag (“cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock”).
ethologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethologists
Etymology: From ethology + -ist.
Senses: hypernyms: zoologist
glosses: A person who studies ethology.
rubbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbəɹi/
Forms: form: rubberier
form: rubberiest
Etymology: From rubber + -y.
Senses: examples: text: What a bad restaurant! The beef was so rubbery I thought I'd never finish chewing it.
text: In this same temperature range, however, the leg is at its rubberiest.
ref: 1988 April 29, Harold McGee, “Curious Cook; Why the Rubber Chicken Leg Can Bounce Across the Road”, in The New York Times:
text: If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.
ref: 2020 September 6, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times:
text: CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.
ref: 2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency.
Derived terms: rubbery figures