cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enervated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnɝveɪtəd/
Forms: form: more enervated
form: most enervated
Senses: examples: text: In Conte Chelsea have something different, a manager who inherited a messy, enervated squad fresh from the worst title defence in 25 years and threw a lightning bolt through pretty much the same group of players to create a fresh champion team.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: word: dispirited
word: enervous
word: languid
word: listless
word: spiritless
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
word: anemic
word: breakable
word: broken-down
word: damaged
word: debilitated
word: decrepit
word: delicate
word: dickless
word: effete
word: enervated
word: enfeebled
word: exhausted
word: faint
word: feeble
word: flimsy
word: fragile
word: frail
word: harmed
word: hurt
word: impaired
word: impotent
word: infirm
word: injured
word: languid
word: low
word: powerless
word: prostrated
word: prostrate
word: puny
word: raddled
word: resistless
word: sapped
word: slightsoft
word: softened
word: susceptible
word: tender
word: tired
word: torpid
word: unresistant
word: vincible
word: vulnerable
word: wasted
word: weak
word: weakened
word: weary
word: weedy
word: wimpy
word: worn out
word: yielding
antonyms: word: energetic
word: peppy
word: vigorous
word: inactive
word: nondriven
word: quiet
word: restful
word: sleeping
glosses: Weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality.
raw_tags: with reference to mental and emotional strength
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of denervated.
synonyms: word: denervated
Derived terms: unenervated
enervated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnɝveɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enervate
Lombard rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lombard rates
Etymology: Lombard (“banker or moneylender”)
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An interest rate charged by a central bank for very short-term loans to other banks against an approved collateral.
eyeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪləs
Etymology: From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).
Senses: examples: text: Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.
text: I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
synonyms: uneyed
glosses: Having no eyes (organs of sight).
synonyms: sightless
glosses: Having no sight; blind.
examples: text: eyeless needle
qualifier: especially suturing needles
glosses: Having no eye: having no hole.
raw_tags: of tools or objects
Derived terms: word: eyelessly
word: eyelessly
word: eyelessness
word: eyelessness
endwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endwise
form: most endwise
Etymology: From end + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Upright, or standing on end.
glosses: With the end towards the front or towards the observer.
glosses: Towards the ends.
Synonyms: endways
lengthwise
sideways
sidewise
edgeways
endwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endwise
form: most endwise
Etymology: From end + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: ... modes to the exclusion of either radial arms or any specific curve, my invention not referring to these modes, but to neutralising the endwise pressure on the axis, as more particularly stated hereinafter in my claim of invention.
ref: 1855, The Repertory of patent inventions:
text: But the same slender member in bending and not in endwise compression can stand an extreme fiber stress several ...
ref: 1914, Engineering news:
glosses: On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.
dongle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒŋɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑŋɡl̩/
rhymes: -ɒŋɡəl
Forms: form: dongles
Etymology: Unknown. Likely a descendant of dangle, reflecting that electronic accessories such as computer peripherals often are plugged in via a flexible cable (although wirelessness is also often relevant). Claims that the word comes from a man named "Don Gall" were made up by an advertisement. First usage 1980-1985.
Senses: examples: text: FreedomPop will offer three different flavors of broadband: a USB dongle that allows you to connect your computer to the internet, a WiFi hotspot device, and an iPhone case that allows you to override the phone's existing network and use it as a FreedomPop hotspot.
ref: 2012, Tecca, FreedomPop offering 1GB of free wireless data, hopes you’ll pay for more, via Yahoo! Tech, link:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any small device that plugs into an electronic device, typically a computer, and alters its functionality. Common examples include wireless modems, digital media players, software copy protect devices, and adapters.
examples: text: Take the dongle, for example. It is the summit of copy protection, an explicit melding of software and hardware. Without the right hardware key—the dongle—plugged into the machine's parallel port, the software won't run.
ref: 1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.
Derived terms: Donglegate
end product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end products
form: endproduct
form: end-product
Senses: examples: text: In the final reckoning, Spain paid the price for the Achilles heel that troubled them in the early stages of this competition, namely an inability to crown glorious passing and approach play with an end product.
ref: 2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: finished product
glosses: A final product, especially one resulting from a series of stages or processes.
Derived terms: english: AGE
translation: AGE
word: advanced glycation end product
Related terms: end result
beta version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta versions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early version of a program or application that contains most of the major features, but is not yet complete. Sometimes these versions are released only to a select group of people, or to the general public, for testing and feedback. This is the second major stage of development following the alpha version, and comes before the release candidate.
Related terms: betaware
closed beta
scanslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of scan + translation
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scanlation.
alpha version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha versions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technology
glosses: An early version of a program or application, typically unstable, but useful to show what the product will do. Sometimes this stage is referred to as a preview version. Sometimes no more features are added after this release, but bug fixes continue. This release comes after a pre-alpha version and before a beta version. As opposed to a beta version an alpha version is usually not feature complete.
training
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of train
training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: trainings
Senses: glosses: Action of the verb to train.
examples: text: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
ref: 2012 January 24, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60:
glosses: The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
glosses: The result of good social upbringing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
qualifier: voice recognition
glosses: The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.
Derived terms: word: auditory integration training
word: autogenic training
word: basic training
word: borstal training
word: circuit training
word: conflict training
word: cross-training
word: cross training
word: ear training
word: e-training
word: field training officer
word: functional training
word: high-intensity interval training
word: high intensity training
word: home training
word: interval training
word: large group awareness training
word: large-group awareness training
word: personal training
word: physical training
word: potty training
word: potty-training
word: quenouille training
word: remote training collar
word: resistance training
word: spring training
word: strength training
word: toilet training
word: training area
word: training bib
word: training bra
word: training collar
word: training exercise
word: training ground
word: training pants
word: training school
word: training ship
word: training wall
word: training wheel
english: noun (plural only)
translation: noun (plural only)
word: training wheels
word: voice training
word: weight training
pre-alpha version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-alpha versions
Senses: glosses: A program or application that is not feature-complete and is not usually released to the public. Developers are usually still deciding on what features the program should have at this stage of software development. This stage comes before the alpha version, and is the first software development stage given to a program.
eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of eye
eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eye
hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæn(d)z/
ipa: [hɛəndz]
ipa: [heəndz]
ipa: [hɛːndz]
rhymes: -ænz
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: plural of hand
Derived terms: hands-free
handsfree
handsy
look Ma, no hands
piano four hands
quiet hands
hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæn(d)z/
ipa: [hɛəndz]
ipa: [heəndz]
ipa: [hɛːndz]
rhymes: -ænz
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hand
tranquillity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæŋˈkwɪl.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: tranquillities
form: tranquility
Etymology: From tranquil + -ity, from Middle English tranquillite, from Old French tranquillite, tranquilité, from Latin tranquillitas.
Senses: examples: text: Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Hertingfordbury:
synonyms: calm
peace
stillth
glosses: The state of being tranquil; peacefulness, the absence of disturbance or stress; serenity; calm.
Related terms: tranquil
tranquilize
tranquillize
tranquilly
tranquilness
arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹmz/
ipa: /ɑːmz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mz
Etymology: From Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 2.
Senses: glosses: Weaponry, weapons.
examples: text: The arms of England are: gules, three lions passant gardant or.
text: The Metropolitan Electric trams bore the three seaxes of the Middlesex arms, with a crown above the shield, on a blue circle.
ref: 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, consisting of a coat of arms normally displayed upon an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of an achievement
Derived terms: antiarms
armsbearing
arms dealer
armshouse
armsmaker
arms trafficking
Berney Arms
Bronwydd Arms
coat of arms
Craven Arms
equality of arms
feat of arms
Holland Arms
in arms
passage at arms
pursuivant at arms
arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹmz/
ipa: /ɑːmz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mz
Etymology: From Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: If the Duke arms himself for war, the king will not sit by idly!
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arm
arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹmz/
ipa: /ɑːmz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mz
Etymology: See arm.
Senses: glosses: plural of arm
comes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: The term utopia comes from a Greek pun.
ref: 1998, L. Kip Wheeler, Utopian Literature:
text: See, how this river comes me cranking in...
ref: 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act III, scene I:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come
comes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
ipa: /ˈkəʊmiːz/
ipa: /ˈkəʊmɪs/
ipa: /kʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin comes (“a companion”). Doublet of comte, conte, and count.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
contentment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛntmənt/
Forms: form: contentments
Etymology: From Middle French contentement. By surface analysis, content + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
text: Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
glosses: Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction
glosses: The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.
HW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HWs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: SW
glosses: Initialism of hardware.
coordinate_terms: CW
GW
LW
SW
UGW
glosses: Initialism of heightless weight.
antonyms: LW
glosses: Initialism of high water.
glosses: Initialism of homework.
HW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hot Wheels.
Wilma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a contraction of Wilhelmina.
Wilma
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A substitute for wilco when used for the phonetic W.
tranquillize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tranquillizes
form: tranquillizing
form: tranquillized
form: tranquillized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tranquilize.
Related terms: tranquillity
tranquillizer
hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: owʹərz
ipa: /ˈaʊə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /ˈuːæz/
enpr: owrz
ipa: /ˈaʊɚz/
homophone: ours
Senses: glosses: plural of hour
laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːz/
ipa: /lɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: plural of law
qualifier: street slang
glosses: The police.
examples: text: Laws, bless us, who'd have thought it!
ref: 1841, John Frail, The Lost Letter, Or, The Confessions of Conscience: A Dramatic Sketch, page 27:
text: Laws bless my soul, my dear little lamb! what's the matter?
ref: 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe: With Biographical Introductions, Portraits, and Other Illustrations, page 81:
glosses: A minced oath for Lord.
Related terms: laws-a-mercy
laws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːz/
ipa: /lɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of law
letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɛtəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of letter
letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɛtəz/
Senses: examples: text: Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.
glosses: Literature (school subject).
examples: text: Though architecture in ancient Rome was not generally considered to belong to the artes liberales, Vitruvius easily qualified as a man of letters because of his wide learning.
text: He read widely throughout these days, for his father had a taste for modern letters, and new books lay littered about the rooms.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, The Far Islands:
glosses: The liberal arts, humanities, learning (broad accumulated cultural knowledge).
Derived terms: arts and letters
letters patent
man of letters
woman of letters
letters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛtɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɛtəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of letter
transliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Represented in the characters of another alphabet
transliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transliterate
release candidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: release candidates
form: RC
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A version of a program that is nearly ready for release but may still have a few bugs; the status between beta version and release version.
release version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: release versions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A version label given to packaged computer software that has been made available to one or more target audiences.
équipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: équipes
Etymology: From French équipe.
Senses: glosses: A team.
cooking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Etymology: From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978).
Senses: examples: text: I filled the cooking pot with water.
text: This tree bears cooking apples.
glosses: Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
examples: text: The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
glosses: In progress, happening.
examples: text: Bone a shoulder of mutton and lay in the following pickle for 24 hours, viz.:…half pint of cooking claret…and long peppers.
ref: 1885, Bacchus(pseud.), New guide for the hotel, bar, restaurant [&c.]. Pt. 1, by Bacchus & Cordon Bleu, page 255:
text: JOHN JASPER: Mama says for you to come on upstairs and bring her a pint of cooking sherry. BODIDDLY: You know your Mama ain’t gonna do no cooking this time of the night!
ref: 2001, Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel Plays, Opera, and Later Dramatic Works, page 204:
text: Add 1 pint of cooking sherry and boil again for 30 minutes.
ref: 2008, Henry Smith, The Master Book of Soups, page 188:
glosses: Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
raw_tags: of an alcoholic drink
cooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Etymology: From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cook
lacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlækɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lack
lacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlækɪŋ/
Forms: form: lackings
Senses: examples: text: Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings, did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion.
ref: 1914, Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery:
synonyms: lack#Noun
hypernyms: absence
glosses: The absence of something that is desirable or otherwise ought to be present.
lacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlækɪŋ/
Forms: form: more lacking
form: most lacking
Senses: examples: text: This cheese is lacking in pungency.
text: The team was lacking in stamina and lost the match decidedly.
text: A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.
hypernyms: absent#Adjective
glosses: Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
Synonyms: word: absent
word: awanting
word: bereft of
word: deficient of
word: deprived of
word: destitute of
word: devoid of
word: lacking
word: leer
word: robbed of
word: shorn of
word: stripped of
word: void of
word: wanting
Hyponyms: word: achromatic
word: alexithymic
word: amorphous
word: bare-bones
word: beginningless
word: cheerless
word: foolish
word: impoverished
word: inexperienced
word: insubstantial
word: humorless
word: mute
word: naive
word: silent
word: stupid
word: unadorned
word: unemployed
word: uninhabited
word: unskilled
word: vague
word: weak
word: weak-minded
word: worthless
Derived terms: lackingness
Related terms: word: lose
word: loss
word: rare
lettres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lettre
taille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: tie
homophone: Ty
homophone: Thai
Forms: form: tailles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of tally.
Senses: examples: text: The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143:
glosses: A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
qualifier: baroque music jargon
glosses: The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola
Related terms: english: a tax
translation: a tax
word: tallage
duvetyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duvetynes
form: duvetine
form: duvetyn
Etymology: Borrowed from French duvetine, from duvet, from Middle French *dumet, diminutive of Old French dun, dum, ultimately from Old Norse dūnn.
Senses: synonyms: commando cloth
glosses: A heavy black cloth used in the motion picture and film industry to block out unwanted light.
Phoebus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.bəs/
Forms: form: Phœbus
Etymology: From Middle English Phebus, from Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos).
Senses: examples: text: Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion,
The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne,
To whom I am a neighbour, and neere bred.
Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne,
Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles,
And let vs make inciſion for your loue,
To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt, his or mine.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An epithet and synonym for Helios; Phoebus Helios, after his maternal aunt, Phoebe.
examples: text: By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; […]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
text: The heaven doth not contain so many stars,
So many leaves not prostrate lie in woods,
When autumn’s old and Boreas sounds his wars,
So many waves have not the ocean floods,
As my rent mind hath torments all the night,
ref: 17th century, William Drummond, Sextain I, in English Poetry, published 1907, page 162
roman: And heart spends sighs, when Phœbus brings the light.
text: For she recalled the edict which decreed
If in one day she did not take or kill
The challenger (to this King Charles agreed),
She was his captive and must do his will.
Phoebus was soon to plunge his golden head
Into the western sea when of her skill
And strength the Maid at last began doubt,
While her fatigue was putting hope to rout.[…]
ref: 1991 August 29, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: Part Two (Orlando Furioso), Penguin UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An epithet and synonym for Apollo; Phoebus Apollo.
crazily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crazily
form: most crazily
Etymology: From crazy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crazy manner.
examples: text: Word is the club's crazily rich Middle Eastern owner's have got wind of the player's sorrow and, according to Maxifoot, are preparing an offer "worthy of a pharaoh" for Ronaldo, who has long been considered a mummy's boy.
ref: 2012, Football transfer rumours: Cristiano Ronaldo to City, United or PSG?, The Guardian
text: With this crazily brilliant, pocket-sized hotel clinging like an eagle's lair to the cliffs just outside Sorrento, owner Marco DeLuca has created somewhere that's so much more than just a place to sleep.
ref: 2014, Europe's best secret seaside hotels, Condé Nast Traveller:
text: We have worked crazily long hours and it has been gruelling, exhausting.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: Very, extremely.
crazier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crazy: more crazy
Virgil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːdʒɪl/
ipa: /ˈvɝdʒɪl/
Forms: form: Vergil
Etymology: From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Horace
glosses: Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
examples: text: A wedding dance at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last of the Virgil line).
ref: 1985, Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, Penguin, published 1990, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
vide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vīd
ipa: /vaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: vides
form: viding
form: vided
form: vided
Etymology: Clipping of divide.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder)
qualifier: Parliamentary jargon
glosses: Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes)
vide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vīd
ipa: /vaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
enpr: vĭʹdā
enpr: vēʹdā
other: /ˈvɪdeɪ/
other: /ˈviːdeɪ/
enpr: vīd
ipa: /vaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: videte
form: v.
form: vid.
form: vidê
Etymology: From Latin vidē (“see!”), second-person singular present active imperative form of videō (“I see”).
Senses: examples: text: (For comments, vide page 151).
ref: 1968, report of the royal commission on Pilotage, part 2, Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill, page 353
glosses: See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis.
Related terms: vide antea
vide infra
vide post
vide supra
sous-vide
cumbre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cumbres
form: cumbring
form: cumbred
form: cumbred
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cumber.
forme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formes
Senses: examples: text: And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of form.
examples: text: 1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,
Both these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.
text: 1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,
Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes.
text: In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.
ref: 2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”).
gild the lily
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪld ðə ˈlɪli/
Forms: form: gilds the lily
form: gilding the lily
form: gilded the lily
form: gilded the lily
Etymology: A common misquotation of a line from William Shakespeare's play King John.
Senses: synonyms: go overboard
overegg
over-egg the pudding
glosses: To embellish or improve something unnecessarily.
examples: text: Poor Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, so maligned for her imaginative pictures of Lovere and Lake Iseo, may surely be forgiven for having gilded the lily, for adding an extra touch of romance where the romantic already so abounded
ref: 1908, Edith Wharton, A Motor-Flight through France, Chapter 11:
glosses: To add superfluous attributes to something.
Related terms: gold-plated
giclee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of giclée.
giclée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒiˈkleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from French giclée (“spray”).
Senses: glosses: the use of inkjet printing to manufacture artistic prints
Giemsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Gustav Giemsa.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A complex of stains used to investigate chromosomes; a mixture of eosin and methylene blue in glycerol and methanol.
wikipedia: Gustav Giemsa
Gibson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪbsən/
rhymes: -ɪbsən
Forms: form: Gibsons
Etymology: From Gibb + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Pulaski County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Glascock County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Washington County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Keokuk County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bay County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dunklin County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Corning, Steuben County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Scotland County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Mercer County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cameron County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Gibson County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A community in Tiny township, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A small town in the Shire of Esperance, Western Australia.
Derived terms: Gibson City
Gibson County
Gibsonesque
Gibsonian
Gibson ring
Port Gibson
Gibson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪbsən/
rhymes: -ɪbsən
Forms: form: Gibsons
Etymology: From Gibb + -son.
Senses: examples: text: "I doubt it, Tommy," the Majority Leader said, coming up behind him so unexpectedly that the little Justice jumped and almost spilled his Gibson.
ref: 1962, Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference:
text: I found Willie in the airport bar drinking a Gibson.
ref: 1968, Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy:
glosses: A cocktail made with gin (or vodka) and vermouth, garnished with cocktail onions.
examples: text: Many older Gibsons have become collector's items: […] But older Gibsons are also good player's guitars.
ref: 2000, Larry Sandberg, The Acoustic Guitar Guide:
text: We'd like to think that his spirit lives on under the western sky he so loved, strumming his Gibson somewhere and belting out a Woody Guthrie ballad to an audience of coyotes and rabbitbrush.
ref: 2008, Rick Rinehart, Amy Rinehart, Dare to Survive: Death, Heartbreak, and Triumph in the Wild, page xiv:
glosses: An acoustic or electric guitar made by the Gibson company.
gemot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪˈməʊt/
ipa: /ɡɪˈmoʊt/
Forms: form: gemots
form: gemote
form: gemoot
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English ġemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”).
Senses: examples: text: a.d. 978. — In this year was held the celebrated gemot at Calne in Wiltshire, when the floor gave way […]
ref: 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History:
text: Each division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot, or folck-mote, […]
ref: 1895, Geoff Horton, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints:
glosses: A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
examples: text: I have spoken to Veedron, a member of one of Trellisane's many gemots, or ruling councils.
ref: 1984, David Dvorkin, The Trellisane Confrontation:
glosses: Any assembly.
Related terms: moot
witenagemot
galvanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From galvanise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galvanization.
Gamay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gamays
form: gamay
Senses: examples: text: Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
ref: 2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines.
goit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: goits
Etymology: From Middle English gote (“channel, stream”), from Old English *gotu (“channel, gutter, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *gutō (“gutter, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots gote, goit, goate (“trench, ditch, watercourse”), Dutch goot (“gutter”), Middle Low German gote (“ditch”). More at gote.
Senses: examples: text: We use watter as goes daan t'goit yonder for t'grinnelstuns.
qualifier: Yorkshire and Lancashire
glosses: A small artificial channel carrying water. Usually used with respect to channels built to feed mills.
goit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: goits
Etymology: Popularised by the television series Red Dwarf. Possibly a shortening of goitre (i.e. a pain in the neck), or from git.
Senses: glosses: A fool.
goits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goit
linked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: more linked
form: most linked
Senses: glosses: connected, either with links, or as if with links
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: having links (between modules, records etc)
Hyponyms: downlinked
interlinked
ISIL-linked
Derived terms: aforelinked
belinkedness
blue-linked
credit-linked note
cross-linked
cross-linked polyethylene
doubly-linked
endowment-linked mortgage
index-linked
intralinked
linked list
linkedness
multilinked
nonlinked
phospholinked
red-linked
sex-linked
sexlinked
underlinked
unlinked
X-linked
X-linked gene
X-linked trait
linked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of link
arguments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɡjʊmənts/
ipa: /ˈɑɹɡjəmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of argument
arguments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɡjʊmənts/
ipa: /ˈɑɹɡjəmənts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of argument
Scarborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɑɹbəɹoʊ/
Forms: form: Scarboroughs
form: Scarboro
form: Scarbro
form: Scarbrough
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Skarði + borg (“fortress”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA040880). It should now be a civil parish, with a town council elected on 1 May 2025.
glosses: The Borough of Scarborough, a former local government district in North Yorkshire, abolished without replacement in 2023.
glosses: A district and former municipality of Toronto, Canada.
glosses: A town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood in the village of Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York, United States, named after the English town.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Derived terms: Scandinavian noir
meninges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord.
Derived terms: meningeal
meningioma
meningitis
myelomeningocele
meninges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meninx
Related terms: dura mater
pia mater
arachnoid
NLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of network location awareness.
NLA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of no longer available.
RPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: NPC
IPC
ROC
glosses: Abbreviation of Russian Paralympic Committee (an organization).
glosses: Initialism of Regional Playback Control.
RPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RPCs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of remote procedure call.
Hyponyms: sense: remote procedure call
word: gRPC
sense: remote procedure call
word: XML-RPC
ICS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of Indy Car Series, the premier open-wheel racing series in the United States.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of International Continence Society.
examples: text: The ICS will then determine which set of rock layers, called strata, best illustrates that change, and it will choose which layer marks its lower boundary.
ref: 2022 December 13, McKenzie Prillaman, “Are we in the Anthropocene? Geologists could define new epoch for Earth”, in Nature, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of International Commission on Stratigraphy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Ice Cream Sandwich.
ICS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICSs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of intercostal space.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Internet connection sharing.
examples: 1986, Judith S Shoemaker, Predicting Cumulative and Major GPA of UCI Engineering and Computer Science Majors, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), 2,
Currently there are two oversubscribed majors at UCI: Engineering (ENG) and Information and Computer Science (ICS).
topics: business
education
glosses: Initialism of information and computer science or informatics and computer science, a combined discipline.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of inhaled corticosteroid.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of integrated care system.
glosses: Initialism of incident command system.
humans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of human
humans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of human
planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplænɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of planet
iwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻiwa (“frigatebird”).
Senses: glosses: A great frigatebird (Fregata minor).
loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: plural of loop
loops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loop
immunogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunogenic
form: most immunogenic
Etymology: From immuno- + -genic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: that produces a reaction from the immune system; antigenic.
Derived terms: autoimmunogenic
hyperimmunogenic
hypoimmunogenic
immunogenically
immunogenicity
nonimmunogenic
proimmunogenic
subimmunogenic
Related terms: immunogenesis
affectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affectivities
Etymology: From affective + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the kinds of affectivities evoked in us, such as fear and gratitude, also depend partly on how we envision and interpret the objects in question.
glosses: An ability to experience affects: feelings, emotions, judgement, motivations, etc.
attribution theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attribution theories
Senses: glosses: Any theory attempting to explain the process by which individuals explain the causes of behaviour and events.
availability bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: availability biases
Senses: glosses: A tendency of decision-makers to give preference, usually unconsciously, to thoughts with higher availability to (that is, those readily retrievable by) the cognitive activity of the moment, such as recent information, vivid images that evoke emotions, and specific events personally experienced (more than abstractions or other people's reported experiences).
Synonyms: availability heuristic
Coordinate terms: recency bias
A-type conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-type conflicts
Etymology: A shortening of affective-type conflict.
Senses: coordinate_terms: C-type conflict
glosses: A disagreement that focuses on individual- or personally-oriented issues.
knowledgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒl.ɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
enpr: nŏ'lĭ-jə-bl
ipa: /ˈnɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɒleːd͡ʒabil/
Forms: form: more knowledgeable
form: most knowledgeable
form: knowledgable
Etymology: From knowledge + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a knowledgeable man
glosses: Having knowledge, especially of a particular subject.
glosses: Educated and well-informed.
Derived terms: knowledgeability
knowledgeableness
knowledgeably
self-knowledgeable
techknowledgeable
knowledgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒl.ɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
enpr: nŏ'lĭ-jə-bl
ipa: /ˈnɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /nɒleːd͡ʒabil/
Forms: form: knowledgeables
form: knowledgable
Etymology: From knowledge + -able.
Senses: glosses: A person who has knowledge; an informed party.