cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
interdependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interdependent
form: most interdependent
form: inter-dependent
Etymology: From inter- + dependent.
Senses: examples: text: The whole tone of my book is […]to urge that the morality which has been by our necessities developed in the society of individuals must also be applied to the society of nations as that society becomes by virtue of our development more interdependent.
ref: 1910 [1909], Norman Angell, The Great Illusion, page 334:
text: Sooner or later it may dawn upon the present generation that it has witnessed and is witnessing the birth of a new world of interdependent peoples, in which many of the old names and shibboleths have either changed their meanings or lost them entirely.
ref: 1936 June 7, Nicholas Murray Butler, “Interdependent Nations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: All life on our planet exists only because we are enmeshed within a complex web of interdependent ecological and social systems.
ref: 2012 May 18, Bob Doppelt, “Business leaders need systemic thinking for sustainability”, in The Guardian:
text: Steeped in a culture telling us to think of ourselves as consumers instead of citizens, as self-reliant instead of interdependent, is it any wonder we deal with a systemic issue by turning in droves to ineffectual, individual efforts?
ref: 2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian:
text: Instead, think of Congress and the Fed as interdependent institutions — a political relationship that constrains the Fed’s conduct.
ref: 2017 October 19, Sarah Binder, Mark Spindel, “The Fed Claims to Be Independent. That’s Mostly a Myth.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Ruth Bagley, WRLtH [Western Rail Link to Heathrow] Working Group chair with the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce, is at pains to point out that the western rail link makes sense whether the third Heathrow runway gets built or not. 'The two are not interdependent', she says. 'The rail link DCO [Development Consent Order] should go in later this year for a decision in 2021, whereas the third runway DCO timetable is a year behind that.'
ref: 2019 October, Ruth Bagley tells James Abbott, “Crunch time for Heathrow western link”, in Modern Railways, page 75:
text: […] it allowed me to grasp something quite remarkable: how onetime enemies and rivals across the Middle East are on the cusp of becoming so much more interconnected and interdependent than ever before.
ref: 2023 June 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Tel Aviv to Riyadh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Mutually dependent; reliant on one another.
Derived terms: interdependently
interdependentness
noninterdependent
Related terms: interdependence
interdependency
introversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɹəʊˈvɜːʃən/
ipa: /ɪntɹəˈvəɹʒən/
ipa: /ɪntɹəˈvəɹʃən/
ipa: /ɪntɹoʊˈvəɹʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Forms: form: introversions
Etymology: From New Latin intrōversio, from intrōvertere (“to turn within”), from Classical Latin intro (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Equivalent to introvert + -sion.
Senses: examples: text: This disease is sometimes produced by the introversion of the edge of the lower eyelid.
ref: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, volume II, page 186:
glosses: A turning inward, particularly
examples: text: ...their... Fastings, Prayings,... Introversions,... Humiliations, Mortifications...
ref: 1654, Thomas Gataker, A Discours Apologetical, page 68:
text: The attending to the voice of Christ within you is what [mystics] term Introversion.
ref: 1788, John Wesley, Works, volume VI, page 451:
text: ... Hamlet, who so perfectly typifies the introversion and complexity of modern thought as compared with ancient...
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows, page 214:
glosses: A turning inward
The action of turning one's thoughts upon internal or spiritual matters.
examples: text: ...so that when in later life there occurs an introversion (in the sense of Jung), it consists of a harking back to regressive, reminiscent, infantile material.
ref: 1912, Trigant Burrow, "Conscious and Unconscious Mentation from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint", Psychological Bulletin, No. 9, p. 159
text: I called the hysterical type the extraversion type and the psychasthénic type the introversion type.
ref: 1915, Carl Jung, “On Psychological Understanding”, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, number 9, page 396:
text: Patients with this disease are at times completely withdrawn from the world around them and give the picture of the very extreme of introversion.
ref: 1955 March 19, Science News-Letter, page 185:
text: Eysenck has suggested the three dimensions of neuroticism, psychoticism and introversion-extraversion.
ref: 1964, John Michael Argyle, Psychology & Social Problems, page 75:
text: The roots of what are popularly taken to be introversion and extroversion show up in infancy: positive emotionality, or extroversion, and negative emotionality, or neuroticism.
ref: 2016 November 1, Drake Baer, “Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A turning inward
A personality orientation towards the self and mental abstraction; behavior expressing such orientation.
examples: text: Such introversion is merely a matter of form.
ref: 1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, page 50:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A turning inward
Arrangement of two similar words, lines, etc. to form the middle part of a structure.
fair use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair uses
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
coordinate_terms: fair dealing
glosses: A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.
examples: text: Many commentators have argued that training AI with copyrighted material constitutes “fair use”
ref: 2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic:
text: Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI models was "exceedingly transformative" and qualified as fair use, a legal doctrine that allows certain uses of copyrighted works without the copyright owner's permission.
ref: 2025 June 25, Lee Chong Ming, “Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said”, in Business Insider:
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
coordinate_terms: fair dealing
glosses: A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.
Use of another party's intellectual property that is protected by this doctrine.
Theban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːbən
Forms: form: Thebaean
form: Thebean
form: Thebæan
Etymology: Thebes + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Thebes
Derived terms: Theban alphabet
Theban year
Theban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːbən
Forms: form: Thebans
form: Thebaean
form: Thebean
form: Thebæan
Etymology: Thebes + -an
Senses: glosses: A person from Thebes
-nd
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -d
Senses: examples: 2nd grade; 42nd Street
glosses: Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "second"
Coordinate terms: -rd
-st
-th
-rd
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -d
Senses: examples: text: We're on 23rd Street.
text: Lupin the IIIrd is my fav Japanese manga series.
coordinate_terms: -nd
-st
-th
glosses: Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "third"
drolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹəʊl.li/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊlli
Forms: form: more drolly
form: most drolly
Etymology: From droll + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a droll, odd or humorous manner.
Benito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːtəʊ
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish and Italian, equivalent to English Benedict.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game played using a deck of 1990 MLB all-star playing cards.
glosses: An unincorporated community in California.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
glosses: A village in Manitoba.
Derived terms: Benito Soliven
San Benito
purports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of purport
protoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoxides
Etymology: From prot- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of oxides of a particular metal that has the fewest atoms of oxygen per molecule
Related terms: deutoxide
tritoxide
Kipp's apparatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the surname of Petrus Johannes Kipp.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Kipp generator
glosses: A piece of laboratory glassware used to generate demonstration amounts of hydrogen sulfide and other gases, by the controlled reaction of a liquid with a solid.
distrait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɪstɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: more distrait
form: most distrait
Etymology: Borrowed from French distrait.
Senses: examples: text: But to return to our friend Desmond:—he was too well bred to have asked such an unfair question, had he not been completely distrait. When the mind is absent without leave, the deputy it leaves behind to secure its unmolested retreat most resembles that apish faculty, memory, and mechanically imitates the manners, and repeats the phrases of others. (Published anonymously, though some citations refer to her pseudonym Madame Panache. Note: Frances Brooke is a different person)http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40160/40160-h/40160-h.htmhttps://books.google.com/books?id=egs4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=madam+panache+francis+moore&source=bl&ots=bagphpXFAX&sig=Q4AFbNwC35ZlIpdBq_VCEPLJirM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ96PEkoLUAhVn04MKHZBSDW4Q6AEIRzAJ#v=onepage&q=madam%20panache%20francis%20moore&f=false
ref: 1817, Frances Brooke, Manners: A Novel Part III:
text: I noticed that after my host had read it he seemed even more distrait and strange than before.
ref: 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, Norton, published 2005, page 1238:
text: Seated upon the fallen hornbeam, Mrs Thoroughfare was regarding distraitly the sky.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 50
text: 1996: John Le Carré, The Tailor of Panama (Knopf 1996, hardback edition, page 221) "Forgive me for being a fraction distrait today. We're trying to prevent another war."
glosses: absent-minded, troubled, distracted
quarter-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-days
form: quarter day
Etymology: From quarter + day.
Senses: examples: text: If you would only allow us, poor chroniclers of progress, to invent a discovery now and then, we might give you a trimensual surprise, the effects of which would keep you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another.
ref: 1851, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 141:
text: 1908, It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)
glosses: Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
executable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksəkjutəbl/
ipa: /ˌɛksɪˈkjuːtəbl/
Etymology: From execute + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being executed.
Derived terms: inexecutable
nonexecutable
unexecutable
executable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksəkjutəbl/
ipa: /ˌɛksɪˈkjuːtəbl/
Forms: form: executables
Etymology: From execute + -able.
Senses: examples: The program as written by the programmer is generally processed into an executable that can be run.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that can be run directly by a computer's hardware or a p-code interpreter with no further processing.
Derived terms: executable code
portable executable
Related terms: binary
redeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redeemed
form: most redeemed
Senses: glosses: Granted redemption or salvation.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Spent; used in a purchase, and thus no longer usable.
raw_tags: of a coupon or offer
redeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeem
rites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: rights
homophone: writes
Senses: glosses: plural of rite
Derived terms: last rites
per procurationem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: per pro
form: p.p.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin per procurationem (“by the agency of/on the instruction of/by proxy”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: by the agency of, especially when signing a letter in place of someone else
glosses: on behalf of (someone who does not sign themselves)
MacGyvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of MacGyver
macgyvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of macgyver
Equuleus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin equuleus (“colt, foal”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The second-smallest constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a little horse. It lies west of the constellation Aquarius.
Derived terms: Equulei
equuleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equulei
Etymology: From Latin equuleus.
Senses: glosses: An ancient torture device, possibly resembling a wooden horse, or possibly a rack.
redan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdan/
Forms: form: redans
Etymology: From French redan, corruption of redent, from re- + dent (“tooth”).
Senses: glosses: A defensive fortification work in the shape of a V.
Eridanus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈrɪdənəs/
Forms: form: Eridanos
Etymology: From Latin Eridanus, from Ancient Greek Ἠριδανός (Ēridanós).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large winter constellation of the northern sky. It lies near Orion and Cetus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical river of northern Europe, rich in amber.
Derived terms: Eridani
Procyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊsiˌɒn/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsiˌɑn/
Etymology: From Latin Procyōn, from Ancient Greek Προκύων (Prokúōn), from πρό (pró, “before”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”), in reference to it preceding the "Dog Star" Sirius.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star in the constellation Canis Minor; Alpha (α) Canis Minoris. The eighth brightest star in the night sky.
Salome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈloʊmi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σαλώμη (Salṓmē), from Hebrew שְׁלוֹמִית (sh'lomít) (belonging to the same root as שָׁלוֹם (shalóm, “peace”)).
Senses: glosses: A name ascribed to the stepdaughter of Herod who asked for the execution of John the Baptist.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A woman mentioned in Mark 16:1, present at the crucifixion of Christ.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Solomon.
glosses: A census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. named after Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt.
Derived terms: Berrick Salome
Related terms: shalom
Shalom
Shlomo
Shula
Shulamith
Solomon
prandial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹæn.dɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈpɹæn.di.əl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin prandialis, or Latin prandium (“late breakfast; lunch”) + English -al (suffix forming adjectives). Prandium is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃mós (“first”) (from *preh₃-) + *h₁ed- (“to eat”) + Latin -ium (suffix forming nouns).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a meal, especially dinner.
Hyponyms: jentacular
cenatory
Derived terms: anteprandial
interprandial
periprandial
postprandial
postprandially
prandially
preprandial
preprandially
Related terms: dinnerlike
byrlaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byrlaws
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bylaw.
meat pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat pies
form: meat-pie
form: meatpie
Senses: examples: text: My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.
text: If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie.
ref: 1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418:
text: She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.
ref: 1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
text: In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample.
ref: 1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220:
text: Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties.
ref: 2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179:
text: It was to Liubotyn station that I and my best mate Sasha once ventured on our lives' first (meaning without the adults) train ride. […] We got off at Liubotyn, then sleepy and unmistakeably rural, bought a couple of wrinkled meat pies at a station kiosk, and got back on the train.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
qualifier: non-idiomatic usage
glosses: A pie containing meat.
examples: text: (a) Meat pie is cooked meat with or without cereal, condiments seasoning and water, enclosed in a case of pastry.
(b) Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method.
ref: 1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119:
text: Meat pies are an Australian favourite and are sold in cake and sandwich shops from one end of the land to the other. The classic version is simple – an individual, 2-crust pie full of chopped beef in a rich gravy.
ref: 2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444:
text: If you think the major ingredient in most meat pies is meat you’re in for a disappointment. But some brands are meatier than others.
ref: 2006 May, Australian Consumers′ Association, Choice, page 9:
glosses: A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.
Derived terms: Australian as a meat pie
Natchitoches meat pie
Related terms: hand pie
meatcake
mincemeat
mince pie
party pie
pie floater
pork pie
potpie
pastie
pasty
sausage roll
Eastern Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The timezone that encompasses the East coast of the United States, and parts of Canada during winter and late autumn; it is five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
Synonyms: word: EST
Related terms: alt: EDT
word: Eastern Daylight Time
word: Eastern Time
word: Eastern Timezone
word: Alaska Standard Time
word: Atlantic Standard Time
word: Central Standard Time
word: Greenland Standard Time
word: Hawaii Standard Time
word: Mountain Standard Time
word: Newfoundland Standard Time
word: Pacific Standard Time
dvornik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dvorniks
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian дворник (dvornik, “concierge; one who takes care of the pavement and yard in front of a house”), from двор (dvor, “courtyard”).
Senses: examples: text: Go to my dvornik and help him to remove the dung. I will pay you.
ref: 1901, Maxim Gorky, The Man Who Was Afraid:
text: He reached the doorway of his house in a state of mental discouragement which enabled him to receive with apparent indifference an official-looking envelope from the dirty hand of the dvornik.
ref: 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes:
text: My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile.
ref: 1912, Mary Antin, Promised Land:
glosses: A doorman, porter, janitor, or groundskeeper in a Russian household
statutory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstætjʊt(ə)ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈstæt͡ʃəˌtɔɹi/
Etymology: From statute + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Speed limits apply at many points on the line, in addition to the general 25 m.p.h. limit over the whole Dromod-Belturbet section, but it is an open secret that speeds often rise above the statutory limit.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 343-344:
text: The order is just one of several recent actions which have given statutory legitimacy to gay and lesbian couples. New York's highest court recently ruled that unmarried partners have the same rights as married ones under New York City rent control laws.
ref: 1989 August 19, Jim Fauntleroy, “Unmarried Couples Get Bereavement Leave”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 2:
glosses: Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.
Derived terms: extra-statutory
statutorily
statutory authority
statutory board
statutory body
statutory corporation
statutory declaration
statutory deposit
statutory exclusion
statutory heir
statutory holiday
statutory instrument
statutory law
statutory rape
duteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdʒuː.ti.əs/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdjuː.ti.əs/
ipa: /ˈdjuː.tʃəs/
ipa: /ˈdu.ti.əs/
rhymes: -uːtiəs
Forms: form: more duteous
form: most duteous
Etymology: Irregular combination of duty + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: a duteous son
text: It will be evident, that whatever had been the vexation experienced on this occasion by Lady Anne, she had taken care to give her duteous and unoffending daughters much more than she had received, and which only arose from her own conduct.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 188:
glosses: dutiful
examples: text: I know thee well. A ſeruiceable Villaine,
As duteous to the vices of thy Miſtris,
As badneſſe would deſire.
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: O Lord, the awful Lord of will! though late,
Even yet renew this soul with duteous breath:
That when the peace is garnered in from strife,
The work retrieved, the will regenerate,
This soul may see thy face, O Lord of death!
ref: 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Heart of the Night, lines 10–14:
glosses: Obsequious; submissively obedient.
Derived terms: duteously
duteousness
unduteous
Related terms: duty
daylight savings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daylight saving time.
Central Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: About 1:20 p.m. Central Standard Time Ken O'Donnell informed us of the President's death. "He's gone," was all he said. A minute or two later Emory Roberts confirmed the tragic news.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
synonyms: Main Standard Time
glosses: The time of day in the time zone that encompasses a central portion of the United States.
Related terms: CST
CDT
Mountain Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Mountain Time
word: MST
coordinate_terms: Mountain Daylight Time
glosses: The time zone encompassing the segment of the United States that includes the Rocky Mountains.
dyscrasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskɹəsɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɪskɹəsi/
rhymes: -ɪskɹəsi
Forms: form: dyscrasies
form: discrasie
form: discracy
form: discracie
Etymology: From Middle English discrasie, from Old French discrasie, from Medieval Latin dyscrāsia, from Ancient Greek δυσκρασία (duskrasía, “bad temperament”), from δυσ- (dus-, “dys-”) + κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixing, tempering”). By surface analysis, dys- + -crasy.
Senses: synonyms: distemper
glosses: A bodily disorder; an imbalance of the humours
synonyms: discord
disorder
dissonance
glosses: Disharmony
Synonyms: sense: morbid diathesis
word: dyscrasia
Derived terms: dyscrasied
Related terms: idiosyncrasy
Pacific Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The time of day in the time zone that encompasses the west coast of the United States.
Synonyms: Pacific Time
Related terms: PST
PDT
notary public
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊtəɹi ˈpʌblɪk/
Forms: form: notaries public
form: notaries publics
Etymology: Anglo-Norman/Law French, on model of notaire publique, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun, instead of idiomatic English *public notary. Compare attorney general, court martial, fee simple, secretary general, surgeon general.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
wikipedia: Law French
Related terms: commissioner of oaths
civil law notary
Latin notary
notary-at-law
febrifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Producing a fever.
febrifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: febrifacients
Senses: glosses: A substance that produces a fever.
febrific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈbɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more febrific
form: most febrific
Senses: glosses: Feverish, inflamed.
glosses: Hot-tempered
Derived terms: antifebrific
Related terms: febrile
fever
pyrexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrexic
form: most pyrexic
Etymology: From pyrexia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: feverish, pyretic
rubicose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: reddish, ruddy, inflamed
Related terms: rubescence
rubicund
rubify
rubify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubifies
form: rubifying
form: rubified
form: rubified
form: rubefy
Etymology: From French rubéfier.
Senses: glosses: to make red; to cause to redden
examples: text: waters rubifying
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
glosses: to redden; to become red
Related terms: rubicund
rubific
rubric
thawless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thawless
form: most thawless
Etymology: From thaw + -less.
Senses: examples: text: An Arctic nature built up the ice of thawless winter.
ref: 1882, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Antipathies:
glosses: eternally frozen; not prone to thaw
twunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twunt
raunchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːnt͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɔːntʃi
rhymes: -ɑːntʃi
Forms: form: raunchier
form: raunchiest
Etymology: Of unknown etymology. Originally U.S. Army Air Corps slang; origins among cadets in Texas suggest a possible connection to Mexican Spanish rancho (see ranch), which had connotations of animal filth by 1864.
Senses: glosses: Smutty; indecent.
glosses: Lecherous.
glosses: Sexually seductive.
glosses: Very low-class; inferior; inadequate.
glosses: With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.
Derived terms: raunch
lexicographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌleksɪkəˈɡɹæfɪk/
ipa: /ˌleksɪkəʉˈɡɹæfɪk/
Forms: form: more lexicographic
form: most lexicographic
Etymology: From lexicography + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: lexicographical
antonyms: nonlexicographic
nonlexicographical
glosses: Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: lexical
lexicographical
glosses: Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
Derived terms: colexicographic
lexicode
lexicographical
lexicographically
lexicographic order
lexicographic preference
liberalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberalizations
form: liberalisation
Etymology: From liberalize + -ation or liberal + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Paisley's three year "Save Ulster from Sodomy" campaign has been a significant force in preventing until now the liberalization of laws about gayness in the British protectorate.
ref: 1981 December 5, Scott Brookie, “Great Britain Charged With Treaty Violation For Irish Anti-Gay Law”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 1:
glosses: The process or act of making more liberal.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entitiesᵂᵖ
liberality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪbəˈɹælɪti/
Forms: form: liberalities
Etymology: From Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin līberālitās (“a noble, kind, or friendly disposition; generosity”), equivalent to liberal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.
ref: 1668, John Denham, Of Justice (poem)
text: She preferred that Lord Rotheles's liberality should take a purely personal direction. Whatever decorations might be lavished upon her dressing-room, the dowager would have to leave them behind her; not so those which filled the prodigality of red morocco cases on her toilette.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.
examples: text: A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.
glosses: A gift; a gratuity.
glosses: Candor.
glosses: Impartiality.
advertorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædvɚˈtɔɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˈæd.vɜːˌtɔːɹ.i.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: advertorials
Etymology: Blend of advertisement + editorial, 1946.
Senses: examples: text: BuzzFeed leads the pack with what it calls “native advertising,” a euphemism for advertorials.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 6, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: An advertisement written in the form of an objective editorial, presented in a printed publication, and usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news article.
Related terms: native advertising
linkup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkups
form: link-up
Etymology: From link + up.
Senses: examples: text: The linkup between the devices broke and we lost control.
glosses: A connection.
examples: text: We'll make the linkup when both machines arrive.
glosses: The act of connecting.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: enchainment
Related terms: word: link up
lipreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: lip reading
Senses: glosses: The act of reading lips.
Synonyms: speechreading
lipreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: lip reading
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lipread
lip reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lipreading.
lip reading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of lip read
lip-synch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lip-synchs
form: lip-synching
form: lip-synched
form: lip-synched
Senses: examples: text: Impressed by their looks and their dancing, but not their singing, Mr. Farian called them Milli Vanilli and recorded an album of lightweight, preening dance-pop under their name, using uncredited studio musicians. The pair simply lip-synched in performances.
ref: 1998 April 7, Neil Strauss, “Robert Pilatus, 32, Performer In Disgraced Band Milli Vanilli”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Well, the 1990s are our problem. In the West Wing we saw CJ [Cregg] lip-synch to Ronny Jordan's The Jackal and President [Jed] Bartlet light a cigarette in a church, but if you're going to make a show about news in the 2010s, you need to reflect the time.
ref: 2013 September 10, Anne T Donahue, “The Newsroom: a new season of hatewatching”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lip-sync.
lip-sync
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lip-syncs
form: lip-syncing
form: lip-synching
form: lip-synced
form: lip-synced
form: lip-synched
form: lip-synched
form: lip-synch
form: lipsynch
form: lip sync
form: lipsync
Etymology: From lip sync.
Senses: examples: text: She lip-synced to her own recording during the show because of her laryngitis.
text: There was a great scandal when it was discovered the singer had been only lip-syncing.
text: Tolokonnikova is one of two members of the punk group Pussy Riot who are serving two-year sentences for lip-syncing and playing air guitar for 40 seconds in a peaceful protest in the largest Moscow cathedral.
ref: 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Sep 2013:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: singing
glosses: To move the lips in synchronization with sounds (generally recorded) so it appears they are the source of the sounds.
Coordinate terms: mime
Derived terms: lip-syncer
synchronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronizations
form: synchronisation
Etymology: From synchronize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The generator went off line when it lost synchronization with the power line.
text: I was very impressed with the obvious amount of work that went into the learning and synchronization of such a complex and harmonically and difficult score.
ref: 1987 April 18, Tom Grabosky, “Gay Men's Voices Rise Up Singin'”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
text: Synchronization, the coordinated dynamics of many units to the same timing is found throughout the natural world.
ref: 2012, Staff (Max Planck Institute), Study: Solar and wind energy may stabilize the power grid, R&D Magazine, online
glosses: The state or property of being synchronized.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: synchroneity
raw_tags: of being synchronized
word: synchronicity
word: simultaneousness
Derived terms: antisynchronization
asynchronization
autosynchronization
data synchronization
desynchronization
dissynchronization
dyssynchronization
hypersynchronization
missynchronization
photosynchronization
presynchronization
resynchronization
self-synchronization
synchronization domain
synchronization gear
synchronization proxy
unsynchronization
Michiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Michigan + Indiana
Senses: glosses: A region of northern Indiana and southwest Michigan centered on the city of South Bend in Indiana.
hydrogen spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: all the lines in the emission or absorption spectrum of hydrogen; each one corresponding to an allowed transition between quantum energy levels
Related terms: hydrogen spectral series
synch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sync.
synch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: synchs
form: synching
form: synched
form: synched
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sync.
hydrogen station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogen stations
Senses: glosses: A service station for hydrogen vehicles.
I/O
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I/Os
form: IO
form: i/o
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the synchronous blocking I/O explored in the last two chapters, NIO also supports nonblocking I/O.
ref: 2006, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java I/O:
text: It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.
ref: 2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring (page 22)
topics: business
computing
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of input/output.
hydrogen telluride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the tellurium analogue of hydrogen sulfide, H₂Te
Synonyms: tellane
tellurane
lockstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒkstɛp/
Forms: form: locksteps
form: lock-step
form: lock step
Etymology: From lock + step.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A step whereby the toe of one man is brought very close to the heel of the man in front.
examples: text: The CIA's analysts learned to march in lockstep, conforming to conventional wisdom.
ref: 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page xv:
text: But what [the Founding Fathers] weren’t counting on was lockstep partisanship, which translates today into a pro-Trump, pro-MAGA congressional majority that is likely to reinforce the president’s agenda, at least until the 2026 midterm elections.
ref: 2025 February 25, Linda Feldmann, “How Trump skirts checks and balances unlike any modern-day US president”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Close connection, unison, rigid synchronization.
glosses: An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.
lockstep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒkstɛp/
Forms: form: lock-step
form: lock step
Etymology: From lock + step.
Senses: examples: text: With both official university policies lock-step in favor of military recruitment, the next move is up to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.
ref: 1983 February 5, Marc Killinger, “Universities Reinstate Military Recruiters”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 3:
glosses: In close connection, in unison, synchronized.
hydrogen warhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogen warheads
Senses: glosses: a small thermonuclear device in the warhead of a missile
unison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjunɪsən/
ipa: /ˈjunɪzən/
Forms: form: unisons
Etymology: From Middle English unisoun, from Middle French unisson, from Medieval Latin ūnisonus (“having the same sound”), from ūni- + sonus (“sound”).
Senses: examples: text: The unison has a pitch ratio of 1:1.
text: The young principal timpanist, Timothy Genis, was superb throughout, though his sidekick timpanist sometimes lagged in the final unisons.
ref: 2007 July 16, James R. Oestreich, “With Levine as Tour Guide, a Journey Through Mahler’s Third Symphony”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: Identical pitch between two notes or sounds; the simultaneous playing of notes of identical pitch (or separated by one or more octaves).
examples: text: I could not behold him without emotion; when he accosted me, his well-known voice made my heart vibrate, like a musical chord, when its unison is struck.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A sound or note having the same pitch as another, especially when used as the base note for an interval; a unison string.
examples: text: Everyone moved in unison, but the sudden change in weight distribution capsized the boat.
glosses: The state of being in harmony or agreement; harmonious agreement or togetherness, synchronisation.
glosses: Two or more voices speaking or singing the same words together.
Derived terms: augmented unison
in unison
perfect unison
unisonal
unisonance
unisonant
unisonous
synchronized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synchronized
form: most synchronized
Senses: examples: text: The synchronized swimmers did everything together, even breathing at the same time.
glosses: Having attained synchronization, together, coordinated, combined.
Derived terms: synchronized clock
synchronized diver
synchronized diving
synchronized skating
synchronized swimmer
synchronized swimming
synchronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synchronize
hydrosulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrosulfides
form: hydrosulphide
Etymology: From hydro- + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from hydrogen sulfide by replacing one hydrogen atom with a metal or other radical; a thiol or mercaptan.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The HS⁻ anion.
hydrosulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrosulphides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hydrosulfide.
hydrosulphuretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: combined with hydrogen sulfide
hydroxy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈdɹɑk.si/
Etymology: From hydroxyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: having, or derived from, a hydroxyl radical
Derived terms: hydroxytriphenylcarbinol
Related terms: hydroxy
parahydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parahydrogens
Etymology: From para- + hydrogen.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The form of the hydrogen molecule (H₂) in which the two nuclei have antiparallel spin; about 25% of hydrogen at room temperature.
phosphoretted hydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: phosphureted hydrogen
glosses: phosphine
wetten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wettens
form: wettening
form: wettened
form: wettened
Etymology: From wet + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.
ref: 1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: To make wet; to wet
dishonorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dishonorable
form: most dishonorable
form: dishonourable
Senses: glosses: Without honor, or causing dishonor.
glosses: Lacking respect for ethical principles.
Synonyms: grubby
ignoble
Derived terms: dishonorable discharge
dishonorableness
dishonorably
jarvey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarvies
form: jarveys
form: jarvie
form: jarvy
Etymology: Two origins have been suggested, although there is no solid evidence for either:
* They are named after Saint Gervais.
* They are named after a coachman named Jarvis.
Senses: glosses: A hackney coach driver .
examples: text: […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16:
glosses: The driver of a jaunting car.
riddle stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riddle sticks
Senses: glosses: a fire poker with a perpendicular piece of iron at the end for raking ashes through the grate.
elucubrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈluːkjʊbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: elucubrates
form: elucubrating
form: elucubrated
form: elucubrated
Etymology: From the past participle of Latin elucubrare (“compose by lamplight”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pull an all-nighter
synonyms: burn the midnight oil
glosses: To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.
Derived terms: elucubration
theftful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theftful
form: most theftful
Etymology: From theft + -ful.
Senses: examples: His theftful glances aroused suspicion.
glosses: furtive, stealthy; suspiciously discreet
lavaliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæv.əˈlɪɹ/
ipa: /ˌlɑv-/
other: /ˌlɑ.vɑlˈjɛɚ/
other: /ˌlæv.æl-/
Forms: form: lavalieres
form: lavalier
form: lavalliere
form: lavallière
Etymology: Borrowed from French lavallière.
Senses: examples: text: Slipping off the cover of her box, Beth uttered a low cry of amazement and admiration. Then she held up a dainty lavalliere, with a pendant containing a superb pearl.
ref: 1914, Edith Van Dyne [pseudonym: Lyman Frank Baum], chapter XV, in Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West, Chicago,: The Reilly & Britton Co.:
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of lavalier (“pendant on a chain”).
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A pussy bow.
lavaliere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæv.əˈlɪɹ/
ipa: /ˌlɑv-/
other: /ˌlɑ.vɑlˈjɛɚ/
other: /ˌlæv.æl-/
Forms: form: lavalier
form: lavalliere
form: lavallière
Etymology: Borrowed from French lavallière.
Senses: examples: text: a lavaliere microphone
glosses: Worn on the chest.
Related terms: lavalier microphone
cryptozoology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪp.təʊ.zəʊˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌkɹɪp.təʊ.zuːˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌkɹɪp.toʊ.zoʊˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌkɹɪp.toʊ.zuːˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: cryptozoölogy
Etymology: From crypto- + zoology.
Senses: examples: text: The Loch Ness Monster is one of the mysteries of cryptozoology.
text: This peculiar situation amplifies the reluctance of conservative scientists to objectively consider the search for hidden animals, the field of cryptozoology. […] Indeed, cryptozoology has gained increasing legitimacy in recent years.
ref: 2007, Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Study of cryptids, animals whose existence has not been proven.
Derived terms: cryptozoological
cryptozoologist
Related terms: cryptid
liturgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From liturgical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of liturgy.
liturgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liturgists
Etymology: From liturgy + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person knowledgeable about liturgy.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who leads public worship.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who adheres to liturgies.
Synonyms: liturgiologist
Derived terms: liturgistic
liturgistical
Related terms: liturgiology
liturgical
liturgics
liturgy
theftless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theft + -less.
Senses: examples: a theftless break-in
glosses: Without theft.