cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hypertrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɜː.tɹə.fi/
ipa: /haɪˈpɜɹ.tɹə.fi/
Forms: form: hypertrophies
form: hypertrophying
form: hypertrophied
form: hypertrophied
Etymology: From French hypertrophie, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, excessive”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), equivalent to hyper- + -trophy.
Senses: antonyms: atrophy
glosses: Of a tissue or organ, to increase in size.
examples: text: But when text hypertrophies into a riot of contending inscripturations, we lose too much of what matters most in writing.
ref: 2020 January 29, Douglas Groothuis, “Texts, Graphics, and Culture: On the Decline of Reading and Civilization”, in Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.: Christian Philosopher and Apologist, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2023:
text: Like a well-exercised muscle, 'network' has hypertrophied into a master concept.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 76:
antonyms: atrophy
glosses: To enlarge or extend.
illuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uməneɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)umɪnət/
Forms: form: more illuminate
form: most illuminate
Etymology: From Latin illūminātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. For sense 3, see also Lumières.
Senses: examples: February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite
do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?
glosses: Enlightened, illuminated, made bright.
glosses: Enlightened spiritually, divinely taught or inspired; in technical use, converted, baptized.
glosses: Learned, erudite.
illuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uməneɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)umɪnət/
Forms: form: illuminates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: glosses: Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
nephs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neph
propone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊn
Forms: form: propones
form: proponing
form: proponed
form: proponed
Etymology: From Latin prōpōnō (“place before; offer, propose”), via Scots.
Senses: glosses: to propose or put forward for discussion or consideration
Related terms: apropos
proponent
propound
proponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpəʊnənt/
ipa: /pɹəˈpoʊnənt/
Forms: form: proponents
Etymology: From Latin prōpōnēns, present participle of prōpōnō (“to put forward; propose”).
Senses: examples: text: Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
ref: 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012:
glosses: One who supports something; an advocate.
glosses: One who makes a proposal or proposition.
topics: law
glosses: One who propounds a will for probate.
Synonyms: exponent
Related terms: apropos
propone
propound
propose
proponent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpəʊnənt/
ipa: /pɹəˈpoʊnənt/
Etymology: From Latin prōpōnēns, present participle of prōpōnō (“to put forward; propose”).
Senses: glosses: Making proposals; proposing.
snatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snatch
snatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snatch
tell off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tells off
form: telling off
form: told off
form: told off
Etymology: (to count): From the military order: "number" - when starting with the first soldier, each would number himself out loud, counting in sequence file by file and rank by rank.
Senses: examples: text: Joel's boss told him off for being late again.
glosses: To rebuke, to reprimand, or to admonish, often in a harsh, angry, direct way.
examples: text: The Recruit looked thoughtful and told off the days on his fingers.
ref: 1903, Field and Stream, page 755:
glosses: To count (members of a sequence), to enumerate.
examples: text: The provisions were packed over night and sent down by boat, in charge of the steward of the Gtdnare or some person specially told off for the purpose.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 63:
text: When they were quite ready, the now triumphant Toad led his companions to the paddock and set them to capture the old grey horse, who, without having been consulted, and to his own extreme annoyance, had been told off by Toad for the dustiest job in this dusty expedition. He frankly preferred the paddock, and took a deal of catching.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen, page 17:
glosses: To allocate duties to someone.
examples: text: To equalize a battalion is to tell off a certain number of companies, usually eight, in such a manner that the several component parts shall consist of the same number of men.
ref: 1885, Edward Farrow, A Dictionary of Military Terms:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To divide and practise a regiment or company in the several formations, preparatory to marching to the general parade for field exercises.
Synonyms: sense: rebuke
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: read somebody the riot act
word: scold
word: reprehend
sense: count
word: enumerate
word: number
word: count
abide by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abides by
form: abiding by
form: abided by
form: abided by
form: abode by
form: abode by
Senses: examples: text: I don't agree with it, but I'll abide by the decision to give the reward to her.
text: The defendent has abided by my ruling in good faith.
glosses: To accept (a decision or law) and act in accordance with it; to conform to (a decision or law); to acquiesce to (a decision or law).
examples: text: He may have shown his true colors, but he's supported me for years, so I'll abide by him.
text: She has served me loyally, abiding by my rule for almost my entire life.
text: To say the truth , it is often safer to abide by the consequences of the first blunder , than to endeavour to rectify it
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To remain faithful to (something or someone); to adhere to (an idea or plan).
Synonyms: sense: to accept a decision and act in accordance with it
word: acquiesce
sense: to accept a decision and act in accordance with it
word: conform
sense: to remain faithful to
word: stand by
sense: to remain faithful to
word: go to the wall for
sense: to remain faithful to
word: stick with
wear away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears away
form: wearing away
form: wore away
form: worn away
Senses: examples: text: As the sensitiveness which greeted my new position wore away, I began to rather like the freedom of my new character.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 17:
text: I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
ref: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvii
glosses: To erode gradually and progressively.
Synonyms: fret
kinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kīndʹə
ipa: /ˈkaɪndə/
enpr: kīndʹər
ipa: /ˈkaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Etymology: From kind + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My aunt has been kinder to me since my father died.
text: Electric trains have much lower operating costs and are kinder to the track.
ref: 2021 February 10, Nigel Harris, “We risk destroying value”, in RAIL, number 924, page 3:
glosses: comparative form of kind: more kind
kinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: kīndʹə
ipa: /ˈkaɪndə/
enpr: kīndʹər
ipa: /ˈkaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Etymology: From kind of.
Senses: examples: text: I told ’im to give you the strings last night, but I’m kinder glad thet Rosebud interfered an’ saved yer life.
ref: 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:
text: 'No, he was kinder reticent about that part of it.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017:
glosses: Alternative form of kinda.
kinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīndʹə
ipa: /ˈkaɪndə/
enpr: kīndʹər
ipa: /ˈkaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
enpr: kĭndʹə
ipa: /ˈkɪndə/
enpr: kĭndʹər
ipa: /ˈkɪndɚ/
enpr: kīndʹə
ipa: /ˈkaɪndə/
enpr: kīndʹər
ipa: /ˈkaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Etymology: From German Kinder (“children”), sometimes via Yiddish קינדער (kinder, “children”).
Senses: examples: text: But - let wifey leave him with the kinder while out shopping...
ref: 2008 December 31, Al Scaduto, They'll Do It Every Time (newspaper comic)
text: Of special interest to the kinder are The Children's Place, Baby Gap, Gap Kids and Gap, Gymboree, The Limited, America!, and the Sweet Factory.
ref: 2010, Beth Rubin, Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: Do note, as Goin mentions, this is a policy better implemented when the kinder are well past infancy.
ref: 2012, Charlotte Druckman, Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Children.
raw_tags: in German Yiddish contexts
kinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīndʹə
ipa: /ˈkaɪndə/
enpr: kīndʹər
ipa: /ˈkaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
enpr: kĭndʹə
ipa: /ˈkɪndə/
enpr: kĭndʹər
ipa: /ˈkɪndɚ/
Forms: form: kinders
Etymology: Clipping of kindergarten and kindergartner.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of kindergarten.
glosses: Clipping of kindergartner.
Derived terms: kinder one
kinder two
prestidigitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛstɪˌdɪd͡ʒɪˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹɛstəˌdɪd͡ʒɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: prestidigitations
Etymology: From French prestidigitation, from French preste (“nimble, quick”) + Latin digitus (“finger”) + French -ation (process suffix). The word has a different origin from prestige, even though this in the past has meant “delusion, illusion, trick”.
Senses: examples: text: My favorite prestidigitation was when he pulled the live dove out of that tiny scarf.
text: He borrowed another hat and displayed its perfect emptiness; he held up his empty hands: "This is one of the most marvellous bits of prestidigitation known," he said. "You have all seen this hat holds nothing in the world: I will now see if I can extract anything from its emptiness. You can all observe my hands go nowhere but into the hat, and they are both open and turned to you. Yet what is this?"
ref: 1897, Ethel Turner, The Child of the Children:
synonyms: sleight of hand
legerdemain
glosses: A performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands.
examples: text: His writing was peppered with verbal tricks and prestidigitation.
text: The more modest place became the picture better; yet, as my eyes grew accustomed to the half-light, all the characteristic qualities came out--all the hesitations disguised as audacities, the tricks of prestidigitation by which, with such consummate skill, he managed to divert attention from the real business of the picture to some pretty irrelevance of detail.
ref: 1908, Edith Wharton, The Verdict:
synonyms: sleight of hand
legerdemain
glosses: A show of skill or deceitful cleverness.
Related terms: prestidigitator
abbr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbrs.
form: abbr
form: abbrev
form: abbrev.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abbreviation.
kalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.lɪs/
ipa: /ˈkaː.lɪs/
Forms: form: kalises
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog kalis, from Malay keris, from Old Javanese kĕris, kris Doublet of kris.
Senses: glosses: A Filipino sword akin to the kris.
hard code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hard codes
form: hard coding
form: hard coded
form: hard coded
form: hardcode
form: hard-code
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To build absolute and unchangeable values into a program such that they can only be changed by modifying the source code.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To insert an unchangeable program into a device; to hard-wire.
synonyms: hardsub
glosses: To insert subtitles inside a video file, permanently modifying it.
eat one's own dog food
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's own dog food
form: eating one's own dog food
form: ate one's own dog food
form: eaten one's own dog food
Etymology: From dog food (“beta software”).
Senses: examples: text: AOL was signing up members at a furious rate, in part because it provided a better user experience than Juno, and we didn't understand that, because we didn't eat our own dog food.
ref: 2004, Avram Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, Apress, →ISBN, page 223:
text: As with most Microsoft product teams, we eat our own dog food.
ref: 2012, Dorothy Graham, Mark Fewster, Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: dogfood
glosses: To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.
glosses: To use or consume the economic goods or services that one is producing; to be part of a closed household economy.
Related terms: word: drink the Kool-Aid
sense: get
word: high on one's own supply
dead-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdɛnd/
ipa: /dɛdˈɛnd/
rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɛnd
Forms: form: more dead-end
form: most dead-end
form: deadend
Senses: examples: text: a dead-end street
text: a dead-end job
text: [...] as it approached Platform 9 at Moorgate, the train, which ought to have been going at 15 miles an hour, was travelling at 35 m.p.h., and apparently accelerating. It smashed into the head wall of the 60-foot dead-end tunnel because, as we have seen, the Metropolitan's plans to extend the line south had come to nothing.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Going nowhere; blocked.
dead-end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdɛnd/
ipa: /dɛdˈɛnd/
rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɛnd
Forms: form: dead-ends
form: dead-ending
form: dead-ended
form: dead-ended
form: deadend
Senses: examples: text: Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!
glosses: To come to a dead-end.
examples: text: Dumas' tangle of unrequited, misplaced and dead-ended love
ref: 1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:
glosses: To come to nothing; to reach a hopeless situation.
dead-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdɛnd/
ipa: /dɛdˈɛnd/
rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɛnd
Forms: form: dead-ends
form: deadend
Senses: examples: text: We turned into the street and realised it was a dead-end.
glosses: A road with no exit.
examples: text: Mary realised her relationship with Jim had hit a dead-end.
glosses: A position that offers no hope of progress.
dogfood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogfoods
form: dogfooding
form: dogfooded
form: dogfooded
form: dog food
form: dog-food
Etymology: From dog + food.
Senses: examples: text: We're dog-fooding that release now, in three-weekly sprints.
ref: 2012, Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje, Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 259:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.
dogfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogfoods
form: dog food
form: dog-food
Etymology: From dog + food.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dog food.
dog food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog foods
form: dogfood
Senses: glosses: Food eaten by or appropriate for dogs in general, whether wild or domesticated.
glosses: Food for domesticated dogs.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Beta software that is tested on the developer’s own computer.
examples: text: Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog food now!
glosses: Synonym of dog meat (“dead person”).
synonyms: word: dog meat
extra: dead person
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Heroin, typically the non-black tar type.
Derived terms: eat one's own dog food
dog food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogfood
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 狗糧 /狗粮 (gǒuliáng).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: public display of affection, especially from the perspective of a lonely, single person.
gastronome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastronomes
Etymology: Borrowed from French gastronome.
Senses: examples: text: A gastronome ought to fast sometimes on principle: we appreciate no pleasures unless we are occasionally debarred from them. Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 231:
synonyms: gastronomist
gastronomer
glosses: a lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet
Related terms: gastronomy
liking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English likinge, likinde, likende, likande, licande, from Old English līciende, līciġende, from Proto-Germanic *līkāndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *līkāną, equivalent to like + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of like
liking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: likings
Etymology: From Middle English likinge, from Old English līcung (“pleasing; pleasure; gratification; liking”), equivalent to like + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion.
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, “Introductory”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.
ref: 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A like; a predilection.
examples: text: goods bought on liking
glosses: Approval.
Synonyms: predilection
Derived terms: for one's liking
good liking
likingness
take a liking to
to someone's liking
Microsoftify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Microsoftifies
form: Microsoftifying
form: Microsoftified
form: Microsoftified
Etymology: From Microsoft + -ify.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Microsoftify.
synonyms: Microsoft#Verb
glosses: To assimilate into a Microsoft framework.
-ify
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: -ifies
form: -ifying
form: -ified
form: -ified
form: -fy
Etymology: From Middle English -ifien, from Old French -ifier, from Latin -ificäre, from -ficus, from faciō (“to make, do”). For example, purify from purificare, from purificus.
Senses: glosses: Forms transitive verbs meaning "to make" from adjectives and nouns.
glosses: Forms intransitive verbs meaning "to become" from adjectives and nouns.
Synonyms: -ise
-ize
Related terms: -faction
-ficance
-ificance
-ficant
-ificant
-fication
-ification
-fic
-ific
-fier
-ifier
-ate
be-
em-
en-
prestidigitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestidigitators
Etymology: Borrowed from French prestidigitateur.
Senses: synonyms: conjurer
magician
glosses: One who performs feats of prestidigitation; a sleight-of-hand artist.
Related terms: prestidigitation
nephrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrologist
transman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmen
Etymology: From trans- + man or trans + man.
Senses: examples: text: Like many transmen, he chose not to remove his female reproductive organs.
ref: 2008 June 22, Guy Trebay, “He’s Pregnant. You’re Speechless.”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: transwoman
glosses: Alternative spelling of trans man.
transwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transwomen
Etymology: From trans- + woman or trans + woman.
Senses: examples: text: She had been attracted to Sharon from the time they met, but had not felt comfortable with the idea of dating a transwoman.
ref: 2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity:
text: A transwoman is thus required to fashion her own body as a blank in order to gain a document that is not itself a blank; the document will not speak her sex until her body fails to.
ref: 2010, Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality:
text: Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.
ref: 2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Conversely, if you are a lesbian-identified transwoman who was legally married to a woman prior to transition, some people may claim your union is now illegal because it is presently a same-sex marriage.
ref: 2012, Nicholas M. Teich, Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue:
text: “There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female. On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.
“All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it’s kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,” she said. “This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is.”
ref: 2014 February 13, Martha Mendoza, quoting Brielle Harrison, “Facebook offers new gender options for users”, in AP News, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
coordinate_terms: transman
glosses: Alternative spelling of trans woman.
coöperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coöperates
form: coöperating
form: coöperated
form: coöperated
Senses: examples: text: The best progress is made by combining the practice of coöperation with the science of coöperation. They are one and inseparable to the fullest benefit. But the real way to coöperate is to coöperate.
ref: 1891, Herbert Myrick, chapter 1, in How to Coöperate: The full fruits of labor to producer, honest value to consumer, just return to capital, prosperity to all. A manual for coöperators, New York: Orange Judd, page 10:
text: Other bodies of Federal troops had advanced into Virginia to coöperate with the main force on the Peninsula. [...] This would completely insure the communications of his army from interruption; and it was no doubt expected that Generals Fremont and Banks would coöperate in the movement also.
ref: 2007, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, page 40:
text: Zeldin imagined Mueller taking such a step to pressure Manafort to coöperate.
ref: 2017 October, John Cassidy, “Robert Mueller Sends a Message: He’s Deadly Serious”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Dated spelling of cooperate.
Related terms: coöperation
coöperative
coöpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coöpts
form: coöpting
form: coöpted
form: coöpted
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of co-opt.
reëxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëxamines
form: reëxamining
form: reëxamined
form: reëxamined
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of reexamine.
reëlect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëlects
form: reëlecting
form: reëlected
form: reëlected
Senses: examples: text: All judges are elected, and there is a strong tendency to reëlect indefinitely.
ref: 1914, Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin with Albert Bushnell Hart, Cyclopedia of American Government, volume 3, New York; London: D. Appleton, keyword Texas, page 532:
glosses: Dated spelling of reelect.
reënter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reënters
form: reëntering
form: reëntered
form: reëntered
Senses: examples: text: To my gratification he told me I could reënter the institution, and that he would trust me to pay the debt when I could.
ref: 1900, Booker T[aliaferro] Washington, “Helping Others”, in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 66:
text: It consists chiefly of intersegmental fibres which arise from cells in the gray substance, and, after a longer or shorter course, reënter the gray substance and ramify in it.
ref: 1913, Henry Gray, Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied, new American/18th English edition, Philadelphia; New York: Lea & Febiger, page 762:
text: I am almost ashamed to say, that I believe the souls of the dead in some way reënter and pervade the souls of the living: so that life is always the life of living creatures, and death is always our affair.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 11:
text: The cripple returned the smile and stuck out his hand. Miss Lonelyhearts clasped it, and they stood this way, smiling and holding hands, until Mrs. Doyle reëntered the room.
ref: 1933, Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, London: Picador Classics:
glosses: Dated spelling of reenter.
reëducate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëducates
form: reëducating
form: reëducated
form: reëducated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reeducate.
zoölogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoölogies
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of zoology.
overdose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdəʊs/
ipa: /ˈəʊvɚˌdəʊs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈʌo̞vɚˌdʌo̞s/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈʌo̞vɐˌdʌo̞s/
Forms: form: overdoses
Etymology: From over- + dose.
Senses: examples: text: to die of a heroin overdose
text: It works for a while, but when Spider-Man maneuvers him ouside the hospital room where Harry is recovering from his overdose, some part of the Goblin's brain that's still the loving father surfaces, drives him unconscious, and when next he wakes up, all memory of his being a super-villain is conveniently wiped clean.
ref: 2011, Pierre Comtois, Marvel Comics in the 1970s:
text: Drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in West Virginia, and the state leads the country in fatal drug overdoses. OxyContin—nicknamed “hillbilly heroin”—is king.
ref: [2012 August 23, Conor Friedersdorf, quoting Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, “What OxyContin Addicts in West Virginia Tell Us About the War on Drugs”, in The Atlantic:
text: After 15, 30, 60 or 90 days, the animals (n = 5 per time point for each subgroup) were sacrificed via an overdose of ketamine and xylazine hydrochloride (Vetbrands Brazil Limited, Jacareí, SP), and the hemimaxillae were removed and fixed in 10% formalin solution (Fig 1 ).
ref: 2015 August 14, “Green Tea Modulates Cytokine Expression in the Periodontium and Attenuates Alveolar Bone Resorption in Type 1 Diabetic Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
Synonyms: english: which is a less common synonym for this concept
translation: which is a less common synonym for this concept
word: overdosage
overdose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdəʊs/
ipa: /ˈəʊvɚˌdəʊs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈʌo̞vɚˌdʌo̞s/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈʌo̞vɐˌdʌo̞s/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdəʊs/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdəʊs/
ipa: /ˈəʊvɚˌdəʊs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈʌo̞vɚˌdʌo̞s/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈʌo̞vɐˌdʌo̞s/
Forms: form: overdoses
form: overdosing
form: overdosed
form: overdosed
Etymology: From over- + dose.
Senses: glosses: To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to someone.
examples: text: Be careful not to overdose on those pills.
text: She overdosed on cocaine.
glosses: To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
examples: text: They still had Sergio Agüero to bring off the bench and the Etihad was overdosing on optimism. For the game to finish with an aggregate 5-1 score distorts the fact the occasion was full of drama and suspense until Salah’s goal conclusively changed the complexion of the evening.
ref: 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
text: Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191:
glosses: To indulge in something excessively.
Derived terms: OD
overdoser
Related terms: overdosage
banister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ænɪstɚ
Forms: form: banisters
form: bannister
Etymology: Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.
Senses: examples: text: wooden banister
text: polished banister
text: lean on the banister
text: She slid down the wooden banister like a child.
text: He grasped the banister as he climbed the stairs.
glosses: The handrail on the side of a staircase.
glosses: One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster.
Related terms: newel
balustrade
banister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ænɪstɚ
Forms: form: banisters
form: banistering
form: banistered
form: banistered
form: bannister
Etymology: Alteration of earlier barrester, ballester, corruptions of baluster.
Senses: glosses: To construct a banister.
glosses: To act as a banister.
OD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ODs
Senses: synonyms: O.D.
glosses: Initialism of overdose.
qualifier: professional degree
glosses: Initialism of Doctor of Optometry; also O.D.
glosses: Initialism of overdrive.
glosses: Initialism of overdraft.
glosses: Initialism of optical density.
topics: business
manufacturing
antonyms: ID
glosses: (of a pipe, tube, or shaft) Initialism of outer diameter or outside diameter.
examples: text: “He went to’ds de back, ma’am.” The negro opened the door and slid his legs, clad in army O.D. and a pair of linoleum putties, to the ground. “‘I’ll go git ’im.”’
ref: 1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 22:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: FDE
glosses: Initialism of olive drab (“color of clothing, uniforms, tools, and equipment”).
qualifier: on road signs
glosses: Initialism of over dimension, used on route numbers for large vehicles, and normally followed by a numeral, e.g. OD5.
topics: management
glosses: Initialism of organization development.
OD
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ODs
form: OD's
form: ODing
form: OD'ing
form: OD-ing
form: ODed
form: ODed
form: OD'd
form: OD'd
form: OD'ed
form: OD'ed
Senses: examples: text: She told me she'd love me and I told her I'd do the same / Then I OD'd in Denver and I just can't remember her name
ref: 1979, Hank Williams Jr., “O.D.'d in Denver”, in Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound:
text: ‘My brother,[…], is at Radley, on account of my parents thinking it a bad idea to have us both at the same school.’
‘On account of your being twins?’ said Adrian.
‘Right, on account of my mother OD-ing on fertility drugs.[…]’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 18–19:
glosses: To take an overdose of a drug, to overdose.
OD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Odisha: a state of India.
OD's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OD
OD's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of OD
OD'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of OD
snood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: snoods
form: snod
form: sneed
Etymology: From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-West Germanic *snōdu, from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh₁téh₂ (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”).
Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon snōva (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.
Senses: examples: text: “Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
ref: 1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 9, in Frida, or, The Lover’s Leap, A Legend of the West Country, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 1:
glosses: A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
examples: text: And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 264:
hypernyms: hairnet
glosses: A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
examples: text: A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.
ref: 2000, Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics, page 8:
coordinate_terms: caruncle
comb
cockscomb
crest
wattle
glosses: The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
glosses: A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
glosses: A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
snood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: snoods
form: snooding
form: snooded
form: snooded
form: snod
form: sneed
Etymology: From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-West Germanic *snōdu, from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh₁téh₂ (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”).
Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon snōva (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.
Senses: examples: text: Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee,
And she has snooded her yellow hair
ref: 1792, Robert Burns, "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
roman: A little aboon her bree,
glosses: To keep the hair in place with a snood.
zacate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Philippine Spanish zacate, from Mexican Spanish zacate, from Classical Nahuatl zacatl (“dry weeds or grass; fodder, forage”), from Uto-Aztecan *saka-t.
Senses: glosses: Swamp ricegrass, Leersia hexandra, a grass cultivated for green forage.
polylemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polylemmas
Senses: glosses: A circumstance in which a choice must be made between multiple options that seem equally undesirable
Related terms: dilemma
trilemma
quagmire
whittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɪtəl/
ipa: /ˈwɪtəl/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: whittles
Etymology: From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.
Senses: examples: text: Novv if any man can be ſo unkind to his ovvn Body, for I meddle not vvith your Souls, as to ſtand ſtill like a good Chriſtian, and offer his VVeeſon to a Butcher's VVhittle, I ſay no more but that he may be ſav'd, and that's the beſt can come on him.
ref: 1682 December 15 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, The Duke of Guise. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for R[ichard] Bentley […], and J[acob] Tonson […], published 1683, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 50:
text: Rude whittles.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: The Sheffield whittle was the common knife of the country, which every one carried for general purposes, who was not entitled by rank to wear a sword.
ref: 1873, Alfred Gatty, Sheffield: Past and Present:
glosses: A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.
whittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɪtəl/
ipa: /ˈwɪtəl/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: whittles
form: whittling
form: whittled
form: whittled
Etymology: From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.
Senses: examples: text: He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter X, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut or shape wood with a knife.
glosses: To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
examples: text: When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome
ref: 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine:
glosses: To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
Derived terms: whittle down
whittle the whalebone
whittling
whittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɪtəl/
ipa: /ˈwɪtəl/
rhymes: -ɪtəl
Forms: form: whittles
Etymology: From Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (“cloak, blanket”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwītil, from Proto-Germanic *hwītilaz, equivalent to white + -le; akin to Icelandic hvítill (“white bedcover, sheet, linen”).
Senses: examples: text: Her figure is tall , graceful , and slight ; the severity of its outlines suiting well with the severity of her dress , with the brown stuff gown , and plain gray whittle
ref: 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
glosses: A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
prithee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪði/
rhymes: -ɪði
Forms: form: prythee
Etymology: Contraction of I pray thee.
Senses: examples: text: What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: please; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.
cigaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarets
Senses: examples: text: He praised your cigaret, cursed feebly because his fresh milk tasted sour to him, and quietly went west.
ref: 1890, Edward Jewitt Wheeler et al., The Literary Digest, page 53:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cigarette.
utilitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˌtɪlɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /juˌtɪləˈtɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more utilitarian
form: most utilitarian
Etymology: From utility + -arian. Coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham as early as 1781, and popularized by his student John Stuart Mill, who mistakenly attributed the term to John Galt.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to utility.
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to utilitarianism.
examples: text: The semi-streamlined contour of the earlier G.W.R. railcars has been given up in favour of a more utilitarian blunt-nose end, and effective floor space gained thereby.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: Great Western Parcels Railcar”, in Railway Magazine, page 474:
text: These have helped develop a recognition in the industry that bland utilitarian stations do not provide an attractive welcome to the railway, that passengers value stations of character as well as convenience, and that these qualities encourage greater use of trains.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, pages 38–39:
glosses: Practical and functional, present for use, not just for show.
utilitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˌtɪlɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /juˌtɪləˈtɛɹi.ən/
Forms: form: utilitarians
Etymology: From utility + -arian. Coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham as early as 1781, and popularized by his student John Stuart Mill, who mistakenly attributed the term to John Galt.
Senses: examples: text: Before his companies collapsed, Mr. Bankman-Fried often described himself as a utilitarian — meaning that he made decisions designed to advance the greater good.
ref: 2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who practices or advocates utilitarianism.
Derived terms: futilitarian
negative utilitarian
utilitarianism
utilitarianly
ancilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈsɪ.lə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: ancillae
Etymology: From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 306:
glosses: A maid.
examples: text: The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states.
ref: 2009 January 23, Ryo Okamoto et al., “An Entanglement Filter”, in Science, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:
glosses: An auxiliary or accessory
examples: text: The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancilla bit
Related terms: ancillary
doth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌθ/
rhymes: -ʌθ
Senses: examples: text: Our Sovereign Lady the Queen doth strictly charge and command all manner of persons here assembled immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably depart to their own homes
ref: Section 6, Unlawful Assemblies and Processions Act 1958 (Act 6406/1958, Victoria)
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do
Related terms: doeth
googlebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: googlebombs
form: googlebombing
form: googlebombed
form: googlebombed
Etymology: From Google + bomb.
Senses: glosses: To fill a web page with links or words in order to gain a high Google page ranking.
Synonyms: Googlewash
keyword stuffing
boding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊdɪŋ
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdɪŋ
Forms: form: more boding
form: most boding
Etymology: From bode + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […]
ref: 1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 65:
synonyms: word: inauspicious
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: foreboding, ominous, portending.
boding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊdɪŋ
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdɪŋ
Forms: form: bodings
Etymology: From bode + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of bode: a prediction of disaster; an omen, a portent.
boding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊdɪŋ
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdɪŋ
Etymology: From bode + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bode
Derived terms: bodingly
ill-boding
unboding
conceptual inverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptual inverses
Senses: glosses: Either concept, the inverse of the other, of a conceptual pair.
repose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpəʊz/
enpr: rĭ-pōzʹ
ipa: /ɹəˈpoʊz/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: reposes
form: reposing
form: reposed
form: reposed
Etymology: From re- + pose.
Senses: glosses: To pose (oneself or someone, or something) again.