cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
execrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡzɪkɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛksɪkɹeɪt/
Forms: form: execrates
form: execrating
form: execrated
form: execrated
Etymology: From Latin exsecrārī, execrārī, from ex (“out”) + sacrāre (“to consecrate, declare accursed”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands ; […]
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 161:
text: And were I not a thing for you and me
 To execrate in anguish, you would be
 As indigent a stranger to surprise,
 I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.
ref: 1932, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Prodigal Son”, in Nicodemus, page 66:
glosses: To feel loathing for; to abhor.
synonyms: anathematize
comminate
curse
damn
imprecate
maledict
obdurate
glosses: To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; to denounce.
examples: text: He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: To invoke a curse; to curse or swear.
Derived terms: execrable
execration
execrative
execrator
execratory
unexecrated
Related terms: sense: etymologically related
word: consecrate
sense: etymologically related
word: desecrate
briquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briquets
Etymology: In most senses, a variant spelling of briquette. As a lighter, a borrowing of French briquet, from Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique (“brick, block”) + -et (suffix forming masculine diminutives).
Senses: examples: 1911, F. H. King, Farmers of Forty Centuries
Another pinch of charcoal was added and the process repeated until the mold was filled, when the briquet was forced out.
glosses: Alternative form of briquette in all its senses.
examples: text: Out of the corner of his eye he caught the flash of a man's "briquet" lighting a cigarette.
ref: 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part II, 3 §, page 115:
glosses: Synonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.
synonyms: word: lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes
briquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: briquets
form: briquetting
form: briquetted
form: briquetted
Etymology: In most senses, a variant spelling of briquette. As a lighter, a borrowing of French briquet, from Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique (“brick, block”) + -et (suffix forming masculine diminutives).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of briquette.
briquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: briquettes
form: briquet
Etymology: From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]
ref: 1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6358, page 2724:
glosses: A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.
glosses: A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
glosses: A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
briquette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: briquettes
form: briquetting
form: briquetted
form: briquetted
form: briquet
Etymology: From French briquette, from brique (“brick”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.
clomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒmp/
ipa: /klɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: clomps
Etymology: Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”).
Senses: examples: text: There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house.
ref: 1990, Laura C[aroline] Stevenson, chapter 11, in Happily after All, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 132:
text: "Hello?" he called toward the closed door. "Anybody here?" Somebody must have heard him, because he heard something move on the opposite side of the door. First a distant sound like animals grunting, then a clomp, clomp, clomp like boots approaching.
ref: 2010, Mark Peter Hughes, “Savages and Kings”, in A Crack in the Sky, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 226:
text: Amidst the clomps of oncoming horses, he could now hear men's low, conferring voices.
ref: 2012 January, Frank Leslie, chapter 6, in The Last Ride of Jed Strange, Signet, New American Library, →ISBN:
glosses: The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
Pyrénées
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pyrénées
Senses: examples: text: The Pyrénées form a chain of rocks continuing without any interruption from the ocean to the Mediterranean, and are the most considerable of Europe after the Alps.
ref: 1842, A[lexander] Taylor, On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrenees, on Disease. […], London: John W. Parker, […], page 107:
text: The Pyrénées were only about eleven hundred meters high at the point where we were to begin the climb on foot. But already there was a lot of snow.
ref: 2010, Max Ciampoli, Linda Ciampoli, Churchill’s Secret Agent: A Novel Based on a True Story, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:
text: The Pyrénées, rising at their highest to just over 11,000 feet, though rather less on the western end towards Hendaye, provided a naturally magnificent backdrop. It was as though God had had second thoughts about making Spain and France such close neighbours and had shovelled the rocky Pyrénées into place to keep the two countries apart.
ref: 2010, Derek Shuff, Evader: The Epic Story of the First British Airman to Be Rescued by the Comète Escape Line in World War II, Stroud, Glos.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Pyrenees.
casuistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkæzjuˈɪstɪk/
/ˌkæʒuˈɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more casuistic
form: most casuistic
Etymology: From casuist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules).
examples: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, "Is a blind man sound?"
glosses: Overly subtle, hair-splitting.
Derived terms: casuistically
censorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛnˈsɔɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more censorial
form: most censorial
Etymology: From Latin cēnsōrius + -al. By surface analysis, censor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: 1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son
Nothing less than the relation between you and me can possibly authorize that freedom; but fortunately for you, my parental rights, joined to my censorial powers, give it me in its fullest extent, and my concern for you will make me exert it.
text: The printing department has no censorial powers. It is bound to print all that is offered it, ...
ref: 1888, Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
glosses: Relating to a censor.
examples: text: Pornography is not the real issue, abuse is. If Ms. Dworkin were serious, she would admit that this is the real thrust of her argument. Instead, she regularly slanders women and proposes prohibitive and censorial legislation.
ref: 1986 February 8, K.L. Ratliff, “Exit, Stage Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 5:
glosses: Relating to censorship.
concenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛntə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
homophone: consenter
Forms: form: concenters
form: concentering
form: concentered
form: concentered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of concentre.
concessionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
Forms: form: concessionaries
Etymology: From concession + -ary.
Senses: examples: 1890, Benjamin Harrison, State of the Union Address
That Government seized the Delagoa Bay Railway, which was constructed under a concession granted to an American citizen, and at the same time annulled the charter. The concessionary, who had embarked his fortune in the enterprise, having exhausted other means of redress, was compelled to invoke the protection of his Government.
synonyms: concessionaire
concessioner
glosses: one who owns a concession or a franchise
concessionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
Forms: form: more concessionary
form: most concessionary
Etymology: From concession + -ary.
Senses: glosses: relating to concessions or franchises
examples: text: I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are Concessionary, not Conservative principles.
ref: 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby (The New Generation)
glosses: making concessions or compromises
Derived terms: anticoncessionary
concessionarily
nonconcessionary
concessionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌsɛʃəˈnɛɹ/
Forms: form: concessionaires
Etymology: Borrowed from French concessionnaire.
Senses: examples: 1920, Frederick Spencer Hamilton, The Days Before Yesterday
From 1830 to 1871 there were public gaming-tables in Heligoland, and the Concessionaire paid such a high price for his permit that the colonial finances were in the most flourishing condition.
synonyms: concessionary
concessioner
glosses: one who holds a concession or a right granted (for example, by the government) to conduct a certain business
glosses: someone who runs a concessions stand typically selling food and drinks
crimination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: criminations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin criminatio, criminationis.
Senses: examples: 1837, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
[…] and when the ambassadors, after a fruitless attempt at negotiation, which evaporated in mutual crimination and recrimination, set out on their return to Aragon, they were twice detained, […]
glosses: An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination
Related terms: criminate
curdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜː.dəl/
ipa: /ˈkɝ.dəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: curdles
form: curdling
form: curdled
form: curdled
Etymology: Metathesis of earlier dialectal cruddle, crudle, equivalent to curd + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
synonyms: curd
glosses: To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
examples: text: "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!"
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: Trust in the science did not curdle at the same instance as trust in the tech conglomerates, but they are not so dissimilar when weighed against the hype of progress.
ref: 2023 December 28, Ross Barkan, “The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
examples: text: It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly.
Derived terms: blood-curdling
curdled
curdler
decurdling
uncurdle
decrepitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtʃuːd/
ipa: /dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd/
Forms: form: decrepitudes
Etymology: From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”).
Senses: examples: text: There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
ref: 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets:
text: This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude?
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
text: Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.
ref: 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 5:
text: We were encircled by a ghostly decrepitude, roads that led to nowhere, canals holding pools of brilliant, stinking water, a few nat-haunted banyan trees, grotesque with old muscled trunks and bearded roots.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
text: He recalled that when he accompanied Nixon to Peking in February, 1972, he had been struck by Mao's decrepitude and Chou's failing health.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “A Round of Calls”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Having slapped into middle age, where thoughts of one’s general infallibility are tempered by the realisation that those creaky, achy complaints are signs of certain decrepitude, I have decided to ward against further gravitational decline by hauling my saggy, sorry self to the gym.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
glosses: The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.
Synonyms: cobwebbiness
decrepitness
hoariness
oldness
demission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /dəˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: demissions
Etymology: From French démission, from Latin dēmissiō, from dēmittō.
Senses: examples: text: And that this demission of our royal authority may have the more full and solemn effect, and none pretend ignorance, we give [our cousins authority] ... in our name and behalf, publicly, and in their presence, to renounce the Crown, guidance, and government of this our kingdom of Scotland.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], The Abbot. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
text: She had just slipped her demission, with a footnote on the young lady's conduct, under the door of Madame.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 226:
glosses: Resignation; abdication.
Derived terms: demissionary
Related terms: demit
demise
demiurgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛmiˈɝ.d͡ʒɪk/
ipa: /ˈdɛmiˌɝ.d͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪk
Forms: form: more demiurgic
form: most demiurgic
Etymology: From demiurge + -ic.
Senses: examples: 1887, Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion
Lastly, man is occasionally represented as having been framed out of a piece of the body of the Creator, or made by some demiurgic potter out of clay.
glosses: Relating to a demiurge.
Derived terms: demiurgically
derange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /diˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪndʒ
Forms: form: deranges
form: deranging
form: deranged
form: deranged
Etymology: From French déranger, from Old French desrengier (“throw into disorder”), from des- + rengier (“to put into line”), from reng (“line, row”), from a Germanic source. See rank (noun).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly passive voice
glosses: To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
examples: text: Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society;
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
glosses: To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
examples: text: 4-16. All lighting was cut off by a close detonation but was partially restored after a short while. Many auxiliary motors were short-circuited or deranged. There were at least nineteen cracked jars in the forward battery and one in the after battery, causing loss of electrolyte and full grounds. All of the electric alarm and telephone circuits were out of commission.
ref: 1949 January 1, Bureau of Ships, “U.S.S. PERCH (SS176), Loss in Action, Java Sea, 3 March 1942”, in Submarine Report: Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine, Torpedo and Gunfire Damage, Including Losses in Action, 7 December 1941 to 15 August 1945, volume 1, United States Hydrographic Office, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022, page 21:
glosses: To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.
examples: text: "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body."
ref: 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress:
text: A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.
ref: 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost Special:
glosses: To disrupt (somebody's) plans, to inconvenience; to derail.
Derived terms: derangeable
derangement
deranger
diplomatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈploʊməˌtɪst/
Forms: form: diplomatists
Etymology: Borrowed from French diplomatiste, or from diplomat(ic) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It was not so easy to penetrate the motives of the Pawnees. Calm, dignified, and yet far from repulsive, they set an example of courtesy, blended with reserve, that many a diplomatist of the most polished court might have strove in vain to imitate.
ref: 1827, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Prairie; a Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey […], →OCLC:
text: She flung back the fortnight on his hands as if he had been an idler indifferent to dates, instead of an active young diplomatist who, to respond to her call, had had to hew his way through a very jungle of engagements!
ref: 1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
text: Diplomatists have no right to complain of mere lies; it is their own fault, if, educated as they are, the lies deceive them; but they complain bitterly of traps.
ref: 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
glosses: Synonym of diplomat.
synonyms: word: diplomat
examples: text: Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.
ref: 1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press:
glosses: A person trained in diplomatics.
disutility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsjuːˈtɪlɪti/
Forms: form: disutilities
Etymology: From dis- + utility.
Senses: examples: 1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface
Up to a certain point doctors, like carpenters and masons, must earn their living by doing the work that the public wants from them; and as it is not in the nature of things possible that such public want should be based on unmixed disutility, it may be admitted that doctors have their uses, real as well as imaginary.
glosses: uselessness, a lack of utility
topics: economics
microeconomics
sciences
glosses: negative utility
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: illbeing
veleta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veletas
form: valeta
Etymology: From Spanish veleta.
Senses: glosses: A dance to waltz music in triple time.
wikipedia: veleta
sprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪn.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈspɹɪn.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sprinters
Etymology: From sprint + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sprints.
sprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪn.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈspɹɪn.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Etymology: Blend of spring + winter
Senses: glosses: Transition period between winter and spring: late winter.
Coordinate terms: sprummer
chronicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩z/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒnɪkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of chronicle
chronicles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɑnɪkl̩z/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒnɪkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chronicle
Chronicles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Chr
word: Chron.
glosses: A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.
Related terms: 1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
pragmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of pragmatic
pragmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætɪks
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: linguistics
text: […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, ...
ref: 2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
related: word: semantics
word: ;
word: grammar
word: syntax
word: morphology
word: phonology
glosses: The study of the use of language, especially meaning, in a social context; it includes extratextual aspects of language including exophoric reference, phatic utterances, and nonverbal channels.
Derived terms: cyberpragmatics
metapragmatics
neuropragmatics
psychopragmatics
sociopragmatics
zoopragmatics
Related terms: pragmatician
high priest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high priests
form: highpriest
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
glosses: In the Bible, the male individual who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); always a descendant of Aaron, the older brother of Moses. See Kohen Gadol.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Jesus Christ.
examples: text: Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
glosses: The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
examples: text: The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention.
ref: 2011, Robert Skidelsky, The Keynes-Hayek Rematch:
text: He perorated in a distinctly disturbed, and disturbing, manner, at least for a CIA high priest: “Technology is moving faster than government or law can keep up. It’s moving faster … than you can keep up: you should be asking the question of what are your rights and who owns your data.”
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN:
text: The high priest of US arms controllers
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.
Synonyms: english: leader of a Christian or Buddhist monastery
translation: leader of a Christian or Buddhist monastery
word: abbot
word: archbishop
alt: high priest in some Asatru or Germanic neopagan groups
word: godi
word: head priest
english: high priest of a local temple or shrine
translation: high priest of a local temple or shrine
word: chief priest
word: Kohen Gadol
word: Jewish high priest
english: high priest in some Hindu temples
translation: high priest in some Hindu temples
word: mahant
english: high priest in some Slavic neopagan temples
translation: high priest in some Slavic neopagan temples
word: volkhv
Coordinate terms: high priestess
Derived terms: highpriesthood
high-priestly
highpriestly
highpriestship
Related terms: high church
High Mass
Jain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪn/
ipa: /d͡ʒaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Jainism.
Jain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪn/
ipa: /d͡ʒaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: Jains
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina).
Senses: examples: text: Donovan, The Universal Soldier
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew,
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will
text: While Diwali is a major religious festival for Hindus, it is also observed by Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists.
ref: 2025 October 7, Deepa Bharath, “California makes Diwali an official statewide holiday”, in KCRA:
glosses: An adherent or follower of Jainism.
Jain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪn/
ipa: /d͡ʒaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: Jains
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Nehemiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniː(h)əˈmaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Etymology: From Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה (“consolation of Yahweh”).
Senses: examples: text: Nehemiah stood firm by rejecting the imaginative and wicked spin the enemies put on reality and persisted in what God had called him to do. Then he prayed that, rather than his hands dropping from the work, God would strengthen them in...[…]
ref: 2014 June 1, James M. Hamilton, Jr., Exalting Jesus in Ezra-Nehemiah (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary), B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
synonyms: word: Neh.
glosses: The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Derived terms: Ezra-Nehemiah
Related terms: Nahum
Ecclesiastes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌkliːziˈæstiːz/
ipa: /əˌkliːziˈæstiːz/
Etymology: From Latin Ecclesiastes, from Ancient Greek Ἐκκλησιαστής (Ekklēsiastḗs) according to the Septuagint. The Greek word is a loan translation of Hebrew קֹהֶלֶת, from Hebrew קָהָל.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Preacher
word: Eccl.
word: Eccles.
glosses: A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Related terms: ecclesia
ecclesiast
ecclesiastic
ecclesiastical
ecclesiology
Ecclesiasticus
Jainism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪnɪzm̩/
Etymology: From Jain + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Jainism is similar to other eastern religions in believing in reincarnation.
text: I know enough about Jainism to know that Jains are some of the most extreme vegetarians around.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 55:
glosses: An ancient Dharmic religion, with a focus on nonviolence and personal effort to elevate the reincarnating soul towards moksha by liberating it from samsara.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nontheistic heterodox Indian philosophy
Hypernyms: religion
philosophy
Derived terms: Jainatva
Related terms: Jin
Jain
Song of Solomon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Song of Solomon
Etymology: A calque of Latin Canticum Solomonis (“song of Solomon”), from its supposed authorship by the Israelite king Solomon.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of Song of Songs, a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
synonyms: word: Song of Songs
extra: a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament
wikipedia: Kingdom of Israel
Solomon
Isaiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈzeɪ.ə/
ipa: /aɪˈzaɪ.ə/
rhymes: -aɪə
rhymes: -eɪə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἠσαΐας (Ēsaḯas) from Hebrew יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (yəšaʿyā́hū).
Senses: synonyms: word: Isa.
glosses: A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.
examples: text: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A prophet, the author of the Book of Isaiah.
examples: text: The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: Isaian
Isaianic
Related terms: Isiah
Esaias
C13
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1200s or thirteenth century.
abzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.zaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: abzymes
Etymology: Blend of antibody + enzyme
Senses: examples: text: and the intensity and features of specific abzyme-driven response in MS patient's sera.
ref: 2003, Moncef Zouali, Frontiers in Autoimmunity:
glosses: An antibody with catalytic properties.
Synonyms: catmab
C14
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1300s or 14th century.
C15
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1400s or 15th century; the quattrocento
C16
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1500s or 16th century.
catmab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catmabs
Etymology: Contraction of catalytic monoclonal antibody (ab is an abbreviation of antibody).
Senses: glosses: An abzyme.
C17
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1600s or 17th century.
C18
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: the 1700s or 18th century.
safebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safebreakers
Etymology: From safe (“secure container”) + breaker.
Senses: glosses: A person, usually criminal, who breaks into safes; a safecracker.
dioristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dioristic
form: most dioristic
Senses: glosses: that distinguishes or defines something; distinctive
Related terms: diorism
Lammastide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lammas + -tide.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The religious festival of Lammas.
renate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin renātus (“reborn”). Equivalent to Latin renāscor (“to reborn”, renā- in compounds) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Reborn or reincarnated.
renate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renates
form: renating
form: renated
form: renated
Etymology: From the adjective. Equivalent to Latin renāscor (“to reborn”, renā- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To be reborn or reincarnated.
renate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renates
Etymology: From reno- + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It is the coextension problem, the problem of the renates and the cordates, the creatures with kidneys and the creatures with hearts.
ref: 2012, K. Mulligan, Language, Truth and Ontology, page 16:
glosses: Any animal with a kidney.
harvest festival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvest festivals
Senses: glosses: Any of various festivals, usually in autumn, celebrating a harvest.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Harvest Festival, a British harvest festival.
Hyponyms: Harvest Festival
kekri
Lammas
Pongal
Mid-Autumn Festival
Zhongqiu
Sukkot
Feast of Tabernacles
Thanksgiving Day
C sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C sharps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of C-sharp.
C sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of C#.
synonyms: word: C#
Harvest Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harvest Festivals
form: harvest festival
Senses: glosses: church festival celebrating the harvest, held at the end of September or the beginning of October
Sukkot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /suːˈkoʊt/
Forms: form: Sukkos
form: Sukkoth
form: Succot
form: Succoth
Etymology: From Hebrew סוכות / סֻכּוֹת (sukót).
Senses: synonyms: Feast of Tabernacles
Tabernacles
Feast of Booths
Booths
glosses: An ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21st day of the month of Tishrei (Tishri).
Related terms: english: Eight [Day] of Assembly
translation: Eight [Day] of Assembly
word: Shemini Atzeret
word: Thanksgiving Day
word: Harvest Festival
word: Lammas
Sukkoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sukkot.
trekker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trekkers
Etymology: From trek + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who treks; a hiker.
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A person who spent the night in a rural area, rather than his home, during bombing raids.
Derived terms: pony-trekker
septicaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septicaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of septicemia.
abioseston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiosestons
Etymology: From abio- + seston.
Senses: glosses: The non-living particulate matter in lakes and oceans.
Synonyms: tripton
Hypernyms: seston
Succot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sukkot.
Succoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Alternative spelling of Sukkot.
Succoth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Arrochar in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN2905).
seston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sestons
Etymology: From German Seston, by surface analysis, Ancient Greek σηστός (sēstós, “sifter”, verbal adjective of σήθω (sḗthō, “I strain, filter”)) + -on. Compare plankton.
Senses: glosses: All particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas, including plankton, organic detritus, and inorganic material.
Hyponyms: bioseston
abioseston
tripton
Derived terms: bioseston
sestonic
Septuagesima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Septuagesimae
Etymology: From Latin septuagesima dies (“70th day”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Sunday in the Christian calendar nine weeks before Easter Sunday.
Related terms: Quinquagesima
Sexagesima
Sexagesima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from Latin sexagesima dies, from the feminine of sexagesimus '60th' + dies 'day'
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.
Synonyms: english: its introitus's opening word
translation: its introitus's opening word
word: Exsurge
word: Dominica Carnisprivii
Related terms: Quinquagesima
Septuagesima
Quinquagesima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin quinquagesima dies (“50th day”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A moveable feast in the Christian calendar on the Sunday 49 days before Easter Sunday (50 days counting inclusively).
Related terms: Sexagesima
Septuagesima
instanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instantons
Etymology: From instant + -on.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A solution to the imaginary time nonlinear field equation of Yang-Mills theory; carries information about quantum tunnelling.
Derived terms: hyperinstanton
instantonic
polyinstanton
vizier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪə/
ipa: /vɪˈzɪə/
ipa: /vɪˈzɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: viziers
form: vezir
form: vezîr
form: vazir
form: wasir
form: wazir
form: wazīr
form: vizir
form: vizeer
form: guazil
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish وزیر (vezir) (Turkish vezir) (via French vizir), from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr, “helper, aide, minister”, literally “one who bears (the burden of office)”). Doublet of wazir.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The highest-ranking official or minister in ancient Egypt or Ebla; a chief administrator or a chancellor.
examples: text: As Inanna prepares to descend she fastens the seven divine laws to her side, and as she walks toward the netherworld she speaks to her vizier, Ninshubur.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 174:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancient Mesopotamian 𒈛 (sukkal).
glosses: A vicegerent, viceroy.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A fairy chess piece that can only be moved one space up, down, left or right.
Derived terms: grand vizier
vizierate
vizieress
vizierial
viziership
Related terms: wazir
low blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low blows
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An unfair or illegal blow that lands below the opponent’s waist.
glosses: Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.
Related terms: below the belt
dick move
dirty pool
dirty trick
cheap shot
rabbit punch
sucker punch
infrared astronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the astronomical observation and study of objects, cooler than most stars, using the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum
Related terms: optical astronomy
radio astronomy
infrared lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrared lamps
Senses: glosses: An incandescent lamp designed to produce radiant thermal energy in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
tons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: tonnes
homophone: tuns
Senses: glosses: plural of ton
tons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: tonnes
homophone: tuns
Senses: examples: text: I have tons of pens, but none of them work.
text: Tons of people attended the game.
glosses: Lots; large quantities or numbers (of people or things).
Synonyms: a lot
a thing or two
loads
ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊps/
ipa: /ɹəʊps/
rhymes: -əʊps
Etymology: In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes.
The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.
Senses: glosses: plural of rope
examples: text: show the ropes, learn the ropes
glosses: Basic skills of a job.
raw_tags: with the
Derived terms: know the ropes
show the ropes
ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊps/
ipa: /ɹəʊps/
rhymes: -əʊps
Etymology: In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes.
The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rope
seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːzn̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of season
seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːzn̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of season
tools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of tool
tools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tool
below the belt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈləʊ ðiː bɛlt/
ipa: /bəˈloʊ ðə bɛlt/
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Of a punch, landing illegally, below the opponent's waist.
examples: text: Commenting on his bachelorhood in a debate on marital ethics was a bit below the belt, don't you think?
glosses: Unfair; dirty; not according to the generally accepted rules.
Derived terms: hit below the belt
most common verb form
Related terms: low blow
under one's belt
infrared spectroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The spectroscopic study of the interaction of matter with infrared radiation; used as an analytical tool to identify (mostly organic) compounds.
debonair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛbəˈneə(ɹ)/
enpr: děb-ə-nɛr'
ipa: /dɛbəˈnɛɹ/
Forms: form: more debonair
form: most debonair
form: debonaire
form: debonnaire
form: débonnaire
Etymology: From Old French debonaire, from the phrase de bon aire (“of good stock, noble”).
Senses: examples: text: Let be that Ladie debonaire, / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Gracious, courteous.
examples: text: “He's doing it wrong! I am much more suave, debonair, and sophisticated than that!” “Yes, Dan, that's a very debonair stain you have on your shirt.” “I'll have you know I have sophistication coming out the wazoo!”
ref: 2011 January 15, Dan Mandel & Chris Pearson, “The Ninja” (10:11 from the start), in Dan Vs., season 1, episode 4, spoken by Dan (Curtis Armstrong):
text: She was a New York City person. Sacco is nervy and sassy and sort of debonair.
ref: 2015 February 12, Jon Ronson, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
examples: text: The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”.
ref: 2023 May 2, Samuel Fishwick, “The ‘secret romance’ that got everybody talking at the Met Gala”, in The Independent:
glosses: Charming, confident, and carefully dressed.
raw_tags: of men
Derived terms: debonairly
debonairness
debonair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛbəˈneə(ɹ)/
enpr: děb-ə-nɛr'
ipa: /dɛbəˈnɛɹ/
Forms: form: debonaire
form: debonnaire
form: débonnaire
Etymology: From Old French debonaire, from the phrase de bon aire (“of good stock, noble”).
Senses: examples: text: But yet, shall my vanity extend only to personals, such as the gracefulness of dress, my debonnaire, and my assurance—Self-taught, self-acquired, these!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: Debonaire behaviour; graciousness.
spectroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: examples: text: The station, with its vast array of telescopes and some of the most sensitive spectroscopic equipment ever made has detected more planets orbiting nearby stars.
ref: 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 78:
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Of or relating to spectroscopy or to a spectroscope.
Derived terms: spectroscopic analysis
spectroscopic binary
spectroscopic notation
slippery slope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slippery slopes
Senses: examples: text: I think basing your actions off an assumption like that is a slippery slope that is going to get you in trouble.
text: She's gotten herself on a slippery slope to being dismissed.
text: But our conference would find itself on a slippery slope if we started to dig over the past and look for material for recriminations and mutual accusations.
ref: 1959, United States Department of State, quoting Mr. Gromyko, “Seventh Session, May 19, 1959”, in International Organization and Conference Series:
text: The path of closures and withdrawals is a slippery slope that can by itself create in the mind of the public—and particularly traders—the impression of a fading and diminishing concern.
ref: 1964 November, P. F. Winding, “Re-shaping the LMR's North Western Line - 2”, in Modern Railways, page 346:
text: “What we’re looking at is the classic slippery slope,” he said. “If the murals can be destroyed, then no work of art that anyone finds offensive is going to be safe. And that’s an awful lot of art.”
ref: 2019 May 20, Walter Thompson, “A school's mural removal: should kids be shielded from brutal US history?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: thin edge of the wedge
thin end of the wedge
glosses: A chain of events that, once initiated, cannot be halted; especially one in which the final outcome is undesirable or precarious.
glosses: A logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a particular result will probably follow from a given decision or circumstance, without necessarily providing any rational argument for the likelihood of the assumed consequence.
Related terms: domino effect
negative feedback
point of no return
snowball effect
tipping point
vicious circle
infrasound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrasounds
Etymology: From infra- + sound.
Senses: examples: text: Elcor speech is ponderous and monotone. Among themselves, scent, slight movements, and subvocalized infrasound convey shades of meaning that make a human smile seem as subtle as a fireworks display. Since their subtlety can lead to misunderstandings with other species, the elcor often go out of their way to clarify when they are being sarcastic, amused, or angry.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Elcor Codex entry:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Sound waves having a frequency below the human audible range (below about 20 Hz).
Related terms: infrasonic
infrasonics
infrasonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more infrasonic
form: most infrasonic
Etymology: From infra- + sonic.
Senses: qualifier: acoustics
glosses: Having frequencies below the human audible range
raw_tags: of sound waves
glosses: Generating or employing such sound waves
raw_tags: of a device
Derived terms: infrasonically
Related terms: infrasonics
infrasound
infrasonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: glosses: The study and the application of infrasound.
Related terms: infrasonic
infrasound