cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polygastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to the Polygastrica.
polygastric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygastrics
Etymology: From poly- + gastric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any polygastric creature.
Swiss franc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss francs
Senses: glosses: The currency of Switzerland, divided into 100 centimes, currency code CHF.
polygastrica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See poly- and gastric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The infusoria.
polygeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygenies
Etymology: From poly- + -geny.
Senses: examples: text: Some features of the universal tree of life based on rRNA polygenies have been confirmed, such as the division of the cellular living world into three domains.
ref: 2001, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences: Sciences de la vie. Série III:
glosses: Polygenesis.
examples: text: Mendel thus recognised the possibility of polygenies.
ref: 1983, Vítězslav Orel, Anna Matalová, Moravské muzeum v Brně. Mendelianum, Gregor Mendel and the foundation of genetics:
text: However, the recent studies by Khan & Doworkers and Siegel (1977) have indicated that under a balance polygenic combination the ill effects of dw gene under egg type genome can be modified by introducing polygenies for egg production.
ref: 1990, Poultry Guide - Volume 27, page 47:
glosses: The control of a single trait, or phenotype, by multiple genes.
Derived terms: endopolygeny
polygenist
koruna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹuːnə/
rhymes: -uːnə
Forms: form: korun
form: korunas
form: koruny
Etymology: From Czech and Slovak koruna; cognate with krone and German Krone. Doublet of corona, crown, korona, krona, króna, and krone.
Senses: glosses: The currency of the former Czechoslovakia, divided into 100 hellers.
glosses: The currency of the Czech Republic, divided into 100 hellers.
glosses: The former currency of Slovakia, divided into 100 haliers.
Derived terms: Eurokoruna
polygenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: One which is composite, or consists of two or more monogenetic ranges, each having had its own history of development.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Polygenic.
polygenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪd͡ʒənɪzəm/
Etymology: From poly- + genism?
Senses: examples: 2003: Such pigmental indelibility spelt polygenism for some: blacks formed a distinct species altogether, a separate creation. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 248)
topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.
polygenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygenists
Etymology: From polygeny + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who maintains that animals of the same species are descended from more than one original pair.
polygenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polygenous
form: most polygenous
Etymology: From poly- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: a polygenous mountain
glosses: Consisting of, or containing, many kinds or genres
glosses: of or pertaining to polygenesis
hryvnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(hə)ˈrɪvnɪə/
ipa: /(hə)ˈɹɪvniə/
Forms: form: hryvnias
form: hryvni
form: hryven
form: grivna
form: gryvna
form: hryvnya
form: hrivna
Etymology: From Ukrainian гри́вня (hrývnja). Doublet of grivna and grzywna.
Senses: examples: text: […] Ukrainian postage stamps are to be used in values of 10, 20, 40 hryven of which the total number of 13,005 pieces are prepared for this purpose and surcharged Courier and Field Post, […]
ref: 1920, Scott’s Monthly Journal, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Scott Publications, →OCLC, page 13, column 2:
text: The liabilities of the Ukraine stand at 122 billion rubles, nearly 90 billion rubles on the accounts of its populace. If this whole sum were exchanged for national currency, then all the chaos which existed in the ruble would continue with the new hryven.
ref: 1991 August 16, Mykhaylo Shvayka, quotee, anonymous translator, “Official on Republic Currency”, in Soviet Union: Republic Affairs (FBIS Report; FBIS-USR-91-023), [McLean, Va.?]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 49, column 2:
text: Poltava GOK supervisors obtained the highest median monthly incomes at 450 hryven (84.43 EUR/USD), which was 85 hryven above Ukraine’s 2002 subsistence minimum.
ref: 2011, Leontina M. Hormel, “A Case Study of Gender, Class, and Garment Work Reorganization in Ukraine”, in Heike Kahlert, Sabine Schäfer, editors, Engendering Transformation: Post-Socialist Experiences on Work, Politics, and Culture (GENDER Journal for Gender, Culture and Society; Special Issue 1), Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Publishers, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: The currency of Ukraine, symbol ₴, divided into 100 kopiykas.
stotinka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɒˈtɪŋkə/
Forms: form: stotinkas
form: stotinki
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian стоти́нка (stotínka, “hundredth”).
Senses: glosses: A unit of currency in Bulgaria, worth one hundredth of a lev.
stotinki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stotinka
ourouparia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌuːˌɹuːˈpɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌuˌɹuˈpɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: ourouparias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Uncaria (syn. Ourouparia) related to madder
polygram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygrams
Etymology: From poly- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A figure consisting of many lines.
polygraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Polygraphic.
polygraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a polygraphic company
glosses: Relating to polygraphy.
examples: text: a polygraphic copy
glosses: Done or made with a polygraph.
Derived terms: polygraphically
polygraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: Much writing; writing of many books.
glosses: The art of writing in various ciphers, and of deciphering the same.
glosses: The art or practice of using a polygraph.
polygrooved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + grooved.
Senses: examples: a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling)
glosses: Having many grooves.
polygyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygyns
Senses: glosses: A plant of the order Polygynia.
polygynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
Etymology: From polygyny + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: polygynian
glosses: Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.
examples: text: These polygynous [wasp] colonies, with multiple functional queens, continue to grow unabated.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
coordinate_terms: monogynous
oligogynous
polyandrous
hypernyms: polygamous
glosses: Having more than one female as wife or mate; practicing polygyny.
Derived terms: nonpolygynous
polygynously
polygynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.
polyhalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhalites
Senses: examples: text: Shafts are now being sunk at Sirius Minerals' Woodsmith mine to extract polyhalite for use as an agricultural fertiliser, with much of the output exported.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 76:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.
polyiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyiodides
Etymology: From poly- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A iodide having more than one atom of iodine in the molecule.
polylogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɪlədʒiː/
Forms: form: polylogies
Etymology: From poly- + -logy.
Senses: examples: 1871 August Pfizmaier http://books.google.com/books?id=VHioUYa3a9UC&pg=PA76&dq=ennealogy
These works […] appear, upon closer scrutiny, to be dramatic, and are actually the seventh and eighth parts of an "ennealogy" (as it were), perhaps polylogy, for dramas in Japan frequently are protracted to such lengths.
glosses: A set of two or more works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
glosses: Talkativeness.
Related terms: sense: Talkativeness.
word: duology
word: trilogy
word: tetralogy
word: pentalogy
word: hexalogy
word: heptalogy
word: octalogy
word: ennealogy
word: decalogy
polyloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyloquent
form: most polyloquent
Senses: glosses: Garrulous; loquacious.
polymastism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.
polymathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polymathic
form: most polymathic
Etymology: From polymath + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Is it uncharitable to want a book that achieves so much to do more? Perhaps. Taken on its own terms, “The Human Age” is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious.
ref: 2014 September 5, Rob Nixon, “Future Footprints”, in New York Times:
text: In advance of a show of his drawings at New York’s Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire.
ref: 2022 February 2, Max Abelson, “The Name of This Interviewee Is David Byrne”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: multiscious
word: omnierudite
glosses: Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.
Derived terms: polymathically
polymathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymathists
Senses: glosses: One versed in many sciences; a person of diverse learning.
Related terms: polymath
polymathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɪməθi/
rhymes: -ɪməθi
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek πολυμαθής (polumathḗs, “having learnt much”). By surface analysis, polymath + -y (“having the quality of”). See polymath for details.
Senses: glosses: The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.
Related terms: polymath
polymathic
polymathist
polymeniscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having numerous facets; said of the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
polymerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymerisms
Etymology: From polymer + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or process of forming polymers.
Derived terms: homopolymerism
polymerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many parts or members in each set.
polymerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polymer + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Polymeric.
schilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: schillings
Etymology: From German Schilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of shilling.
Senses: examples: text: Die Zwölf Besten Züge Europas. (The Twelve Best Trains in Europe.) By Dr. Fritz Stöckl. Published by the author at Traunkai 11, Bad Ischl, Salzburg, Austria. 9¾ in. × 6¾ in. 270 pp. Illustrated. Price 85 Austrian schillings.
ref: 1957 May 24, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 368:
glosses: The old currency of Austria, divided into 100 groschen.
wikipedia: + (coin)
Austrian +
Related terms: shilling
polymorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; said of sponges, etc.
Related terms: polymorph
polymorphism
polymorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polymorphous
form: most polymorphous
Etymology: From New Latin polymorphus, from Ancient Greek πολύμορφος (polúmorphos, “multiform, manifold”), from πολυ- (polu-, “many, much”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). By surface analysis, poly- + -morphous.
Senses: examples: text: Idealism is an exceedingly complex system, varying much with varying authors, very polymorphous, and consequently very difficult to discuss.
ref: 1907, Alfred Binet, anonymous translator, The Mind and the Brain, Book III Chapter II:
glosses: Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles
examples: 1913, R. Chodat in Popular Science Monthly Volume 82 Janauay 1913, A Grain of Wheat
In order to establish itself in any locality a plant must hold its own against competitors which, masters of the soil from time immemorial, have been selected to fit the soil and climate. Moreover, emmer is not cultivated anywhere in Palestine. This wild wheat is furthermore a different plant from any known in cultivation, a polymorphous race, no doubt, but a distinct one.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Crystallizing in two or more different forms; polymorphic
Synonyms: sense: having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles
word: multiform
word: polymorphic
word: protean
Derived terms: polymorphously
polymorphousness
polymorphous-perverse
polymorphous perversity
Related terms: polymorph
polymorphic
polymorphism
stuiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪvɚ/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stuivers
Etymology: From Dutch stuiver, from Middle Dutch stuyver, stuver (“a small coin”). Akin to Middle Low German stüver.
Senses: glosses: stiver
dubbeltje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubbeltjes
Etymology: From Dutch dubbeltje.
Senses: glosses: A former Dutch coin, originally of silver, worth one tenth of a guilder.
glosses: An English penny, worth the same as the Dutch coin.
rijksdaalder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rijksdaalders
Etymology: From Dutch rijksdaalder.
Senses: glosses: A Dutch coin worth 2+¹⁄₂ guilders.
peseta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈseɪtə/
Forms: form: pesetas
Etymology: From Spanish peseta, from peso (“coin or weight”).
Senses: examples: text: The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 31, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos.
glosses: The Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea
glosses: The Sahrawi peseta, de jure currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
glosses: The Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia.
vatu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑːtuː/
rhymes: -ɑːtu
Forms: form: vatus
form: vatu
Etymology: Borrowed from Raga vatu (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: The unit of currency is the vatu (VUV) with no minor unit. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 vatu, and notes of 100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000 vatu. In March 1996 UK£1 = 172 vatu; US$1 = 113 vatu and DM1 = 76.38 vatu.
ref: 1998, Ademuni Odeke, Bareboat Charter (Ship) Registration, page 355:
text: In November 1998 the Reserve Bank reintroduced the SRD^([Statutory Reserve Deposit]) at the rate of 10 percent on vatu deposits and reduced the PRA^([Prescribed Reserve Asset]) to 6 percent.
ref: 2000, International Monetary Fund, IMF Staff Country Report 00/129 Vanuatu - Recent Economic Developments, page 14:
text: 2007, Island States: Small Island States Handbook, Volume 1: Development Strategy and Programs, International Business Publications, USA, page 145,
One estimate in 2007 for the total value of cattle heads sold was 135 million vatu; cattle were first introduced into the area from Australia by British planter James Paddon.
glosses: The national currency of Vanuatu.
pa'anga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pa'anga
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paʻanga.
CFP franc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFP francs
Etymology: Of CFP: see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: The currency of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna.
colón
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈloʊ̯n/
Forms: form: colóns
form: colones
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Spanish colón after Christopher Columbus, or Cristóbal Colón.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Costa Rica, divided into 100 céntimos.
glosses: The former currency of El Salvador, divided into 100 centavos (cents), now replaced by the American dollar.
landowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/
ipa: /ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/
Forms: form: landowners
Etymology: From land + owner.
Senses: examples: text: If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
ref: 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
text: The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.
ref: 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
synonyms: landholder
glosses: A person who owns land.
Derived terms: landownership
nonlandowner
córdoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)dəbə/
Forms: form: córdobas
form: cordoba
Etymology: From Spanish córdoba.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Nicaragua, divided into 100 centavos.
Synonyms: C$
gourde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊəd/
ipa: /ɡʊɹd/
enpr: go͝ord
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: gourdes
Etymology: From French, originally meaning “heavy, clumsy”. Cognate with Haitian Creole goud.
Senses: examples: text: Small boys eager to help in return for a gourd or two.
ref: 1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:
glosses: The currency of Haiti, divided into 100 centimes.
lineaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lineament
sucre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːkɹeɪ/
Forms: form: sucres
Etymology: From Spanish Sucre, from the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.
Senses: glosses: The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos.
wikipedia: Antonio José de Sucre
lineally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lineal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For copying drawings to a scale differing from the original; e.g., to reduce a drawing, lineally, one fifth: […]
ref: 1888, Henry Albert Reed, Topographical Drawing and Sketching, page 9:
glosses: In terms of lines; linewise.
examples: text: […] I confess it was not without some pleasure that I found my self able to trace the particular Features, by which certain Families are distinguished, up to their Originals. I could plainly discover from whence one Family derives a long Chin […]. Who first brought the Pox into a noble House, which hath lineally descended in scrophulous Tumours to their Posterity.
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, London: Benjamin Motte, Volume 2, Part 3, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109:
text: Of the Rev. Mr. Slope’s parentage I am not able to say much. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy, and that in early years he added an "e" to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, chapter 4, in Barchester Towers:
text: […] I admired them both made so well, she hard and spirited, editing her words for no one, and he so distinct-looking he might have been lineally direct from Cro-Magnon man—but of course with present-day differences, including the disorders.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XI, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 205:
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: By direct descent.
Derived terms: ambilineally
linguistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk(ə)li/
Forms: form: more linguistically
form: most linguistically
Etymology: From linguistical + -ly or from linguistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of linguistics.
examples: text: English is scandalously lacking in politically and linguistically correct antonyms of this sort. The Queen can create the Duchess of Cambridge, so surely I can create the much-needed expressions "cisgress" (be a good boy), "cisvestite" (bloke wearing trousers), "cisaction" (no deal), and "cisom" (something that isn't a lintel). Anyone who doesn't disagree is a transsy.
ref: 2011 June 26, “Linguistically correct”, in The Guardian:
glosses: From a linguistic perspective.
Derived terms: postlinguistically
livable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more livable
form: most livable
form: liveable
Etymology: From live + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Some also attach a m'zuzah to the right doorpost leading into every livable room, excluding bathrooms and closets.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1026:
glosses: Endurable, survivable, suitable for living in, inhabitable.
Derived terms: livability
livableness
livably
unlivable
liveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liveable
form: most liveable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of livable.
Derived terms: liveableness
unliveable
bolívar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈliːvɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bolívars
form: bolívares
form: Bolivar
form: bolivar
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bolívar, ultimately named after Simón Bolívar.
Senses: examples: text: He can compute his earnings for a week at so many bolívares a day, and he knows the costs of various construction materials and with some effort can make a simple summation of costs of materials for a job.
ref: 1968, Lisa Redfield Peattie, “The World of Señor Figueres”, in The View from the Barrio, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, →LCCN, page 96:
text: In 1921, for example, a large chicken could be obtained for four bolívares, whereas now one cost ten bolívares. Likewise, oranges that had previously sold for two bolívares per hundred were now one bolívar for four.
ref: 2009, Miguel Tinker Salas, “The Search for Black Gold”, in The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 68:
text: In theory, it would be entirely possible to offer these low prices, especially given that the canteen does not pay for local land rents, or tenancy, or electricity, or water; that it employs inmates who are paid a pittance (two bolívares for the entire day); […]
ref: 2023, Rebecca Jarman, Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The currency of Venezuela, divided into 100 céntimos.
liven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪvən/
rhymes: -aɪvən
Forms: form: livens
form: livening
form: livened
form: livened
Etymology: Partly from life + -en; partly from live (adjective) + -en; and partly a shortening of enliven. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk livna (“to quicken, come alive”), Faroese livna (“to come to life, come alive”), Icelandic lifna (“to come to life”).
Senses: examples: text: Let's liven up this party!
text: Bacon's Rebellion (p. 54) has no political meaning for Mr. Bruce. Champlain's fight with the Iroquois is told to liven the narrative with a fight (p. 36), but the far-reaching result is merely hinted in a manner that means nothing to one who doesn't know. The ideals and purposes of the Jesuits are not mentioned.
ref: 1905, The American Historical Review, the American Historical Association, page 380:
text: […] and he fought for others' banners,
And he dined at others' tables, and he droned in others' hives,
And he livened others' journeys, and he rhymed of others' tourneys,
And he emptied others' flagons, and he flirted others' wives.
ref: 1930, Bim Sherman, The Century:
text: 1958: Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (translator), The Travels of Marco Polo
Instead of the picturesque fables* that liven the pages of ‘Sir John Mandeville’ and of many more authentic travellers, he gives us no less picturesque facts, and facts in great abundance.
text: 1979: The American School Board Journal, volume 166, no. 1, January 1979, published by the National School Boards Association, caption to an image in the May 1979 section
Visiting professionals frequently liven the day at the Elm Creative Arts School.
text: Anacreon […] celebrated wine and love and must have been a rousing fellow. Probably he livened heaven when he arrived.
ref: 1997, David Nevin, 1812:
text: […] to invigorate and liven the spirits.
ref: 2003, Sarah Garland, The Herb Garden, page 69:
text: The fact of this made him realize he had a story. He livened. Father was washed overboard, Rupert said. He was going through the water like a duck.
ref: 2005, Michael Winter, The Big Why: A Novel:
synonyms: word: liven up
word: animate
word: arouse
word: awaken
word: beghast
word: leaven
word: bright
word: brighten
word: cheer
word: energize
word: enliven
word: enthuse
word: exalt
word: excite
word: fire up
word: ginger
word: ginger up
word: inflame
word: invigorate
word: inspire
word: inspirit
word: jazz
word: kindle
word: liven
word: liven up
word: perk up
word: quicken
word: spice
word: spice up
word: stimulate
word: vitalise
glosses: To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively.
Derived terms: livener
unlivened
liven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪvən/
rhymes: -aɪvən
ipa: /ˈlɪvən/
rhymes: -ɪvən
ipa: /ˈlaɪvən/
rhymes: -aɪvən
Etymology: From Middle English liven, equivalent to live + -en.
Senses: examples: text: We liven in fear, but we wot not whither to flee for to be better than we arn here.
ref: 1471, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters:
text: What shoulden shepheards other things tend,
Then, sith their God his good does them send,
Reapen the fruite thereof, that is pleasure,
The while they here liven, at ease and leasure?
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
text: Wherefore so long as they make their abode
In Him, incorp'rate by due Unitie
They liven in eternall energie,
ref: 1647, Henry More, The Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul, Canto III:
glosses: plural simple present of live
CFA franc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFA francs
Etymology: CFA stands for Communauté Financière d'Afrique ("Financial Community of Africa") or Communauté Financière Africaine ("African Financial Community").
Senses: glosses: A currency used in 12 African countries, guaranteed by the French treasury.
Derived terms: Central African CFA franc
West African CFA franc
Related terms: eco
ouguiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːˈɡiːjə/
Forms: form: ouguiyas
form: ougiya
Etymology: Borrowed from French ouguiya, from Arabic أُوقِيَّة (ʔūqiyya), via Classical Syriac and Ancient Greek from Latin uncia (“ounce”). Doublet of ounce, inch, uncia, oka, and awqiyyah.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Mauritania, divided into five khoums.
kwanza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɑːnzə/
Forms: form: kwanzas
Etymology: Named after the Kwanza (Cuanza) River in Angola.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Angola, symbol Kz, divided into a hundred cêntimos.
Related terms: Kwanzaa
dalasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈlɑːsi/
Forms: form: dalasis
form: dalasi
Etymology: From (stem form of) Mandinka dalasoo.
Senses: examples: text: I stood at the desk, about to pay my twenty-five dalasi for fifteen minutes.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 386:
glosses: The currency of the Gambia, divided into 100 bututs.
lodestar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊd.stɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈloʊd.stɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈləʉd.staː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: lodestars
form: lode starre
form: loadstar
Etymology: From Middle English lode (“journey, course”) + star, where lode is an archaic noun from the verb lithe (“to go, journey”), related to lead. Other Middle English spellings include: 14th century loode sterre, lood-sterre, lade-sterne; and 15th century lode sterre. Cognate with Old Norse leiðarstjarna, Dutch leidster, German Leitstern, Danish ledestjerne, Swedish ledstjärna.
Senses: examples: text: Tho when her ways he could no more descry,
But to and fro at disaventure strayd;
Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly
Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He was no wavering mariner; he had taken his course from a single lodestar, by which he had steered from the first day he had seen it in his heavens — the lodestar that had shone for him and would always shine.
ref: 1905, Sidney Robinson Kennedy, The Lodestar, page 332:
glosses: A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.
examples: text: Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
ref: 1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50:
text: May we not define its true aim to be that of awakening in the heart those feelings towards moral and religious objects, which like attractions drawing towards the great lodestars of existence, shall ever keep the life right and stedfast?
ref: 1851, Mary Carpenter, “Reformatory Schools”, in The Prospective Review, volume 7, page 355:
text: We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent—“Utopia.”
ref: 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 1, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing:
glosses: A guiding tenet or principle.
examples: text: Many, though not all, of the objections to lodestars seem to us to be overstated.
ref: 1992, Richard L. Marcus, Complex litigation: cases and materials on advanced civil procedure:
topics: law
glosses: A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.
Synonyms: cynosure
guiding star
Related terms: lodestone
Dobra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊbɹə/
rhymes: -əʊbɹə
Senses: glosses: A Romanian surname.
loadstar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loadstars
Senses: examples: text: Being freed of all human limitations, they acted as unchanging loadstars inspiring a search for more refined instruments.
ref: 2013, Roy W. Perrett, Theory of Value: Indian Philosophy, page 157:
glosses: Misspelling of lodestar.
nakfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑkfə/
Forms: form: nakfas
form: nakfa
Etymology: From Tigrinya ናቕፋ (nax̣fa, “Nakfa, Eritrea”).
Senses: glosses: The currency of Eritrea, divided into 100 cents.
wikipedia: Nakfa, Eritrea
loti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lōʹtī
ipa: /ˈləʊtaɪ/
Etymology: From the Latin lōtī, the nominative plural form of lōtus (“Egyptian lotus flower”, “date-plum”).
Senses: glosses: plural of lotus
loti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lōʹtī
ipa: /ˈləʊtaɪ/
enpr: lōʹti
enpr: lo͞oʹti
ipa: /ˈləʊti/
ipa: /ˈluːti/
enpr: lōʹtī
ipa: /ˈləʊtaɪ/
Forms: form: loti
form: maloti
form: lotis
Etymology: From the Sotho loti, singular derivation of maloti, mulati (“mountains”); compare Maloti.
Senses: glosses: The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender.
glosses: A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti.
Meronyms: sente
ariary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːɹiˈɑːɹi/
Forms: form: ariaries
Etymology: From Malagasy ariary, from Arabic الرِيَال (ar-riyāl, “riyal”). Doublet of real, regal, riyal, and royal.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Madagascar.
metical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛtɪˈkɑːl/
Forms: form: meticals
form: meticais
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese metical, from Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight”). Doublet of mithqal
Senses: glosses: The currency of Mozambique, divided into 100 centavos.
glosses: Alternative form of mithqal (“unit of weight”).
lilangeni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪlæŋˈɡeɪni/
Forms: form: lilangenis
form: emalangeni
Etymology: From Swazi lilangeni.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Eswatini.
ekwele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈkweɪleɪ/
Forms: form: ekweles
form: ekwele
form: bipkwele
form: ekuele
form: ekpwele
Senses: glosses: The former currency of Equatorial Guinea.
internship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈɪntɝnʃɪp/
Forms: form: internships
Etymology: From intern + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: From the job seeker's point of view, however, it may be best to stay in school for an internship—if you can afford the time and expense. That way, some career advisers say, you can maximize your marketability to get the hottest job at the highest possible salary.
ref: 1998 December 13, Michelle Cottle, “The Importance Of Internship”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2012:
text: H-2B visas are for unskilled seasonal workers, including landscapers, forestry workers and summer resort workers, while J-1s are for exchange visitors who come for short stays, typically for summer work, brief internships or to be au pairs.
ref: 2020 June 26, Susan Cohen and Jennifer Hunt, “By blocking visas for foreign workers, Trump is further hurting the US economy”, in CNN:
synonyms: work experience
glosses: A job taken by a student in order to learn a profession or trade.
synonyms: work experience
glosses: A job taken by a student in order to learn a profession or trade.
The first year of a medical residency.
coordinate_terms: fellowship
Derived terms: internship report
returnship
sub-internship
winternship
Related terms: intern
angolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋɡəˈlɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: angolares
form: angolars
Senses: glosses: A former currency of Angola between 1926 and 1958, divided into 100 centavos.
laari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: laaris
form: laari
Etymology: From Dhivehi ލާރި (lāri).
Senses: glosses: A subdenomination of the rufiyaa, 1/100 of its value.
glosses: A former currency of Maldives until 1913.
perper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɛə(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: perpers
form: perpera
Senses: examples: text: The coinage consists of copper pieces of 1 (jedna) para or heller and 2 (dwe) paras; nickel pieces of 10 (desset) and 20 (dwadesset) paras; silver pieces of 1 (jedan) perper or krone and 5 (pet) perpera; and gold pieces of 10, 20, and 100 perpera.
ref: 1911, Austria-Hungary: With Excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest: Handbook for Travellers, page 412:
text: New coins as follows—[…]Montenegro, King Nicholas, one and two perpera.
ref: 1914, The Numismatist, page 404:
text: F. Wieser informs further, that Montenegro issued paper money (currency notes) in 1912 in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 perpera for an amount of two million perpera. The second issue was of July 1914 in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 perpera, and again in July 1914 and December 1915 new currency notes in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 perpera. During the war the value of the paper perper was fixed at 50 Austrian hellers.
ref: 1967, A Survey of Numismatic Research 1960-1965, page 65:
glosses: A former currency of Montenegro between 1906 and 1918, divided into 100 para.
fillér
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /fɪˈlɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fillérs
Etymology: From Hungarian fillér.
Senses: glosses: A subdenomination of the forint, 100 fillér = 1 forint; only used in calculations since 2000 due to the inflation.
inactivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnæktɪveɪt/
Forms: form: inactivates
form: inactivating
form: inactivated
form: inactivated
Etymology: From inactive + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or in- + activate.
Senses: examples: text: 'Computer inactivated,' Crawford reported. 'I get nothing at all.'
ref: 1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye:
glosses: To make inactive.
Derived terms: deinactivate
inactivatable
inactivator
noninactivating
phosphoinactivating
photoinactivate
thermoinactivate
uninactivated
Related terms: deactivate
disactivate
tale of the tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The pre-fight measurements taken of the combatants.
glosses: Statistics given to compare two people or entities.
Related terms: vital statistics
test the waters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tests the waters
form: testing the waters
form: tested the waters
form: tested the waters
form: test the water
Senses: examples: text: Taking classes in a subject is a good way to test the waters and explore a potential career.
glosses: To explore or probe, as before making a commitment.
Synonyms: dip one's toe in the water
put out feelers
Related terms: raise the flag and see who salutes
trial balloon
slip up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips up
form: slipping up
form: slipped up
form: slipped up
Senses: examples: text: I hope I don't slip up during my presentation.
text: The good fortune of DPRK premier Kim Tok Hun provided the latest evidence that Kim Jong Un, a ruler who presides over a sprawling network of political prison camps, can be magnanimous toward officials who slip up.
ref: 2023 September 28, James Fretwell, “To purge, or not to purge: Why Kim Jong Un forgives some North Korean officials”, in NK News:
glosses: To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
examples: text: […]when we witness someone caught up in their own self-importance slip up on a banana peel, we come to a more humble idea of who we are; comedy, in such a formulation, is on the side of human finitude.
ref: 2021 April 23, John Currie, chapter 5, in Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World, page 135:
glosses: To lose ones footing; to slip.
Derived terms: word: slip-up
word: slipup
koodoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koodoos
Senses: examples: text: For instance, the very vase from which we were then drinking had on one side a most spirited drawing of men, apparently white in colour, attacking a bull-elephant with spears, while on the reverse was a picture, not quite so well done, of a hunter shooting an arrow at a running antelope, I should say from the look of it either an eland or a koodoo.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 1976 Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld p. 190. Longman: →ISBN (The book was first published in 1907).
"The koodoo lying partly on its side, with both hind-legs hampered by the mass of dead wood, could not rise, but it swept the clear space in front with the terrible horns, and for some time kept Jock at bay."
glosses: Alternative spelling of kudu.
ostentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒstənˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ostentations
Etymology: Originated 1425–75 from late Middle English ostentacioun, borrowed from Middle French ostentation and its etymon Latin ostentātiō, ostentātiōnem, equivalent to ostentātus (past participle of ostentāre, to display or exhibit), frequentative of ostendere (“to present, display”) + -iōn. By surface analysis, ostent + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Henry had consumed his substance in ostentation and riotous hospitality—had fed many at his board, made many merry in his halls, but not a friend was in his house of mourning; the very retainers who had grown rich upon his ruin, seemed to deem the burial of their master but a signal for carousing and license.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
glosses: Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
examples: text: Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
And publish it that she is dead indeed:
Maintain a mourning ostentation;
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A show or spectacle.
Synonyms: parade
pageantry
show
showiness
pomp
pompousness
vaunting
boasting
Derived terms: nonostentation
unostentation
Related terms: ostentatious
ostensive
ostensible
gulden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guldens
form: gulden
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle Dutch gulden (florijn) (“golden (florin)”).
Senses: examples: text: The wheel spun and stopped at 13. I had lost! With a feeling like a sick qualm, as though I would like to make my way out of the crowd and go home, I staked another fifty gulden—this time on the red.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/II):
glosses: An old currency of the Netherlands (and its former overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles or the Dutch East Indies).
Synonyms: guilder
Derived terms: guilder
dialytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈlɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek δῐᾰλῠτῐκός (dĭălŭtĭkós).
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or producing dissolution
glosses: Relating to dialysis
Derived terms: dialytically
dialytic telescope
electrodialytic
haemodialytic
hemodialytic
interdialytic
intradialytic
nondialytic
peridialytic
postdialytic
predialytic
tyger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tygers
Senses: examples: text: Near to Cinyuen, in the Province of Junnan, is the Mountain Nilo, where is great abundance of Tygers and Leopards.
ref: [1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 240:
text: Jewan Sadit, who ſtood before the prince, obſerving his youthful temerity, threw himſelf between him and danger, and with a nervous arm, wielding a ſharp ſabre, of the hard tempered ſteel of Damiſk, ruſhing upon the tyger, he ſtruck him acroſs the forehead.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6:
text: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
ref: 1794, William Blake, “The Tyger”, in Songs Of Experience:
glosses: Obsolete form of tiger.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of tiger.
Discordian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Discordian
form: most Discordian
Etymology: From discord + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Discordianism, an absurdist religion founded in the 1950s.
glosses: Inspired by or resembling the traditions of Discordianism.
Discordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Discordians
Etymology: From discord + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person who subscribes to the ideas of Discordianism.
Discordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Discordians
Etymology: From Discord + -ian.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Discordian.
glosses: A user of the Discord chat program.
abilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ability
accusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accuser
scabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scabblings
Senses: glosses: Pieces of stone remaining from the process of reducing a stone to a rough square by the axe or hammer.
scabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scabble
schizophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtsəʊˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: schizophytes
Etymology: From schizo- (“split, cleft”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Of 100 flagellates observed, stained so as to demonstrate Fusiformis unmistakably, 22 had an abundance of the schizophyte, 78 had none or very few. Many flagellates had a few forms identical in appearance with Fusiformis hilli adherent by one end to the posterior end of the body.
ref: 1940, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, volume 81, page 14:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of primitive organisms that reproduce solely by fission.
Derived terms: schizophytic
bunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The vintner gathered bunches of grapes.
glosses: plural of bunch
bunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She wore her hair in bunches.
glosses: Hair gathered together in two or more parts; pigtails.
bunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: My underwear bunches up when the weather is humid.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bunch
selective distortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selective distortions
Senses: glosses: The tendency to interpret information in a way that supports what one already believes.
selion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selions
Etymology: Old French seillon (“a measure of land”), French sillon (“a ridge, furrow”), Latin selio (“a measure of land”).
Senses: glosses: A mediaeval open strip of land or small field used for growing crops.